The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY, 6 30 P.Y.
All dnubts are now removed as the Pieimontese
and Austrian n•gociation. The pretended accepta-
tion by Piedmont of the ultimatum so pertinaciously
put forward in several quarters, turns out to be un-
true. M. de Briick, who, as we hare already stated,
had started for Vienna on the evening of the 23rd
inst., brought away with him tre ultimatum, modifi,d
in the sense of its passible acceptation by Piedmont.
It was impossible that an answer could be received,
or that M. de Bruck could return to Turin so soon as
the 27th, which is the latest day from which we bare
intelligence from the Sardinian capital. The couater-
neee grewly modified some of the demands of Aus-
tria, and it is to be hoped that M. d'Azeglio may not
have to submit to the hard conditions that Austria
has endeavoured to impose.
M. douin, reporter of the committee of finance, has
presented a report in the name of that body, adopting
d'urgence the proposal to raise that portion of indt-
re.t taxes raining specially to departmental and com-
mercial expenditure. It may be recollected that the
minister elated that without this sum, which amounts

to 4! millions, the conseik generaux, which meet on
the 13th of August, could not be assembled. M.
Gonin' in the name cf the committee, also expresses
regret that the budget should he proposed in small
pieces, but he thinks it better to do even that than to
keep back the entire budget so long as to render ne-
cessary votes of douzicnwa preeisoires.
In the Assembly to-day the project of law on the
organisation of the courts of law was referred to a
committee. The project of law has for its object to
render inamorible the judges of the divers courts in
France. A project tending to abolish the payment
by workmen by a certain number of days of labour
was also referred to a committee. It is habitual for
workmen to perform three days' labour in return for
certain advantagesgranted to them, and it is to abolish
this that the prejectof law is intended. The bureaux
sat to-day. to name a committee for the purpose of
considering the demands for permission to prosecute
two representatives. The authorisation was granted
by all the bureaux. The commissioners named to
consider the project of law on the state of siege are
all faveurable to its adoption.
The commission chosen to consider a project of law
tending to the choice of a committee of thirty mem-
bers, whose duty it would be to examine all plans
favourable to the resumption of work, have decided
against the measures. It was under debate in the
Chamber up to post-hour.
The loan of six millions of the department of the
Seine was not adjudicated to-day, the highest bid
not having recched the minimum fixed by the muni-
cipality. The bid only reached the sum of 980 f. for
' each obligation of I,OOOL
The president's journey has caused an immense ex-
citement through the departments that he has passed.
Letters from Mans state that whole families, crowded
into carts and carrying provisions with them, have
crowded to see the ruler of the republic. According
to some journals, however, his reception at Angers has
not been as pleasing to him personally as it promised
to be. There was an immense concourse of people,
but the shouts were much less personal than the pre-
sident might have desired.
"It was," says the Assernhlie Nationale, "posi-
tively stated yesterday, in the lobbies of the Assembly,
that the ex-King Louis Philippe had the intention,
for the most pious object, to demand permission of
the French government to make a pilgrimage to
Dreux, where the bodies of the Duke of Orleans and
other members of the ex-royal family are deposited.
The ex-king would only remain two days, and would
return again to England. He would assume the title
of Count de Ponthien, and would only be accompanied
by a valet-de-chambre."
The Uhion says :—" The President of the Republic
intends, on the 15th August, to have a grand review
of the troops forming the garrison of the department
of the Seine ; 150,000 National Guards and army will
be assembled. It is positively stated that three crosses
will on this occasion be distributed to each regiment;
one to officers, and two to sub-officers."
The Patrie says :—" It was stated yesterday, at the
Assembly that Marshal Gerard is to resume the func-
tions of Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, which he
discharged at tho revolution of February, sad from
which he was brutally dismissed by the provisional
government. In case the marshal's state of health
should not permit him to take the office, General
Arrighi de Psdoue, the eldest of the generals of divi-
sion, will, it is raid, be appointed."
The death of Marshal Molitor reduces the number
of officers bearing this rank to five.
M. Dafournel has presented a proposition to the
National Assembly, to the effect that canals, railways,
docks, basins, the canalisation of rivers, and other
public works yielding revenues, and carried on by
companies, shall be conceded by a law which shall
enact the number of shares, the capital of each, the
rate of interest on the capital, the amount of the re-
ceipts, to be set apart as a reserve fund, &c., &c.
BOURSE.