Valdenaire's Arrest

Paris, June 1. Prosecutions have been initiated against the authors of the plot regarding the candidacy of the Prince of Joinville.
— At tomorrow's sitting the Executive Commission of the National Assembly will present decrees on street riots and on the posting of handbills.
— The exceptional administrative status of Algeria, under the exclusive direction of the Minister of War, is gradually being abolished. By a decision of the Executive Commission, the corresponding departments are transferred to the Ministers of Justice and of Public Instruction, also for Algeria.
— In most of the bureaux of the National Assembly the majority was against granting the prosecution of Louis Blanc. In others, a very precise prior investigation by the commission was demanded. The majority of the elected commission is against granting it. Today the commission will hear Louis Blanc, the public prosecutor, the examining magistrates, and the principal witnesses; it will inspect the files and will report tomorrow. If it does not find more serious charges and suspicions than those contained in the requisition, it will move for the rejection of the public prosecutor's request.

Already yesterday evening all the streets and boulevards were full of dense groups discussing the day's event. The mood was very excited. Whole brigades of police agents, strong patrols of National Guards and Mobile Guards were criss-crossing the streets. The measures against the National Workshops are added to this, making the mood of the masses ever more irritated. On Sunday (the 4th) the great workers' banquet at 5 sous a head is to take place in the forest of Vincennes. 200,000 workers will assemble for a "communion fraternelle", as the proclamation has it. Once again a pretext for disturbances, it will be said.
— Every evening, 40-50 orators gather at the gates of St. Martin and St. Denis; around these speakers there assemble 5-600 people, and discussions take place on the labour question, on the day's events, etc. Then 1,500 to 2,000 men of the National Guard come from the nearest mairies and march up and down the boulevard in close patrols to secure order; gradually a crowd of the curious gathers to watch the military evolutions. Finally the throng becomes so dense that one can no longer pass; towards 1 a.m. the crowd disperses and the guard marches off. On the next evening this cheap and entirely peaceful popular amusement begins afresh.
— Rothschild's magnificent model farm at Suresne burnt down completely last night.
— All the radical clubs of Paris and the departments have resolved to open a subscription at one sou per head, in order to use the proceeds to present General Courtais (in the prison of Vincennes) with a sword of honour, thus to avenge him for the calumny and maltreatment by the bourgeoisie.
— Prince Louis Napoleon had arrived in Paris simultaneously with his letter to the National Assembly. The police requested him to leave France forthwith.
— M. Lucien Delahodde, who had been in custody in the prison of the Conciergerie until now, has been released from his detention by the new Prefect of Police.

Great Britain. London, June 1. In the House of Commons yesterday, Mr Law, with reference to the Catholic Relief Bill laid before the House by Mr Anstey, moved that the committee divide the Bill into two separate proposals; a lengthy debate arose on this between Mr Napier, Mr Fagan, Sir Robert Inglis, and Mr Drummond, which ended with Law's motion being carried by 129 votes to 42. At least, so the Times reports in its issue of today. The Telegraph gives the vote as 129 to 142, according to which the motion would have been rejected.
The House then sat as a committee; but the proceedings were so confused, as the Times expresses it, that by about 6 o'clock they had made no progress, and thereupon adjourned.
— On Clerkenwell Green the Chartists yesterday again held a meeting, without, however, proceeding to disturbances of the peace, as the authorities intervened to prevent them.
— June 1, 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Consols 83 1/8 to 84.