The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-01 00:00:00

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can now look to retain office, except upon the mew
dition of keeping the national expenditure within
reesoaable haute, of applying every penny of what
is pieced at their disposal to good purpose, and of
keeping their accounts so clearly and intelligihl7.
teat they ran at any moment explain any vocal
outlay, or the whole of their expenses, in a sad/,
factory manner.

HITHERTO the progress of the revolution in Fraaes
has been satisfactory beyond what the most sae •
and most prepossessed in favour of the French chat
ranter could have anticipated. The improvised pros
visional government appears to be deeidsdly gaming
strength, and its proceedings have been marked with
dignity, courage, and circumspection.
But our main reliance is in the educated and pre.
prietary class of France. In every csuntry pose,eesd
such a elate, under any form dr government, politica
power necessarily resides in it. Education imparts the
power of acting upon system, and with consequence, yr,
iperty enables its owners, by " biding their tiene.,4 to
starve their antagonists into compromise or surrender.
'The anti oubled arid uninterrupted exercise of the
power possessed by the wealthy and intelligeng
depends upon two conditions - justice and comes.
towards less fortunate members of society
courage and unionamoag themselves. As fares flush".
telligence yet received goes, both conditions appear to
manifest themselves in a remarkable degree at pre.
sent in France among this influential class.
The wisdom displayed by the leaders of the Free.
legislature in avoiding a collision with the populace
while their blood was up, and the courage and doll
with which they have availed themselves of retott-
ing calmness to re-establish order and hasten the re-
turn of society to its usual routire, is the theme of
just encomium in all quarters. But the same spiels
appears to have manifested itself in all parts of Frame,
The promptitude with which the authorities of Roes
accepted the new order of things, was equalledby
the resolution with which, in the heat of popular... I
citement, they caused the arrest of no less than fifty.
two delinquents. The republican enthusiasm of
Tours is as warm as that of Paris ; and yet, although
bad blood existed between the French and Easesk
railway labourers, the English in general hay=
reason to be satisfied with the conduct there o
towards them. And in justice to those classes who
live as it were from hand to mouth—the development
of whose minds has been less cared for—who have
been the combatants on the late occasion—let it be 11.
marked that their conduct may bear comparison even
with their predecessors in 1830. The only windy
disquieting manifestation during the revolution has
been the partial destruction of railways. And this,
a letter from Tours, which we publish to-day, as
well as the statements in the journals of Roues,
would lead us to believe has been in a great meant,
occasioned by jealousies entertained by the French of
the English workmen. We have seen on many of
our own railways a spirit of mutual inveteracy be.
tween Irish and English, or Scotch labourite, that
entitles us to doubt whether, in a period of civil cont.
motion, these parties might not have proceeded to
, worse extremities.
' Even in the indirect self-flattery with which
Englishmen are accustomed to speak patronisingly or
llP"logetieally of French fickleness, we cannot coin.
aide. The late dynasty had richly earned the die.
missal it has received. And let us look back to oar
own history. The great English revolution com-
menced in 1640, and the closing attempt to subvert a
dynasty by arms in these islands was witnessed in
1743. fhe French revolution, commencing in 1784,
may in justice be allowed to complete its century of
dynastic mutations before Englishmen presume to my
that Frenchmen are less apt to settle into habits of
regtear government than themselves.
The present aspect of affairs in France entitlm the
nation to our respect, a respect which ought to show
itself by a strict observance of international etiquette.
The English ministers have, with a promptitude and
frankness which does them honour, proclaimed
their determination to respect the right of France to
choose its own form of government. But this
is not enough. The de facto government of any
country for the time ie the only one that
any other country is entitled to recognise.
Although it is the proud boast of our country to afford
an asylum to political exiles of every political creed
indifferently-, it has not been customary to receive at
court the expatriated rivals of an existing government.
Under ordinary circumstances any infringement of
this custom might have been a trifle unworthy of no.
tice; but the recently deposed dynasty of France is
indirectly connected with that of England by so many
and so near ties, that any public recognition of it might
pardonably give rise to misconceptions. It is one of
those sacrifices which their high position entails upon
princes that they must sometimes subject their most
amiable private feelings to the stern requisitions of
public duty. The present is one of those occasions;
and such is the unhesitating confidence of our loyalty,
that we feel assured no representation from the
coancillora of the omen will be required to insure that
the asylum provided for the late royal family of France
shall be strictly private.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

We published in several editions yesterday lam-
maries of news up to Monday evening, when oar
correspondent writing, says: The business week
began to-day. Nothing in the external utast
of Paris would indicate to an ordinary
oteerver that things had undergone a change.
The markets and the streets, the Bouleverds
and the passages, the gardens and the
promenades, present severally their customary
appearances. All tumult Las ceased. The buzz of
business is again heard. Ci!oyens and Citoyexnet
interchange salutes, uttering their new appellaWa
with a tone more of pleasantry than of seriousness.
Certainly the unanimity in adopting the new order of
things, as well as the unmistakeable satisfaction dif-
fused by it, are most remarkable.
The last week has indeed been an eventful one.
The spectacle we have witnessed is another vendee-
tion of the adage " That truth is sometimes mbre
strange and incredible than fiction." The scenes
which have passed before us more resemble an optical
illusion than the reality of things. The last six
days have been a series of dissolving views.
Monday, we had in the morning the manifesto of
the committee of the reform banquet, and the letter
of the opposition deputies promising to attend it. In
the evening we had the proclamations of the gavern-
mons prohibiting it. Tuesday, we had in the morning
thousands of peaceful citizens collected in the princi-
poi places to witness processions of students and
workmen. In the afternoon 30,000 troops dispersing
them, and the chamber inaloeed in a ring of 40,000
armed men, receiving the impeachment of ministers
from the members of the opposition. Wednesday,
change of ministers, M. Mole succeeding M. Guirst
Thursday morning MM. Thiers and Barrot replacing
M. Mole. Thursday noon the abdication and flight
of the king and his family. Friday the proclama-
tion of the provisional government and a republic.
Saturday tranquillity re-established, the, barricades
levelled, the shops opened, and Paris restored to its
normal state.
Those alone can appreciate this extraordinary court*
of events that have witnessed them.
The apprehensions even of a temporary scarcity in
Paris, are dispelled by the official announcements Of
the abundant stocks of provisions actually accumu-
lated in the capitaLindependently of the daily arrival&
The place is stocked with flour for thirty days' con-
sumption at least. At the Halle and the Greiner
d'Abondance, the stock consists of 25,000 quintal's—
the three-fifths of the depot at the Grenicr are 18,000
quintaux, the depot de garantie 20,000, real reserve
in the bands of the bakers 63,000—total, 128,000 qx.
That is not aiL In the barrier of Paris, in the stations
of the railways, and in the basins of La Villette,
thousands of quintals of floor only await the complete
-"..hment of the circulation in order to re-enter

Paris.
The prices of meat, vegetables, and other articles
of subsistence have undergone no increase. Families
continue to be supplied with butchers meat at the
same rate as they have been throughout the season.
Without exception the journals manifest a due sense
of their mission as a moral power, in the absence of
civil and military organization, for the maintenance f
order, the respect of person and he
the ob-
servance of the rights of national hospitality towards
foreigners, and the preservation of the nation frost
every act which can sully the splendour of the litieid
change it hag achieved. We could ate