The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 11 A.M.
The journals of this morning announce that Gen.
eaviignac's manifesto as candidate for the presidency
will be published on Sunday next, the day of the
promulgation of the constitution. That of M. Ledru
Rollin is expected to appear to-day. The address of
Prince Louis will not be published until after the
Cavaignae manifesto.
A manifesto appears to-day in La Reforme, La
Repubb're, and the other organs of the Montague,
which is signed by fifty-six members of the
assembly of that party, including M. Ledra-
Rollin. This manifesto, which is entitled, "De
claration an People:' is a ext of declaration of
principles, intended, no doubt, as a sketch of what the
party would have desired the constitution to be. It
is divided into several sections, under the titles, " Ge-
neral principles.," "Education "" Taxation," "Credit;'
and " Asaocia.ion." The subscribers say that they
adopt with pride the name of the Mountain :
Heirs of the Mountain we glory in that name, to which
we could not aspire, and which our adversaries have bestowed
on us so a reproach. We adept it modified by the added
means that time and science have acquired to it; we adept the
polities' and social principles of oui pr. decesson, their pro.
found love for justice, and the people their virtuous hate against
privileges end aristocracies, the courage of their devotion
and their faith in the future. Our principles, our votes, and
oar actions shall prove whether we or our enemies have
moat at heart the sentiments of justice and humanity,
whether on them or on us has devolved the heritage of
bloody tradition; we who, in the ardour of our democracy,
have willed the abolition of the scaffold, or they who in
the calm of their moderation, would and have maintained it.

This manifesto concludes with the following sum-
mary of the requisitions of the people:
Unity of power—distinction of functions—liberty of
thought—liberty of meeting and association—gratuitous edu-
cation—the revision of the laws as to military service—the
immediate abolition of the taxes of primary necessity, such
u salt, wines, &c.—tie reform of the income tax, octroi,
and patents—the establishment of a proportional and
progressive tax on net income—the repurchase by the
state of railways, canals, mines, &c.—administntive, judi-
cial, and penal reforms, gratuitous justice, that is, therinspli-
tying forms and reducing the costs—the" droit en traviii"
credit —association. In fine, peaceably and progressively all
the consequences of the three great principles of the re-
volution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—that is, the go-
vernment of all, by all, end for all.

We have already announced that the Club of the
Rue de Poitiers, after a dismission, had resolved not
to recommend any candidate for the presidency to its
members. The following were the observations of M.
Thiess on this subject :

lam perfectly disinterested in the question, having re-
fused the candidateship to the presidency of the republic
offered me by several departments. I am neither a candidate
for the presidency nor for the ministry under the two mai-
dents at present possible. I know neither Gen. Cava*nac
nor Prince Louis Bonaparte ; I am not icfliiencul with re-
spect to them by any sentiment either of affection or hatred;
I only seek to discern in the future which will do good or
harm to the country. General Cassignat appears to me to
have en undecided policy, which may lean, in certain cues I
to another side than the moderate one, and for this motive
preserve with respect to him a distrust, not of him perso-
nally, but of his opinions. No doubt General Ca
is worth more than the governments which pratedel=
since the 24th of February, but he is not such a man as
could be desired to make a decisive effort in his favour. At
this moment the country is attracted towards Prince Louis
Buonaparte. To check it en effort would have to be made
which would be without cause, for we have not sufficient
confidence in Gen Cayaignsc to devote ourselves to his can-
didateship. Would it, therefore, be right to propose a third
candidate to be presented to the country in the name of the
Club of the Rae de Poitiers ? Ido not think it. I think
that at this moment a third candidate would place the
moderate party in an awkward position, us be could only ob-
tain the support of a portion of the moderate party, the
other portion being inevitably certain to support Prince
Louis Buonaparte. Two things would therefore re-
sult ; first, the moderate party would cause its
numbers to appear small, by securing to its candidate
only a portion of the vote' which naturally belong to
it ; secondly, the division of suffrages preventing any of
the candidates from having the absolute majority, the elec-
tion would, in virtue of the new constitution. fall to the Na-
tional Assembly, which would undoubtedly nominate Gen.
Cavaignac. Consequently, in proposing a third candidate in
the name of the moderate party, it is the nomination of
Gen. Cavaignac which would be secured. We must know
what we do, and say to °umbrae that that is the result
at which we should arrive. Now, if it be the nomination
of Gee. Cavaignas which is desired, we should may it
frankly, openly, end labour for it earnestly. We ought
even derive advantageous results to the country from that