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

FItANCE.

PARIS, TursDAY, 630 P.M.
On the (*Delusion of the speech ot the minister of
foreign affairs in the Assembly yesterday, M. Jules
Fevre came forward, and, though suffering from
iil-
health, he contrived to deliver as admirable speech,
in the course of which he said that the veil had been
at length rent asunder, and the morality of the ex-
pedition to home might be henceforth judged of by
the avowal ot the government, sod an opinion formed
of the labyrinth into which France had been led by
the want of tact of the statesthen at the head of her
government. (Approbation on the Lilt.) Toe
miniaer bed said that all discussion was useless. He
(M. Jules Fevre) was net of that opinion, for by dis-
cussion light would be thrown on the affair. The
first result would be to appreciate facts, and the next
to know whet steps remained to be taken. What, he
would all, were the iutent`ons which presided over
the acts of the government? France, on the 17th
April, when the expedition was determined en, was,
he said, opposed to it; the Constitueot Assembly
was also opposed to it; the members of the cabinet.
bad, however, decided ore it, and the majority had
sanctioned the measure; all who had done so had
since been very miserable. (Murmurs and cries of
"Order, order on the Right, and of" Hear, hear," on
the Left.) The' hon. gentleman continued to examine
what had been the intention of the Constituent Assem-
bly in authorising the expedition to Rom-, and sought
to prove that its idea, as well as that of France, was
to secure the independence and nationality of Italy.
That independence was, he said, essential to the in-
terest of France, and had been the constant object of
all her statesmen, from the time of Charles VIII. to
lthe battle of Marengo. The hon. gentleman then
traced out the history of the events and the different
'negotiant nth which had ltd to the expedition to Rome,
It wee at first demanded, he said, to take possession
of some point on the coast; the president of the coon-
' ell had afterwards asked for a wider range of action,
and the Assembly—God forgive them for it—hald
granted it. (Murmurs on the Right.) What bad been
the conduct of the government after obtaining that
vote ? Instead of intervening in the name of liberty
and independence, it bad done so in the name of des-
potism, and that after having demanded a credit of
1,200,1300 fr. It was on that rill; he should ask the
president of the council to explain, and render an ac-
count of the blood of Frenelasoldiers, which had been
shed in doing exactly the contrary to what the Con-
stituent Assembly had wished. The honourable
member then reminded the Assembly of the words
of the president of the council, delivered be-
fore the order of the day of the 24th of May,
from which it was evident that the wishes of
the Constituent Assembly had been set at nought.
The attack on Rome by the French was a parallel
case with that of the Austrians oa Ancona, only that
the latter acted epeuly, whilst France canceled her
intentions under the false garb of patriotism. (Loud
applause on the Left.) The hon. gentlemen then read
successively the documents published by the Minii-
feur, relative to the expedition to Rome, and particu-
larly dwelt on the first proclamation pub tilted at
Civita Vecchia, in which it was said that no form of
government would be imposed on the Romans but
that which should be chosen by the nation. Not-
withstanding this assertion, an impious war had been
entered on, the bloodshed of which would, he said,
fall on the heeds of the French ministry. (Arclaana-
mations on the Left.) He defied the President of
the Council to produce any proof that General Oodi-
not bad been called to Rome by the Roman people, ,
and in default of that proof, it was, he said, clear that
General Oudinot bad no right to have done so.. Re-
sistant* had taken place, the blood of French soldiers
had been shed, and it was for that reason that the go-
vernment was now called on to render an account of
the execution of the order of the day of the Consti-
tuent Assembly.
Although the speech of M. Jules Fevre has ex-
cited general admiration, and has even induced some
of the moat headstrong adherents of the ministerial
camp to see the tenor of their way, yet the oration
which he has just delivered will contnbute still more
largely to his fame. On being interrupted by M. de
Montalembert, he told him frankly that he should
assign some reason for his advice to re-establish the
priestly rule in Rome, for that wherever the satellites
of the church of Rome exercised their baneful in-
fluence in temporal affairs, nothing but sterility and
misery was the result.
In commencing his speech he said :
I yesterday endeavoured to prove, and I think succeeded
in proving to you, that the intention of the French govern-
ment, if we us to believe it, has always been to protect the
Amen republic, end not to destroy it; that if General
Oudinet commenced hostilities on the 30th April, he did so
without the au hority of his government. The instructions,
the ministers bars always', told us, have been inconformity
to its intentions; yet General Bede'., defending his 'military
colleague, mitt, in a sitting of the Constituent Assembly,
that it was impossible that General Oudinot could have acted
without instructions, that it was impossible the Mid of en
ormy could have undertaken the war without orders. The
minister of war, in the same sitting, declared that he had
never given the coder for the attack on the Roman
republic. I have, aerator, the right to say that
General Ondinot overstepped ell his powers, unless you ad-
mit that a powerful will impelled him. Tao Cucuta:sant As-
sembly wee moved ; questions were addressed to the cabinet
in the sitting of May 7. It was evident either that Omura
Oudinot had acted without orders, in which case he should
have been superseded, or that he received secret instructions.
The Assembly was indignant, and desired thiswil to be with-
drawn. It &Mired that its intention bad ban to owns to
the aid of this Roman republic, and not ti realm inertial
law. This feeling of the seversiga ammalt4 we mewed
in terms sufficiently warm to have sitsmad awe sossaptible
ministers. Prank expected the cabinet to retie%
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wag but one aim, one desire, that of falsifying the opinion of
the Continuant Algembly. The cabinet aced nought hut
subterfuges in order to arrive at this resale. It accepted the
order of the day of the 7th of May ; it bowed its head before
this omen of the Constituent Assembly ; it submitted to
this humiliation only the better to gain its ends. Never
were right, justice, fundamental law, civil honour, national
will ; all that is held most sacred among nations, more
disloyally violated. (Applause on the Left.) And in
what interest—upon what principle, was this conduct held ?
Was it in the interest of greatness—of morality ? The mo-
rality of the Roman clergy!
M. Da MONT•LIIIIIRRT.—What do you knew of it ?
M. J. FAVRIL—What do I know, Sir ? I know what
I have seen—what I examined closely. Yoa, who in-
terrupt me, come to this tribune and demand for your open-
my th. benefits of sternal government. (Marks of 'went
from K. de Montalembert ) Institute an inquiry, and tell
us what graadeur, what prosperity, may be derived from
FIB* a government. lustre% an inquiry. and you will
Imam the state et sterility and misery in which the church
peosessions are. (Applause on the left.) The conch'.
akm which mast be dawn from ell this is that the informa-
tion of M. Legatos was oecnet, that the resistance was not
that of a few adventurers—as kr been said—but that it MU
national. (Acclamation.) If it had not been so. hew could •
handful of stranger, who, according to such assertions, would
have had all the Roman population against them, have re-
sisted for three months 30,000 men of the elite of your army.
The resistance was national; the ministry knew it; and
that did not prevent them from giving the order for the
attack. It shunned the orders given by the Assembly,
while, by its awn secret orders, and contrary to the
will of she sovereign assembly, it carried on the war.
(Uproar on the Right.) If you have been of good faith,
pews it. You an no longer pretend that a band of 'dyes.
Oren governed Rome. Well !,:now that you are established
*gm, consult the Roman population, and ask them if they
we in favour of an ecclesiastical government. Peform all
these oonditions,and, then, if the result be favourable to you,
I shall remain silent. But if you do not do so, you BNB we
the right to draw the condones' I have presented to you.
(Cheers on the Left.)
The MINUTIA of PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.—GentIemen,
After a rpm& masked by so much violent Language, it is
impossible that the Amembly can separate without a word
in reply. The speech which we have just heard appears to
me to be ieivided into three parts. The first comprehends
the injurise—(exelunation from the Left)—the second com-
prehends the retrosperive arguments drawn from the
speeches made in the Constituent Assembly; and the thlr.l
comprehends some arguments supplued be late smuts. With
regard to the tint part, that of the injuries, M. Jules Fevre
will permit me to recall to We mind that injuries follow
physical laws, and that they have no weight unties they
come from cab me. (Szolamateon from the Left; "No, no,"
" Very good," from the Right.) As to the second pant,
reply to him that the acts of the Constituent Assembly do
not bind the Ligislative Amembly. In the last election he
nation gave proofs that It had judged the past. It pro-
nounced against the previous Assembly. I sow come to
the third part. Ws are told that General Oudinot had re.
I eived either public or secret instructions to ailick. General
Oudinot received no secret linnet:tient. But to one el.
lemma I shall oppom another ; either that General Oudinot
thought himself called to Rome be the voice of the people,
Or that he *might that he would find noresistance there, se
we thought ourselves. If the latter he the case, is it believed
that he wind have presented himself before Rem- with only
'brim thousand five hundred men, leaving all his artillery be-
hind aim? But, resistasee having ben shown, should he
have retie. d ? The Awembly iteelfjudg. d otherwise. The
only conclia.ion we can come to is, that perhaps the aces unts
we had received were untrue. (" Oh, oh !" from the Left.)
We went to Rime, becalms we itusgined her deliverance
would come through us. It is said that we went there to
strangle liberty acd to enslave the people. Permit me to
bring to your remillection the despatches of a member of
this Aisembly, whose loyalty and intelligence no one can
doubt—M. de Corcelles. I shall make to comment.
Tne mini ter then road a despatch from M. de Cot-
collets, in which it was said-1. That 3,000 strangers
had entered Rome on the Tth June, under the
orders of Mazzini; 2. That there ex* ed in the entity,
as well as in all Italy, but one opinion, which• was,
that it would be impossible for us to enter Rome
without destroying the foreigners who occupied it.
3. That the pris.ners made up to that time were Lombards
from Genoa. 4. That no person doubted that the resistance
came ant only from the p pulation of Rime, but from the
debrie of all the revolutions. (Interruption from the Left.)
M. le President,—lt is truly knee • Ms that the mo
ment one cites an honourable name at the tribune one part
of the Assembly flies into a passion ; whit , when
one names a refugee ,or a conspirator, that same party
elves vent to load applause. (" Oh, oh," from the Left )
I amain prevent your cries; hut, imperils* as I
feel it to call you to order, I 'merit-less undrestend
your interruptions, and the country will jades of them.
(Very good from the Right.) M. J ales F.vre says that cede>.
lieirm has left the population in ignnrance and servility
This argument is not new. It is generally made us- of in
Spain and Italy, as proofs of the degrading tendency of
catholicism. They forget but one thing, and that is. that it
was Rome and catholicism which dispelled the darkness of
the thddle ages, and that it is from christianity that liberty,
learning, end human independence spring. (lime, hear.)
M. de Felten then cited the opinions expressed by the First
Consul, Bonaparte, on the holy see, which be said was the
work of age., and the finest institution for the government
of the souls. The miniver had committed one fault, which
was, not to have reinfogeed the expedition prepared by GM.
Cavaiense, and ordered it to sail for Rome immediately alter
the 20th of December. If it had not done, an it was owing
to the opposition of the Constituent Assembly. He then
cove nded by a tirade against the impotent* of the exclusive
Republicans. and on 1 ' g the tribune he was surrounded
and congratulated by his numerous friend'.
The President aft, Tweeds proclaimed the names of the
25 members of the committee chosen to remain in Paris
during the prorogation, and read an order of the day mogin,,
moved by M. Monet, enjoining the government to obtain
guarantees from the Pops for the liberal government of
Rime.
The propwal of M. Dufour., to mice the state of
siege of Paris prior to the prorogation, meets with
general favour, and is considered as a tub thrown to
that greet whale the Montagne, which has been lash-
ing the troubled waters with redoubled might of late.
Sill the pereecution of all persons supposed to enter-
tain republican opinions IS carried on with unmiti-
gated vigour. A•rests are being made every day,
every hour, both in Paris and the province,.
The Chamber of Accusation of the Court of Appeal
at Colmar has just decided on the fate of the perms
who were accused of having taken part is the troubles
of June. After a long deliberation it returned true
bills against 14 persons implicated in the affairs of
the Haut-Rhin. It bad previously done the same
with rap. ct to seven persons implicated in the trou-
bles of the Ike-Rhin.

The closing of the opera in Paris is looked npon as
a great national calamity, which it behoves the govern-
ment to avert.

The reprsentatives of the Seine had a meeting yes-
terday, to come to a definitive decision on the question
of the theatres. M. Dafaure, who had been invited to
attend, declared that he hesitated to propose himself
the subsidy which could alone prevent the closing of
the theatres of Paris, but that he viewed It u a step
necessary and highly justified by serious political
considerations, and that he would support the P
aition if brought forward by the representatives. M.
Lairrange warmly pleaded in favour of th, provincial
artistes. Several tnembers expressed a feat that the
majority would oppose a proposition which did not
emanate from the givernmenr. Eventually, on the
warm recommendation of M Victor HugotThroos, and
Bac, the meeting came to an almost unanimous rein-
lotion to present a bill for granting a subsidy to the
theatres of Paris, the amount of which, in considera-
tion of the state of the treasury, was reduced to
600,000 fr.

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THE NIAGARA FALLS Busrittistott BaIDGE (says
the New York Courier) has been again thrown open to the
public, having been inspaqable for some time in conse-
quence of improvements intended to increase its capacity.
&mend new cables have been added, and a new Hoar has
been laid, and the structure is now a thoroughfare perfectly
safe for all business purposes, and is capable of sustaining
two hundred and fifty tons. A coach and four, which, with
its pes.engers, weighed over five tone, passed over it a few
days since, and we understand that is has bean allopted as
the poiat of eroesiag for the hoe of stages.