The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

French goverment is entirely unconnected with this re-
cruitiag, which has be.ni undertaken without its consent,
and it is resolved not to authorise any expedition of tlis
kind.
It is said that before the government had crushed :
the Monte Video enterprise Laio passports bad been ,
prepared at the Prefecture of Police for the recruits
enrolled.
The funds recovered today much of the firmness
which they had loi.t during the last three days.
There was a rise in the Fives of 25c., which nearly
balanced the full of yesterday.
MM. Alexandre Dumas, Mere, the Marquis do
Grimaldi, anti Lieut. de la Pierre, seconds in the
duel between MM. (*harks Hugo and Viennot of the
Cursaire, appeared to-day before the (*hombre Cot-
rectionnelle to appeal against the fine of NOE im-
posed on each of them. fhe chamber confirmed the
previous sentence.
Report says that Count cfOrsay is appointed mi-
nister to the court of Hanover, and that the Duke de
Guiche is to be First Secretary of Embassy in
London.

SVNIMV EVENING.
The next political question of magnitude which pre-
sents itself in France is the revision of the constitution.
As this question cannot, according to the rides of the
constitution, be entertained before the third year of
the Legislative Assembly's existence, we must wait
until the end of May until any proposition can be
brought forward on the subject. Meanwhile, it is
perketly clear that the adversaries of Louis Napo-
leon, on both sides of the Chamber, have a para-
mount interest in maintaining the present constitu-
tion, simply because it excludes him from re-
election. Iu order, therefore, to prognosticate the
fate of the question of the revision, which requires
fir its success a majority of three-fourths of the house,
we have only to ask ourselves what chance there is
of the 396, who have given the most emphatic pledge
of their opposition to the President by voting against
the flotation, being reduced to somewhat less than
half that number. Now there is not at this moment

any reason to suppose that one of these 396 will be a !
bit more friendly to the President three months
hence than he is to-due. M. Thiers says that he is
not in the habit of making a half opposition, and we
may be pretty sure that he will keep his word.
M. Berrver, notwithstanding all his past sup-
port to the government in the cause of order, would,
if he truly represents the legitimists, rather sec a
fresh revolution than the triumph of the President ;
for a fresh revolution would give the legitimists a
much better chance of coming into power. The
Mountain is equally bent on excluding the President ;
because his government is strictly, inexorably, con-
servative. The revision must, therefore, in all
human probability, be thrown out ; and the Assembly
remaining of this mind to the end of its term, in May,
Louis Napoleon will be by law excluded from
the number of candidates for the presidency. The
coalition will then have to pitch on their candidate.
The royalists, remaining divided on the ques-
tion of' which monarchy is to be restored, and
when, will evidently be obliged to sacrifice their
Monk, Changarnier, and receive a candidate from the
Left, either Cavaiguac or Lamoriciere. This natu-
rally brings us to the subject of M. Creton's motion,
postponed some time ago to the Ist of March. The
general opinion is that this motion will be rejected
by a considerable majority. So far the Assembly's
course is quite clear. It is not quite so clear, how-
ever, whether that course, which is to all appearance
at variance with the wishes of the majority of the
French constituency, is so decidedly in antagonism
with the national will ns to necessitate a revolt from
the law and bring matters to the arbitrament of a
fresh revolution. Unless the French nation declared
its preference of the President by soine such spon-
taneous movement of enthusiasm as gave birth to
the election of the 10th December, the probabilities
are in favour of the maintenance of the law.

The diplomatic world is much occupied by the pre-
ration. on the part of the great German powers for
destroying the independence of Swit*erlund.
The note relative to the measures decided on by
Austria and Pni.ssia against the Swiss confederation
bas been communicated to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and M. Broder has laid it before the council
of ministers. It proposes to put in execution the
plan adopted in 1847, to restore the former consti-
tution and ancient government, and to claim the
principality of Neufchatel in the name of Prussia.
tederal corps d'arrt* of occupation would
amount to 100,000 men, of whom Prussia and Austria
would furnish 35.000 each, Bavaria and Wurtemburg
20,000, and the other German states 10,000 men.
It is said that the declaration recently made in the
Assembly by the Minister of the Interior, relative to
the application of the electoral law of the 31st May
to the election of the President of the Republic, as
well as the proclaimed intention of the government
to support that law, was the expression of the per-
sonal opinion of M. Waysse. No deliberation on the
subject has taken place in the council of ministers.
The Pays, to which paper M. kloequart has just
administered a hint to stop once for all the subscrip-
tion agitation, has now taken up the line of avenging
the President on the Assembly for rejecting the
Potation, by advocating the retrenchment of the
salary of representatives.
A new evening paper, entitled the Messages de
l'Assemblee, made its first appearance last night.
The name of this organ, which is conducted by MM.
Foreade and Solar, sufficiently indicates its political
tendency. You may remember that MM. Foreade
and Solar withdrew from the Pattie in consequence
of the strong Elysean bias impressed upon that paper
in the disputes between the Committee of Permanence
and the executive power.
The council of ministers was occupied yesterday
with the proposition for amnesty and the German
question. It was resolved to address a fresh protest
to the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin against the con-
templated violation of the treaties of 1815.
The Monitear contains some changes in the mili-
tary commands. The most important of these is the
appointment of General Herbillon to the command of
the Ist brigade of the 3rd division of the army of
Paris in the place of General Julien, placed in dis-
posability.
General Julien was one of the four generals of

brigade wider Changarnier.
Yesterday we were informed by the International
that Narvaez had left Bayonne on the llth to return
to Spain. To-day we read in the Debuts that the
Spanish hero has reached Paris. For the rest, this
is the third announcement of the Duke of Valencia's
arrival in the French capital.
The dismissal of lift v-four prefects and sub-prefects
is now decided on, and is expected to appear in the
Moniteur in a few days.
The club of the Rue des Pyrainides has appointed
a board ; MM. Baroche, Beugnot, and Faucher have
been chosen presidents.
Admiral Romain-Desfos4s, now at Brest. hoists
his flag on board the Chaptal, to repair to his com-
mand of the French naval station in the Levant.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.

Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 10th
Feb., shows the difficulty encountered by the govern-
ment in carrying out the new administrative changes,
both from the reluctance of prelates and cardinals to
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accept office, and the remonsirances of provincial de-
putations. On account of the sudden deaths preva-
lent in Rome, the cardinal vicar had ordered prayers
to be put up to St. Andrew of Avellino. Our cor-
respondent mentions an extraordinary will of the
late advocate Pemichini, and the scandal caused by
it amongst the clergy. in consequence of it com-
mencing with some satirical animadversions on their
body. The Jesuits are rather in disgrace. The French
arc fortifying points round Rome. A railway con-
tract has been concluded from Bologna to Ancona.
The anniversary of the republic was celebrated
with tricolour illuminations, in spite of military de-
monstrations on the part of the French.