The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-12 00:00:00

NEWS FROM PARIS.

MEETING OF THE NATIONAL REP RESEN-
TATA' E S.—REACTIONARY TENDENCIES.
PARIS, SUNDAY, 10 30 A M.
The meeting of representatives which took place
on Friday evening, and which I reported in my de-
spatch of last night, led to important results, yester-
day. As had been agreed upon, the question whether
the present executive government should be main-
tained, was debated in the several bureaux, and
especially in the first, occasion being taken from the
report to be prepared upon the grant of one
hundred thousand francs per month for the ex-
pense of the establishment of the executive govern-
ment at the Luxembourg, not including the salary of the
members of the Executive Commission. In all the
bureaux, representatives spoke in strong terms
against the state of governmental inertia produced by
the existence of discordant principles in the Executive
Commission. In the first bureau M. Leon Faucher
delivered a speech in which were briefly expressed
the general sentiments which prevail among the
majority of the Assembly. The following is a sum-
mary of what he said :
The question of confidence has been proposed, I ccrept
the challenge, and I declare frankly that I have no confi-
dence in the Executive Commission. I have no confide nee
in the power of the members who compose it, combined as
they are, nor in the policy which proceeds from it.
After having shown that no order was established
in public affairs, and that the absence of power was
everywhere telt, leaving the country in a state of,
manifest anarchy, he proceeded:
With a view to exclude all the men who were not re-
pub/trans de la veille, the government has isolated itself in
the country. You see those who r, present it, the exclusive
republicans, themselves, excluded in the elections. The go-
vernment has not attached the country to the republic,
either by principles or men. Its doctrines, demi-communist
in matters of finance, and bordering on disorder in policy, have
everywhere cr. aced alarm. The incapacity olten the immorality
of its agents have done the rest. For four months has the
emeute been permanent in all the large towns. It is useless for
us to manifest to them our resources, our power, our devotion ;
they know nothing of them, they can do nothing with them,
they will do nothing with them. The country is tired of
this feebleness. France needs a government. It will not
return to its industries without order, security, and confi-
dence, for which she has is vain waited for four months.
France which will be governed when it no longer feels the
hand of a government, will throw itself into the anna of a
dictator. This dictator I see already in the distrnce. A
name has been pronounced and adopted in the elections,
a name which is a talisman against which we cannot too
much struggle for liberty, allied to order. I will, if I
can, save the republic. ,I therefore refuse this grant to
the executive commission. It is for the Assembly to con-
sider the matt, r. The only reasonable combination appears
to me a ministry named by the A'sembly, with a President
who represents the unity of direction. This ministry would
easily he found when that spirit of exclusion and coterie,
which to this time has been so powerful, shall be done away.
Other representatives, as well in the first as in the
other bureaux, expressed themselves in a like sense.
In the course of the day the President of the Assem-
bly informed the Executive Commission of the pro-
ceedings in the bureaux, and of the intention of a party
in the Assembly to avail itself of the question of the
proposed grant on Monday to ask a vote of confidence
from the Assembly—in other words, to take the
sense of the Assembly as to whether the present Exe-
cutive Government should be maintained.
'fhe Executive Commission signified at once its
acceptance of the question; and accordingly to
the debate will take place. The several
bureaux have appointed commissioners to prepare
a report upon the grant of 100,000 *nos demanded
by the government. This committee is now in ses-
sion, and will present its report to-morrow. As the
majority of its numbers are on the side of the
government, it is understood the report will be
favourable to the grant.
A manifestation in favour of Louis Napoleon has
been made at Ardennes, where placards have been
posted, calling on the people to overturn the present
government and declare that prince Emperor. The
members of the Bonaparte family now in Paris have
caused to be published in the journals of to-day a con-
tradiction of the reports which have prevailed respect-
ing Prince Louis Napoleon, and declaring that he has
not arrived in Paris.
The altroupentents at the Port St. Denis were re-
produced as usual last night. I visited the spot at