The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Fatnai Eva:amt. li
Daroehe has declared distinctly in the t. ham- ,
bet today that the law of 31st May is the bounce of I,
the ministry. This is the event of the day.
There remains only one way
.of proceeding to the
tensions without provoking an uisurrection, and that ,
is the repeal of the electoral law of May. The party
in favour of maintining this law intact are now in •
decided minority in the Assembly, even the Union
having. in its article of to-day, admitted the modin-
(*timer proposed by the committee on the Municipal
Bill. Many rumours are in circulation as to a ca-
binet crisis occasioned by dissensions on this ques-
tion; hot no modification of the ministry can take
place until the return of M. Fould from the l'yreneee.
To-day, as usual, at the commencement of the As-
nombls's sitting, several petitions were presented for
the revision of the constitiou.
111. liouhier de l'Ecluse, an ultra-legitimist, at-
tempted. under colour of an appeal to the rules of
the house, to complain of the unconstitutionality of
014..4: petitions, which, he said, had been obtained by
ear-Lion and menaces; but the president, M. Lupin,
Interdicted him from speaking.
Al. de Dampierr brought up his report on the
election of General Durrit u for the Lander, the pre-
enntation of which, you may remember, was to be
the signal for the interpellations respecting the
'litmus telegraphic despatch of M. Faucher. M.
Dempierre des:lured that the committee, ;being of
opinion that the operations had been quite regular,
and that there ass nothing in the telegraphic des-
path complain of exercise in illegal pressure upon
the electors, admitted the validity of the election.
141. Madier de Nlimjau maintained, on the eon-
traly, that there could not be a more illegal and
ingookilous invasion of electoral freedom than the
despatch iu question ; and proposed that the Assem-
bly should remind the Minister of the Interior of the
tote of censure which had been applied to him on
May, Inl9, for abuse of the teli grah.
M. Leon Faucher sought to establish, by means of,
letters a hich he laid uddressed to the prefect of the
Landis, that he had always recommended neutrality'
tat en candidates who should not profess an adhe-
sion to extreme parties. Ile hail deenud it his duty
to add, in deknee of society, that she friends of order
ought to give their votes only to a candidate who
would take the engagement of defending the law of
May.
111. Vietor Lefrane, a member of the lierA-parti,
considered the despatch us an attack against the
rights of the Assembly, as well as against all those
members aho did not emisider themselves the
C114:1111111 of order, because they desired the abrogation
of the law of May.
M. neon Fren-her repeated his former observations.
M. Emile dc flirartlin maintained the illegality of
tine dispatch, which could leave no other effect but to
inlet It-re with the liberty of election. Ile attacked,
in spite of the renionittrancts of the AN:tenthly, the
unconstitutionality of the law of May, reminded the
Chamber of the gross abuts: of the telegraph which had
sdroad C. 11111.11 tin Ulll ttt I 11l our. vote of censure for the
Minister of the Interior when he WWI last in office-,
Riot announced that he should propose a similar vote
upon the present occasion, which ought to meet with
the concurrence of M. Faucher I ' •If, when he re-
ar inbered that lie hail, on Feb. 22, ISM, required
th.• impeachment of the ministry. Lastly, NI. Gi-
'unlit' shifted the object of his attack, and look M.
Intiopiel tle• reporter, to task fur the change which
hail come over his opinions since the address which
be hail issued to his electors iii April, 1418.
Al. Dampiern: gave M. Girardin tit lax tat, and
enumerated some of the metamorphoras which the
tali nod editor of the l'rr.Ne had gone through since
the same epoch. Finally he read SOIIIC extracts from
a pamphlet. entitled tt Guerre i l'.l.postasie: M.
Gino-din Pout pur Lui-minw.“ NI. (lirardin had said
that the executive power had hien taken prisoner
err 15114.

Citarditi replied that its capture was owing to its
:NA having been delendell.
M. llaroche, Minister of Foreign Affairs, defended
the despatch, and maintained that the government
lest the right to announce what system it desired to
triumph. lle declared aloud that the law of May :il
iwasthe Nag of the cabinet.

M. Ihip.Citt de Bussac then ascended the tribune.
Finally. the Amen'lily pnsysdid unit to vote on
the validity of the sleet' . which was contirnied by
41410 votes against 212. 'floe following motived order
of 11w clay, a,. proisrsed I.y M. (rwardin war then
pat to llw vole: —"The Asx•mblc. him ll ill g tlw tele-
graphic desisitelo sent by the Minister of the lute-
,r to the pmfir•t of the Landes sin the 9:111 of May,
posers to the order of the day." The Assembly
•doplorl, M• a majority of 3:2 votes against 2:0, the
pure loud simple ulikr of the day.
't h.• sitting then broke up.
T 1.,• fullouing members were chosen to-day on the
eon 111 l titre on the ikons of MM. Moulin and
Morin : MM. l'harumaule, de Surville, Gudelle,
II maim, Charenetty, Chassaigne•Goyon, de
(Nmil). This ll ill e lh-.nwzun•r. de kerdn•l (lle-et-1
1111461 w). :Boutin, Iretbb•n'-11urnNi•. Thurion de la!
Itruicre, lb•lagrene. l'oujoulan. de Broglie.
The great majority of the committer• arc favour-
able to both motion.. The only question is, the in-
t .veal tit which One mjeeted motion fur revision may
b• molested. This will probably be fixed at two
months.

Yestenlay the Assembly was visited by a precursor
of those storms which seem destined to explode in
the &Nee on revision. Emile do(firardin has
thrown tin lira shell into the camp of the enemies
of the n public. P .. i .. ting nut the masked bat tery
whirl' lurked lichind the motion of M. Morin. a nata-
l...king young Bonajoutist. he warned the Assembly
of tine wind' awaited it, if it exposed itself to
p, l nssli..tl 11.till1h11 from petitionary numikstatious
tom without and violent discussions from within.
At any moment the executive power could safely
extinguish on Assembly which had tlestroyed
unit. real suffrage, and it was only waiting for
the legislative body to Ullllerminv itself still further
fa girt- it, • I the applause of the nation, the nov-
el. -yror!. le I them remember the fate of the Con-
stituent. But, talk as touch as they pleased, they
could timer change the proportion of three-fourths.
nwared by the constitution. But the explisi• was
brought Amu by Ifirardin's allusion to the lEith of
Ilay. I uua' say, in tuldition to my report of yester-
day, which giver the correet details of this scene,
that among those who surrounded the tribune and
apostrophised M. Ginirdin with must violence was
the Duke of !Montebello• who drew on himselt a
crushing sarcasm in answer to his boast that he I
should be Mond among those who marched against!
the barricaths. • Where wen, you?" erica the,
orator. • When- were you. 'ster of Louis Phi-
lippe, on the 21th February ? You were conyealtsl."
Thus, M. de (tiranlin has mule himself in the tri-
bune Ow organ of the universal resolution of the'
inueratie party to appeal to arms in ese• the con-
stitution Is infringed.
M. Morin, the discussion of whose motion raised such
a tempest iu the Assembly yestertlay, is a llonaprrt ist.
Tlw objeet of that motion, as I explained in a former
letter, is to enable the motion for the revision to be'
renewed at the expiration of a month from its re-1
jalion. Ileum a monthly preasurc will be exercised
upon the Assembly to throw down the constitutional
barrier to revision which requires a majority ofthree-
f ills. What with the mass of petitions from
without, and the perpetually renewed discussion
within the Chamber it is hoped morally to annihilate.
the impediment of the minority, and to force a disso•
lution. The answer of the demotiratic pane to such:
a policy is iusurrection; and of this answer M. Emile
de Ciriirdin mask- himself• yesterday. amid the ap-
plause of the whole Left. the emphatic organ.
The delegates of the republican meeting held to
deliberate upon the propriety of getting up petitions
for the restoration of universal suffrage have pub-
UAW their reasons for deciding in the negative. '
The prevailing political excitement has thrown
into the shade an important bill. which was adopted
yesterday on the second reading, for the alteration
of the sugar duties, and may be eonsidered as post
Ity the pros isions of this law the system of types
and shades, which 'CM'S at present as a basis for the
application of the duty, is abolished, and replaced by
a tariff of duties according to the absolute richness
of the sugar, and its yield when refined. All the
refineries are consequently subjected to the control
of the excise. The gnidual reduction of the duty'
reposed in the original hill has been thrown
out, but the application of the new tariff will
operate as a relief. The duty has been fixed

at 50fr. the hundred kilogrammes for sugar
at par, that is at 100 dens. of the saccharometer ; it is
diminished by one franc for each degree below par,
so that sugar at 90 degrees pays only 40f. At pre-
scut the Ist type, which lays -13 f., is composed, with
few exceptions, of sugars whose richness varies from
90 to 92 degrees. The colonies will reap consider-
able benefit from this arrangement, their sugars of
the first type never surpassing 90 degrees, while
those of the native manufacture vary between 92 and
05; and the former having been forced hitherto to,
pay as much duty as the latter. It has been also
settled that during the next four years the
duty on colonial sugars shall be reduced sf. The
extra duty on foreign sugars has been reduced from
20f. to 111. Thus for 100 kilos. of sugar at par, 50f.
is the duty imposed upon native sugar ; for 100
kilos., 15f. during the next four years upon colonial,
and afterwards 50f.; Olt on foreign sugars. An
amendment proposing
a higher duty on slave sugar
was rejected. lint another amendment, moved by
Admiral Cecille, diminishing the extra duty still fur-
ther in favour of augurs imported from China, Cochin
China, and Manilla, was adopted.
The Cmseitutionnel declares the rumour that four

regiments were to be sent to Rome to be unfounded.
Only a battalion of foot-chasscurs of Vincennes is to
be sent to reptace a corps of corresponding strength.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France con-
tinues to increase, an augmentation of 71 millions
having taken place in Parts, and of upwards of 2'
millions in the provinces. 'The discount-accommoda- I
tion shows a very marked falling off, the Paris esta-
blishment having discounted 51 millions less,
and the branch banks two millions less, the
amount of the former being 40,600,1065 fr., and of the
latter 71,151,-Is3fr. On the side of the liabilities,
the notes in circulation have diminished millions
in l'aris. those in the departments remaining nearly
as they were. The account•current of the treasury
has increased 21 millions, the present amount being
1118,000,475 fr. Private accounts-current in Paris
have increased 31 millions, and in the departments
; half a million, the amount of the former being
89,006,1381 r., and of the latter, 26,656,767 fr. The
whole of the metallic reserve is at present 556 mil-
lions, to 522! million, of notes in circulation.
The Bourse to-day has had a better appearance.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAT 1/1.

Preparations are making fur re-opening the Cortes
on the Ist of June. The ministers count 217 Totes
in the new Chamber of lkputiea; progressists, 40;
moderate opposition, 30 ; absolutis:s, 8; independent,
151—total, 348.