The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PABIB, MONDAY, 11 A.M.
A proposition was distributed on fiaturdaz at the
Awlembly for a special committee to be appointed by
the standing committees for establishing the budget
of receipts and expenses for 1849.
The Omar. says :—" Tomorrow MM. Jules
Pure and Billault are to join in interrogating the
government u to its intended foreign policy. It
appears that the object of these two representatives is
to bring to a conclusion the dicta laid down by
M. Emile Guardia, of no intervention, under
any pretext whatever ; and an immediate
redaction of the budget to 1,300,000,000 francs.
MM. Odillon Barrot aid General Rulhieres will reply
by simply moving the order of the day. If this
motion be rejected, the cabinet will immediately
retire." lam enabled to state that this alleged con-
tingent retirement of the cabinet is entirely destitute
of truth.

The following semi-olBcial oconnunieation appeared
is the. ?Wit d ilannelay evening The amasety
justice has for several days been made a pretext
by several journals for directing insults tnd calum-
nies against the President of the Republic. We shall
not take any farther notice of that, insults, nor
sower the calumnies, but leave it to the
good sense of the public to do justice
upon them. There is, however, as assertion which
mast nut remain uncontradicted, and aim% which
these journals have principally dwelt. According to
them the President of the Republic has promised to
grant ea amnesty. The President of the Republic
has not entered into any such engagement. Several
times, it is true, in conversations upon this subject, he
has expressed his wish to see realird the desire he
expressed in his manifesto, and which has always
been in his heart, to grant an amnesty as soon as
circumstances would permit, but he has never given
any positive pledge that it should be done."
M. Lecke ItolUn, and 46 other members of the
party of the National Assembly called the Moun-
tain, have addressed a collective letter to the Mani-
taw, stating that the 7 abstained from taking any part
in the vote for the Vice-Presidency of the rt public.
The ultra-democratic party in the Assembly intends
to join in the effort which is about to be made to force
the Assembly to discuss the budget before its dis-
solution.

The government, alive to these proceedings, are
adopting extraordinary precautions. To-day there
was a general review and inspection of the civic troops,
which have bean lately brought to a considerable state
of efficiency.
The cabinet feels the result of the vice-presidential
election as a cheek. It was observed that in the vote
on the vim-presidency, MM. Thiers, Mole, and
Bu Baud, were absent.
The Putrie of this evening states that the Cour de
Cessation has chosen from amongst its members, MM.
Berenger, Hardoni, Becher, Hello, and de Boitaieu,
titular judges, and MM. Pataille and Delapabue sup-
plementary judges, to form the High Court of Justice.
M. Berenger has been elected president of the court.
The democratic party have got up a project for
thwarting the government, by taking the manage-
ment of the budget out of their hands, and appointing
a committee of 30 members to regulate it. A project
to this effect has been signed by 78 members, among
whom are MM. Felix Pyat, Pierre Bonaparte, Martin
Bernard, Lamennais, Trelat, and Etienne Arsgo.
The following " mot" was circulated last evening
in several of the salons:—
Las mom oat Napoika,
La Prams as rit (Merl).

The Cardinal Archbishop of Cambral arrived at
Toulon on the 14th, and on the next day embarked
for Gaeta, in the steamer Caton, placed at his dis-
posal by the government.
Orders have been given by the Minister of the
Marine for the suppression of one day's work in the
wick in all the naval arsenals. This is fixed for Sa-
turday, as being partly occupied with the pay of the
men. It was at first intended to diacharee a part of
the men ; bat it was afterwards thought better to
make the reduction weigh equally, and, comparatively,
lithtly upon all.
The finance committee, at its sitting on Saturday,
entered upon the proposition of M. Chavoix, for reim-
bursing the tax of 43 centimes in 3 and 5 per cent.
renter. A warm discussion tuned, in which M.
Fould, particularly, and other members of the com-
mittee, warmly contested against the proposition, as
involving the finances of the country m danger, by
lowering. the funds and producing the utmost pertur-
bation; in short, as • remedy much worse than the
evil. The discussion wu postponed till to-day.
The election of two representatives in the National
Assembly for the department of the Vienne, took
place on the 14th inst. There were 33,751 voters.
M. Pros had 20,723 suffrages ; M. Hennecart,l7,ss7;
M. Boarlon, 8,832 ; M. Demarey, 7,841 ; and M.
Fradin, 6,926. MM. Pros and Hennecart were pro-
claimed representatives.
The Moniteur publishes a decree by which mer-
@handles and baggage arriving from abroad may be
exempted from search, and forwarded for that purpose
to any custom-house of the interior near a railroad
station, if sent by special convoys and in a carriage
bearing the seal of the customs.