The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
Nothing has produced in Paris SO great a sensation
to-day as the extraordinary note of Cardinal Anto-
nelli to the Austrian cabinet, published by the Inde-
peradance Be/go (and given in another column).
Of the authenticity of this document there seems
no question ; and certainly there never entered
into the brains of an Italian priest a wilder
or more unprincipled scheme than is therein unfolded.
Antonelli's proposition is nothing more nor leas than
a plot for a -hostile surprise and ejection of the French
army of occupation by an overwhelming force of
Austrians and Neapolitans, in ease the French go.
vermnent should not voluntarily consent to withdraw
its troops.
I hear that England has made proposals to Franco
and Spain for intervention in Portugal, if the
monarchy should be upset by the republican party.
M. de Sauveterre has just started for Lisbon, with
fresh instructions for M. Adolphe Barret.
• The committee of the Rue de Tivoli Club has ap-
pointed M. de Falloux to propose to-night at tho
general meeting of the club a resolution in favour of
total revision in a monarchic sense. There is, how-
ever, a minority in the committee, at the head of
which stands M. Laboulie, which rejects revision
altogether.
Dr. Veron publishes to-day his second article in
favour of abolishing the law of May. He declares
that two months ago he held on this subject a con-
ference in his own house with important political
personages, some of whom are now ministers. Louis
Napoleon has according to him committed only ono
fault, but that is easy to repair. 1k has
allowed himself to be deceived by false am-
biances of union into abolishing universal suffrage.
If the two elections of May, lPt.2, take place under
restricted suffrage, the friends of order will be de-
terred front presenting themselves at the poll, while
the socialists will throng armed to the electoral urn.
The abolition of the law of May will disarm tho
socialists, the right feeling of tlw country will How
full in its natural channel and save France. Let,
therefore, the National Assembly and the President
open once more to the people the valves of universal
suffrage. Let the Assembly prolong the powers of
the President for four or live years, the formidable
organisation of the socialists, which can only la
maintained at a vast expense, and with the hope of
nn immediate triumph, will fall to pieces, while
work becomes abundant through peace, and pros-
perity revives. Such is the outline of this remark-
able article, which will find a wide echo throughout
France.

rienerul Aupiek is daily expected from Constan-
tinople.
The government is going to start General Mouton,
Minister or War, tbr the representation of the Finis-
term, vacant by the resignation of Admiral Romain
1 k•tbsses.

The Duke and Duches. of Genoa are expected at
Paris, on their way to the Exhibition in Englund.
Always important as it is to know the opinion of
the Amnia! dot Iklndx, it is not an easy tank to
translate into plain English the muddy columns of
M. Armand Berth'. Forced at last to sty .1111.11111Ig
upon the great question of the day, the ir.liotr mum-
bles, like an old lady disturbed front sleep,
through nearly two of its broad columns, a muss of
inarticulate, ponderous verbiage, out of which truss
of hay you may gather this needle, that the D, hots
thinks a legal revision, on the whole, the safer, as tut
illegal one would justify a rising of the social bits aga st
the law of May. The I) 6utu is, therefore, really for
adjourning the revision and maintaining the law of
May but It will give its vote to swell the relative
majority in favour of a revision which cannot tako
Marv. The /h4mits advocates two chambers, and
seems disposed. without speaking very clearly on the
subject, to support the prolongation of the Presi-
dent's powers.
An organ of the government calls upon the muni-
cipal ttttt ells to pass in their proximate sitting reso-
lutions upon the revision of the constitution, and how
they desire it, promising that the Assembly will not
dare to refuse the wishes of :17,nrin communes.;

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To-day M. ]lupin resumed the chair of the pre4-
deuce in the Assembly, amid numerous congratula-
tions from his friends.

M. Leon Faucher brought forward the bill of
which I gave notice some time ago for assimi-
lating the arrangements of the p i olice n I.rns and
its suburbs to those of Paris, and establishing at
refill of police at Lyons, with powers correspond-
ing to those exervisksi by the pretiet at Paris. Thu
minister of the interior demanded urgency. This
announcement was received with visible agitation
by the benches of the Mountain. The urgency,
notwithstanding the strenuous opposition of the
member for Lyons, M. Chattily, wits adopted M.
July, a membi,r of the Mountain, demanded the
referenm of the bill to the examination of the com-
mittee on the Municipal Bill. M. Vutimeimil, the
reporter of that committee, demanded, on the eon-
tra7, that the new hill should be referred to a
special committee. After a speech of great violence
from M. Ilaudin, who was twice called to order by
General Redeau, summoned to replace M. Dupin in
the chair, the Assembly voted the appointment of a
spacial c 'MI: to examine the bill.
The house proceeded to pass the amended minion
of MM. ['retina and Sauvaire-lkirthelemy ',dative to
supplementary credits. The objections of M. Fould
to the incise indication of the ways and means, to
the obligation imposied on the finance minister to
become the channel of presenting all such credits,
and to the regular public-at' of the state of the
floating debt, having been admitted us valid, the
alterations introduced into the existing system are
trifling.
M. Fold (amidst loud laughter) presented a bill
for the prolongation of the tobacco monopoly.
A bill was then passed for increasing the salary of
the officers and soldiers of the rekubliean guard who
were decorated fur their services m June
The sugar bill was then taken hand.
. . .

The diminution of duty proposed by the committee
was opposed by M. Buffet, the Minister of Commerce.
M. Dumas, on the contrary, defended the reduction,
and was fur consigning in the bill the principle, at
least, even if the house were not disposed to vote the
reduction immediately. M. Charamaule opposed the
reduction of duty on native sugar, and mem 1111 l ended
that favour should be shown rather to the cultivation
of the vine. The debate continued, and will nut be
closed to-day.
The committee for drawing up a bill regarding the
street-sale of newspapers has adopted in its sitting
of to-day the principle of the motion of M. Base 14
equally proscribing all journals from the pavement.
But it has introduced un additional douse, au-
thorising the sale in newspaper offices, in booksellers'
shops, at railway termini, and in reading-moms.
M. Victor Lefrane is chosen member of the com-
mittee on the Avignon ltailway,in plum of Nl.Bineau.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France con-
tinues to increase, their being an augmentation of
41 millions in Paris, though a diminution of 24 mil-
lions in the provinces. The discount-uceommodation
in Paris has increased nearly 2 millions, and in the
branch banks nearly l millions; the amount of the
former being 46,142,9 l I fr., and of the latter
73,182,740'r. On the side of the liabilities, the
notesin circulation in Paris have diminished about
of a million, whilst in the provinces they have in-
creased 2i millions. The account current of the
btriiingurylo:itsinmicrew;firdlB.rimvailtltiatits,.wtuhnemsatn4Utliknou,net
declined in Paris !I millions, and increased in the
provinces 11 millions, the amount of the former being
85,298,1791 C., and of the Witt. 28,14 t,lOl fr. Thu
whole amount of the metallic reserve is now r)56 mil-
lions to 5221 millions of notes in circulation.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAT 11.
Sanchez, the Queen's attendant in her last um
couchement, has been dismissed, and I►r. Drumm
appointed in his Jame. General Ortega, the penional
enemy of the Minister of War, having gone into the
' country without leave, for electioneering purposes,
was arrested and conveyed to Vittoria. Ire will ho
tried by court-martial. Three candidates have en-
tered the field for the post of Foreign Minister—
Gonzales Bravo, Isturits, and the Duke of Rivas.
The latter is favoured by the court, and Isturits by
Christina.
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