The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-26 00:00:00

ETENING, MAY 26, 1851.

in the Chamber. Let alone the 240 of the Left,
neither M. niers M.Berizer, nor M.Odilon Barrot,
who have all declared in favour of adhering
to legality, can embrace the proposition of the
Rue des Pyramides. So that this party on
the question of revision remains to all intents and
purposes as isolated as on the 18th January, when
they advanced their shield over the censured cabinet
of Baroche. But they count upon their strength in
the country rather than iu the parliament ; and in
this view they are encouraged by the petitions which
pour in from all parts. hatever justice there may
be in such reliance upon the strength and compact-
ness of the upper bourgeoisie, which is the party they
represent, the extreme hazard of the policy which
they embrace requires a vigour and union, and a
certainty of the army, which are far from appearing
in the hands of the government at the present
moment. I have already adverted to the declara-
tion made by the l)ukc do Broglie in the bureaux,
which shows that he contemplates the possibility of
assembling a Constituent Assembly before the winter,
an eventuality completely at variance with the con-'
stitution. As to the special pleading which cavils
upon the latitude of the phrase " forty-five days, at
latest, before the end of the legislature, a law appoints
the epoch of the new elections," no serious mind ever
entertained the possibility of making so absurd al
quibble the pivot of a revolution. Let the law for
determining the period of the new elections be
passed when it will, it cannot determine one day
sooner than the 28th of May, 18.12, the expiration ofl
the Legislative Assembly, nor bring the new Assem-
bly into operation before the 29th. In the nnau-
while I take the nrricl/2.-pens.'e of the government ,
and MM. de Broglie and Montalembert to be this.
We will suppose their motion for the revi-
Ision to obtain the adherance of M. Her- I
ryer, which will give them a little more I
' than the relative majority. M. Morin 's motion, as
amended by Berrler, will enable them to bring for-
ward their motion again iu August or September.
In that interval the councils-general of the depart-
ments will have met, to hold their annual sessions.
A declaration on the question of revision will be put
' forth by the 811 councils; and as in a vast number
of them the legitimate interest preponderates, the
stream of opinion iu favour of the governmeat is not
likely to wear the appearance of a national move
went. But suppose the votes of the councils to be.
on the whole, so favourable as to give a considerable
fresh impulse to the cause of Louis Napoleon, and
sensibly to increase the majority for revision at the
end of August ; suppose this expression of the de;
partmental bodies and of the legislature to backed by
an immense mass of petitions, and by addresses from
the municipal councils; extermd pressure on the
Assembly will evidently then be at its height, and
the crisis contemplated by MM. do Broglie and Mon-
talembert will be mature. What these statesmen
will then do is foreshadowed by their present deck-
rations. They will urge the Assembly to dissolve;
if their advice is not taken they will resign their
seats iu a body, and leave the executive to deal with
the Ramp composed of the Left, the ultra-legitimists,
and the party of M. 'Mors. On the lit of Septem-
ber the remaining representatives, proceeding at 11
in the morning to committee, would find the legis-
lative occupied by the troops. In a word, the policy
of the Rae des Pyramides must result in confiding a
temporary dictatorship to Louis Napoleon. The con-
dition of the trust is to make the law of May the
basis of the elections of the constituent.

The motion of M. Vesin for the appointment of a
special committee to examine the petitions for re-
%NMI has been rejected by the committee. M. do
I.imayrac has been appointed reporter. His opinion
is that all relating to the revision ought to be con-
centrated in the hands of one and the same com-
mittee.

2%1. Leo do Laborde has been persuaded by the
ltue de Itivoli to drop his special proposition fur
revision.

of the members of the committee on the motion of
M. Morin eight of the fifteen are favourable to the
motion, five are absolutely opposed to it, and two de-
mand modifications equivalent to rejection. In the
debate preceding the appointment of the committeel
Berrver renewed Ins decimation of the Rue do
itivoli that the legitimist party would only support
a legal mode of proceeding to the revision.
The committee on the motions of Moulin and
Morin, which is now called the committee of revi-
sion, has appointed the Duke de Broglie president,
and M. de Kerdrcl secretary; the former being
favourable and the latter hostile to Morin's proposi-
tion.

The committee on the La Plada treaties has ap-
pointed as reporter M. Larrubure, who is hivourable
to the ratification of the treaties.

A special steamer, the Eclaireur, has been sent
with important despatches to General Gemeau. 'l he
instructions of these despatches have been motived
by the intrigues of Cardinal Antonelli with Austria,
and urge General Gowan to occupy and fortify
Monte Mario and the points of vantage-ground about
Koine.