The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-08 00:00:00

THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE.

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COUNCIL OP PROP RIETOPA OF La PRESSZ.—MEISTINO Cop
MARCH s.—ld. de Revak-, president; M. Laboy, secretary
M. Coutsen, auditor. The proprietors of the Press., calla
together by M. Emile de Girardin (one of them), agree gm_
niruously to the principles hereafter stated, already adopted
by the company of the Northern Railway Company : —Am*.
elation of labour and capital —division of profits—
Henceforward, in every industrial enterprise, all the salaries
of labourers, workmen, foremen, clerks, engineers, direc-
tors, and managers, shall be made a common fund with the
capitalists, with reference to the labour of one and the capi-
tal of the others. The profits remaining, after the payment
of labour, and dividends on capital, and for providing a sink-
ing fund to pay off the capital, shall be divided between all,
according to the amount of salary or dividend of each. la
consequence they deride that the division of the proceeds of
the Presse shall be made as follows:-1. Payment of gant-
ries. 2. Interest of capital at 5 per cent., according to the
average profits of the l'resse, from the let August, 1839, the
day of its purchase, comprising therein the sinking fund. 3.
Division of the profits in the proportion of capital in money
to capitil in labour represented by the amouut of ,alariek
Thia word, " salaries," must have some more noble import,
The proprietors of the Prose, therefore, extend it, without
distinction, to editors, clerks, compositors, correct"
printers, distributors, and foldere.—The accounts of the par-
ticipation shall commence from January 1, 1848. A commis-
sion composed of three members has been charged with the
drawing up the legal agreement. The reduction of the
price of subscription from 41f. (average) for Paris to 24f.
per year (difference 201.), from 52f. (average) for the depart.
meats to 361. per year (difference 16f.), is approved, for all
the oubseriptions made after this day. All the proprietors
of the Presse giving their consent severally.
The Provisional Government have publicly called
on the clergy of all denominations to invoke the bene-
diction of the Most High on the French people,and to
pray for the enlightenment of that assembly in whose
hands the future destinies of France are about to be
placed.
The Archbishop of Paris has properly taken the
lead in giving effect to this desire of the government,
and has iasued a letter to his clergy, prescribing the
forms of prayer to be adopted on this solemn occasion.
I regret that the length of this admirable letter pre-
cludes the possibility of giving it here in offense.
The following detached passages from it will be read
with interest by all, and with some curious rtfiectioos
by those who carry in their memories the events of
the first revolutions.
It will soon be called together to name representatives who
will in their turn be called on to give us a new constitution.
Let us not forget, my dear brethren, that above all legislative
assemblies, there is a supreme legislator who alone can give
sanction to just laws, because he alone can imbue the con-
science with disinterestedness and love of justice, and tree
liberty superior to all human passions. Let us pray for that
wisdom which so often abandons the thrones of the earth"
but which, through all eternity, is found beside the throne
of the Creator of all things. Let us pray, that it may
inspire our representatives. Let us pray above all, that it
may protect their work if it be worthy of the noble send.
nest of France in opposition to the despicable interests which
will perhaps endeavour to pervert it. • * • Thew
very simple observations will suffice, beyond a doubt, to put
a stop to the fatal prejudice that we are hostile to political
libeoties. We were averse to those liberties which were pro.
aimed by the oppressors of the church and nation, to those
which were trod under foot by a conqueror ; to those, is
short, which have ever been the instruments of ambition
and cupidity. We shall love those which are about to
triumph, because they will tend to protect the rights of all,
and to give to every member of the large family, not a chi-
merical felicity which we have been so often promised, but
all that happiness which can be enjoyed by a powerful
nation, with just laws and a perfectly just government. Is
forming this desire, which we feel at our heart's core with
a force it is impossible for us to express, we ask of
that God who nut alone secure its accomplishment
to bleu it and to hear it. Join with us in de-
manding this same favour at His hands, so that the
French people may endeavour to defend those franchises,
which they are so desirous of securing, less by the force of
arms and by the ascendancy of genius than by their
Christian virtues. They ought to be the greater and the
more generous in proportion as our natural impetuosity will
be the less restrained by the action of laws and power.
People of Pada, like Samson, you did but shake for ea
instant the columns of an immense edifice, and it became a
heap of ruins ; but remember that it will require a greater
moral strength to preserve the peace and liberty of year
illustrious city. Remember, that your incomparable
courage, unequalled by any people, cannot save you without
the protection of the Almighty. Let us then invoke that God,
who has given to France so fine a share in the world. Let her
interrogate her annals, and she will acquire the proof that,
ho wever great the glory she has obtained by her irresi,tible
valour, by the generous assistance she has ever granted op-
pressed nations, by the fine geniuses which have elevated so
high the name of the French nation in seiences, literature,
and arts, she owes it all to the God of Christians, to that
God we implore you to invoke at this time, so that we may
be enlightened by His light, strengthened by His strength,
and so that His blessing may descend upon us, and remain
with us for ever.—(Signed)--DEMIII, Archbishop of Paris.
A deputation of all the colleges of Paris waited on
M. Lamartine at the Hotel des Affairee Etrangeres, to
tender him the homage of their hopes, their confi-
dence, and their devotion.
M. Lamartine replied. Atler having called to their
remembrance the services rendered by the Ecole
Polytechnique, the Ecole Normale, the Ecole de St.
Cyr, the Ecole d'Alfort, the Ecole de Delwin, the
Ecole de Medecine and de Droit, he thus concluded
his address :
Permit me to repeat what I lately said in speaking of oar
glorious revolution. I signalised this extraordinary phew).
menon of respect in some sort reversed ; of respect not of
youth for mature age, but of mature age of hoary heads, for
the virtues, the courage, the good sense of youth who have
contributed, first, to found, and then consolidate and save
the great destinies of the country. This respect, gentlemen,
is not a flattery; it is sincere, conscientious; it comes
from the heart, and it ought to encourage you to let the
sacred name of God be heard in adoration from your studies,
for it is he who protects France. They told me the other
day I had been a poet. I accept the reproach or honour of
this. That which we do, that which we wish to have done,
in France and the world, is still poetry. It is the poetry of
the people of liberty, of independence, the transceudent
poetry of institutions. Every age of 111111 has its attribute.
In youth we dream, in maturity we deal with realities, we
make revolutions and laws. Since then this poetry is brought
before me, which for many years I have known but in the
recollections of the past, allow me to once more employ its
language and say, that in this great crisis it is the youth
of France which has supported order, liberty, and religion;
and in a word it is now that the flower has preserved the
tree in France. Allow me, concluded M. de Lamartine, to
embrace you in him who has so well spoken in your name.

REFORMS IN THE GERMAN
STATES.-HOLLAND.

We have news from Cologne to the 6th. The
town council there resolved on the 3rd inst. to for-
ward an address to their representatives in the Diet,
urging the necessity on the part of the Prussian go-
vernment of taking the following steps : let. To
convoke the united Diet immediately, to enlarge the
law relating to the franchise, to bestow a " deciding "
(in contradistinction to a mere "deliberative") voice
on the united Diet, and to guarantee those rights
which are considered necessary by the representatives
of the people for establishing the constitution on •
firm basis. 2. To abolish the censorship. 3. To
modify the constitution of the Germanic confedera-
tion, so as to bind the German people more
closely together, and also to enable that
people to have direct representatives amongst
the authorities of the Germanic Confederation
(Bundesbehtirde). Shortly after the address eras
drawn up and signed, crowds assembled in
front of the Guildhall, and sent in the '• demands"
which we have already published, as well as
the dispersion of the people by the troops. The
day after the assemblage in front of the Guildhall had
been dispersed there was a very numerous meeting
of the citizens of Cologne. Resolutions in favour of
the " demands" already referred to were passed una-
nimously, and there was an additional one in favotlf
of a German parliament. It must be stated, how-
, ever, that the " demand" for the disbanding of the
standing army was modified, in the sense that the
present was not the time to take such • step, but that
the army should serve as a school for the Lond,rc4f.
The meeting, which lasted daring three hours, did
not give rise to any disorder.
The Cologne liazetle of the 6th seems to make little
account of the declaration of the Germanic lhet
respecting the press, and expresses the hope.that that
body will soon see fit to proclaim those liberties which
were solemnly promised to Germany, and which can
alone give her the required for, and unity.
The Wurtemberg and Baden governments have

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