The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

The committee chosen is expected to propose a
vote of want of confidence in the government.
Before the sitting of the Amicably the principal
satubers of the majority met at M. Dupie's.
M. Theodore Duos, one of the representatives of
des department of the Seine, is a native of Bordeaux,
sad represented during fifteen years in the Chamber
of Deputies the department of the Gironde. Under
the monarchy he displayed considerable ability in
matters of economy, and threw much light upon
questions connected with the budget. He took the
usitiative in several nseful measures, and proposed
the admission of capacities on the electoral hats.
Daring the existence of the Constituent Assembly he
was charged to report upon the accounts of the
Provisional Government, and exposed with unflinching
severity the riotous profusion which bad wasted the
public treuare. In the elections cf the Bth July,
1849, he was thrown out for the Gironde; but this
repulse was repaired by his being chosen representa-
tive of the Seine. The firm, conscientious, and liberal
Character of Nl.Ducos, united with considerable talent
sad experience of affairs, make his appointment un-
exceptionable.
General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely is chiefly
known as an intimate and confidential friend of
Louis Napoleon, and is what is termed thoroughly
Elysean. The name of his family figures much
in the first Revolution. His father was a member
of the Constituent, of the Convention, of the
Senate, and of the Conseil d'Etar. As colonel
al the 2nd regiment of lancers, M. Regnault de St.
Jean d'Angely distinguished himself as a good officer.
In 1849 he commanded a brigade of cavalry in the
army of the Alps.
General Buaguay d'Hilliers, who replaces General
Changarnier in the command of the first division, has
been, ever since hie return from Rime, where he had
the chief command of the French expeditionary army,
pointed out as the rival of the late commander-in•
chief of the army of Paris, and was mentioned as a
likely successor to Gen. d'Hautpotil as Minister of
War. He is of quite as deep an Elysean dye as the
new Minister of War. He is one of the African ge-
nerale, and dis:ingnished himself in the wars of
Algeria more by his personal courage than by his stra-
tegic ability. When the revolution of February
broke out, he commanded at Besancon, where he
commenced against the commissaries of the Fermi-
Urinal Government the opposition which he has con-
tinued to show to the republic as understood by the
democratic party. As president of the club and of
the electoral committee of the Rue des Poitiers, he ex-
erted himself energetically for the conservative cause.
In the Constituent Assembly his votes were constantly
hostile to democratio measure.. Since his return

from Rome he has been one of the most marked ad-
herents of the President. In the Assembly he repre-
sents the department of Daubs.
Two members of the new cabinet are not members
of the Assembly, M. Magee, and M. Bonjean. M.
Magee sat in the Chamber of Deputies under the
monarchy, and was under-secretary of the ministry of
war when the revolution of February broke oat.
M. Bonjean was a member of the Constituent
Assembly, and distinguished himself as a debater upon
several important occasions. But his constituents of
the department of the aroma net approving of the
conservative tenor which his politics took, did not
re-elect him. He became a candidate for the Seine,
on the occasion of the celebrated elections of the 10th
of March, when MM. de Flotte, Vidal, and Carnet
were returned. His activity as a municipal councillor
of the city of Paris has been a good preparation for
the post assigned to him as Minister of Commerce.
The grand blow has been struck at last ; the dis-
missal of General Changarnier, and the breaking up
of that union between the superior command of the
national guards of the Seine and of the army of the
first division, which made his power so overgrown
and formidable, appear in the Mon law, the decree
effecting this mighty change being cJuntersigned by
M. Baroche, Ministerof the Interior, and Gen. Regnault
de St. Jean d'Angely. Howmany times has it not been
asserted in the orgaiis of the majority that such a mea-
sure would be the signal for civil war between the
President and the Assembly, and hinted that the effect
would only be to lodge the present inmate of the Elsie
at Vincennes. But to-day there is not the leas(
appearance that the bold course adopted by the Pre-
sident will terminate in such a result. The utmost
measure of retaliation seems factious obstruction to
measures required by the country and Mitiated by the
new ministry. One cannot conceive any possible ex-
cuse for the Assembly declaring that its safety de-
mands the collection of an immense corps of
troops. the command of which it will con-
fide to the dismissed commander hi-chief of
the army of Paris, as everybody knows
that its safety is no more in jeopardy than that of the
British Home of Commons. How, then, comes it that
a measure, which two months ago was regarded as
impracticable, is effected to-day, certainly without
any immediate disturbance of the peace or abrupt
convulsion, and possibly with complete succors; in
other words, with the adhesion of the national will ;
for it the present act of the President meet with the'
approbation of the country at large, the opposition of
the parliamentary majority must have a speedy turn. I
This revolution seems to have wrought principally
by the following causes : First, by the message of the
President, which repudiated, in language which won
the confidence of Europe, all unconstitutional attempts ;
secondly, by the factious hostility to the President
shown by the majority in all its recent acts, which
has arrayed public opinion against it ; thirdly, by the
decided support and encouragement given by the Left
of the Assembly to the government's design of break-
ing up the military domination of General Changsr-
nier; and, lastly, by the tote of the foreign prese, and
particularly that of England, which has prop. lanced
itself unanimously in layout. of the President.
The funds to-day had a slight fall of Sc. only.
BOURSE.