The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS, Mognar, 6.30 P.N.
The journals are filled with comments on the candi
dateehip of Prince Louis Napoleon, the violence of
which indicates the degree of certainty which attend.
his success. I take the following from La Prase :
All kinds of means are resorted to for the purpose of pre-
venting the election of M. Louis Bonaparte, thus proving to
what extent he is feared. Thus there has been reprinted
and placarded on the walls the article which the Prone
published on the Bth August, 1840, on kayoing the news of
the landing at Boulogne, an article in which it blamed that
attempt very severely. This is a mameuvre in war of which
we make no complaist, but the contrary, for it will be an
additional motive for our contributing to the success of this
esannee, the only issue for France from that dilemma into
whisk the National has thrown her. Yesterday morning,
the Democratie Pecs:flow quoted passages from a letter read
by M. Louis Napoleon to the jury on the trial at Strasbourg,
in which he speaks of the clemency and generosity of Louis
Philippe, dwellir g with affectation on those words. What
conclusion does it meta I. draw from them? Is it an objec-
tion it intends to raise against the candidateship of General
Cavaigaae, because in his letters to Marshal Souk be ex-
premed himself with effusion on the kindness of the king,
and particularly in September, 1844, when the king had the
goodness to promote him to the rink of nasjorgentral ? The
last reproach we shall ever east aim General Cavaignac wi,l
be that of having shown Monett too grateful.
Within the jut two days, the candidateship of
General Changarnier has assumed an improved aspect.
It is now said that he will have the support of a
large portion of the legitimist., and of the old
conservative party. A congress of provincial
journalists of La Vendee and Brittany is about to be
held at Nantes, for the purpose of promoting his can-
didateship. Another congress of the provincial press
is about to be held at Paris. The candidate which
it will adopt will be either Gan. Changarnier or Gen.
Bugeand. The government is making strenuous efforts
to promote the election of General Cavaignac. To-
morrow or next day the Conititutionnel will announce
that M. aims declines the candidateship for the pre-
sidency ; this journal, it is understood, has decided to
support the claim of General Cavaignac.
Nothing can exceed the exasperation of the govern
meat party, the republicans of the veille, and the ultra-
democrats, at the certainty which attends the success
of Prince Louie, and at the mart ed favour
with which the announcement of the candidateship of
General Changarnier is regarded. Open threats are
made by the Moutain, that if any such returns take
place, they will appeal to tho streets, when the fate
of the Republic will be settled. If Prince Louis
should be returned, a coup cretat on the part
of the government is spoken of, which would
be executed by Generals Cavaignac and Lamoricierc,
with the aid of tho army. Such an attempt, however,
is in the last degree improbable, for it is well
known that the great bulk of the army is Bonapartist.
Among the efforts made by his subordinates to
promote the election of General Cavaignac, is one
perpetrated to-day. They have got an " eloye," as it
is called here, written upon their leader, of which
100,000 copies have been printed at the public ex-
penee, to be circulated among the army and in the
departments. - -
M. Passy, ex-peer of France, and former minister
under Lours Philippe, has just left for Burgundy,
where he has property, for the purpose of supporting
the candidateship of Prince Luis. It is said that
this candidateship has the countenance of M. Guizr.
The Preset sty.: "We learn that on being ques-
tioned by his political friends in London, M. Guicot
did not hesitate to express himself on the candidate-
ship of M. Louis Napoleon to the presidency of the
republic in nearly the same terms as those which the
Breese has employed in its articles."
The Bien Public has an article on M. Lamartine,
in which it says:
The Preen has thus characterised the different ertididates I
for the presidentship of the republic: General Cavaitnat is 1
the incarnation of the National; M Lamartine is imam- !
tine ;M. dru Pe llin, intimidation ;M. Thins, intervention ;
Marshal Bugeaud, arbitrary rule ; M. Louis Napoleon. the
future. 01 all these appreciations, we see only one which
aprears to as just and abs Intely true ; viz., M. l.amartine
is moderation. Yee. All Franco admits the truth of that
declaration. Far the fifteen years that this illustrious states-
man has been in political life, there is not one word nor act
of his that has not been a pledge of moderation. Modcrati4n
is in our eye the very firs! quality of a statesman. Pirtron
is required ti effect a revolmion, moderation to organise it. '
Feast is the fever of the mind ; moderation is the power of 11
reason and the forte of conscience.
It is said that a negotiation has been opened with
the Bank of France to make • lola to Mares ilks of
three millions, which that city has been authorised
by the National Assembly to borrow. As the Assem-
bly has also authorised several other towns to raise
loans, and as capitalists are not disposed to make
advances on the terms prescribed by the Assembly,
the shareholders of the bank fear that similar claims
may be multiplied, and may be presented with a sat
of moral compulsion. This has created some alarm.
The Assembly to-day commenced the discussion of
the budget ; and M. Trouve Chauvel, the new Minis-
ter of Finance, delivered his first ministerial speech,
but in so low a tone as to be hardly audible, in pro-
posing his project in favour of the holders of treasury
bonds and depositors in the saving banks. The de-
cree of the 3rd of July, of which hie predmoor had