The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TevsanAT EVINING.
Politics to-day are at a stand-still. The greater
part of the deputies have taken advantage of the re-
cess to revisit their country homes, where they will
no doubt display to admiring provincial eyes the
smart liveries corresponding to their new dignities.
The heads of ministerial departments have inter-
rupted their audiences. One-half of Paris is in the
churches, and the other half in the Champs Elysees
and Buis de Boulogne, enjoying the promenade of
Longchamps. Notwithstanding the brilliant cloud-
less weather, I believe that this festive procession
of equipages never made &shabbier show. Equipages
of splendour or style are rarer than in former years,
and the long monotonous line of vehicles consists
mostly of hackney coaches and cabs. As in the
carnival, several vans rigged out with para-
phernalia, intended to serve the purposes of
advertisements, are seen passing, laden with
people fantastically attired. One of these
is covered with enormous umbrellas and parasols of
all hues; another car, drawn by four gaily .caparisoned
horses, is adorned with leaves and flowers, with •
gigantic eagle of gilt wood in the midst. The Presi-
dent must hare met in his drive down the middle
road this imperial symbol, so frequently cited in hie
decrees, and which has been taken down from the
front of a confectioner's shop to do him honour. He
was in plain clothes, and drove his own phaeton and
pair between the double file of carriages, with an
aide-de-camp sitting beside him, and without escort.
The national guards of Paris have received orders
to be completely equipped in their new costumes by
the 25th inst. This is of course preparatory to the
grand review already announced for May 5. Numerous
pardons are spoken of as likely to be granted on the
occasion of this anniversary of the Emperor's death,
particularly to banished ex-representatives. Mean-
while the President has strenuous) y resisted all
applications in favour of M. Theirs. Upon this point
he is inexorable. On the other hand, I hear that M. li
Thiers has been no less emphatic in disavowing all
solicitations of the kind; and he says, in one of his
letters to • friend, that even were the doors of his
country thrown open to him, he would disdain to
return to it so long as the French permit themselves
to be governed like the Monjiks of Russia.
I have already spoken of the gossip which prevails
about projects of matrimony for the President. A
fresh match is spoken of to-&y as not the least pro-
bable. A young lady, nearly related to the Prince
de Beauvau, has just inherited a fortune of 18 millions
of francs, and although this sum is only equivalent to
a single year of the President's present income, the
dowry is considered handsome enough to tempt the
Prince to solicit this alliance with ono of the noblest
families in France.

The new copper coinage bill will probably present '
an occasion for testing some of the most salient ano-
malice of the mechanism of the present legislature.
It is said that M. de Montalembert will move 1
an amendment to the bill. If this amendment ;
should be adopted by the committee it will '
be referred without to the council
of state; bat if rejected =latter body the
amendment can neither be aor voted upon '
by. the Legislative Body. HON dill only action per-
mitted to the Chamber of Deputise is of a purely
negative character, for it cannot eves vote upon an
amendment unless p=iimedispled by the sonnet'
et MIL The only esea to select the
dams of the goverment% W* is
eb the amend- '
Met le intended
ma
te modify. If dieropose rejection should
le mein' _ dlipity yp a fresh
asolhana Wilk la referred to the armittes;
If Sts aomaittas decide upon remodelling the
thane, a fresh application is made to the
emelt of state. If the latter body persist in re•
jesting the modifications of the committee the only '
Illource of opposition remaining to the Corps
Legialatif is to throw out the bill in the
ate on the amenable. It is scarcely sur-
prising that the members of so impotent a
body should be treated by ministers, who
are themselves little better than valets, with con-
temptuous arrogance. Thus I understand that M.
Binesu, the Minister of Finance, when invited by
M. Gouin, president of the committee on the Coinage
Bill, to furnish some explanations of which the coin- '
mittee stood in need, refusedii:arear in prim to
answer the inquiries of the • tors. They were
not, he said, to expect under
.preient ripest the
same condescension which the midden had shown
in the time of the National Assembly. He added
that if an official demand were addressed to him by
the president of the commission he would refer to
the President of the Republic for instructions.
The meager, of the President will be presented to
the Legislative Body on Easter Tuesday, when the
sittings re-opeu. It will contain a statement of the
situation of each ministry, and of the administrative
affairs of the republic, together with some passages
referring to the general policy of the government.
The Pays contains the following paragraph relating
to project. of law about to be submitted by the
government to the Legislative Body :
The government is working with persevering activity at
the accomplishment of the task of social organisation
which it has undertaken. It is not enough to save society
in lr sit ; but by wise institutions and useful ameliorations
all pretext for revolutions ought to be removed. The best
government is that which gives to people, the greatest poe-
sibk sum of material and moral improvements. Under the
induence of this thought, the government is preparing,
upon all the great economical questions which have long
absorbed mindi, projects of law of the highest interest. It
appears that a series of bills of this nature will be submitted
to the Legislative Body after the Easter holidays.
The success of the converson of the Five per
Cents. has filled M. Bineau with triumph ; and he
announces in the Mendes,. of to-day the inexorable
determination of the government not to reimburse
those fundholders who have applied for the repay-
ment of their capital, but now repent that step, and
would fain accept the Four-and a-lialf bonds instead.
The annual fat cattle show took place at Poissy
yesterday. It wu considered to be better than last
year. There were 162 oxen. Seven of them, belmr
tog to the Marquis de Torcy, were particularly
admired. Tho two principal prises, a rill worth
2,500 fr., made by Froment Meunce, and a gold medal,
of 1,5410 k., were gained by M. de Nhague of Chi-
teau 1 himpierre (Loint). These were for two oxen,
40 months old, of the " Durham Charolais " breed, and
a light roan colour. The second medal, of 1,200 fr.,
was gained by the Marquis de 'Percy. There were
525 sheep, in 2.i lots, a good many pigs, and, for the
first time, some calves. This being an innovation not
giuerally expected, only 30 wore show, and of
ithese 12 were put amide as not worthy to compete. A
good many senators and members of the Corps Legie-
latif, taking advantage of the vacation, were present.
, M. Persigny, the minister of the interior, agricul-
ture add commerce, presided at the distribution of
the prises, and made a speech, whichcontains nothing
reinat kublc.

A new project for • railway from Lyons to Bor-
deaux has been submitted to the minister of the
interior. This proposed line would traverse the de-
partments garments of the Rhone, Haute Loire, Ceuta!, Lot,
Dordogne, and Gironde, and would touch at Lyons,
Bt. Etienne, Lo Puy, St. Flour, Souillar, Bergerac.
' Libournc, and Bordeaux. The cost is estimated at
47 millions of francs.
; A scheme is on foot for disposing of the mineral
;waters and the Lake of Enghiva, with the gardens
'appertaining to it, by a lottery of 6,000,000 fr., at lfr.
' per ticket.
The Corsaire says that M. Turgot has paid a visit
to the Pope's nuncio, and expressed his regret at the
conflict which had arisen respecting the Prince de
Canino. Ile lidded, that he had sent off an attach(".ir
of his cabinet with a peremptory order to M. de Ca-
I
nino to return to Paris.

By a decree of the President of tho Republic an