The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

[A portion of the following appeared Is part of oar im
pression last evening) :
PARIS, biONDAT EVENING.
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To-day, at the commencement of the Assembly's
sitting, the house was observed, contrary to expecta-
tion, to be unusually thin and calm. There were no
groups on any i.ide. Of course there was no lack
of ministerial lists in circulation. That which obtained
most cr. dit was as follows : President of the Council
and Minister of Justice, Odillon Burro! ; Interior,
Lon Faucher; Public Works, Darn; Foreign Affairs,
Lthitte ; Public Instruction, Dumu; Finances,
Funld; Marine, Dupwit Thouarrr; Commerce, Bon-
jour ; War, Get eral Nlagnan.
MM. Buoche and Bonner sate alone on the bench
of ministers. MM. Daru, Leon Faucher, and Dumas
were in their usual places. M. Barrot was ou the beuch
of the committee charged with the examination of the
bill to bo discus-ed on parliamentary privikge in
i regard to arrest and imprisonment for debt.
The bill proposed by the committee is es follows:
Art. 1. In conformity with the 3Gth amt 37th articles of
the eonetitation, rev representative of the people can be
arrested for a civil or cooant rebel cause without the previous
&intim is Won of the Assembly.
Art. 2. lhe authorisation prescribed by the preceding
article ought to ha demanded by ri guts: addressed to th.,
President of the Are tob:y.
Art. 3. Beery representative sbal b.: deemed and declare!
to have forfeited his .rat against whom the execution of a
warrant of MPSt mall have been authorised by the Ans. m-
hip, it within the term of three months from this authorisa-
tion he do not prove that h. has been giszharg,d tfOillanest.
A. long as this proof has not brio furnished, he minnot be
reelected.

M. Midier do Monjau opposed the bill of the com-
mittee amid the total inattention of the house.
Another ministerial list now circa:maul, in which 0.
Barrot reaining the presidency of the comet, the
portfolio of Justice was given to Nl.Casabianco, of War '
to Gen. Oudinot, end of Commerce to Thournine•De.-
masares. M. Faultier then occupied the tribune, but i
was not listened to with more attention than his pre-
demean MM.Perien end Fould took their seats on the
bench of ministers. The latter conversed for some
moments with M. Dupio. General Regnault de St.
Jean d'A.,gely appeared at the sitting. After talking
a considerable time with General Oudinot, he went to
take his former seat as representative.
The general debate having closed, the house entered
upon tie discussion of the articles.
Emile Leroux and others presented an amendment
proposing that a representative may be arrested for
debt without the authorisation of the Assembly.
This was opposed by the reporter, M. Moulin, and
rejected by the Assembly.
M. Bac moved-an amendment, proposing that no
representative should be liable to arrest dude.; the
duration of his parliamentary mission. This amend-
tit having been developed by its authors, amid the
noise of conversation, was finally rejected by 469
against 201.
The vote of Saturday confirms an important fact,
to which I drew your attention a lonr time ago,
namely that the Orleanists were passing over to the
In the present crisis a question arises u to the par-
liamentary value of an artificial majority against the
government, produced by the coalition of parties, who
condemn the nunnery for reasons totally opposed.
No ore can read the speeches of General Cavaignac,
MM. niers, and Berryer, without seeing that the
former blamed the ministers for a series of acts, which
the latter not only approved but had the main part in
concocting. On the other hand MM. Thiers and
Berryer rested their chief blame of the micieters on
an act which General Cavaignac approved. It is as
plain as day that the censure meant in the 200 votes
on one side of the home was neutralized by the appr'-
bation of the 200 voters on the other side of the
haus?, who cut tickets of the same colour into the
urn. The abstract value of such censure was,
therefore, worth nothing at all. In fact, the
generality of the blame expressed in M. S..
Reeve's amendment destroyed all its meaning.
Jules Fevre declared that the meaning of both the
coalescing pasties was blame of tho imperialist in-
trigues of the government. In that case the motion
of censure ought clearly to have specified that cause.
It was not specified, that as large a sum of hostility
against the government might be gathered within
the ample span of an undefined blame. A more on-
principled proceeding it would be impossible to pick
out of the annals of any parliament. Still it is well
to state the cue of both Miles. The republicans claim
a triumph because they brought the parties of MM.
'fhiers, Berryer, and Dufanre over to their ground,
by making them drop the clause commending Gee.
Changarnier. The conservatives hostile to the go-
v,rr ment repudiate the phrase of coalition, and taunt
min s en with having cegotiated with the Mountain
to produce a coalition in the contrary sense. They
add that among the 286 who rejected the amend-
ment of St. Benve, there were a hundred who, like
the Duke de Broglie, would have voted the resolu-
tion of the commit'ee, blaming ministers and prais-
ing General Changarnier and two hundred who
would have voted, like MM. Daru and Buffet,
an amendment expressing regret for the dismissal of
General Changarnier.
A theory is at present in vogue, and is said to be
viewed favourably at the Elysee, with regard to the
part which the ministry ought to play under the pre-
emit constitution, which requires notice from the im-
portance of the principle which it involves. It is
asked why the ministers should be obliged to resign
here any more than in America in the face of a hos-
tile majority. The conditions which made such a
resignation indispensable under the constitutional
monarchy no longer ex,st. The dissolntion of the
Assembly is not in the power of the executive govern-
ment. The President is responsible and may be im-
peached before the high court. Instead of the minis-
ters, commissioners may be appointed to present bills

on the part of the government before the Chamber.
Such is the new theory of government propounded by
the Bonspertists. Bat the analogy between the French
republic and the republic of the United Statrs,on which
this notion ie breed, will saute hold. In the United