The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. MONDAY, 5.30 r.w.
The ballotting-boxes have all been closed in Paris
within the last hour, and they now contain within
their recesses the unknown result of universal suf-
frage. Whether the victory will fall to the lot of the
moderates or whether the democrats are to win the
day, must remain unknown till Friday. To-morrow,
however, approximative results from certain sections
will feed the hopes of each party. The scrutinies in
every *ection are generally so differed, however, that
no positive inference as to the entire result can be
drawn from them. The placards of candidates who
desist from the contest, of partisans of unknown per-
ilous', and, not the least prominent, tradesmen's 'ruffs,
made to resemble electoral ones, are eagerly read by
amenibled crowds, who gape and stare, end do not
really know what they are looking at. Whether the
peac.able result of the elections has been owing to the
heat or to the state of the gigs we do not know, but
nothing during their proceedings has occurred to
show eeen 'hit an election was taking place.
The balloting-pLau looked desert enough, and
the voters seemed but " few and far between ;" and
this notwithstanding the paragraphs of the moderate
journals, which reprerent the partisans as coming in
in crowds from Truuvire, Vichy, and other pita' of
summer resort and Parisian amusement. Nay, the
said papers reform their readers that the bathers who
have no: come up to vote are hooted as they pus.
The papers this morning comment up in the pro.
bible results of the assault of Rome on the 30th alt.
The abuts gives one of its useful summaries of the
affair ; while the Sieee energetically blames the in-
tervention. The following is an extract from the
article of the latter :

We believe that it is at present too late to conjure away
the wee which the esbinet of December 20 has foolishly pro-
voked in tieing the ninon at the same time against oar awn
principle and against that of Austria, behind which the Pope
advances to resins a power which the Romans will never
acknowledge; bat we Oink it is par ble, and even easy,
to place Praises swain en the round which she ought never
let a misuser to have abasduned. Let the government
the Preach republic declare that it will defend, if recce-
eary, by arms, the goverammst which the Rowan
shall ham- given itself in the free extern of ha eovenZ:itt
the war will not come either more or Ins; it has err •
there will be oaly tais moral difforree. that we shall amp;
war with borer lot the deters of or principle, I. place el
foolishly mailman. it Le aot daring to be frankly of the
advice of either Prease or of Austria. Ws shall be told, oh
there will not be any war; the power aompr.head too well
their owa interest to attack a government so devoted to
European stir as that whkk New denote France. Perhaps
It wi.l be send, war man seer one clay fat the Whir at
Rome, but hi that ease Prance will no Mager dread •
struggle which 'rill be political mad aim social. It is pew
Wyly the argument of Louis Philippe, whoa le years' pace
found so powerful gran socialism. We will reply to you
always that you all] have neither pawn ase true*, except at
OS per ef • emater-nvolation. Dan to make it, or ell
Will be useless. The lorellea govenurate are not so liWe
endowed wl b num seam r to allow the advantage
you lare given them by waning the spirit of reaction to
mega ; they will not be se unskilful as to wait until a
ritresi ginvenneeat shall replace Pram* at the head and la
the heart of all mations; them on will attack you
is pretenses to hay other, not you want courage—
who den ia Frazee ?—ben beware you are la the MITT
worst position fur the defers of • principle seder tibia
yen bend with regret, not being able to break it. In the
time of Lantern= and Cavaiguae, monarchies/ Europe
blessed Frans for giviag her peace ; at present it le a counter
revolution that the monarchies demand. Yee, a counter
revoluti in or war; such is the dilemma which you have
established, prudent friends as you are of peace, order, and
public prosperity'
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The government have ordered to cease the em-
barkation of troops for Italy. A battalion of the
67th regiment of the line, which was at sea, was
called bat k to the port of Toulon by an advice b
The French government are proceeding to undo
gradually what the Constituent had forced them to
do. They have legalised General Changarnier's
double command, and now they are about to give a
of 30,0(K) francs for his services in the command
salary
national guard of the Seine. Now, as no
officer of the national guard receives any indemnity,
this sum is placed under the convenient head of
expenecv of service ; " this, too, when it is known
that General Perrot has an indemnity of the same
kind as superior in command of the national guard
of the Seine, under the immediate authority of Gen.
Cbaegarnier. The project of indemnity was adopted
by 333 against 123. The Assembly then pealed to
the discussion of a project tending to name a com-
mittee for preparing and examining the laws neces-
sary to public succour.
The presidentof the republic again visited to-day
the exhibitions of the produce of Preach industry.

Four more reprerntstivea of the legislative Assem-
bly ara ti be prosecuted by gmrnment, if the As-
sembly will grant the auther.sations, which is not
deuS.tul.

M. P nude has just left for England, on a mission
from the Alit,ieter of Agriculture and Commerce.
We read in the Monoteur : The oomm;seion on poll-
cal prisons, pte•ided over by M. de Coimenin, has
presented to the Minister of the Interior an account of
its labours. After having. by freque..t int./omit ions, seen
to the beet means of securing proper food fur the
Qii-
soeere in the fiats where very few men hese died,
the commission directed its attention for the last year,
during which peri id it has been acting without re-
muneintion, t.► alleviate as much as possible the posi-
tion of the families of the persor s transported. Tie
free passage of lettere obtained by 31. de Cormehin
produced an excellent moral eft ct, and the succour of
100 000(r., which was granted by the government,
afforded very nec-asery and valuable assestence. At
present the labours of the commission are terminated
—the accounts have been given in, and the office is
closed."

S 1 warrants of arrest have been imued by the
authorities of the AM, in virtue of the state of si. ge.
Two inhabitants of Amberien (in Bugey) have bean
lodged in the Prison of &Ley, for beitof connected
with the affair at Lyons. A third individual, who
was implicated, contrived to effect his escape.
Brentano, the ex-dictator of Bartell, went to Sim-
burg, after escaping from Friburg, but, on the request
of tut authorities, he has left the town.

?ARM, JOLT 2.—Naw Lea; —; Three PIS Costa, 64 SI;
Fire per o:Sals., 65 la; our-sed.salalt, —; Vulva, ; Belgian
fives, Me% 93 —; Do. 102, 53 ; Do. Foar-sod-a.llalf, —;
Naples Keats, SI SO; Rama Laaa, 73. Treasury !loads, —.
Omsk Shane, 2310. Zasisege es Landes, 20 daps 23 40; 100
days. 23 VI.
kIaILWATI. —Paris sad Odessa 795; Pads sad Rae" 552;
Roma mad Havre. 263; Avignon and IblaseLaws, 192 30; Suss.
bars sad 101 25; Castro ( Vierada), —; Amass sad
lloalogas, —; 101 25 ; North, 432 SO; Para sad Sava-
beam. —; Tours sad Naiads. —; Mentereill al 1 Tressa —; Mare
and rearap,