The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

guests could be indulged at one tavern with some
refreshment, under the condition of the landlord
answering with his name for the good behaviour of
his customers. If you should suspect the least ex-
aggeration in this statement I refer you to the co-
lumns of the Presse, in which the shipowner gives,
under his name, 'Follin, all the facts ss I
have related them above, together with the corres-
pondence between this incredible prefect and himself.
The policy of the National in rejecting revision
unconditionally is sharply criticised by Girardin.
According to the latter, the question of the presidency
is altogether subordinate to that of the law of May.
If the Mountain will not vote revision on condition
of the latter law being totally repealed, it is clear
that the government will not propose the total repeal.
Hence there will be neither abrogation of the law of
May nor revision. What follows P The three mil-
lions of electors excluded by the present system of
suffrage will, when the hour for voting comes, pre-
tl
sent themselves at the poll. They will either con-
quer or be conquered. But in neither case will there
be any question- of the constitution or of the pre-1
sidency. For these institutions would be swept away
by a popular revolution, and, on the other hand, if
the government were victorious, the state of siege,
dictatorship, and the empire would follow. If, there-
fore, the law of May be not abrogated, the present
constitution will share the fate of all the con-
stitutions which have preceded it. The ques-
tion of the presidency touches only those
who arc prepared to vote revision ; and all who aro
prepared unconditionally to vote against revision do
but lose their time in debating the question of the
presidency. Such are the views of Girardin, and
they are certainly clear and instructive. The execu-
tive power would of course desire nothing better than
a battle with the socialists, for the only ground on
which it can combine the whole strength of the ma-
jority is that of opposition and defiance to democracy.
Another alleged plot, which, but for its short ex-
istence, might have assumed the name of the Ger-
man-Toulouscian plot, has occupied the attention of
the magistrates of Toulouse. A vagabond named
Moerdes, who had given himself out to be one of the
leaders in the revolution at Bade, and had thus ob-
tained some credit in the town, lately absconded,
leaving a score at the Hotel Chaubart, and having
(as it is supposed) stolen 2.50 fr. from a traveller. Ho
was followed and arrested, and, on his return in cus-i
tody, he denounced five respectable inhabitants of
Toulouse, of whom four are connected with the jour-
nal the Emancipation, as conspirators, who had
planned in his presence the escape of one of the
editors of that journal, now suffering a sentence of
six months' imprisonment, and also the concealment
from the police of a whole demagogic arsenal of arms
and ammunition. The falsity of tho charge became
manifest ou the first confrontation of the informer
with the accused, and they were immediately set at
liberty.
A French company at Martinique is about to
transport into that colony 4,000 negroes from Benin
and Dahomey, on the western coast of Africa, pur-
suant to recent treaties with the black princes of
those countries. The negroes will contract to work
for seven years, and will be chosen from among the
most industrious and intelligent that can be found.
It has been stated that M. Langlois, director of the
lottery of the " Lingots d'Or," contracted with M.
Savalette for the sale of the last .500,000 tickets.
Yesterday M. Savulette brought an action against M.
Langlois before the Tribunal of Commerce, to obtain
the annulment of the contract, to get back 100,000
francs, which ho had paid as a guarantee, and to
obtain 2.50,000 fr. as damages. Ile based his appli-
cation on the ground that the contract was that he
was to have the last 500,000 tickets, and that M.
Langlois by fictitious sales had made it appear that
only 500,000 tickets remained, whereas the number
was much greater, and he was selling them in com-
petition with his. M. Savalette's advocate demanded
that the case should be heard forthwith; but the ad-
vocate of M. Langlois opposed this, and the tribunal
directed that it should come on in the regular order.
Several lottery tickets, sent to Paris for sale at a
premium by country agents who have not paid the
original price of them to the management, have been
seized in the shops. It is now said that the drawing
will take place at the end of this month or early in
November, but after the admitted state of confusion
in the accounts, this must be very uncertain.
The Previte says :
The communication between London and Paris by the
electric telegraph of M. Brett is entirely established. Here
again a chimera has become a reality, thanks to the faith of
M. Brett, a faith which has traversed the ocean, and thanks
to the persevering intervention of Count d'Orsay, who ob-
tained, a year ago, from the President of the Republic, a
promise that he would substitue his own good will in place
of the bad one of the bureaux. Perhaps the same success
might have been reserved for M. Pain if the same interven-
tion had in his case been used between the President of the
Republic and the Minister of the Interior. It appears that
the only function of the bureaucracy in France is to do no-
thing, and to prevent everything. If such be its part, it
certainly fulfils it in a most irreproachable manner. It will
not be its fault if the sub-marine telegraph has taken its
place among the list of accomplished progress, it will be
that of the President of the Republic., of Count d'Orsay,
and of M. Brett. _ .

—A
temporary building, which has been recently
erected on a piece of ground near the Quai Valmy,
and intended for the celebration of divine service in
German for the accommodation of the numerous

workmen of that nation who reside in that quarter,
was inaugurated the day before
.yesterday. The
building, which is about 35 metres in length by 12
in breadth, is chiefly in wood, and covered with zinc,
and was built by subscription. The benediction was
pronounced by the Archbishop of I'aris.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have
left the British embassy for their country-house, at
Versailles, where they propose to remain for a few
weeks.

A line of electric telegraph is about to place the
hotel of the Minister of the Interior, Rue de farenolle,
in communication with the Hotel de Ville.
By e. postal arrangement between Franco and
the united States, a single letter by the Collins line
of steamers, from Liverpool to New York, is charged
in France but VI instead of 30 sons, as heretofore.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 50c., closing
at 91.80 ; the Three per Cents. fell 15c., and closed
at 55.90. Most of the railways fell: Versailles
(left bank), fell Sfr. ; Havre, 3.75 ; Orleans and
ltouen, each, 2.50. ; Strasbourg and Centre each rose,
1.25.