Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-04-05
The French Revolution!
INTERESTING DETAILS.
Recognition of the New Republic,
BY THE UNITED STATES,
ENGLAND, BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND IN RAPID
ESSION

ENGLAND, BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND IN RAPID
SUCCESSION NIL,
The Revolution in France has been complete.
Provisional Government has been establish
ed, the members of which are celebrated thro'
out the world for genius, eloqueDce, and science.
Some of them are of almost romantic integrity
oil character.
Carried away by the eloquence of Lamartine,
the ungoyernable mob of Paris threw down
their uauskets, which, in the first fury of their
new born liberty, they had leveled against their
popular leaders, and by their unanimous shouts,
invested the Provisional Government with the
full authority of the State.
Paris, Feb. 90.
Mr.. Rush, the ambassador of the .. States,
accompanied by MIR. Martin ana MIR. Pensin
likewise, waited on the members of the Provl-
sonal Government, to whom he delivered fiat
tering address, and made a formal recognition
of their authority.
PARIS, March 9.
The latest advices represent the city as tran
uuil but the financial crisis continued unaoa-
ted, Eminent houses are spoken OF as In dl-
fficuItv: but no further failures are announced.
French funds had fallen considerably; IN the
9th. per cent opened at 50f.. and dropped to
46f. Init rallied, and closed at Aft. Five per
cents opened at S5f, and dropped as low as IA,
| and closed at 75f. There was no tumult or ag-
| itation-all was sad and gloomy. Men came
and offered their securities for money only, at
whatever price they could get but scarcely a
buyer could be found.
The Arch bishop of Paris accompanied by
two Wears General, presented himself to the
/ provisional Government and gave in bis adhe-
sion in the name of the entire clergy of the d.
Geese. Eight hundred mercantile firms connec-
ted with the Paris Bourse, waited on the Pro-
visionai Government to ask farther delay of
one month on bills due, on the 29th of Feb
Their request being refused they had resolved
to dismiss their clerks and workman and com
municate their determination not to satisfy their
engagements.
Toulon papers of the 9th of March state that
the Due de Aumale and Prince de Joinvie ar
rived offthat port, and made communications TO
Admiral Baudoin, who through the Magnetic
Telegraph, applied to the Government for per-
mission to admit them. 1t is said he had been
authorized TO place steamer at their disposal
to convey them wherever they pleased.
The Orleans family, with their ministers have
fled from Paris.
The revolution has spread throughout France
All the departments have joined the Repub
lie.
The chateau of Neuilly has been sacked and
burned to the ground.
There are 10000 carricatures against Louis
Philippe, and they appeared in the print shops
as by magic.
Procamations and DEGREES were issued during
the revolution from the Provisional Government
interdcting the meeting of the Chamb'r of Peers
The palace of the Tuilleres is to be converted
into an asylum for invalid workmen.
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political prisoners to be liberated and furnished
with means to return to their families.
The suspension of the Chamber of Peers is
declared, and the dissolution Of the Chandler of
Deputies.
Under the new constitution of the Republic,
every citizen is to belong to the National Guard.
The Liberty of the Press is guaranteed, and
freedom of thought secured. National Work |
shops are to be opened for the unemployed.
The abolition of all titles and nobility is de- |
Ten days extension has been granted upon
all commercial bills throughout the Repub- |
lie.
A National Assembly is TO meet on the 9th
of April to decree constitution. Population |
is to be the basis of elections. The representa-
tves of the people are fixed at nine hundrei,in- |
GLIDING those Algiers and Colonies.
Suffrage is to be direct and universal, and all
Frenchmen of 81 years of age to be electors,
and 25 years tho age at which citizen is eig-
ible for office. The ballot is to be secret. The
Constitutional Assembly is to meet on the Goth
of April.
All prosecutions against the press for polti-
cal offences, are to be withdrawn, and all pri-
soners confined for political offences to be re-
leased. All works of utility are to be preserved
and respected. The Royal residence is to be
sold, and the proceeds to be applied to the VIC
Tins of the revolution, and as compensation for
losses in trade and manufactures.
DEGREES have also been issued, changing the
names of several vessels in the navy, also the
names Of those streets, which had any refer
ence to monarchy or the fallen King family.
Louis Philippe and the ROYAL family, with
Mr.. Guizot have arrived in England
The officers of the lOSth and 18th regiments
were nearly all massacred BY their own men,
for refusing to march against the Tulleries.-
The Palace of the Tuilleres has been CONVEX
ted into hospital, under the name of the Hotel
de Invalids.
The Paris and Rouen Railway is stopped, and
the populace have burned the bridge of Amiens.
The statue of the late Duke dOrleans, which
stood in the court of the Louvre, has been taken
down.
P. s. Our despatch states in the commence
ment that England, Belgium and Switzerland
have all recognized the new government, but
we do not credit it.
0FWe are informed by gentleman from
Grand Haven, that the Channel of the river at
its mouth is now in better shape for navigation
than it has been for some years there being
rising ten feet of water over the bar. This is
the depth fsr about forty feet in width at that
point. The fleet has fully commenced its sea-
sons work, and the immense piles of lumber IL
ming the rivers banks at Grand Haven will
soon be transported to market.-Eagle.
BUFFALO CoURIER.-W. A. Seavier, ESQ.,,
ately editor of the Batavia Times, has become ,