The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

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instant by the English people ; for frsternity it Use interim
and fraternity among all nations abroad is what mast for
ever sustain the energetic men who have fought for liberty.
Take care to tell the English chartists that, in the provisional
government, you have found the liveliest sympathy for those
who suffer; tell them that the revolution has been made by
the people and for them ; and that the Provisional Govern-
ment issued from the people only thinks of improving the
situation of all the people. Observe the republican spirit;
after victory, no cries of vengeance or lute, but a generous
calm, the immediate re-establishment of order. Great and
generous u much as they have been brave and courageous,
the French people desires to continue its undertaking with
calm, but with energy.
The deputation then withdrew, crying " Viva la
Republique !"
Several deputations of workmen of different trades
waited yesterday on the government at the Hotel de
Ville, to make known their grievances. Among them
was one of the calico-printers, who presented an ad-
dress, in which they stated that what they had to
complain of was not excess of work, but want of work,
and that want, they slid, was owing to machines,
which, however, they asserted they did not de-
sire to see destroyed. They intimated that an
increase in the exports would afford them re-
lief. M. Cremieux replied by
.assuring them that
the government would be their devoted friends.
About three thousand young men, employed, in
the mercers' and linendrapera' shop, waited on the
deputy mayor of Paris, to demand the organisation of
labour. The deputy mayor promised to submit their
demand to the government. A deputation of the
pupils of colleges of Paris waited on M. de Lamartine,
to present their homage, and give expression to their
hopes, confidence, and devotedness. M. de Lamar-
tine received them kindly, and made a speech, in
which he thanked them for their manifestation, and
expressed his warm sympathy for his young hearer%
On Saturday evening there was a numerous meet,
ing of hotel-keepers at the Salle de la Redoute, in tie
Rue Grenelle St. Honors, to take into consideration •
proposition for an application to the Provisional Clovers-
meat for relief in the present crisis. The chairman al
the meeting, after alluding to the rents paid for hotels,
which he said were so high as to have left the tenants
scarcely a chance of honourable existence,even in pros-
perous times, but which would now cause the utter
ruin of each as have leases if no reduction be made,
recommended that the government should be petitioned
bone a decree preventing the landlords from claiming
at the present moment more than half their rents, and
that the National Assembly should be subsequently ap-
plied to for a law regulating the position of landlord
and tenant on bastes of justice and equity, according to
the new circumstances created by toe revolution. A
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motion to this effect was put and carried with only one
dissentient voice. It was then proposed that the shop-
keepers of Parisgenerally whonave laws should bein-
vited to join in the manifestation, and notice was
given for a general meeting at the Salle Valentino
yesterday at 12 o'clock. Notwithstanding the short.
noes of the notice, nearly 2,000 tradesmen assembled,
and adopted unanimously the resolution of which
the hotelkeepers had assumed the initiative. A dele-
gate from each trade was appointed to co-operate
with the chairman in the measures to be pursued,
and the meeting then broke up. It was stated that
the number of shopkeepers in Paris is 40,000, of
whom two-thirds are supposed to hold leases.
THE Duchess or ORLEANS.—The following letter
from Coblentz, dated the 2nd inst., is given by. the
Cologne Gazette:—" The Duchess of Orleans arrived
here lest night with her two eons, the Count de Paris
and the Duke de Chartres, accompar:ied by the Mar-
quince de Montesquieu and de Mornay. They came from
Paris as far as Aire-la-Chapelle in a small hired earriage
with one horse. Thence they proceeded by the rail-
road to Cologne. They paned the night at Deutz in
the strictest incognito, and came on here by the
Coblentz steam-boat. They have gone to Ems, where
they mean to remain for the present. This morning,
before her departure, the princess received a visit
from the wife of General de Thile, commandant of
the province, who himself arrived last night from
A supplement of the Cologne Gazette of the 4th,
contains the following proclamation, dated the 3rd :
The tranquility of this city was disturbed this evening
(the 3rd) in a deplorable manner. A number of parole s►
sailed the communal council, assembled at the Hotel de Ville
to perform its functions, not with prayers, but with exactions,
and endeavoured by violence to enforce the adoption of MOW
sures which could not legally be in any manner taken late
consideration by the faithful representatives of the eitg
These demands of the people, as they have been spand
abroad in a great number of copit and read aloud, are—" 1.
tion and administration by the people. 2. Univertel
Legislation
'alage and eligibility in the communes and in the state.
3. The disbanding of the standing army anti a general ems
meat of the people, with chiefs elected by ,heusielvee. 4.
An entire liberty to hold meetings. 5. Protection of labour,
and guarantee of all the necestaries of life for every one. 6.
The complete education of all the children at the expense of
the state." For some time the assembly of the representa-
tives of the commune were attacked in seditious speeches,
until an armed force cleared the Hotel de Ville, and arrested
one of the leaders, who had long before been pointed out as
such to the authorities. A judicial inquiry into this attempt,
hitherto unkeown in our province, shall he immediately
commenced. The peaceable inhabitants of Cologne will join
me in deploring this infraction of the law and order. The
authortties rely upon the concurrence. Their united power
and vigilance will know how to divert from the population
of a tranquil and happy city every misfortune which may be
conceived by those who sympathise with a conspiracy got up
by evil intentioned men.—The President of the Regency,
Da RAVKIIK.

The ratification of the treaty of alliance between
Russia, Prussia, and Austria, to ail the latter in Italy,
has been ratified. Three corps d'armile have been
put on a war footing ; the fourth will march from
Saxony and Thuringen to Westphalia. The 7th will
descend from Westphalia to Cologne; the Bth will be
stationed on the French frontiers. The third corps
d'armee in the march will take the place of the 4th
in Saxony.—German Frankfort Journal, March 3rd.

FRANKFORT, MARCH 4, 1848.
The German Journal of Frankfort _states that the treaty
of alliance between Russia, Austria, sad Prusaia, for the
support of the Austrian authority in Italy, Ina been ratified.
and troops are ordered to advance from different points.
We learn from Leipeic, 2nd inst., that a deputation, con-
sisting of members of the municipal council, and other
influential persons, had set out for Dresden, with an address
to the king, calling for liberty of the press and modifications
in the representative system.
In the evening of the 2nd a fire broke out in the hotel
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Carlsruhe. The
furniture and papers were saved. There is no doubt that
the fire was the work of an incendiary. Attempts at
incendiarism were also discovered in other houses, and
threatening letters had been addressed to several landlords.
Numerous patrols were kept up by the inhabitants.
We read in the Gazetta Pirmontese of the 2nd that a
menacing popular movement took place at Genoa and
Sassari during the night against the Jesuits. The arrival
of troops and the exhortation, of the governor of Genoa
succeeded in restoring tranquility. The Jesuits left the
city immediately, and it is expected government w.II
provide for their definitive expulsion.
From the moment of the publication of martial law at
Milan the bankers of that city have refused to accept the
Austrian bank-notes, and have protested against their
currency.
The Alba of Florence relates the following:—" M.
Santoro, one of the members of the Provisional Govern-
ment of Palermo, had by his own authority caused about thirty
of the most ferocious and odious Sbirri, who had fallen into
the hands of the government, to be executed. The committee,
on being made acquainted with this fact, ordered M. Santoro
to be arrested and tried, and in two hours he was con-
demned and shot. This energetic act has given great moral
influence to the committee, which, by thus executing a man
who bad made himself very popular by his courage, has
given a strong proof of its firmness."

M. TIIALBERG'S CONCERT.—Thin prince of pianists
gave a concert last evening in Exeter-hall ; the only one, it
ts understood, during his present visit to this country. The
crowd was no excessive that the uncomfortable state of the
audience in some parts of the hall produced loud expressions of
discontent, and a degree of confusion which rendered the
music for some time quite inaudible. Tranquillity, how-
ever, was at length restored, and good humour along with
it; for we lever heard an audience more profuse of applause,
which they bestowed indiscriminately on everything they
heard. Of Thalberg's performance there is little to be said
at this time of day. .He has been so often heard in
London that his style is familiar to the musical public.
On this occasion he played a grand fantasia from " La Son-
nambula ;" a capriccio on the serenade in " Don Pasquale,"
and • grand fantasia on the serenade and minuet from
"Den Giovanni." These subjects he treated in his usual
manner ,• with a rapidity and brilliancy of finger wholly un-
rivalled by any of "the light-fingered gantry" who belong
to his school; with a fulness of tone and clearness of articu-
lation which made every note (even in the softest passages)
distinctly heard in every part of a hall by no means fitted
for music of this kind; and with his remarkable power of
enveloping his theme in a pr :fusion of florid accompani-
ments, both above and below it, which seem to cover it
with a rich transparent veil, through which it
appears with heightened beauty. Mingled with this,
however, there was an immense deal of noise
and remplissage ; mere unmeaning clatter, which does not
deserve the name of music. It is a pity that Thalberg be-
stows on the public nothing but his own fantasias and ca-
priocioe. A concerto of Beethoven's, played as he could
play it, and accompanied by a good orchestra, would be
something worth going a good way to hear. His own per-
formances were relieved by a quantity of vocal music, sung
by MIS &nano, the Muses Williams, Mr. Reeves, Ma-
dame Anna Thillon, and Miss Wallace; which, though void
of novelty, was agreeable enough, and (as we have said) was
received with great applause by the audience.