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LATEST FROM PARIS.

In another page will be found accounts from I'aris
to talon yesterday. The following is the communica-
tion of our correspondent, since received, with news
to mail hour last evening.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 5 P.M.
I mentioned in my letter of this morning some
tumultuous demonstrations which were made last
night in the Quartier St. Denis. The city is far
from tranquil to-day. Numerous bands of men, in
blouses, have been parading the Boulevards with
flags, and singing the Marsaill rise. Same have been
displaying the flag cf Henry V.
These manifestations pass unnoticed. There is no
public force ; neither poiiec or military is available.
The national guard do not interfere. The streets and
thoroughfares are everywhere obstructed by crowds,
collected round individuals, who either harangue tht m
on the science of gin ernment, or un some other equally
edifying topic.
The financial crisis becomes worse. The Threes
fell to-day at one moment to 45, closing for 48. No
one will do business for account—all is for cash. The
Fives have fallen to 69. Railways in proportion :
Orleans to 6so, and Northern to 32:7.

Ganneron's bank stopped payment to-day; °thin
are expected to stop to-morrow.
The Anew,/ dee IVlnds announces that the house of
Estienna anal Thiqt: de le t'llaume has suspended
payment. lt w-s at this banking-house that the
commercial 1,;11; of the, great contrite:tors for building
were usually d &counted.
The exasperstion is extreme against M. Ledru
Rollin, to whoSe circular a large part of this mischief
is ascribed. A report is zirculats.d within the last
few hour-,, that he has been induced to retire, and is
to be succeeded by M. de Cormenin. I fear this is
too good to be true.
There was a meeting yesterday evening of the
Central Club of the Republic, attended by 500 persons,
at which it was decided to give the provisional
government its support, on the condition of postponing
the epoch of the elections, and continuing meanwhile
to hold its present dictatorship,—and that, otherwise,
the club would iy-e every means of overturning it. It
has adopted the motion of M. lilanqui, its president,
to the effect of inviting all the other clubs to unite in
this demand. The Club of the Sorbonne, of which the
celebrated Professor Michelet is president, has
adopted regulations similar to those of the former
club of Jacobins.

The election of the c fficere of the National
Guard, which was fixed for the 18th, has been
postponed by the provisional government to the
23rd. The Air/inner!, in making the announcement,
says that this teentution has been come to in conse-
quence of the difficulties presented by the fusion of
the companies of Grenadiers and Volligenrs into
the battalions, and the division of the legions into
eight companies. The general belief, however,
appears to he that the postponement is in conse-
quence of its having been discovered that the elec-
tions, notwithstanding the efforts of the government,
were likely to go in favour of the moderate party.
The governrnont hopes that, by filling up the ranks
with its adherents, it will be able to get its partizans
appointed. Two meetings took place on Tuesday
night last, to choose candidates for the rank of officer
of the Ist and '2nd legions of the national guards,
which were extremely crowded, and displayed much
more heat and rivalry than the real friends of the
republic could wish. No decision was, however,
arrived at. The meetings were respectively adjourned
to Thursday eight.
The Government-Commissary at Lyons, M. Em-
manuel Arego, has issued a decree dissolving all
unauthorised religious congregations and corporations,
and especially the gingregation of Je,uite, in tho
department et the head of which he is placed.
The journals are much occupied with the approach-
ing eleetint e, We select the following. The
XiCettat den and; that men of intelligence and pro-
bity should be returned to the national assembly,
without any distinction of class. It says:
The event of 1848 is a social revolution as much as a
politic,' one. 'fhe sight to make and execute laws, which
was formerly the privi.e4e of the arientracy, and which the
constitutional mietinichy had confi•led to the burg. nee'ass,
henceforward Intones to the whole nation. Does that mean
that the CieS9l, which have hitherto reigned are to he for the
future systematically excluded from affairs, that a band and
brutal ostracism is about to strike property, industry, com-
merce, and. science? What an absurdity! Science., com-
merce, industry, and property have rights to put forward
and sacred inierests to defene, and it will never enter Mtn
the thought of eery one to afterillee them. It must he ad-
mitted, these a 'awes have hitherto shown but little sympathy
for the suffer nits of the po it man end little intelligence of
his wants. They make use of the feeble for their own pur-
pores its place of aiding them, and M. Guizot, their moet
eloquent organ, had the courage to declare one day that
I. ecnsidrred misery as a necessary curl, on the people.
Hunger was in his eye* a certain means of governing; and
• majority of rich and lettered men was fours' to confirm by
its votes thnt impious doctrine ! Such are the bitter fruits
infallibly prooueed by a vicious political order of things. To
divide men hot., categories and classes, to range them under
dill', rest bane, rs, to give them opposing interests, is it not
to organise amongit them a latent or declared war, and to
engender in their minds hurtful passions which spring (rum
war and which perpttuate it. On one side pride and con-
tempt, then envy everywhere, hatred, and fear. Th ink God,
the war is no. terminated; all distinctions are effaced; all
harriers are br,,ken down. There are no more classes at pre-
rout. Rich or poor, ignorant or lettered, idle or working, we I
are all citizens in the same degree, all national guards, all I
elretet it, all elegible as deputies—there is no longer any other
distinctions but those whic'a react from probity, intelligence,
devotedness, and services rendered. It would therefore be
to alight the spirit ot the posioi into which we are entering,
it would be a veritable anachronism to pay °Mahon, at the I
approaching elections, to the fortune and profession of the Cllll.
didates. To say, for instance, that so many deputize of such I
a profession are required, is it not to constitute an absolute
privilege to the pewit of that profession ? In that way, a man
would be tholes' for hie profession. No one ought to be
elected except for his personal merit, (or the faculties which
hearcri has 'riven hint, and for the services which he CM
nadir. Tilers are in all ranks of society men of merit. Let
to not go and seek them here rather than there ; let us take
them every-where. Amongst the workmen, for instance, then
are men who. r a length of time, have had, tiled on those
general attention, sad whose names are known tothe public.
hey have Riven proofs of their good sense, insunetion. and
devotedness to thea °sentry ; and their place is marked in
advance at the national assembly. They will there cypress
the sentiments cat their broehe.-,, and point out their wants ;
l will enlighten the asvenibly and guide it through the
c?r,aplicatekli.hyrintli of que-tions relating to the organisation
o"abainr. Their presence is iniiispersiable, and their ab.
simee would be a public calamity. They are therefore sure
of iiiting there, and they will may, we arc sure, a u,efui and
gknous part
The Vnion says:
The nation is every oat. The ratimakirepresentation