The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, !away, 6 r.x.
Nothing bas been talked of or thought of to-
day but the question of the dissolution of the As-
sembly, sad the grave political crisis which
will depend on be solution. That crisis is
now fast approaching. The debate of Monday, on
the report of M. Gravy, will be its commencement.
The committee of which that gentleman is the head,
and which was nominated by the Assembly to report
upon the question whether it shall dissolve itself at an
early and fixed epoch, or continue its session for an
indefinite p riod, has presented a unanimous report
in favour of indefinite continuance. This report de-
nounces the opinion of the country, expressed by the
petitions, as an infraction of the sovereign authority'
of the Assembly. Meanwhile the petitions for its
din-lotion are arriving in Paris by waggon-loads
daily, and so largess:option of the time of the
Aassably has hems is the prissalatire,
the President propose to discontinue the prac-
tice of announcing shortly their contents, lest
the entire time of the house should be engrossed
by them. Up to Wednesday last, the signatures to
the petitions presented in favour of dissolution,
amounted to 171,732, while the petition presented
against it, amounted to 2,612. A few days more will
exhibit so formidable a number of petitioners, that a
crisis will berme inevitable.

The Journal des Debate, a journal which bag inva-
riably spoken of the Assembly wi'h the tem'Ait re-
spect, and has treated even the occasional disorders
which have broken out in it with indulgence and for-
bearance, bay to-day an article on the manuer in
which the right of petition is treated by the majority
of its =Nablus. It rave :
On Ilisitaing to M. Clement Thomas yesterday, one would
have thsteght that the Chamber was invaded by insurgents,
WILMS/ 687 were only petitioners. But statesmen who
have pond all their lives in conspiracy and ineurrectinn,
sad wits politely boast of it, cannot naturally understand
'eyeshot, t than that of violence and revolt. They
femegtho moiety is constituted alter the fashion of a pro-
viding gothammant ; that there is not in a free country any
Wks UMW of solving a question than this : " Beckett
per man; we will reckon ours, and then we will fight it
omit in the thisselo." What a happy state of civilisation ! . .
This right of psalm is a constitutional—en inviolable right.
The sodlikem sad the rebels are they who contest it,
and who smnoquently leave to public opinion, even
that of the minority, no other resource thaa
violence. The seditious are they who, from the
height of the tribune, appeal from a legal demonstration to a
decision by arms. M. Marmot, the president, thinks these
petitions occupy too much time. He has shown himself
more patios% for petitions of less importance The The party in
the Assembly who refuse the d•ssolution may do so ; that
petty who reject petitions has the power. Whatever we
may think of the Assembly, it is, and dial be, in our mime-
hos, the official expression of sovereignty. Let it refuse It it
will, but let it listen. The right of petition, then, cannot
aims in gaits:ion. It cannot be contested, and is subject
to ems only condition, that of being exercised constitutionally
and belly. The only question now to be determined is, are
the pithier, presented to the Assembly, or are they not, the
real and damn expression of the opinion of the country ?
Now this Is a question of fact, a feet that can be ascertained,
and it is that which constitutes the difference between a real
sa,l !sedges movement. The Assembly would' appear per-
suaded that it is *till the hithlui representation of the salti-
ness* oldie astantry ; it naturally thinks so became it says
es, bed It melt net be surprised that they who think other-
wino wadasthar to saithesive It, nor be offended that the
means talon sag these which the constitution km given
them and inlayed to la legal.
The Debate erelianse as follows :
M. Gravy, the vogostor of the eseimiose on the gaieties
of the dissolution d Ike Ansa* yesterday brought up the
report of that essemines. 'The ripest not only rejects the
Melliet X. Rama, bee seepositioes of the same
tisTl le plsha the gassliee on its true footing. The
semmelltse thrum either to ix a peeled to the existence of
the Chmaimers. es to Nuke any modification in the decree as
to tin easels laws. It has been decided that it shall pan
=so= and they will pass these ten even if their
last tea years. The epigrammatic tone of
the report leaves no doubt on these points. The report pro-
tests, moreover, against the moral violeace attempted to be ex-
crefeed on the Chamber by means of petitions which have as
yet only 173,000 signatures! Siagular spectacle! These
mien who have overthrown a monarch with peti-
tions and banquets, with what disdain do they
not treat the manifestations of public opinion. Vie
will not repeat what we have said above. The
Chamber is sovereign. It has decidedly the right to reject
the prayer on which it pronounces in so authoritative and
• manner ; but, let it only remember that it is at its
own risk. We whet have no animosity, no prejudice against
the present Assembly, we who render full justice to its
labours, to its courage, and who would willingly me it con-
tinued if it were not placed in insupportable conditions, we
proclaim loudly that the course it is taking is the way of
perdition. It the report be adopted it will again be
said " Alen jade eel " The dimolution will not the lees take
plectron am eartain, and that at no remote period. It will
fake pi- ssj omd allanthaltitetetesenirly will ha
nsed ve gained, d,
At all
sem* the perm might have spared the expressions of the
"web= with which the chamber desires to dissolve itself!"
From is not in a humour to laugh.
This article in the Debate, smarting so positively
that the chamber would be dissolved at no distant
period, this, as well u an article headed " War," in
M. Proudhon's paper, Le Pawl!, had caused a con-
siderable anxiety at the Bourse, and a fall of about 60
centimes on the flinch was the result.
The situation is becoming grave. The Amens-
bly believes the republic menaced, and assumes
an attitude of defence more and more decided. The
government fears the disturbance of order, and is taking
extraordinary precautions for its maintenance. I have
num to know that the reports of the local commis-
sions of police throughout the capital remitted daily
to the prefecture are extremely alarming. They
leave no doubt of the activity of the secret so-
cieties in various quarters of Paris, and especially
in the Faubourg St. Marceau. A serious plot
has been laid, and is in a forward state of organizatios,
in favour of socialism and the Red Republic, the out-
law& of which was anigued by its projectors to the
spin, but the chieh of the conspiracy find it
Upon& to restrain the impatience of three or
int thousand operatives which farm the tail of
ilme party, and who pant foe the formation
of sew barricades. The republicans of the trills
awl thannives of this situation to pooh the present
osirament from its mat, and to recover the direction
of maim They mums that they alone would revive
Sit se. veal co-operation which would be noes-
to crush such a conapiracy, and they
lam that to pronoun* for the diesolution of the
Amenably at such a critical moment would be attended
with the greatest danger. The conspiracy would
avail itself of, and be emboldened by, the temporary
weakness which must attend an Assembly
about to lay down its poweno and yid&
would be augmented by the dream of a
izanumber of lambent who would leave the
in comma= of the denim
Le &lel., a meismils Stensal, width has no ear
Denim with the sobbed. med whisk beg hitherto
Witthe opinion el the repablinas
s hiserievie the present nate ofparry
A mon ird4mataleatssi by salpahb masenthrto, sad
Jam med by sen, yelps la the Illniseal Anger
bly. Premeds= hoes whine% we neon to Mfg
net rely by sdessauswes 'mains., exited,
by bet paned Ilse,
mend se impatim* sad who seabs te lave *era mese
==yeemeseleas, by eversesinag an 'plebe
s7la the esestry, sod by giving *a deessene
et maw and daelisege. have wooded in lesepley aeon-
&maim met etthe Awaselet aline the hitis was he,
mese meemits bask hum le thiq the sell ebod
lto
modem of the Cliesliesen Am, bee *eel
og amedlises st a gene amber eir mimeo era ea
amsersionuat nese mesh.
_theme the madmises 11.
Oravy's report. It these eseimises adereed with Ihe
Neap whhe they reed* bum a esmismilery apek
the Annebly, thes ea lea Mee
atitripries.lire ot extreme pram sepia inemeably is the
deegerses swoon whisk hen memosesed„ w mow ea ea
ma of end we/. We, mend wean pen. Swam this
temidable meant, and we did all we amid toeepe it.
We to the Wangle the y
smedl adhered ag a speedy
_eeperamies et the peanut Assembly,
bemuse thee rianne appeased es jest, sag heeded is
=ad realm ; but we Weed ear voles whin the
demands which, though sew addressed to the
Ossestiteset Assembly, will be perhaps in three months
addressed to the Frostiest, thee months alter to the
Leginative Assembly, under some mint or other, sad

which tend evidently, in burro the he= of a essastitn-
timid right, to annihilate the =l4 and to ren-
der all government tel loos due impend& ! Woo to the
party-ma who, by a mid milesintion, will have produced
sock
• Mind's,nd's, and predphabil Prom late new ihmters,
whoa order was being romeeblisked of MU, and when
mien was so airy to romstablida. the mitiemy against
whisk the =pert of M. Grey dingle he drops= natio b
not nopoadbis for all that is taking phse, emospe her • asio
take, whisk we deplored, but which ought not to be mine-
pressated, is declaring it to be the result of a fixed determi-
aid= and of a premeditated There are people
esesediegly interested to aeon& that error; let wise men
take ear* not to be the dupes of it. Ix the same way we
know that officious persons attach • great prim, and pay
much attention, to prove to the government that it is in hoes
tility against the election of the plaids= made, lansthe peo-
ple, that the majority of the Assembly turns t it in
this question. Error with some, interested bood with
when. The majority, at present, it Is true, is distrustful
and irritated; but it is so because it is lad whey and deceived
as to the sentireents and designs of the ministen. The We-
sson interest is to draw closer, to come to an naderstanding,
to arrive at the question in dispute at a reasonable comm-
odes. The most influential men of the lam administration
could do much in calming men's minds ; we conjure them to
dose; they will thus put en end to absurd calumnies, anc
they will preserve Franse front the calamities with which
she is agile menaced. The day cm which a foolish govern-
ment, which no one is the day of peril either dared or de-
sired to defend, no ono, except a man who had sat for seven-
teen years in the ranks of the opposition, the day on which
that government placed in the king's month that insult, ad-
dressed to more than one-halt the tuition, " Y ere blind or
hostile," we foresaw and announced that if the Melt were
not withdrawn a rovelstisa would ramps ham. Penises

tar issYaiala.wlrwwN enirelansi: Atiareeeni here Is
a forns;deblis straggle which is commencing. May all good
citizens unite with us in conjuring it away.
A committee was named in the bureaux to day, to
examine and report upon the project of M. Billault
respecting the budget. The last committee was
named merely to report on its urgency, the present
will take up the question on its merits. In
the committee which has been appointed there a-e
eleven votes against the government, and fear in its
favour. The bureaux then elected another committee,
upon the project of eighty-three members, relating
to the budget. The proposition demands that a
committee of thirty members shall be elected to
form the budget. Several of the bureaux
have refused to-day to elect members, desiring. to
postpone that measure until the report on the project
of M. Billault shall be brought up. Only 16 members
of the committee of 30 have been elected, who are as
follow : MM. Ooultai, Le Francois, Durand-Savoyat,
I Mathieu (Drains), Flandin Pennon,Corn. Lamm., Guichard, 'General Cavaignac, Jean
Itilyn;ud, Dezeymerie, Bureau de Pew, De Pay-
net, and Jules de Lasteyrie. All these belong
to the Republicans of the will., who have
shown extraordinary violence in the committees
to-day. That the duties of these committees may be
more clearly understood, it may be well to state that
the committee appointed on the project of M. Billault
is to form a budget of receipts, which the ministers of
Finance must accept, and in accordance with which
he will be called on to frame his budget of expendi-
ture. The duty of the other committee on the project
signed by 83 representatives, is much larger, and em-
braces, in some measure, the former. It is ir-
tended to form (d'etablir) the general budget
and thus to absorb in itself the powers both of the
minister and of the committee of finance. It was an-
nounced in one of the journals to-day, that this com-
mittee was intended only to examine and coutrol the
budget to be presented by the minister. In that case,
it would only supersede the regular committee of
finance; but I now learn that -larger powers are
claimed for it, and that it will assume the powers
`both of the government and of the finance committee.
A congress of legitimist journalists, consisting of
200 members, and. representing 40 journals, was
opened yesterday. Several members of the Assembly
were present, as were several rx-deputies and ex-
peers of France. The object of the congress is to re-
establish accord in the legitimist party, and to make
preparations with a view to the Ontario& Today, the
bureau of the congress was constituted. M. Favreau, a
representative, was elected vice-president. He is a
journalist, of Provence. M. Thibault de la Guichar-
dark' was elected president.
Nothing important was done in the Assembly to-
day until a late hour in the afternoon, when the
Minister of the Interior ascended the tribune, amidst
much excitement, to present a project of law for
closing the clubs. He demanded that urgency
should be declared for the measure. M. Gent
said that they expected a law against the clubs, but
scald not suppose that the ministry would have the
audacity to present each a project. The President
then called him to order. The Assembly decided, by
a large majority, to refer the question of urgency to
the bureaux, who would appoint a committee, which
would bring up its report to-morrow. Atter this
nearly
.all the members left, and no other business
of any importance was transacted.
i 'Ahern s a body of Italian agents in Paris, engaged
to obtain the consent of the government that a French
general shall take the command of the Piedmontese
army, and hostilities will be recommenced, it is said,
in case the Austrians shall enter the legations.
it is announced that the project of law for closing
the clubs is prepared, and was discussed in the cabi-
net yesterday. It will probably be communicated to the
Assembly before the end of the week. The law pro-
posed will absolutely interdict the clubs.
The President of the Republic, upon the recom-
mendation of the Minister of Public Instruction, has
nominated M. Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, representa-
tive of the people and member of the Institute, to be
administrator of the College of France, in the room
of M. Burnout, who has resigned.
We read in the Corsasre ; "The ex-king, Louis
Philippe, has just written to M. Louis Bonaparte and
to M. 0. Barrot. In his letter he protests that his in-
tentions are pure, and that he has no desire to engage
in politics in case he should be permitted to return to
France. All my desire; he says, ' would be to live
en bon bourgeois. He does not ask as his residence
for the chateau of Netiilly, which is too near Paris,
but for the chateau of Rendez, in Auvergne. In re-
turning to France, his sons and himself would take an
oath to abandon all pretensions to the throne.
Neither the President of the Republic nor the Presi-
dent of the Council has paid any attention to this
strange letter."
The same journal says:—" M. Guisot has sent
word to one of his intimate friends that he should not
get ready to return to Paris until after the anni-
versary of Feb. 24. The intention of the ex-minister'
is to come forward as candidate at the apprceolder
election."
The

aye, in referenoe to the ante-
dote eelsted by the Wational about M. Thiers and M.
Cowin, that it is entirely false.
The Dub of Fraternity, which holds its sittings in
the Ras Martel, Faubourg Poissonniere under the
presidentship of M. Bonnard, and which was noted
for the ultra opinions profemed in it, was closed last
night, by order of the Minister of the Interior.
It is said that M. Adolphe Barret, ex- Centel-
General at Alexandria, is named Minister of France
at Rio Janeiro.
From the balsam sheet of the beak sole up to the
23th, which I send, it will be seen that the notes in
circulation have decreased during the lest week by
millions. The blarney balance has increased by
6 milliocs, now standing at 31} millions. The bul-
lion has been again augmented by 51 millions. The
discount. in Parts have increased three-quarten of a
million, while those in the departments have been less
by 3 millions. The protested bills have again been
reduced by half a million, and one million has been
lent to the department of the Seine. The stock of
bullion now amounts to 260 millions against 432 mil-
lions of bleat.
Bra's OF TEE BANK OF PILAIrCZ ap to Jam 26,with
the sorreepending items of the preceding week :
Week wan Week ending
Jo. 11.
mecums, o.
p. 111 0
. P.
0.1.000,003 CM 0
Met new tome teaks AMA% 0 •
, ...... ..... 16,403,000 • •
awn* et new And Wan
lismese m yea mew, +Amoco o •
Illok Mob eleinielks ...-- 416440,300 • 417 0
De. Ilwadi 16,234073 0 1 •
Mete oder
assewelemsenorTrwenry. creditor 26,775,076 21 $1,7111.401 1111
Dime emode entreat 76,614,770 77 760116011 •
Assambeierad la the tesaiiso 16641,732 0 24,3711,706 • I
=
mei& at debt . . ...... 8,903,640 0 4,316,500 0
moils at slat t 9 the
Dataliembeid brialmiTiZiriiiiikie by
711,431 0 717,197 0
1.164224 41 1.790,054 93
Drafts el lank ;dyable by brands

1186,8118,138 69 889,376,714 36
YEN%
Oda sod
Ore la tkelarnelt beaks 12,330,638 0 123,333,04 0
BUN me del 230,826 6 71,036 64
Me led eneplesist In Peril
Do. tin la Inesehledhe 106,731,140 62 103,667,349 U
Memo se begin
4•lsldiesea dm* public tends 31,777,023 03 31,093,923 6
Athletes en fume pante tends by
Wm& banks
Admen te the date en Tram,
hell . .
Medias b; ii;;inie—a..l;;;;;l
6
.6
0
°4°° 0 60,000,000 0
mans ... 80400,000 0 somo,eoo 0
Melt
meant
noorvoastrussos
laws
is 140.2.840.6m000ns 013
42,10,60002 z,
31 : 1:
"Mb fads 12,106,741 89 13,806,741 n
llntleillogimad Wafture 4,010,000 0 4,000,000 0
Beal =l,:tatranth tanks 3,373,510 0 2,273,710 0
lees le the Qty of Perls 7,000,000 • 7,000,000 0
Intiout la Naked Meows% Bank 200,000 0 300,000 0
Wend sit inedt leeks In the
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ei..i Dims& Banks of the
Inc Wei Irmo
heNNW Ilk 220,000 0 sao,oon o
TAMMY WY la rein* beaks 10,023,496 63 9.712,826 61
Eqolllol4lmosposat
132 9
Ispions et moutgeocat dbras&
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tie 42003rtment et VIM 4113,014 10 1111,14.7 9
atm

6.16,593,135,C9 669,378,734 5

Palla, Jan. 26. New LOIN : Three per Cents., 45 10;
Ilya per Cents., 74 60 ; Last Loan, 74 10 ; Pours, Belgian
Piracy 1540, 87i ; Do. 1842, —; Do. Threes, —; Do. Two-and-a-
- ; Naples Banton —; Ronan Loan, 68S. Treason
Bends. Bank gbania. 1690. Exchange on London 30 days,
25 376 each ; 90 days, 25 22i cash.
Itaftwaro—Paris and Orleans, 695 ; Part. and Roue, 440;
Ronan and Havre. 235 ; Avignon and Marseilles, 183 75.; Stria-
boort and Bala, 82 S 0; Centre Tiernan, 250: Anima and Bou-
logne, 197 M; ikedsann, 1177 SO; North, 386 35.