The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

0, JUNE 4, 1851.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY ETINIXO.
_.e close of the sitting of the Assembly has been
Marked ley a serious incident relative to the Presi-
dia* speech at Dijon. M. Desmousseau do Mare
`ad presented a motion to interpellate the ministry
'wding tee paragraphs of the skewed speech,
Mich had been omitted in the Monsteur's version.
After 'sonic unimportant totes, the 'Chamber pro-
ceeded to discuss the bills kw granting the salary of
the Legion of Honour to the republican guards de-
corated for their conduct in June, 1848; although,
not being under colours at the moment of decoration,
'they were not entitled to the proposed pay. General
moved that the same pay should be al-
=l to the soldiers wounded at the Chateau d'Eau
Ifs the 24th February:
Madicr de Monjau considered the amendment
es an insult to the revolution of February. He rc-
Minded 11. Baruche, who was a member of the mi-
nistry which had decorated those soldiers, of the acts
by which he had identified himself with the revolu-
tion of February. M. Baroche made a confused
reply. General Changarnier, whose ascent of the
p~ltanc roused general attention, in reply to an allu-
sion of M. Mather de Monjau, said that the decora-
tion of the soldiers who had fought at the Chateau
(Eau was not a corollary of his own dismissal. He
bad, on the contrary, strongly recommended the
measure. (Applause.) The general, in returning to
Ns
_place, shook hands with two of the ministers,
MM. Leon Faucher and Buffet.
After Larochejacquelia had proposed to extend the
lame benefit to the soldiers who had been wounded
le combating the resolution of 1830, and Colonel
Charms had made a speech which excited frequent
murmurs, General Changarnier, making evidently a
covert allusion to the President's manifestation at
Dijon, said that the country had nothing to tear
from usurpations; that the spirit of the army was to
be trusted; and, in order to feel reassured, it was
sufficient to demand where was the pretext for en-
thusiasm. (This blow at the Elysee, after the ge-
neral had shaken hands with the two ministers, pro-
duced much sensation.) There was no fear of France
being subjected to the misery and shame of the
Ciosars, successively imposed by debauched Preto-
titan soldiers. (Immense sensation.) Its discipline
was founded on such solid bases that nobody could
prevail on the soldiers to attack the laws or march
against the Assembly. No man could find a batta-
lion, a company, or a chief to obey him. " Repre-
sentatives of the nation," added the general, " you
may deliberate in peace." (Bravo and applause.)
M. Leon Faucher, Minister of the Interior, could
not help deploring that the army should be made a
ground for political discussions. He accepted for no
portion of the government the lesson the general had
intended to give it. There was but one conspiracy
in which the government gloried, that of devotedness
to the country. The general had spoken of Preto-
Tian soldiers. M. Faucher would tell him that the
army was national, and would never serve as a step-
ping-stone to ambition. The minister, in conclusion,
declared that without military discipline all govern-
ment was impracticable.
After a few words of General Lebreton in favour
of General Gourgaud's amendment, the discussion
was closed, and a division having been called for,
there appeared, for the amendment, 295; against it,
306. The amendment was accordingly rejected, and
the Assembly afterwards decided that the bill should
go to a third meeting.
The President subsequently announced that M.
Desmousseaux de Givi-• had applied for leave to ad-
dress interpellations to the cabinet relative to the
speech delivered by the President of the Republic at
Dijon, on the Ist inst., and naked on what day the
aunistry wished to fix the interpellations. " imme-
diately," replied M. Leon Faucher.
M. de Givre said that ho had applied for leave to
pat questions to the ministry, relative to an insulting
and calumnious speech for the Assembly, said to
have been pronounced at Dijon, where he. heard M.
Faucher disclaim, on the Dart of the government,
all participation in plots and conspiracies. After
hearing that declaratim, and that made by General
Changarnicr, which was so well understood by the
Assembly, he withdrew his demand, at the same
time that he requested the Assembly to consider a
proposition he had deposited long ago, to the effect
of interdicting the presence of officers of the National
Assembly at public festivities.
M. !lupin replied, that the Assembly was only re-
presented at such solemnities when it appointed de-
putations for the purpose.
M. l'iscatory then asked if a sentence insulting for
the Assembly had been pronounced. He was aware
of the dfficulty of arriving at a proof; but he thought
that any colleague, or even a minister who heard it,
being questioned as to its authenticity, was bound to
tell the truth.

Irbotion for revision from receiving the only gigue-
tures which can give it mach authority. Ambitious
'sallies of this kind destroy the confidence of men of i
souad viers, high position, and large influence, who
see that the most desirable issue of 1852 is to be
brought about by steady and laborious exertion with
as little deviation as possible from the law, instead
of vehement, impetuous, and desultory impulses. On
the eve of debating the question of the revision, a
display like the speech at Dijon is likely to con-
fuse the question, instead of seconding the natural dis-
position of patriotic minds to promee a pacific solu-
tion by normal means, which must ultimately depend
for their success on confidence in the executive power.
The first step to be taken by the government in pur-
suit of revision was, in the present stage of the
question, to procure the adhesion of the legitimists,
who will now be shyer than ever of the Bonapartist
cause, after so glaring a manifestation of arrogance.
On the whole, therefore, the Dijon speech must be
regarded as a regrettable incident, calculated to dis-
turb the pacific march of events to their natural and
free issue, and to alienate the support of
the distinguished men, who seemed to have thrown
themselves without reserve into the President's party.
There is no more pernicious source of weakness in a
government than an apparent disunion between the
head of the executive and his ministers ; and the di-
vergency of the opinions of Louis Napoleon and M.
Leon Faucher has been evinced in a manner which
tends equally to discredit the cabinet and the Presi-
dent. On the other hand, the praises bestowed by
the Conttitnlionnel upon the speech give colour to
the general belief that in order to know the real
views of the Elyse° it is essential to study the arti-
cles of Dr. Veron and M. (irenier de Cassagnac. An,
article on the Dijon speech is promised in the Pays
of' to-morrow from the pen of M. Lainartinc.
Yesterday morning the President reviewed the
troops at Dijon, and visited the college and public
establishments. At one he left by the rail for Paris,
where he arrived at half-past eight in the evening,
after having stopped to review the National Guard
of Fontainbleau and Melun by the way. He was
escorted to the Elysee by a detachment of carabineers.
The fiercest attacks on the speech are in the
Ifirssager; the most vigorous in the Opinion Pabliyue.
The Union says but little, and that mildly. fhe
decorous Debuts is a good deal flurried. The Prime
and Orrirs are silent; the Unierrs neutral; the
Assembles Nationa e indignant and rhetorical ; the
National and Republique. retaliate on the Empire
for attacking the utopias of Socialism. The Con-
stitutionnel alone gives the speech unqualified praise.
The most important feature in the criticisms of the
press is the decided disapprobation expressed by the
Djbals, the organ of the most powerful supporters
of Louis Napoleon in the parliament. As for the
stones thrown by the legitimists, these have so long
rung all the changes of a rancorous virulent oppo-
sition, that their censure is at present comparatively
blunt.
The expression " intrigue de salon " was applied
in the original speech to the fusionists. This has
been likewise expunged.
Several merchants, manufacturers, and proprietors
of Paris, to the number of 200, have signed a petition
for the abolition of the law of May, which was pre-

seated yesterday by M. Carnot.
To-day the Assembly had an opportunity, in the
renewal of its bureaux, of evincing its resentment
against the Elysee. All decided lionapartists were
excluded, as well as members of the Mountain, as
you will see by the following list of presidents and
secretaries :
Secretaries.
Bureaux. Presidents.

—..---. - ------.
1. General Lauriston, Cuddle.
2. MM. Vitet, Blavoyer.
3. MM. Patin*, Bouvatier.
4. MM. Changarnicr, De Kerdrel.
S. M M. Drouyn de l'Lluys, Baucal.
6. General Achard, Esehasseriaux.
7. MM. Berrycr, 'l'irlet.
8. MM. ltulhere, Collas.
9. MM. Ile Broglie, De Leacours.
10. MM. Dowse, Howy a Tranchere.
11. General Hadoult de la False, Desmaroux.
~ •

12. MM. I).imbray,
13. MM. de Vatismenil,
11. MM. Mole,
15. Oeuer.al Bedeau,

Chassaigne Germ.
De le Devausaye.
ltuttget-Lafurse.
Chegaray.

The committee on the Municipal Bill discussed
yesterday the question whether offences against the
municipal law should be submitted to tribunals or to
the jury. It was resolved that they should be sent
before the jury. The committee next resolved, after
some disew:sion' that the prorogation of communal
and departmental councils should be limited to the
Ist November next.

A proposition has been presented in the Legis-
lative Assembly by MM. Amedeo liruys, Colfavru,
and Laboulaye, to the effect that, during the dis-
evasion on the revision of the constitution, the Moni-
leur shall be placarded up in public throughout all
the communes of the republic, in order that the
people may be made perfectly acquainted with all
that passes relative to that important matter.
The funds do not seem to be at all affected by the
Dijon speech, and exhibited to-day, indeed, a slight
improvement. The Fives closed at 90.55, with a
rise of 15c.; the Threes rose 10c., and closed at
rk.so.

M. ]lupin observed, that he had no right to inter-
pellate other ministers,
M. Leon Faucher here rose and said: " The speech
has been published in the Munikur. It is the only
official version. The cabinet recognizes no other."
M. de Givre subsequently asked the ministers if
the following sentence was in the speech : " The As-
sembly lent Inc its co-operation for all measures of
repression, but it denied it to me for the measures of
benevolence I had proposed in the interest of the
people."
M. Piscatory here interfered, and declared that
the existence of the sentence having been denied by
the cabinet, the latter was entitled to credit, and the
Assembly should proceed no further. He accord.
ingly moved the simple order of the day, which was
adopted by a considerable majority, and amidst great
agitation the sitting broke up.
The Mountain abstained from voting.
The manic of the President's office, his isolated
position, and the permanent antaguaism between the
two powers established by the fatal constitution of
11448, have long obliged Louis Napoleon to resort to
special occasions, which have sometimes no apparent
connexion with politics, in order to express his per-
sonal views on the state, wants, and prospects of the
country, and to plead his own cause by an appeal to
public opinion. One might have imagined that at a
banquet given to commemorate the opening of an
important line of railway the President would have
made some allusion to the subject matter of the
meeting ; but perhaps no topic was further from the
minds, or would have fallen flatter on the attention
of those whose ears were all on edge to catch his
words. The President opened at once upon the
theme uppermost in all minds, the state of public
feeling in Franco and his own relation thereto.
Neither the ancicu reyimie nor the utopias of socialism
were desired by the nation, and this was the secret
of his own popularity, because he was the natural
foe of both. By the fowlers regime the President
[ meant doubtless to embrace the monarchists
isf both branches; and here wax the first stumbling-
block of offence to the Orleanists, who had for tho
Moment rallied to his own banner. Next he pro-
needed to charge the Assembly with paralysing and
frustrating the efforts of his government to amelio-
rate the condition of the country, while they were
only too happy to support measures of repression.
These were the main features of his speech, which
becomes thus reducible to an assertion of his own
popularity, and of the perverse factiousness of the
Assembly. As Louis-Napoleon is known well to say
[ nothing that he dues not positively mean to say,
his words deserve to be weighed with more care
than the expressions of men who are carried away 11
by the heat of passion. Hence the storm raised by
his speech, which is interpreted as a deliberate de-
claration of war lig:dust the Assembly. Had his
complaints been confined to extreme parties they
would have roused but small sensation ; but the de-
nunciation strikes at the very ground upon which
his ministers stand in the Chamber, and is therefore
interpreted as a haughty disavowal of any parlia-
mentary support whatever, in the face of the alleged
adhesion of the country at large. This view reveals
in fact what has always been the corner stone of the
President's policy, the reserve of an appeal to the
nation against the decisions of the Assembly. In
sufficient

PORTUGAL.
The Oriental Company:B steam-packet Montrose,
Captain John Bowen, arrived at Southampton last
night, and landed her mails under tho charge of
Lieut. EP. Fug°, It.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are Gibraltar, May 24; Cadiz, 2d ; Lisbon,
20; Oporto, 30; Vigo, 30.
The Montrose brings fifty passengers and specie to
the amouut of 4,000!. sterling. The news from Lisbon
announces that a number of obnoxious individuals,
heretofore in personal attfaidance on the Queen, had
been removed by the new administration, and more
popular persons had been appointed in their stead.)
Obnoxious civil governors and administrators of
districts and subordinate officers had also been dis-
missed. The conduct of all persons heretofore in
authority is to be investigated, and any person
proved to have been guilty of corruption or im-
proper conduct is to be dismissed. Cabralist
military officers have also been dismissed. The
militia battalion, called the volunteers of the
charter, is to be re-organised or disbanded.
The law against the press, passed last August,
has been abrogated. Saldanha is still very po-
pular, and is zealous in carrying out the prin-
ciples he proclaimed. Mascarentas has been placed
under surveillance, and Fronteira has been banished.
The Cabral Cortes has been dissolved, and an extra-
ordinary general Cortes will meet on the 15th. This
has given great satisfaction to the people. The con-
duct of Costa Cabral in pleading poverty on board
the English packet is much canvassed. It is declared
that he is enormously rich, and that he had above one
thousand pounds in his pocket when he escaped from
Portugal.
All persons who assisted Saldanha in the revolution
have been rewarded and promoted.
A commission had been appointed to examine into
the state of the Exchequer, to report upon the finan-
cial acts of Thomar's cabinet, and upon the present
resources of the country as a basis for legis lotion
by the Cortes.
In consequence of the scarcity of bills, the Lisboa
exchange at three months on London rose from 5441
to 31.!, at which money remained over. The Board
of Public Credit was a taker up on dividend account,
and also remained with money over; and aminis-
terial declaration had been published in the Diario
do Gorrnao, that no alteration would be made in the
manner of paying the dividends through the Board
of Public Credit, to which the revenue set apart is to
continue to be delivered. The last Lisbon quotations
for Portuguese stock are: Five per Cents., 47 to 47i ;
Four per Cents., 37 to 37} ; Bank of Portugal shares,
110 milreis discount per share. These rates are for
Lisboa Bank-notes, discountable at 3 per cent.
Oporto Bank shares were at 12 milreis premium each
in metal. Exchange on Paris, 530; Amsterdam,
42 t ; Hamburg, 48i.
At Oporto a regiment of Cavadoree, at the inatiga-

—. On the ~y Whig Woo& %balm tbs kw?, he the meantime no one can see any ~accent tion of 'the Cabrilista, attempted to get up a-re- fted in such decree from taking scats in the Chambr of
said—. I didn't try to do it." =I been sworn, be
flth, but the troops and
stated that he went with the d • k "milky ground in the nature of Louis Napoleon s reception actions movement on the 2
to pie 2. The above-mentioned prep who shall desire to take
&whets." The deftered said he knew where there was a at Tonnerre and Dijon to justify the tumid elation populace rose and threatened to fire on them, and Peen, is entirely revoked.
regiment returned to their duty. At Oporto
bird's nest with nine eggs in it, in the thatch of the Rainy. of spirit to which he gave way at the banquet. his the tothepirwsztst iinntdhemaichannstainbereathnedpoo soliti,
He got up to leek for it, and then said, " I've found a welcome was respectful indeed, but far from enthu- transactions in exchange on London were done at monarchy; and that they will recognise, without any resers a-
ealr"institlYutimo"nsmogfeatltte
fun." Ile got down from
i ititen planks, and ran after elastic; and it may be questioned if he acted wisely 90 days, at till to-5l!, and Brazilian bills at 542, tion, the legitimacy of my throne and dynasty.
c=
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while,.hal: i
taking t e ,sun in Gem him. Seeing hfrZinc.ceeda sed„; sftweri: in leaving the ground which he was silently nequir- with a limited extent of transactions. Business was
successors
docf ptohsosi newt of therl=ewntheloec.reeree shall en
inhibitedt from
DRAW RP any law, upon almost any subject that the hedge, he pointed the gun at it, and deceasedr ran close ing through the powerful parliamentary support of exceedingly fiat. particularly in. shipments. The staki„g .e.„t„, in the said chamber by the said decree of 2Sth
affects England and Ireland, let it be property, taxa- before the muzale, just as he pulled the trigger. It went MNI. de Broglie and Nlontalembert, with a firm, river was full of shipping, and some vessels were may, Mt, such successors being admitted to the chamber
dun, local administration, religion, education, or a oft,. and killed Ereleigh. Thee he ran sway to call Mr. energetic minister like Leon Faucher, in order to loading for London as low as 18s. per ton freight. by the form sad under the conditions provided for by the
Gdsworth . In answer to a question from ajuror, the boy law of the 11th of April, 1845.—Signed by the Queen and
host of other things, and the framer instantly gets declared that neither
eclared that of them was angry, and that he didn t all the Ministers.
upon the horns of a dilemma. Ile either assimilates founded on an illusion. It is generally ad- LISBON Mar 29.
know the gun was loaded. The jury returned a verdict of
the two countries in things, respecting which they are " Accidental Death," attributing blame to Dennis for al- !flitted that if the Dijon speech had been A circular has been published, which explains the The government have formed a commission, composed of
essentially different, or he widens the gulf of sere lowing the gun to remain In the linhay. made some days earlier, it would have prevented the intention of the government with regard to any the most enlightened and influential men of all parties, to

anise • law to regniate the approaching elsations ; Weals,
los gives wish satisfactios, as a divenity of opinions 'lisle
Apra the subject of direct and indirect election. The printi- I
pie of the law, it is generally conceived, will be in favour
elf indirect election, for dila reason—that as education is
eery backward in this country, a body of electors might fin ;
spa a man for a deputy who might be, like themselves,
totally ignorant, and perfectly until to take part in any
legislative measure ; therefere, by forming an electoral col-
lege, the electors returned to that college could with mere
propriety chose a men qualified in every respect fur the
Important end in view; but at an all former occasions
greet corruption was manifest by taps electors being obliged
to come to Lisbon, and here elect their lispoty, the colleges
are to be formed in the respective localities, and the depu-
ties to the Cortes chosen simultaneoudy on the same day,
110 as to avoid even the appearance of tampering. The qua-
lification, it is also understood will be the bare fact of being
a householder, or, in other words, as being more applicable
to this country, having a separate fire-place or chimney.
' • '

Another decree has been published, consequent upon
abrogating the odious law of the press—namely, that all
processes, and application of the public authority to prose-
cute individuals under it, arc declared to be of no effect,
whatever may be the stage of their proceedings ; and they
arc thereby buried in oblivion.