The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE NEW LOAN.

(nom ma own onuarownwr.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The amendment proposed by twenty-seven depu-
ties to the bill for the 300,000,000 loan has greatly
enraged the government, and now makes a con-
siderable sensation in the public mind. It is by
this time thoroughly understood that the object of
MM. Thiera, Lanjuinais, Emile 011ivier, and their
friends is to bind the Emperor over to keep the
peace. They well know that if he has an unlimited
power of issuing treasury bills be may very soon
run up as great an amount of floating debt as that
which M. Fould, very much against his own
wishes, has lately been peremptorily com-
manded to consolidate ; and not only that,
but he may commit the nation to a war
before the legitimate guardians of the public
purse have auy opportunity of expressing en
opinion on the matter. The amendment is in fact
one of the most legitimate and important exercises
of the power of the House of Representatives that
could be imagined. Two of the opposition mem-
bers, M. Guiroult and Ravin, refrain from sup-
porting the amendment for the reason which they
avow in their journals, the Opinion Nationale and
Side, that they are for war on behalf of Poland,
and therefore do not wish to tie up the Emperor's
hands. But to this the Presse very well replies :

All the reasoning of thee. journals comes to this, that
because Poland is in gumption all sound principles of finance
aro to be diereprded. What is the use, then, of the intro-
vention of the Corps Legielatif in regulating the public
tipeuditure ? You might as well declare at once that as to
foreign politics there are never to be any rotes but vote, raj
oxifidenee.

Even the Temps, which is in favour of inter-
vention for Poland, separates itself from the Sieele
and Opinion Nationals on this question of the
amendment ; for it says that to begin a war for
Poland with an issue of 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 of
Treasury bonds, would be to undertake that great
enterprise in a " clandestine " manner, whereas
for such an object the Emperor, if he had made
up his own mind, might safely throw himself upon
the country, and demand the money openly.
Speaking of the articles of the Stec le and Opinion
Nationale it says :

It is evident that, unless we are to relapse into the situation
from which we have only Out been extricated, sad to meddle
the Treenail with fresh burdens, and thus do the very thing
whisk the professed object of the loan bill is to avoid, M.
Teald himself must be the first to wish to limit the issue
of Treasury bills as much as possible. To be altogether
logical, he ought not to issue may at all. We admit, how-
ever, that that is not possible ; bat, on the other hand, it
must be confessed that MO. Thins and Lanjuinaii
amredmeet is bat a corollary of the bill itself, sad a very
moderate corollary.

M. do la Gueronniere's journal, the France,
which seems to be rather favourable to the amend-
ment, says that a very animated debate may be
anticipated. M. Thiers waited upon the committee
to-day, and stated his reasons at length for the
amendment. No report of what takes place
before committees is allowed, but his arguments
are said to have been very forcible.
The committee, as was expected, rejected the
amendment, and M. Gouin presented a report to
the Corps Legialatif to-day in favour of the govern-
ment bill for the loan. I am told, however, that
the committee has made some sort of recommen-
dation, with the concurrence of the government,
for a prospective limitation of the issue of Treasury
bills. The debate will begin and probably be
finished to-morrow.

LUCIEN MURAT AND THE CONOREDA—The fol-
lowing letter from Prince Lucien Murat to a friend hes
been published :—" Patio, Nov. 7, 1863. My dear sir,—
You have doubtless read the di/coons of the Emperor at
the opeoing of the chambers. The initiative which he hu
taken. and the simplicity with which he has exposed his
gigantic project, place him at the head of all European
sovereigns. If they misundentand him let them look to
their own acts, The people will comprehend him, and woe
to those who force him to dreg them before the tribunal
of public opinion, which will judge them without appeal.
Before a congress which will have Napoleon at ita
head the people bare nothing to fear. Their interest.
will be protected, and their civil wan will mese. AU
parties will disappear. AU private interests will appear too
small to dare to show themselves. The heads of pertinent
no longer have a plea for their existence save the hope of
being useful to the public weal ; and from the moment they
cease to be no their continuance becomes a crime. Tell those
who love the memory of my father to wait and hope in the
justice of Napoleon 111. If sacrifices are requited of them
let them be the tint to give proofs of abnegation for the
welfare and tranquillity of their country ; and if one day it
be given me to direct them in such a course, that day will
be the happiest of my life. Adieu, my dear sir, take mea-
sures for giving all the committees of Naples, and all the
antis of snakes in the provinces, due oognizance of my
letter, and V they have faith io me let them conform them-
selves to it.—Beliere, I beg, in my sincere friendship.
LUCIEN MURAT."

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