,furtigu nub entnuint.
Faariez.—The chief political movement of the hour is the preparation for the election of representatives in room of those members who arc now voluntary exiles, to evade trial for complicity in the insurrectionary attempts and projects of last year. In Paris, the Socialists are so well organized, and so numerous, that the possibility of their success excites much reactionary dread. M. Emile de Girardin proffered his alliance, and submitted to examination by their Committee for four hours : his candidature was rejected; nevertheless, for the present, he adheres to his adhesion.
The anniversary of the Revolution of 1848 passed off in Paris on Sunday with perfect calm. The weather being beautifully fine, there were vast crowds of promenaders on the Boulevards, in the public gardens, the • Champs Elysees, and other places of resort ; in the Champs Elysees, par- ticularly, the gathering of pedestrians and the display of equipages were larger and more brilliant than have been seen since the fall of the Monarchy. The President of the Republic drove about accompanied only by two attend- ants in livery, and was everywhere received with demonstrations of pleasure and attachment. A religious ceremony was performed in all the churches of Paris, and a Te Deum was sung ; the Archbishop officiating at Notre
Dame. The Chamber of the Assembly was illuminated in the evening; an unexpected exception to the rule observed with other public buildings that was regarded with general satisfaction. During the day there was a crowd of workmen nearly all attired in their Sunday clothes, around the Column on the Piece de la &stile, and the railing of the column was
decked with crowns of immortelles. .
Some incidents of the following night and next day have excited much comment During the night of the 24th, the wreaths of immortelles which the Republicans had hung on the railing round the Column of Liberty on the Place de la Bastile, ill honour of the victims of February or July, were removed by the Police. The sensitive denizens of the Faubourg St. Antoine, on discovering the removal in the morning, went tumultuously to the Prefecture, remonstrated with the soldiers to whose care the me- morials had been confided, and obtained leave to replace them publicly. The reinstatement was conducted with much eclat, amidst a large and agitated concourse ; the Police appearing scarcely willing to sanction the proceeding. In the Honiteur du Soir of Monday, however, there ap- peared an official notice in which both the Government and the Prefect disavowed the removal of the memorials, and stated that the replacement had been authoritatively directed ; and in an additional announcement they state, that the Prefect of the Police had under the orders of the Min- ister of the Interior dismissed the agent who had forgotten his duties and disobeyed his instructions in the act disavowed.
The Procureur de la Republique has ordered the seizure of a pamphlet by Ledru-Rollin, entitled Die 24th of February, as containing, first, excite- ment to hatred and contempt against the Government of the Republic; secondly, excitement of citizens one against the other ; and, thirdly, in- sults against the person of the President of the Republic. The Mon iteur of Tuesday contains a circular addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the Prefects of departments, recommending the esta- blishment throughout France of banks of loan on honour. These institu- tions are exclusively intended for the relief of the labourers and indigent classes, and no loan is to exceed 200 francs.
Letters from Brest, of the 22d instant, state that the expedition for La Plata, consisting of the steam corvette the Caffarelli, the sloops of war the Egerie, the Aube, and the Manethe, sailed on that day.
Iiwrren St/a.m.—The packet-ship Gallatin has brought advices from New York to the 8th instant, and from San Francisco a month later than our former intelligence. San Francisco was rising from its ashes with extraordinary rapidity. A bed of anthracite coal had been dis- covered between the Sacramento and Sutter's Creek. Some excitement had arisen in the land of the Mission of Dolores, from the influx of squatters who were dispossessing the Mexicans. General Riley had ac- knowledged the new constitution. In his manifesto he had "advised the exclusion of Black labour, but would admit convicts from New South Wales."
There is no news of interest from Canada.
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