The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TVESDLT, 11 A.m.
The sittings of the Conseils Generaux commenced
yesterday all over France, and the Moniteur to-day
gives the llama of the presidents and secretaries of
each council. It may be well to give a summa7 of
the in►tructions given by M. Dufaure to the prefeta
of each department in view of the meeting of these
bodies. Tie conncils•general will have to decide on
a plan of organisation for the service of the depart-
mental, communal, and cantonal administration. This
is a project which has ben presented to the Assembly
in Paris and is to form the subject matter of debate in
each coemil, and the minister of the interior will
frame a law from the joint results of the votes of the
eonseils getivaux. The discussion of this grave
matter will lead to that of the system of centralisation
hitherto adopted, and may induce a change in that
respect, inasmuch as M. Dufnure expresses himself
favourable to decentralisation in purely administrative

affairs whilst be will not yield on the point of politi-
cal centraliastien, which he considers all important,
and most be nalatained. The cowslip generous wilt
thus fix the exact legislation that is to regulate the
councils of prefecture, and will define as accurately as
possible the attributes of the prefers and sous prsfeta.
Thus nothing less is given to these meetings to decide
upon than the legislation of the several local adminire
tuitions of the country and the interests which they
represent, including the relations between these ad-
ministrations and the state. M. Defame informs the
prefets that the government has no plan of its own
podded beforehand, and that it will set according to
the wish of the majority of citizens put forward in
the meetings alluded to. The whole of the delibera-
tions will be eabmitted to the council of state, and af-
terwards to the National Legislative Assembly, where
they will act as documents in support of the organic
law which government intends to present.
Such are the subjects to which the conseils gene-
-111111 should de jure confine themselves. It is sup-
posed, however, that they will assume the right
to put forward a wish that a revision of the constitu-
tion may be proceeded with as soon as possible, and
this is a step to which several journals have already
pointed as a desirahle one.
M. 0. Barret, president of the council, left Paris
yesterday for Leon to take part in the labours of the
councils-general. M. Lskiniteis, the minister of
commerce, is to leave this day far Brussels, to be per -
seat at the experiments of NI. Melseas, in his now
process of making sugar.
The display of the waterworks yesterday at Ver-
spills', and afterwards at St. Cloud, ordered by the
government as a mark of attention to the members of
the l'eace Congress, went off in the most satisfactory
manner. Independently of these gentlemen and
their families, the crowd of visitors wail immense, the
curiosity of the nntravelled Parisian, whom even the
trains de plaisir had wooed towards London in vain,
being on the qui vire, at least as much to obtain the
nearest possible view of the English and American
travellers as to witness the Ides of the
day. The palaces and private apartments at both
places were entirely thrown open, and the honours
were dore by the authorities towards their visitors
with a ready and cordial assiduity that added large'y
to the gratification arising from this act of graceful
hospitality on the part of the government, which was
evidently felt and appreciated by all. Mr. Cobden
and his more distinguished brethren of the mission
were of course " the observed of all observers," and
the ladies, among whom many of the fairest of the
fair appeared in the modest gravity of the Quaker's
garb, obtained, it is unnecessary to say, their due
shire of notice and admiration from the gallant
Parisians. After ineyeeting the magnificent galleries
and noble apartments of the palace, the gardens
were the next general place of rendezvous, to wit-
ness the waterworks; and when that matchless
display of hydraulic art, the basin of Neptune,
and the numerous other fountains put forth their
magical effects, the English visitors expressed their
delight in the genuine hearty style of their country
by load and reiterated cheering, which made the vast
halls of the sumptuous old chateau ring to their echo.
The trains for St. Cloud were now rapidly filled,
and here the congress was received with the same
marks of distinction as at Vemailles: the crowd,
thoneh somewhat less, was very considerable. The
grand cascade wee beautifully illuminated ; in other
respects the waters played in the usual manner,
and the fete of this most agreeable day terminated
amid a general expression of delight and admiration.
The immense Petty, lighted through the park by
flambeaux, which attended them to the railway station,
then returned to Paris, apparently not more gratified
with what they had seen, than by the warm, cour-
teous, and cordial welcome with which they had
everywhere been received.
In the morning the English delegates of the Peace
Society had given a handsome drjruner at Versailles
to the American delegates, and passed a resolution
in honour of them. Mr. Cobden, es chairmen of the
English delegates, made a speech, in which he spoke
with great kindness of the American delegates, and
afterwards presented to each of them a copy of the
New Testament in French, with an inscription bear-
ing his signature. The speech of Mr. Cobden was
replied to by Mr. Allen, of Massachusetts. Alter de-
claring the delight with which the Americans met
their English brethren in the Congress of Peace, ho
said :

We *Tithe dmeendants of the Puri'ans who, from Leyden
in ling ,nd, and from the chalky cliffs of Englsnd, crossed
the wide ocean to had an mylum fu freedom—freedom as to
dell rights, freedom to read the bible, frre.!om to wonhip
God. We have crossed the oven and assisted in this con-
peso in order to give the world freedom irons wen.
Alluding to the slavery of the blacks in some por-
tion of the United States, he said, after explaining the
difficulties of the slave question :
Reproach not then the American government far not
abolishing slavery, but reproach it es mush as you please for
what has been done to extend the empire of slavery into new
states ; Terkel not behove I America, but reproach, if you
plass., If minis, South Carobs', or Georgia. Reproach
us not as a people in the mem.
In alluding to the reception which the members of
the Peace Congress had met with here, Mr. Allen
spoke in warm terms of Franco, but added :
What France wants, as it apprises to me, is not intellect,
is not science, is not literature, tests, refinement: bat the
familiar knowledge of the great truths of the Bib:e. One
of the kings el France expressed the wish that every wisest
in hie dominions might have a chicken in his pot. We will
express a different wish—that every French peasant may
have a bible in his cottage.
A pamphlet, entitled " rAppel an Penple," has lost
teen seized, by order of the president of the republic,
and *.st proa:cution has been commenced against the
author and printer.
Four of the members of the society of the Solidaritd
Repnblicaile, who were tried at the assizes of the
Aube, have been acquitted.
The past week has confirmed our hopes respecting
the approaching disappearance of the cholera. The
average number of deaths in the civil hospitals has
fallen to 18 per day, and there have been no new
oases in the military hospitals. Everything justifies
a hope that, by the end of the next month, the disease
will have totally disappeared from the capital.
BOURSE.

PARIS, Aro. 29.

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LOMBAUDY.—It is impossible to go further in
retrograde paths than the Austrian government is
doing at Milan. The Janissaries) whom Mehemont
Ali destroyed would not have acted otherwise thAi
we fir.d the sbirri of Radetzki acting at Milan on the
22nd. We have recounted the riot which took place
consequent on the exposition in the windows of •
house of ill-fame of an Austrian Hag. The unfortu-
nates who showed their detestation of the symbol of
their tyranny were taken up and bastinadotd. The
men in the public squares of Milan, and the women
in a retired place. This fact is not apcm yphsl—it is
on the faith of the official gazette of Milan. When
such is the conduct of Austria with regard to Italians,
can it be hoted that less barbarism will be shown
with regard to the lloogarians.
'TUSCANY.—In Florence government have put
down an attempt to commemorate Charles Albert by
a solemn masa. Oa this subject:
The Itisorgimento of Turin has the following from
Florence, 20th inst.:
A subscription has been opened here for a funeral cere-
mony to de celebrated to the memory of the Lae Charles Al-
bert, and permission had ken applied for to government for
the purpose. The permission was delayed some time, but
was granted at last, end the ceremony was to take place in
Banta
the church of San Croce. Half the inhabitants of Florence
intended to be present, notwithstanding the ceremony was to
be restricted within the limits of the grestest
There was to be a simple inscription over the dames follows :
"To Chutes Albert the Magnanimous," then th 4 arms of
Savoy over the cenotaph ; nothing else. Gen. d'Aspre even
published en order of the day to his troops inviting the
Austrian officers to assist at the ceremony. It FO ha:opened,
however, that the Sardinian ambusador, Velamaritt,
neglected an invitation to a grand (satin! given by General
d'Aspre in honoar of the anniversary of the Emperor of
Austria's accession to the throne. General d'Aspre took
offence at this, hastened to the ministers, end insisted on the
tuners, ceremony for Charles Albert being suspended,
which was aecordiogly done at the eleventh hour. Villania-
rine, it Is said, inceLsed at inch an insult, has written to bra
govemment for authorisation to celebrate a in:torsi ceremony
in the name of the Serlirien embotay. The Tuscan govern-
ment has extended its prohibition to Pita, Lucca, and all
other principal towns.

SAIWINIA.—In the sitting of the Chamber of
Deputies of Turin of the 23rd inst. the Minister of
Grace end Justice presented a bill on several reforms
to be introduced in different articles of the civil code,
in culler to make them harmonise with the constitu-
tion. The minister of finance also prcs,:nted a report
on the lituation of the public treasury, and the ways
and means to meet the present 8119,:ei91