The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1848.

the prosecution of MM. Caussidiers and Louis Blanc'
is already prepared, and will be presented to the
assembly by the Minister of Justice on Friday. If
this latter report be well founde,i, it is probable that
the debate will be cut very short, if not postponed
altogether.
The Conatitutionnel of this morning has the follow-
ing :
It is known that a note which was published by M.Cana-
sidiere with reference to the elections was written by a ta-
lented hand formerly employed by many presidents of the
council during tt:e two former rigimes, and particularly
MM. Decal's, de Polignact, and more recently Marshal
Soult. We are nurtured that a speech which will
be delivered on Friday in the deb its on the insurrection by
M. Caussidiere is already written by the same party.
Certain passages are even cited in which M. Odilon Barret,
the Prreideet of the Commission, is attacked with unparal-
' Idled violence. We shall leave this speech; meanwhile we
cungretulate M. Caussidiere in having &this disposal, thanks
to the revolution, the secretery of the es. president of the
council.

The person lure alluded to is M. Linguay.
I understand that the leaders of the moderate party
have had a meeting at the hotel of M. Odilon
Barret, at which it was resolved that while they would
avoid all needless sources of irritation in the debate of
to-morrow,they would nevertheless repel with firmness
and energy any attacks which might be madean the re-
port of the committee. The' Ordre du lour motive,"
which I have already mentioned, is also resolved
upon, the effect of which would be to send the report
and evidence to the Minister of Justice, and express
the approbation of the assembly in respect to the
committee on the insurrection. A meeting of the
club of the institute has also taken place, at which a
resolution was adopted also tending to avoid any irri-
tating topics to-morrow. M. Lech u Rollin was per-
sonally applied to with this view, but he did not
pledge himself as to what course he might pursue.
Tile state of Paris meanwhile continues to be that
of a city on the very eve of an insurrection. The
town is patrolled in all quarters during the night, and
extraordinary military preparations are manifest
during the day. What is apprehended now is in-
cendiarism. The diabolical threat announced by
Caussidiere to the assembled commissaries of police
that the ultra democratic party wculd rather see Paris
in ashes than their designs frustrated, and that
if muskets failed then they still had lucifer
matchee, yet rings in the ears of the citizens.
The Democratic PacXque of this morning slys
that a despatch has arrived from Vienna stating that
the Anglo-French mediation has been refused by the
Austrian government.
In the National Assembly yesterday the Minis-
ter of Finance presented the bill, which he had
given notice of, to impose a tax on the revenu
ier : he calculates that it will be about at the
rate of 2 per cent., and that the revenue to arise to
the treasury from it will be about GO millions a year.
In the course of the sitting the Minister of Marine
presented a bill demanding 00,000,000 for an indem-
nity to be paid to elaveholdi re in the colonies, for
the loss sustained by them from the abolition of
slavery by the Provisional Government. The as-
sembly seemed to receive the demand for such a sum
with marked disfavour.

The following important e:eclaration appears in the
SWele, a paper convected with M. (Millen Barrot
There are many credulous people, who, by propagating a
thousand absurd reports, which are in circulatem every day,
f.o the purpose of injuring credit and cestroying confiderce,
assist, without knowing it, the tactics of the rioters. There
are also men without foresight manufacturers, merchants,
and even workmen—who, excited by their present sufferings,
are ready to exclaim, "My business went on very well
under the monarchy, but I em doing nothing under the
republic. Well, then, ' Vise le Rui ! Down with the re-
public !' " Such is the logic of despair. Aseuredly, this
manner of reasoning is absurd ; but it is not sufficient to say
so, it must be proved. Yes, the ultra radicals, the dema-
gogues, and the Utopianirs have ruined trade, and, by mis.
guiding a part of the people, have caused blood to flow ; but
would Louis Philippe or Henry V. bring us back from
Landon or from Kirchberg the money that we have lost ?
i Evidently not. Would they restore us the generals and the
soldiers whom the anarchists have killed? No. The evil,
therefore, which hu been caused by madmen and by fools, is
irreparable. But it is argued by some, the return of a
monarchy would be the restoration of order, which favours
labour, and causes c.:mmerce to prosper. Nothing more
erroneous. If alarm still prevails, now that the insurrection
has been suppressed, and that society is evidently tending to
re-establish itself on its proper basis, what deplorable uneasi-
ness would not 1-e caused by any fresh attempts on tae part
of monarchy? Would not that which is called by some a
pledge of peace be on the contrary a signal of renewed
struggles, fresh combats, and fresh mauacres ? Is it to be
believed that power would be abandoned without resist-
ance by the government, by the assembly, and by the ad-
ministration ? Is it to be believed, that the " Red Republic,"
which is now unveiled, vanquished, and happily powerless,
wculd not recover its strength at the aspects of the safe/nits
of Louis Philippe, or the retrograde party of Henry V.
Would it not be authtrised in crying front the top of its
" mountain " the government has been Tither unskilful or
treacherous ; the assembly has shown neither intelligence
nor hart; we alone have understood the wishes
of the people, and the great revolution of February ? Is it
to be believed that the nation still would not hesit,de at
the cost and the perils of a counter revolution ? Would
it, who scarcely recovered from its late shock. wish to
encounter fresh storms? Try the Orleans fund. again?
Has not the country already shown an almost fabulous pa.
tience —a patience of eighteen years ? We know some-
thing of this. Try the elder branch again! That would
be to sacrifice the fate of France to an unknown hand ;
it would be to gamble with her, it would be to throw
away the glcrious efforts of 60 years. The Orleans branch
would return to us animated with the spirit of Louis
Philippe and of Ouizot, and Henry V., with the ideas of the
old rr,gime. Hence would arise elements of discord ; hence
a fresh cease for commercial crisis ; hence an augmentation
of the very evil from which arise the perils which we are
ILOIIIII,I to avoid. We have never been among those who
broueht oc the violent advent of the republic, we r.re neither
invested with its authority nor its offices; but we do not hesi-
tate to declare that we row regard it as our hope and our
salvation, that it alone can repair the mischief that has been
done in its name. What we desire is to have a constitution,
a regular government, and a stable administration ; to get
out of a previsional state of things; and all those things are
within our reach. Have a little patience with regard to
the republic. During the last sixty years our political expe-
riments have cost us six milliards of francs, and the blood of
two millions of men. Let us now stop ; let us no longer run
after changes which always deceive our hopes; let us for
once ameliorate our institutions instead of overturning
them."

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London, 30 days. 46 50.

ITALY.

The Piedmantese Gazette, of the 10th, gives the
names of the new cabinet as definitively settled :
Alfieri di Soetegno, President; Perrone, Foreign
Affairs ; Binelli, Interior ; Merlo, Public Instruction ;
Revel, Finances; Santa Rosa, Public Works; Fran-
zini, War and Marine.
A letter from Turin, of the 18th, says :
The Sicilian deputation is still here, waiting for the
answer of the Duke of Genoa to their offer of a crown.
These gentlemen have been now nearly a month at Turin,
and it was only yesterday. that their visit was returned
by any member of the government. It is understood by all
that the Luke of Genoa baa retlned the Sicilian crown, but
no intimation of that nature has been given otfi-
daily, and the deputation still hangs on in the hope
that with the settlement of Northern Italy more frredom
of action will be given to the family of Charles Albert.
The late discussion in the English parliament gives some
comfort to the deputation, as they, and they say the people
of the island, draw from the Marquis of Lansdowne's words
the inference that the British fleet will not allow a Neapoli-
tan hostile expedition to land in Sicily.

Affairs stated, with regard to Russia, that
negotiations were on foot for appointing an
envoy to the court of St. Petersburg. On ansounciog
the nomination of M. Von Bothmer u the Hano-
verian plenipotentiary to the central government,
the minister stated that the government of Hanover
has acknowledged without reserve the central power,
and promulgated a law on the subject. The Minister
of War intimated that he would reply on Friday to
various questions which have been put to him. The
Assembly then passed to the order of the day on the
draft of the constitution. The debate on the third
paragraph (whicLi as well as the fourth had been
postponed) was begun.
AUSTRIA..—PurIi.—A letter from this city, dated
the 13th inst., announced the taking of Venus by
the Hungarians by storm and the slaughter of from
2,000 to 3,000 Servians. The Hungarian loss was
said to be nearly as great. A communication from
Pesth, dated the 14th, which appears in the itike-
twine Zeitung of the 20th, throws doubts on this
news : " The defeat of the Servian s at Verlass is not
' confirmed ; on the contrary, a gloom hangs over our
community, and people murmur that an ugly notch
has been cut in the Hungarian sabre. At all events,
it is suspicious that to-day's number of the govern.
ment newspaper says not a word about the boasted
victory." A letter from Pesth (of a still more recent
date, the 16th), published in the Deutsche ititgernsine
Zeituny of the 2 let, speaks still more despondently :
The news that 900 men have deserted from the b►ttalion
of the Wallachias frontier, which bad been marched from
Transylvania to the camp at Ssegedizn, and that eighty-
two have deserted from the Magyar &Alen, has ex-
cited great consternation here. Insubordination has
shown itself also among the Seeklers, in the county of Ma-
roseh.in Transylvania,and the bearing of the Slewa•s in the
north of Hungary is dissluie.ing. People b g;n to despair of
the cause of the Magyars. Even the paper of the minister
Kossuth speaks today of the possibility of the Hungarian
ministry of finance and war being dissolved. It points out
two ways by which this may be accomplished. The minis-
try in Vienna may afford assistance to the insurrection in
Illyria, and thus Jellachich may be enabled to enter our
capital as a conqueror, and dictate terms with the sword ;
or they may embarrass the Magyars by exciting disturb-
ances among the Siewsks and Wallachians, and thus bring
into power a Hungarian ministry that will dissolve the pre
sent ch: tuber, and by the Instrumentality of • servile suc-
cessor destroy the independence of Hungary by what are
called " legal means."
PRUSSIA.—The King and Queen arrived at Sus-
Souci from Pillnittz on the 19th inst.