The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

We have received by express from Paris the fol-
lowing news, up to 6 o'clock last evening.
The events of to day have been untoward. The
Provisional Minister of Finance has resigned. The
Bourse was to have been re-opened, and all the agens-
de-change were assembled, ready to commence busi-
ness, when unexpectedly, soon after one o'clock, an
order arrived from the Minister of the Interior,
forbidding its opening till further orders. It is under-
stood that bargains had been made for purchases
and sales of the Threes at 60. . .

Gouin's bank stopped payment to-day. The fol-
lowing is posted up at the entrance : The Caine
Generale of Commerce and Industry, finding it import,-
Bible to realise at the present momeur the greater part
of the securities and bills whict constitute its assets,
and insure the reimbusement of what it owes, finds
itself under the necessity of suspending its payments
and winding up its affairs, from this day, March 6.
The directors of the establishment will immediately
call a meeting of their creditors Ito lay before them a
statement of its position."
This bank had dune much business for the petite
commerce of Paris. It is reported that its liabilities
are 55 millions. Contradictory reports are circulated
as to its assets. lam told in one quarter that they
are considerable, while I hear from another that they
bear but a small proportion to the liabilities.
However it be, this failure must produce
great temporary distress. Gonin was banker to the
conservative party in the chamber, who have with-
drawn
their capital, which is assigned as the imme-
diate cause of the failure.
Gamier Pages takes the Ministry of Finance.
The idea of forming a Polish legion is abandoned
for the present, and will only be resumed in case of a
war with Russia.

The government continues to be embarrassed by
strikes among operatives of different classes. To-day
a deputation of jewellers and shoemakers presented
themselves, demanding increase of wages.
The following telegraphic despatch, dated March
sth, 5 P.M., was received to-day from Metz:—
The Fru,sians of Saarlouis have tequ.red all the French
to leave the place.
The garrison of Metz has just passed a review. Officers
sad soldiers were magnificent in their republican e nthusiasin.
The pitmen of the coal mines of Anzio, in the
north, to the number of 5,000, have struck, and are in
revolt, demanding that their wages (thirty sous per
day), be doubled.
We read in the Maniteur:—" In reply to the noti-
fication of the establishment of the provisional govern-
ment, and of the proclamation of the French republic,
Rear-admiral Tiehouart, commanding par interim
tlta squadron of the Mediterranean, has hastended to
make known to the Minister of Marine that he had
put that notification on the orders of the day of the
squadron, the crews of which continue to show
themselves animated by a spirit of perfect discipline
and calm. ' You may, Monsieur le Ministre, he
he adds, ' give an assurance to the provisional
government that whatever may be the circumstances,
France can count on the patriotism and courage of
its sailors of the squadron of evolution.' "
On the proposition of M. Armand Marrast, the Pro-
visional Government has nominated a commission of
liquidation for the real and personal property of the
ex-ciril list and the private domain.
M. Mesta has been nominated delegate of the Pro-
visional Government for maintaining the sequestration
on the property belonging to the Duke d'Aumale.
Yesterday the Provisional Government received a de- ,
potation of the central committee of the chartists of
London, charged to present an address, which was
adopted at a meeting held on the 2nd, in London. This
address, after expressing the high admiration of the
English patriots at the courage and magnanimity of
the French people, concludes as follows :
If kings, if oppressive governments, forgetting the lessons
of the put, dare again league themselves against France,
end declare war against your liberties, be assured, citizens,
that this time the people will not range themselves under the
flees of their tyrants. You are the advanced guard of the
&akin, of liberty, and we can assure you that the English
people would never lend themselves to on impious war
against their brethren of France.
M. Gamier Pa•.:i,s, member of the provisional go-
yen:meat, replied :
We receive with gratitude the sympathy of the English
Chartists. They prove to us that England his perfectly un-
dentood the object of our glorious revolution, and the high
mission of the provisional government. This mission must
be peaceably accomplished by the movement of ideas, and we
are convinced that, if the English government should ever
deem to make war on us, it would be prevented at the very