The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Titenstms F.vrstso.
The 1:Ith Bureau completed the election of the
committee on the Municipal Bill, by choosing
NI NI. I k•-ouir. and Nlorellet, both hostile to the hill.
t it the ;;o nu miters of the committee, 17 arc against
the bill and Ist in favour of it. Still, the majorities
being in general very ianall, it is hoped that it may
be carried thnsigh the Assembly.
The onuntittee on the Nlninciptil Bill met at one,
to constitute its General Lamoriciere was thoucn
president NI. de I.aboulie t ice-prvsitlent ; M. de
Larry seentary ; M. Fareonet vice-secretary. All
thew appointments are against the bill. Lamoritiere
sa. (host si by ballot against Odilon ltarrot.
The ably resumed to-day the discussion of the
Mortgage Ihll. The bill on private correspondence
by telegraph was plated on the order of the day for
Kitunlay. M. do Gennitty, Minister of Finuncex,
pnsentttl a hill demanding an extraordinary credit
old:12,0110k. for tlw payment of 11w half-yearly in-
terest MI the Greek loan guaranteed by France. Ile
demanded urgency. The hill was referred to the
committee on supplementary credits.
M. Passy presented the report of the committee
appointed to examine the bill demanding a credit of
2.21.4.000 fr. for mainlining on a war footing the
French army of oecuptithat in the Ito States.
It RIM rt`pOrted this afternoon, in well-informed
quarters, that the Assembly would only hold in future
three sittings during the week, and consecrate the
wmaining three day a of work to the examination of
the organic laws, reserved for future legislation by a
decne of the Constituent Assembly.
Yon may remember that, sin the occasion of the
disaster ut Angers, the Provident subscribed 2,000 fr.
for the relief of the fsimilies of the victims who
perished by thedestruction of the suspension-bridge.
The .Iswinlily voted subsequently 100,000 r. for the
same siliso. Well, it stems that in the accounts
press steed to the Assembly relative to the employ-
must of this credit, the repnYluent of the 2,000 fr. sub-
lambed by the President figures as an item. Every
one knows too well the generous character of Louis
Napoleon to suppose that he could have been privy
to a transaction of the sort, which must have origi-
nated. a ith some blundering official. Still, the
enemt.es of the l'resident have caught up the story,
and circulated it with malicious activity.
The government has issued a second warning in
the Miosi'rair against the enrolment of workmen for
tlw so called military colony of Montevideo, by the
agents of the Montevidean 'government ; and adds
that the persons forniing such an expedition will ex-
pose themselves to disappointments and penalties of
every kind, if they succeeded in baffling the prohi-
hoonitof the French government.
The ifuniterr contains a statement of import-
duties during the month of January. These amount
to 8.2 I.ollltf. The corresponding amount of 1830
was 9.203,tff10f. ; and of ltil9 8,333,000(.
It is said that among the new prefects will be M.
Itomien, a noted intimate of the Flysee. The quar-
ter destined for him is Toulouse, represented in the
Assembly by the l'resident's arch-enemy N. de
lb musat. As the journey of inspection, which the
prefects make through the communes of their depart-
ments, takes place towards the end of April, the new
prefectional appointments arc expected very soon.
N. Itothwhildhasjust had constructed in the docks

'of Bordeaux the largest merchant ship which has
been seen in France, of 1,500 tons burthen. She is
to be called La Ville de Frankfort, in honour of the
Native place of the Rothschild,,'; and is destined to
=eke her first trip to California, where the house of
Rothschild possesses a large establishment.
The funds experienced to-day a sensible decline.
The Fives closed at 95.40, with a fall of 20 centimes
on yesterday.
The Court of Cessation is actively occupied with a
curious suit, which has been debuted with various
fortune during long years, nothing less than the
award of the inheritance of Cardinal 3lazarin, which
is disputed between two collateral branches. Dupin
sits in court as Proeureur-general. All the chambers
al this court have been assembled these last two
a..., under M. de Portalis as president.
' 'the council of state has just decided that railroads
adjudicated by the government cannot be subjected
to the tax on property held in mortmain, imposed by
the law of February, 1549. This judgment, pro-
nounced in favour of the Paris and Orleans railway,
is founded on the plea that such railways do not
belong to the companies to which they arc adjudi-
cated, but form part of the public domain.
The Patric, of yesterday evening, says :—" The
Augsburg ria:ette publishes a statement, to the effect
that the Sublime Porte had declared an ultimatum to
the Pasha of Egypt, and that Abbas Paella had
refined to accede to it. We must observe that our
correspondence from Constantinople, dated the sth of
February, does not make any mention of such a fact,
which, &sides, singularly loses its gravity in the
eyes of every one who knows the real state of
things. In fact, after the war of Egypt in
1840, by a convention signed at London on the
15th or July of that year, the question of right
between Turkey and Egypt was perfectly regu-
lated. It was decided on the one part that the
Sultan should accord to the direct descendants of
Mehemet Ali the administration of the pachalik of
the la.-

Egypt, but that, on the other hand, all i. _ laws et
the Ottoman empire should be in vigour in that pro-
vince. This convention was ratified by the great
powers The Porte, having constantly fulfilled its
engagements towards the Pacha, has the right to
require that Egypt shall be governed by the same
laws as the other provinces of the empire. If the
empire be in progress, Egypt must be so also. If
she refuses, she incurs a grave responsibility, not
only to the central government, but to the powers
which signed the convention of July lv, 1840.
The iron-masters, assembled at the recent fair at
Besancon, resolved that, in consequence of the rise in
the price of the fine iron of Comte for casting, the price
of fine iron shall be increased 30fr. the 1,000 kilos.

ITALY.
LOMBARDY.

The Milan Gazett, of the I Ith announces the
arrest of 20 persons belonging to the band of ll Pas-
sature, near Faenza and Cesena. Seven more men,
suspected of forming part of it, have been arrested on
the territory of Ferrara.