The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, Moaner, II A.M.
M. Emile de Ciorerdin is a sore torment to the Pro-
visional Government. Day after day does this untiring
foe return to his merciless expositions. Nothing
within the range of their temorary and precarious
patronage could be offered by the possessem of power
with the slightest chance of stopping the course of
that unrelenting pen. La Presse, with its eighty
thousand of daily circulation, is a better thing than
any of the loaves and fishes of the mushroom sove-
reigns of the hone.
We give some ell:Mations from an article in Le
Prase, headed :
OPTIMISM AND MIEHIMY.—Whes, without season, the
high think all goes well, it is rare that the low has not red..
son to complain that all gee' ill. Operatives of all kinds and
of all make, do yen think that the thirty days which have
passed from 24th February to 25th March have been as well
employed as they could, as they should have been ?
Was there notb'ng better to do than to issue proclamation'
without numlrer which ewer all the walls, speechec without
end which Ell the columnsaf &lithe jaunts:ls, circulars with-
out bounds irritating all minds, alarming all interests, pro-
mises prodigally mode without knowing how to accomplish
them ? How comes it tharthis 26th of March confidence is
lea than it wac a month since, the 25th iFeb., and that the
s.per Cents., after having fallen 20f. the 7th of March have
gam fallen 23t.. total 53f. As to the expenses, which
have been considerably increased, can a "Saute important
lightening the weight of the budget, be cited 3 Not
may Las the standing army not been reduced, but ia Act
has nut the charge been heavily increased to the extent of
the pay of the national guard'? During a month that Ifae
national guard motile has been instituted, is it clothed, in-
structed? Is any attention seriously given to ise future der,
ennui= ? Dom any one know what will be dam with it?
The levelling the Champ de Mass, unhappy imitation
of 1830, is it net ,amour bat sod money swat-Lowed up ?
Of this labour and money was there no employment to be
made less cnerous to do state, more advantageous to the la-
bourers? Did not the Provisional Gcvernment Zemand
"only two days to restore the quiet which produmi em-
ployment, and completely re-establish the public peere ?"
These are their owe expressions. We are now
at 26th March. Has quiet produced employ-
ment ?—has employment brought back prosperity ?
The day following the Provisional Government decreed the
establislanu nt of national workshops. Where are they?
What is thane in them? Workmen. who ham no work,
what have you gained? Were sour privations ever greater?
What is the branch of industry is-hich does not suffer cruelly ?
What is the misery that is not aggravated ? Rather than
tardily establish b mks of discount, would not the Provisional
Govsrnment hare done better to support thoso it has to in-
cons'derately suffered to fail? Rather than adjourn the
repayment of the deposits entrusted to the savings' banks,
would cot the Provisional Government have done better to
adjourn the deplorable nominations, which have annihilated
at one blow confidence and credit??
So proceeds the article; denying that the Provi-
sional Government has kept any of its engagements.
It then says :
I see they (the government) ride in the court carriages
that they deign to appear at the theatre in the old royal
boxes ; I see they pounce upon the large salaries ; I see
they swallow up your money ; I see they increase the taxes
one after another ; I see that, from fear, they.havo in truth
restored the censor hip ; I we they are astonished at their
inability to inspire when with that confidence in them
which they have in themselves. The first debt they have
to pay you is gratuitous instruction, without which demo-
cracy is but a word. This debt of honour and
civilisation this immense arrear of sixty years,
which should have been paid in twenty-four hours—is
still unpaid. Optimism is the grain of which revolutions
are the husk. A revolution is made under pretence of re-
treat, a new revolution announces itself under the name of
Li, cl 7. The younger branch of the Bourbons has joined the
elder in the land of exile, the younger branches of ministerial
optimism mimes themselves fearfully to rejoin their elder,
the people begin to know them, hope is now extinct, patience
exhausted.
It says:
Either • general revolution should not be precipitated, or
a reorganiz stion should be immediately effected. We have
agitators, but no reformers.
The Paris Bank of Discount has just been robbed
of 58,000 E A clerk named Nicolas Leguay is charged
with the offence. •
La Sleek of this morning states the tact that M.
Barrot has announced his intention of being
a candidate for the Constituent Assembly. That
journal publishes a speech delivered by him at a