The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-19 00:00:00

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vice. The prefectures now wholly occupied by the
nations! guard and the guard mobile.
On Monday last, at the moment when the column
entered, after having forced the Pont de la Revolution,
on the square situated at the end of the Rue do Bour-
gogne, two windows opened at the first floor of one of
the house., at several ladies elegantly dressed in
black appeared, and immediately cried " Vive la Po-
logne !" " Vive ht republique donoeratique !" From
time to time persons very well dressed appeared on
the balcony, and, with much gesticulation, cried to
the operatives, Friends, our end is to establish a
democratic republic; this evening at the Champ de
Mars at six o'clock!" But the operatives appeared
little disposed to attend to this order.
By a decree of the Executive Government, pub-
lished yesterday evening, Gen.Cavaignac is appointed
Minister of 'ft ar. By another decree M. Trouve
Chauvel, representative of the people, is appointed
Prefect of Police, in place of M. Caussidb,re.
On Monday (says the Measoger), while G, neral
Courtais was giving orders to the garde mobile on the
Pont de la Concorde to sheath their bayonets, M. Good-
chaos, the late minister of finances, who was at the
tread of his company, drew out a pistol, and vowed
he would shoot the first man who should obey this
word of command.

By the resignation of MM. Beranger and Cans-
sidalre, the annullation of the election of M. Schmit,
and the owion of MM. Cavaignac, Cremicux, Itastide,
ithurt, Bethmont, Dupont de l'Eure, Marrast, Pa-
guerre, and F. de Lasteyrie, for other departments,
the electors of the Stine will have to elect ns *Ave
repreeentatives.
The Vraie Rfpublique, said to have been disconti-
nued in consequence of the arrest of its editor, M.
Thore, appeared yesterday, and contained an assertion
that M. Tnore had not been arrested.

The rep mt of the arrest of M. Cabet was unfounded.
Among the persona arrested on Monday, M. Ar-
amid Fremy, a maa of letters, one of the members of
Blanquia slab, is mentioned.
Yesterday a man was arrested on the Boulevard
Montmartre, endeavouring to excite the peop!e to
match to Vincennes, in order to release the prisoners
committed there on Monday. His arrest was made
by the people spontaneously.
Lord Holland has arrived in Paris.

The Madrid mails of the 13th have arrrived. The
financial crisis continues.
Gen. Zabala has been banished to Conta. He de-
clares he is completely a stranger to the plots of the
opposition.
Hie garrison will be shortly reinforced with a
large addition of civic guards. Every one who could
was leaving Madrid.
Another on, ute was announced for the feast of Ssn
Isidro, Monday, the 15 h.

Kamm, May 19.—Three per Ceuta, 311 cash; Five per
Centa..l4 paper ; Feeders, B paper; Coupon., 86 paper. Bank of
tIL Ferdlna.4 es. dir., 160 eau►. !Izabal** on Landoll, 30 drys, 41
cash.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS THURSDAY. 61 r.m.

The utter incapacity of the present government is
the thttue of all the salons and of every journal.
Such unanimity prevailing among parties which differ
in almost every other respect can be explained by
nothing save the glarirg evidence in support of the
proposition in which they all agree. 'l'o illustrate
this adequately from the public Journals we should
have to transfer to our columns the whole of the lead-
ing articles of the fifty journals published in Paris
today. I take the first which presents itself to my
hand, La Presse, as an example of the rest:
The truth must shine forth. Never was there a govern-
ment which made more vain berating* sad performed so
tittl+! On April 16, to whom did the majority of the Pro-
visional Government owe its *-cape from a amp de moue
similar to that under which the National Assembly nearly
disappeired on May 15 ? To the Nation il Guard. And how
has the National Gaited been rewarded ? By the most utter
oblivion! by the most insulting silence! by a derisory article
inserted in the Monifeur, whica said " The Provisional
Government knew that order could not be seriously dis-
turbed by attempts the ridiculous impotence of which was
known to it." Why, then, if this were so, has M. Ledru
Rollin since b-sated, from the tribune of the National
Assembly, of having mused the drums to beat to arms?
Who is thanked in this article? The National Guard
No. Who then ? " General Courtais, who, in the
middle of the National Guards, displayed a devoted
zeal which the whole population acknowledged by
repeated applause*." We refer our readers to the MOM -
tear. On Monday, May 15, who saved France, the Na-
tional Assembly, and the Commission of the Executive
Power ? Who protected them from the reign of terror and of
blood, whose lint act was to declare every citizen who had
caused the drums to beat to arms, every representative that
should leave his seat, a traitor to his country ? Who seized
the rebels already in personale° of the Hotel de Ville ? who
repressed the usurpation ? who so happily and in a few mi-
nutes repaired the criminal want of foresight of the govern-
ment in leaving this audacious attempt to be consummated ?
who' in short, did everything? Was it not the National
Guard ? On the following day, May 16, what dad the Com-
mission of the Executive Power ? Did it come to the Na-
tional Assembly, and propose that it should proclaim that the
National Guard of Paris had saved France and her represen-
tatives? No! The Commission rattle Executive Power came
to bestow euleglums upon itself, to attribute to itself acts the
merits of which it usurped, and to demand that it should be
allowed to act in all confidence, granting all the time neces-
sary. It must be confessed that the National Assembly
has acted with extraordinary meekness ; for, in its
place, every other Assembly would hare at least de-
manded that there should be brought to trial, where they
might justify themselves if they could, the members of
the Executive Commission, the minister, and the perfect of
police, whose names were inscribed in the lists seized at the
Hotel de Ville aster the fall of this government of an hour,
calling itself Government of the Democratic Republic. May
the National Assembly never have to repent this excess of
weakness or credulity. This was the only means of bring-
ing the truth into a clear light, and of proving that no treason
' had been fostered in the bosom of the government against
the National Assembly. If MM. Ledru Rollin, Flocon, and
Caussidiere had nothing to fear from an exposure of the
truth, it would have been rendering them a great service to
afford them the means of establiahing it and putting an end
to suspicion. We read in the Monaeur, it is true, this
proud answer of N. Flacon to an inu rpellation of M. Chara-
mauls : " It is true that names belonging to the regular go-
vernment have been inserted by the rebels in their lista, and
if the members of the government have not thought it neces
Gary to repel this insult upon their honour, it was because
they did justice upon it by their contempt, and because they
felt confident that no one could be deceived by it." There is
more than one recent memorial to attest the degree of con-
fidence merited by these superb .declaration* of disdain,
which they think will dispense with any other answer. If
M. Albert, the ex member of the Provisional Government, a
representative of the people, elected at Paris by 133,0410 suf-
frages, had not been arrested, what guarantee have we that
he would not have held the same language as M. Flocon ?
For ourselves, we strongly doubt w iietner the conspiracy of
May 15 against the National Assembly had not other authors
besides those who have been arrested.

It is now certain that the liberation of Blanqui was
produced by the cause I referred to in my letters of
this morning. The revelations which his detention
could have produced were not confined to the plot of
Monday. Even more strious disclosures would have
been made respecting the conspiracy of the 16th of
April, implicating not one, but two, members of the
present executive commission.
The general eyo is directed to the lowest name on
the commission in relation to these matters, but that
came is not alone, or the most seriously implicated ;
another, holding a much higher position, would have
have been compromised.
The preparations for the fete in the Champ de
Mars were resumed yesterday, but at three o'clock a
violent storm of rain compelled the workmen to
retire. It is said to be the positive intention of the
Executive Givernment that the fete shall take place
on Sunday next.
The Committee on Labour met yesterday morning.
It decided that the members forming the bureau
should not guard their functions longer than June 1.
M. Corbon was named president; M. Tourret,
vice-president ; M. Demesmay, secretary ; and M.
Astouin, vice-secretary. The committee also de-
cided that it would meet every day at ten o'clock, and
that the Minister of Public Works and the Director
of the National Workshops should be summoned
before it this day. It also adopted the following re-
solutions:--Ist, that one or several sub-committees
should be formed to examine and report on all the
communications sent in; 2nd, that it should call sac-
' cessively before it all the persons likely from their
position to throw light on the question of the organi-
sation of labour.
Some facts connected with the retaking the Hotel
de Ville, have come to our knowledge. The National
Guards stationed about the Hotel de Ville, not having
received any orders, could do nothing, when a bat-
talion of the 7th Legion, preceded by the Mayor,
arrived and took possession of the Hotel de Ville,
both before and behind, and occupied all the entrances,
thus cutting off all communication between the rioters
within and without the building.
MM. Lamartine and Ledru Rollin now arrived,
and ordered the conspirators into custody.
The Journal des Debuts of this morning publishes
a letter from M. Degousee, one of the questors of the
National Assembly, exculpatory of the President
Bnchez, on the 15th inst., in which he says that,