The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-31 00:00:00

NEWS FRONI PARIS.

MILITARY PREC UATOS.
PARIS, TlEsunT, 111
The patroles of the national guard continued to
make their rounds last i nght to a late hour. Wheat
I was returning home rom a distant part of the
town, near midnight, they were still to be seen
moving able. The sapoirs and parzpeurs (firemen)
were kept OR active duty during the day; detachments
of them being not only stationed near all the public
buildings but patroles of them being also formentmed.
It is evident that what the governmost
apprehended from the " ouviiers nationaux" was what
has Caen several times threatened, that Paris would

be fired.
This evening at the time I write all appears
tranquil, but we cannot for a moment depend on
such local app, anion s ; before I close these despatches
we may pioliahly hear the rappel, and see the armed
citizens hurrying to their rendezvous.
The boulevards have been scoured by dragoons, and
are now patrolled by detachments of the national guard.
The quarries and other excavationsa nd under Paris have
pt
been again and again examined, are now ke
under staict surest once to guard against any attempt
at blowing up a portion of the capital.
The fact which I mentionedto
yest
urnalds eray respecting. ing
M. Louis Blanc appears in the jo this morn
It is affirmed that the
offsinister of Juatice, M.
Cremieux, in consequence idence which has been
developed in the course of the preliminary investiga-
tion respecting the affair of the lath, was to have ap-
plied to the assembly yesterday, or Saturday afternoon,
for permission to prosecute Nl.Louie Blanc, for complicity
in the affair of the lath, but the executive commis-
sion it appears interposed in a peremptory manner,
and absolutely interdicted any such proceeding. This
subject has produced a lively sensation here, and un-
sparing censures are uttered against the executive
commissiou for such interference in the course of
justice. As to the truth of the fact 1 can assure you
of it on authority of the most unquestionable kind.
The documents against M. Louis Blanc have been
seen by snore than one.
The attitude of distrust of the assembly towards the
executive commission, and the spirit of hos.ility
against the latter which prevails in the assembly, be-
comes daily more flagrant. Yesterday it exceeded all
bounds of decency. M. Ledru Rollin, and even M.
Marie (who is, perhaps, the least unpopular of the
commaision in the house.), when they addressed the
assembly, were saluted with hisses from all
parts of the chamber. In the case of the former it
was a perfect storm of indignation. This is a state
of things which ought not to continue, and cannot ter-
minate in good.
The agitation which pervades all classes cannot be
adequately described ; nothing like it has been wit-
ssed t
since February, and it is even, in some re-
spects, more serious than at that period. The theatres
and public spectacles, which are reckoned among the
necessaries of life with the Parisians, are desert. I
looked into two or three of the most populared last
night ; in one there were not above two dozen per-
sons, notwithstanding a moat attractive entertain-
ment ; the others were but little better atten
when the
.
At half past seven yesterday morning
rappel was being beaten on the Boulevard des Italiens,
the drummers were assaulted by some men,
who in-
sisted that they should not beat the rappel. Some
others attempted to disarm'a few national guards who
were going to their po-t. The surrounding person
the
drummers, and the assailants were arrreeted amidst
the imprecations of the crowd. A battalion of the line
at this moment arrived, and were received with cries
of " Vive la Ligne !" This enthusiasm for res
if pect of
the order—this support of the national guard, uni-
versal, leaves no hope for the factions who would pro-
fit
by public troubles.
The Cunstitutioniiel of to-day says :
"The commission of public works charged with the II
inquiry as to the railway question have almeetunanl
measly decided to hear the Minister of Finance at
12 to-day, and afterwards to put him in communica-1
!ion with the Minister of Public Works, and succes-
sively with the directors of all the railway companies
and the professors of international law who have
studied the question.
" The sub-commission is favourable to the principle
of purchase by the state, but give no opinion as to the
opportuness of immediate purchase or the conditions
of pnrchaee."
The Club Populaire of the Sorbonne has opened a
subscription for a sword of honour to General Courtais,