The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SAITADAT EtINING.
For the last two days the Prefecture of Police
has been thronged with foreigners of all nations.
Conformably to the prefectorial decree, they have
come to furnish to the administration their names,
their addresses, and every information relative to
their means of existence, and to the bonds which at-
tach them to our country. Twenty supernumerary
einidomh have been added, in order to receive the
declaration of these foreigners, who amount in num-
ber, it is said, to 30,000 in the department of the
Seine alone. The twenty additional clerks are in-
sufficient in number to meet the necessities of this
decree of M. Cartier. The above-mentioned foreign-
ers are compelled to wait the whole day from morn-
ing to night at the gates of the Prefecture. Cards
are delivered to them, in order that they may take
their regular turns. In presenting themselves at the
Prefecture they must be provided-1, with a pass-
port ; 2, with a certificate of residence, rie'd by the
commissary of police of their quarter; 3, with a
certificate stating the resources which they derive
from their industry, their labour, or their trade;
and 4, a certificate of good conduct. These formali-
ties being fulfilled, the particulars are taken down,
and they are dismissed, with a notice that the pre-
fect will send them, if he thinks proper, a pernass de
&your. All foreigners who are without families,
or whose means of existence are doubtful, must quit
France in 24 hours after receiving notice to
that effect. Already a great number among
them have been subjected to this alternative.
The faubourg of St. Antoine presents at this moment
a piteous spectacle. Yon are aware that the journey-
men cabinet makers in that populous and democratic
quarter are almost all Germans or Belgians; those
among them whose employers will not guarantee
their morality, or who declare that they will no
longer employ them, are expelled without indul-
gence. A number of them leave Paris this very day,
and many may, be seen directing their steps towards
the barriers with knapsacks on their backs and tears
in their eyes. Several democratic tradesmen and
men who had been amnestied have been the object
of domiciliary visits, and have been put into prison.
The Council of Discipline of the Order of advo-
cates at Lyons has suspended MM. Monillaud. Bonlot,
and Villcmain for a month for having signed the de-
claration of the advocates of the accused in theLvons
plot that they would not present any defence before
the court-martial.

The Minister of the Interior has withdrawn the
Borers ea booksellersfrom Lecomte do Beaumont and
Leblead, 149. Rue St. Denis. Yesterday the com-
missary of police of the section St. Sauveur closed
their shop, and *Bleed his seals on it. The crime of
these booksellers has been to promote the sale of de-
mocratic works.

M. Gamier-Pages, while making a democratic tour
in the arrondissement of Mortagne, has been sum-
moned before the Procurenr of the Republic in that
town, and received from him a severe reprimand for
propagating the principles of his party.
It is in contemplation to form a line of railway
which shall traverse France from east to west be-
tween Lyons and Bordeaux. Distinguished engi-
neers have already made surveys for this important
work, in which fifteen of the central departments
are interested. The councils-general of these (le-
ts will have this project immediately brought
trforsieleit2hem for examination.