The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FIIITUT EVIMING.
Ciissagnac's article in the Conatitraionnel is ac-
cepted by the various factions of the parliamentary
majority as a trumpet-blast of defiance from the
Riper:. The daily war carried on against socialism
is for a moment hushed, while the literary forces of
the legislative power turn all their tiro against the
adventurous policy ascribed to the President. In a
war between the two powers the socialists, friendly
to neither, would maintain a grim neutrality while
arming to oppose the conqueror. Cassagnac says the
President will die at his post. The words of Dijon
are recalled, that France shall not perish in his
hands. Right and lett throngh this famous article
flashes contempt fur the burgraves, who are styled a
dozen of intriguers, substituting the sovereignty of
their cabal for the sovereignty of France, and ready
to become the ministers of Beelzebub if Beelzebub
gave portfolios. Naturally such language is far from
agreeing with the stomach of the Wbetts, which to•
day for the first time shows serious hostility to the
re-election of the President. " When people dare to
affirm," says the burgrave organ, " that M. Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte is to be the elect of everybody,
they forget that, according to the constitution, he
can the elect of no one. Our confidence that the
Cense/to/Sonia will fail in this adventurous campaign
is founded upon a double guarantee—upon the good
sense and discretion of the country, sovereign and
definitive judge of this vital question, and upon the
honoured loyalty of M. Louis Bonaparte, who has re-
peated, upon a memorable occasion, the obligation of
his oath to respect the constitution. This solemn
declaration may be forgotten by his friends, but we
trust that it will be remembered by himself." Ac-
cording to the fashion of jealous and nearly-matched
rivals, when the blood of one is up the other is ob-
served to hesitate, so the the tone of the parliamen-
tary papers betrays a certain faiutncss of resolution,
which is no doubt a good deal the result of disunion.
They cannot yet agree to hoist ('hangarnier upon
their shields ; and that the ex-commander of the
army of Paris is the only man to head a Fronde has
long been obvious. The Ordre smothers its anger,
and calmly argues that a sincere fusion of the tour
sections of the party of order is possible for the elec-
tion of the Assembly although not for that of the
President. The former, it thinks, will take place not
sooner than April. M. Alfred Nettemeut deems it
incumbent on the President to give some distinct ez-
planation as to the course he contemplates pursuing,
after the article of the Conelitastionnel. All the
organs under the influence of M. Leon Faucher talk
of the reports of a ministerial crisis as absurd. But
while these reports are based upon so natural a
ground as a total contradiction between the leading
government papers, a semi-official assurance.of con-
cord implies concession upon one side or the other •
in this instance it is supposed that M. Lea;
Faucher has ceded, and is prepared to go more
considerable lengths with Bonapartism than
is warranted by his declarations at the tri.
bane. I must not emit, on the other hand,
to state that, according to the affirmation of M.
Gairot's pseudonym, Charles Rabon, Culler has been
to St. Cloud, and told the President that, if the abro-
zillion of the law of May were plainly avowed as
do policy of the sovernment, he could not Answer
Sr the prescreen= of order in the capital, And

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