The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY, 11 A M.
In the Assembly mini, another proposition was
presented for its dlamintien, but without fixing
any definite period. Ales another for a tax upon the
incomes of avocets. physician', and perso-s holding
Public offices. M. Drouyn (de Mays) then laid on
the table a treaty between France and Bavaria fur a
railway from Strasbourg to Sprier, which was referred
to a committee. The debate on the trial of the accused
for the attempt of the lath May was then resumed,
and after M. Dupont (de Biome), M. Bonjeau M.
Duprrz, M. Rouchez, and M. Cremieux had spoken,'
M. Odilloo Berrot supported the project for sending
the accused before the High Cotirt, as offering the
rrongest guarantee for justice. The assembly
decided by • majority of 466 against 288, to
seed the offenders in the affair of the 15th
May, before the High National Court to be esta-
blished under the conditions of the constitution.
An announcement appears in the journals to-day
that on and after the Ist of February the
two London mails will go by Calais. The mid-flay
mail arriving in London at half-past four in the
morning, and the evening mail at half-past ten—the
average time allowed between London and Paris being
141 h nirs.
An exposition of the motives of a project of M. de
Fallon:, Minister of Public Instruction, tor the re-
form of the school of administration, crewed by the
Provisional Government in the college of France, will
appear in the Muni:eon to-morrow. M. de Fallon:
proposes to suppress this school, considering it too
favourable to centralisation, and to substitute for it an
establisbote-nt for teaching public and administrative
law, the course to be continued for two years in all
the faculties of law.
M. Lucien Murat has failed in the election as
colonel in the national guard. General Gourgand
has been elected.
It is said that the Prince of Canino has lately
written a letter to the President of the Republic,
threatening that if a French expedition were sent to
re-establish the Pope, he, the Prince of Canino, would
publish documents which would compromise Prince

The rumours of a change of cabinet continue to
circulate to-day. I have not, however, been able to
trace them to any good foundation.
I learn that the clubs of the provinces are in active
movement in the principal town.. At Macon, the
ultra-republican electoral club has reopened its sittings
and has been jcined by large numbers uf oueriere.
A socialist banquet, said to be of the Associations
Rennie", took place last evening in the Salle de la
Fraurnite, Rue MarteL The tickets were If. each
for men and women, and 60c. for chi.dren. and, when
the speeches commenced, the public were admitted at
26e. per head. There were about 1,200 guests, and
as many spectators.
M. °tinnier, President of the Club St. Antoine, was
on Saturday condemned by the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police to 100 f. fine for a contravention of the
law on clubs, by restricting the admission Of the
public_ M. Levy, president, and M. Thomas, member
of the bureau of the Club de La Redoute, were seve-
rally sentenced to 200 f. fine for the same offence.
The Progres du Pa. de Calais of Saturday must—
" We are informed that there have been some din-
turbanned' at St. Pierre les Calais, an 1 that at Bou-
loge« the men employed in the spinning-mills have
(tome to a strike."
The election for the colonel of the 2nd Legion of the
National Guards of the Banlieus ham terminated in
favour of M. Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of the ex-
K nit of Westphalia. He bad 3.961 votes ; M. Michel
had 1,961, and Barbee 137.
An arrangement has been come to by M. Vavin, the