The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EYBNING.
The event of the day is an extraordinary revelation
by Emilo de Girardin in the l'res4e whose columns,
always eccentric, are to-day more than usually start-
ling both in substance and appearance. Girardin
singles out as the object of his fulminating dis-
closures the two generals, Changarnier and Cavaig-
nee. To the first. who passes for one of the most
evenly. poised and sensible men in France, he attri-
butes, in 1848, the meanest offer that was ever made
by the wildest adventurer, nothing less than a scheme
fur invading England, and proclaiming a republican
form of government. The accusations of the cele-
ibrated publicist against Cavaignac are of a less
original kind, and have for the greater part received
their answer in the defence which the ex-chief of the
lesecutive made before the Constituent Assembly.
The first half of the first page of the Presse is oc-
cupied by the fac-simile of a telegraphic despatch, in
enormous type, published at Algiers, on the 18th of
June, 1848, and announcing the fall of the executive
commission of Arago, Caroler Pages, Ledru Rollin,
Lamartine' and Marie, which only took place a week
after, and the substitution 0 an executive commis-
sion of three members, MM. Armand Marrast,
Berger, and Cavaignac in its place. The article then
commences as follows:
The formal contradiction given by M. de Persigny to M.
Caungarnier, and the unaccountaole silence of the ea.
c.anmlndant.in-chief of the army of occupation of facie,
gives importance and opportanecusei to two facts which have
hitherto remained unknown. The ant of them dates as far
back as March, 1848. Thasonte took place at the Ministry
of the Interior, in the cabinet of M. Ledru Iselin, then

member of the provisional government and minister of the
interior. General Changarnier enters. Ile proposes to M.
Ledru Rollin that, if he could have confided to him 12,000
of his own selection, he would land them in England,
levolutienise the whole of Great Britain, and proclaim there
the same form of government as in France, namely, the
republic. The second fact occurred two months after the
former. The scene took place at Algiers on the lith June,
1848. General Changarnier was governor-general of
Algeria. He caused to be posted up the following bill:
" Algiers, 18th June, 1848.—The governor-general has
to-day received by a courier, which left Marseilles on the
13th, the following telegraphic despatch The commission
of the executive government, composed of MM. Arago,
Gamier Pages, Marie, Lainartine, and Ledru-Rollin, has
retired. ThilcoMesission is replaced by another composed
of three members, MM. Armand Marrast, Berger, and
General Cavaignac.' Who had sent, who could have sent
from Paris to General Changarnier, Governor-General of
Algeria, this telegraphic despatch This amount., to the
same as asking who was minister of war on the 15th of
June, 1848? It was General Cavaignac. Was there then
at that period an understanding and a plot between MM.
Cavaignac and Changarnier ? Were the events which were
to stain the streets of Paris with blood on the 23rd, 24th,
25th, and 26th June already prepared on the 15th Juno
behind the curtain ?"

M. Girardin then proceeds to show that M. Armand
Marrast resigned his functions as Mayor of Paris at
this epoch to prepare himself for becoming one of the
triumvirs. He brings up tho old charges against
Cavaignac of letting the insurrection gain head to
forward the objects of his private ambition; and
attributes his own arrest on the 25th of June to
Cavaignuc's apprehension that he would pounce upon
the ,Ikbar of Algiers, which arrived in Paris 'that
day, containing the famous telegraphic despatch of
the 18th, sent from Paris on the 13th. I need not
say that all Paris is curious to sec what Changarnier
will say to the conversation alleged to have taken
place between himself and Ledru ltollin.
The question between Changarnier and Persigny
is still at issue. Persigny is getting printed twelve
letters written by a person who represented himself
as a mediator in the general's confidence, and autho-
rised by him.
In the Assembly's sitting of to-day M. Leon
Faucher presented a bill for prolonging the powers
the councils-general, the councils of arroadissenient,
and the municipal councils, as these powers expire
lin'the mouth of July, before which time it will be
limpossible to pass the Municipal Bill. The Minister
of the Interior demanded urgency for the bill
M. Pascal l)uprat opposed the bill on the ground
that there was no sufficient reason why the Munici-
pal Bill should not be voted before the expiration of
the powers of the councils.
M. de Vatimesnil, having shown that M. Duprat
was mistaken on this point, the motion of urgency
was taken into consideration.

A bill opening various credits of no interest was
passed, and then the sitting broke up without any
further occurrence of itoportauce.
To-day the Assembly met in the bureaux to ap-
point three committees to examine the bills fiir grant-
ing a subsidy to Monte Video, for the ratification of
the treaties with liosas and Oribe, and fur the pub-
lication of the costly work on the Roman catacombs.
The first committee is in favour of the subsidy.
M. Faucher attended in the committee on the
street•sale of newspapers to explain the views of the
government, which are in favour of the motion of M.
Haze for expelling the vendors from the pavement.
The committee, after hearing the Minister of the
Interior, declared in favour of Girardin's amend-
ment t'or tolerating the sale iu shops, but excluded
the wine shops and certain other classes of retail
dealers.

In the port of Marseilles on the Ist of May, a
steamer arrived and landed fourteen Italians, when
at the moment a body of police agents came up and
at once arrested the whole of the strangers. The
motive of the arrest is not known.
M. de Fallow: has arrived in Paris.

The removal of all apprehensions as to the results
of the celebration of the 4th May in the departments
caused the funds to recover from their sudden depres-
sion of yesterday. The Fives closed at 90114) with a
rise of 60 centimes; the Threes rose 55e. and closed
at ;i6.40.

No news of disturbance in the celebration of the
4th of May has reached Paris from any quarter. At
Lyons,-Itouen, Lille, and other cities all passed is com-
plete order.
The government has received telegraphic despatches
announcing that the anniversary of the 4th of May
has been celebrated without any disturbance through-
out the whole military division under the command
of General Castellano. Orders had been given to
utter no cry under arms. A colonel of the national
guard at Grenoble, having disobeyed this order, was
'suspended by the military commander at Grenoble.
'I he committee on the *Municipal Bill has decided
that the cantons may receive gifts and legacies for
the establishment of charities and institutions of can-
tonal utility.
Yesterday, the President and Jerome Bonaparte
attended a funeral mass, at the Invalides, in comme-
moration of the death of the Emperor.
Some cries of " Vivo Plimpereur!" were uttered
yesterday, as the President repaired to the Invalides,
hut they were speedily drowned in those of " Vivo
la Republique!

Gm;era' .dliatitpoul was presented yesterday at
the sitting of the Assembly.
The Scheldt threatens inundation along the whole
lice of valley, 23 leagues in length, between Touruay
and Ghent.