The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PARIS.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

PROPOSED FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
PARIS, MONDAY, 1O A.M.
The Provieional Government held a council yester-
day, at tee Ministry of Public Works, to decide on
some of I lie preliminary arrangements for the opening
of the assembly. Some doubt had previously ex-
ieted, as I intimated in former letters, whether it
might not be necessary to adjourn the opening to
Friday the sth. The state of the new building, how-
ever, on inspection yesterday, was found to be such
that no doubt remained of its being perfectly ready
for the aesembly on the 4th. Au official notice was
therefore published this morning by the questora of
the Lee chamber that the representatives elected
should present themselves at their bureaux furnished
with their certificates of election and " aetes " of
birth, on presenting which they will severally receive
i a ticket to facilitate their admission to the chamber.
It is understood that the senior representative, ac-'
cording to former usage will take the chair, and that
the Provisional Government, through the organ of its
president, will inaugurate the assembly by an ad-1
drew After which the assembly will proceed to
what is called here the verification of powers, in':
other words, to ascertain the identity of the
indi-
viduals claiming to be representatives, with those
really thee:el, and the validity of the elections. This
proceed will of course take place in a number of com-
mittees into w hick the assembly will be resolved.
One of the first questions to be decided will be the
mode of filling the vacancies produced by multiple
returns; thus, M. de Latuartine being returned for
upwards of a dozen departments, will select one and
vacate the rest. Will the vacancies thus produced be
filled by the candidates who stood next in order ou
the several polle, or must new elections be held?
This is a questicn which the assembly will have to
decide.
We hate indirect evidence that the assembly will
moist of a large majority against those opinions
with which the leaders of the ultra-democratic party
are itentified. This evidence consists in the bitter
vexation expressed by the Minister of the Interior,
his partisans, and his organs at the result of the elec-
tion% The numerons commisearie a which he has
spread over the departments supply him et ilt Imel
information as to the charaeter of the eucceosful can-
didates, which is accessible to no other person, and
we find the effect of this information to be midis-
sembled vexation.
The erand national fete which was intendei to
have token place on Thursday, the 4th, is postponed
to the 10th.
It is understood that the decree recalling General
Cavaignac from Algiers, has originated in the fact
that M. Arago fieds the management of the Ministry
of War in practicable from want of professional
knowlvige, and government hopes, when General
Cavaienae is present in Paris, to overcome his 1
scruples which they cannot surmount at a distance.
Up to last night Government had received by tele•
graph and otherwise, the returns of 52 dep ertments.
M. niers has not been elected ; MM. de Remusat
and Leon de .Malleville have been returned for the
department of the Upper Garoune.
three prelates have been returned for the Assem-
bly : the Archbishop of Paris is returned for Aveyron ;II
the Bishop of Orleans, for Lozerre ; and the Bishop
of Qeimuer, for Furisterre.
I am informed in a quarter which is entitled to
much confidence that the moderate majority of the
Provisional Government led by M. de Lamartine will
wpose to the assembly the constitution of a republic,
ith a single chamber and a president. As a suhsti-
lute for the retarding action of a senate, or second
chamber, it is proposed that the presieLnt shall be
invested with a suspensive veto, to be valid for three
months, after why h, should the chamber not revoke
or modify the act upon which the veto has been laid,
it will become law. The government entertains a
confident expectation that a republic constituted on
these bases will be accepted by the Cbember, and that
the qp.sii,m will he settled wit!.out much dc'ay or
even discueeien. The duration of the tenure of the 1
presidency is not yet settled, but it may he regarded
ea certain that M. do Lamartinc will be the first
President.
'II, tame state of uneasiness among the public
which I here tn"ntioned in my recent tette rs con-
tinues. 'there is an apprehension amounting almost
to a conviction, and among many well-informed per-
ems altogether to a conviction, that there will be
another struggle in the streets. The party, it is slid,
who aeeomp!ished the revolution of February, will not
marr the trans •-f it to be snetelted without resist-
ance front their lips, and that such would bo the case
tram maj,,rity of the assembly just elected should be
Permitted to carry out its views.
' Lete d' me ask you (said an intelligent and dispos-
e hame:ter to me yesterday) whether you can
'lame to me from your personal knowledge one sin-
,,l't republican in France? Ido not (continued he)
I_4lrait those to be republicans who accept a republic
r a ne re expediency in the absence of any ether
1
R'm of government at this moment possible. The
.a.aaTon lately made by Lard Brougham that there
7 wo. genuine or sincere republicans its France is
4a.d !at removed from the truth as some people
I imagine
PS. Letters from Lyons of yesterday morning
'lv_S th.t the famous revolutionary society called Les
.m.-ta had been dissolved, the commander of the
•
kzeth. • '.l . "heed • reces^Ne it. The Voraces
kIY made a ti •13:3b tubmontration during