The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-26 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

A letter from Argun states that the federal council,
having foreseen the possibility of an occupation of the
&Mile frontiers adjoining Baden being necessary, the
10th, 18th, 40th, 41st, and 42nd battalions of infantry,
with a corresponding amount of cavalry and artillery,
were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to
instantly take the field should they be cailid out. The
military committee was to judge if such a rep was
neoesuary ; and if so, to assign to each body of troops
the position I/ hich it was to occupy.
M. de Ksiscrefeld, Austrian ambassador to the
Swiss Confederation, died at Zurich on the 22nd.

The EeEumeat publishes the following from Berne,
dated the 21st M. Ledru Rollin, socompadod by
two other intone, arrived here yesterday evening, by
the diligence from Basle. This day at noon he left by
the Berne diligence for Geneva. The report of his
presence having been circulated, nearly 1,500 persons
assembled in front of the hotel at the moment of the
departure of the diligence, but M. Ledra Rollin,
wishing to escape from public cariosity, had walked
on, and only took his seat in the carriage at the Morat
gate. He had, notwithstanding, a rather numerous
asiemblege. Gen. Tigard has just arrived at Geneva."

PARIS, M5/fluky, 5 30 F.Y.
To-day had been fixed for the questions on foreign
affairs, of which MM.Mougain and Sacoye had given
notice. The prelude of the sitting was marked, how-
ever, by the presentations of a project of law on
the press, which will probably have more serious
results than any questions that can be put or answered
at present on the subject of foreign affairs.
M. Barret said that the project of law on the preen
which he proposed, and for which he demanded
urgency, consisted of three heeds; the chief points
noticeable were, that every print of more than four
folios must be forwarded to the authorities twente-
tour hours before publication. No representative in
the Legislative Assembly can be editor of a journal.
A complete system of repression is organised.
Criminal proceedings against the press are rendered
shorter, so that judgments may be given as soon as
possible after the publication of the article being
the subject matter of the action ; and the president
of the republic is defended against the attacks of the
press. Such are the main points of the project, of
which a more extended notice will be given. The
urgency of the project was unanimously voted by all
the members except those of the left.
M. Mauguin then rose to speak on foreign affairs.
He wen anxious to call the attention of the Assembly
Ito the state of Europe, which was under arms from
I the line of the Oural to the Atlantic. No nation was
actually at war with another ; but it could not be a
trißirg matter that induced Russia and Turkey to call
out all their forces. He showed the coalition resusci-
tated against France, as it stood in 1813, under the
influence of Russia, and France knowing that she
should not have, in the question of Denmark,
sided with England and Russia against Germany. M.
Msuenin next examined the policy of Russia in
gran'ing her assistance to Austria against Hungary.
She always had the East in view, and Austria being
the nearest and greatest obstacle to the realization of
her designs, she was anxious to absorb her, and
Aus•ria now as much belonged to leueeia as Petard at
the period of the first invasion. Russia would actually
make use of her to assert her power in the end.
England. the other obstacle to the encroachments of
Russia on that side, has lost a great part of her in-
fluence on the Continent, which she formerly owed to
the subsidies she granted the powers, and the armies
she placed at their disposal. Now, England would
go to war for c =merest interest', but would no
longer draw the sword for political questions, so that
Russia might seize Constantinople whenever she
pleased, without any opposition from England. The
Porte vainly applied to the latter for protection; she
even denied the sultan her moral support. England
will probably occupy Alexandria, Cindia, or some
other island of the Archipelago, but will quietly
suffer Russia to establish herself at Constantinople.
France was the only scrim's obstacle to the nicer-
' portion of the Turkish empire with Russia,
and he felt justified in saying that the
keys of Constantinople were at Paris. Russia
and France were in a state of constant and
complete antagonism; the former represented abso-
lute power. and the other absolute liberty. Russia
beheld in Feline* her reol enemy, and tho immense
movement of troops towards o..rmeny observed in
Russia, from St. Petersburg to Caucasus, was destined
to crushl France, and not to reduce feeble Hungary.
Prussia, on the other hand, was making immense
armaments, and would shortly have 300,000 under
arms.. t was not to wage war against Austria,
but evidently to be ready to join in a
new coalition against France, which would lo?
Is ft alone as in 1813. M. Mauguin would not advise
his country to declare war immediately, but he re-
commended it to assume a firm and decided attitude,
to make a demonstration useful, energet'c, and highly
menacing. (Laughter.) By following his advic?,
France would not only ensure peace, bat take an im-
portent position in Europe. She would secure to
Hungary an independent existence; to Turkey the
integrity of her territory, and prove herself the
benefactress of Europe.
M. Toequevillc, minister for foreign affairs, here
rose and said that two members having given notice
of their intention to address questions to him, he
begged the Assembly to allow him to reply alter
boring both.
M. Severs said, that the Constituent As:embly had
recommended the government in February last to
adopt the measures necessary for the energetic pro-
tection of foreign nationalities. He asked the cabinet
what it had done to comply with that recimmenda-
din ? He then referred to tl.c conduct of the
French authorities towards the insurgents of Baden,
and contended that it was actually bordering on
hostility.
M. Savoy., was at the tribune when this despatch
left.
It was rumoured at the Assembly that Rome had
capitulated, after hearing of the manner in which the
affair of the 13th of June had occurred in Paris. But
there is no truth in this report. Government tas
received no more recent news than that already pub-
lished.
The committee of the Union Electorale, in choosing
the candidate' to fill up the vacancies in the
Paris representation, have, as they inform the
public in a proclamation, received an assurance
from them that they share the ideas of order and
conciliation prcclaimed by the committee, with an
engagement to make their option for Paris if they
should be elected elsewhere, or to cease to be candi-
dates for Paris if their names should not be in the
first eleven resulting from the preparatory ballot
which is fixed to take place in the different actions
between the 28th of June and the lot of July. The
eleven candidates proposed by the committee are as
follow:—MM. Leon de Malleville, ex-minister;
Achille Fauld, ex-representative; Lanjuinais, minis-
ter of commerce, ex-representative; Ceambolle, ex-
&linty ; De Bar, general of division, colonel of the
3rd legion of national guards; Louis-Lucien
Bonaparte ; Magnan, general of division, comman-
dant-an-chief of the army of the Alps; Ferdi-
nand Barret, ex-representative; Theodore Duce,
ex-representative ; Benjamin Ds leseert ; Boinvil-
liens, batoonier of the order of advocates ; Gamier-
Pages, ex-member of the provisional government;
Putt, general of division ; Boissel, ex-representative;
Amides Thayer, ex-member of the council-general;
Bonjean, advocate of the Court of Caseation, ex-repre-
sectative ; Fernand Foy, ex-per, the eldest son of
General Foy ; De Chabrol, ex-magistrate ; the Abbe
Cequereau, canon of St. Denis ; F. Msrbeau.
The following proclamation has been issued by the
Democratic Socialist Committee to the electors of the

Seine:
Citizen Blectors,—The DemocratieSocialistCommittee, in
virtue of the mandate ich ycu have given to it to direct
the elections for the Legislative Assembly, yesterday resumed
its electoral operations, which have been sutpteded since
May. At this sitting it renewed its bureau, discussed all
questions relating to iti competency or its attributima, and
took the necessary mewures for the prompt union of all the
forces of the democracy. In spite of the obstacles of the
state of siege, your delegates, strong in your support. hope,
citizens, to gun on July 8 a more brilliant victory than in
May.
M. de Lamartine has addressed the following litter
to the editor of the Journal du Loiret:
Paris, June 22.
Monsieur,—l have only time to thank you, and to tell you
that I tempt witn gratitude the eandidsteship of the Loiret.
AU the probabilities appear to me to be for an option in fa-
vour of a department which has been one of the first to offer
me a political boapitaiity so spontaneous and an honourable.
But Imperious circumstances do not permit me to enter into
a formal engagement in that respect at this moment. Act,
then, monsieur, both you and your friends, as your hearts
may prompt you, and, whether with or without success,
count on my sincere and cordial devotedness.
The responsible editor of tbo Deferneur du Pimple
announces that the publication of that journal has
been suspended for the present, in consequence of a
domiciliary visit having been made at its offices, and
its subscription-list, books, &c., seized.
The representatives composing the meeting of the
Conseil d'Etat assembled on Saturday evening, and,
among other questions, discussed the manifesto of
the Cercle Conatitutionnel. Though disapproving of
certain parts of this document, the meeting, without
reguding the form in which it is drawn up, was of