The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1851.

FRANCE.

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PAWS, Tatitena r ElraINQ.
ries9 &it Joinvilk's candidature is the all-
spa only emelOrg topic of the day. The
Astral& is tbv only levid journal which still
Vstrifteueslulftbet iscredality. All the others admit,
frith-she and wailing, that after the signal fail.
is. of 24.-t's attempt to extract a disavowal, it
would ba libido= to. evidence to deny 'that the.
Prince Penienall cnceereftee his enPreortera. The
flimsy veil of oourtly language in which the royalists
at first dammed their res%Zral rrmionstranees with
a; prior of the house of bon is gradually dis-
appearing, and he may soon expect to encounter as
much personal abuse as falls to tho lot of the most
vulgar hustings candidate. Already he is taxed
on one hand for cowardice in not marching upon
Paris after February, 1848, when the country to
whose wishes he, pretended to defer was represented
by a domen usurpers at the Hotel de Ville. Another
opponent, taking an opposite view of the matter,
tries to deprive him of all credit for his conduct at
that period, by demonstrating the impossibility
of his having acted otherwise. Some assert
that ho was always known to be a red'
republican ; others that ho is conspiring to place
his nephew on the throne. Some charge him with
corrupting the other members of his family •, others
with turning a deaf car to their councils. The Cost-
atitutionnel devotes no less than eight columns to the
Prince. Two of these consist of a translation from
a London paper of the article prompted by M.
Guizot. A long extract is given from the Univers,
not a favourite paper with the Constitiiiionnel, bat
pressed into the service on this momentous occasion.
That veteran Orleanist writer, M. Granicr do Cas-
sagnae, signs his name to a long and bitter article,
the spirit of which you may perceive from the fol.
lowing extract :
Who does not know that the candidature of the Prince
de Joinville is the work of that ambitious, peevish, busy
revolutionary group formed of M. de Listeyrie, M. de
Mornay, M. de Chambolle, M. Roger (du Nord), N.
Duvergier de Hauranne, and some other secondary per-
soneges—peoplo who are obliged to be lifted up to be seen,
and who are like a necklace of bells round 111. Thies' neck ?
Who does not know that this candidature, offering no
chances of success, reduced to this meagre army, they have
rallied to it, by way of en auxiliary corps, a group of the
tiers-path, MM. Dufaure, Lamonciere, Changarnier, the
hesitating, the envious, and the revengeful ?

Fifty-eight councils-general have now pronounced
for the revision. The non-revisionist list has now
attained the number of five, inclusivo of the council
of Swine and Loire, where the proposal, being for
total revision, was opposed by M. Lamartine, on the
ground that those words involved the principle of
the republic, which he would not consent to call in
question. M. Lamartine's reasons prevailed by a
majority of ono vote only.
The following palpably illegal resolution has boon
voted by the council-general of the Pyrenees-Ori-
I entales :

The council, solicitous only for the safety of the country,
reiterates its desire
1. For the revision of the constitution.
2. For the prorogation of the powers of Louis Napoleon,
or for the abrogation of the Art. 45.
3. That in case the minority of the Assembly should per-
sist in refusing the revision, then that the Assembly by •
simple majority should appeal to the nation to vote either
for the maintenance or the rejection of the constitution.
To this plain speaking the Pressc calls tho atten-
tion of the Minister of the Interior.
A vote of the arrondissement of Limoges, affirming
by implication that tho constitution hitherto had not
always been observed, was quashed for illegality.
It remains to be seen whether the government
consider it legal to ask openly that the constitution
may be violated.
The council of the Loire Inferieure has distin-
guished itself above all its legitimist contemporaries
by the following unambiguous expression of its sen-
timents :

Tho council-general of the Loire Infiiricure, consider.
ing that the safety of France lies in the return to traditionid,
hereditary, and legitimate monarchy—considering that this
return can only be effected by the total revision of the con-
stitution—empresses a wish that the constitution should be
revised in its totality, and that France, represented by a
consrituent assembly, freely elected, may return to tradi-
tional and hereditary monarchy.
This reads curiously under the government of a
republic; but if it be lawful and right that such bo-
dies as the councils-general should exercise a pressure
Ira the legislature at all in political matters, the
reedution is neither illegal nor unreasonable. As-
their opinions to be valuable, the more can-
illudtiley speak their minds the better. If this
example had been set sooner, it would probably have
found many imitators among those who when they
say total revision—mean the very same thing which
the councillors of the Loire inferieure have more
esnatessasly expressed.
Aa absurd opinion prevails in many parts of
/Woo that the potato disease is owing to the
vapour of gas works and steam-engines. Tho
Constitution/set attributes this prejudice to tho
agency of the red republicans, who propagate the
error in order to induce the ignorant populace to
destroy machinery.
M. Brenier, the principal secretary at tho Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, has gone to Berne upon a special
mission.
According to the latest information received by
the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce from the
wine-growing district*, the Italian grape disease has
not spread to any material extent m France. A
report will shortly be published, of a nature to dis-
pel the alarm which has been felt.
The Moniteur contains a decree fixing the legal
tax upon all sugars imported in casks at 13 per
cent., and upon sugars in cases at 12 per cent. The
distinction formerly existing between raw and
whitened sugars is abolished.
The Committee of Permanence met to-clay. Twenty-
two members were present, among whom were M.
Las= (in tho chair), Generals Changsrnier, Bai-
lie/es, de Bar, Grouchy, and Admiral Cecile. They
resolved not to communicate their deliberations to
any one. It is understood that they have adjourned
MI venal for a fortnight. The other committee call-
* themselves the committee of surveillance, find it
so difficult to look each other in the face without
laughing, that they will very probably dissolve
themselves.
The " Plot of Paris," as it is already called, has
occasioned, as you will see, no uneasiness at the
Bourse, where the funds have risen considerably.
Many more arrests have been made. The total num-
ber is now 125. Among the persons most recently
arrested is M. Marchaix, formerly a commissioner of
the provisional government in the Indre and Loire.
The most prominent among the persons whose ar-
rest I announced yesterday are 31. Dalieau, the
director of the Voir du Proscrit, and M. Maillard,
the advocate. The rest are obscure individiek
principally journeymen, tradesmen, and mothball's.
One of them named J. J. Cherval, a lithographer,
described as an " Irish subject."
Last night, at about 9 o'clock, 60 " sergens de
ville" marched to the Café do la Haute-Saone, Ras
Grenclle St. Honore, where they arrested a dozen
persons. Several brigades of police were sent in the
night to different quarters of Paris, with instruc-
tions to execute warrants of arrest. As many as
80 prisoners have already been sent to the .11h.sas
prison. It is mid at the Palais de Justice that meet
important papers, emanating from the London com-
mittees, have been seized. Paris is absolutely quiet,
and no alarm or even excitement has been produced
in the public mind.
The Lyons prisoners are expected to be removed
temporarily to the fort of Vincennes, to await the
result of their appeal.
At the Bourse to-day the Five per Cents. rose
25c., closing at 94c. The Three per Cents, rose 20c.,
and closed at Mc.