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LATEST FROM PARIS.

The National Guards of Paris are signing a petition
to the National Assembly, demanding that with respect
to the insurrection justice may be done without passion,
but without weakness, and that the numerous and able
chiefs who, it is evident, were at the head of it, may be
sought out and punished, whoever they may be. The
National Guard further demands that a law may be
passed without delay, providing for its immediate
and complete re-organization, and inflicting severe
penalties on such National Guards as, without legiti•
mate motives, shall nut proceed to their posts on the
first rappel.
In execution of the decree of the Executive Power
which attributes to the military jurisdiction the pro-
cesses arising or to arise out of the insurrection, the
General Commandant of the First Military Division has
charged Commandant Couwrois D'HURIIAL, reporter of
the First General Court-martial of Paris, to proceed im-
mediately to the examinations as to all the persons incul-
pated. The reporter has commenced with those impri-
soned at the Tuileries, whose number is said to be
1,000. It was urgent that these should be commenced
with, es there was reason to fear that a typhus fever
was making its appearance. By a delegation from the
Executive Power, M. BROUSSAIS, examining magistrate,
and M. BERRIIT-SAINT -PRIX, the judge, are to concur
with the military authority, and these magistrates are to
be assisted by M. IsaainsatT. At five o'clock yester-
day not more than 100 prisoners remained confined in
the cellars of the palace. As every 100 of the original
number were interrogated, they had their arms bound
behiud their backs, and were sent off under escort to the
Ecole Militaire, in the Chatap de Mars, where they are
to be individually and more closely examined.
The following are the names of some of the insurgents,
who will probably be the first to appear before justice :
—Mellinger, Instructeur du Genie ; Becker, Lieutenant-
Colonel Chief of the Staff of the Italian Legion ; Degu-
inguand, Sapcur du Genie ; Bochet, drummer of the 230
regiment ; Picou, Lieutenant of the Ateliers
Nationaux ; Duvillars, Chef do COMpagnie
of the Ateliers Nationaux ; Duval, Brigadier
of the Ateliers Nationaux ; Gerard, ex-Captain
of the Garde Mobile ; Jeannot, ex-Sub-Lieutenant of
the Garde Mobile ; Lienard, Lieutenant of the Ateliers
Nationaux ; Cabazone, ex-Municipal Guard ; Cceur de
Roi, drummer of the ex-Garde Republicaine ; Turgon,
retired officer ; Bremot, retired officer ; Ilersingaux,
Captain in the ex-Garde .Republicaine ; Pigay, d fficer ;
Walkeirs, retired officer. There are upwards of one
hundred stud) nte, a great number of young men be-
longing, er having belonged to the Garde Mobile, and
many workmen, especially tailors, most of whom are
foreigners.
The Constitutionnel publishes a letter addressed to it
by two Brigadiers of the Ateliers Nationaux who have
now retnrned to their employments with their former
masters. These men protest in the strongest terms
against the appellation of workmen given to the insur •
gents, instead of their real names of rioters, anarchists,
and communists, the only ones worthy of the ferocious
adversaries of the National Guard raid army, continu-
ing to use this false denomination in the National As-
sembly, even after the dreadful conflict was over, in
order no doubt through a feeling of pity to induce the
Assembly to commit some act of weakness. They deny
that the real workmen are capable of such atrocities as
have been committed by the insurgents, in using jagged
and poisoned bullets, pumping vitriol upon the houses in
order to set them on fire, and sulphuric acid upon the
people, who were to be burnt by lighted chemical matches
thrown upon them; not only shooting their prisoners,
but torturing them and tearing out their entrails. These
barbarities, they affirm, were the atrocious conceptions
of convicts liberated or escaped from the hulks and dif-
farent prisons of France, between 20,000 and 30,000 of
whom had invaded Paris like a leprosy. They then call
upon the journal to proclaim aloud, for the honour of
the working classes and for all France, that the insur-
rection was almost entirely the work of these malefac-
tor
s, capable of any crimes, but become socialists an
communists because socialism and communism. promtihsee
full indulgence to their:abominable instincts. As to
true workmen and labourers, these indignant writers
assert that many of them joined the National Guard of
Paris, and perished under the fire oftheolcothaelarbdrlay;
easmsaesl-1
sins, and many more were in the ranks
from the baulieue and the departments, in which the
blouse did not yield to the uniform either in number or
devoted courage.
f the Ateliers Nationaux,
M. LALANNE, director o
written to the Con,titutionncl to deny that he has hcen
arrested, and he says that he t aesed the 100,000 men of
the ateliers to be paid on Friday, because he thought
that, as hunger is a bad counseller, they might othei -
wise have listened to the wretches who excited civil wsr,
But M. LALANNE indignantly rejects the insinuatioi
that the pay eas made to encourage the entente, and 1),
says'; that; M. TRELAT, Minister of Public Works, for,
many approved of what he did.
The Constitutionnel publishes the following addressed
to its editor
I have read in your journal the recital of the arrest I
made in the night before last of Lieutenant de Flotte,
of the navy, in which you say, first, that on Thursday
I beard at the Club du People a call to arms for the
insurrection of the next (lay;—Secondly, that I had
seized a laisse-passer, signed Louis Blanc. The
following is the truth--I did in fact hear Lieu-
tenant Flotte and several other speakers, make an
appeal to the Ateliers Nationaux to go to the deli-
verance of the prisoners at Vincennes, but no one
• named the following day, the day on which, the instir-

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rection commenced. I did seize among other impel 's an
unsigned letter, apparently coining from the cabin et of
M. do Lamartine, by which M. de Flotte was invit td to
go to M. do Lamartine at such day and hour as he plight
please. I did also seize a laisser-passer for the int.ct for
of the Luxembourg, but I cannot say that it was signed
by M. Louis Blanc, my attention not having been turved
to the signature. Have the kindness to rectify to this
extent the account you have given, which in other pa r-
ticulars is perfectly cornet. " GIBOT."
Thej insurgents, who had established themselves in
the Bois do Boulogne, had been dislodged, and all who
were made prisoners,l7o :n number it was said, had bean
forthwith shot.
In the! Assembly! last night the Cabinet withdrew the
proposed railway measures pro tern."
There is to be another modification of the new
Ministry. In a day or two M. CARROT, the Minister
of Public Instructior, is to quit office, to make
room for M. BARTHOLENY SAINT HILAIRE or M. DE
FALLoux. This change is to take place in conse-
quence of the disappointment expressed by the Assem-
bly when the name of M. CARROT was announced, and
the large number of votes given to M. DI/FAURE and M.
LACROSSE in opposition to M. MARIE, the Government
candidate for the Presidency of ttie Assembly.
General CevsEcNAc has had a conference to-day
with the Committee of the Assembly on the Ateliers
Nationaux. He; stated that the intention of the
Government was to send a large number of the ouvriors
from the departments to different points were works
d'urgence were to be commenced. The Government also
proposes to send a considerable number to Algiers, to
colonize that country upon a modification of the system
proposed by Marshal BUGEAUD. The remaining portiots
of the work-people will have allowances made to theta
at their own houses.

Paris is pertectly quiet to-day, but the inhabitants are
far from having:recovered confidence. The disarmikg of
the disturbed portions of the capital is still going on, and
it is reported that a number of the insurgent prisoners
are shot every morning in the Champ de Mars. The
report is current to-day that three wounded were shot
last night in the cellars of the Tuileries, by order of a
court-martial.

The National Guards from the provinces continue
still to arrive in Paris, and some of them have come as
far as Brest and Lorrent. Among others who came
with the National Guard of the Seine and Oise
is M. LEPELLETIER D'AULNAT, formerly Vice-President
of the Chamber of Deputies, dressed in a blouse, and
with a musket on his shoulder, and M. DE HAUSSON••
VII LE, the son-in-law of the Duke DE BEOGLZE, in the
same costume, and with the tri-coloured scarf of the
Mayor of his commune.
The inquiry into the origin of the late insurrection is
going on rapidly before the Committee of the Assembly.
Some witnesses have already been heard, and it appears
that several of M. LEDRU ROLLIN'S prefects threw every
obstacle in the way of the National Guards coming to
Paris.

Ono Governmentland the Committee of the Assembly
nave come to an understanding about the funeral of the
victims of the insurrection. There is to be a public
funeral, but the day;upon which it is to take place is not
to be made public till the whole preparations be made,
in order, it is said, that the insurgents still lurking in
Paris may not take advantage of the occasion to croate
further disturbance.

The Government and the Committee have also agreed
to bring forward a motion in the Assembly for a general
mourning of eight days in honour of the victims.

NORTH OF EUROPE.

The following has just been received from the Electric:
Telegraph Company:—
" The Lion steamer, which left Hamburgh on the
29th instant, at one A.m., arrived at Hull at four o'clock
this morning.
" She reports the conclusion of peace as being a.
settled thing between the Danes and the Confederation.
"COLOGNE, JUNE 27.—The news has just arrived
from Frankfort that the National Assembly decided,
atter a long sitting, that the Archduke JOHN of Aus-
tria was elected sole head of the provisional central
power."

Advices from Kiinigsberg of the 21st, published in
the Hamburgh Impartial Correspondent of Tuesday
evening, state that the public spirit of the provinces of
Prussia is exceedingly embittered against the capital.
The provincials refuse to recognise the acts of the
National Assembly, as deliberating under the influence
of fear. The rumours of the advance of the Russians
areincessant, and occasion the greatest anxiety.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
DUBLIN.

The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma-
jority was resumed, and in the course of the day the
petitioners succeeded in striking off two additional votes.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 30.—The market
continues without animation, and until the question of
duties is settle 4 we shall not experience any improve-
ment.—Bristol Mercury. _ _

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAT..--FFeRh
samples of wheat are taken off free'y at the extreme
rates of Tuesday. In oats and beans no alteration.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 30.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

Lord CAMPBELL rose to move the second reading
of the Health of Towns Bill. This was a measure that
was more particularly for the lower orders of society.
It might be most properly called the Poor Man's Bill.-
-(Hear, hear.) It %%mild not be doubted that many of
the causes of disease %%ere under the control of legisla-
tion; and he would briefly show the effects of over-
crowding, filth, and bad entifation in two counties—
one agricultural and the other manufacturing. In West-
moreland, taking a povulation of 10,000, twenty-three
persons died of epidemic diseases, whilst in Lancashire
the proportion was tiny-five to 10,000. In the former
county the deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs
were forty-seven in 10,000, and in the latter seventy-
three in the seine number. Of those who died prema-
turely, that was between the ages of twenty and sixty,
the number in Westmoreland was forty-nine and iu Lan-
cashire sixty-eight. The Noble and Learned Lord then
went into a comparison of the state of health in an agri-
cultural union in Lancashire and a manufacturing union
in the same county—the union of Ulverstone and the
union of Liverpool, which showed that the average
rate of mortality was much higher in the latter place.
In the union of Ulverstone, in a population of
10,000, 13 persons died from epidemic diseases, whilst
in the union of Liverpool 75 persons died from the same
causes. In fact he might safely say as to Lancashire,
that, taking the average, every person there was cur-
tailed of nineteen years of his natural life. He would
now state some of the good effects that had taken place
from proper attention to sewerage, drainage, and venti-
lation. Every one must remember that formerly the.
gaol fever often carried off judge, juries, and prisoners
together ; but now, in consequence of proper attention
being paid to ! the health of gaols, the gaol fever was
never heard of: The Noble and Learned Lord cited
other instances of a similar character. The sufferings
of the lower orders from the want of efficient sanitary
measures had been very great, and had naturally at-
tracted the attention of the Government. Lord Nor-
manby in 1841, and Lord Lincoln in 1844, had brought
the subject before Parliament; and finally, he was happy
to say, his Noble 1 riend, Lord Morpeth, had succeeded
in carrying this Bill through the House of Commons.
The Noble Lord then went into an explanation of the
nature and objects of the Bill, and concluded by moving

that it be read a second time.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH gave his cordial assent
to the Bill, which he thought had been delayed too long.
He did not think it desirable to include London in a
general Bill applying to the whole country; but ho re-
joiced to know that a Bill was to be brought forward
applying to the city of London, and he hoped it would
be soon brought forward. He thought more stringent
powers should be required to carry out the Bill.
The Earl of DEVON made a few observations, which
were not heard in the gallery.
Lord PORTMAN thought the country must feel,
greatly indebted to the present Ministry .for bringing
forward so excellent a measure—one which would be
productive of the greatest good to the whole community.
He regretted it was found necessary to add another rate
to the local taxation of the country, which was already
too high.—(Hear, hear.) The people of this country
were paying 20 per cent. on account of local taxation,
under rates of various names. It would be a great boon
to them if all these different rates were consolidated and
placed under one management.—(Hear, hear.) The
taxation also was very unequal.—(Hear, hear.) Various
kinds of property did not contribute their fair propor-
tion towards the burdens of the country.—(Hear, hear.)
He knew that this subject was one of great difficulty,
but it was well worthy the attention of the Government
and of their Lordships.
The Bishop of OXFORD begged to call the attention
of the Government to the 74th and 75th clauses of the
iluilrli,swi_ghricohungrewaituhtihnotrov,n
authority to
T
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boards to
thisshutf
up
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their own interests if they were proprietors of a burial-
ground outside the town. He would therefore suggest
that the consent of the bishop should be obtained
before
they could do so. He also thought that the power given
to the local boards, with respect to the rights of the poor'
to parochial sepulture should be modified. He rejoiced
that such a Bill had come to their Lordships' House, be-
bause he entertained a deep feeling of its cessity.
Lord REDESDALE hoped that sufficient time would
be given to consider the Bill before it was committed, as
it must be the object of all to make it as perfect as pos-
sible before it passed into law.
The Duke of ARGYLL concurred in the opinion of
the utility and value of a sanitary Bill. He therefore
hoped its provisions would he extended to Scotland, as
no places stood more in need of it than Glasgow and the
kid town of Edinhorgh.—(Hear.)
Lord CAMPBELL said that the observations of the
Right Rev. Prelate would be considered by the Govern-
ment. The same reason that existed for not applying
the provisions of the Bill to the metropolis existed with
regard to Scotland. The law of Scotland was different
to the law of England; the same machinery did not ex-
ist there, and therefore a separate Bill would be required
for that part of the United Kingdom. The Noble Lord
was understood to sax' that at a future period he hoped
a sanitary Bill for Scotland would be introduced.
The Bill was then r( ad a second time and ordered to
be committed on Fri(:ay next.
The House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 30.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. E. DENISON gave notice of his intention o
Tuesday neat to move for o,6elect Committee to confider

the best means of promoting tha dispatch of the business
of the House.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented
a petition from the ticket porters of the House, praying
for increased remuneration.
METROPOLITAN SURVEY.
Sir B. HALL wished to know, pursuant to notice he
had given yesterday, from the Noble Lord at the head
of the Woods and Forrests, whether the associated
surveyors and civil engineers of the metropolis had
made an offer to make the survey of the metro-
polis for a sum of 18,000/., and what were the
reasons the Commissioners of Sewers had preferred the
survey taking place under the Ordnance Department; the
also wished to ask the Chief Commissioner of Woods
and Forests what arrangements had been made for the
completion of the survey of the metropolis, what was
likely to be the cost of that survey, including the mili-
tary pay of the parties employed, acd whether the whole
is to be defrayed by the ratepayers of the metropolis?
Lord MORPETH. said that it was true that the
associated surveyors and civil engineers of the
metropolis had made the offer to which the
lion. Baronet had referred, but the Commissioners of
Sewers, acting upon the best advice they could procure,
had come to the decision that the best guarantee
they could have for making a proper survey would
be to employ those who acted under the authority
and control of the Ordnance. The expense of the stirs
vey under the Ordnance Department would be 19,5001.,
not one-tenth more than the offer made by the asso-
ciated surveyors and engineers, while it was anti-
cipated that double the work would be performed.
In reply to a question of Sir DE LACY EVANS,
Colonel ANSON said that three companies were en-
gaged on the survey, and that when the men were em-
ployed in that capacity they received extra pay. The
whole cost of the survey would be paid by the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, but whether the money would come
out of the rates which were levied upon the respective
districts or not, he was quite unable to answer, that
being within the province of his Noble Friend the First
Commissioner of Woods and Forests.
BOROUGH OF SLIGO.
Mr. STAPFORD moved, that Mr. Speaker do issue
kis warrant to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to
make out a new writ for the electing a burgess to
serve in this present Parliament for the borough of
Sligo, in the room of Charles Towneley, Esq., whose
election has been determined to be void.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, here appeared at the bar of the House, and having
advanced to the table, summoned the House to attend
the House of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent given by
Commission to several Bills (for the titles of which see
Lords' report).
The SPEAKER having returned and reported the
Bills to which the royal assent had been given,
Mr. STAFFORD resumed his speech on his motion
for issuing a new writ for the borough of Sligo. He in-
timated that now that the Great Yarmouth Disfranchise-
ment Bill had become law, it was his intention to
move that a new writ be issued for that borough as
well as Sligo. Nothing had yet been done to improve
the state of Ireland, and he did not think the House
would 'be justid4d in refusing to allow one of her
vaP eit borolgh; to send a representative to that House.
e motien having been seconded.
M. 111; ME protested that the motion was irregular.
The e.'dence taken before the Sligo Committee had
been er.'ered to be printed, and he had never heard
of an instance where a writ was moved for in a case
like this, till the order for printing the evidence had
been complied with.
Mr. ANSTEY supported the motion.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said, until they had the
evidence taken in the Committee before them, in order
that they might see whether there had been extensive
corruption or not, he could not consent to the issuing of
the writ.
Colonel DUNNE said he considered it would be un-
coustitutional and most inconvenient to postpone the
issue of the writ for Sligo, and stated that his only
objet;, in postponing the motion of which he had given
notice for issuing it, was to allow time to have the evi-
dence printed and laid before the House.
Sir JOHN HANMER said he had just been informed
that a petition would be presented to the House against
the return at the new election for Horsham, for which
borough the House had only lately issued a writ, and
that being the ease he thought it would not be prudent
to issue any more writs until some inquiry was made
into those particular boroughs where members had been
unseated on the ground of corruption. Hun. Gen-
tlemen had stated that it was unconstitutional
to suspend writs, but in 1773, during the
time of Burke and Sir George Saville, he
found that the House had suspended a writ fir the bo-
rough of Shaftesbury, where the election had been de-
clared void on account of corruption.
Mr. BANKES said the Hon. Member (Col. Dunne)
had moved that the minutes of evidence should be
printed, but he had done so in error, because it rested
with one of the members of the Committee to make
that motion. Unless, therefore, such a motion was
made, he should certainly vote for the motion of his
Hon. Friend.
Sir GW)R,GE GREY said the evidence was being
printed, and would be laid before the House in
-two or three days. He trusted, therefore, that the Hon.
Gentleman would not press his motion, but wait until
the House had an opportunity of judging whether there
was any ground for suspending the writ for Sligo.
Mr. W RIGHTSON stated, us the Chairman of the
Committee, that the issue of ale inquiry did nut impress
the Committee with the notion that the House would
refused to issue the writ.—([leer, hear.) lie regretted
that the evidence had not been ordered to be laid betore
the House. _ _ .

Mr. R. SPOON ER thought that the Hon. Member
• who had just spoken hid stated grounds upon which hE•
-thought the House ought to issue the writ, for he had
'regretted that the evidence had been ordered to be laid
on the table of the House.
Sir R. PEEL would have felt inclined to vote for a
delay in the issuing of the writ, but from the statement
that had just been made:by the Hon. Member opposite
(Nlr. Wrizhtson).
Mr. HUME after the statement that had been made
would not oppose further the issuing of the writ.
The writ was then ordered to issue.
GREAT YARNIOUTH.

Mr. STAFFORD then moved for a new writ for the
borough of Great Yarmouth, which was agreed to with-
out any opposition.
RAILWAY COMMISSION.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question
from Mr. Bankes, said it was the intention of the Govern-
ment to oppose his motion for leave to bring in a Bill
to abolish the Railway Commission, but it was not the
intention of the Government to keep up the Commission
with Commissioners having salaries.—(Hear, hear.)