The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

PARISI, Mesmer, 6.30 p.m.
The government, after shuffling and shifting from
excuse to prevarication, has consented to meet the
interpellations of M. Amend, which were ac.ord-
ingly brought forward in the Chamber this afternoon.
A cabinet council was held at the Elysde this morn-
ing, when it was proposed to stave off the inquiry,
but the minister of foremen affairs was shamed into
consenting to let the matter take its course by the
advice of his colleagues. As soon as the subject was
brought forward. the president of the Assembly
announced that 11. Jules Fevre' Be Montalembert,
E. Arago, and others of note, had inscribed their
names to speak on this subject. M. Armand unfor-
tunately did not perform his talk so well as we might
have hoped. He meetly told the Chamber what they
full well kerew, Oast the French republic had sneaked
to Rome under false pretences; that its only *et
was to upset the Roman reemblio and establish Os
temporal authority of the Pope. He upbreideelOal
government with Oaring sent troops to Itame epee.'
troy a republic precisely similar to its own in we*
reepect, sod emanating from the same sources.
The minister of farreign affairs attempted to reipli '
by saying that the Chamber eeemel to desire a de!
bats on the Roman question. I submit to that de-
sire, said to ; nevertheless, I catitot bat think it is
somewhat ineoevenient. I will follow the last speaker
in the facts he Motet forth. I only ask the
Assem-
bly, on account of the difficulties with which the
question is surrounded, to allow me to speak merely
of that which is indispensable. Negociatinns are still
pending. I will not enter into an examination of the
pest; the subject seems to me exhausted. I shall
lasetect myself by taking up the dismission from the
point at which affairs stood when I entered the mi-
Ilistry. I will tell- you how I have understood the
state of affairs, sad what are the solutions I
kayo sought. To arrive at this result I need only
mad the despatch I wrote to our agent at Gaeta
lane dojo after my entry into the ministry. This
&spat& is dated June 6. The minister then read
the dispatch addressed to M. d'Harcourt, in which it
is said that the Roman expedition has three aims-
1. To exercise the just influence of France in the
agars of the Peninsula; 2. To restore to the papal
power the rightful independence necessary to catholi-
city ; 3. To ensure the Roman States against a return
to the abuse of the ancient regime. I shall now (the
minister went on to say) tell yen what we have done
towards arriving at those ends. Deubtless, gen-
tlemen, it is easy now, after the imam of
events, to censure and to point out faults—
it is easy to attack provisions more or less correct.
Events have been able to deceive our foresight. In
a word, we have interfered. The Assembly, es well
as the government, had so willed it! And a French
army occupies a strong position in Italy. This fact is
of a nature to increase oar influence in the world.
For the Romans it will have a more positive result ;
it will ensure them the benefits, the a .vantages,
which have been the aim of the expedition. (Ap-
pfoval on the right.) The minister was left speaking
when this despatch was closed.
M. Girardin is the oddest of all possible roliticianee
He has published to-day the draught of a constitution,
to be brought forward in 1862, '"when it will bel..wful
and equally desirable to change the present one."
This constitution is se follows :
FRENCH CONSTITUTION OF 1852.
I. The republic is the new form of government of France.
11. AU the rights conferred by preva,us constitutions are
admitted without discussion, and maintained without r.strie-
! dons. They are inviolable. 111. The majority of electoral
France is rept, senttd by the mejority of the Hei,,eal
Ass. sebly, sitting in virtue of direct aid unnerved suffretee,
and assembling by right on the let of May every year. IV.
All the legislative and executive powers are delegated to a
president, who receives the title of Reepoesible President.
He is elected by the National Assemble; Ile chooses and dis
misses the minister snitched to him. lie exercises his func-
tions so long as he retains the coefidence of the majority.
That confidence is expressed by a special vote, and by the
annual vote of the rec ipts and expenves of the state. V. Ni
tax can be levied inlets noted by the National A-nimbly.
VI. In tl e event of a usurpation of power or an attack on
public liberty, a refusal of the tax is a right end a duty.
There has been much talk in Paris this afternoon
of some indiscretions commi ted by the president
during his recent tour— indiscretions which never
ought to have been c inimittt-d Ly one who has passe d
many years of his life a welcome guest in the polished
circles of I..ndon, where he might have acquired a
better knots ledge of the common usages of amity. If
the first president intends to have a eitech at the
imperial diadem he will do well to attend to the ad-
monitions of his friends, who, it is to be hoped, will
point out to him that such conduct would be far more
glaringly conspicuous in an emperor than in a
president—Raga ad exemplar—he must not for et the
old proverb—but, en attendant, there is many a slip
between the cup and the lip.
By &tome of the president of the republic, dated
yesterday, the session of the councils-general of the
departments is to commence on 27th August, and
close on the 1011 September.
The municipal administration of Epernay has given
notice that the president of the republic has fixed the
10th inst., in place of the 16th, for the opening of the
Strasburg Railway to Epernay.
The committee of organisation of the Peace Con.
green has addressed the following circular to the
friends of pace in the different states of Europe
Sir—The Congress of the Friends of Universal Pewee,
which assembled last year at Brussels, will meet this year is
Pats' on the 22nd August. We have the honour to invite
you to be patent at this solemnity, to which we emyekc ail
those who believe that the efforts of religion, of philosophy,
and of political economy are more than ever necessary to put
an end to the employment of brute fora in the settlement of
international disputes. We shell be happy if you will unite
in this manitestntion is which will take part several Euro.
pean nombilities aniseveral eminent members of the Eng.
Bah parliament, of the Legislative AearsoWy of France, tend
of the congress of the United States of North America.
Whetteryou will accept our loftidion,or whether you merely
give las year adhesion, simple or meanie, or even, if yea
have no other reply to give us, we beg you to Dues an
answer as anon se possible. posepsid, addressed to the Seem
tart' of the Peace Coerces, Rue Richlien,l4, or to the Com-
mittee of'Pence, 6 hie, Rue des Softens, Brussels. Member.'
Mae will be distributed at the able, address in P. eft on the
21st Assad, from 10 to 6 ; and, on the 22nd, from 8 to LO in
the meaning. Amept, eta.
fliesed by the membets of the committee.
The Pairi• says We believe that the list of the
twenty-five candidates who are to tampon the perma-
nent committee of the Assembly during the proroga-
tion has been definitively settled by the meeting of re-
presentatives et the Cowell d'Etat. Two members of
the opposition, M. Victor Lela= and a ?magenta-
five of the Toone, have been admitted. This com-
mittee will, it is said, be nominated on Thursday next
by the Assembly."

The minister of public works has presented to the
Assembly a bill fur granting a supplementary credit
of seven millions for the Paris and Lyons Railway.
The special committee appointed to examine the lull
is in favour of granting the funds after ary for the
prompt completion of the lines, and consents to apply a
credit of three millions forth. line from Paris to Dijon,
but proposes to refuse the sum demanded for the sec-
tion from Chalons to Lyons, which has not yet been
oommenced, and the survey of which has not yet been
definitely approved of by the competent councils. The
credit of three millions, granted fur the line from Paris
to Dijon, is divided by the committee in the following
manner: Wort:sof art between Unseen) and Dijon, 2
mafiosi.; stations at Melon, Fontainbleau, Monterean,
Sens, Jeigny, and Tounerre, 600,0001 k.; stations for
goods, 500,000 fr.
Some of the principal manufacturers of articles
suited to the trade with China have recently bad in-
terviews with the minister of commerce on the subject
of forming a factory at Canton, to promote French
commerce in that country.
HOUBSII.

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