The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SttritiLtir Eves is°.
The vigorous vote ,ressai of the Corps Legislatif
to manifest something like a legal resistance to the
overheating will of the executke, has been, as you
will see from the subjoined report of that body's sit-
ting, atteuded with some sums. The Council of
State has given way to the budget committee on two
chapters that were rejected by the house. fly these
concessions the senateni' salaries are removed from
the date riagere to the Jnbrlii n : in other words,
these salaries are no longer permanently charged
on the revenues of the state, but they must
be voted yearly. This is a great vic-
tory, and the mere important u the go-
vernment was pledged in a certain sense to
the senators to nail their fortunes for life, instead of
leaving them exposed to the chances of fresh fluctua-
tions in the political world. Montalembert to-day
spoke late and briefly,; but his expressions were
pointed as usual, and he stated that he rejoiced that
the Corps Legislatif had nothing to do with the
Orleans decrees. _ _ _

The Corps Legislatif is making amends during the
last week of its session fur the tame endurance of
calculated mortification& during the preceding eleven
weeks of its existence. No device has been
neglected by the executive power to render this
body as inoffensive as possible ; all without avail
for its teeth and claws arc already too visible; and
in proportion to the multiplicity and tightness of its
bands it strains the sinews of opposition, and strug-
gles to resent oppression. There could not be a more
decisive manifestation of the spirit which animates
this assembly than the majority of 15 against .59
which voted yesterday in favour of printing Monte-
lemberes severe protest against the unworthy posi-
tion made for the deputies of France. This is what
the government has gained by stopping, as much as
possible, the publicity of the debates, that an excep-
tional ,'slat is given to those orations which threaten
it with most damage. ;Die indulgence granted to
the first applicants drew on hosts of others, and
every
.honourable deputy, however insignificant his
part in the debate, might think himself ill-used
if his speech was not allowed to he prin tcd. The journals
of to-day publish the debate off hursday,distinguished
by the discussion of the National Guard, the ministry
of police, and the war budget. I have to call your
attention to one feature in the debate on the military
estimates, omitted from the compendious report sent
to you upon the same day. M. de Kerdrel asked
whether there was not on the list of officers a general
of brigade promoted to this rank prematurely and
contrary to all law. Ile meant General Espinosa,.
You will remember that this officer commanded on
the morning of the 2nd of December the battalion
which occupied the Legislative Palace. You will
also recollect that he abused the confidence of Gene-
ral Lai", who had pointed out to him some days
before a secret of escape of which he in-
tended to avail CM in case the Assembly were
attacked, in order to intercept the flight of that too
communicative questor. General Allard, the coun-
sellor of state appointed by the government to defend
the military estimates, replied to NI. de Kerdrel that
Colonel Espinasse had been promoted to the rank of
general of brigade, in virtue of the law of 1832,
which dispenses from every other condition the
officer who receives in time of war advancement for
an action of éclat put in the order of the day of the
army. Now, by a decree of the Pence President the
services rendered during the days of December had
been assimilated to campaign service. M. de Kerdrel
replied that he was aware of that decree, but he was
not aware what splendid action had been achieved
on December 2 by General Espinasse, whose life, for
the rest, had been saved in Africa by a prince of the
House of Orleans. General Allard would not accept
any discussion upon the causes of a nomination
which the Prince President had made in the pleni-
tude of his right. Thus for the treacherous surprise
of the Assembly Colonel Espinasse was promoted out
of his turn to bo general of brigade, upon the ground
that he had performed a signal exploit in time of
war! I leave you to judge if such an irregular pro.
motion, granted upon inch a title, is likely to be
popular with the army.
It was in contemplation to give the deputies a ball
at the Ely See before their departure for the country ;
but the late change in their behaviour seems to have
produced a corresponding change in the intention of
the Prince-President, and the notion of the ball has

been abandoned.
Some attempts have been made to form a party in
the Corps Lyralatif, analogous to the club of the Rue
des Pyramids in the Assembly, that is a party
whose function it will be to smooth down the opposi-
tion, and conciliate a steady support to the govern-
ment ; already some influential deputies, alarmed at
the Bashes of opposition manifested on the budget,
have busied themselves to calm the irritated minds
of the committee and its supporters.
At the sitting of the Corps Le/islatif to-day, M.
Monnier de la tiizeranne moved that it should be
stated at the head of the speeches to be printed pur-
suant to the leave given yesterday, that the house
was in no way responsible for the opinions expressed
by the speakers. M. Billault said that it was per-
fectly so understood, but that there could be no
objection to put this heading to every speech,
" Printed by leave of the Corps Legislatif, but
without any responsibility with regard to the opi-
nions expressed.
On the order of the day being read for the debate
on the bill for granting an annual sum of 320,000 fr.
for compensation pensions to persons who were on
the last civil list.
M. EDOVARD Dccos opposed the bill by way of repro-
dating an amendment, which had bees rejected by the
coeseuttee, to the effect that the civil list of Charles Z.
should be entitted to temporary compensations.
M. E. Bayou:, the reporter, said that sU the members. of
that civil list who on the 27th July, 1830, had been em-
ployed for ten years previously had received pensions or
compensation'. With regard to those whose period of ser-
vice had been Lees it would be illegal to great them com-
pensation.
M. Ds CALVIIII.II supported M. Dame's proposition.
Some pity was due to the servants of a dynasty that had
given fifteen years of prosperity to France, and had be-
queathed to her the fairest flower in her crown—Algiers.
The bill was, however, carried unanimously by 206 votes.
The house then passed to the discussion of the bill for re-
gulating the elation of members of the Councils °sorrel,
Councils of Arrondissements, and Municipal Councils. The
first four articles were adopted. On art. 6, which pro-
vides that the sittings shall not be public,
A Msitaas 'sutural whether the councils general would
be permitted to publish reports of their ptoceedinp as they
had heretofore done.
M. Bolt:IAN, Councillor of State replied in the affir-
mative,

The bill was then voted unanimously.
A bill for the credit of 400,000 francs in aid of hospitals
end charitable institutions wits earried unanimously.
The business neat in order was the dismission of the bill
giving power power to the government to espel certain
classes of persons from Paris or Lyons.
M. DR KIRDRIL opposed the measure. He saw in the
hill an invasion by the executive upon the judicial power.
It was said but the other day, in a celebrated trial, by en
illustrous advocate, N. l'sillet, that the President of the
Repubne had the power to make a constitution, but not the
right, in a ladicial matter, to decree so much as a receipt
for the rent of a house, He would apply that principle to
the proposed interference with individual liberty. Many
clauses in the bill were vague and opened a door to abuses
in their interpretation. To prohibit a man from residing in
Paris DT Lyons on the ground that he bad no domicile in
either of those cities, aad no visible means of existence was
to treat him worse than n criminal, wbo bad always the
right to defend himself before a judge. They should at
least allow a man to prove his domietkt er his means of ex-
istence before a jugs de pair, and not leave him at the mere
gamy of a minister.
M. FORTOUL, the reporter, said, there existed both in
Paris and Lyons a mass of turbulent people, witouut a
home or means of existence, ever ready to take part in in-
surrections. These were the people that in Paris were
called Bohemians. it was for such as these that this law
was sada.
_ . .

N. DS KERN'S!. WU 09t Illtistivd with this explanation.
Ile thought the law should be confined to Individuals who
had been sentenced to imprisonment and sub,equent sue.
veillassee of the police.
M. LeirritAim inquired whether au individual whom it
might be proposed to expel would be permitted to prove
that he did la fact possess mesas of existence, and to whom
info& a ease he was to address himself.

)B. BOOua7, eounr.illo, of elate, replied that the order
for exrdaieu must be executed in the Brat instance, and