The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-23 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Letters from Lisbon, received by way of Madrid,
announce that the King has applied to the Queen
for leave to pay a visit of three months to Germany.

BELGIUM.
Yesterday no ministry had yet been formed.

ENCUMBERED EsrATga.—We may state that it is
not likely that any bill for extending the duration of the
Encumbered Estates Commission will be introduced in the
present session of parliament. Should such a measure be
deemed hereafter expedient, there will be ample time for
introducing it in the next session, as the right to present
petition. for sales may be exercised up to July, 18.52. We
may avail °unwires or the present opportunity to contra-
dict a report circulated, wo understand, r._ry generally
amongst the legal pmfession in Ireland, that it is intended
to transfer the commissioners' jurisdiction to the Irish Court

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FRANCE.
PARIS, THURADAY EVENING.
After the usual deposit of petitions for revision,
the Assembly proceeded to discuss the proposition of
M. Moulin, fur referring all motions for the recision
of the constitution to a committee of 15 inumberl,
elected in general Assembly, by the absolute majority
of votes, eight days after the presentation of the iirst
of such motions.

M. Savatier-Larocho opposed the motion. The
struggle in the coming discussion was to be betwii•nt
monarchy and the republic, and he stood forth to
declare that in answer to those who would vaunt tho
benefits of monarchy, he would reply by enume-
rating its errors, ite defects, and its crimes. The
speech of M. Savatier-Laroche was less important in
its substance than as affording ground for continued
flashes of mutual defiance from Right and Left, in
the shape of interruptions, which signified un the
part of the latter the resolute determination to op-
pose the most vigorous resistance to every enterprise
for the restoration of monarchy, and on the part of
the Right an equal perseverance in a course which
they regarded us legal fur the re-establishment of
the thrune.

M. Moulin said that in compliance with the views of
the committee on his motion, he consented to drop
the principle of appointing the special committee in
general assembly. 'l he house agreed, by a large
majority, to take the motion into considerctiou.
General Cavaignac and the moderate republicans
abstained from voting.
The Assembly then passed to the discussion of the
proposition of M. Morin, for dispensing with the
rules which forbid a rejected motion from biing re-
submitted before six months in favour of motions ou
the revision. _

M. Lnclaudure opposed the proposition as useless.
He stigmatised the intrigues of the party of the
Elyse.° against the Assembly, and besought the
latter to content itself with the procedure laid down
in the 111th article of the constitution us rule enough
upon the subject. M. Morin defended his proposition.
M. Emile de Girardin was of opinion that M.
Morin's motion was as important as M. Moulin's was
a matter of indifference. ' The former meant to plant
a masked battery, and as such he at once set his taco
against it. It aimed at the subversion of the repub-
lic and the dissolution of the Assembly by au ex-
ternal treasonable pressure. Here M. de Curial ex-
claimed, " We have never descended into the arena."
M. Girardin replied, " You did not when you ought
to have done so." M. de Curial meant that he and
his friends had never descended into the street to
exercise a pressure on the national representation.
M. de Girardin said that they would see him and his
friends in the streets if they attacked the constitu-
tion. This announcement occasioned a tremendous
uproar, during which M. de Girardin exchanged re-
marks of much sharpness with several members, mid
particularly with M. de Montebello, and ;„nsticulated
vehemently, while the noise drowned his speech.
The president, M. Dupin, said to M. Girardin, " I
cannot suffer the flag of civil war to be brandished
at this tribune. You have occasioned a scene of
tumult ; your words imply a provocation. 1 call you
to order.'

M. do Girardin, continuing with more calm, de-
clared that it was out of place to abuse rebels in a
country where there had been three revolutions, and
where the abusers owed what they were to those re-
volutions. Whatever might be the fate of such mo-
tions as the present, and whatever the opposition side
of the house might do, the result would make no
difference in the numbers of the vote. The only
resource would be an 18 Fructidor. But who would
dare to undertake it?

M. Coddle, in answer to M. do Girardin, said:
No; they ought not to abuse rebels, but to execrate
them. The motion left the Assembly flee to choose
the moment at which it would consult the country,
and no serious objection could be made to it.
The motion was taken into consideration by a large
majority. Both propositions will be examined to-
morrow in the bureaux, which will appoint a binglo
committee to report on both.
The Sugar 11111 was then resumed. Articles 6 and
7 were voted without debate. The sitting broke up
without any further occurrence of interest.
The division of 321 against 242, which took place
Testerdayin favour of puttingthe proprositiou of MM.
Moulin and Morin on the order of the day for to-
day has been the subject of much commentary. many
contending that this is to be esteemed a just measure
of the opposing forces on the revision question, while
others hold that many were induced to vote on tho
republican side, by wishing to finish the Sugar Bill as
soon as possible.
The Electoral Union has adopted the following
form of petition:
RvuItEKMNTATIVIS—The constitution itself has fixed tho
period of its revision ; the moment is come far you to deli-
berate on this grave question. To the eyes oral the friends
of order, without exception, the defects of the constitution
are demonstrated. 'I 'o it are to be imputed the sufferings
of the present and the dangers of the future. Representa•
fives, we respectfully request you to decide that the consti-
tion be revised.
The Conslitutionnel says, that, although this peti-
tion is not identical with that of the itue Neuve St.
Augustin, yet the same spirit has dictated both, and
signatures to the one may be regarded as adhesions
to the other.

In the departments the petitionary movement
takes a more decided colour, and pronounces directly-
either in favour of the prolongation of the l'resident s
powers, or the restoration of the legitimate monarchy.
M. Vesin has presented a motion for appointing a
special committee to examine and report upon peti-
tions relative to the revision of the constitution. Its
first report must be presented three days before tho
formation of the committee for examining motions
fur the revision.

The committee on the Municipal Bill decided yes-
terday that the councils-general should hold only 0110
ordinary session, of one month's duration; but that
it should be competent to hold another extraortlinary
session of fifteen days duration.
Tue remarkable article of M. de faunartine is the
universal object of criticism in the press of to-day.
The moderate republicans have prepared a mani-
festo setting forth their reasons for opposing the re-
vision of the constitution, which will be published in
the Sleek of to-morrow.

Although little light can be thrown upon the state
of public opinion by the indication of partial results
gleaned from dubious sources respecting the number
of petitioners in favour of revision, a vague term,
I may announce, on the authority of the Bulletin de
Parts that in the department of the Cote d'Or
40,00(1 signatures have been obtained to such peti-
tions.