The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-05 00:00:00

god 71.

NEWS FROM PARIS.

DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS BY
THE SARDINIAN TROOPS.

PARIS, TVESDAY, 101 A Nc.
A charge in the Post-office regulations, which has
just been announced to me, will curtail our means
of transmitting early ihtelligence to you to a cer-
tain exter.t. Hitherto, letter a posted before 11 a.m.
were despatched by the mid-day London mail. We
are now informed that they must be posted by
half-past 10. This will operate very injuriously, in-
asmuch as provincial and foreign letters are fre-
quently received so late that they cannot be available
until the afternoon mail.
The chief subject of conversation last night and this
morning was the extraordinary and sudden fall in
the funds at yesterda)'s Bourse. The Threes, which
closed on Saturday at 301, closed yesterday at 331,
being a fah equivalent to above 10 per cent. Other
government securities fell ir. a like proportion, but
railway shares were but slightly affected, and Bank
shares suffered but a trifling decline.
The weekly statement of the Bank of France was
said to produce art unfavourable influence. The 30
millions which the Bank has lent to government
without interest will, it is said, be delivered in Bank
notes, which will be put into immediate circulation
and thus complete the complement of paper, namely
330 millions, which the Bank Is at present autho-
rised to issue; but even this will not be sufficient, and
little doubt is entertained that the Bank will be com-
pelled to make a much larger issue of paper to the
government, receiving as a security the property of
the late civil list.
Accounts arrive from the provinces indicating
serious disorganisation in the troops, and disorders
among the industrial classes. At L'Orient the non-
commissioned officers and gunners were in mutiny
against their superior officers on the night of the 20th.
At St. Omer disorders broke out on the occasion of
the removal 'of a statue of the Duke of Orleans, and
serious disturbanzes are reported in the neighbourhood
of Brionnes, near ltouen, in a manufacturing district.
I mentioned yesterday that General Cavaiinac had
definitively refused the Ministry of War, or rather
that the terms on which he would accept that office
were not agreeable to the government. General
Oudinot, who has served in Africa, is mentioned, as
well as Generals Negrier, Schramm, and Preval.
The Bishop of :Nevus has written to the Damts to
complain that Easter Sunday has been chosen for the
elections, a day on which, from religious duty, the
clergy cannot, and many of their flocks will not, take
part in them. He suggests that they should be post-
poned to the next day. M. de Boissy. the ex-Peer, has
written a letter to recommend the bishops to direct the
clergy to celebrate mass on Easter Sunday at 6 o'clock
in the morning, ar.d vespers immediately after, so that
they may be able afterwards to take part in the elections.
The attroupementa and manifestations have at-
tracted the serious attention of the Provisional Go-
vernment, and the Mayor of Paris, M. Armand
Marrast, has issued a proclamation in which a firm
and moat laudable intention is manifested to put down
this most intolerable nuisance. The mayors of the
arrondissements respectively are authorisea to call out
the national guard for their effectual suppression.
Pushing the democratic spirit to an extreme, it ap-
pears that numerous companies of the national guard
bare elected officers from ranks so low that they are
literally usable to afford the expense of their uniforms
A subscription was accordingly opened in the respec-
tive companies to defray this expense, but it appears
that, in many instances, such a proceeding offended
tke armair pr pre of the officers elect, and rather than
submit to accept the donation of their colleagues they
signified their intention of resigning. Under these
circumstances, the Mayor of Paris has announced, by
proclamation, that the city of Paris itself will clothe
those officers who cannot afford to clothe themselves.
Private letters have been received in Paris, an
nouneing that a general insurrection had taken place
at Wilna in Lithuania, and that the insurgents were
masters of the city.
At a meeting, on Sunday, of about 1,800 Italians
resident in Paris, it was prorosed by M. Lizabe, the
secretary of the committee, that an address should be
sent to the people of Italy, requesting them to pro-
claim M. Lunartine an Italian citizen. The motion
wag unanimously adopted. At the same meeting it
was decidtd that a column composed of the first
volunteers who had enrolled themselves should set out
for Italy to-morrow, and that the other columns should
follow as seen as the necessary funds have been raised.
The command is entrusted to Colonel Antonini, an old
soldier of the empire.
The demonstration at Lyons which was made on
Thursday, on the occasion of the release of an artil-
leryman, did not terminate with the man's speech at
Ole Hotel de Ville, for the soldiers and people,
sight or ten thousand in number, promenaded
him in triumph through the streets. The
nab-officers of the regiment of artillery had ad-
dreleed a demand to the general to obtain the recal
of the colonel, who had gone to Paris. Whilst the
demonstration in honour of the soldier was taking
Plane, another demonstration was made by the
women. Three or four hundred of them hal,-
mg alsembled in the morning in the court
(tithe Palace St. Pierre, they divided themselves
into brigades, commanded by women acting
as sergeants, and marched about the town
With drums beating and banners flying.