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Fitaarce..—The fate of the 4th of May passed off without any of the disturbances which were last week anticipated. Indeed, enough rain fell on that day in Paris alone to extinguish the revolutionary fires which Might have been smouldering in all France.
The Representatives Groppo and Mint are not arrested ; although it is again asserted that the discoveries of the Police connect them with the authorship of the bloody proclamation issued last week under the signa- ture of a " Central Committee of Resistance."
At the end of the week, M. Girardin made Za Breese the organ of a charge against General Changarnier, which has caused excited specula- tion. M. Girardin states, that in the month of March 1848, General Changarnier entered the cabinet of M. Ledru-Rollin, then Minister of the Interior, and "proposed to M. Ledru-Rollin, that if twelve thousand men were given him he would land them in England, revolutionize the whole of Great Britain, and cause to be proclaimed the same form of go. vernment as in France—that is the Republic." M. Girardin also avers, that there is in existence a proclamation, dated Algiers, the 18th June 1848, which at that date announced (though falsely) the sub- stitution of a Marrast and Cavaignac Executive, in place of the existing Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin Executive. It will be meal. laded that M. Girardin, in 1848, charged Cavaignac with having in- tentionally allowed the insurrection of June to strengthen itself during the three first days, that he might crush it effectually on the fourth (the 28th June) and place himself in uncontrolled power. The Algiers pro- clamation shows, says M. Girardin, that General Changarnier was behind the scenes, and was on an understanding with General Cavaignae upon this bloodthirsty and treasonable arrangement. M. Lacroix, Director of Civil Affairs in Algiers in June 1848, has denied that General Changer- flier knew anything of the proclamation : and as yet that is the only no- tice taken of the extraordinary charge made in La Frew. The other charge, about England, has not yet provoked any denial from General Changarnier or his friends.
PORTLIGAL.—The rising of Oporto, and the recall of Saldanha to that important town, soon made the insurgent General master of the kingdom. He entered Oporto on the 27th April, amidst universal demonstrations of political enthusiasm ; and on the 29th he reviewed the troops in garrison, and was ready to march on Lisbon. Already, on the 26th, the Minister against whom alone General Saldanha professed to have risen had re- signed : Count Thomar retired on board our English steam-ship the Mon- trose, on the evening of the 26th, and was conveyed immediately to the friendly Spanish refuge of Vigo. The King hastened from the command of his disaffected troops to Lisbon, and advised that Saldanha should be intrusted with the reins of government. The Queen could not at first brook so great a reverse, and called in the Duke of Terceira ; but tele- graphic reports, received through Madrid and Paris from Lisbon to the evening of the 6th instant, state that "The Queen of Portugal has nomi- nated Saldanha President of the Council of Ministers."
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