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Tilt SUN, LONnON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1848.

in the conwregation of her most distinguished
citizens ; all the genius, all the heroism, all the ex-
perience, all the aspirations, all the devotion of youth
and all the wisdom of age, all the fervour of phi-
losophy and all the reliance of religion, will be re-
flected in the hearts of those Republican Legislators.
As a spectacle—simply as a spectacle—the first
meeting of the National Assembly will be an his-
torical incident of a very extraordinary character. It
will present in one magnificent group the most con-
spicuous men in a remarkable age—an age of great-
ness in a hundred departments of intellectual enter-
prize. The patriarch of three revolutions, the con-
temporary of the Conventionalists, the sanguine and
impassive spectator of all those wonderful vicissitudes
which chequered the careers of such men as MIRA-
BEAU, VERGNIA•CD, ROBESPIERRE, and NAPOLION,
will sit side by side with the youthful emissaries
of the south, upon whose cheeks the down of
pubescence has scarcely appeared, whose eyes are still
sparkling with the hilarity of childhood, and whose
lips have hardly acquired the trick of a masculine
compression. Upon the same bench with the vener-
able DUPONT (the VADIER of a more peaceful era!)
may be ranged the BARBAROUI and the LOUTETS of a
new and more fortunate Gironde. The silvered hair
of BERANGRI may contrast with the sombre locks of
that cowled orator of the Benedictines, whose utter-
ance is an inspiration not unworthy of Bossurr.
Next to LACORDAIRR may be recognised the spiri-
tuelle but somewhat lugubrious visage of Da Lam-
MENAI& There will be seen the swarthy form
4' DUMAS, and cheek-by-jowl with the great
feuilletonivt the Hebrew features of the abstruse
CREMIEUX, or the boy-face of the petit LOUIS
BLANC. In one direction will be the creator of
Quasi do, in another the delineator of Dagobert,
and, were there not a tacit disqualification against
the admission of petticoats, we doubt not but that
Madame DUDEVANT herself would rival by her
legislative declamation the efforts of those contempo•
rary novelists. CoEMENIN will be there with much
of the cynicism and more of the improvisation of a
true Timm,. EMILE GIRARDIN will more readily
redeem the accidental anomalies of his position in the
tribune of a senator that: in thecabinet of a journalist.
1-i is eccentric moderation may not, by some happy
fatality, be contrasted with the ultra-extravagance of
an ALBERT or a FLOcoN. In the midst of this diversi-
fied assemblage of representatives, men of agriculture
and men of manufactures, dreamers of poetry and
rhetoricians of the pulpit, writers of romances and
scribes for the theatres, sculptors, painters, tragedians,
comedians, farmers, advocates, journalists, monks,
artizans, merchants—in the midst- of all these, sym-
pathising with all these, beloved by all these, one re-
publican will maintain a certain amount of pre-emi-
nence—himself a poet, a journalist, a romancist, an
historian, an orator, and a statesman. Every lip will
have expressed the name of this great citizen before
it
is written, every heart will say, it is the author et
" Jocelyn," the biographer of the Girondists, the
Byron of France, the most touching of the pilgrims
of Palestine—the chief ,nover, the Voice, and the
Genius of the Revolution of February. Every
tongue will have articulated the name of LAMARTINE,
and every bosom will have glowed with the anticipa-
tion of his election by the National Assembly as the
President of the French Republic.
Scarcely twenty-four hours since we could not
have indulged in these tranquil reveries as to the
future progress of events among the Parisians. Now
we can and do indulge in them with a boundless con-
fidence, satisfied that the gulf of peril has been over-
leaped. Of course we have as yet received very
little more than an inkling of the result of the elec-
tions in the metropolis and the departments- Wey
must await the arrival of the ultimate intelligence
with tranquillity. Nevertheless, enough information
has already reached our shores to demonstrate the
complete discomfiture of the ultra-revolutionary
party, represented in the Provisional Government by
the four principal Communists, LEDRU ROLLIN
LOUIS BLANC, FERDINAND FLOCON, and ALBERT
.1 more glorious triumph to the Moderates led by
LAMARTINE could not by any possibility have been
achieved. Everywhere they are proving victorious—
in the capital as well as in the departments. Every-
where the horror entertained for the Communist.
Montagnards is testified by the majorities given to
their antagonists. BLANQUI will be compelled to
practise his aptitude for conspiracy upon his own
tacticians, like the scorpion exhausting the venom of
its sting on its own entrails, when girdled by a ring
of fire. CABET finds even before the appropriate
month of April has terminated that a mine has
morally been sprung under the haunts of
the anarchists, even at the moment when those
anarchists have been making excavations to the
powder-magazines in the cellars of the Hotel de
Ville. &mama must disband his body-guard of
mountaineers in dudgeon, and, supposing he feels so
disposed, to annihilate the remembrance of his trea-
sonous schemes against liberty, he will find his crim-
son sash (until yesterday the insignia of sedition)
an admirable substitute for a halter. Even PIERRE
LEROUX. will have discovered by this time the neces-
sity of slinking back into a more congenial obscurity ;
and the Provisional Minister of the Interior may
speedily have more leisure to disport himself, in the
bonnet' rouge, in the saloons of Versailles and
Rambouillet. Particulars of the proportionate
number of votes, already eounted out of
the urns of Paris, will be found in another
column, and in every instance those particulars
will prove to be fraught with advantage to the
Moderates, and especially calculated to attest
the admiration of the people for LAMARTINE. In
the first arrondissement, for example:: it seems
that, as elsewhere, the name of the Provisional
Minister for Foreign Affairs heads the list of the
thirty-four successful canditates, 17,800 out of 19,000
votes having been awarded to him by that division of
the Parisians. A similar result will be found ap-
pended to almost every other table of calculations,
and satisfactory intelligence as to the majorities
awarded to the moderate candidates has been received
from the departments of the Aines, Aube, Doubs,
Eure, Indre et Loire, Maine et Loire, Nievre, &c. &c.
In defiance of the intimidation, the intrigues,
and the corruption of the anarchists, in spite
of the violence of the commissaries, the degradation
of judges, the dismissal of magistrates, and the
the
threatsemissaries
niatyre suspendedof M.
LaoDvaert
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cChhorsiesntebnydotmhe—sythe temnie spectacle
they
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and consisting of the most Catroifoitic most con-
scientious, and the most illustrious the
, whose us citizens of the
Republic—citizens
aspirations ere akin to
the poetic but practical and humane visions
immortal LAMARTINE. of the

Many persons have erroneously conceived that the
Irish Government have abandoned the prosecutions
against Messrs. JOHN MITCHELL, THOMAS MEAGHER
and WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, because a non;
prosequi was entered to the indictment against the
rormer gentleman on Wednesday, and similar rules
were on Thursday obtained in those against the other
;nembers of the triumvirate. It is, however, due to the
law officers of the Crown in that country, who have
:,itherto acted so efficiently and discreetly, combining
a wise and temperate but firm administration of the
law with moderation and mercy, that this mistake
should be corrected, and that the real state of the case
should be fully explained. The prosecutions have
not been abandoned, although they will be carried on
in a different form from that in which they were
originally instituted. Juries will have to try the
parties in the same manner, and for the same offences,
and
if convictions are obtained, exactly the same
punishment will await the offenders. The Attor-
hey-General is authorised, by virtue of his office,
to file i formal
written suggestion of an offence com-
mitted, in the
Court of Queen's Bench, without the
intervention of
ex-officio infortnattgjand jury. This is termed " an
demeanour only.
and applies to cases of Whenevermis-
demeanour
a capital offence is
charged, or one that
been capital, but
for the merciful
changes
have
that
have been introduced
within the last quarter of %
ent
the accused is entitled to hair
in our penal code,
extent, warranted by the °aye the charge to a certain
absolutezaajority of a grpoitir °f twelve men (the'
'
AY) afore he can. be'

called upon to answer or plead thereto. We find
it laid down in " Blackstone's Commentaries" (vol.
iv., p. 308), " that the usual objects of an information
ex-officio are properly such enormous misdenzeanours
as peculiarly tend to disturb or endanger the Queen's
Government, or to violate or affect her in . the
regular discharge of her royal functions." Such, for
instance, as " seditious or blasphemous libels Or words,"
&c. &c. It will, therefore, at once, be manifest how
appropriate is such a mode of proceeding to the
offences charged against the triversers. In fact the
very reason for granting this extraordinary, power
was that persona guilty of such conduct should be
promptly and speedily brought to justice, and not
permitted to interpose the delays to which they would
be entitled in ordinary cases, and to continue their
mischievous proceedings, influencing the popular
mind, and exciting the passions of the people
during the intermediate period before they could be
consigned to their well-deserved punishment.

It may, however, be said that the Attorney-
General, having, in the first instance adopted the
common course and indicted the parties, should not
have afterwards altered his mode of proceeding; and
had recourse to his extraordinary privilege, and that
the defendants were thereby subjected to inconve
nience, and had some reason to complain. There
might be some justice in this argument if the grand
jury had ignored the bills that were sent before them.
In such a cue, although the privilege would still have
remained to the Attorney-General, and -he would
hare been fully authorised to charge them by ex-
officio information, it would be generally regarded
As an oppressive exercise of power, and the
public sympathies would be excited in favour
of the persons who had been thus harshly
dealt with. Almost the last case of this description
was that of the Orange rioters •at the Theatre Royal,
Hawkins-street, when a bottle was flung at the
Marquis WELLESLEY, the then Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland, for which Lord PLUNKS; who, at that time,
filled the office of Attorney-teeneral, filed
informations, after the bills for exactly the same
charge had been thrown out by the grand jury. In
the present instance, however, nothing of this descrip•
tion has taken place. The bills were found (we
believe unanimously) by the grand jury. No question
could exist that the matters charged were proper
subjects for investigation before the Court. A purely
degree
erd,
to the merits of the case, was,
technical objection, not going in the slihgohwteesyt
forward by Mr. MITCHELL, who had previously
boasted that he would interpose no difficulty of
anv kind to a full, and fair investigation, but that
he would be as ready to meet the law officers in
a court of justice as- he would the forces of the
Government in the field. Notwithstanding the
boldness of his language, when the time for pleading
had arrived, a plea in abatement, or what is termed a
dilatory plea, was filed, objecting to the constitution
of the grand jury, beeause one of the. grand jurors
was also a member of the Town Council. Although
there was little weight in the objection, it was at
once perceived that the arguments thereon, followed
most probably by an appel to the Exchequer--
Chamber, and from thence to the House of Lords,
would retard the final decision for at least six
months, if not for a still longer period, and
that in the meantime the defendants would persevere
in the insane and reckless manner which had
rendered them so painfully notorious. It was, there-
fore, wisely and judiciously determined by the autho-
rities to abandon the indictment, and to commence de
novo by filing informations, on which speedy judg-
ment might be obtained. We venture to affirm that
no well-disposed persons can be found to dissent from
the propriety of such a course, or to censure the law-
officers for having had recourse thereto. 'Mr.
MITCHELL may, perhaps, find that his boast is rather
unpleasantly realised, and that he will find himself
face to face with the ministers of justice more spee-
dily than he anticipated. His partisans and ad-
mirers may be bitterly disappointed, but the rest of
the community will applaud the vigorous and decisive
conduct of the Irish Attorney-General.
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About seventy years ago (in 1777), when the dy-
nasty of the old Bourbons reigned supreme in France,
and when England was as yet paramount in America,
a young Frenchman, hardly twenty years of age,
possessed of high rank, large fortune, and powerful
friends in his native country, left them all, and, in-
spired by the enthusiasm of an ardent temperament
and a sublime devotion to the cause of liberty, pro.
ceeded to the new world to take part in the struggle
for independence there commencing. He fought as
a volunteer in the ranks of the American patriots, he
shared in the perils and glories of the first desperate
battles which signalised the American war, and his
courage and genius elicited the thanks of the Ame-
rican Congress. But not his single arm only did he
devote to the liberal cause ; he raised and equipped
soldiers at his own expense. He returned to his
native country to procure reinforcements, and with
again proceeded to signalise himself in the
great struggle. And so much did he there signalise ,
himself that his name became identified with Ameri
can independence. So strenuous and so powerful
were his exertions, and so successful were his
endeavours, that it was said, with the ex-
aggeration of poetical license, that he " a vine
ans, dun snon,le etait l'appui.' But with the
glorious termination of his American career the
wonderful events of his existence were by 'no means
ended. Returned to his native country, he then took
part in another struggle for emancipation—a. struggle
more desperate, more blood-stained, and in conse-
quence hardly so glorious as the one in which he had
played so prominent a part. Here also his post was
not insignificant. He witnessed the downfal of the
once powerful Bourbon throne but while aiding in
the overthrow of that throne he was also—and to his
honour be it rememilered—instrumental in preserving,
(for a time) its unfortunate tenants. Marvellous, in-
deed, were the events which transpired during that
one man's life. lie beheld a French Republic striving
to emulate the great democracies of old, he saw that
Republic fall, and give way to an empire which
far eclipsed the glary of its most glorious prede.
cessors. That too succumbed to the resistless force
of circumstances, and the Bourbon dynasty once
more filled the throne of France. Yet the wonders
of this individual history were not yet terminated.
He, who almost in his boyhood had stood forward as
one of the leaders in a mighty revolution, appeared
again in his veteran age, when passed the allotted life
of man, as a conspicuous partisan in another revolu-
tion, which once more (and for the last time) hurled
the old Bourbon race from the throne of CHAELE.
MAGNE, and substituted- in their place one who was
fondly deemed a " Citizen King." Had that veteran
Republican lived a few years longer he would have
had cause to believe, indeed, in the mutability of for-
tune, if the experience of his chequered life had not
already taught him that lesson. But we, who have
before us the records off his life—we, looking 'upon
the events of the present day, cannot fail to be struck
by the marvellous chain of events therein chronicled,
and more especially we cannot in consequence fail
to be in a peculiar degree interested by that, event
which has just now recalled the name of LAFAYETTE
totrathi our memory—an event which transpired last
ev e Wednesday,
congratulationsminere ar
nawhen the Republic of the United
States of America, by the mouth of their Represen-
ncAltobteainsdtadheeroedr
Republicwtha es i
among
ong o
f the recognitions
Ffirr
as
first
France.
acknowledge the new Government of France ; but
still acknowledgment was necessarily tendered with-
out
the cognizance of his Government. Now, how-
ever, the agtonishing tidings of French emancipation
has reached the ears and agitated the heart of the
sister Republic of America, and the expressions of
the joyful sympathy and cordial amity of America
have been from thence dispatched to France. The
address of the American Minister was responded to
by M. Lsmarrusz—by that Foreign Minister who is
so peculiarly happy in his various answers to the
very various deputations which he is officially called
upon to receive. Commencing his discourse with an
appropriate allusion to the former friendship of France
and America, and alluding to the fact of the Ameri-
can being the first official recognition of the French
the first," he said,
" to recognise the inde
eewnadakes,n caen
contested,
dt'llb of the American Re-
blict Republic.—"
hen young,
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to the American Republic to be the first to recognise
the new French Republic, and so to affix its signature
to the certificate of birth of French democracy
in, Europe. That signature will bring good
fortune to the Republic." After expressing
his conviction that Republicanism would en-
dure in France, because he believed the
French people to be ripe for their institutions ; be-
cause " what had fifty-five years back been only the
idea of the superior tn&i.of the nation,. laad,passed
into the ideas and habits of the .whole people,/ he
concluded his observation by the following most *it
pressive and felicitoUsly appropriate zentiment; by
which he sought to convey the expression of the
sensibility and gratitude with which France responds
to the friendly assurances of America. " Every
Frenchman," he said, " has for the Americans the
heart of LAFAYETTE." Every Frenchman has for the
Americans the heart of L AFATETTIL All the eloquence of
LAMARTIN E himself would have been incapable of ex-
pressing more than is comprised in those few worth.
This little incident may be regarded as the noblest
monument that could be erected to the memory of
LAFAYETTE. Now that his eventful career is closed,
And his zealous exertions are at an end, his name if.
invoked as a bond of union between France and
"America, those two great countries equally dear to
his heart. It is invokedlas a band of union at a time
when Republicanism is established in both countries
--when both are possessed of the full enjoyment of
liberty—of that liberty to whose sacred cause LA•
FAYETTE devoted his life from the early days of his
boyhood to his extreme old age. It is right, then,
that in the mutual felicitations of Republican France
and Republican America, LAFAYETTE .should be re-
membered, and that remembrance is, as we have said,
the noblest monument to his name.

publique pis le tribunal de la Seine, 73,000 ;
Luyneb, 62,011 ; I 6myer, 62,171 ; Besancon, 55,204 ,
Letivre, 53,742 ; Berville, ancien depute, 50,739 ; Peg
Derre, 50,855 ; Nanny, ancien depute, 48,047 ; Bar-
tti:omy Saint-Hilaire, 46,299 ; Flandin, 31,140.
At Allier General COURTAIS, the Commander-in-
Chief of the National Guard, has been unanimously
elected, the whole of the 12,346. electors who voted
haying polled for him ; N. ToUNET, second on the
poll, had 12,320 votes. The other. Deputies are—
MM. Jacques Feillol, Math& Loeedat, Herrier, Madet,
Bureaux de Puzy..

.: The following have been returned for
Angoulime;L7lAM:s Planet, Mayor of Cognac; 14a-
baissiere, commissairo du gouvernement ; Hennerv,
merchant at Cognac; Emile Girardini • former dhduti-,
Babaud Laribiare, commissaire du gouvernement ; Pou-
jars, advocate at Confolens; Bateau, advocate at Bor
deaux.

M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, will, it is proVable,
also _returned for the department of Creuse.

The following have beer, returned for the depart
[tient of Vaucluse :-

MM. Paul Laboissiire, former dipute, Eugene
Raspail, engineer ; Raynaud Lagardete, proprietor ;
Etz6sr Pin, agriculturist ; Agricol Perdiguier, cabine•
minister ; Bourbosson, physician."
The following official returns hare been received
from the departments :

'Rude—Armand Bari i4,'Sarrans, TriEhAi3t (Gortrn:
merit Commissar)), Theodore (Sub Commissary), Ray:
,nal. Joly; jun., Marc Suffer, and Anduae.
Manche—Vieillard, ex-deputy, commissary ;
Px,deputy; Laumondaix, avocat ; Demensange, Presi
dent of the Tribunal of Mortain; Boulatignier, Con-
seiner d'Etat; Diguet, President at Saint Li); de Toe-
queville, ex deputy; Delouche, avocat; Abraham Dubois,
ax-deputy; Perti?, of the Siècle; Dudouy, avocat;
Desessarts, avow; Gaslonde, professor at Dijon.; Rey -
OPIle L'Empereur, ex deputy,

The lieforme states, that a telegraphic dispatch
has been received, announcing the election of Citizens
FEINCOIS ETIENNE and EMMANUEL ARAGo at l'er•

pignan.
The -21/oniteur contains 'a decree, signed by the
members of the Provisional Government, commanding
all proprietors of mortgaged property to make a de-
_
(Aeration' of the same to the Minister, of Finance,
under penalty of being ,ob/iged to pay the tax of one
.per cent. imposed on the owners of such mortgages
•ny a decree of the Provisional Government published
on the 19th instant.
,The Provisional Government , has given up the
idea of purchasing the different lines of railway for
the Stafe; 'and the question ii left to 'be dealt with by
the. National Assembly. The National contains the
following announcement on the subject :
" The Provisional Government had the intention of
purchasing the different lines of rail Way for the state.
We have rio often said what we think of this measure, as
to render it unnecessary to repeat the advantages which
would flow from it to both contracting parties. Un-
fortunately, certain directors, interested in the prolonga-
tion of their splendid salaries, have not taken the
realities of. the situation into account, and have made
very strong and numerous protests against the project
of the Government. From these protests and complaints
they proceeded to accusation and attack,. the words spo-
liatien and•confiscation were pronounced;-'and the real
AifficUlties of the question were further coin Plicated by new
difficulties invented by malevolence. In presence of this
calculated'hostility;'what ought the Government to have
done ? Without doubt it might, by employing the die-
' tatorial power with which it was legitimately invested
on its formation, have broken down all obstacles, and
decreed the purchase; but the prudence and spirit of
justice which it has displayed in its acts have caused it
to adopt quite another line of conduct. It has preferred.
to abstain, and to submit to the National Assembly the
prtiject which it had conscientiously studied, after baying
obtained the best information, and taken the opinion of
special men, after having taken that of interested par-
. ties. It is therefore the Assembly which will have to
decide the question. Such is at least the opinion, which
is 'mire credited day after day, and which is justified by
the delay which has taken place in the publication of the
decree."
The Commerce notices, as follows, the first part. of
a report of the Commission of the Luxembourg :
" The General Commission sitting at the Luxembourg
has just commenced the publication, in the Ilioniteur, of
the general account of its labours. M. Louis Blanc does
not appear to have lost 'one of his allusions, notwith-
standing the unfavourable reception which all France has
given to his theories. According to the lion. Presidert
of the Commission, the dowutat of what he is pleased
to call the regime of antagonism and hatred is imminent,
and society only aspires to enter with full sail in the
waters of socialism. ' Perhips,' he observes, perhaps
the fall may be retarded by some temporary compro-
mises; and for our part we shall not refuse to prop up
with all our 'power that old edifice which is on all sides
' splitting and cracking. We may be believed in what we
say on this subject—we to whom, since the revolution of
February, this perilous and ungrateful task has only
procured almost superhuman fatigues, abuse, and ca-
lumny, calumny, too, from those very persons whose
security we protected at the risk of our popularity, and
sometimes at the peril of our lives. But let uo one de-
ceive himself—the time is passed for vain palliatives ; a
desperate situation demands extreme remedies. No,
. thank God, the situation is not so desperate as persons
would wish it to be thought ; Fiance is not yet at its
last agony ; calm and security, aided by a large dose of
liberty; will be sufficient to restore her to health ; the
constitution of the patient is strong, and the pulse goes
well, although a little feverish. We answer for her cure
—on this condition, however, that care be taken not to
make use of M. Louis Blanc's remedies."
It is evident from the following article in the
RVorme, that M. LEDRU ROLLIN feels that he has
no longer any chance of succeeding in his schemes
by' legitimate means :
The Reforme says :
" We are among those—and we have declared it dis-
tinctly—who' only understand a Revolution in its most
. logical acceptation, that is to say, as the renovation of
,the regime which succumbs for the advantage of the
regime which it is desired to establish. We should never
have thought, for example, of constructing a republican
government with the elements of monarchy, and sve
should only have proceeded to that task on ground well
and duly cleared. Our logic, it seems, was wrong; but
it remains to ;be seen whether it is really a republican
government which was in view. There are so many
ways of constituting a republic, that we may ask this
question without giving offence. However that may be,
it is under the influence of the servants of royalty that
the elections have taken place—it is under the surveil-
lance of functionaries left in their places, that the
scrutiny has 'been every where opened. You see what
has issued from the urn—you see what an assembly that
promise*. To judge from the first returns, the majority
will be centre-gauche. The future constitution is in good
hands. Still it is an excellent trial to make, and for our
part we are quite resigned. We will await our repre-
sentatives at the task, and we are certain, whatever they
do, that the Republic will not perish."
The following is the return of the state of the Bank
of FrenO•on Thursday evening, 27th April :
ASSETS.
Caib,ind ingots . . 44,031,139 34
Cash at branch banks 34,734,395 00
Overdue bills' 14,061,801 60
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which _
28,992,6281. are from the branch banks 157,018,769 55
Bills in the branch- banks . . . 78.231,111 24
Advances on coin and ingots ... 5,115,600 00
Ditto on public securities of France . . 10,830,382 90
Due trona the, branch banks on - their
notes in circulation' .... 14,895,750 00
Rentes of thejesorve fund ... 10,000,000 00
Rentes of disposable funds 11,660,197 88
Hotel and furniture. of the bank ... 4,000,000 00
Interest in branch bank at Algiers 1.000.000 00
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 00
Bills protest, d ... • ... 19,655,541 20
Bills arising from the ante of. Bonitos to
Russia yet to be 'received „, 278,938 00
Expenses of administration- es. 478,856 21
Sundries • ... 660,787 41
Advance to the State on Bons du Tresor
of the Republic. ... 50,000,000 00
. .

, • ~ , • 496,853,297 33
• •
Capital 67,900,000 00
Reserve fund ' 10,000.000 00
Reserve immobiliare 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation 303,094,600 00
Ditto of the branch bank ... ... 14,895,750 00
Ditto to order (Post. bills).' 1,569,423 30
Account current with Treasury creditor 26,360,908 72
Various accounts currant • ... 61,540,282 79
Bills payable at sight . . 1;050,000 00
Re discounts of the last half-year • 728.692 37
Dividends unpaid - ... 226,650 25
Dscounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,274,787 00
Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not yet •
employed in, Treasury Bonds ... 1,092,248 69
Branch Bank drafta to be paid . 954,320 01
Sundries , . 195,634 27

, ,853,297 38
By the returns on the asset side, it wi11496 be seen that
the metallic reserve at the Parrs establishment of the
Bank of France has increased during the past week,
about 2,800,000 f., but that it has fallen off in the
branch banks to within a trifle of the same extent
the amount of specie .in the bank is therefore about
the same' as the preceding week. The amount of
discounted bills, becoming due in Paris is less by
9,680,000 f., but the branch banks show an increase of
such accommodation to the extent of 4,000,000 f. On
the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have
increased about 4,500,000 f. The account current of
the Treasury has fallen off from 36,885,000 E to
26,360,000 E, showing a diminution of upwards of
101 millions of francs in the wee/4. The account-
eurrents.of private: individuals baminoreased a little
more than 2,600;000fi. The amnpnt of the metallic
reserve is at' .presifut'
aboit 88,700,000 f. to
349,000',000f. of notes in circulation.

The 8;11:12 total Of the PatriOti, 40111111056 to the

Government, up to the 25th instant, amounted to
249,954 f. 77c.

The Minister of War, on Thursday, visited the bar-
racks occupied by the 2d Regiment of Dragoons. He
examined the buildings, tasted the food, and gave
orders that every improvement should be made in the
lodgings of the men and in the stables.
Seiious disturbances took place during the elections
in some, of the provincial towns.
During the whole of Wednesday great excitement
previtiledat-Rouen. Groups of workmen assembled
in the Place'Saint
,ouien, and diScussed the probable
results of the.elections. A man having cried " DES..
CHAMPS will' not be nominated ! " a crowd of men in
Mouses ran after him. The National Guard having
cried to stop them, a collision took place. Though
it was without gravity, an imposing force of infantry,
hussars, artillery, and National Guard turned
,ut, and the Hotel de Ville was occupied.
At about nine. o'clock in the evening a band
composed of 200 persons, passed along the quays.
-houting, "A bas l'A ssemblee Nationale !" and "Vivo
Deschamps:!" and singing the Ca ira. Near the Rue
St. Lo a company of the National Guard separated
the crowd, whe'reupon there were cries of " Down,
.with the National Guard ! Down with the Aristo-
:rats !" On thj Place des Carmes a troop of dra.
!Lions dispersed, a crowd, who cried " Down with the
Dragoons`!" After passing along the Place Seim
Ouen, which was occupied by the National Guard
and hussars, the people dispersed. The night passed
off quietly.
Yesterday morning much agitation was again,
visible. 'Bands of young men approached the Na-
tional Guards stationed at the Hotel de Ville, and
nileavoured to irritate them by making use of
insulting expressions. A false report was soon after
raised that the , people had been fired on, and a
general cry was raised of " Aux armes, on assassine
nos freres !" At the same time a patrol of Na-
tional Guards was attacked, and an attempt
made to• disarm them. This attempt only suc-
ceeded' in part, and the National Guards at length
reached the H9tel de Ville. Stonee were thrown
at the armed.; force. A piquet of dragoons and
some National Guards a chevul charged the crowd.
and cleared the Square. In the mean time the barri-
cades were raised in several parts of the town, but
they were soon carried by the troops. As night ap-
proached the rioters became emboldened, and at-
tempted to defend themselves. One man was shot,
and another killed by a thrust from a bayonet. As
soon as the conflict began the Government commis-
sary went to the Hotel de Ville to concert measures
of defence with the municipal authorities and the
commandants of the armed force. Among the par-
ties arrested and wounded are several liberated con-
victs. Some individuals, above the working class,
have alio .been arrested, who are suspected' of having
instigated ~the rioters, and it is hoped that all the
chiefs of4ttne movement are in, the hands of justice.
The Jonrnal de r Oise of the 27th gives a very
long account of the events which occurred at Beau-
vais on, the two preceding days. About a thou-
sand of the National Guard unarmed, with a
numerous body of workmen, went to accompan:,
the sth regiment of dragoons some little dis-
tance on its way to Paris, the most friendly feel-
ing being' isplayed on, both sides. On reaching a
place called the Montagne Saint Genevieve, the dra-
goons met two battalions of infantry of the line,
marching with loaded arms, and with all the precau
tions observed in an enemy's country. On being told
,by the dragoons that they had just left Beauvais, the
infantry expressed the greatest surprise, they having
left. Saint Denis in the middle of the night, in com-
pliance with an order which set forth that Beauvais
was in a frightful state, all the people in the neigh-
bouring districts having marched in arms into the
town. Cotitinuing their march the two battalions
reached Beauvais, worn. out with fatigue.and hunger
they havih'g had to march nine leagues after leaviel.
the railway, and having had no food on the way. A
cask of wine was immediately rolled into the street
and the contents distributedatnong the soldiers. Man.)
of the inhabitants took the officers to dine with them.
Shortly after accommodation was provided for boa
officers and men in private houses. The workmen
who had accompanied the dragoons returned
in a body in the atternoun, and greeted the line witl
every demonstration of friendly feeling. Meanwhile,
great numbers of persons of Beauvais, having heart
at Paris that horrible scenes were passing, hastens.'
into the town, and were astonished to find everything
traniquil. It appears, however, that very Brea:
agitation prevailed, owing to what the inhabitant!
considered the unwarrantable and violent acts of tins
commissaries of the Provisional Government. Thy
inhabitants had made two demonstrations, in honour
of the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Na-
tional Guard, intending them as a warning to the
commissaries. But these gentlemen resporded by an
act which excited great indignation—the suspension.
of M. DANSE, the President of the Tribunal.
DANSE having declared that he would not obey the
suspension, but would take his seat on the bench, M.
PLACE, the Commissary, called out the National
Guard, the gendarmerie, and the troops ; and ordered
Lieut. DANIEL, of the National Guard, to take his com-
pany to prevent M. Delos from sitting. M. DANIEL
formally refused, whereupon M. PLACE called on him
to give up his sword, which M. DANIEL did. Somi
angry explanations then took place between 11.1.
PLACE and some gentlemen of the town, and even-
tually the National Guard rushed into the building
and compelled M. Peace to restore Lieut. DANIEL'S
sword that very instant. Meanwhile the people,
hearing what had passed, assembled en masse, and
insisted that the sub-commissaries, M JOUYANTE
and M. LEGOUT, should immediately leave the town.
This they did, after being obliged to pass through the
ranks of the people. There %ere then cries that M.
PLAcE should also leave, but on the recommendation
of the Mayor, and out of respect for him, the people
consented to allow him to remain, on condition the;
he should take M. FLYE, a respectable inhabitant, a.%
sub-commissary. It was these events which led to
the reports about the position of Beauvais, and caused
troops to be sent there.

On the day of the elections the inhabitants of twu
communes proceeded to Castelsarrasiti (Tarn and
Garonne) to rote, but they were told to come again
the next day, as there was not time to receive the
votes, They set out on their return, but, on being
addressed by some one, a cure, it is said, they returned,
and endeavoured to invade the place in which the
votes were received. The National Guard resented,
and a terrific struggle took place. The National
Guard was pelted with stones, and eventually made
use of their arms. On both sides persons were
wounded, and it is said that two were killed.

We read in the Coutrier de Lyon 'We are as-
sured that General REY, to whom is attributed the
loss of the chests of arms and ammunition., which at
different times have been carried off on the public
roads, is in flight, and that a warrant for his arrest
was issued, but he has taken refuge in Savoy."
The following curious paragraph appeared in the
Messenger Twenty-two men of the Garde Re-
publicaine were dismissed a few days ago for the fol-
lowing cause. The Government knew that armed
men attended nightly at Blanqui's club, where they
performed duty as police. A decree was being pre-
pared against this system, when one of the officers of
the Hotel de Ville, going without a card and from
curiosity to the club, found himself in presence of a
post composed of his own men. It was about this
time that there was discovered in a cellar of the
Hotel de Ville a tube in connexion with the cellar
where the gunpowder is deposited. After the disco-
very of this crime, which might have led to horrible
results, the men who were suspected of being con-
cerned in it were dismissed."
BOURSE, PARIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 28.

HALF-PAST TUREE.—The very rapid manner in
which the French Funds advanced during the week,
gave so handsome a profit to speculators for the rise that
many of them determined to-day to realise their gains.
In consequence, both the Five and Three per Cents.,
which were at the commencement of business again ad-
vane*, soon stopped short, and and at the close pre-
sented considerably lower prices than the quotations'of
the day before. The intelligence thst fighting had
taken place at Rouen the day before (Thursday), and
that lives had been lost, also contributed to make secu
rities less' demanded than on the day before. The
Five per Cents. opened at 69f., went up to 70f.,
and closed at 67f. 50c., being a fall of If. 50c. on
the defy. The Three per Cents. cpened. at 47f. 50e.,
and 'Atte! touching 48f., went down to 45f. 50c., at which
they. closed, being also a decline of If. 50c., Bank of
France Shares were offered all day, the returns of the
pasz.week being considered unfavourable ; the last price
was 1,393 f, or 951 lower than the day before ;
Fives (1140.Mlia at •6f,, with °bop ; R0Z414

lias risen closing at 56. Railway Shares were all
&red, tut,' sho w lower prices ; the Rouen have g
lown most, not less than 35f., the closing price being 35E;
:Jrleans have declined 15t., at 575 f.; Northern, 161. 25c.,
one
1.1; 343 f. 65c.; Strasburg, 12f. 50c., at 343 f. 75c.; Vierson,
10f, at 2401.; Lyons, Bf. 75c., at 295 f.; Havre, 51., at
200 f.; Buns Tresor were done at 32 per cent. lose.
.French gold is worth only 201., and the change for the
1,090 e. note can be had fur 3f. to 51.
EICSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON -STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 28:
Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Namur and Liege, 3%--;
‘;ortheri, of Fraiace; 4—Paris and Lyons, 2—Paris Arla
Orleans, 22 ex