The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS, MONDAY, 6 30 P.N.
This unfortunate capital is still destined to be the
prey of alarm and agitation. I have just been along
the Boulevards; the usual theatres of insurrection and
inutile, the areas around the Porte St. Denis and the
Porte St. Martin are occupied by troops of the line
and the guard mobile ; lancers and dragoons flying
here and there in every direction, with despachea and
orders. This region of the town in fact presents ex-
actly the same aspect this afternoon as it did on the
evenings which precede(' the 23rd June. During the
day much anxiety was visible in the Salle
des Pas l'erdue, the Salle des Conferences, and the
Hall of' the Assembly, reports being circulated by
. every mouth of an approaching bungee. On driving
towards the Pettis Royal, I found the forces multi-
plied in all the poets and barracks of that quarter.
The experiments which have lately been made
to construct moveable barricades, to enable the troops
to quell an insurrection without the murderous loss
they have formerly sustained, appear to be successful.
One of these has been approved by government,
and tried with complete success nt the Ecole
A moveable " blockhaus" has also been contrived, to
enable the troops to attack, with effect, houses in
which the insurgents take refuge, and which they
convert into batteries and redoubts.
Four of the Patis journals were suspended this
morning—La Vraie Republique, Le Lampion, Le Re-
presentant du People, and .Lc. Duchesne. The
first is known as the journal of M. Thorn, who fled
after the insurrection of June ; the second is a sort of
legitimist satirical paper; and the third is the journal
of M. Proudon.
The Committee of the Assembly charged to report
on the progressive tax on mortgages has resolved to
recommend the Assembly to reject the project.
It is said that interpellations are about to be put to
General Cavaignac as to the reasons why the electoral
colleges are not convoked to supply the vacancies in
the As.-.embly by the double returns and other causes.
It is said the delay is Lttributable to the fear of go-
vernment that Count Mole will be returned for
Bordeaux. It seems that it was even talked
of proposing M. (iuizot as a candidate. De-
legates from Bordeaux have come to Paris to
invite M. !ifo'.c to become a candidate for that depart-
ment. The resolution intended to be proposed by the
committee appointed at the Rue de Poitiers is to the
effect that the Committee on the Insurrection had dis-
charged its duty with the most conscientious care,
and that it remained for the government to adopt the
measures rendered necessary by the evidence thus
brought to light. The re-union of the Itue de Poitiers is
to have another meeting to-night, to decide finally on
the course to be adopted in all anppiseable contin-
gencies. The greatest precautions have been taken
to-day by the military authorities. The troops have
been consigned to their barracks andcamps, and their
arms kept ready piled.
P.S. Since writing the above, I have been inform:xi
that some of the troops wi.ich were out have been
ordered back to their barracks.
Two hundred insurgents were yesterday sent to
Havre for transportation. The order for their depar-
ture was executed so rapidly, that they had no time
to make their adieux to their wives and families.
I would call attention to the noble statement of
General Cavaignac on the affairs of Italy, which
follows.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.—MONDAY.
The question of intervention in Italy came on in
the Assembly today, when General Cavalgnac delivered a
speech, of which the following is the substance:
I hove this moment told the Assembly that I
• ready to answer immediately to any interpellations
that might be addressed to me respecting the affairs
of Daly. The Assembly having desired to hear the
Ern of the Committee of Foreign Affairs upon the petition
of the national guard of Milan, I came forward to request it
to enter into the immediate discussion of the subject, and to
allow me, in stating the facts, to confine my-
self within certain limits. My first care, when called
to power by the Avemhly, was to examine carefully the ex-
ternal relations of France, among which those of Italy were
most prominent. I have seen that the Assembly desired the
freedom of Italy. Nevertheless, the Assembly has not ex-
chided from those means which might be adopted the
alternative of an honourable peace, if, in the at-
' %lament of it, the means could be obtained of
efficaciously assisting Italy. If lam called ape's to give my
Opinion in this matter, I will lay that I am perfectly aware
that in this country it requires courage to insist on peace and
/thee war. Before the last events I should not have hesitated
to Weise a pacific intervention; I say, before the last events,
bemuse they have notably changed the situation of affairs.
Now I am more than ever in favour of a peaceful interven-
tion. Far be it from me to have an idea of casting a
ts~essch on the honourable sentiments expressed in favour
Man armed intervention. But I repeat it, the only media-
tion which can usefully take place in GS peaceable
one. The English nation, with which we have
oined, could not remain deaf to our appeal, and all
leads us to hope that the pews of Europe will not
be disturbed. So long as the chamber will allow me, I
shall be the partisan of an honourable peace. I know that
more than one man has made himself a great name in war,
and that many have died unknown and obscure because they
have preferred peace ; but as for me, I declare it to be my
opinion that the republic will only be founded is France,and
that our education in this respect will only be complete,
when those who are at its bead show modesty is
power, and do not seek to give their names cele-
brity. I repeat, I shall always be a partisan of
an honourable peace. If other circumstances required, and
ithecame necessary that another course should be pursued,
it would be easy—nay, it would be a pleasure to me—to ra-
gtime the sword, and follow the instinct' which have guided
My life hitherto. (Cheers.)
After a few words from M. DE PI/VINOUS, the petition of
the national guards of Milan was sent to the President of the
Council and the ministry of foreign affairs.
The Assembly was then addressed by M. Jaime Favors,
who oomplaiaed ^hat the explanations of General Cavaignao
were not sufficiently clear.
Y. CEETON addressed questions upon the expenditusb of
the Provisional Government. He attacked the sending
armed hordes against Savoy and Belgium, and " bird' of
Pv" in'o the departments.
This created a most violent tumult.
Gorncesvx proposed to pass to the order of the day ;
bat the Assembly, on the promise of the reporter of the
Committee of Finances that the accounts should be ready in
thee or four days, adjourned the discussion of the question.
The Assembly then entered on the debates as to the con-
eirdela Mmables.
2._•113, aro. 21.—New Loan. —; Three per Cents-, 431 ;
,r__• Per Cepa., 74 ; last Loan, '7ll ; Fours, 59. Belgian
2711, 1344). , .5i ; Dn. 1842, ; Do. —; Do. Two-anda-
=_ N :pee Deana, 74 ; BOOS= 64 ; Tn."'
Ist. Bank shares, 182$; k.ithsnge on London, 30 days,
.se7e. 23 24.
..annrAi".—Pans and Orleans, 610; Parts and Rosen, 432 30;
Elm and Havre, 403; Avignon and Marseilles, 220; Sul&
s.--"aall and Bale, ; Centre Viers= Bor 262 30; Annan' eau Boa-
deaul,-396 23; North, WO.
BPAlN.—Advioes from Catalonia bring a bulletin
of the captain-general of that province, of the 9th,
announcing that Colonel Enrique', commandant of
the district of Solsons had dispersed the bands of
Borges and other cabeeillaa.