The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

transeetioa are very much distrusted. Than it is
sospectod that the 100 millions of Four per Cents.
converted into Threes are not those which lay in the
hands of the Haute Banque, but have been takes
from the Cafes. if.. Depots et Consignations, a fund
administered by the government. Owing to this
misgiving, the same cloud of uncertainty bangs as
' before over the unfortunate small holders of the
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., and they dread as much
almost as ever lest the market should be swamped by
the rentes held in reserve by the Haute Banque. For
the rest, everybody asks what is the we of a Legis-
lative Body, which in the midst of its session has not
the least contrail over operation specially included
within its functions by the
very constitution which
called it into existence. Hero is the public debt
increased suddeuly by two millions sterling, and not
a single member of that assemb4 , which is chosen
expressly for the purpose of guarding the public
against the imposition of fresh burthens, has the pri-
vilege of putting an interpellation to the ministers,
or of calling upon them in any way for explanations.
The Corps Legislatif sat to-day. M. Billault, the
president, read a letter from M. Ouyard Delalain,
asking leave to print, at his own expense, the speech
made by him upon the Copper Coinage Bill. Upon
a show of hands the leave was given, about twenty
members voting in the minority. M. Billault re-
marked that there were several secretaries whose
duty it was to draw up the offiCial reports of the de-
bates, with the assistance of the short-hand writers.
It was clear that no other report must be printed
than that furnished by the short-hand writers. M.
Ouyard Delalain said his only object in making the
application was to establish the right of the Corps
Legislatif to make the order. M. Billault (with some
warmth) said that the right of the Corps Legislatif
was consecrated by a decree. lie would never per-
mit it (oho questioned. M. I)elalain's observation
was uncalled for. (Applause.) He then read the
communication from the government mentioned in
the order of the day, which turned out to be only a
decree referring to the consideration of the' house
several local bills for settling the boundaries of com-
munes in various departments. The house then
passed to the consideration of the bill authorising the
city of Bordeaux to borrow money for the construction
of water works. M. Bucher do Chauvigne moved that
the debate should be adjourned, upon the ground
that the committee itself appeared to think that se-
veral unforsoen works would bo necessary, requiring
a larger expenditure than the bill contemplated. M.
])avid, the reporter, denied this statement on the
part of the committee, who, lie said, were of opinion
that the estimates would not be exceeded. M. de
Chauvigne that withdrew his motion, and the bill
pa+sed The loan bills for the Haute Pyrenees,
Meuse, and Pas de Calais, were voted without oppo-
sition or comment M. Langlois then presented his
report upon the bill for the rehabitliation of con-
demned persons, which, in compliance with cries of
" Head, read," he read to the house. The report stated
that as this bill would form a chapter in the criminal
code, it wu of great importance, and the committee had
accordingly examined it with great care. Numerous
amendments had been presented. The committee
had rejected most of them, but they had adopted
some which had in due course been submitted to the
Council of State. Of these the Council had adopted
several, but these which the Council had rejected
could not again be discussed. Some of the amend-
ments had proposed to allow of rehabilitation even
after death ; others desired to deny rehabilitation to
persons sentenced by virtue of special laws; others
went to exclude from the benefit of the law all per-
sons belonging to any department of public instruc-
tions, and others suggested the exclusion of all per-
sons condemned for a second offence. The committee
had rejected all those amendments but the last,
which it had adopted with the modification that the
exclusion should extend only to the case of a second
condemnation fur a crime, admitting to the
privilege of rehabiliation a party who might
have been sentenced once for a crime and
once for a misdemeanour only. The Council
of State had adopted this amendment as
altered by the committee. With respect to the forms
of proceeding to procure rehabilitation, the committee
had not proposed to alter the bill in any respect.
Those forms consisted for the most part of clauses
taken from the existing code, which was consecrated
by 40. years' experience. The report was ordered to
be printed, and Monday next was fixed for the debate
upon the bill. M. Billault then said that it was
possible that the budget for 18L3 might be presented
on Saturday, in which case notice would he sent to
members. The house then adjourned, without posi-
tively fixing any day for the next sitting.
The Mondale publishes two decrees, ordering that
functionaries of all ranks and all employes connected
with the departments of Finance and Public Instruc-
tion, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitu-
tion within one month from the Ist of May next.
The decrees remind these functionaries and employes
that a refusal to take the oath will entail on them
the loss of their situations.

The Cltnefilutionnel says :
The 'police yesterday morning found posted up in the
Faubourg* St. Martin and St. Denis several printed papers,
bearing the title of " Appel au Peuple," and tending to
excite the most detestable passions. This appeal to the peo-
ple, signed " Les Amis de la Revolution calls an the
people, says an evening journal, to rice. It is printed in
characters which arc scarcely legible, which shows tho haste
in which the clandestine press whence they issued struck
them off. Several arrests are said to have taken place.
M. de Morny has returned from Belgium.
The question of competence referred to the Coun-
cil of State in consequence of the" conflict" raised by
the government on the execution of the decrees con-
fiscating the property of the Orleans family, will be
shortly resolved before the section des &mimetic's:.
The president of this section is M. Maillard, but the
government is anxious that M. Buroche, the vice-
president of the Council of State, should take this
service under his especial care, and preside instead
of M. Maillard.

The article of the Petrie attacking the magis-
tracy has excited the greatest indignation among the
members of the bar and bench. An influential ma-
gistrate has observed that a government that re-
spected itself would have immediately ordered the
prosecution of the article, as an outrage upon the
bench; whereas the government of Louis Napoleon
umpired it.
The French fleet has quitted Toulon, with five
mouths' provisions; it goes first to Algeria. The
English admiral is to meet the English fleet at Mi-
norca, and sail thence for Gibraltar, where it will be
joined by some other ships, and set sail for Egypt
and the Levant. The French fleet will proceed to
the same destination after leaving Africa.
The Public, which only yesterday
.advocated a
new appeal to the people, has made a giant stride in
advance to-day, and holds out the probability of the
definitive establishment of the empire in twelve days
from this time, by the shouting of the soldiery in the
Champ de Mars. This article is the most striking
shadow of the coming event that has yet been seen.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents, fell
20c., closing at 100.38; the Threes fell 50c., and
closed at 70-85. Railways fell—Rouen, 10 ; Orleans,
7.50; Centro and Bordeaux, sfr. each; Lyons, 2.50;
Northern, 1-25.

A telegraphic summary of the following appeared
yesterday in the Express:
Yesterday morning the Amazon, 20, Captain
Barker, arrived at Spithead from the East Indies
and the Cape of Good Hope. She has tire days'
later news from the latter place, having left Simon's
Bay on the 7th of March.
She sailed from Singapore January 5, arrived at
Trincomalee on the 16th, sailed again on the 24th,
arrived in Simon's Bay March 2, called at St. Helena
on the 10th, at Ascension on the 21st, and made the
Lizard on Tuesday last. She has brought home the
surviving officers and those of the crew of the
Birkenhead ste.mer, numbering 6 officers and
59 men, who will have to undergo a court-
martial for the loss of that ship. Since
the departure of the mail steamer that brought
tho news of the wreck to England, no more
survivors had been heard of. The surviving military
officers and soldiers were all in good health, and
about to join their respective corps.
The Castor, 36, Commodore Wivill, and the Itha-
damanthus steamer, were in &moil's Bay. The
Styx steamer sailed on Feb. 25 from Simon's Bay,
and arrived at Algoa Bay in 48 hours, and alter
landing the English mail proceeded on to East Lon-
don. There was no man of-war at St. Helena, and
the Volcano was the only one at Ascension. The
Amazon reports the following merchant vessels :—The
English brig Richmond Castle on Feb. 24, in lat. 31.36
S. lon. 35 E. steering westerly; the English brig
W. and M. Brown, on March 1, steering N.W. by
N. (wished to be reported) •, the English barque
Tory, March 17, in lat. 14.26 S., lon. 7.34 W., steer-
ing Iq.N.W. ; the English barque Alice Maude, from
Algoa Bay, bound to London (25 days out), on
March 31, in lat. 3.11 N., lon. 22.07 W.; the
British steam-ship Parana on April 21, in lat. 43.40
N., lon. 21 W., standing to the S.AV.; and on the
27th, off the Lizard, the Dutch schooner Pomona, 66
days from Havannah, bound to Amsterdam, and
which vessel the Amazon supplied with water and
meat, of which she was in great need.
Major-General Cathcart had not arrived out at the
Cape when the Amazon left. The Amazon has not
brought a mail from the Cape.
The following are the most recent items of intelli-
gence from the seat of war. A correspondent of the
Cape Town Mail of March 6, writing from Graham's
Town under date of Feb. 28, says :
From a private source we learn that CoPmel Michel's
psrty, on patrol in the Amatolas, base been successful in
dispersing or destroying a considerable number of Rotten.
tots, who are described as having been encamped in a very
private and retired position. They were occupying houses,
several of which had glass windows, and otherwise seemed
to think themselves quite secure. Twenty-six of these men
were killed by the party under Col. Michel, and the rest
fled and concealed themselves in the bush.
Boma accounts have also been received from the neigh-
bourhood of Whittlesea, but we cannot collect any authen-
tic particulars. The report to which we allude, is to the
effmt that a large commando is oat in the vicinity,—and
that a party of these, &menet whom were two of the Curries,
by some means or other, were separated from the main
body, they were soon surrounded by a great number of
KaSrs, and, not without difficulty, fought their way
through. The KaSrs slackening in their pursuit, they
turned upon them, and completely routed them, killing, it
is maid, about 100, and eventually capturing about 1,000
head of cattle.
A report was current in town yesterday that Riebcek,
where there is a t with about 40 men, had been
attacked by a large 'y of Ratan, and that the men
had taken refuge in the church. We have beard no con-
firmation of this to-day.
The following is from the Graham's Town Journal
of the same date :
Wo arc enabled at the close of this week to enumerate
several very important engagements, in all of which the
enemy has suffered reverses. Commencing with the opera-
tions of the troops in British Kafrraris, it is with pleasure
that we perceive Colonels Byre and Michel doing their
wonted good service. Patrols under these officers acting in
concert have penetrated into the dense peons of the Keis-
kamma, and into frowning retreats that hut not previously
been visited by a British force. Here they found a Hotten-
tot laager leith a great number of hovels, and about eighty
wattle-and-daub hub, furnished and fitted up with doors
and windows stolen from the various farmhouses
in the colony, which these miscreants had dis-
mantled. Every provision appeared to have been
made here for a permanent location. The notorious
Willem Uithaalder, of the Rat River School, the author