The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WOSDAT, 6 30 P.M.
The questions of M. Ledru Rollin on foreign affairs
came on for debate in the dumber to-day. The pre-
sident prefaced it by saying that it was one moat
serious in its character, and be hoped that members
would keep silence, and not disturb it by petulance
or noise.
M. Led= Rollin then arc-nded the tribune, and
said that questions concerning the affairs of Rome
might have been useful a few days ago, but of what
good were they now P Everybody knew what had
occurred at Rom,. That city had be= attacked with
fury during an entire day, and the looser of the French
had le en enormoup' but the walls of Rome still re-
sisted. The object of the expedition bad been to
protect Rome, and the new constitution forbad any
attempt serainet the liberty of a free people. The de-
cision of the National Assembly on the 7th of May,
too, ordered government .o stretch oat the hand of
brotherhood to the Roman repub'ic, and yet what bad
been the result P Why Genera Guditot had attacked,
and been repulsed. His forces had been then :n-
-' creased. Government, being recalled to a sense of its
duty by the Natiorial Assembly, had sent M. Lesseps
to Rome. They soon however disavowed him. Geo.
Oudinot had received orders to commence the attack.
M. Ledru Rollin read a letter from Rme,stating that
the French force hid sustained heavy loss, especially
in cavalry, and that General Oudinot had been
obliged to demand an semiotic's. What was the ne-
cessity of putting questions when all the fact. were
known. There was but one course open, and that
was to imp sell the government. On this he de-
manded the nomination of a commission to deliberate
instantly in the bureaux, and that the forms usually
gone through be digemeed with in fav,ur of the
urgency of the motion.
M. Wilton Barret, in reply, said that he had r o
cognisance of the facts stied by M. Ledru Rollin re-
lative to the state of affairs at Rome ; and as to the
act of accusation proposed against him, it was nothing
new, having been now for the third time moved by
M. Ledru Rollin. He did not fear to take the whole
country as a jury on the °mai in. It was impossible
not to have recourse to force when all the proposals
made by France had been rejected. The president of
the council then (Jeered into a history of the Roman
government since te.e flight of the Pope. He said
that the Pops was the idol of his people ; that
crowds of adventurers, Hocking into Rome, had
marked their presence by murder; and the Pops
had been obliged to fly. The government of these
adventure rs had done nothing to expiate its origin. Ex-
cesses had been continual at Rome, and even on the
increase, until the Catholic poll ere, &Meted by the
state of things, debated among th-mselves as to the
means of restoring the head of the church to power.
France was culled upon to join in there conferences,
and she do eland that she did not identify herself with
the republic of Rome; but she desired that the
ancient liberties of the people should be respected.
It was under these circumstances that the Const,tuent
Assembly decidel on intervention. That intervention
it lead been impossible to attain on the conditions
offered, and therefore it bad become necessary to use
force of arms. France had nothing else to do than
she actually did. Would any one now dare to say
that the French in Italy should abstain—that she
should go back? If she thuught so, she had the right;
and kt her &old., then, whether she would recognise
the Roman republic. He (M. Barret) knew that it
was always diM nit to interpose between extreme
parties. But France had not chosen the present mis-
sion, because it was one impose! by circumstance..
France did rot fo to make a conquest, but went with
peaceful intentions to protect the old liberties of
Rome. Her intentions had been mistaken. She hsJ
found war at Rome, not spinet the Romans, but
against a population of strangers. Let the Aseembly,
if it had a new decision to take, decide whether tl e
government was to order the French flag to retire,
and be present at the assault of Rome by the
Austrians.
After this the debate was suspended for a short
time. M. Ledra-Rollin then again mounted the tri-
bur e.

Before the question of Italian affairs was dismissal,
the president of the Legislative Assembly informed
the members of the death of Marshal Bugeiud, who
is to be buried to-morrow.
The question of M. Ledru-Rollin led to some agita-
tion outside the chamber, and m. .n in blouses were to
be seen about i bat a vast quantity of police offim.re
sufficed to keep order and make the people "move
on."

The president of the republic hes addressed the
following letter to Colohel P.rray, the son-in-law ot
Marshal Bursa :
My dear Coionel,—l need not tell Ton how snob I are
aimed at hawing the news of Marshal Bugrand's death.
It is ea imamss loss fur Franee and for we. As for his
dually, it is manual that they should be ineonsolable, and fur
that roam I meat &unapt to swap your grief enCept in
suing easeados to Wee.
Believe is sty couplets afftetios.
I=lpm 10. Loots Narot.tos.
Burma was born on the 15th ot October,
1784, at Limoges, and was eonsegeently 84 years old
when he died. He was the son of M. Jean Amboise
Bursa, Chevalier BtOgnegr de la Pinconnerie, end of
Francois, de fluttan-de-Clonard, who demended from
a family in Ireland. He entered the French army in
1806, was made corporal at Austerlitz, and a year
afterwards had the rank of sub lieutenant. After
serving with great distinction in the wars el the em-
pire, he had reached the rank et colonel in 1814. Io