The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Wrorammor ETZNINO.
lam enabled to-day to seed you some details con-
cerning the sitting of the Mandl of State which
took place yester&y, under the presidency Louis
Napoleon. The President, having rep tired to the
hall of the palace on the Quai D'Orsay, in which the
sittings are held, took hie seat in the arm-chair
provided for him. On his right-hand sat Baroche,
nee-president of the ConetaL M. Factual was pre-
sent, to defend the bill on public instrindea, which
was the saritf:r deliberation. Louie Napoleon'
opened the with the following speech:
Merames.--la le era 0611114 of state we are
not party Ism We an bees kora swiseity of public
Whirs ; sad we eight is prim AO duty equally without
preoccupation sad wittiest so iirritemoi . Let, therefore,
each of you speak out here completely hie opinion.
This speech having been read, as usual, from a
paper which the President held in his hand. M. de
Parrien, minister of public instruction in the cabinet
of M. Baroche, then proceeded to make a speech, in
which he opposed the bill of M. Fortoul with
all the corrgy of which he was capable. Hs
tookr toof
eces all the provisions of the
and to make himself at mace the ergs*
all t objections entertained by the clergy and by
the university. Louie Napoleon listened to M. de
Parries during this severe criticism of the govern-
ment's measure with the closest attention. hi.
Marchand and M. Boojeau, the latter ex-minister of
public works, succeeded M. Partin, and both con-
demned the bill. M. Fortonl then proceeded to de-
fend his creation. During this debate the President
was occupied for the most part in talking in a low
tone to M. Baroche, not having given to the succeed-
ing speeches the same attention which he bestowed
upon that of M. de Purism M. Fortoul having con-
cluded his defence, M. Baroche said : " Gentlemen,
it appears that upon the bill proposed by the govern-
ment the opinions of the council are exceedingly
divided. The question is a diMoult one, and demands
the most mature deliberation. It is evident that the
session of the Corps Legislatif will have come to an
end before the Council of State can transmit to that
body the result of its deliberations. It would there-
fore be better to adjourn for the present all further
discussion on the present bill." No sooner had M.
Bauch. concluded this speech, which seemed to take
the Council completely by surprise, than Louis
Napoleon rose and said, " The sitting is at an end."
The members of the Council of State looked at ono
another as if to ask the mot de lenigme, end the gene-
ral opinion seemed to be that M. Fortoure bill wu defi-
nitively shelved. There was a good deal of talk
about the approximation of M. de Fallout to the
government ; and it seemed to be very generally ad-
mitted that it was not impossible that this legitimist
leader might once more condescend to accept the
portfolio of public instruction.
I have already mentioned the dissatisfaction of
the Corps Legislatif at the systematic refusal of all
documents by ministers or members of the ad-
ministration which are indispensable to aid
committees in their labours. I learn to-day
that a decided step has been at last taken
upon this subject. It appears that hi. Gonin,
president of the committee of the budget, had ap-
plied to the director-general of the Stempellies for
SOSO 11101110ents essential to the teak of the can-
' Wits., sod was met with a decided rennet. M.
Geniis immediately laid the case before M. B=l
IV=of the Corps Legislatif, and it woe
should go and make repreeentatioss to the
President in person upon this subject; 'either en-
tertaiaing the Wet doubt but that a word at the
*ids wadi set all right. It seems these
men were suite out in their
Louis Napalm % air listening to their eempleinta
said with a sidle to M. Billenit, " The director of
the Seawalls mesas to me perfectly in the right;
sad sows tie the spirit and letter of the
eonestudss mwefaithWly than the president of the
=dye Body. You members of the Carps Lo-
bate nothing to do whatever with the
_atlas, or with the agents of the adminintrados.
lice whatever documents or intomatioa yea midis
yam on to apply to the Came of Stet, whom such
fallen alone concern." MM. Banat and Crain
sigesesnted in vain the waste el time involved in
east a circuitous proems Boa was the mode of
beim enjoined by the seratitados. M. Yam,
it is mid, is soseediogly wrath at this
-exatious °Wrestles el Isgbdative labours, so
'inding to the body of which he is a chic'

.aament ;-and he has in consequence postponed the
publication in the Constitutionnel of several articles
M. Oranier de Omegas favourable to the system
o the government.
The Caps Legislatif sat to-day. The reading by
one of the secretaries of the minutes of the last sit-
ting was interrupted by M. de Herdrel, who said
that the minutes (proves verbal) constituted the only
report of their proceedings. They bad on that =-
count great importance, and yet it was impossible to
test their neurreay, for they were read in an under-
tone, amidst the noise of private conversation, which
wee not the cause of the impossibility of hearing, but
the natural consequence odes minutes being read in
an =intelligible manner. M. Billault, the prod-
=mid that two essential conditions must be
to enable the Assembly to hear a
spans. First, members mast be so placed se
is le able to bear, ands next they, must
=sass= Bs bad several times during the
"tee _k - celled upon the assembly to
be sent. Hewers, everything
nuts' might be sammunimisil to mensbise
and tlimadore it was in all mem eery is limns what
won being read. At all events it was tie the As-
sembly to Senn with attendee. After these remarks,
whisk evidently did notsame M. lakes objec-
tion thit the sesseWy Innedi the minutes
wore eseemel. 11.Maidt thse siresenoed that
two bine, abet* by the Neese d State, had been
solimdttall to Ur* sondissetiott by the government.
The drat pommel to prohibit persons convicted of
=tabs ellinise from rending either in the depart-
ment of the Seine, or in Lyons and its suburbs. The
mooed prepeesd to prolong the him= monopoly,'
which simian in 1856, ma VW Theis bills wile
ordwadge be printed. 11. Ingpiteieseentei the sr
port tithe sommitteengwelbsiertivesellbseetat
thec:= ler 1848. X. lessessnelissWie
upon the bill kr
the asediseetice of the liqg Omni Vaal
Vim= seal aged egee : folk= lete
tire "autos' Mentes Pashefort
helms). It wee eneasensi that Fasilmeil
Bent sad MEG% 'senseless of stale, twi bevel
Ille=raset„ togetherwlth 101. to
sane , wised, asehsated, to
smart the be et 1863,- in the abate before de
hewn, so far so Weiss to the aspartments of the in-
terior, agriculture, and onsureve. M. Billault then
said that the bill presented today might be distil-
-1 butod to members at their nudeness. The bon
might meet on Saturday, at one Mao to
examine them in their bureaux, and dm AP
be a public sitting on that day, at three. 'The mot
on the accounts of 1848, being volsmisone, amid
not be distributed before Friday at birthed. bolsi*
be discussed on Tuesday. The house then adjammd
till Saturday.
The Pubis's, organ of the ultra•Elysean party, eam-
tains a remarkable article, insisting that the only
answer to fusion is the empire' and that the Pre-
sident would be a poltroon if he witnessed the con-
spiracy of the two branches against him without
seising the occasion at once to assume the imperial
crown.