The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY.
People are somewta! struck by the exchange made
between France and England of the Prince of Canino
for M. Guizot. The latter poli'ician landed at Havre,
was received in triumph b 7 his political friends, and
was escorted with great jubilation to his seat at
Val Richer. _ .

Toe ex•Preddent of the Roman Republic is not so
fortunate as the ex-President of Louis Philip; c's
ministry. He is packed off by rail and steamer out
of France, as fast as poinble, as belonging to the
classes danyerenses. The Prince of Colima stopped
at Orleans, dined at the tat le-d'h4te, talkei politics '
to the guests, and styled Oud.not's conduct at Rome
a veritable infamie. Being closely watched by a
police agent, he begged the ,orchard to give bon
his arm (the prince is very fat, and needs support in
walking), and in this company be visited the few
wonders of Orleans.
In the debate on the press law, M. Combavel de
Leyval dwelt mach on the necessity of passing the
bill, as one d'urgenee.
M. Mathieu de la Dn'ime energetically oppo-:d it.
Ile candidly confessed that repressive measures were
best suited to the interests of his party, but be thought
higher aim should be held in view ; repression of indi-
vidual liberty and freedom of thought was imperious,
and b-sides these reasons he felt sure that so many
measures contrary to democracy could not but lead at
some not dire ant period, to frightful explosions by
which the country might ba upturned and destroyed.
So soon as democracy ceased to be represented in the
assembly it wou.dtike refuge in the streets ; and so
ion as liberty was violated the assembly would be
pasting laws indeed, but would in reality be support-
ing tyranny. These words of M. Mathieu were in-
terrupted by cries of " Aliens dune ;" and after silence
was restored he cried out, " he could tell those who
interrupted him that the representatives in
this assembly were neither superior nor in-
ferior to other citizens. 'Were they superior they
would be aristocrats—inferior if they believed him,
they had sufficiently lowered themselves by the pass-
ing of their regiment. The intended press law was
meant as a crusade against socialism, and this was
timeless, for all utopias must fall b: fore the force of
reason. Such a crusade would merely cause the
people to say that the ricia combated socialism, be-
cause it was liberty, and they wanted to keep the
poor in slavery. He then went on to show that re-
pressive governments had always endeavoured to en-
chain liberty. He coal& tell the majority that know
so well how to lose a government, how they might
save one. When the: rich gave their superfluous
wealth and education to the people, then they would
no longer require prase laws; for if they attacked the
people, then they ..could be committing suicide.
M. Montalerabr rt followed, and spoke in favour of
the law. HE., &at protested his desire to keep up
the republican form of government under which he
thought France could lire and prosper; but, at the
same ti'.ne, he would defend society against the at-
tacks e f anarchists. He thought that France was on
the rel.ge of n tomb, and that society was in danger,
and they must be saved at any price. Liberty must
be I awed at the same time, but not unlimited liberty ;
th t would bring back a dictatorship. He knew that
in June disarmaments had taken place, the limbs had
Preen disarmed, but the heart and the id-as remained,
and the only means of disarming them was to depr,ve
them of the press.
The news of the proclamation of the Papal authority
at Rome has created no surprise either in the Chamber
or the public. It is believed to be a mere got uo affair
and that the Pope is not a whit more near a return to
his capital.
IV') read in the National:—" It is affirmed that a
very serious collision has broken out iu Corsica, be-
tween a battalion of the garde mobile and part of the
population. If what is stated oa this subject be
true, it appears that this struggle, which her cost the
lite of a certain number of soldiers and inhabitants,
arose out of some not very measured exyressions re-
specting the President of the Republic, which sounded
ill to his countrymen, who, as is }mown, carry their
eu-ceptibility writ regard to the Napoleon family
vary far."
The Courrier de Lynn states that fifteen peers
have been arrested at Gie ore, Grigny, and St. Andeol,l
on the charge of being concerned in the plot of June
13, and that 300 mut'etts with a number of swords
and pistols, bad benn seized. At St. Denis six other
persons were arrested for threatening and insulting
the armed force on its return with the prinonere and
arms.
The Court of Causation hie rejected the any-al cf