The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENIND.
Latterly some doubts were expressed as to whe-
ther the President would dwell in his message on
the necessity of revising the constitution; and M.
Veron at least attributed to Louis-Napo!eon the wish
to avoid resorting to a constituent assembly for car-
rying the revision into effect. 'fo-day it is manifest
that all Bonapartist organs are working as hard as
possible to promote revision.
The Bonapartist Committee for the Revision of
the Constitution has addressed a circular, signed by
the chairman, M. Lavok.e, to its provincial cor-
respondents, urging them to send up all the petitions
possible for the revision; and to communicate reports
ibing the effects of the new policy on public
opinion.
Five of the most influential members of the
council-general of the Seine, which is now holding
its session, will move, on Tuesday next, a proposition
in favour of the revision of the constitution.

The conciliatory tone of an article of the Djhats
this morning indicates that the most important
fraction of the majority is by no means at
present in the same intractable temper which
dictated the declaration of war to which I
called your attention the day before yester-
day in the same journal. The lA,boes begins
by alluding to the support which it gave to the
President before the lute crisis, which took every
one by surprise. It was then anxious fur the rem.
siun of the constitution, one of the first results of
which would be the repeal of the 43th article. The
new attitude of the President calls for more circum-
spection, but not for retrogression on this point. The
/)'bats cannot be expected to put more con-
fidence in Louis Napoleon than his own mi-
nisters, who are said to disagree with him
on the abrogation of the law of May 31.
!It will not, then, oppose the revision of the
constitution, to whose defects may be attributed'
the present crisis, which is the eocitre-eortp of the
President's ineligibility. The moderate party has
not altered its policy on this point it' it has has on!
others. One of the points on which it has changed
is the different view which it takes of the attitude
becoming the Assemble. Compare the doings of the
Ppresent Committee of Permanence with those of the
ast. Last year the .Assembly made itself unpopular
by too much stirring, too much alarm. The country
wanted repose, which it was not allowed to enjoy.
, This year, if a crisis exists, it has nut been produced
by similar means. The Committee of Permanence has
received the announcement of a new policy of a new
ministry with the utmost calm and patience. Finally
the Dawes consents, although with regret, to mo
ditleations of the law of May 31.
The D'lstes reports that M. Corbin had declined
the portfolio of justice.
A cabinet council was held yesterday at the
Elyske, and presided over by Louis Napoleon.
' 'The omission in Conceal Sr. Arnaud s order of the
day of the usual exhortation to respect the law is
noticed as ominous.

The Senpyhore, of Marseilles, indicates that hos-
tilities on the point of breaking out between
France and Morocco. The French consul at Tan-
giers had ordered the vice-consul at Rabat to embark
all the French in the latter town, as a mitadron was
coming to bombard Sale, opposite Rabat, on the
other side of the river.

The French minister at Berne has received in-
structions from his government to pre-sent energetic
nmonstunces to the Swiss governtneut on the accu-
. mutation of d.=zu-atic crowaata, who are ready