The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-31 00:00:00

ABDICATION

OF THE
SICILIAN THRONE BY THE

KING OF NAPLES.

PARIS, TRI!BADAY, 11
We have just received advices from Naples to the
22nd, bringing the important intelligence that the
King of Naples has abandoned his Sicilian sove-
reignty. The Neapolitan troops were about to eva-
cuate immediately the fortresses of Syracuse and Mes-
sina.
King Ferdinand declares, in his proclamation, that
he has been forced into this measure, protests against
it, and appeals to the powers of Europe.
From Genoa we learn that, on the 20th March,
Charles Albert had entered Pavia. Fourteen Pied-
montese battalions and 40 pieces of cannon had en-
tered Lombardy.
No domestic news of importance appears in this
morning's journals. The Central Electoral Committee
have published a list of the 34 candidates which they
recommend to be elected for the department of the
Seine. This list includes all the members of the Pro-
visional Government except M. Caussidiere, prefect
of police, and also MM. Beranger, Lamenais, Charles
Thomas (director of the National), Odry de Payra-
veau, Philip Le Bea, of the Institute, and Count
D'Alton She*. . .

The Bank of France commenced issuing the new
notes for loot. yesterday.
Yesterday M. Marie, member of the Provisional
Government and Minister of Public Works, went to
the Central Bureau des Ateliers Nationaux, where the
delegates of the different brigades were assembled.
One of them, M. Bontau, expressed the hearty thanks
of the working classes for what the government had
done for them. The minister thanked them for what
had been in their namesaid, andadded that thegovern-
ment deserved their thanks, for that it most heartily de-
sired to realise all the improvements in the condition of
workmen which the republic had promised, and which
the republic alone could give. For his own part, all
his efforts had been employed to create work. He
exhorted the workmen to avoid promenades and meet-
ings, which alarmed commerce, and assured them that
the government was always ready to listen to their
observations and complaints, whether made indivi-
dually or by delegates. With respect to the elections,
he advised them to exercise their right, for the
government desired to see them, he did not say ex-
clusively, but largely represented in the ranks of the
officers of the national guard and of the national
assembly.

LATEST FROM PARIS.

IMPORTANT FROM VENICE.

PARIS, TlirliADAY, 5 r st.
We ore assured of the arrival of intelligence, an-
nouncing that Venice has declared itself a Republic.
There is no other news of interest this afternoon.
The Threes have closed at 40,1. Bank shares, at 1,210,
having been still lower. It is said that the clubs have
appointed a committee of public safety, to control the
acts of the government. It is also said that overtures
have been made to Marshal Bugeaud to take the
command of the army.
Yesterday evening, at aboat half-past eight o'clock,
a crowd of persons assembled in the Rue Montmartre,
in front of the office of the Presse, crying out, "A
bas Li Prrsse ! A has Emile de Girardin I " They
became more and more tumultuous, and seemed to
have an intention to proceed to violence, when a body
of the national guard came up and endeavoured
to restore order. General Courtais soon after arrived
and addressed the crowd, calling on them above all
to respect property, and the liberty of the press. .• If
the counter-revolution," said he, "shows itself openly
in some journals, our cause is strong enough for us
not to have recourse to acts of Vandalism inlorder to
defend it. The republic desires to see liberty es-
tablished for all ;it does not fear discussion." The
crowd, on hearing this language, dispersed, and the
circulation, which was for a moment interrupted, was
restored. .

Fresh troubles are expected this evening, occasioned
by a further manifestation against La Presse. At
the hour of writing numerous bodies of persons are
collecting before the office of that journal, and many
citizens of distinction are endeavouring to point out
to the malcontents, who are for the most part work-
men, the injury to liberty which would result from
the breaking of the presses of the journal. They
appear to attend to these representations, never-
theless, it is certain there will be acts of ;violence
to-night. M. de Girardin does net wish to take any
measure of security, and has declared that the threat-
ened attempt will prove, better than any thing else,
how much he has reason to complain of the
actual state of things. All he desires to
have done is, to post up in the vicinity an
announcement that 730 are the number of persons
who live by the journal. It is lisped that measures
will be taken by the authorities ; many distinguished
persons are assembling round M. Girardin, sad a
meeting of journalists is now sitting, in order to take
proper measures for securing respect for the rights
of the press.
The Mmliteur of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing, among other decrees:
rho Provi•ienal Government, hating taken 00/Ifiliald of
the drove of the lit March, which has prorogued for ten
days the reheance of commereial hills dee from Feb. 29 to
the 25th March, and considering that the ordinary delay
of fifteen days is insufficient in the present cireumstanwa,
and that besides it is useful to the macaws to effect,