The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, F&IDAT EYINTWO
The speech of M. lAillamn• sets the great ques-
tion now debated its the French Assembly on its right
footing. The orator laboured under many disadvan-
tages, which tended to halet the impression of his
words in the Ccanther ; out of doors, perhaps, no
perforinsece throughout the debate will find a wider
echo in pubic opinion. Equally combated and in-
terrupted from the beeches of the Right and Lett of the
house, lAmartine laboured manfully through his diffi-
cult task,and smereded in sompletieg a protest against
the factious smelt of the royalist majority upon the
republic, which will go far in defending the present
institetioth. The interruptions of the Right were
natural, but the perverse want of judgment shown by
the Mountain, in coverini with its clamours the most
liberal nice which hat a chime: of obtaining a host-
ing in the Assembly, furnishes a fresh symptom of,
the mpracticel character of teat party.
At the opening of the Aseembly's sitting treday,the
debate was returned by M. Earache, who occuped the
tribune to answer MM. de Lasteyrie and;Berryer.
The Assembly appeared less agitated than on the twol
preceding days.
M. Baroche contradcted the facts alleged with
regard to the 'warty of the Dix Decemnre, and to
the visits f the chiefs of the majority to Weisbaden
and Claremont.
General Change:Wm then proceeded to occupy the
tribune, and spoke amidst the deepest signs of atten-
tion. Ile said that when the government which
preceded that of the President of the Republic esta-
blished its bead-quarters at the Tuileries, the
parties which still divide France were already
in existence. There were the moderate repub-
licans, the monarchists of tradition, the con-
stitutional monarchists, the demagogues who
melted themselves under other names, and the men
who wanted the imperial dictatorship, stripped of the
glory and genie, of the man whoee fame yet fills the
world. (M 'cement.) He had refused to be the in-
strument of any party. He had wished what all
honest people wished, the execution of the laws, the
revival of ommerce, indu-trial activity, the security
of Paris—of all Fearer, and he had the proud saes-
faction of having contributed a hula to the attain.
ment of these benefit,. (Prolonged applause.)
Notwithstanding odious insinuations propagated by
ingratitude, he nsd declined to follow any faction,
any conspiracy, any c, nparateur. (Cheers.) The
two parties which he had last mentioned (the dema-
gogues and imperialists) had vowed against him a
hatred which he had well deserved—(smiles and
approbation)—and which, for his honour, sue- I
vived even his fall. (Cheers.) He might !
have forestalled that fall by his resigna-
tion, which could have been well received But
were those who thought he ought to have given his
resignation quite ante that his COW'Se had not been
useful to them. (Movement.) Ills sword was con-
demned
to a momentary repose, but it was no: broken,
and all* country ever had need of it, it would find
it again full of devotion and obedience to a patriot-
um proof against all trials, of a devoted heart and of
a firm mind, which disdained the tinsel of false
grandeur. (Prolonged applause.)
on descending from the tribune the general was
greeted by the congratulations of his friends.
M.Thiers then addressed the home arnii deep silenoe.
Ile declared that he felt real sorrow at separating to-
day from the government which until then he bad
supported and defended. The government had cora-
.initted an irreparable fault, which he would never
pardon, and that was to seek to create divisions
among the majority in se isiof it by its different
fractions, instead of consolidating it and proceediug
in concert with it. He reminded the house of
the engagement taken by himself and his
friends at the election of the loth of Decem-
ber to support the President without reserve so long
as he did not listen to his personal ambition. He and
his friends had engaged to give him all that was
necessary for the re-establishment:of order; but when
he sought to give himself a position different from
that assigned to him by the constitution, they took the