The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

PARIS, MONDAY, it 30 A.Y.
A document has been found which has been sap-
poaed to have been prepared by the conspirators of
the loth May, in which M. de Lamartine is referred
to in almoner seriously to compromise him, unless
satisfactory explanations are given. It is a peti
lion, addreas,ed from some of the clubs to the
executive commission, in which it is stated
that M. de Lamartine had promised to
create the ministry of labour demanded by
M. Louis Blanc, and to obtain from the Assembly. a
vote of nert) millions for agricultural and commercial
institutions in which socialism should be brought
into operation. This document is published in the
Co»stilutionnel of this morning.
The minister of public works has this morning
issued a proclamation addressed to manufacturers and
other employere, in which he a xpresses a confidence
that industry is about to resume its ordinary course,
and invites them to send to the respective mairics de-
mands for the number of workmen they require.
Further adviccs have arrived from La Creuse. The
tocsin sounded in nil the communes on the night of
the lath, and continued tell four the nest morning.
The peosanta formed a most formidable corps d'arniee.
They were armed with scythes, pikes, and spears.
The municipal authorities tried in vain to make
them listen to reason. They would hear no-
thing. nil- insisted on the liberation of the
prisoners and the abolition of the additional
impost of 45 centimes decreed by the late
Provisional Government. They expressed their reso-
lution to march upon the town, and it was only by
the supplications and tears of women and children,
and the entreaty of the clergy, who promised that
their demands should be granted, that they were in-
duced to forbear.
It was feared that a still more formidable mani-
festation would have taken place on Saturday, being
the fête day of Gueret.
Considerable bodies of troops had arrived from
Cluteau Roux and Limoges. Two companies of the
garde mobile hay- been ordered to Gueret.
Reports continue to arrive of disturbances in the
provinces of La Gard, Haute Garonne, the Marne
and Loire, the Var, the Loire Inferieure, the Tarn and
Garonne, and the Gironde.
On Friday and Saturday the committee of finance
examined the decree of the provisional government
placing an impost of 1 per cent. on mortgage credits.
M. Thiers said that in principle there was almost no-
thing to be done in the financial tVgiine, and that
most of the innovations at present proposed were only
worn-out theories reproduced under new forms, and
on whicl‘ experience and common sense had done jus-
tice. lie, however, admitted that political necessities
rendered it necessary to make certain experiments, at
the risk of meeting with disappointment. The com-
mittee eventually declared ngsiost the decree of the
provisional government, and resolved to demand its
abrogation-
The committee charged to examine the decree for
according 3,000,(A0fr. to the ateliers nationaux met at
eight o'cioek on Friday evening, and nominated M.
Goudchaux president, and M. de Fallon: secretary.
I am enabled to send you the remaining portions of
the project of the constitution prepared by the com-
mittee of the Assembly uuder the presidency of M.
Cormenin, which has not yet been printed, but will
be to-day laid before the bureaux of the Assembly.

Our Madrid correspondent, writing on the 14th,
saes:
The Ministry seems to be in an incessant state of crisa.
Arr.‘zola otter, d his rcsignati,in last Saturday, but it was
not accepted. Bertran de Lis is exceedingly aexi,us M retire
from the finance department, and says that he conaiderers
himself merely interino. In sect the eyes of all but Nar-
rate am now open to the mess which they have got into
by sending away Sir 11. Balwer. The. oily circumstance
which keeps the minis' ry together a day is that they persuade
theme. lees that the h..ur of L .r.l Palmerston is come in Eng-
land. B. de Li., reproach( d with nottaking some measure with
regard to the beck, an ,wered that he should leave that to
his successor, who would nut he long in mak:ng his appear-
ance. Sotoniay.r has ereat:y di.gusted Nervosa by main-
taining %bet (So:mayor) was always against the violent
step of stinling away Bulwcr. Tt.is minister seems in fact
to have been playing a double game, and while he was
giving Sir Henry assurances of his friendship, was doing all
that he coat,: to irritete Nerve.: aisinat him.
The tactic,. of the •• organists " I). V.cente Herrero has
been srprised beer Ti sue!, and defeated ; that cabecilla,
and sin of his followers were killed, and nine out of twenty
horses taken.
Manna., Jots 14.—Three per Ceuta, 21 9-16 piper ; after Bolan,
211 7-16, cash; lire per Cents., 122 caah ; after Bolan, 121 cash;
Passives, 5 taper; after Bolts, 41exob ; Coupons, rash ; Bane of M.
Ferdinand, la cash, 74 piper. Exchange on Landon, at GO dap,
41.50 caeli.

ITALY.—The Piedmontese army is reported to
have crossed the Adige in pursuit of the Austrians,
but at what point seems doubtful—whether at Rivoli
above or at Zivio below Verona, probably however
at both these points. if these reports be true, a gene-
ral engagement has probably taken place ere this near
Verona or Padua.
Advices from Milan report that King Charles
Albert signed the act of union between Lombardy and
Sardinia at Garda on the 10th. This act had been
"brought ready for signature from Milan by M. Casati,
'and two other members of the Provisional Govern-
ment. The Provisional Government was immediately
to lay down its functions and to be replaced by a
mixed committee of regency, composed partly of
Piedmonteee cod partly of Milanese under the presi-
dency of M. Casati.
News is stated to have arrived from Milan that
Charles Albert had commenced the attack against
Verona with 40,000 men.

THE IRON TRADE.LI3IRMINGLIAIt, SATURDAY:—
The above mportant branch of our manufactures has been
exceedingly dull during the past week. There are very few
orders on hands, and nearly all now being made is for stock.
Throughout the diatriet there are a great number of men
nuernplo ea, and many working only half-time, upon re-
duced wages. The state of the Continent, and consequent
effect upon our market, is, no doubt, the cause of this de-
pression, which time and altered circumstances alone can

i itmerly:
OAK FAUNI IRONWORKS. —ln the Bankruptcy
Court at Birmingham, on Saturday, *emirs. Paterson, Boy-
den, and Co., the 'bankrupts in this concern, applied for
their certificates. There beirg no opposition. Mr. Commis-
sifter Balguy at once granted them, and took the opportunity
of euttinag the conduct of the bankrupts, which had
(he sai ) been marked with the utmost integrity—the specu-
lation in which they had embarked their large capital, and
failed, having proved u unfortunate es it promised to be
tucteistal.
HOLTUEAD A PACKET STATION.—It is rumoured
ihlll, ar soon as the works in Holyhead harbour aro com-
"fed, the Admiralty intend that port to be the station for
the West India mail steamers, u being the most antral in
. ' the kingdom, instead of Southarapton.—Liverpool Albion
BWCGCLING.—The Coast Guard at Langston !Ar-
kin, near Portamouth, seised, yesterday (Sunday), at an
arty hour, the Two Sisters, smack, and her crow,
together with 40 tubs of foreign spirits, which were MD,
1 etlita in a false bottom.
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