The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-24 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 11 A.M.
At the Bourse, yesterday, railway shares in general
took a favourable turn, owing to a report being pre-
valent that the government proposed to take all the
railways into its own bands, paying the shareholders
in Five per Cent. stock. The fact that such a propo-
sition should produce a favourable effect, shows in
a striking manner the low ebb to which railway
shares have fallen.
The shares of the company of Belle Montagne,
which, before the revolution, sold at nearly 6,000
trance, closed yesterday at 2,000. This company
have been obliged to temporarily suspend payments.
They have published a circular, declaring that, under
present circumstances, they find themselves obliged
to choose between that course and an interruption
in the works of the establishment both in France
and Belgium. The board of directors have in conse-
quence decided on declaring that they are ready to
lay a statement of their affairs before each persons as
they owe money to, and that the latter can then de-
cide whether they will renew their engagements for
six months with immediate payment of interest
thereon at 6 per cent.; or to exchange their claims
against bonds in a loan which the directors have
thought it necessary to contract. The amount of the
loan is not stated, but it is believed to be about two
millions of francs.
The Minister of the I 'erior has addressed a cir-
cular to the governmen. commissioners in the depart-
ments, relative to certain points affecting the right of
voting at the approaching elections. The residence
of six months in a commune, required for the right of
vote, is to be oonsidered as closing on April 9, the day
of the election, and not on March 31, the last day
allowed for inscription ; in like manner, the
age of twenty-four years required for voting
is to be considered as having the right to run on
up to the very day of April 9 ; the gendarmerie are
to be assimilated in their right of voting to soldiers or
sailors; persons confined in prison under the charge
of offences, but not found guilty, are not to be deemed
deprived of the faculty of voting, inasmuch as the .
law holds them innocent until found guilty ; but on
the other band, as they cannot proceed freely to the
place of voting, they are to be considered in the same
position as citizens who from illness or other unfore-
seen causes cannot attend, and who consequently lose
their right for the time being.
The Petrie of yesterday evening says :—"The
republic is proclaimed in l)utch Luxemburg, with
the exception of the town of Luxemburg itself, which!
is under the cannon of the fortress. This news is
official."
Examinations prior to the prosecution of the ex-
ministers still continue, numerous witnesses are
examined every day. They are principally the chiefs
of the troops who commanded en the 22nd, 23rd, and
24th February. Several persons who were called to
the Tuileries on the nights of the 23rd and 24th have
also been examined.
M. Jules Faire, one of the secretaries of the Pro-
visional Government, in an address to a body of
operatives, yesterday, announced that the government
wee preparing a grand fete, in the Champ-de-Mars,
in which the army, the people, and all classes of citi-
zens, would, as in the first days of the glorious revolu-
tion, unite in sentiments of love of country and devo-
tion to the Republic.
Yesterday an immense cortege of citizens, with a
battalion of the 10th legion, and a battalion of the
national guard mobile, planted a tree of liberty in the
Champ de Mars. The curate of SO ierre de Groe Caillou,
commenced the ceremony of benediction, when a rain-
bow appeared. " Children," cried the curate, " that
is the sign of alliance that God, 4,000 years since,
wade with his people. At the opening of a new and
holy era, that is opened to us by the freeing of
nations, let us salute the sign by which God renews
his merciful alliance, and announces that he will bless
our destinies."
Another project scarcely less important is said to be
entertained. It is proposed to collect in the Louvre'
all the museums of art now dispersed in different
buildings throughout Paris, so that the Louvre world
become a collection as vast in extent, but infinitely
greattr in value, than that of Versailles.