The express despatched from Paris yesterday conveys some important Intel-
ligence.
A petition presented to Government by a large number of the merchants and shopkeepers of Paris, asking a further prolongation of the period for the payment of bills falling due between the 221 of February and the 9th of March, bas been rejected by M. Gander-Pages, the Minister of the Finances; who pleaded "the public interest" [This rigour bathe traffing, classes is in striking contrast with the intervention on behalf of the working classes.] - Anticipating failure In the payment of the further instalments of tlf loan, under Messrs. Rothschild'a nontract,, ,Government have authorized the }Mance Minister to contract a new "Patriotic loan," and to sell the Crown diamonds and fonssts, as far as he may consider needful.
i M. Armand Marrast s appointed Mayor °traria. The Government continues its daily and multifarious issue of decrees. One has raised the rate of interest 'payable by savings-banks from 4 to 5 per cent. Another establishes offices in each inairie of Paris for the registry of labour—the readiness of artisans and the wants of master. M. Louis Blanc has determined that conductors and drivers of omnibuses shall share the proceeds of their fares. A decree has fixed the 18th for the election of the officers of the Paris National Guard. Inter also, it ordains, that every citizen of from twenty-one to fifty- five years old, not civilly incapacitated, is a National Guard, and has a suffrage in this election.
The commercial intelligence is somewhat less gloomy. The miners of Amin haire nearly ended their strike. .They have reduced their
demand 20 centimes a day, and the company has resolved-to make concessions. - The Duo d'Aumale and the Prince -de Joinville are reported to have arriVed
off Toulon. Admiral Bandit' had been ordered to place a steamer at their disposal. The Paris Democratic Club has published a manifesto; to urge all Germans to
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revolt against their Governments.
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