The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1,

FRAN

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PARlS,inxestisv EVENING.
M. Lamartine concludtato-day his letter* of advise'
to the Councils-general. . Ile reeommends then- td
demand the revision of 3 articles of the Constitution
only. First, he says, the method of voting by ballot-
ing lists, instead of each voter naming simply the
candidate of his choice, has created the sovereignty i
of cabals and of clubs, instead of the sovereignty
'of the people. Secondly, the question of a second
chamber is one that requires to be uttentivelv exa-
mined, with a view to create, if possible, an elective
and popular senate, the duration of whose mandate
should be somewhat longer than that of the Presi-
' dent and of the Legislative Assembly, in order to
provide for the case of a conflict between the two
latter powers. and to prevent what in the Roman
constitution was ea,led an interregnum. But, third,
the Art. 43, a bleb renders the President ineligible
to be re-elected, is the one which most urgently re-
quires revision, because the restriction, though to be
respected, under the penalty of a revolution, so long
as it remains law, is in itself absurd, and contradic-
tory to the sovereign rights of the people. M. La-
inartitie anxiously disclaims the supposition that he
advocates this opinion in the interest of Louis Napo-
leon, whom he blames severely for even allowing the
question to be agitated in connexion wiih his name.
Ills argument rests entirely upon the right of the
li people to re-elect the same person as often as they
I please. Replying to M. l)ufaure, who justified the
larticle 43, by alleging the danger that the executive
power might unduly influence the elections in its
' own favour, he says that such a reason is an ana-
chrunisin unworthy of M. l)ufaure. lie maintains
that the corrupting power of the executive upon the
mass of electors in France would be as imperceptible
as the effect of a pinch of salt or sugar—which might
flavour a glass of water—would be upon the ocean.
lie discusses the career and pretensions of M. Louis
Napoleon with a freedom impossible to reconcile with
the idea—still frequently mooted—of a Lamartinc
ministry. Ile admits the power of his name, and,
although when he was first elected he was more
struck with the dangers than the advantages of the
choice which the people had made, he has since °Bea
asked himself whether chance is not more politic
than politicians, and whether the presidency of Louis
Napoleon has not been upon the whole more useful
than prejudicial to the foundation of the republic.
Whether, it he were now re-eligible, the people would
again choose him. is a question which 11. Laniartine
believes it wholly impossible to answer; for he says
that petitions prove nothing whatever but the coin-
pluisunce with which every valet is treated in France
who is employed by the municipality to canvass sig-
natures from door to door. M. latmartine thinks it
to he wished that the French people should not be
desirous to re-elect Louis Napoleon, but he thinks all
the arguments upon the policy of the Art. 43 with
regard to him are reducible to this dilemma. Either
the people do nut want Louis Napoleon, and in that
ease they will not vote for him ; or they do want him,
and then no government from which he should be
excluded would be a safe one. The French above
all other people are impatient of contradiction, and
the republic itself might suffer by the constitution
appearing to the people in the light of a barrier to
their wishes. M. Lamartine foresees that his brother
republicans will blame him above all men for ex-
pressing this opinion, and will exclaim " Et to
brute." To these objectors he replies, by anticipa-
tion, as follows:
If I do justice to what I can find of good Ma government
plared in so difficult a position, between a monarchical
Asseinbly and a republican people, 1 can see, 1 con feel,'
and t can point out the evil. 1 do not forgive Ronapirte, '
the Presiclentof a Republic, for seeming to blush at being
that which he is, for placing his name in the light and his
office in the shade. Ido not tbrgive Bonaparte, the sworn
ea lotion of a constitution, for alluding in his spec elies loan
election by the people which would be an election against
the law. Id, not turgive Bonaparte, the elect of universal
suffrage, for having signed the 13th Brumaire of the Le-
-1 gislative Assembly against universal suffrage, and for thus
having plated four millions of French citizens out of the
ale of the law, as a punishment for having made him what
'he is. Ido not forgive Bonaparte for having pressed with
the weight of a republican army upon the liberty of a
people—had that people been but a municipality—awl for
having pressed with the weight of a liberal nation upon
liberty of coiewience, that divine dogma of the new reli-
gious world. I do not forgive hint natty other
things, and above all that affectation of his government
of disavowing the republic upon all occasions, as if he were
hvgging pardon of his MOM for bearing the name of demo-
czacy ; a. it he were asking pardon 01 other dynasties that
he should for a moment be representing the population. No,
all that is not well. But who tells you that the people
.themselves will not punish hint fur it, by withholding their
'suffrages from him a second time ? Let the people alone.
Do not anticipste their judgment, for, by so doing, you may
perhaps destroy the effect of it.
M. Lam:mine proceeds to argue that if, in conse-
quence of a revision of the constitution, the President
should be re-elected, it does not follow that his policy
will continue to be the same. The spirit of his
government would depend upon that of the new
Assembly. Elect a republican Assembly, and even a
Bonaparte may become a republican president. Ile
holds it however to be out of the question that either
article 43, or any other article of the constitution
should be revised until universal suffrage shall have
restored to the republic the
.grand national jury.
The conclusion of his advice is, therefore, that the
councils-general, in asking for the revision of the
three articles of the constitution above meutioned,
should also ask for the revision of the law of the
31st of May.
The Siiele of this morning says :
We are informed that the Union Electorate has just dis-
solved itself. Each of the fractions of that coterie had the
',retention to direct it. The Bonapartists wanted to make
it an instrument for propagating their dogma of prolonga-
tion of powers; the lcuitituists desired to use it to the profit
of the Count de Chanihord ; the younger brunch reckoned
amongst its members devoted friends. The amalgamation
of these heterogeneous elements could only be momentary.
The candidature of the Prince de Joinville was the signal
of war in the midst of the self-styled union. The partisans
of Orleanisin exchanged bitter reeriininations with the
members of the society of the Dix Decembre, and we are
informed that, at the end of a stormy sitting, the dissolution
of the Union Electorate was pronounced.
'I he Itailetia de Paris gives a faint denial to this
statement, which was, however; very generally be-
lieved at the Brame yesterday, and seems not im-
probable under the circumstances.
M. 'Mier» is taking long mountain walks in the
Pyrennres, where M. Roger (du Nord) has gone to
seek hint to confer on the candidature of the Prince
de Joinville. A letter recently received from M.
Thieca by a friend in Paris, recommends the must
determined opposition to revision.
The number of condemnations against the press
for infractions of the law of signatures passed a year
ago, is now 137. and the fines iucurred amount to the
enormous aunt of 753,000 fr
Prince Callimaehi, the Turkish ambassador, has
returned to Paris.
The mint of Paris has coined 200 millions of francs
in gold since the lot of January, and it is calculated
that before the end of the year as much as 330 mil- i
lions in gold will have been coined. 00 millions of
bullion have arrived at the mint within the last few

days.
11w cooper+ at Narbonne have struck for wages.
They have hitherto earned 21. SOc. per day, besides
broken wood to the value of about 30e. 'their pre-
sent demand is 31. in money, which is resisted by
the masters. A judicial inquiry has been instituted.
The .IVolociat tr.fis says:
Same disturbances took place here on the evening of the
Vith. The 111,1111,n of the musical society called the Phi-
listins, basin; announced that they would execute some
choruses on that evening under the itutonde, where the
brewery is I.tablished, a great number of persons assem-
bled, and the first piece went •ff with great spirit. lame.
diately after, a body of young men, finding that there was
nothing political in the words, began to hiss and host, sag
then commenced themselves some seditious couplets. IL
Dayre, the commissary of police, being informed of whet
was taking place, called out the gendarmerie, and hasten's
to the spot. lie had some of the ringleaders arrested, and
INAS carrying them away, when stones were thrown at the
gendarmes, and then an attempt was made to rescue the
prisoners. The gendarmes were obliged to draw their
swords in order to get rid of their assailants. A fruit
attack was made on the gendarmes when they arrived is
front of the prison, but the rioters were beaten off. Five
p, ruins arc ill custody, anti an investigation baa been com-
menced.
There is no further news front the Ardeehe. It
is stated Jealously to-day that the department will
be declared in a state of siege. Some of the gen-
darmes who were wounded at Laurac have already
be recommended to the President by the Minister of
War as members of the Legion of honour.
The 18th session of the Scientific Congress Cl ,
France will be held this year at Orleans. It will
open on the 12th of September, and continue for tie
days.
The address of the journalists of Great Britain and
Ireland to M. ('harks Hugo, on the occasion of his!
imprisonment, is published in large type in the

Prk of Om morning; together with tie of
the VS Sewspapers+—the Daily Nein at their head—
whoseeditors have signed the address. A note ez-
plains that two passers, which it would not he safe
to translate in France, are omitted.
Circulars have been sent to the commanding I
officers of several legions of the national guard of
Paris ordering them to return all the cartridges in
the possession of their men.
The Court of Appeal. at Nimes has been specially
convoked to take cognizance of the riot at I.aurac, '
and has appointed several of its members to assi,t
the magistrates in their inquiry into the facts. Seve-
ral more arrests have been effected.
The President of the Republic has sent I,ooof. to
the Prefect of the Iskre, towards the relief of the
sufferers by the inundation at Voreppe.
At the Bourse to-day the Five per Cents. closed at
95135, and the Three per Cents. at 31'40, being the
closing prices of yesterday.

the former island. Upon this state of things the
Courrier remarks :
Witco it is considered that for a period of 30 years, from
1818 to 1847, 01/AdAIOUpC shipped one-fifth more of sugar
not only make up these 4,941 hogsheads at tke least, hot
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must reckon above that the fifth of 26,698, namely 6,
hogsheads.
than Martinique, it follows that, for the
uadal two colon
im es to
AffiTe at an equal footing of prosperity, Goupe ust
The wholo crop of Martinique for the present
year, it is anticipated, will amount to 50,000 casks,
while that of Guadeloupe, allowing that she has yet
two-fifths of her crop to reap, will not exceed
36,215 casks.
The Antigua papers announce the arrival of her
Majesty's ship Helena, from Barbadoes. The French
war-steamer Castor had also arrived from Gandof
a-
loupe, in charge of the secretary to the governor
the French islands, on a tour of inquiry as to the
effects of Portuguese immigration into the British
West India islands.
Letters from St. Thomas's mention that our co-
missioners had been appointed in St. Croixf, three imn
St. Thomas, and one in St. John's, to form a com-
mittee of ten members, who were, according to a
rescript from the King of Denmark, to assemble at
Christianstadt on the 26th ult., to be made ac-
quainted with the contents of the draught of the
new colonial laws for'the Danish West India islands
brought out by the governor, and emanating from
his Majesty, who is thus about to grant the boon of
.^ ---.veroment to his colonial subjects.

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The transport barque Edmonstonc arrived at Port
Royal, Jamaica, on the 19th ult., from Corfu and
Gibraltar, with a portion of the 19th Regiment on
board. She was to leave again in a few days for
Halifax, with a detachment of the 97th Regiment.
The barque Ceerops was lost on the 26th of June,
on Roman Reach, near Roman River. Two lives
were lost. The remainder of the crew succeeded in
reaching Belize.
The Royal Mail steamers Conway and Dement
were at St. Thomas's on the 3rd of August ; the
Eagle at Barbadoes, the Great Western in the Gulf
of Nlexico, and the Dec in the Spanish Main.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(tram De Curdorn's Merruntde infrlligencer.)
J.ttt.tlCA, J eve' 26.
GENERAL REMARKS.—The prices of mutt articles hove
advanced ranee cur issue of the 11th inst., owing to the paucity of
receipts, and a sliahtly unproved Inquiry from the trade. In
roam
met inter, import, to' hands hate been enti.ely cleared. and in the
absence of further sinful., there is every reason to .inucivate a con-
tinuance of tbeprevaiir.g rates. With regard to breaddutrs esp,
chilly, we may observe. that tbs., bare been helped to their present
insproved coedited' an well by the diminished cock of nasive vege.
ladies at MO ket as by the scarcity Of the imported art- c'es It is nun
upwards of sic weeks since en midi, ion if any c wavier we has tarn
es& to our stock of Hour, and we Inhere It would to dttficult jost
now to Hod a Urger quantity titan 200 barrels' in the hands of any in-
dividual holler. There have 0001fTell but moost rivals of
h sinceß ince
our la, cool as one of them, a cargo of the catch from i
d
1-I ii I, did note me in until after an Interval of I 3 days, the holden.
oldie previ ms rtork were afforded the opportur lay of dispcding
of
their supplts at the advance noted in our quolations. Them is Inds
either of coil or pickled fish at present on hand.
Vint- a.- imnribately :tier our last 1./.le the value of thin sal
Ice
rase to :albe. for new p which advance has been supported uni
a very light stock and rattier tree dem,nd from the trade. Thr opera-
terns have been col-dined to the disposal of lots of 3i to 100 barrels at
the quotation. Ihe sloth of o'd d use isalmost entirely in the hand, of
the trade.
to held for Ills., but this rate ant the do utilance of
&A at m ate restrict the demand. A rale of .50 buret« to the only
transacted' th it has reached no. 01,1 sells at Ids. to 124. per Want.
'flee stock of new is very inni-01.
ith the exception of low Madras, Watch is greatly meg-
lectei, is in ther impro,d inquiry, owing to the : c ocitr of btrs.i.
stuffs. We (epode Rengul at I is. and Puma at Ifs. per 100Ibs. 0
Cantina to tierces have ehanisel hands at Ifs.
Berms.-New Irish Is being Martel at Lod., but the trade are imp.
OW, awl refuse to operate. II lilac lois been sold at lid. to itil. ler
lb. list laths of mixed quails Ls were placed at the former rate.
'there is nut any American on hand.
Bream —lllllO is not env of Wattson's Pilot at market, and in Ito
shame Pert-rat lot• id various brands (including taindfwd's), which
had
too some time ihre but TOIL in general favour. were taken at
I :s. is. per laden I. No operation* In crackers have tr inspired.
Watt...anti ale in ample supply.
)I•Clif4o.l.- -Enda a rather free demand, importers' hands have
heeri nearly cleared of the new catch. No. moving at 21s. per
barrel. Priced are tenting upwards.
Ilvamsoix- the stock of 'mod No. I Is exceedingly low. and prices
ire :Oran ing. All the kite sales were elf.sued at Its. to 13*. per brl.
as coding to quality.
ALIMI•OA -Are in entire, with an ample stock. We value them at
13'. to i 7s. tar barrel.
nr.. -Poe. is nealecud. It may be quoted at !ft. 3d. per rnt.
I.van -40 titian*, and subuquently it • kegs Irish changed hands
at 7.1. tar lb. American realises Gel. to GO., out slowly.
Pitts -The dock has been reduced to sane eaten,. but is yet
+Ad iently large to eh ck any oilcan c of price. We quote tee or.
ti le or tieing in very 'touted request e st. to 30. al. per sailor,
duty paid. Fifty puncheons have been taken for exportati.mut Is. Gal.
per gallon.
aroma-Is hemming warm -tdpecially the lower grades which
are in better demand than the higher. We nose our quotations at
Vs. to :Ps for dark to fair.
Cosaa.a.-TAyre is not any on off-r.
Poiestio -The old crop is all away and none of the mew has yet
been brought tontoket.
Louweeitn- Is wr rib lie. to ins. per t,n.
fiISOKIL—f3I worth 5.1. to bd. per lb. The market Is well sup-

FilElt.lll,.—Tormage is now abundant. Freights will he comp-
ratiYet y ware, atti r the In of Annual.
Est omit:,:—on London roloi.ml Hank. 90 Barr. Per Cent•
pronium ; 6' I per cent. premium; 90 dor.. 4 per
cents
r cent.
premium. Jorrin‘ua 8,06. rt duo., par; GO darn,
premium; 30 .tare. I per cent. premium. Merchants' lulls, Mr dap.,
to I ccut. dtwoout. -00 Nor York There in, no Inquiry for bd.*.