The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 8 P.M.
A sharp contest took place to-day between the
moderate party and the ultra-democrats, on the occa-
sion of the monthly election of the president, vice-
president, and eecretaries of the Committee of Foreign
Affai'e. NI. de Mornay has been elected president, his
opponent beiog M. Betide, late Minister of Foreign
Affairs. M. A) lies has been elected vice-president,
against M. Baune, one of the most exalted of the
Monragnarde. MM. Hteekeren and Edmond de La-
fayette. both moderates, have been elected secretaries,
the competitors being MM. Zavier Durrien and Bu-
'racier, ultra-democrats.
There is a report this afternoon, which I have not
been able to authenticate, that government have
received despa•ches from Italy, announcing the ad
vance of the Austrians into the legations. It is cer-
tain, I believe, that despatches have arrived, but their
contents are conjectur 41.
The ceremony of the installation of Prince Jerome
Bonaparte as governor of the Invalides took place
to-day. The Prince made the following address,
which was received with the green st enthusiasm, and
interrupted and followed by crime( " Vive la France,"
Viva le frdre de l'Empereur :"
Officers, Subalterns, and Invalids,—The government of
the Republic, in callow me to the honour of commanding
you, and of confiding to me the guard of the tomb of the
Emperor, my brother, desired to express the wish of the
French people. It Is in this vie. I have accepted, with pride
and gratitude, this holy and pion, mission. Inca ids,soldiers,—
I will watch over you as the Emperor has watched over me
from my earliest years. The Emperor owed much to France,
but hie f.mily owe still more, wherefore we shall
f owet that, at from the people, there is no sacrifice too
gram to serve her. Let us then shout, my friends, fr-m the
bottom of our hearts, " Vive la France ; ' " Tout pour la
France ;" Rien que par la France."

We read in the Monitemr By a decree, dated
the 2nd inst., Via-Admiral Cecilia is appointed am-
bassador from the French Republic to the court of
Great Britain, and M. de Legrenee is appointed Ple-
nipotentiary of the French Republic at the conferences
which are about to commence at Brussels for the met-
dement of the Uslian question."
The committees having a jetted the proposition for
the dissolution of the Assembly on the 19th M irch,
the following modified proposition has been pre-
sented by M. de Puss
The Amenably adopts the following resolution :—" The
committee of ®neon will demand of the ministers the docu-
ments nemessry t arrange their respective budgets. 'Ashen
make its report to /be Assembly at the earliest momer,h and
the disc eaton shall commence immediately. The Amenably
shall dissolve itself after hen • g voted this huditet and the
tel organic laws : 1. Toe law on the responsibility of
public of era 2. The law on the council of state. 3. The
s'.ectoral law. 4. The law on the organisation of the state
else„
The rejection of the project for the dissolution of
the Assembly in the committees will mot prevent that
perfect from being brouga forward in the Assemby,
when a deb etc upon it will speedily take place.
It appears, by a report published kr the French
government, that the rsceipts of the French customs
during the eleven months ending the 30:h of Novem-
ber lest, amounted to 80,448.000 francs, while their
amount in the corresponcing months of 1847, was
123.574,01'0E, the falling off being about 33 per cent.

The Constitutionntl of this morning has the fol-
lowing, on the subject of the Anglo-French medi►tion
in Northern Italy
The Marquis of it envoy of Sardinia, has quitted Paris
to return to Turin, h is milord by his government.
Some journals deduced from this departure erroneous in.er-
ences. Thry have supposed that the over, of Brussels was
abandoned. OM the same day that If Hied was called to
Turin, the Sardinia' government addressed to the cabinets
of London and Paris a note, in which It atatad that the pre-
sent* of the Marquis Rod at Turin was desirable, and that
the intention of th•• cabinet of Turin was to appoint a sue-
wiser to him furnished whit the emus powers. This note
was perfeedy wall rewired by the two cabinets to which it
Ira. sr/dr-seed_
The Patric of last night, in reference to its para-
graph of the preceding night relative to the report

that Austria had declined to take any part in the pro-
posed conferences at Brussels on the subject of Italy,
says it has been asked if the information which it
gave was official It replies in the negative, and
observes that all its official communications are ac-
companied with the word " communicated." It aids
that its information was from another source, and
that the accounts from Turin induced it to believe that
the news is authentic. The accounts from Turin
alluded to by the Patric are that all communication
between Lomb irdv and Piedmont had been stopped,
by order of Radetsky, from the Ist inst.
The cholera is said to have broken out at Yport,
near Fecamp.
A slight shock of an earthquake has been felt in
the neighbourhood of Havre.
A slight fall took place at the Bourse to-day.
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