The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Of the committee appointed to-day in the bureaux
of the Assembly, on the notation Bill, two members
only are in favour of the grant. In nearly all the
bureaux the debate preceding the choice of a coin-
' missioner was conducted in a spirit of bitter hostility
to the government of the President. The following
commissioners were chosen Placatory,
Grevy, Druet-des-Vaux, Chambolle, Delessert, Bee,
Raze, Dufour (for), do Mornay, Combarcl de Leyval,
Desmarest, Quentin Bauchart (for), l'idoux, and
Creton. All these names, with the excep-
tion of I)ufour and Bauchart, arc to be
found in the majority of the 415 who
joined in M. Ste Beeves vote of censure against the
government on the 18th January. M. Benjamin
Delessert particularly distinguished himself by
the violence of his opposition to the dotation.
This hostile formation of the committee is in con-
tradiction with the resolution adopted last night by
the club of the old majority, which met in the rooms
of the Palace of the Conseil d'Etat, and agreed to
support the dotation both in the bureaux and in the
Chamber. The result proves the impossibility of
reconstituting the old majority, and the com-
plete rupture of the legitimists with the go-
vernment. The triumph of the coalition of the
legitimists and the Mountain in the bureaux to-day
over the government is one of the most ill-omened
facts which I have had lately to record as regards
the solution of the crisis. It will dispose the
classes most interested in the preservation of order
throughout France to believe that the only cure for
the anarchical obstruction of all government, arising
out of the monstrous coalition of ultra-royalists and
socialists, is the empire.
The most effective answer to the rejection of the
notation Bill would be no doubt a national subscrip-
tion. A scheme is on foot for dividing the subscrip-
tion into contributions of 5 centimes and 50 centimes.
I hear, however, that the President is opposed to
the scheme of a national subscription, and has declared
his intention of proposing that the amount which has
barn already subscribed should be bestowed upon the
poor.
The number of voters in the bureaux on the ap-
pointmcnt of the notation Committee, was 629, of
whom 387 voted for commissioners opposed to the

grant, and 242 in a contrary sense. -
It was known this afternoon in the Assembly that
a letter had been received from Venice, which repre-
sented the hiuke of Bordeaux as dangerously ill.
Soon after, it was affirmed that the Prince had got
over the worst of his illness, and was rapidly reco-
vering.
[The Vienna Thig, just received, also announces
the dangerous illness of the Duke de Bordeaux, at
Venice ; stating that he had received extreme unction,
and was not expected to live.]
The sitting of the Assembly was devoid of interest.
The discussion was resumed, on the proposition of
M. Joret, for the abolition of the ortrwx. M. Hour-
tier opposed the scheme in a long speech, to which
M. Joret replied, repeating many of his arguments
of yesterday. The proposition of M. Joret was re-
jected by 389 votes against 251.
The funds showed, at the opening of the Bourse,
an upward tendency, but so soon us the hostile dis-
position of the bureaux on the flotation question
was known, a reaction was visible. The Fives
closed at 00.85, with a fall of 10e. upon yesterday.
but of 33e. on the highest quotation of to-day.
The system of appointing special commissioners
to speak, instead of the ministers, on the part of the
government in the debates on important bills, has
already began to be put in practice. By a decree of
the Ist inst. M. Damns, secretary-general of the
Ministry of the Interior, has been named commis-
sioner of the government to speak in the debate on
the National Guard Bill.

Various reports are in circulation with regard to a
conversation held at a dinner given by General
Lamoriciere, at which MM. Thiess, Cavaignac,
Bedeau, Baze, Jules de Lasteyrie, Letlo, and others
were present. M. 'bier is said to have expressed
himself at this dinner in favour of s revision of- the
constitution, but hinted that he and his friends
would vote for the suppression of the presidency of
the Republic, and its replacement by a directory
of five members.

Yesterday was posted upon the Salle des Confer-
ences the Tend statt ment of all the credits voted
on the bud of 1850, and of those which remain to
he voted. the total amounts to 1,515 millions of
francs. The receipts are only 1,359 millions. hence
the excess of the expenditure over the receipts for
1850 would be 1,556 millions.
M. Ney do la Moskowa has addressed a lettelito
the papers, stating. that his motive for assaultinglf.
ltamond do la Croisette was not the professional pro-
ceeding alleged by that gentleman, but a personal
affair, on which he will explain himself before the
committee.

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3 per Cents. .... 58 20 158 35 56 60 /4 2$ 59 IS
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Easiness ma London: at sight, 2493; 100 24 lie.
Eelgian, 5. 1840
Do. 3, 1842
Do. 4y
Do. 26
Piedmont 3 p.Ct 1350 83 73 ... hank Shares
BotritBll.—St. Germain, 425 ; Versailles (right hank);
180; ditto (left bank), 172 ; Paris and Orleans, 880;
Paris and Rotten, 675; Rouen and llavre, 277 50;
Marseilles and Avignon, 197 50 ; Strasbourg and &tie.
16.5; Centre (Viereon), 410; Boulogne and Amiens,
232 50; Orleans and Bordeaux, 401 25; Northern of
France, 481 25; Paris and Strasbourg, 368 7.3; Tours and
Nantes, 252 50 , Montereau and Troyes, 100 ; Dieppe and
Fccamp, 218 25; Bordeaux and Taste, 42 50.

MADRID, JAN. 30.—Three per Cents., 34 9-16; after
Bolan, 341 cash, 319-16 paper. Four per Cents., 13. Five
per Cents., 13 ; after Bolsa, 131 paper, 131 cash.
Coupons, 71; alto. Bolan, 71 cash. Passives, 4; after
Bolan, 4 cash. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 96 cash. Exchange
on London, 50.63.