The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY, 5.30 rag.
To-day in the Chamber the scrutiny for the vote
of thanks to the French army resulted in the atop•ion
of that tote. A debate was then commenced upon
the propreml to raise the stsve of seige. Cleo. Bedean
was present during the sitting to-day, so that Lis mis-
sion to Rome has not been carried out. _

Last evening the Assembly endeavoured to vote to
the army of intervention those thanks which gene-
rally fall to the share of soldiers who have gallantly
served their country; but the attempt was unsuccess-
ful, not became: any party in the Assembly conekers
the gallantry of the army to be at fault, but because
the potty of the left cons:dered such a vote as one of
confidence in the ministry, and one involving appro-
bation of the policy pursued in the matter of the
Roman republic. the left, being moved by those
sentiments, abstained from voting, and the eons*.
sequence was that the scrutiny was annulled fur the'
want of the necessary number of votes.
M. Napolion Bonaparte, who abstained this mom-'
ing, wri es the folloa lag letter, explaining the reason
of bin conduct. The language is bold, but the invio-
lability of the chamber protects the writer :
Paris, July 9.
Monsieur le Redactsur,—At the sad of the sitting of the
Assembly to-•. 17, the president put to the vote a oropisition
tending to vote thanks to the army of Rom. I atostained
from tasing part in it, a d for reasons which I will explain
to you. No 010 can feel more admiration, more love, or a
more lively sympathy than myself for our brave ulditre,
who everywhere show themselv.s worthy of onr tethers of
the revolution. But the ewe appears to me to be a trap. I,
therefore, who regard the siege of Rome es a vialttion of the
convitution, as a crime atsinst the principle of our republic,
ought not, I could not approve of it, even indir etly. I
think it my duty to protest on all occasions against a policy
which has transformed our srmy into soldiers of the Pope,
into en instrument of absolutism and of jesui•iont, and into
aries of the Albinism'. NAPOLROR BONAPARTE.

The Presse calls to mind a well known word of M.
Dupla (eine), now the humble servant of the majority,
who on the occasion of a similar vote, after the affsire
of Morocco, cried, "To the army all the glory ; to
the ministry all the shame." In the republ-c, as
under the monarchy, the part of the army is always'
the best. If it wins it gets the gory.
All the journals agree in stating that the number of
eFetirs who vote 3 for these elections had been small.
'fee red journals themselves agree in this, and say
that many of the democratic party have abstained.
The electoral returns received this evening refer
only to one commune, that of Montreuil, and SIC
0444 to be as follows : Louis-Lucien Bonaparte,
628; Lanjuioais, 622; General IMagnan, 620; Ge-
neral nenil de Bar, 617; Leon de Malieville, 617 ; Ben-
ijamin Delasert, 614; Ferdinand Barret, 6i 4 ; Theo.
dors Duds, 614; Chambolle, 613; Achille Fould,
601 • Brinvilliers, 594. . .

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No great reliance can be placed on the above, and
it is given only u the first published rumour relative
to the elections.

The /WINO, which yesterday was silent w:th
regard to Romsut affair., expresses itself as follows
to-elay :
W'could not return from Italy wi bout having *meted
Rome. We are now there. Tee military question is solved:
the political question, which is more diffioult and more com-
pliea•ad, now commences. The French army has shown
itself worthy of itself, of its name, and of it. country ; it has
only done what was expected from it. We are not called
upon to triumph in a victory which we may call involuLtary,
and in a glory which was assuredly not sought for. The
intentions of France have been muunderatood ; we have
been received as enemies where we only presented ourselves
as protectors. After we found the honour of our arms en-
gaged, the military question could, as we have already said,
have but one solution. Now, if we only consulted our own
intoned, we should perhsps have but one line of conduct to
pursue, viz ,to rein. That would be the most simple and
the meet convenient plan ; but would it be just ? France
entered Italy in the name of liberal ideas; the a:trend:its
to which we have been led, in spite of ourselves, certainly
ought not to make us forget our original intention'. The
question which now present* itself is not only that of the
re-constitutioc, but also of the re-organisation of the Roman
government. We are willing to believe that the French
government will not be taken unawares, and that during the
siege of Home it has reflected on what it would have to de
afterwards. In that respect the past should serve as itufzue•
tion, and the experience of faults committed on all sides
should be turned to account. The affairs of Rome have
always been regarded in a false point of view with respect to
the first thing to be done. Admitiiotrnive reforms, which
would have consolidated the pontifical government, have
been sacrificed, and made secondary to those political re-
forms which would infallibly overthrow it. The revolu-
tionary party, by its excesses, has always rendered the
li-
betei movement abortive; on its aide, the goverment, after
the re-establishment of material order, postponed all change

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—so that, from oscillation to oscillation, the old machinery
has been retained with all its abases.

The Dibals recommends some reforms indispen-
sable after the restoration of the Pope to power, such
SP the re-organisatian of justice, the suppression of ex-
ceptional tribunals, and the secularisation of the go-
vernment.

Much talk has been caused here by the simul-
taneous presence at Vienna of the l'rince de
Joinville and the Cuunt de Chambord. The legitimists
papers pretond this morning that they did not meet.
Prince de Joinville, however, did not stay long at
Vienna, but has gone hick to England. M. Thiers
has, it is said, gone to London.
Two reports were yesterday distributed to the As-
sembly. The object of one was to appoint a com-
mittee to carry into effect the inquiry which had been
instituted in the departments on tne subject of agri-
cultural and industrial labour, and the other relative
to the convention concluded between France and
Bavaria for the construction of a railway from Stras-
burg to Spire. The report recommends urgency for
this measure and its adoption partly and simply.
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