The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY, 6.30 p.n.
The malts d the weekly reports of the state of the
Bask of Frame begin to mite much solicitude here,
end that whit* appeseed yesterday sided in rodacing
lir ha which Milk piste at the Bunn The present
emidition eel the pregreseive effects developed by
No rest watilart engine my be bristly staled u
Mews, rweisamhersasd i=allidenomins.
Sem The enesat of the liabilities
pneop be stated at about 261 million star . This
grew sent is compoesd as fellows, still using round
halm only:
Mu alaudatima, ha. 814000,000
Illoopet appd la be paid io iswarinia 1,0•0,000
Sam at Is arid Perk.

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410011
4.003,0311

Against this the Bank has a little more than nine mil-
lions of specie. But it is from the ominous rapidity
with which its discounts decline, and still more ham a
comparison of their present amount with their amount
at former epochs, that the most alarming progoesties
are derived. Last week. as compared with the Amur
one, the diminution was 140,0001.
The preceding week the diminution was
.240,0004,
and the week before 140,0001., giving in
three weeks a total diminution in the amount
of commercial accommodation of 820,0001.
Comparing these results with the average dis-
counts of bet year, a remarkable result will be ob-
tained. The total amount of discounts last week in
the central bank was 2,680,0004 The average of the
weekly discounts of last year was above 7,000,0001.
Thus it appears that the weekly discounts have fallen
In the ratio of 26 to 7, or very. nearly 4 to 1. This
result will be the more strllnng if it be considered
that the rate of discount during the peesmt year has
been only four per cent., while last year it was Ave
per con
The ggovernment encountered a defeat last evening
in the Chamber on the question here called remplace-
nient militaire. In the original project of the con-
stitution the right of rempkecerneter ntilitaire or
the power enjoyed by every citizen who should
be drawn for the army to serve by a substitute was
interdicted. This clause was afterwards removed,
and it was proposed to adjourn the question until the
epoch of forming the organic laws. Considerable
alarm, however, was created through the country by
the mere rumour of the possibility that every citizen
might be compelled to serve in the army in person,

no matter what his situation oe circumstances,
and the public anxiety has become so extreme,
that the majority of the Assembly considered that
the question could not even be adjourned, sou to
leave any uncertainty remaining. The government,
however, through the organ of Oen. Lemorieiere,
Minister of War, proposed the mere adjournment for
the present of the question of interdiction, and in this
they were supported by the party of the ultra-demo-
mate. The moderate party and the legitimists gave
' the most energetic opposition to the proposition of the
government, and MM. Thies and Deltunchejaquelin
ivThies speeches against the proposition. Their
chief argument. were, that the Vendee and other
parts of France might rise in resistance if the system
of rensplatyment were not continued. Upon the
division the government were left in a minority of
269 against 603.
A meeting of the party of the Reeds Poitiers will
be held this evening, to c..nsider the question of the
prorogation of the Assembly during the interval be-
tween the proclamation of the constitution and the
election of the president. The object of the govern-
ment in pmposirg this measure is to promote the
election of Gen. Cevaignsc through the instrumen-
tality of such members of the Assembly as may be
favourable to his caudidateship, and who during the
adjournment would visit the departments. It is in-
tended be the moderate patty to oppose this. They
are not favourable to the election of Caysignee, whose
tendencies they distrust. The party of the Rue de
Poitiers will therefore oppose the prorogation.
The red banquets form the chief topic of the Paris
journals of to-day. The Conaire says:—" It appears
that the Ledru phalanx would not fraternise with the
Leroux phalanx, and that the banquet Poiasonniere
was deprived of representatives, though that did not
prevent toasts end speeches. It is to be believed that
the Lerouxs will pay off the Ledrus for their want of
politeness, and that the banquet of Puny braised per
tar absence."
We read in the Union : "It appears that the
socialists decidedly intend to try their strength by
bringing forward M. Ratpail as a candidate for the
presidency of the republic ; although the club of the
Assoeineion Ourrillre has adopted in Paris the candi-
dateship of M. Louis Bonaparte, a great number of
the workmen have resolved to give their votes to the
prisoner of Vincennes. A letter from Lyons states
that the socialists of that city have the game intention.
M. Respell has a chance of being adopted in the great
manufacturing and commercial towns, in which is
exercised, with the greatest activity, the revolu-
tionary and communist propagandism."—ln another
paragraph the same journal says : " The provinces
are busily preparing for the election of the future
president of the republic. A representative, who hu
recentlys travelled through several departments, has
as that ten candidates will be proposed. The
absolute democrats bring forward Ledru-ltollin and
M. Conesidiere." _ _

Legal proceedings have just been directed by the
Procureur of the Republic against the president and
other members of the bureau of several clubs. On
Thursday the Club de Charonoe,which held its sittings
in the street of that name, and the Club de Grosse-
Tfite, which mat in a court behind the Passage du
Cake, were provisionally closed, in virtue of ordon-
winces issued by the Chamber of Conseil of the Tri-
bunal of Premi&e Instance. Last evening the Club
des Acacias, Rue St. Antoine, was also closed.
It is intended definitively to fix the election for the
presidency for the 10th of December.
A report is circulated to-day, of which, however, I
can discover ro good foundation, that Charles Albert
has entered Lombardy.
It is stated that an important change is about•to be
introduced into the French infantry—all the soldiers
are to be trained to artillery week*. This arises from
observation that frequently in a campaign, if the artil-
lerymen are put " rs•de-aerrire " the guns become
useless, end that cannon takln from the enemy are
frequently obliged to be spiked for want of men to
ewes them.
It is said to be seriously under consideration to sup-
press the bureaux de poste ambulans established for
some years on the railways. These bureaux, in which
the Magnesia of sorting and arranging all the letters
is carried on, by which mach additional time is af-
forded to the public for poeting:letters, are, it is said,
found too costly to be continued.
The Bordeaux mail has arrived, but brings no jour-
nals or correspondence from Madrid.

GERMANY.