The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, fitrwner, 6.30 P.M.
The mission of the National Assembly, terminated
yesterday. It met for the last time, and preserved
in its dying moments the agitation which chine-
teemed its whole existecce. Two hours were spent in
discussing whether the last act to be performed
should be a vote of thanks or an address to the French
wee thatsstty urged
by ryte..ClemeenitatTehronPia.m4firslvllavw,hdicthhe
adjournment to the bureaux to name a commission,
the reporter of which would write an address to the
French people. The Assembly preferred the former
alternative, and ultimately palmed a vote of thanks,
which appears as follows in the Afoniteur this
morning :
The National Constituent Assembly votes unanimously
and by acclamation its thanks to the national paid and to
the army. It concludes by proclaiming that oitisen-soldian
and soldier-eitiseas have deserved well of the republic.

The Assembly, before rising, asserted its right of
existence until Nlonday morning, and, though it was
determined that there should be no sitting to-day, it
was with the proviso that in case of any event oc-
curring requiring the presence of the members, it
should have the power yet to meet for the emergency.
Paris being to-day moat quiet, the emergency has not
arisen, and thus the last scene of the labours of the
Assembly is closed. Before breaking up, M. Marrast
read a solemn closing epee-h, in which he recapitu-
lated the results of the labour of the Assembly. After
returning thanks for the kindness that had bees
Shown him, he went on to say :
I nerd not enter into all the details of our labours ; that
which has taken place in the two phases of our existence
suffices to characterise them. The National Assembly has
had the singular destiny of exciting in its fint and last days
the distrust sad injustice of extreme parties. Now, per-
Saps regretted by those who first attacked it, it Is daily
attacked by those who first called for it with most ardour
asd hope, finch, continued M. Maryut, was the his.
tery of all madaratr parties, bat, thanks to the majority, all
violence had been eschewed. They had always sin-
cerely desired and defended the republic, which
bad fine been founded by popular acclamation, and had
be confirmed by right. Advised by unmis tak4ble signs
of the tact that society had reached the period of seemery
trandormations, they had cosaived_political power so the
active means of social yerfectku. They had set awe a
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hostile principles. If the hour of meeting had struck, let
France, which bad never given any provocation, know how
to answer that which w a given to it, and prove once
mote that peace had not spoted her heart or blunted
her sword. The first u well es the last votes of the Assem
bly had showed that this was the direction it was desirous of
giving to its policy. The republic at its birth had desired
'sought bat piece, but on condition that the right of the
people were everywhere respected. Thanks to a firm and
calm attitude, masons had recognis • d sack other, and on all
points the breath of a new spirit had wakened up liberty
and dispersed the last remnants of the treaties of 1815. All
have moved and it trembled in Europe. Whilst Italy
end Germany smdmvolued to conquer their 'adepts-
dens by the meat noble efforts, a valiant ram,
hitherto unknown, bad risen from the east, and after
organising an army of 150,000 men, had proudly taken its
place in the family of nation, by inscribing her right on the
per of her victories. Such, concluded the President, in
this most able speech, such is the state ia which we Dave
the world. Abroad are hostile principles already in colli-
sion ; within ars two hostile parties which mutually calum-
niate each other en the eve of all great straggles. To the latter
you leave as a legacy s constitution which must henceforth
be the rule and the shield of all power and right. I isms in
your name the meet ardent prayer that this law may inspire
all perdu with the respect due to the work of the Amiably
chosen by the people to perform it. Thom who woule
attempt to violate it would not only bring on their beads
punishment but the curses of the country. Let us salute
with minfidenes the new Assembly which is called to replete
us, havlog faith in the destiaise et the reputing. And let me
be permitted to close this discourse sad your labours by the
weeds which inaugurated them—" Tire la Ripablique."
M. Marrsat was last eight enabled successfully to
°Row a last attemp', made by Gond Changarmer,
to set at nought the authority vested in the President
et the Assembly. Two hours after the conclusion of
the sitting yesterday, M. Canvin de Borgnet, lieut.-
colonel in command of the National Assembly, re-
ceived an order from General Changarnicr requiring
him to give up his command next morning to 31.
Falz, another lieutenant-coloneL This was done
without the authorisation of M. Marrast, who in-
stantly ordered M. Cecilia not to divest himself of the
power with which he had been invested.
M. Marrast has, it appears, taken the editorship of
the Steele, which will now be as the National of old.
The Debate to-day his a leader, in which the desire
is strongly expressed that MM. Bugeaud and Odilon
Bunt may soared in forming a ministry. What
the Dibate Du in the former is his wisdom and re-
aped for the law. The Dads then proceeds to show,
as if from authority, that M. Barret no longer
thinks the law aloco sufficient to keep in order
the passions of the mob, a fact of which he has be-
muse certain within the lest year; and he thinks that
sped force has no longer any ascendancy unless it
rests on physicil force. As for M. Bugeaud, his pass-
word will be the law. in the exercise of which he
will be firm, as a man who knows that he has a duty
to perform.
Notwithstanding this article in the Dibate, which
seems to foreshadow a reality, it is rumoured, though
on little foundation, that the Bogeaud-Barrot combi-
nation is broken up, and that that which is to be in
its stead is one containing the names of Barrot,
Daum, Puny, Bedeau, and Cavaignac, the latter
taking the chief command of the army of the Alps.
The National to-day, alluding to the rumour spread
last evening, and generally believed to-day, that the
president and ministry have disowned the acts of I
M. Lesseps, says, that by the bases of the treaty (for
u the Debate states there is no treaty brought by
M. Forbia Janson, bat only the basis of one)
the Romans would be entirely independent of
the Pope in so far as temporal power is con-
formed, and that is what -M. Falloux, amongst
lathers, will not ratify. The Austrians and Neapoli-
, tans would therefore be left by the French to work
their will upon the Romans, who in despair would
fall into the arms of the former, and the l'ope's
entrance into Rome, under different condlions, would
thus be attained.
L'Auemblle Nationale, which is the most resc-
tionery of the reactionary papers, is in despair, be-
cause, it sap, that the very fact of a trace having
been signed with a power is a virtual recognition of
it, That journal adds, that no doubt M. Lesseps
acted up to his instructions, which were penned by a
fraction of the ministry not opposed to an alliance
with General Cavaignac, but that st&%tient events
have modified the aituition, and that M. Lumps
should hive seen this, and altered his policy ac-
cordingly.
Tho President of the Council will read a report to
the Legislative Assembly in the course of next week,
in which there will be a complete exposition of the
( eternal and internal positions of the policy and
affairs of the country.

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ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—We have letters from our
own correspondent at Rome, dated the 19th. The
negotiations between M. Lesseps and the triumvirate
had not yet been brought to a conclusive arrange-
ment ; but the armiet:ce had been undisturbed. Ga-
ribaldi had not returned from his expedi,ion against
the King of Naples. His corps amounts to 11,000
men, and consists of ten battalions of infantry, one
of carbinecre, and one of sappers and miners, the
students' battalion, 12 pieces of artillery, and about
300 dragoons and horse carbineers.
It was reported that the chief attack would be
made on the Tivoli side, by occupying the heights,
and driving the Neapolitans again down the Latin
valley, after which the Alban hill could be taken pos-
asseion of, and the king's position commanded by the
Roman,.
A proof of the tranquillity of the city was the fall
in the price of coin. Silver, which ten days before
the dates of the present &deices could not be had in
exchange for notes under 50 or 55 per sent., could,
when our correspondent wrote, be obtained at 10 per
cent.

NAPLES.—Our eorrevondent sends us a letter,
dated the 20th, which states the Pope and Grand
Duke were still arGaeta. The defeat of Pakatrica
was only published at Naples by the wounded officers
who had returned. The Neapolitan Fives were
again down to 85.
SARDINIA.—Letters from Turin of the 23rd inst.
announce that the King of Sardinia was getting
better of his illness.