The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-18 00:00:00

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The programme. OIL Friday for the ca-
mmiedinistffe4.ofro.mAmcehmeille,
having aspired to that of finance. M. Pasay, how-
ever, was t°° good a Card to be last. Efforts are
being made to preer.de M. Fould to accept. M.
fttordhe Thayer len awed as likely to succeed M.
Etienne Arago at r',H, pose-office, but it is still un-
decided whether be or M. Dubost will definitively
Milettamideincy of the republic is still undo-
tided i acal, ra the new president is allowed a month
from the "Ay of his nomination to select the names
Iwhich he will present to the Assembly for that office,
it is believed that Prince Louis will not hasten his
&visit' al. He will rather wait till public opinion
shall . declare itself respecting the cabinet.
'Although MM. Tillers, Mole, arid Bugeand do not
kens part, of the new cabinet, yet it is known that
they take part personally in the deliberations of the
embryo cabinet. Some dissension has already been
manifested among these unacknowledged counsellors
of the chief of the government. M. Thieve prepared
an address, to be delivered by the new President on
the OCC4IIIOI, of his inauguration. M. Louis Bona-
parte objected to this, and signified his intention to
prepare the address himself. M. Tillers took umbrage
this;tt but MM. Bugeaud and Mole supports: the
prince.
To-day and last evening councils of the ministers of
the new cabinet were held at the residence of Mar-
shal Itugeaud. On the question of disposing of the
portfolio of commerce refused by M. Achille Fould,
M. Louis Bonaparte gave his personal opinion that
this occas'on ought to he taken to incorporate in the
government au element of the pure republican party,
and suggested M. Dixie or M. Duclerc, late minister
of finance. This suggestion was apposed by MM.
Bannt, Pansy, and Faucher, who proposed M. Par-
rieu. Nothing is yet decided.
The committee of the Assembly on the presidential
election received up to last night the complete re-
turns of only 21 departments out of the satire num-
ber of 86. The gross result of these complete
returns is as follows by the official paper ;
—Total number of registered electors 1,129,139.
Votes delivered, 1,125,766.—F0r Bonaparte, 799,021 ;
Cavaignac, 250,569; Laden Rollin, 51,567; Itaspail,
18,305; Lamartine, 5,444.
From these numbers we infer as follows: 1. That
in these twenty-one departments (including the capi-
tal), only one qualified elector in 300 abstained from
expressiag his opinion by his vote. 2. That every
hundred elentors distributed their suffrages as follows :
Bonaparte, 70 • Cavaignae, 221 ; Ledru Rollin 44 ;
Respell, 11 ; I:marline, 01 ; abstained, 01 ; lost 01 ;
i total, 100.
Besides these complete departmental returns we
have received partial returns from all the depart-
ments, except those of the Alps, Corsica, and Algeria.
The gross result of these, combined with the complete
returns given above, is : Bonaparte, 4,747,000; Ca-
vaignac, 1,191,000; the proportion of the former to
the latter being still 4 to 1 very nearly.
During the Vast two days a great number of work-
men have been employed in preparing the palate of
the Elyeees Bourbon for the new president. The
employ.6s of the garde meuble have been engaged in
supplying the necessary furniture.
This palace has many interesting associations con-
nected with the Bonaparte family. It was the fa-
vourite place of retreat of Napoleon when he sought
repose from the toils of state. It was the habita-
tion of Queen Hortense, the mother of the
new president. It was there that the Em-
peror Alexander visited the ex Emprees Josephine,
in 1814. The bed is still there on which Napoleon
vainly sought to bury his griefs in sleep the night
of his arrival in Paris after the disaster of Waterloo.
The pulse. has been used since February as the
butane of the committee fir receiving the voluntary
contributions of the citizens towards the support of
he republic.
The sp'.endid furniture, which was much damaged
during the last nine months, is now being restored,
and although it will not offer a place of reception car-
responding
to the dignity of the chief of this great
country, it will, nevertheless, bear a more suitable
proportion to the salary allowed him by the Assembly
(25,0001.) than would any of the greater royal resi-
dences.
It is said that the cow cabinet intends to propose
a supplement to the salary of the president, to cover
the expenses of receptions and official entertainments'
It will, I believe, be attempted to limit the func-
tions of the present Assembly to the voting of the'
electoral law, the only one of the organic laws which
must necessarily be passed before the election of the'
legislative Assembly, under the conditions of the con-
stitution.
M. de Fallout, the new Minister of Public Instruc-
tion, is about to propose a project of law upon the
liberty of instruction, the object of which will be to
reconcile, as far as possible, the views of the clergy
with those of the university.
The journals of Lyons and Havre bring to-day mast
favourable accounts of the revival of business. The
silk business at Lyons is recovering its activity. At
Havre a rime of 4 to 6 francs is reported on cotton.
Another signal rise took place at the Bourse yes.
ter*. The Threes rose 11 franc and the Fives
above 2 francs. The former closed at 47.25, and the
latter at 77.60. Back shares have rose to 1700.
M. Letronne, Keeper of the Archives. Member of
the Academy of Belles-Lettres, died on Friday night,
aged 61.
The Italian congress will be opened at Demists on the
16th Jan. M. deToequeville will not, as was i ntended, re-
t France. The ministers of Tuscany, Rome, and
present Prance. The ministers of Tuscany. Rome, sad
Naples, who are to take part in the conferences, us
not yet known. Austria consents to enter on the ne-
gotiations only on the bases of having her present
territory in Italy acknowledged, and being only es-
quire(' to grant more liberal institutions.
The Osiris steamer, which left Oaeta on the Bth
arrived at Marseilles on the 12h. M. de Car-
oelles, the envoy of the government to the Pope,
returned in that packet, with 61, de la Tour d'Au-
vergne, secretary to the embassy at Rome.