The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-09

yvear for conviction go as TO obtain the expected
promotion.
The sale Of Gavan DuGys chat.els has been pro-
eeediug the last few days. The attendance each
day very and the full cost OF every article
has been obtained. Much competition prevailed for
several Of the articles put up The proceeds Of the
auction to be paid to his creditors and the re-
mainder for the support Of his wife and children Mr.
Duys health, understand is daily retrograding ana
further confinement will undoubtedly abridge the Pc
rod Of his existence.
Mrs Smith o'Bren attends daily at her husband
prison She has taken Rose Cottage: in the vicinity
Of Kilmainham, and provides his meals
Mr. Meagher occupies the same apartment as Mr..
o'Brien.
LUnion says that another journal, La Bo,tche
de Fer. which had succeeded LIE Hampton, had
been seized.
The report which NJ Gowan has presented to
the National Assembly, In the name of the FL
nance Committee, relative to the expenses incurred
by the Provisional Government, recommends that
commission shall be appointed, charged to ex-
anime into the matter and with power to call Tor, all
documents bearing on the question, and demand
all such information as 1t may deem necessary.
The Committee of Legislation, Thursday,
heard the report of its sub committee the propo-
siton of NJ Penen, tending to abrogate the law OF
1885, establishing majorates to the second degree,
and declaring them free in the hands OF the present
holders. The further examination of the subject
was deferred.
The Legislative Committee also considered the
demand of Louis Blanc, to prevent documents con-
nected with the bill of Indictment from being
published before his trial. A subcommittee was
appointed to prepare series of enactments on
the subject the anterior laws on the subject
being 1t appeared, to the committee, abrogated by
the provisional government.
The Pope's nuncio had an audience with Gen.
Cavaignac on Thursday, and presented his letters
Of credence.
The medca! attendants of General Bedeau have
pronounced his life out of danger.
Among the candidates for vacant seats in the
National Assembly, for the department of the
Sene, are the followng:-M. M. Gowan, Achille
Foud, Emile de Girardin, Edmond Adam, Secre-
tary General of the Prefecture; House, editor of
La Tra,e Republique and Raspai now prisoner
IN Vincennes.
On the Thursdays sitting of the Assembly, va
nous measures of postal reform were adopted
The rate of postage is fixed at twenty centimes
1.-TWO pence) on all letters not exceeding in weight
u grammesf forty centimes on all letters exceed
ing a, but not exceeding Is grammes, and one
not exceeding 100 gran,mes Beyond the weight
of 100 gramn,es parcel will be carried by the
post office. Stamps to be used as in England.
and the measure is to come into force on the LIST
Of January, IS49
The measure has met with general approval,
though some of the French journals think the rate
too high.
A bill to authorize the city of Paris to contract
a loan of $4,000, OOOf. has been adopted, without
discussion
NJ Baune applied, on Thursday, to the National
Assembly, for authorization to prosecute NJ. Lurck,
for his evidence.
A decree appeared on Friday night, (25th,) sup
pressing the Gazette de France. 1t states that
considering this journal contains incessant attacks
against the republic, and excitations tending to
destroy this form of government, in order to put
In Its place the monarchical form; considering that
these attacks, and these eXcitations are of the
nature, under present circumstances, TO turn
citizens against another, and thus to
raise civil war in Pans and in the departments;
DEGREES that from this day the Gazette dc France
is, and remains, suspended. The Gacstte dc France
was the oldest of all the journals, edited by the
Able de Genoud, fiery radical.
ThePresse records meeting of journalists, held
on Thursday. when protest was unanimously
agreed on, and received sixty signatures.
The Opinion Pubique, of Friday, says, that
Paris has been two months in a state of siege. A
million of cartridges have been distributed to the
National Guard. On Thursday, several carriages,
with shells and howitzers, passed along the quays'
going towards the Ecoie N1iiitaue. Eight ammu-
milton wagons, heavily laden, proceeded from Vim
cennes TO the same destination. At Vincennes, one
hundred field pieces in the court yard ready to
be put TO use There are four in the Hotel de ViAe,
forty in the temple, four in the court of the Tuile-
ries, eight in the Gutenberg feur at the Pdlais d
Orsey, sixteen in the court and garden OF the Ma
tional Assembly, and whole park in the Ecote
Afilitaire, Champs dc Mars. Mount Valarian, and
several other forts have cannon of siege planted
their ramparts.
The Messager of Friday, abiding to the suppress
sion of the journal, says, other measures are an
nounced for to-morraw
The municipal elections IN the departments,
which have just concluded, are highly SAT-
isfactory TO the cause of order The candidates
OF the Red Republicans have been everywhere
defeated, and men who advocate an honest repub-
lie have been elected by large majorities
The Prose- attacks England warmly on the sub
ject of the cession OF Cayr NicobaI to the crown
of Great Britain, an accoun. OF which came by
the last India mail.
This journal, which passes for the organ of the
Russian government strongly CONTINGENCIES the
story Of a revolutionary movement at ST. Peters
burgh. A report is current, that proposition has
been made 10 the Council of Ministers, to apply
10 the Assembly for levy Of 10000 men, but it
was not generally credited.
PARIS, FRIDAY MoRNNG.-M. Bechard, deputy,
has published new programme OF the constitution
Ill al
which the Droit dt Traraa is omitted, and other
dienuted iGad hoe