The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-29 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS,

PARIS, WRITNESDAT EVENTS°.
Many circumstances have been alleged as proofs of
the complicity of BORIC members of the government in
the affair of the 15th May, and the connexion of that
affair with the present is in consistency with these
allegations.
The speech of General Lebreton in the Chamber
yesterday, In connexion with this subject, is well
worth attention. I take it as follows from the
111,miteur of this morning :
Citizen LEBRETUN. —I have no pretension to politica
experience in proportion to the gravity of present
circums,ancee, and I regret that the eminent men of
this Assembly feel themselves compelled still to preserve
a silence which they have kept hitherto. In the serious
position in which the ciaietry is now placed the public
safety should be our culy incentive. It is with this convio.
ton, though deeply conscious of my own incompetence,
I hold it my duty thus to express my opinion.
(" Tr. s bien! )—and again to rep tmy regret that
the eminent men on whom thej country relied
when it sent them to this Assembly, should persist in keep-
iug a silence which, I must be permitted to say, is culpable.
Citizen FLOCON.—Name them.
Citizen LEBRETON.—I think that, in the dangerous post.
lion in which the country is now placed ; otter the dangers
we havo incurred, and of which many of you are not
wholly aware; after the danger from which we have escaped,—
from which, perhaps, we have not yet escaped. (Sensatioo.)
Citizen F OXON.—The powder conspiracy?
Citizen LEBRETON.—No, sir, not the powder conspiracy.
There are documents which will be produced before the
Assembly, and which will prove a conspiracy. (Sensation
and different obeervatime.) Pwas yesterday—
The PREIIIDENT.-1 would observe to the speaker that I
the question—
& vent MEMBERS. Allow him to answer the inter-
ruption ! The Minister of Commerce has interrupted him !
The PRESIDEST.—I did not hear the interruption.
Citizen LEHRETON.—Within these twelve hours I wse at
the Barrier de la Vilette, in the post of the Octroi,
and was Engaged in canying one of the barricades. The
chiefs of the insurgents had there their head-quavers; there
they bad their ammunition ; these they cast their balls.
There some one, whom I will not name to this Assembly,
because I will not make him a mark of vengeaesse, and
expose him to tke sssassln's poignard—(Exclamations and
various movements)—related to me observations he bad
I heard, sod which I will not repeat here, because they have
not yet that grave and solemn character they will have in a
few days, when publicity shall be given to official documents.
Until then I will net mention them to this assembly.
Gentlemen, where the salety of the country is at stake,
let us deliberate with eolemaity, let us show ourselves equal
to the circumstances, which are more grave than any in
which any other peopl^ have been placed at any period of
their history.
Napoleon Lebon and Kersansie, both chiefs of the
insurrection, kayo been arrested.
General Changarnicr arrived in Paris this morning.
At the opening of lie Assembly to-day, the Presi-
dent proposed the foilowing proclamation, which was
voted with acclamation.
TO rue FRENCIL PEOPLE.
Frenchmen! Ancrchy is conquered,—Paris is still stand.
ing,and justice shall be done! Honour 'o the wove and the
othriotisni of the National Guards of Paris and the
dspartmeots! Honour to our brave and ever glorious
duty ! to our young and intrepid Mobile Guard ! to our
sehools; to the republican guard ; aad to so many generous
volunteers who have ascended the breach for the defence of
order and liberty ! All, with a contempt of life, and
with superhuman courage, have driven back from
barricade to barricade, and pursued, to their last
dens, those monsters who, without principles, without
colours, seemed to have armed themselves for massacre and
pillage alone. ("Vet)* well.") Family, institutions, liberty,
country, all was struck at the heart, and beneath the
strokes of these new barbarians, the civilisation of the
19th century was doomed to pertah. But no ! civilisation
cannot perish ! No! the republic—that work of God—the
living law of humanity—the re public cannot perish. We
swear it by France herself, who rejects with horror
these savage doctrines, in which the family is
but a name, and property but a theft. We
swear it by the blood of so many noble victims, who
have fallen beneath their fratricidal bells. All the enemies
of the republic bad leagued against her in a violent and
desperate effort. They are vanquished, and henceforth none
of them can attempt again to cast us into such bloody colli-
sions. That sublime enteusiasm, that from all porta of France
has precipitated on Paris the thousand of soldier citizens,
whose loyalty has affected us all, does it not pro-
lamine that, with universal suffrage, the greatest crime is
to rise against the sovereignty of the people ? Are
not the decrees of the National Assembly there to confound
the miserable calumnies, to proclaim that in our republic
there are no clines, no privileges possible that the minters
are our brothers; that their interests have always been
with us the most sacred ; and that, after having. ener-
getically established order, and Insured severe justice
we will open our hearts and arms to all who labour and
sufferamongst us. Frenchmen—unite in the holy love of coun-
try. Blot out the last traces of civil discord; maintain firmly
ell the conquests of liberty and democracy; let nothing cause
as to swerve from the principles of our revolution
let us not forget that society must be ordered ; that
equality and fraternity can only be developed in
concord and peace ; that liberty ns rder to
Establish 'And to ih,!erid it front its d
owno exces-es.
It is thus that we will consolidate our young
republic, sad that in the future we shall see it from day to
day become greater and more prosperous. May it acquire
new power, and a new pledge of duration, from the trial'
which it has now undergone.
When the President concluded, General Cavaignsc
addressed the Assembly, and declared that he desired
to restore to it the extraordinary powers which it
had conferred upon him. He obeerved that the state
of siege which exists did not necessarily infer the
existence of a dictatorship, and that the latter was
now unneoewsary, and ought not to be allowed to con-
now
; but that the state of siege ought not yet to
be removed. He concluded by announcing that the
ministers had authorised him to give their collective

resignation.
M. Flocon then made a speech to which no one
listened. An expression of marked contempt was
apparent in the Assembly, "On lui rit presqu'au ner,"
said a friend who was present.
The thanks of the Assembly were then voted to
General Cavaignac. •
General Cavaignac proposed that the army, the
National Guard, and Guard Mobile should be in-
eluded in this vote, which was agreed to.
A similar vote was passed to the President of the
Assembly, and a tribute was offered to the memory
of the Archbishop of Paris.
M. Martin (du Strasbourg) then proposed the
following decree :—" The Assembly confers the
executive power on General Cavaignac, with the title