The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVINIXO.
The following official wanting has been given to
the Pays:
Taking into consideration Art. 42 of the constitution,
which says : 't The report of the sittings of the Legislative
Body by the journals must consist only of the reproduction
of the minutes authorised by the president of that as-
sembly," and seeing that the numbers of the lays of the
sth and 6th inot., under the head of " Discussion of the
Convict Rehabilitation Bill" contains appreciations alto-
gether in contradiction with the aforesaid Art. 42, a first
wanting is hereby given to flu Pays, in the person of M.
Banton, one of the propri:ton, and of M. G. Angier, se-
cretary of the editors.
(Signed) De MAVrAti, Minister of General Polka.

A similar warning has been given to the Public
and the Emancipation of Brussels was stopped yes-
terday at the post, by order of the minister of police.
The ./otirnal de Genere has been prohibited from
entering France.
The warning given by M. de :gaups& to the Pays
is one of the gravest steps of the present govern.
ment, and as such has raised universal discussion in
the highest political circles as well as in the ears.
It appears from the preamble to the constitution,
written by Louis Napoleon himself, and deserving
therefore to he regarded as the most authentic com-
mentary on that restricted charter, that the motive
for obliging each journal to confine its report of
legislative sittings to the official minutes published
in the Munitesr was to avoid the distorted represen-
tations of party spirit. But it is nowhere said that
a journal may not discuss the matter under legisla-
tion with reference to the official report of the sitting.
If such a prohibition existed it would suffice that the
legislature should occupy itself with any question
for it to become a sacred ground, inaccessible to the
press. Now it appears, from the circular of M.
Abbattueci, the keeper of the seals, to the procureurs-
genereaux on the law of the press, that the clause
allowing the minister of police to suspend, without
any appeal to the tribunals, a journal after two warn-
ings, was meant for the good of the press, to correct
by a first warning an angry opposition or a factious
perversion of the government's intentions, without
visiting the journal with the heavy penalties that
would follow a legal condemnation. The case of the
Pays is just this. Being a ministerial paper, it could
not easily be taxed with opposition. Taking the report
of the Monitsur of the sittings of the Corps Legisla-
tif for its base, it wrote an article on the law of reha-
bilitation, conceived in the mildest spirit. Hence, the
only feature which weld Eh. the minister of police
a right to interfere with Me warning, namely a cap-
tious tone, dangerous to the public tranquillity, did
not 'mist. If the article onstaimed anything illegal
it was evidently the busing. of the judicial authori-
ties whisk interpret the laws te seaduct the inquiry.
M. de Neaps' is thought therefore to have over-
stretched his functions, and marpsd the rights of the
tribunale. As the Pop an "aprons the tbsughta
of X de Persigny, between when sad the minister
of pass no love, as you are ewer% is lest,
the question becomes in some sect the
beading out et a family ealaideriel quarrel
in public; and the absurd preaumpthes of M. do
Maupas in this instants must be looked on as having
given to his rival in the Pemilleat's favour an ad-
vantage for the present white my_ lead to needillea.
times of the cables;. I hear that the sena& of mi-
shams ie divided ea this quietism, bat ant et doors
them is as alienate of 'plain. The menstrons
soden of threatening a jeered with itappthesha for
simply result in review the argemeate et the de-
putise, is ~ally medal area a mak* in the
owes of legislation., has pesinsed universal await
Even the thweitutioami prehless its palmed as-
tonishment at each a strange 'reseeding, and has a
remeekable article, in which it stigmausee the Mega-
lity of the act, and viaditates the freedom of public
discord's.
The West he 1863 now before the Coos Legis-
latif list slightly km that of 1662, which
was melded about two .seethe dace by a dietatoral
dame. The chief dilbrisee se mists in the diminu-
den of sums dew items of expeadithrie. It has here-
Whoa been enthmary to vote He ressipts and the
expenditure ia two sspaeate laws. They are now
sompeised is be d
en is es ineprevemeat, for it
mast always be ansatiefacte7 to vale erudite ia
=l.lBof the ithensial resonress ended le meet
111 mt total expenditure stover, descriptha in
dis budget ia 1,486 wadies of ham. The real
(easy is. however, imeniderably Ina Time ere
miens items, Guth as brine returned and tease not
actually received, mob of sellsotion, and the depart-
mental and seememeal median gregrithell =WY
to load popsies, which figure on this side of the
baiast merely pour order. Thee items, amouating
is ghee whale to 436 millions,
t.both on the
dater sad creditor side of the and are set
oft coo against the other to satisfy rules of hook.
. Ms actual estimated expealitare is thee
I,oo6oommillion. This sem is again &deal& into or-
dinary expenses, 961 millions, and sztraorilinary ez-
fa79 mans. The extraordinary expencee are
' works at pads utility, principally railways,
whisk me to be reproductive. Assuming
this to be realised, the total expenses of
the lissom reduced to 981 millions. The di-
minution shown, as compared with the budget of
1832, amounts to nearly 27 millions; and this, al-
tVthe salaries of many public huictionaries are
and the extraordi nary =pewee exceed by 6 mil-
lions those of 1862, which were only 73 millions. The
principal items of the reduction are, in the first place,
the interest of the public debt, reduced by
the conversion of the Five per Conte. into Four-and-
a-Half per Cents. The saving from this operation,
which is stated at nine millions for 1852, appears as
eighteen millions for 1863. There is then a reduc-
tion of five millions in the department of the Minister
of War, and of about three millions in that of the
Minister of Public) Instruction and Worship, subject,
however, to the adoption of the bill on public in-
struction ea sent to the Corps Legislatif by the Coun-
cil of State. The suppression of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Commerce (now united with that of
tho Interior) entails some farther reductions. The
ways and means amount in the whole to 1,446 mil.
lions, but, deducting the above-mentioned 436 mil-
lions' "pour ardne," to 1,010 millions. Thus the
deficit, as wee some time since stated, is forty Wi-
lkes. The estimates sasume that there will be an
increase of 22 millions in the product of the taxes,
owing to the consolidation of order and the return
of public confidence. Forty millions =period to be
pant by railway companies are reckoned among the
receipts, and this, it is said, is not unreasonable,
seeing that seventy-nine millions are allotted by the
state Tor the furtherance of public works. With re-
spect to the deficit, those who take a sanguine view
observe that it has been found that credits, amount-
ing on an average to fifty millions, are very year an-
nulled. It must, however, be borne in mind that
supplemental and extraordinary credits are efts as
common as cancellations. Among the mine
items in the budget the most important is a credit of
ten millions for the purchase, by the state, of " credit
fonder" society bonds. This credit is a maximum
not nocesearily to be attained should the government
find that the operations of the mortgage banks do
net answer.
The Neapolitan government has just decided that
the entrance of the kingdom of the Two Sicilia@
should be interdicted to all persons
shade of tireceni.)l
/ ex-
pelled from France, to whateveresl
optnion they belong. the French minister o Police,
M. de Maupas, has, in consequence, sent a circular

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING,

teto the whets to refire pamper% for the Neapolitan
ry_to l pennere so evens&
The INW now men by the Council of
Moto kr the promentien of Fresetunent for crimes
eeesithel see et the Ave& territory, or foreigners
guilty chimes aneebdia Rime, which was drawn
up by M. Beebor, proposes to enact that any French-
men guilty et a cruse according to French laws,
committed ant of the territory of the republic,
may be prosecuted and tried on the demand of the
public prosecutor, or on the complaint of the injured
parties, even though he may hare been prosecuted in a
foreign country, unless indeed time may have been •
judgment. A prosecution say also be commenced
against a Frenchman guilty in foreign countries of
the offences of using false passports, exciting to de-
bauchery, robberies, and swindling. These prose-
cutions may take pines even when the victims of
the crimes or offences are foreigners. Foreigners
arrested on the Freseh territory, as authors or
accomplices of murder, manslaughter, poisoning,
cutting and wounding, rape, anon, piracy, forgery,
and robbery la foreign countries, ou the person or to
the prejudice of a Frenchman, may be prosecuted,
tried, and condemned in France.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell sv. closing
at 100.20; the Threes fell 5c., and closed at 70.50.
Bank of France shares fell 5. The railway market
was tolerably firm, although some lines tell. Northern
fell 5 ; Central, 2.50; Marseilles, 1.25 ; but Teste
and Bordeaux rose 7.50; Bordeaux, 6.25; Strasbourg
and Dieppe, 3.75 each; liavre, and Tours and
Nantes, 1.23 each.