The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-15 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

In another page will be found accounts from Purls
to noon yesterday. The following is the communica-
tion of our correspondent, since received, with news
to mail hour last evening.
PARIS, TUESDAY, 5 P.M.
M. Leden-Rollin has been made sensible of the
imprudence of his escapade. 'The burst of public
indignation at his manifesto has been too loud and too
general to he resisted, and he is to draw in his horns
in the 31 ite,tr of to-morrow. lam told that some
unfortunate scapegoat is found to whom the responsi-
bility of the circular is to be transferred. It is well
that France can thus demonstrate to Europe that
public opinion still dares to speak out, and that the
regime of 1793 is at least not yet in vigour.
Another measure, however, still menaces the res-
pectability of the country. An attempt is to be made
to dissolve the companies of the Nile of the National
Guard. This has already' produced a formidable ex-
plosion. The object is said to be to place the entire
Intelligence and respectability of Paris at the mercy
of an armed rabble. It will not, however, be accom-
plished. The army and the national guard co-oper-
ating will resist it.
Messrs. Rothschild, and some other large houses,
have issued a circular, calling in for payment all ob-
ligations, whether come to maturity or not. This has
given rise to the report I mentioned in my former
letter, that they were about to wind op and close.
lam sorry to say that an impression prevails,
in well-informed quarters, that this revolutionary
crisis will not end without a further sacrifice of life.
Not that the least idea is entertained of any return to
monarchy. That no one thinks of'. It is out of the
category of political possibilities. But a bloody
struggle will take place before a republic, founded on
property and intelligence, will be established.
The .3feeiteue says:" Some doubts have been ex-
pressed as to the period at which the decree of the
provisional goverment relative to the immediate
abolition of slavery will cause the general liberation
of the blacks. The committee charged to prepare the
act of emancipation occupies itself actively with its
labours. But, whatever diligence it may display, the
measure To ccesary for organising liberty will not
permit this great act of reparation to be accomplished
before the termination of the coming harvest."
Yesterday the provisional government received
several deputations. Among them was one from the
dealers in poultry, demanding the immediate idismissal
of the in of the markets, and a regulation
of the &ries; another of tradesmen, demanding the
establishment of a second Caisee de Sccours on behalf
of small tradesmen : a third, of those who let out the
carriages called dr ri:llie, to demand that their vehicles
should be allowed to station in the streets, that some
alteration should be made in the mode of numbering
them, and that they should not be liable to seizure for
offences committed by their drivers. A deputation of
the fishwomen of the markets complained of the em-
barrassments thrown in the way of their trade, and
of several abuses which existed in the sale of fi4r.
A deputation of the national guard of Neuilly
requested l'.at the national guard of that place
should he divided into two battalions, they bear-
ing the expenses. One of painters complained
that their masters created difficulties with respect
to the fixing of the home of labour; another, of the
small wine dealers of Berry, demanded an altera-
tion in the mode of levying the duties on wines
and liquors; and one of stone-cutters demanded that
piece-work should- be immediately abolished. Most
of these deputations were received by M. Armand
Marrast, who promised that every attention should be
bestowed on their applications.
At a meeting of tradesmen, landlords, fundholders,
employee, &c., of the Bth arrondissement, held yester-
day, it was determined to create a Commandite Na-
(innate, proportioned to the means, will, and patriotism
of each citizen, and destined for the immediate relief
of the working classes. One hundred and forty of
the persons present subscribed their names, and in a
few minutes the subscription reached 15' 560 f.
The circular addressed by M. Ledru Rollin,
mini•ter of the interior, to the commissaries of the
government sent into the departments, has produced
as already stated, an expression of painful surprise.
The realamatious against this ill-judged document
which have appeared in the journals are innumerable.
We take the tbllowing from the Constitrltiomel of
this morning :
The liberty of all, within the conditions of public order,
the liberty of the elections of the nations! assembly, such is
the rule, the aim, the limit of the power of the pre% isionel
government and of its agents.
However. Francehas this day read, with extreme surprise,
a circular of :ho Minster of the Interior to the commissaries
of the government. We trust this circular will be inter-
preted by its author himself, who so energetically asserted
the rights of liberty under the last government, and who
cannot wish to oppress under the new one.
To declare that the commissaries of the government have
Unrunieed powers, that they are invested with the sove-
reignty of the people, that they have no other judge but
their cotsc;cnce, and that they subordinate all to what is 'I
called public safety ; to exclude from the elections those
men who were rot rep..' :icon, bzfer.' Feb. 22, that is to say,'
the imineu,t tr.sp rttv of the nation ' to consider elec
nom not es tee free sod city work of the nation, but as the

walk of the prefects; to! endeavour to place the Country
under the empire of universe' terror; is it not doing with
more violence, end on a larger scale, what was so often and se
energetically blamed in the former government? It the edu-
cation of the nation is not complete, as it is pretended.
why have universal suffraste ? If the nation is not en-
dow, d with common sense, and with the intellgence neces-
sary to choose for herself, without beinjeguided by the inspi-
rations of fear, why then have called upon her to pronounce
upon her own futures The republican form of government
presumes," the political intelligence of the nation; the
former government declared that the country was not
sufficiently enlightened to be endowed with larger et. forms;
the new government declares the country to be sufficiently
enlightened to be put into pones/ion of the rights of universal
voting; the liberty the most complete is the natural con-
sequence of the latter opinion, as corruption was the con-
sequence of the former.
We would still hope that the circular of M. Ledru Rollin
has been ill-comprehended.
We have often differed in opinion with M. Ledru Rollin;
but we have always ennsidered him to be a liberal. Ile moat
certainly has not wished to place under the diet corial autho-
rity of the commissaries, his agents, the army, the tribunals,
even the immoveable magistracy, the direction of the elew
tions, to usurp at once the power of his colleagues of the
provisional government and the sovereignty of the nation.
He has not wither' to my, " the State is myself ! " Every oars
in France at the present moment enumerates his rights and
wishes to preserve them. We are not placed, thank God, in
the alternative between anarchy or the dictatorship, in all
the energy of the word. Between these two we have the
republic and liberty. France will keep to them.
The emigration excites an uneasiness in the provi-
sional government, which its organs vainly try to dis-
semble. The fact cannot be denied. In my letter of
last evening, I gave you no exaggerated account of
this movement. The National this morning has the
following article upon it :
What, then, has happeued within the last few, days, that
we hear mention on all sides of sudden journeys and preci
pitated departures? The movement which induces • part
of the population to abandon Paris is like to a flight. Fly !
good God, slid why) What danger threatens us? what
peril have we to dread? The revolution was accomplished
m a few hours; a vanquished monarchy disappeared, bearing
away with it the cause of our dissensions. France has
become herself; France is her own mistress. Let us forget
the eighteen years which have just elapsed, or, if we atilt
remember them, let it be only to draw from the experience
of the past, some lessons useful to the happiness of all.
But why affect alarm? why pretend fear? We de-
mand it of those very persons who wish to leave us.
What dreadful symptom tine then appeared on the horizon
to inspire these sad thought, of emigration? Have they
incurred any danger hitherto? Do they run any risk at
present? Even in the midst of the emotion of the conflict,
of the exultation of victory, has a slim'e word of hatred
esaped from this heroic Premien population, as generous as
brave, or a cry of revenge, or an accent of threat? Let one
such fact be mentioned—one sole fact, and we will pronounce
a sentence of condemnation.
And at the present moment what is going forward ? the
workmen, confiding in g 'eminent, because they well know
that they neither can nor will deceive them, return to their
workshops, and resume their labour. Gee unanimous feeling
pervades all minds, has penetrated every soul. All, casting
a look of legitimate hope towards the assembly which is
about to give a constitution to the republic, ad-
journ their wishes, their desires, their ideas, their
systems, till this solemn moment, when democratic
France will be definitively organised. Political life,
like a warm and generous fluid, c,reulates throughout the
veins of the population. The people busy themselves with
the elections, with the candidature. To the short struggle with
arms has succeeded the calm, pacific, and regular agitation
of a great nation prenarine to accomplish the most sacred,
the most serious act the human mind can conceive.
And can it be, at this very instant, when we witness this
work of elaboratien studied in so religious a manner, and so
well understood by every class of twenty, that we ace the
roads covered with emigrants ? But whither are they going?
In what land do they hope to fiud more liberty, and, above
all, more security ?
Three great laws have been proclaimed by thee republic,
three great facts have sprung from the revolution, and, like a
brilliant star, enlighten the road we have pursued and that we
have still to to pursue "Respect of persons," "Revert of pro-
perty," "Morality for Oland That is whet was promised
us, and what has been given us, by the 24th of February.
What more do you require ? And where can you be better ?
Remain, then, and no not draw upon yourselves the most
cruel of all reproaches, that of cowardice. Do not let it be
said of you, that, like a flock of birds, you have flown away,
without knowing what scared you. There is, in a serious
peril from which we fly, a kind of grandeur, which
explains and justifies our flight in some sem We under.
stand and we pity the timid, but we despise the cowardly.
The emigrants of 184 S, leaving behind them a tranquil city, a
country in which order and peace pr. rail, do nut even in-
spire anger; they excite I eughter. Ttcy conceive them-
selves to be deserving of pity, and are but ridiculous. Do
you see them mysteriously burying their jewels, preparing
their trunks in secrecy, obtaining passports under a
reigned name ; and, who knows, disguising themselves, per-
haps, in order to escape by the favour of the night. And
yet Paris wears its usual aspect ; no, we err. Paris has
neither a king nor sergens (le role, But in their stead, the
national guard, zealous and indefatigable, is at every guard-
house; maintains order and tranquillity on all sides, and the
town and the city, fully recovered from its shock of a
moment, reposes, joyful, at its evening bites, at its theatres,
at its halls, from the fatigues and labours of the day.
But now we think of it. The national guard! Is not
that the true cause of this panic ? Yee, doubtless ;it is the
true, the sole cause; the sole peril. To be called on duty!
The emigrants fly from the serjeant.major. Fly, then, and
may an immense burst of laughter welerott you on your
way, wherever you direct your steps. Go, henceforward we
know you well, and we will tell you your name. You are
the emigrants of the Hotel of Haricots. (Prison for the re-
fractory national guard.)
Pasts, Nisame 14. New Lawn, —; Three per Cants., 4943;
Elves, 73 71; Fortrand-fialf, ; Pours, 63. Belgian Firm, 1810,
69; do. 1842, ; Do. Thrms, —; LW. Twownd-a-ltalf, --;
N ,ples Renter, 72 50. Roman loan, 67. Treasury Beads,
Bank Sham 1,400. F.mhange an Loudon, Inert, 25 75.
F.AILRATIL —ruin and Orleans, 730; Paris and Room. 400;
Room and Have,, 209; Aviwnon and NI aroelheN 260 ; gtrubourg ;
and We, Oentre Viermn, 305; Amiens and Boulogne,--;
nordeero, 397 50; North, 47:M.

We have Madrid news to the Ath instant. No dis-
orders whatever bad followed the announcement of
the Paris revolution in that country. The dreaded
sth of March had gene off quietly at Zaragoza. Dis-
orders rumoured at other places, such as Ampurdam,
Grenada, &e., had no sufficient foundation, and were
generally discredited. The correspondent of the
Faro sends a copy of an incendiary proclamation from
Zaragoza, headed " Viva Espartero ; viva la Repu-
publica," denouncing vengeance upon the moderadoes.
The committee of the senate bad reported in favour
of the bill for conferring extraordinary powers on
the government. The Fare announces the de-
parture of M. Isturitz for London.
General Narvaez was taking great pains to ingratiate
himself with the troops in garrison at Madrid. He
had increased the pay and rations of officers and men.
The government had forbidden the stockbrokers to
meet at what is called the" Little Exchange" at hours
when the regular Exchange is not open. Some arrests
had, it was said, been effected, but they were sur-
rounded with mystery. Humours of a modification
of the ministry were current, but were not considered
well-founded. The Montemolinista at Bilboa express
great satisfaction at the overthrow of Louis Philippe,
which they consider a visitation from heaven.
They state that it will soon be their turn, and
that if they cannot overthrow existing in-
stitutions by any other means, they will
turn republicans. It has been remarked that a
Bayonne newspaper, called the /Vpubticain, which
advocates the creation of the Basque provinct a into a
republic, has recently very largely increased its circu-
lation among the Nlontemolinists in Spain.
The losers by the fall at the Bolsa refuse, I under-
stand, generally to settle accounts. They prefer most
of them, on this account, a fall of 7 per cent. to a fall
of 2 or 3, as in the latter case they could not have
pleaded insolvency with any face.
)Imam Bob- t, Drawn 9.—Tine it, 241, at ..7,1 days
21; ; two operations of l t.. . meh. Flee per Cent+. 14
~nlwr; Pastier Debt. 44 MKT: Coupon, 1' 4910T.—er kloltoelorol:
rho. per Ceut... carll ;23 paper. kiw per Unto., 14 cash.
k;robanite on London: 47 30 tw,Per•

A correspondent at Genoa writes, March 9:—" A
solemn service was yesterday performed in the church
of St. Matteo, for the repose of the souls of those who
fel' in Faris during the late glorions revolution.
Almost all the French here, and a great number of
distinguished Genoese, were present. The French
consul was not present."

A GIFT OF £5,000 TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.—
Some weeks since, it appears, an individual, who refused to
give any name, called on Lord Auckland, as Vice-President
of the Council, and announced his intention to give 5,0001.
to the college, to be a fixed mud at the disposal of the coun-
cil, on condition that the council should consent to give to
the fund such ordinary English surname as he should pre-
scribe at the time of paying the money. In the event of this
condition being accepted, the council were to advertise their
acceptance in a morning paper, on two successive days, which
Z. A. named. The council decided, as most of our readers,
we presume, will decide—and as we nave made up in our own
minds to decide—whenever they or we shall have to weigh a
similar alternative. They did not, it would seem, co..sider that
there was anything in the terms for which 5,0001. was not a
good and sufficient equivalent. The advertisements were,
accordingly inserted, but nothing more was heard of Z. A.
for some days after the second had appeared. On the 29th of
February, however (the rarer day the rarer deed), Z. A.
made his appearance at the Admiralty, and handed over to
Lord Auckland 5,0001. in Bank of England notes, intimating
at the same time that the fund was to be called "The
Andrew's Fund." We believe an understanding exists that
no attempts are to be made to trace the donor—and his
IMMO is not to be divulged if by accident it should be dis•
covered; au addition to the terms to which also we hasten to
promise by anticipation our adhesion—to any philanthropist
in search of an easy recipient. So much, meantime, for a
piece of eccentric munificence which may have ?tassels for
• . it .
the singularity of its form. Cicnerally sp,..ikt..g, to difficult
to assign the reason why a thing should L.. t hc known with-
out actually making it known.-.-Alhena.uni,