The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

presented is tie committee a most sombre picture of
the situation of Paris, and the committee determined
almost unanimously to unite with the chief of the
state in recommending to the Assembly to maintain
the state of siege.
Farther agitation was produced at the Bourn by
the announcement that a general amnesty was con-
templated and even decided upon. This gave rime to
a variety of reports and conjectures, one of which was,
that the purpose of admitting the moderates into the
government was to induce them to concur in an
amnesty, after which they would be thrown overboard
and replaced by the democrat..
The republicans of the reilk and the democrats
have resolved to vote as one man against General Ca-
vaignao and thenew government. This party is going
to opens new club at the Bazaar Bonne Nouvelle, to
be composed entirely of members of the Assembly.
the public will be admitted as hearers, and will be
permitted to propose questions, to which the members
will answer. This project has originated with M.
I Learn Rollin.
Soon after the appearance of the supplement of the
Moniteur, which I have mentioned above, M. Poe-
tali. addressed interpellations to General Ce-
ntrum on the subject of the ministry. He
demanded if the change of persons would be
Mewed by a change of system. Explanations, he
abeam& were so much the more necessary, as two of
the new ministers had been already in OffiC3 under
the az-king Louis Philippe. General Cavaignac re-
plied that yesterday the ministry had not been defi-
nitively formed, and could not therefore be announced
that on Monday the government would demand a
supply, which would necessarily produce an ocaudon
for the most complete explanation, on which axed=
he would ask the Assembly to declare clearly and ex-
plicitly whether the ministry he had chosen repre-
sented sufficiently the sense of the house.
It is now generally understood that the princes of
the house of Orleans renounce all pretensions to the
throne of France, even if the monarchy should be re-
established, in favour of the Duke of Bordeaux.
This measure is said to be based upon the supposed
improbability of the Duke of Bordeaux having direct
heirs, and that in that case the Count de Paris would
necessarily succeed. Such an arrangement would
therefore have no other effect than to postpone the
succession of the Count de Paris to the demise of the
Duke of Bordeaux.
The trial of the action for defamation, brought by
M. Ledru-Rollin against several persons, came on on
Thursday before the tribunal of correctional police.
On the first charge, against M. Canby, a verdict of
acquittal was pronounced ; the second charge, against
MM. Bignon, sen. and jun., Paulin, Troueasart,
Basset, and Laroche, was dismissed as regards all the
defendants except MM. Basset and Laroche, on the
ground that M. Ledru-Rollin had laid a previous
complaint before a Juge d'lnstruction, and which was
in the course of inquiry, and, as regards MM. Basset
and Laroche, on the ground that the defamation was
against M. Ledru-Rollin in his character of a public
functionary, and therefore not within the range of a
--.tional tribunal.

SUNDAY, 11.30 4.x.
The soasmittee appointed to receive the communi-
cations of the government as to the state of siege met
yesterday, as I told you, and received communications
from Gen. Cavaignae. It is said that a resolution was
come to that until Monday secresy should be observed,
but the results of the conference were freely circulated
and universally credited on the Bourse yesterday.
There no doubt prevailed that the state of siege
would be maintained.
We find the following leading paragraph in the
Monileur this morning: "Certain Journals assert
that the raising the state of siege and the presenta-
tion of a decree ordering the insurgents of June con-
demned to transportation to be conveyed to Algeria,
are the conditions annexed by the new ministers to
their entry into the council. Thee measures were
determined on since the vote of the proposition of
Durrieu. They have, moreover, received the assent
of the whole of the new ministry."
M. Ducoux, Pref_ct of Police, whose resignation I
have already announced, has been succeeded by M.
Gervaiv (de Caen), whose appointment appears in
the Muniteur this morning. The retiring functionary
(a Moutagnard) partakes of the indignation of that
party at what he considers treason to the republic,
and has addressed to General Oavaignac a letter in-
timating as much.
The party of the Palais Royal has vowed vengeance
against the new government, and will join the ultra-
democrats of the Rue Taitbont, Montagoards, and
Communists, in their endeavours to thwart and over-
throw it.
It is strange that while M. de Lamartine has sat on
his bench during the governmental crisis unemployed,
it should never have occurred to one of his 899 col-
es that it was possible to bring him into the new

combination. -
The Minister of Justice declared in the Sallee des
Conferences yesterday, that the proem against Bar-
bee, Albert, Louis Blanc, Cauisidiere, Raspail, and
others, for the affair of the 15th May, was now in so
forward a state, that the "Jugs d'lnstruction " would
deposit his report on Tuesday next, and that the Court
of Accusation would take up the affair immediately.
The party of the Montagnards intend to bring for-
ward on Monday a project of decree, signed by about
50 members, for a general amnesty in favour of all the
political offenders since February.
The democratic banquets of the red republicans
keep their course. One has just taken place at Mont-
pelier, which has been signalised by even more than
the usual violence. The guests on this occasion
besides singing the " Carmegnole" and" Ca ira," con-
tinually cried, Vice Barbee! Vice ;Respell! Vice
la repoblique while! Vice L'Enfer! Vice We= !
Vice 9S! Viva Robespierre! Vive la potenos! and in
passing the church of Notre Dame, they shouted "A
has les calotins! vice L'Enfer."

SPAIN.—We have received the Madrid mails of
the 10th.
On the 9th the government received a telegraphic
despatch announcing the capture of Escosura and
Morena de las Penns at Perpignan, by the French
authorities. Moreno de las Penes was at the head of
the revolt of May 7.