The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TVILDAY, 530 A.M.
A serious matter is the law on the press proposed
and read in the first of yesterday's sitting,—far mere
serious than the " oft-told tale of M. Ntaugnin, or
the complaints of M. Savoye. The ministry are pre-
senting a law more vague in its wording, more repres-
sive, than those of S‘ptembEr, which fulfilled the
prophecies of M. Roger Collord. It will be impos-
sible f r the pre -s to have even a shadow of freedom
under such a repre,sive law as the following:

Art. 1. Aeiclie I and 2 of the decree of 11th August,
1848, are applicable to attacks against the relit* and autho-
rity which the president of the republic derives from the
seastitution, and to offenses to hies penonally. The pro-
secution may be undertaken ex officio by the public prose-

add
Art. 2. Any reelection, each as is et forth in Art. 1 of the
law et 17th May, 1449, towards soldiers or sailors, with •
view to draw them away from their military duties, and from
the obrdierce they owe to their commandieg officer, shall be
punished with imprisonment of from one month to two yea's,
and a lino of from 251 r. to 4,000 fr., without prejudice to the
odder pen• hies set forth by the law in ease the provocation
should cionetitute an attempt at redesseliage.
Art. 3. Any attack by the same means, sgainst the respect
due to the laws, and any apology aorta qualifinl as crimes
or misdemeeinown by the penal law, shall be punished with
impria-rment Wen one month to two years, and a tine of
from 161 r. to I,ooolr.
Art. 4. The publication of false news, of concocted or
falsified documents, of letters falsely ascribed to third per.
sees, done with bad faith and with the intention of disturb.
fag the public peace, shall be punished with imprisonment
of from one math to a year, and a fins of from 50. r. to
I,ooolr.
Art. 5. Art. 11 of the law of 21st October, 1815, is ap-
plicaole to all distributors and hawkers of books, pamphlets,
engravings. and lithographs. For any contravention the
pnety 'hell he from one to six menthe imprisonment, and
a fine c f from 251,. to 590 tr., subject, if seemed, to the ap-
pLestion of the penalties pronounced against the authors or
publishers of such works.
Art 6 Any publiestioe, except journals and periodical
wiltistp, treating of pilitical matters, and having fewer than
ire sheets of impression, must be deposited by the printer
with the procureur of the republic, of the place en which it
may be eddied twenty-four hours before the publication or
disinbt.tii.e. The printer mast declare at the moment of
making the deposit the number of copiess which are to be
drawn off. acknowledgment of the di dilution shall be
oven. Any contravention shall be punished by • fine of
from 200 h. to iioolr.
Art. 7. The decree of 9th August, 1848, relative to the
caution-meaty of journals and periodical publications, is
prolonged until the promulgation of the organic law on the
prem.
Art. 8. No journal oe periodical publication can be signed
by a representative of the people as responsible editor. In
mass of infraction the journal shall be considered as not
signed, and the penalty of from 500 fr. to 3,000 fr. fine shall
be pronounced resole the printers and proprietors.
Art. 9. It is forbidden to open or announce publicly sub-1
seriptions intended to snake up fines, costs, or damages dc-
dared
by judicial condemnations. Any infraction shall be
punished by the Correctional Tribunal with imprisonment of
from one month to a year, and with a fine of from 5001 i. to
I,ooofr.
Art. 10. Every remonlible editor shall be bound to insert
at the head of the journal the official documents, authentle
relations, informations and ratifications which may be ad.
dressed to him by say depository of the public authority. The
publication mast take pled the day after the reception of
the documents, unlit the simple condition of the pa
of the cost of insertion. Any other insertion demanded by
the government through the prefects shall be made in the
come meaner, under the same conditions, in the number
whisk shell follow the day on which the documents may be
✓essived. Any contravention 'hall be punished by a fine of
lbws 50fr. to 600 fr.
Art. 11. In the event of the condemnation orate re
Ale editor for crimes, offences, or contraveatteneors
press, the publication of the journal or periodical can only be
made during the period of his imprisonment and interdiethin
of civic and civil rights by another responsible, fulfilling all
the condos required by the law. If the journal shall have
only one responsible edits, the proprietors shall be allowed
a month to present a new am, and in the meantime they
shall be obliged to designate a responsible editor. All
caution-money shall be subjected to that reeponsibtlity.
Art. 12. The measure authorised by Art. 16 of the law
of 18th July, 1820, may be adopted whenever • mend or
subsequent condemnation shall be ivaarrsd, dam by be
same responsible editor or the same journal. TUB NM
measure may alio be pronounced, even wawa • seem(
offence, whenever the condemnation shall be beveled, either
by a direct provocation to revolt or by an to arms; I
in the latter case, Art. 28 of the law of 9DYireh,lBl9,
shall due to be applicable.
Art. 13. The public posearter, even after a esiren, shall
have the privilege of causing the seessad to be directly cited
before the Court of Anise at three days' sake, with an
additional day for a diabase of Ave nurbastres. The
citation shall contain the poise indiesties of the writing or
whim% printed ppm, Pi =Vs, "'I'M
pointless, medals, or ambler. es also a d
Um and qualiftemina of the lOW/ whieli'vert Mu given
rise to the promatisn. In MN a WOMB shell have been
ordered er eiresessil, a espy of the soda ee prods verbal
of the Wean shall le vie to the •messed at the head of
the elution min pia el saft.
Art. 14. II the nand de cast appear on the day of cita-
tion. he shall be~ hp dellanlt by the Court of Amiss
without the sesis sr etsperstien of the OP=
ti
to the Ewa by Messit atm be fanned within
days teen the nedlarilisit efts dame to the person or at his
siesklenes, with ea addltimal limy kr every In
dielaue. oder pain of The oppecition=4;
by fall right a citation to the list inbeement dabs of the
wart. if at the sitting at which the oppeabba bto be des
sided on, the seems& MA see baasatt, thenew *gaud
given by the eurteheil be e. j
Art. 15. Any damal ha peamement, for whatnot
ewe it say be, and an baldest on the me, rank be pa .
seated bike* the edam nod
penalty of being Weeds( of the jury, miff
Mimi null.
Art. Id. After the
shell seemed, sdling sod drawls, by lot of the jury,
the if he hale beat meant at the
epees
manse make default. Is esenignmes, my jadgaestia
nay he given, either cc allikeigi of Ala or 0111 tls asedui
siallea besa delisitive, even if be mused amid withdraw ben
lie , and rams te diked
p hismelf. In this ant the
Mid shall be sesseded with. with be semeratita el the
jars, es if the asensed were present.
17. Ns appal in ematien ea the Mamma ca de.
made tsr ea the insidents the ease eon
be fermi Ow the Islay judgment, sal only at

the same time as the appeal against each jtdgment, under
pain of nullity.
Art. 18. The appeal in antation must be lodged within
twenty-four hours at the registry-office of the Court of Asslze.
Twenty-four hoar* after, the documents shell be mut to the
Court of Candies. In the ten days which shall follow the
arrival of the documents at the reptury-office of the Court of
Cusation, the affair shall be investigated and decided as of
urgent important*, all other affairs ceasing.
Art. 19. If at the time at which the public peosocutur
shall act, the session of the Court of Attlee shell be tern&
sated, and no ether shall be fixed to be opened at ea se*
period. an extraordinary Court of Aeries may be forme, by
an ordonnonce ware of the first president. Thie MAW
asses shall prescnbe the drawing of the jury by lot to CM-
fortuity with the law. The clauses of Art. 81 of the deems
of 6th July, 1810, shall be applicable to the extraordinary I
Courts of Anise formed in execution of the preceding eltalit-
mat.
The penalties are tolerably well defined in thief'
feet, bat not so the offence. What an elasticitiy is
given in article 3, where an attack against the re-
spect due to the law is made punishable with fine and
imprisonment. The measure authorised by article
15 of the law of 1820, alluded to in the 12th article of
the present project, means the total suspension of the
journal attacked, and this suspension is authorised at
ISM and after the first convictions. If ever there was
• breach of the constitution it is to be found in this
law; bat the Paris journals dare not breathe a mad
ea that score, threatened as they are by instant sup-
rrrrnt in virtue of the state of siege. Most of the
pass over in silence the presentation of the
projects. The Debats only announces it, and other
kernels f,llow the example. The National says:—
"Can it be hoped that such unintelligent rigours as
these will stop the suer of democratic opinion. The
future may learn a lesson from the past ; and history '
tells of what use were the ordonnances to Charles X.,
and the laws of September to Louis Philippe."
After M. Mauguin had made the circuit of the
world yesterday, as M. de 'focqueville calls it, M.
Bavoye put his questions as to what was the position
of the French government as regards the Palatinate
and Baden. lie woe answered by M. de Tocqueville,
to the effect that France had not interfered, and did
not intended to do so ; and as for "1. Mauguin's ques-
tions, his reply was that no such coalition as that
which he had mentioned was in existence.
Not one word in all this was said of the affairs of
Rome, or of any force sent to the frontiers of the
Rhine. To-day the debate was re earned. It had led to
no result when the post left. M. Savoye moved that
the government be re-called to the principles which it
had forgotten when it allowed Prussian troops to in-
vade the Palatinate and threaten the eastern
frontier of France. M. Mauguin in the conclusion of his
speech yesterday moved that the army should be placed
on a war footing, and that camps should be formed on
the eas'ern frontier. In commenting on the foreign
debate in the chamber, the Deliats says that M. de
Tocqueville was accused of having followed M.'
Gamut; bat this certainly was not in its eyes a mat-
ter of reproach. This Is highly flattering for M. de
Tocqueville.
By decrees of the 23rd inst., and on the report of
the minister of the interior, the president of the re-
public has ordered the dissolution of the national
guard of Perpignan (Pyrenees Orientates), Vienne
(hem), Beaumont (Puy-de Dome), Loubans and Aze
(Sosne-et-Loire), and Hunawihr (Haut Rhin).
By a later decree the national guards of Saline
and Perigucux are also dissolved.
At the rate the goverrnient is proceeding there
will be very few national guards left in France, for
the legions that have been dissolved are not intended
to be re-organised.
Yaw, It 8a 25.-7ew Loan, —; Three per Cents., 53 70;
Fire per Cmm., 87 13; Last Loan, —; Fours, 72 —', Beleirn
fires, Me; 011 ; 1)0. 1412, —; Do. ;
Bank* Rents, t 3 50; Roman Loan, 76 73. Treasury Bonds, —.
Bonk Shared, 2303. hacheege on London,3o days, 23 370; 90 dap,
25 27i.
lionass.—Paris and Orleans, 100; Faris sad Roam 537 30;
Roam and HAWN 233; Arra sad Maroalloaisitii.Straebotiri
matt Bale, 101 23; Centro ( imaa), 318 73 ; 402 50;
North, 430; P 4414 and Strasbourg, 11112 30; Team sad Wastes, 307 S 0;
'...ntereru rad Troyes,US; Dieppe sad If eau" 10.