The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-14 00:00:00

communal law do fur the electoral law? And as we

have adopted a proof the less we will give that as a small bit
of satisfaction to opinion for a political election."
Therefore, he says to you reject the whole bill, and then
we will occupy ourselves with the communal law, mad en-
graft the political one upon that.
[Left sitting.]
(The result, received by telegraph; is given above.)
It is important to observe at this moment the calm
and decided attitude of the Left. At the meeting at
Lemardelay's every member declared that he was ready
to oppose, at the hazard of his life, the execution of
any law of restricted suffrage, which should be
maintained. Girardin staked his life against the law
of May 31. Victor Hugo said that he would not
speak, since he could not no so without producing
irritation in the Assembly ; and the calm,
firm, and decisive, eloquence of Michel do
Bourges was recognised as that which would
most worthily represent the fixed resolve of the
democratic party to repudiate the law of May 31,
as a violation of the constitution, which must there-
fore be considered as null and void. The Assetstblt'e
points to this demonstration as the first anarchical
fruits of the President's perfidious policy.
The Committee of Parliamentary Initiative yester-
day held two sittings. In the latter it took into
consideration the proposition of the three questors,
to which some modifications had been made. As it
now stands it is as follows :
There shall be promulgated as a law, and placed on the
order of the day, and posted up in the barracks, Art. 6 of
the decree of May 11, 1848, in the following terms:—
The President of the National Assembly is charged to
watch over the internal and external seeutity of the Assem-
bly. For this purpose be has the right to require the
armed force and all the military authorities whose co-ope-
ration he shall think necessary These requisitions may be
addressed directly to all the officers, commandants, or func-
tionaries, who are bound to immediately obey them under
the penalties provided by the laws.
The committee was fully attended, 30 members
taking part in the ballot. 23 voted for the principle
of the proposition ; 6 against it, and one abstained.
M. Vitet was elected as reporter.
You will have noticed that the form in which the
Questor's Bill has passed the committee leaves out
the two mainly objectionable features of that pro-
position. It neither permits the president: of the
Assembly to delegate to a questor his power of re-
quiring the troops, nor to appoint the commander of
such troops. Still it leaves a loophole for consulting
such military authorities as he may deem proper.
The interpellations of Charles Lagrange, relative
to the interruption by the police of the democratic
electoral meeting at the passage of St. Spire, arc
fixed for Saturday. I may mention in connection with

this subject, that the attempt of the democratic,
electors to meet at the Hall in the Rue Volta was
equally fruitless. Balls, it appears, were given in
in this hall; and the landlady informed the persons
who called the meeting that the police commissary of
the district had threatened her with the withdrawal of
her license to give balls, if she allowed the democratic
assembly to take place there.
The appearance of the article in the Moniteur
Parisien, recommending the electors of Paris to ab-
stain from voting, is attributed to the agency of M.
de Persigny, who looks upon the appointment of de
Thorigny as fatal to the policy of Louis Napoleon,
and would fain have seen Billault in his place.
Probably upon the vote of to-day will depend the
re•appearancc of MM. Fould and Itouher in the
Cabinet. These ex-ministers are represented ns
only watching for a favourable moment to resume
their portfolios.
The Patrie states that the most likely candidates
for the representation of the Seine are MM. dc Tito-
rigny, General Feucheres, Eck, metal-founder, Mar-
beau, the institutor of creches, General Hendon, and
M. Persil.

All the Chambers of the Court of Causation as-
ecmb!cd yesterday with closed doors to hear the ex-
planations of M. Carre, judge of the Court of Appeal,
relative to an alleged abstraction of papers com-
promising his brother-in-law, who was arrested on
a charge of conspiracy, and afterwards liberated, and
to his having given a false address to the Commis-
sar• of Police. M. Dupin acted as Frocureur-Gene-
ral, and M. Marie presented the defence. The
court, after a long deliberation, decided that M.
Carre had been wanting in dignity in baying con-
nived at the false address given by his brother-in-
law, and it warned him to be more circumspect for the
future. M. Carre was entirely acquitted of the rest
of the charge.
At the Bourac the Five per Cents. rose 5e., closing
at 90.50. ; the Three per Cents. closed without
change at 53.80.

ITALY.

LOIIIIARDY.

The priest Giovanni Grioli, a native of Mantua,
has been shot for attemptiug to suborn the Austrian
soldiery.
NAPLES.

Our correspondent writes on the ith that the
Criminal Court had tried the fourteen prisoners who
remained of the alleged conspirators called " I Pugu-
alatori." Ono of the accused, the Cavahere Taglia-
ria, said that he had been thrown into a dungeon of
the Castel del Ovo, and kept there several days.
He was then visited by an inspector of police, who
told him that if ho wished to sec his daughter and
father alive, he must sign a paper suggested by the
police, which enrolled among other members of the
" Assassins' Society" Sir W. Temple and the Sardi-
nian minister.

The French fleet is expected to winter in the bay
of Naples.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Nov. 8.

The Gazette of yesterday did not come out till
seven o'clock in the evening. It contained the Tariff
Reform Bill brought forward by Bravo Murillo. I
send you the principal details in my letter of yester-
day. I have but to add to-day die woollen goods,
which for the most part undergo a reduction of duty
amounting to about 11 per cent. on a rough calcula-
tion.

In the new tariff simple woollens will pay 21
reals instead of 31 reale as at present in the square
yard when brought in Spanish bottoms, and 3 reals
instead of 4.1 reels in foreign bottoms. Double meri-
no woollens will pay 51 reals in the square yard, in-
stead of hi reale, in Spanish bottoms, and 61 reals
instead of 18 reals, in foreign bottoms. Cloths will
pay 12 reels for every square yard, instead of Ili
reels, which they pay now when brought in Spanish
bottoms, and 14,4 reels instead of 19i reels, in foreign
bottoms.