The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
Yesterday, after having completely visited the
elintemt, and park, and other interesting features of
Versailles, the Lord Mayor returned to Paris, where
he and the aldermen partook of a private dinner
with the Prefect of the Seine. This morning the
visitors will inspect some of the most remark-
able prisons. In the afternoon, the Mayor, as I have
previously stated would be the case, was admit-
ted to a private audience by the President,
at St. Cloud, before the public entertainment. To-
morrow a rplendid rhYetiner will be given at the
English embassy in honour of the visitors; and in
the evening a grand ball will take place at the
Hotel de ills. On Wednesday, after the review,
the Mayor will dine with the Minister of
Foreign Affairs; and in the evening a choice
selection of pieces will be performed at the Opera.
On Thursday the party will be entertained at a
grand dinner given by the Minister of Commerce.
This will be the closing day of the fkes, and on
1 Friday the visitors will return to London.
The Ike at St. Cloud is to be prolonged beyond
the hour of half-past seven, fixed for its termination,
in order to give the representatives an opportunity
of being present after the sitting of the Assembly.
A considerable number of the English visitors
yesterday inscribed their names, or kit their cards,
at the Elysee, for tho President of the Republic ;
amongst them were Lord Granville, the Lord Mayor,
Mr. Nloffatt, M.l'., the lion. Capt. Searlett, Mr.
Under-Sheriff Ellis, of London, Aldermen Moon and
Wire, the Mayor of Nottingham, fie.
Parties are now beginning seriously to occupy
themselves in their secret councils with the choice of
a candidate for the presidency of the republic. With
the exception of the partisans of Louis Napoleon,
whose boast it is that his name is the only one that
has no need to wait for opportunity, all parties are
wonderfully unanimous in this, that nothing would
be so perilous to the success of any candidate as the
premature declaration of his name. The legitimists,
from the difficulty of their position, are less able to
resolve upon any positive course of action than other
The mass of the party who follow
M. Berryer are still determined to fight the battle
of revision. In the event of a final defeat on the re-
vision question they have a settled belief, in spite of
M. Berryer's protestations against the unconstitu-
tional re-election of the President, that the necessary
pressure of events will lead to that result. Unless and
until any unexpected chance of realizing their hopes
in favour of Henry V. should occur, they are disposed
to regard the continuance of the present re'itime as
the least evil that could befall them. The ultra-
legitimists, however, proclaim loudly that the re-
public is better than Bonapartism. They think it
folly to shut their eyes to the filet that the revision is
impossible, and royalty for the present hopeless.
Their journals, of which the Opitinw l',Wipte is the
principal, arc writing vigorously upon the necessity
of fixing upon a candidate. The report that the
Orleanists will seriously bring forward the Prince
de Joinville assumes more probability every day.
An article in the Ordee of yesterday, bearing the
signature of M. C'hambolle, the representative, states
that the moment to take a resolution with respect to
the Prince de Joinville has not yet arrived, but that
if his candidature should one day appear to present
a chance of success, he has no doubt that it will be
boldly and openly brought forward. Ile adds
that those who pretend that it would be inconsistent
with the Prince de Joins-ilk's honour to become a
candidate, show a great deal too much zeal. M.
Berryees paper, the (Von, of this morning, alluding
to the above article, declares it to be a state paper of
great importance, bemuse it is signed by a represen-
tative of the people whose political connection with
the most ultra-orleanists is known and admitted.
Meanwhile all is activity in the republican camp.
The Natimsol of to-day protests with energy, that
they will merge all shades of difference, sacrifice all
personal predilections. and even vote fur a personal
enemy rather than there should be :my division in
the republican party. It has for sonic time
been rumoured that General Cavaiginte is
willing to abandon his pretensions in favour
of M. Carnot. It is now said that M. Ledru holden
will do the same, and that the recent interview be-
tween him and M. E. de Girardin turned upon this
subject. If this be true, it is not improbable that M.
Carnot, who is a respectable man, with a name
known to history, personally unobtrusive, and not a
main likely to make enemies, may become the favour-
its republican candidate.
In the Assembly to-day the remaining article of
the bill relating to the loan of 30,000,000 fr. by the
city of Paris for the prolongation of the Rue Rivoli,
was adopted, and the bill passed by 417 votes against
Is if. The treaty betweeen the city of Paris and
the bank of France for the advance by the latter
of 23 million francs, in anticipation of the
above loan, was also adopted. M. schuelcher
then presented the report of the 13th standing com-
mittee upon the election of M. Waise in the depart-
ment of the Nord. The committee reported that the
proceedings of the election had been regular, but (by
a majority of 1G to 13) they recommended that the
election should be annulled upon the ground that all
the citizens of the department had not been inscribed
upon the voting lists. This proposal, which was
nothing more nor less than a requisition of the As-
sembly to vote that their own celebrated law of the
Ist of May was illegal, produced an immense sensa-
tion. 31:Schadclier felt it his duty to declare that
the minority of the committee protested against the
report. The Assembly voted the previous question,
and continued the election of M. NVaisse. l'he bill
for establishing a bank at Algiers was then dis-
cussed, and carried by 532 to 32. The expected dis-
cussion on the Paris and Lyons Railway did not
come on.

The report presented on Saturday by M. 0. Bar-
rot, in the name of the internal administration, re-
lates to the cantonal councils. The committee has
preferred, to the systems presented by the councils
of state, that which had been already proposed in
1837, and which recommends that the councils
should be composed of all the mayors in each com-
mune. In such communes as contain a population
of above 3,000 souls, one or several supplementary
members may be added. For the mode and condi-
tions of nomination for these delegates the com-
mittee has adopted the arrangements decided on by
the council of state.

A speculator at Bordeaux is organising a pleasure
trip round the world. Tickets, IsOf. each.
The Bourse opened firm to-day ; but, owing to
large sales by an influential broker, there was a fall
towards the close. The Fives fell 23e. and closed
at 93.60. The Threes fell 20c., and closed at .5.20.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1851.