The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-21 00:00:00

.PRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. WZDNZIDAT EVERING.

In the Corps Legislatif to-day the amendment
in favour of "departmental and municipal liberty"
was opened by the Marquis d'Andelarre, who was
elected to the last assembly as a government can-
didate, but is Dow an independent member, re-
turned in spite of prefeetoral hostility. He sub-
mitted that the amendment was in perfect harmony
with the Emperor's speech of 1861, in which he
asked the chamber for enlightened counsel. He
was glad to find himself in the chamber with all
his old fidelity to the Emperor and with his personal
freedom in addition. The leading idea of the
amendment was administrative decentralisation.
He ley no means, however, meant to disturb the
political unity of France, which was the work of
eight centuries. He only wanted to encourage
habits of individual activity and independence
such as the Emperor had alluded to in his speech
to the French exhibitors at the English Universal
Exhibition. After enlarging upon this theme be
concluded by the following remarkable words—
" Many members of the present opposition are
not here of their own choice ; they have been
driven into opposition by a policy which, after
all, has not transformed them into enemies."
M. Pellet= afterwards made his first speech,
which I regret time does not now permit me to
analyse. _ _

The amendment was rejected by 176 to 63.
You we that the minorities go on increasing. The
Emperor will hardly affix the stigma of the
" pains of evil" to these 63 deputies.
There is an important mistake in Renter's telegram
published in the London journals of Tuesday ; it
gives the figures of the minority in favour of the
amendment of MM. Anoel, Pouyer Quertier, and
Co. as 50. The fact is that the protectionists, after
three days' hard fighting, only mustered 26 rota,
including the silent one of M. Thiera, who had
too much tact to throw away a speech upon a lost
CUM.

The Siede makes the following observations on
the speech which M Jules Simon has just deli-
vered in the chamber on the state of the working
classes :

Touchier/ on ens of them median white lave the moot
divided the opinion of the warimme of Perie—W/ of
few& kbonr—X J. Simon eulogised several printing.
Mess which he hod visited, and in which women alone
west eesphvyci We. he shoat to conclude is favour
of female labour? There is mem to memos that
he was ; bet men who lave saw, read, and
meditated mesh, ohm hesitate to dame between
Yet this whisk heap them in crowds, and X J. Simon
reemined nedeekled. The moon was that his looks were
tamed towards the doemetie bomb. Thanks to the es-
collest 11111110111 indloated by the author of the " Ouvriire,*
Os Legislative Body eancluded, like ourselves, tlikt a
same should, above ail, rowels the mother of a family,
sad Pre is ler angina that lest eihmation, mewl and
physical, which meted= iselemties, whilst the bushed
is raising the means el eeppetileg the fru y. The
memo is indimensabie la her loess ; she is not
is the welshes, whim the men sea pia mob imps
wages in the rimier* of callings. The eases
which the bestows on her children are a meth more
eead-
drabie aid than would be the earnings which she might
contribute for the comma esteem While wip'etting that
X J. flisnoes speech shield he glutting in it esminsion, let