The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDNZADLY Remise.
I have this evening a most important piece of news
to cimmunicate to you. Thu afternoon, at two
o'clf•clr, eight of the leading parliamentary chiefs,
MM. Dupin, niers, Mole, de Montalembert, Dare,
de Broglie, Berryer, 'and Odilon Birrot, were sent
for to the Elyiee. During their absence a thousand
speculations prevailed in the Assembly as to the re-
sult of their conference with the President. At half-

past five they came back. The house thronged about
them to hear the upshot of the interview, which, I
understand, was as follows: Unanimous in demand-
ing the maintenance of General Changarnier in his
c3mtnand, they found the President inflexible
in the contrary determination. The Presi-
dent declared his firm will to respect the
constitution and the prerogatives of the Assembly;
but he said that he wished also that his own prero-
gatives should be respected, and that he could not
consent to remain the subordinate of General Chan-
gamier. He went so far as to say that the Assembly
might, if it wished, dissolve the army of Paris, or
give the command to whom they pleased—to Gen.
Cavaignac, for instance—but maintain Gen. Chan-
gamier in his post he would not. So positive was
the language of Lois Napoleon on this point, that
no further answer was possible on the part of the
tight burgraves, who accordingly retired.
The account of this interview produced in the As-
sembly the moat extraordinary agitation, and
the sitting broke up in a complete tumult. Will
the President find a ministry not only of suffi-

A letter front Paris, of the same date as the fore-
going, says:
M. Mold proceeded to the Myatt yesterday morn-
ing, at 10 o'clock, and a long interview with Louis Napoleon.
M. Mold, justly fearful of thermion of a continued collision be-
tween the two powers of the state, employed all the force of his
eloquence, and all the jaunt* of hie impious experience,
and even made appeal to what he was pleased to term his
personal devotedness to Luis Napoleon, to take into favour-
able consideration the opi'.ion exprenrd by the meeting,
composrd as it was of so many influential members of the
National Amenably. lam informed that M. Mold did not
find the President in a state of feeling disposed to torn
panes. L-aria Napoleon expressed, in a forcible, and
perhaps a feeling manner, what he considered his grounds of
complaint against the Assembly, that invariably thwarted
his every act. There was not a fraction, however
senate, of that body, that did not consider itself justified
in secretly or curtly opposieg him. For the sake of public
order—for the sake of maintaining peace at home end abroad
—he had unhesitatingly exposed himself to the' enmity of
the revolutionary party ; and, in the choice of his various
ministers, he had consulted the prejudices of the legi.
Minima, and the partialities of the Orleaniste, with all
alike, with the exception of those who were the tr-
ete...cable enemies of social order. Several of those who
coalesced against him owe the power they posissied—
oot merely to take a prominent position in the public
strain of the country, bet even to pursue himself with their
hatred—to the lenity of his government and to the
mildness and tolerance of his own administration. A
fraction of the Assembly, whose views were net even
attempted to be concealed, bad adopted as their champion
a general officer, who owed the exceptional position be
was in, end the large power he possessed, to his govern-
mat; and this penonage.wea set opal a noel to the chief of
the state, chosen as that chief was by 6,000,000 of elector,.
General Changarniar, however high he may be, was still
not a third power of the state; the constitution recog-
nised none such. Hs complained that while his
every act was jealously watched, his thoughts seru
tinised, intentions imputed to him which he had
entertained, his motives misrepresented, hi'
conduct an incessant object of suspicion—those who profrosed
themselves as his bitter adversaries were allowed every
latitude, provided that latitude war against himself. It was
neither consistent with his own honour nor with the dignity
of the station be bald that such a state of things could last.
lie was decided it should not last, so far as he had any
haute;ii ail ,ne rat timing of General Chugarnier
was what he could not consent to. M. Mold did his utmost
to remove those impressions from the Penile/nee mind, end
pointed out the consequences of the dismissal of a general
who would be supported by the msjority of the Assembly.
M. Mold quitted the Elyfda without making any advance in
the object he no doubt bad sincerely at heart.