The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-01 00:00:00

549 1 LONDON, THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1848. [THREEPENCE

Seine, demand
ingot against cit Men'
the provisons of the
penal code. The tollowii„
tion : " We, the Procureur-t.
of the republic, considering proceedings
been instituted relative to the attempt of the 15th May, and
the evidence taken, it appears that there are grave pro
aumptions that citizen Louis Blanc, took part in the in.
vas.on and occupation of the palace of the Arsemblt.
Considering, in fact,that citizen Louis Blenc,by his own eon-
fmaion, spoke twice to the persons who invaded the Assembly,
once film a w.ndow, and a second time trout a chair in the
ball of the Pas Perdu.; that he was heard to say to the
crowd of rebels I congratulate you In having reconquered
the right of yourselves to carry your petition,' which was
heard by representatives who have depnaed to the
words; and that he afterward spoke frum the tei.
bun., and was carried in triumph by the factious.
Considrring, without hearing nth• r iacts that there is suffl.
eirnt presumption at present that he rendered himself an a •-
eoreplice in the attempt made against the National Assembly ;
we request that it may phase the Aasembly to authorise the
necuse.ion of citizen Louis Blanc, and the application against
nim of the arid. s of the code of criminal ins ruction."

M. 131 PIIIIBIOENT.—Ie there any objection to the authori-
sation demanded.

Louts BLANC.—I do not desire to &fend myself Ili as
v.dual, but as a representative of the people, foe, in tut,
wh .1 is demanded of )ou, is to commence an era of pets cu
lion, to haul urate the epoch of the republic by the reign of
terror which they reproach us eitis having desired to retsb-
lish—we who comm. need by als.lishiug the punishment of
death. Behold, to-day, our recompense. Not a drop of
blood hu been shed for three months; not a single
prosecution has been directed, but now hatred arouse itself,.
and acts with violence. What ! reproach me with having
wished to violate this sacred Assembly ; I, who have said
to the people, " Here is the temple if your proper
unereign,y." Let him who can say to the con-
trary rite, that I may tell him to his face he lies. I
await with impatience the examinational my conduct. It will
then be seen whether I did not • miler the previous evening
with the co hors of the manifestation, and use my ehilea-
veto a to dissuade them,—and whether I did not tell them
that mach a mandeatation would he highly duiperous

not only to the inter. eft of established order, but ilut to
the interests of liberty. Yea, the interests of liberty ;
fur I represent. d that the reactioxists would make good
u-e of the affect of that manif.etutiun. (Murmurs.)
A republicen, I dil not desire a manifeatation fatal to the
republic. (lien.) Fatal ! I alight to rent that expreralon ;
the republic is immortal, and 1 believe it can be as little af-
fected by reaction as by an exerts of brute force. Is
it necessary at present that I should return to the 19. h of
May—a day for ever to he lamented. If Iso speak, be
eestired it in not to 'avoid eith- r inapt isonmi rat or death I
ill not foie either [M. Louie Blanc here became very aid
mated.) Ido not fear dente is id he), and in thus opeaking
I know what I say ; for I undertake to say that twtora bug
the puni.htaent at death will be !vermeil. (Loud expres-
sions of alLeent.)
M. Le. Pegstucter —I beg of the Atmrmlily not to be car.
tied away by than expreeions. I shall cull to order any
one who forgets the dignity orbit position.
M Lout* BLANC (turning toward some members): It
has been asked by wheel the puni'hmeat of death is to he
re-establishe God knows! I euppoee by the Assembly,
for it risks its re-establiehment against itself ; but I do not
hesitate to declare to the A-fembly, that the re-establishment
of death will be for it a veritable suicide. No, the Amiably
will out do it; it will he doue by others. But truss the
way we are now going on, it is likely we shall not
step till we have ruched the b atom tat that ebyfOl. if sou
mould print et the republic, set • good example. Why
niche an appeal to evil passion, ? A h ! rather pronounce wore
of conciliation. I almost tremble tor my country, when I
think of the bloody resentments which revoluti- to give rise
to. History shows it. I have been accused of htvilig had
recourse to ei dente. I might have used it, had I felt
disp toed ; but I in ver will aid in its use against an auem-
bly emanating from the people,— I who have hen
all my life struggling for the people. If I have
anything to reproach myself with, it is with having
remained so long in ray place instead of taking part is
that crowd. At length I molted to speak to the crowd;
and Fee what has been made of my words—a pretest fur
calumny. liowevi r, let that pass Urged to speck, in the
name of the safety of the Ainenb:y, I ascended She bore of
of the Penitent, and demanded of ham that my voice should
be heard. The President engaged me in collet r-ation fir a
tew momerve, and after-yards gave me full atithoril xi
ep-ak. I then addressed them. No one heard use utter one
wird that was not conciliatory. He who says to the colliery
is a cowardly calumniator. What are, then. the arcuistions
which they make against me ? Ca!umbies; and among there
calumnies that of having wished to violate the Assembly ;
1 who reelect universal suffrage so highly; I, wi.o
have spoken in favour of it all my life. This is what
I wish to explain to you. Explain, recollect —I do not
justify myself; I do not want to justify myself. It is not
simply ss • man, but for my character es a journalist and
an author, that I give this explanation. (Meer, hear )
ETINNS ARAOO, M. Ditatoserav, and ••VerSi other
members spoke in favour of the honourable conduct of M.
Louis Blanc on toe 15th May.
The Assembly he-e became much agitated, wend voices
demanding the order of the di y.
U. Camelot; x. demanded that the Assembly should re-
tire to their tefreaux, in order that they might examine the
que.tion calmly, which was agr, ed to.
The bureaux . fterwards named a committee favourable to
the impeachment.

OVERLAND INDIA MAIL.
We have news from India by the Overland Mail,
with dates from Calcutta April the 19th, and Bom-
bay May let.
rite intelligence brought by this mail is devoid of
political interest. India continued tranquil. There
were no symptoms of disaffection in any part of
the British possessions.
From Bomb iy we learn that the new Governor of
that Presidency, Lord Falklaid, had arrived, and that
Mr. Clerk had resigned the government into his
lordship's hands, and was to leave Bombay fur
Europe shortly atter the departure of the mail.
The iiitelligence from Calcutta refers almost ex-
clusively to the Union Bank. The last occurrence
connected wilt that unfortunate concern was an at-
tempt made be a wealthy native st•areholder to shift
his responebility to other shoulders. Little had as
been dune towards a settlement of the affairs of the
Bank. "Of general commercial affairs," says the
Horkaru of the 19th of April.
"We have little to communicate. Confidence ap-
pears to be returnieg, though slowly. The money
market is gradually reaxing. Trade, both in imp•irts
and country produce, is still improving. The favour-
able reports from the ho ne market have tended to
raise the price of Indigo. Exchange has gone up a
little, and is now quoted at Is. 100. to Is. lOid. tor
first-rate six months' bills with documents."
There is considerab.e doubt whether the possessi.ins
of the late Rajah Satter& will be annexed to the
British possessions or not. The late Rajah is set me
asserted on his death-bed the right of nominating his
successor, and chose a relation of the royal line
as the new Rajah. 1' is proceeding had not met
with the sane tion of the British Government, the
young prince had not been proclaimed, and in the
meantime the old ministers coutinnuid to carry on
the government. The affairs of the Nixon are in
their normal state of confusion, and no interruption
had taken I•iaeo in the cordial hatred which exits
between that prince and his prime minister.
The campaign in Gosmsoor had ended in the
complete euhmieeion of the hill chiefs; the friends
of Chokra Ilissye had forsaken him, and it was re-
ported that he had given himself up to Col. Ouseley.
The warm Beason had set in all over India, and the
heat was represented, in several places, as terrific.
This rise in the temperature had not, however, been
attended with any increase of mortality.
The following is from the summary of the 11,onlmy
Times :

13M1.1.1AY, 1.1. tr 1.

Lord Puikldnd at rived at the le e,idetitti on ti-c
night of the 27.1 i, end will. in terine of 010 app., ntment, be
sworn in this orenoon, and assume the reinsut govrrnment.
Mr. Cl..ek returned to Bwintoy teem the hill- yisterday
afteromen. He is expected to leave tor England in a woo k
oir ten dap, hence ; he hes declined all the nurneroua testi-
muniale desired to be got up in hi. honour.. Sir H. Ptottin-
ger arrived at Madras on the 7th, and was forthwith in-
ducted into of The notorious bandit, Ragojee 13angt is,
who for years kept the presidency in trouble, has ht, n can
victed of murder. and sent, need to be hanged.
Lieutenant Christopher, woo has lately conducted steamers
many hun ,red miles up the three great rivers of the
Pureaub—the Sutlej, Chenaub, and Indus—has just
re-
turned to Bumloay on leave, his latest expedition is i• g
that on the Indus to n ar A.toek. He brines with him a
large collection of notes of measurements, sections of the
a until, and drawing. and specimens illustrative of hi.
re.earch.a. Amongst the last of them, are-1. Portions
of c-oal, chiefly cannel coal, lienite and jet (e xectiy liar
that of Whithy), and ah. avy maim:sone like the k-heed
iron ore of !Armtek-hire. 2 S. aerate, similar to that bound in •
all our .nth n elites, divimb'e like mica. 1. bait, in
we • cubes two or three inches each way, as tren-par. rat as
cop's' ; salt in usaeses—c trod d by the water—in stel.c-
tifir
clumps—anti carved into elegant dishes. The
Pert Improvement Committee have recommended tie
deainlition of the ramparts and outworks on the
landward side of the town, from the Apollo to
the Bogue g de, leaving the works on the oea.face as at
present. They save also recommended the recovery from Lb,.
sea of about four ace, a et ground, lyirg betwixt Bombay and
Calaba, end this will be commeeeed immediately. No
trace heel been obtained of Islam Khan, the Boostie chief,
whose flight from L within* we have formerly noticed.
He had net, it was said, been well received by the
still • listing remnants of his tribe, who were much
le,, willing than he expected them to hay., b en to
put themselves under his authority, and hvd pursued
hie way further into the islands in quest of other cl-ins whcee
thirst for plunder had not been so severely punished by our
sword am had the members of his own. The governor. nt of
Sattara continue, to be conducted meth as be• ore by the
ministers of the late rajah, who on his el, ath.hed adopted a
son of the royal line. As this did not meet with the sane
tion of the British covernment, end the you, g prince has not
been proclaimed, it s• ems doubtful whether we consider
the etete likely to become ours er not. Calcutta in-
telligence continut s mainly t o relate to marrow&
Ohio,. A complete list of the shareholders of the Union
Bank has been drawn up, and is shout to he published,
showing who have responded to the forced loan and contri
bution calls, and to what extent they have done so. Several
archteders, relying on the Charter Act, prwpeac to r,si.t
any proceedings against themselves personally until the
affeire of the kink are wound up, its a-se a reahred, and a
true stotement of its tins, condition exhibited. A large 'turn
bee of tho•e connected with it have retired beyond the reach
of the jurisd ction of the Supr. me Court to await the
turn of event.. The state of affairs of Messrs. Carr,
Tepee, and Co., indicates the fearful depreciation of
the value of mercantile property which has recently occurred
When llwarkenath Tagore left Calcutta on hi, last visit to
England, he believed himself worth half a mildon sterling
in three years his house is in the Insolvent Court! The
Nisam is acid to have expressid to the new resident his
u-ter want of confidence in his prime minister; and,
es Colonel Low will most prohnhly represent the
Prince's sentiment, to the Governor-General, it is ex-
f.ectrel Soot* 001-Moolk will shinny be replaced
by a Mal more to the liking of the ruler. A tor-
reepondent et Aurungabad complains of the troops at that
station only harieg received their pay for December Lot in
the mi Idle of April ! lie adde, that rumonrs were '.float of
the likelihood of a disturbance either at Moongee l'ytst. or
Race M;101r, consequent on certain depredations committed
by a numb. r of stray Sikhs, to the amount of eight or ten
thousatel, who had taken the liberty of preventing free trade.
Brigadier Deation, of the cavalry division, had been direct. d ,
to take any measures he thought proper to effect a par fic
or warlike teem oat o.t of this state of matters ; and for the
better coiling oat, if neer/entry, the latter expedient, BriJa-
dirr, Twemlew of the Aurungabad division, had be, n re-
quested to place at loin disposal any amount of troop, which
could be conveniently spared. In order to facilitate corn•
munication with Brigadier Beaton, the preeaut ion bad be. n
taken of detaching a complete troop of civility sn Fitrol
dol. The Aurungabad force was in a state of suspense,
expecting hourly to receive orders to march off at a moms ut'a
warning.

Eaweatta.—• tepid sad staldwellie deckle hes taken place in
the last few days, as vary few China bills hers been re,
oared by the last steams, sad oar dependence for some time
peat has beau Addy epos them, owing to the greater part
of the Meal bias finding their way to the gamernment
trresery whist Menaces granted on produce at a low ram of ex-
&Ana We eave bold of transactions in tank paper, at els months'
Welt. at in kid. is la. led. ; and there in no proWbility of improve.
meat bt goes thee to came, but on the contrary, there la a great
likfrated of still lower rates.
. .

Morrar bir7;l4772iiioney"."".has been pretty easy during the p.st
h./rented. Bank stocks, however, have receded in value. Sham in
the Or 'elite! Bank went down to par after the payment of ■ ri,idend,
and a Pirther decline look place owing to serail parties having been
under the necessity of realising their property.

ROME, MAY 21.
The horrible tragedy which the obscurantist and
reactionary principle has produced in Naples had
totally discomfited the projects of Lamhi uschini,
I3ernetti' Della Gerga, and their faction in It .me, and
opened the eyes of the Pontiff es to what demoniacal
doings would result f.om his listening to such mutt.
selkrs who wish him to distrust the rational guard
(embodying, as it does, all the substantial citizens),
and to throw himself on the fanatic erastererki, who
would pillage and murder just in the style of their
pious brethren, the lazzaroni.
It appears that Austrian Lutzow, in expectation of
a similar performance in ltome, has, instead of going
home when he got the sack from the city, availed
himself of au Eoglish steam-frigate lying at Civita
Vtcchia, and begged of the commander to be carried
secretly to Naples. where he was lying perdu during
the massacre. He was, however, seen constantly at
his dtv.itions (!) in church there, as indeed he was to
be found always at the Jesuits' altar in Rome, with •
pertinacy of ostentatious piety. No other member of
the diplomatic body did anything of the sort. King
Richard 111. liked to be seen " between two bishops.
His return here, on which he seemed to calculate, is
now farther off than ever. _ _ _ _

The upper chamber (House of Lords) has been
finally constituted, and the names known. It is corn-
po4ed of 46 members ; but as a long list of this sort
would convey no idea of its component parts to any
not acquainted with the local infilence and character
of the parties, I refrain from troubling you with a
bare nomenclature.
Far more important is the composition of the elec-
tive assembly (Commons), the formatioq of which
commenced on the 18th, and is not yet brought to a
close. The electoral colleges of Rome itstlf only
constituted themselves into regular organisation yes-
relay, and the pre ideate elected are all good men
and true ; there are six electoral wards, presidt d over
respectveiy by Antonio Borges', Joanne Culottes,
Gaootti, Mandolese, Searamucci, and Odeschalchi.
The prime minister, Count Mamiani, would not be
satisfied to keep his post (and were he to tesign the
witole government would go to the dogs) unless the
Pope sent a formal protest to the King of Naples
agairet the nechristian slauJiter of 2,0(M) of his sub-
jects in cold blood, fur the maintenance of a principle
(that of absolute power) now abolished in all Italy ;
and the Pope, in spite of the retrograde vagabonds
that earwig him, has seen the necessity of doing so.
Mamiani is a native of the same district as Pio Nono,
and a thoroughly upright and unflinching Romanist.
The rumour of an address from certain clerical
parties in Ireland to the Roman peop'e, exhorting
them to faithful adherence to their temporal prince in
all matters, has come here and is discussed in the
dabs. The opinion is that such advice is very un-
called for, as every bosom here throbs with ardent
love of the sovereign, whatever may be thought and
felt about mischief-making cardinals: there is an
idea, ggested by Roman common sense, of sending a
responsive address to the Irish clergy, exhorting them
in similar terms to similar allegiance in their own
locality, an allegiance supposed here to be rather
loose,
It evil tole" he true nor wren Mcrae holy men.
Immt use excitement has been artificially created in
Rome by the fact of several volunteers who had
marched to the north against the foreigner having
got tired of the service and quietly come back with-
. out arms or baggage (relicki nos belle parnitibi), and
thought to resume unobserved their ordinary domestic
pursuits. Tho journals have been down on them ;
and such an outcry has been raised that these
poor devils who probably " honoured their
father and mother" on the scriptural promise
that " their days might be long in the land," are put
in Coventry, and subjected to all aorta of ignominious
treatment. Prince Aldobrani has just issued a pro-
clamation to the national guard, calling on them not
to recognise in their ranks, or in any shape, such in-
famous cowards(codardi); and the prime minister,Ma-
miani, has eery a circular to the provinces denouncing
all deserters, and calling on the authorities to enforce
the passport laws against any who have not a regu-
lar dismissal paper from their respective military
chiefs.

Your classic readers (and they are a numerous
body) kill be reminded on this occurrence of the ex-
citement created by the mission of Regulus from Car-
thage to effect a compromise about certain cowards of
that day—

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L ANIEMBLY.—WEDH VADAT.
ok the chair at one o'clocK_ After dia. /411 .
air if ITaplei, airsoile matters conecticr. . rs
.
said—l have to make* very options. CIWIS• '
Assembly, which admits of no delay. The
I and the Procureur of the Tribune of the . .
ri the kwenably authority to direct proceed.
Louis Blanc, and if need he to apply to him
to eide of crtrainal instruction, and of the •
following Is the substaace of the it/quill- •
—.-.
rocureur-CienSral of the Court of Appeal
considering the proceedings which have 549 1 LONDON. TM