4 MARCH 1848, Page 10

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SATURDAY.

Paris was perfectly tranquil yesterday morning. The public were paying the taxes in advance with unqualified cheerfulness. Lord Nor- manby had communicated to hi. de Lamartine despatches of a most friendly character from Lord Pahnerston, promising that the Ambassador of Great Britain should be accredited to the French Republic the moment that its Government should be constituted.

The papers are crowded with proclamations and decrees. This is one

of them- " LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. " The Provisional Government of the Republic, considering that during the last fifty years every new Government that constituted itself required and re- ceived oaths, which were successively replaced by others at every political change, -considering that the lint duty of every Republican is to be devoted without any reservation to the country, and that every citizen who, under the Government of the Republic, accepts functions or continues in the exercise of those he occupied, contracts in a still more special manner the sacred obligation of serving it and devoting himself to its security,-decrees

" Public functionaries of the administrative and judiciary order shall not take any oath."

Another decree limits the hours of labour-to ten in Paris and eleven in the Provinces, and abolishes " marchandage."

From the most authentic-looking accounts in the journals of this morn- ing, we select some particulars of the escape of King Louis Philippe and his Queen.

They were accompanied on their journey, which has been full of adventure, by generals Dumas and Rtunigny, M. Thuret the King's valet, and a German lady attending on The Queen. At Versailles, they hired a common vehicle, in which they reached Drees; where a faithful farmer afforded them shelter. Here each person of the party assumed the most complete disguise: the King shaved his whiskers, discarded his wig, and donned an old cloak and cap--even his friends could not recognize him. Before break of day they started again, and came to LaFerte Vidarne; where an English tenant and protégé of Louis Philippe, Mr. Peckham, has been building great mills. Escorted by a trusty farmer, they went through byways to Evrenx ; thence by night, on Saturday, to the house of a gen- tleman at Honfleur; and on to Tronville, to embark for England. But the bois- terous weather prevented them for two days, and they returned to Honfleur. A p. ...cage having been secretly secured for them in the Express steamer, on Thursday afternoon they went in an open fishing-boat to Havre; the Ex-King passing as an Englishman. The Express brought them over to Newhaven in Sussex. They landed early yesterday morning; took up their abode at the Bridge Inn; summoned the faithful Peckham from his English house at Brighton, and so remained in very good keeping.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states that the Dutch- ess of Orleans, with her two sons, after leaving the Chamber of Deputies, was taken by M. Ferdinand de Lasteyrie to his house; and has been thence conducted safely to Dusseldorf, in Belgium. A passport was obtained in the names of " M. and Madame de Lasteyrie and children."