The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TIMWODAY ETZNIWO.
To-day were opened the restored galleries of the
Louvre. Everybody knows that for years some of
these splendid halls have been occupied by masons'
ladders and heaps of mortar. At last the result of
these labours is presented to the public ; and the
magnificent moms emerge richly clothed from the
tangled and chrysalis web of scaffolding and rubbish.
The President was there, surrounded by ministers,
generals, members of the institute, artists, and a
crowd of the ornamental sex. He spoke, but his dis-
course steered clear of all political allusions, and
dwelt upon the fine arts, which he felt it was one of
the important features of his mission to encourage
and foster. The ceremony. took place in the great
squarehall, where lovers of the divine art have so often
gawd with marvel on the immense Cana Marriap of
Paul Veronese, and was prefaced by a speech rem
Al. Leon Faucher. After the President had replied,
and complimented the artists upon their courage andl
perseverance, he proceeded to bestow the commander-
ship of the Legion of Honour on M. de Nieuwer-
kedge, the director, and inferior grades upon some
other artists. The Salle des Sept Cheminkes followed,
with its magnificent frieze the gallery of Apollo,
closed for SO years, was restored to the public eye ;
and last, the incomparable vista of pictures stretch-
ing away to the Tuilenes opened its magical per-
spective, with a pure and equally diffused light, now
streaming in from the roof. A burst of applause
from the numerous spectators hailed this noble sight.
To-morrow the unprivileged may gaze their full. I
must not forget to add that the President closed his
speech by some warm acknowledgments to M. Leon
Faucher, which have drawn the more notice in the
Chamber, as reports had prevailed that the Minister
of the Interior was about to be superseded.
To-day M. Leon Faucher presented in the Assem-
bly a bill for continuing to the government, until
June 18.52, the faculty of suppressing clubs. Mur-
murs from the Left made known the democratic
objections to the bill. The minister read the state-
ment of motives, and insisted upon the necessity of
not allowing those nests of agitation and anarchy to
be reopened, unless they wished to have to contend
with an armed insurrection. (Murmurs on the Left.
He demanded urgency for the bill. The demand
was opposed by M. Pierre Leroux, who said that by
consenting, the Assembly would only merit anew
the reproaches of the President by acceding with
alacrity to the measures of repression proposed by
his government, while they retarded his ,4 of
justice and relief towards the suff'ering times.
(Various movements.) M. Chaper said that les was
present at the banquet of Dijon, and that M. nem
Leroux had misquoted the words of the Pnalistat
(Fresh noise.) Urgency was adopted.
M. Larabit yesterday presented the following pro-
position to the National Assembly:
1. That the Assembly shall express a wish for a revision
of Art. 4.5 of the Constitution as far as regards the re.
eligibility of the President of the Republic. 2. That suds
revision shall not be deferred to a new Constituent Assem-
bly, but be referred to the s ecereignty of the French
people, called to freely vote at the election of the President
of the Republic. 3. That to this effect a proclamation of
the Assembly shall inform the French people that to it
alone in virtue of its sovereignty belongs the right of de-
clanng by its vote whether it will or will not re-elect the
same P e 'dent of the Republic.

The committee on the Municipal Bill has revoked
its decision to give a share in the appointment of
mayors to the executive power, and has committed
the nomination of those functions to the municipal
councils. This is a triumph for the legitimists.
De Panat has been re-elected third questor.
In answer to the accusation of the Dijon speech,
that the beneficent intention of the President had
been thwarted by the Assembly, the Dibats pub-
lishes a long list of charitable laws passed by the
Chamber, one only of which, the law of public baths
and wash-houses, was brought forward by the govern-
ment.
M. dc Mornay, an intimate of the Elysk, is de-
puted on a journey to England. It is said that he
will have some interviews with the Orleans family.
Lamartine administers, in the Pays, a dignified
rebuke to the republicans for applauding the speech
of General Changarnier, as if those representatives
who had confronted the real dangers of May 13 and
June 23 had need of the patroaiaing assurance of a
military officer that they might deliberate in peace.
One must needs blush fur the publican Assembly
that, in its anxiety to be reassured against imaginary
coups Atat, could with enthusiasm catch at the sort
of order of the day which closed a speech fitter for a
camp than a tribune. Humiliating and deplorably
puerile are these prostration. before a military uni-
form, which denote an entire absence of the mascu-
line virtues and severe dignity of men who honour
military talent and courage in the field, but who
respect in themselves the character of citizens and
representatives. Such is the substance of this de-
served reprimand.
There was nothing new at the Bourse. The Fives
closed at 91fr., with a fall of 20c.; the Threes fell
13c., and closed at !Mfr. 30c.