The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

The general committee, commissioned to organise the ban-
quet of the 12th arrondissement, thinks it their duty ti re-
mind the public that the manifestation which is fined for
tomorrow (Tuesday). has for its object the legal and paeitic
exercise a of constitutional right—the right of holding a
political meeting, without which the representative govern-
ment would be hut a derision.
The ministry having deeared and maintained at the tri-
bune tharihe exercise of this right was submitted to the
good pleasure et the police, the deputies of the opposition,
some of the peen of the realm, form!r deputies, some mem-
bers of the council-general, inaektfites, officers, sub.offieere,
and soldiers of the national guard, sundry of the members of
the central commdtee of the electors of the oppeeition, and sun-
dry of the editors of the Parisian journals, have accepted the
invitation which was sent to them to take a part in the mani-
festation, in order to protest, in virtue of the law, against an
illegal and arbitrary pretension.
As it is natural to fonee it may attract a considerable
concourse of citizens ; as it is also to be presumed that the
national guards, true to their motto of " Liberty, public
order," would, in this circumstance, he desirous of fulfil-
ling their twofold duty, that they would at one,: wish to de-
fend their liberties and join the manifestation, protect pub-
lic order, and prevent all collision, by their presence; in
the prevision of a numerous assemblage of national guards
and citizens, we think it proper to take those measures
which may prevent all causes of trouble and tumult.
The committee has judged proper that the meeting should
be held in a quarter of Paris where the breadth of the streets
would allow a concourse of people to assemble without ob-
structing the thoroughfare.
To this effect, the deputies, peen of France, and other
persons, who have been invited to the banquet, will assemble
en Tuesday morning at eleven, at the customary place of
meeting of the parliamentary opposition, Place de la Made-
leine, No. 2.
The subscribers to the banquet belonging to the national
guard are requ•. seed to meet before the church of the Made-
line, and to farm two parallel lines, between which the per-
sons invited will take their places. The cortege shall be
headed by those officers of the national guard who shall pre-
sent themselves to join the manifestation.
Immediately after the guests, shall be placed a body of
officers belonging to the national guard. Behind them the
national guards, placed in columns, according to the num-
ber of their legions
Between the third and fourth columns the young men of
the public schools, under the conduct of commissaries chosen
by them.
Then the other national guards of Paris and the banlieue,
in the order above mentioned.
The cortege will leave at half-past eleven, and will repair,
by the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysees, to the
place of the banquet.
The committee, convinced that this manifestation will
be the more efficacious for I eing the more:peacefulj; the
more imposing, as it will carefully avoid every pretext of
couthet, request the citizens to utter no cry, to bear no
no external sign ; they beg those national guards who shall
take a share in the manifestation to he without arms. It is
a question of a legal and pacific protestation, which is to be
above all powerful by its number and by the firm and
tranquil attitude of the citizens.
The committee trusts that on this occasion every. man
present shall consider himself as a magistrate to maintain
public order; they trust in the presence of the national
guards ; they confide in the sentiments of the Parisian po-
pulation, who desire public peace with liberty, and who well
know that, in order to secure our rights, they need make but
a peaceful demonstration, such as suits an intelligent and
enligh•ened nation, conscious of the irresistible authority of
moral force, and convinced of being able to obtain the ac-
complishment of their legitimate desires by the legal and
calm expression of their opinion.
The opposition journals on Monday gave, in a
most conspicuous form, the following letter, addressed
by the opposition deputies to the committee of the
banquet of the 12th arrondissement:
P.sats, FEB. IFlnt, 1818.—We have received the invita-
tion you honoured us with fur the banquet of the 12th

arrondissement.
The right of political meeting, without prcvieus authoriza-
tion, having been denied by the ministry in the discussion
of the address, we see in this banquet the means of main-
taining this constitutional right against the pretensions of
the arbitrary, and to cause it to be definitively consecrated.
We consequently consider it as a bounden duty fur us
to join in the legal and pacific manifestation which you are
now preparing, and to accept your invitation.
Receive, gentlemen, the assurance of our highest considera-
tion. Signed,
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LeraNanoeur

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On Sunday afternoon the Threes were done in the
Passage l'Opera for 74 7,i.
eddresses from the provinces to the opposition de-
puties continued to pour in from every direction, and
12y every mail. In short, since the revolution of 1830
Frazee has not witnessed any agitation so universal
ttad so profound. Happily, there is every probability