The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS

PARIS, SVEDAT, 630 P M.
The second volume of the documents and evidence
is not yet published. It is divided into three parts,
the first containing an inquiry as to the atelier of
Clichy ; the second as to the clubs, and the third as to
the ateliers nationaux, including in this latter port
an account of the expenditure of those estab-
lishments. It contains an examination of Longe-
pied, the president of an association of dele-
gates from the various clubs of Paris, called
the CIO of Clubs, which lets us into the secret of the
connexion of M. Ledru-Rollin, then Minister of the
Interior, with those bodies, the use which he made of
them, and the sources from whence their funds were
obtained.
I have obtained an important extract from that
part of the second volume, which is as follows :
NOTE OF THE Commtrree oP INurtuv.—Longepied,
with a view of centralizing all the clubs of Paris, summoned
three delegates from each club, who formed an associated
body called the Club of Clubs. By this body delegates were
sent into the eighty.six departments, to affect the elections, so
far as possible, in an ultra-democratie sense, and to
form clubs of ouvriers and clubs of military
men. These delegates were regularly in pay, the funds
from which they were paid coming out of the secret service
money, and received at the Ministry of the Interior. Re.
palm reports were made by the delegates to Longepied, the
President of the Club of Clubs, from whence they were re-
gularly handed oat r to the Ministry of the Interior.
Longepied, in his examination of the 13th of July, /dates,
that from th, end of the month of March until the 20th of
April, Payments of various sums, amounting to about 90,000 or
'WOW francs, were made by the Ministry of the Interior.
Sometimes they were received by him (Longepied), and some-
times by others. They were remitted in small amaunts to
the delegates sent into the departments by the Club of Clubs.
The names of these delegates were submitted t 3 the Minister
of the Interior. Reports sent by them were also regularly
transmitted to the minister. Some of these delegates bad been
formerly soldiers for whom leave of absence was obtained.
These were specially employed to influence the army.
Note extracted from the Account of Secret Service Money
of the Minister of Interior ly the Committee—L nngepied :
Cloh, 3rd April. 1848, 8,000 francs; 4th, 12,0001.; 6th,
8,000 f.; ditto, B,ooof ; Bth, 10.0001. ; 10th, 12,0001.; 14th,
6,000 f. ; 18th, 8,000 f.; 24th, 8,0001. ; May 2,5,000 f. ; sth,
6,000 E ; ditto, B,ooof. ; 9th, 4,000 f. ; total, 103,000 f.
The sums paid to divers agents of clubs, beyond the
103,000 f. shave specified, amount to 70,000 f.
Yesterday, the reunion of the Rue de Poitiers
held a meeting, at 8 o'clock in the evening, which was
attended by MM. Thiers and Dupla. One of the
subjects of discussion was the intentions manifested
by MM. Louis Blanc and Ledru Bailin in de-
claring from the tribune that the real promos
concealed under the discussion of the report
of the Insurrection Committee was directed

against the revolution of February itself. The words
lately pronounced by M. Louis Blanc in the Salle des
Conferences, " If you want more coups de flails you
shall have them," were also the subject of discussion.
The meeting resolved that it would oppose energe-
tically MM. Louis Blanc and Ledru Rollin, proving
that their intentions and doctrines of these two men
are directed towards the destruction of society. A
committee of three members was named to prepare a
resolution in that sense.

It is affirmed that the two anarchical journals,
Pere Due/wane, and Le Repreeentant (1,1 Peery/e,
u well as some others—which are conducted in the

same spirit, and which advocate communist doctrines
and the dissolution of society—are to be again sup-
pression.

ITALY.

There is no further news of interest from the scat ;
of war in northern Italy. The press, which had been ,
suspended at Milan since its re.crrupation by the i
Auetriar.s, bus been revived. We have received the I
Minn Gazeltr to the 13th, having the arms of Aus- ;
tria at i•if Iliad. It contain a formal contradiction to
the report circulated by a Swiss journal, that a decree j
had been published ordering all the subjects of Com-
barely who had emigrated to return under pain of con-
fiscation
of their property.
ltadetzki has published the following deilaration :
The imperial troops having received from the ponti-
lint authorities :nal the Tuscan government the most
solemn and authentic assurances that, so far as de-
pended on the said governments, their subjects should
abstain completely from all acts hostile to order
and legitimacy, have suspended the movement which
they had commenced to occupy those states.
holding themselves in a position to observe if their
immediate and loyal acts shag correspond to the
ample and spontaneous promisee of submission.
The news which I gave yesterday, that Venice had
surrendered on the 9th, is contradicted by advkes re-
ceived since the above was written. Venice, on the
contrary, has resAved to resist.
We have the Turin journals of the 10th, in which
it is said that Charles Albert had not yet resolved to
accept the conditions proposed as the basis of the me-
diation of England and France. These conditions are-
1. The annexation of Lombardy to Piedmont; and 2.
The erecton of the Venetian provinces into a state
like Ilungary, subject to Austria, but with an inde-
pendent administration. It is not stated whether
the common frontier is to be the Adige or the Nlineio;
a most important condition, seeing that it would
involve the question of the command of the four
great fortr2sses of Nlantua, I'eschiera, Verona, raid
Leguar..
It is announced that Venice refuses to accept the
• armistice of Charles Albert. The National says,
that it is the duty of the French government to
send a fleet to the Adriatic. to defend Venice, in lieu
i of the Sardinian fleet, which has been recalled.

HAMBURG.—Our correspondent, under date the
18th instant, says:
Our revolution is at an end. Yesterday. the seven o
bitted democratical clubs tent a deputation to the S. oats- with
an address, requesting to hsve a constitutional assembly,
elected by universal suffrage, without any influence of either
the Sense cc the civic corporations. The Senate, pre-
viously acquaieted with this step, !tad named their youngest
member, S.natur Haller, to treat with tier deputation. He
received their address, ant told them the Senate saw as well
as themselves that some such a step was necessary; but, nos
being assembled in plenum, the members present cisild not
accede to that part of the petition that took away all the in-
fluence. They required until to-day to consider on it. At
two o'clock today the deputation called again, and the
answer they received was, " The Senate agrees to all they
ask." On returning to the hall, where the clul,s were ass •m-
-bled, the deputation was received with immense applause.
One of them spoke to the crowd in the street, telling them
what happened. Shouts of "Hurrah," like claps of thunder,
were heard vibrated through the neighbouring streets and
places. It will now depend upon the elections what ost-
stitution we are to have. I omitted to state, that before the
resolution ul the Senate passes bite law, it must be sane
tinned by the eitisen freeholder in convent assembled.
, Should they reject it, we should have serious disturbances to
fear.

INDIA AND CHINA.
TIIE OVERLAND MAIL.

The usual mail has brought us intelligence from
Bombay, Calcutta, and China. Our advices from
Bombay were by dauk to Madras. The dates thus
received are from Calcutta and Bombay to the let of
July, and Madras to the 9th of July. The executive cern-
mime of the Union Bank of Calcutta commenced on
the 15th issuing the circulars to shareholders an-
nouncing the several assessments, the 15th
being the first day limited by the scheme for the
preliminary condition, namely, the written assent of
at least 33 lace of creditors out of the total 51.
Creditors to nearly 40 lees have already signed; and
what is even more encouraging than the actual num-
ber of assentients is, that no creditor has yet declared
a positive and final dissent
Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice in Bengal, has
suspended Mr. Grant from his office of Master in
Equity in the Supreme Court at Calcutta, in coast,-
qui:bee of that functionary having been implicated in
the transactions of the Union Bank as one of it,
directors.
The failure is announced at Bombay of the well-
known Parses merchant Dadabhoy Ruetomjee, whose
liabilities are said to amount to upwards of twenty
I lace of rupees. It would seem to be expected that the
assets of the firm will amount to about one-half this
sum. The failure of the Bombay house, it is said,
has been caused by the corresponding Calcutta and
China firms having become involved in &Ukuleles.
Dadablioy Rustomjee was broker to the house of
Mievicar, Burn, and Co.
Some disturbances which had broken out among
I the Bheels in the Mye Counts district of Guzi rat—
, a still unsettled portion of Western India—had been
promptly suppressed by the energy of the political
agent. Captain Wallace, who gave orders for the
instant march to the scene of riot of a sufficient body
of troops.
Matters were progrresing favourably in the Pun-
jaub. The resident had directed Lieutenant Lake to
proceed to Bahawulpoor to assist the chief, and instil
some of his energy into the troops of the khan that
have crowed over into the Moultan territory ; while
no less than six hundred followers of the Gooroo
Maharaj Singh have surrendered, and were, according
to the latest accounts, prisoners at Jhung. The whole
of the property and arms of the devout gentleman
had been secured, and he himself is reported to be
drowned. Whether correct or incorrect the effect of
the report would be equally good, and no more Gooroos
would organise a rising of the kind when they per-
ceive the hopelessness of the attempt. The force of
Lieut. Edwardes amounted. according to the accounts
last received from him, to nearly 6,000 men, all
Mahommedans. He had possession of all the boats
on the Indus within his "beat," and Moolraj, from
being the aggressor, was thinking only of defence.
The hopes of the "Army of Moultan" were rapidly
dissolving into thin air. We learn from other sources
that in the fight between one of the Kardare of Jhung
and the Gooroo the amount of killed on the side of
Maharaj Singh was 17, with numbers wounded;
several were also drowned; whilst the Kardar lost
only 3 wounded and 12 killed. Capt. Skinner's de-
tachment were still at Deenanuggnr on the 10th, but
expecting orders daily to return to Lahore. Lieut.
Hodson had been engaged in collecting evidencel
against the Kardars who had been guilty of re-setting
the Gooroo, and had been successful in his endea-
vours, so that we may hear of a few of them meeting
with their deserts.
At Madras, Mr. Maclean, C.S., who is accused of
lending money at interest to the Nabob, has been
committed for trial.
FROM CEYLON, under date July 11, we learn that
the house of W. C. Gibson, Read, Davidson and Co.,
the oldest firm in Ceylon, had been compelled to
succumb to the pressure of the times. The immediate
cause of their downfall was the return of a large
amount of protested bills, and their inability to meet
the same, owing to the enormous depreciation of estate
property, and the impossibility of realising at the
present moment. A meeting of creditors took place
on the 10th, at their office, when the parties present,
comprising, it was said, nearly all the claimants,
unanimously decided that the estate should be wound
up under the joint inspection of Hugh Mackay, Esq.,
F. Lambe, Esq., and J. Armitage, Esq.
It is stated that improper influences have been at
work to induce bidders for the arrack rents at Colombo
to keep out of the way, so as to allow of other parties
obtaining the farms at much reduced rates. An in-
quiry
has been going on amongst the native officers
connected with the Colombo Cutcherry with a view of
throwing some light on the transaction, and one thing
is certain, that a native functionary has been suspended
during the pleasure of the government.
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