The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-05 00:00:00

that he remained on the staircase struck will,
at the sublime horror of the cannonade. At the in .ment the
barricade was carried, be went into the fan...nee behind
the national guard, as did a great number of others.
He denied at first that Le had on his badge as represen-
tative, but when it was observed to him that he recom-
mended one of his colleagues to teke off his, M. Prudhoe
said he had sometimes worn it and sometimes took it off.
Interrogated on the rootlets of his presence st the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine at that time, he answered that
the insurrection was socialist, that he cArdemned
it as inopportune, and that he had gone to withdraw
from it some deluded men, to protect a socialist
friend, and to satisfy his curiosity. (Exclamations) M.
M.uesis has repeated a conversation he had with AL
Prudhon as to the events of June. M. Prudinin praised
insurgents ; be bad (he said) seen th, en tight
wish superhuman courage, and it they surrend r. d. it would
be from humani:y ; their cause appeared to him 'o be just.
M.Mauvais spoke of the National Guard, and of eh .t he had
done during the struggle. M. Prudhon oat; " Ton
have done well to save a chef de battalion; ce. r)l.ud. has not
military courage." In our opinion there is 0.0. h.,: which
will bear an honourable interpretation in the c act of a
representative who gees on the theatre of civil a ,r, as to a
play, and who does not regard it as his du. y to ss,irt the de-
fenders of ()Her.
Al. Pew:neon—l deny the truth of the report
Peeeinsxv—lf these interruptions are COOtOI., d, I shall
be oblieed to call the member to order.
M. PROUDRON—M. Mauvais has not told the ae,h.
PRESIDENT—Do not interrupt the :eporttr. Y,u will be
heard by and by.
Reruette—Such were the events of June. You know
their causes, the actors in them, the mesos they us.d—all the
' circumstances. 11, re our labours terminate, sieve we have
executed the task imposed on ns.
ItAMIFICATION IN THE DEPARTMENTS.

Other labours wid ne the subjects of a second report. The
.twociatioas established in Paris, the plots formed in the
c.pdal, had ramifications in the provinces. The evade of
the 15:h May, the insurrection of the 23rd June, spread all
through France. There are other revelations to lie wit-dried
—other discoveries to be made. Inquires have been
commenced on a great number of peal's: raga-
tory commissions have been ieaued ; eveue,rs have
been addressed to the prefects and to the proeureur • generrl.
We have sought information in all directions. All the
answers to these Inquiries havo not yet arrivtd. We
await further communications. Betas quitting this
painful tableau of civil distension, let us rest upon
a hope which the blood of a gl,rione martyr
has sanctified. Oh, yea! may the prayer of that
glorious martyr, victim of the most pure and sublime devo-
tion for humanity, be granted. filay the horrible estadrepbe
of June be for al. France the signal fora return ei humanity,
to reastn, and to respect for order. Is it not thin sulliiient
for a great people to feel that it is master to its own
destinies; that every :citizen can take an equal
share, by his free suffrage, in the goeerumeni of his
country ; and those who substitute violence to, rigid, do they
not understand in fine that, far from coot, uditi.r for the
sovereignty of the people, they arm themselves ei einst it;
that, far from devoting themselves to the repuhhe, they out-
rage it and destroy it? They ought to know that when they
imagine themselves fighting for an idea, for a right,
they ebey only, as blind instrument.., t. ie bad
eissaons acd the mistaken ambidons which direct
them and torn them to their putpotes ; tied, beside
them, and in the midst of them, glide those vie, tehe', the
outcasts of society; those condemned of justic who
have declared implacable war against seci,*!. which
has repaired them tedh a just horror. However
fanati!al he he, however excited to hatted, what
operative does not regard as the greatest ues•ortune
that his blouse has been stained with the blood of the bravo
tieneral Brea, or of the archbishop, fallen by th arms of
as.assina.
RESUME.

In fine, let us cast • rapid glance on the vast
apace over which we have run, and recall the
links which connect together the 'eve. al events we have
examined. It we have remarked the difference between
the immediate causes of the sediiion of May and the cater
•rophe oi Juue, it wid be certain that these two events were
only successive acts of a continued plot, the idea of which
wee tirst manifested on the lith March. Tne idea of the
factions has always been—" Distrust in the country and
hatred 01 the amembly—a sacrilegious thought ai d treason
against the sovereignty of the people." The idea differs only
in form, and becomes more and more mercenary.
On 17th March, a popular manifestation ; 16.11 Aped,
a plot; 15th May, treason (attentat) ; 23rd June, civil
war. The government, which the con& ience of
the Assembly has invested with the care of w Aching over
the future of the Republic, has sprung out of the struggle
between order and anarchy. The victory which the Na-
tional Guard and the army have sealed with their generous
blued, has re established the basis of society, aseured to
the government its moral force, ar el given it free-
dom of action. The government has feund in this
position new strength. It has also the cooaciousness of
new duties. It has proved that it knows how to fulfil
them. Its glory will be to preserve the republic from every
new attack, ant: to allow our fine country to accomplish her
destinies.

ITALY.—reschiera is reported to have been taken
by the Austrians in accounts received through Vienna,
bu• nothing of this is mentioned in the advices from
Milan or Turin. If not taken, it must be invested on
the land side, since the entire body of the Austrian
army is between it and the l'iedmontese line. If it
be evacuated, the garrison must have departed by the
lake, and were no doubt disembarked on the western
shore of the lake, probably at Salo.

ITALY

PROPOSED ARMISTICE.-ITS FAILURE.

LOMI3ARDY.—The position into which Charles
Albert has been placed by his late reverse induced
him to demand a truce from Radetski The marshal
replied that he could only grant it on the surrender to
him of all the fortress's in Lombardy, and, In addi-
tion, the important fortress of Alessandria. hese
terms were indignantly refused, and the King has
issued the following proclamation :
Soldiers : The admirable proofs of courage on the field of
battle, and of strength in supporting the fatigues which
you hove undergone during the last few days have deeply
moved me. The enemy has paid dearly for the conquest
of his new positions. We retreat with 2,000 prisoners,
whereas he has no trophy whatever to boast of.
Considering the privations and the wants which you
have suffered, owing to the failure of the supplies, and af-
flicted by the idea of leaving Lombardy exposed to barba-
rous incursions, I was disposed to demand a suspension of
hostiliies ; but the conditions proposed to us were such as
must have excited emotiins of shame in every breast. The
hosour of the armyshines in the eyes ofall It ily and the whole
of Europe: no one can ever deprive it of its pions, and your
King will ever remain its most jealous guardian. In • few days
we shall find ourselves in front of the enemy that has so
often fled before us: in a few days we wil cause
them to repent of their audacity. Let the few soldiers
who have dispersed is disorder resume their station in the
ranks of the army as soon as possible. I rely upon you,
beloved children of the country, who so profusely shed your
blood for the sacred cause of Italian independence. Inha-
bitants of Upper ltels ! after various conflicts, its which our
army, in spite of its numerical inferiority, has succeeded in
realising the most brilliant successes—ovrrwoelmed by num-
bers—exhausted by the fatigues of so many operations under
a burning sun, and deprived of the necessary suppli. a—our
army has unfortunately hound it impossible to maintain the
positions gained on the Mincio, and Sods itself reduced, in
the environs of Goito, to one of those terrible extremities
where the only effect of a last desperate effort would be a
terrible massacre. Under these circumstances, which
wei,:h down our hearts. both as King and as the com-
mander in chief of our brave and beloved army, after saving
held a council of war, we sought to put a period to so great
au effusion of blood, by proposing to the enemy a suspen-
sion of arms ; but the condition, proposed were such that
we refused even to discuss them, thinking it better to expose
ourselves, in common, to every extremity, rather than com-
promise the honour and tha existence of the country.
Italians, be animated in the midst of the dangers which sur-
round you with that en rgy which the hour of p. nil ought
to infuse into heroic hearts ! Vett will prefer the sacrifice
of everything to a disgraceful submission and the surrender
of your national independence, The army, sustained fps its
patriotic spirit, is prepared to shed the last drop of its blood;
and I hope that Divine Providence will not abandon us in
the defence of that sacred cause to which my life and that
of my children is devoted. Given at cur head-quarters at
E•rz do, the Vish of Joly, IS4's.
(Signed) CHARLES ALMULT R.
The following important resolution was agreed to
in the Turin Chamber of Deputies on the 29th July :
In consequence of the urgent necessity that instant power
should be exercised for the defence of the stise, by means
the most prompt and most efficacious, the chamber resolves
that the government of the King shall be invested, during
the war of inderendenc-, with all power, legislative and
executive ; it shall, at once, by royal decrees, and trader
ministerial responsibility (the constitutional instativions ex-
cepted) make all laws necessary for the safety of the county
and its institutions