The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The secretary, or honam., dqfflares of Nl.Cremieux,
who has been arrested at Lyons, is accused of at-
tempting to seduce the troops in the garrison from
their duty.
The Metsatler states that it is intended shortly to
send a French expedition into the Japan seas. *lt is
said that it will consist of a frigate, a corvette, and a
steamer, under the orders of a rear-admiral of great
experience in the Pacific and the Chinese waters.
The expedition will be at once military, commercial,
and scientific; it., object will be to re-open an
European commerce which has been closed since the
16th century.

of Feine and Marne pawed

the following re‘ohiti4M resterdav :
At the opening of the session of iSSI, at the moment
when we are approaching the year 18,32, and the events
which must then take place, the Council-General, the inter-
preter of Vac feelings of the inhabitants of Stine and
Marne, thinks it right energetically to renew its desire for a
speedy revision of the constitution, and particularly of the
eitlt article.

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It was long since resolved by the leading repub-
licans in Pans. that in order to avert the certain de-
feat that would await them at the presidential elec-
tion if the votes of the party should be divided, a
meeting of delegates from the 86 departments of
France should be held, to select a candidate by the
voice of the majority, the minority pledging them-
selves to adopt the decision. The representatives all
the democratic journals, the Presse, the &ear, the
Eh' II Amen?, and the Republique, met lately to con-
eider the preliminaries of the above prect, and were
joined by delegates from the roix du Proscrit. The
latter, representing the French refugees in London,
proposed that the congress of delegates from the de-
partments should be held either in England or in
Jersey. They urged in support of this proposal that
the law which fetters the right of political meetings
in France is one against which they have ever pro-
tested, that under that law the delegates could not
assemble without the permission of the government,
and that it would be humiliating to ask M. Leon
Faucher's permission to exercise a sacred and para-
mount right. 'these arguments were, however, with-
out effect upon the Parisian journalists pre-
sent, who were unanimously of opinion that
the electoral congress should be held in France.
1 hey mistrust the influence which the ultra-
democrats of London would exercise upon a
meeting held there; and, moreover, they think the
national sensibility of the working classes might
refuse to sanction a resolution taken on a foreign
soil. They have, therefore, determined to submit in
all humility to the prescribed formalities. It was
heroically suggested by the raiz du Prawrit that
there were certain principles in support of which life
itself should be sacrificed if necessary. But this
came with an ill grace from parties now in security in
London,who were not particularly rash in June, 1649.
In truth the London refugees have now become ex-
ceedingly embarrassing to the democratic party here.
The latter are disposed to set with moderation and
prudence, believing that the eouree of events will
shortly call upon them to take a large practical part
in the affairs of the country. The gentlemen in
London, on the contrary, who have nothing to lose
by a row, are doing their utmost to excite the people
to extremes, and valiantly cry "no surrender" of
any one of their theories. Their counsels to their
brethren forcibly remind one of the opinion of the
fox who had met with a misfortune with respect to
the value of certain appendages worn by his fel-
lows. They will certainly not succeed in persuading
the republicans here to provoke a collision with the
law. They may, however, seriously weaken the
if they persist in putting forward the name of
Rollin, which would undoubtedly exntuand a vast
number of votes. It is much feared that they will
do this. The nix do Pruscrit ascribes the report
that Led= Rollin would withdraw to the royalists.