The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVIININO.
To-day the President reviewed, in the Champ de
Mars, the second division of the garrison of Paris,
under the command of General Guillabert. The
ceremony was more favoured than the last review by
the weather; but the President's return home was
the signal for a noisy manifestation of the republi-
cans, who gathered in one dense mass along the
Quay Billy, between the Pont do Jena and the
Champs Elysees, and kept up deafening cheers of
" live la republique!" until the President and his
staff reached the Allee des Veuves.

The committee on revision heard to-day the ax_
planation of M. de Broglie upon the motion of the
Rue des Pyramides. The committee rejected the
propositions of MIL. Larabit, Creton, and Bouhier do
'Telltale. but adjuarned until its next sitting OA vote
on the motioi,s of MM. do Broglie and Y. Payer.
The reporter will be appointed on Thum'
The statement of M. Emile de Girlrdin yesterday
that Louis Napoleon had issued a message printed
clandestinely at the Hotel du Rhin, on the loth De-
cember, 1`348, has received an official contradiction,
which will be published in the dfuniteur of to-
morrow.

The debate in tho Assembly to-day presented no 1
inte :est. The bill on Monts-de-Piete was adopted
lir.aUy with the exception of the tith article, which
'.oppressed the commissioners-appraisers, and which
is replaced by a provision through which the charge
of fixing the nature of the mediators between the
public and the administration is referred to a rc'glc-
meat crodotiniAtration pub'iyuc.
A painful piece of news circulated at the Assembly.
M. Aristide Olivier, editor of the Suffrayc Uniceract,
and son of the old constituent, Demosthene Olivier,
had fought with sabres at Montpelier with M. Fer-
nand de Ginestous, nephew of M. Grosset, represen-
tative of the Werault, who took the place of M.
Escaude, editor of the Echo du Midi. The duel was
fatal to both combatants, one of whom, M. Gines-
tous, was pierced from side to side. The authorities
seem disposed to make an example of this case, and
to punish the seconds with great severity.
The Constiiiitionnel contains an article by Dr.
Veron, indicating the first of a series of reforms
which the country may expect from Louis-Napoleon,
re-elected President. The first reform, after the
' abolition of the law of May, is the suppression of
the octroi duties levied on provisions at the gates of
towns, a system which tends to create extra mores, a
zone of taverns and vagabond faubourgs.
The Constitalionnel also recommends the re-aboli-
tion of the tax on drinks, which was suppressed by
the revolution of February, and the application of
sumptuary taxes, such as those on carriages and
horses, S:c. This article has produced a great sensa-
tion from suggesting an es post-facto.justilication of
the Dijon speech, and indicating senous intentions
in the President to strike into a policy which is co-
loured with socialism.
The monied world has been thrown into consider-
able agitation by the resolution of the committee on
the Avignon Railway in favour of M. Duthure's pro-
position for the provisional execution by the state, as
the corner-stone of M. Fould's budget for 1852 was
the 60 millions which he reckoned on receiving from
the company whose proposals were adopted by the
government.
You may remember that, in the late trial of the
Messoger, M. Foreade hinted that there remained in
his hands a document still more important than that
which he had published from the notes of M. ear-
lier, and compromising a personage of a higher po-
sition than the prefect of police. The busy inqui-
sitiveness of the political world seems to have been
getting daily more fevered about the mysterious do-
cument in reserve, and it seems not improbable that
a fresh attempt to procure a committee of inquiry
will be made in the Assembly with a different result
from that which attended the last. M. Foreade has
stated that nothing less than the appointment of such
an inquiry will induce him to produce the document
in question.
The second trial of the Erenitment came on to-day
before the Court of Assizes, but the cause is not yet
decided.
Count de Stunner, who has resided for Zearly a
quarter of a century in quality of Austrian Inal-
nuncio at the Ottoman Porte, and whose name is
connected with all the great transactions which hams
taken place in the Levant during that period, has
just arrived in Paris, from whence he is, it is said,
about to proceed to London.;
The committee on the budget has reversed its first
decision relative to the suppression of the rantsg to
the Italian opera and the Odeon, and maintains both.
The labours of the sub-committee appointed to ex-
amine the petitions for revision have ascertained that
the number of signatures, crosses included, for the
first 50 departments of France, taken in alphabetical
order, is 450,055.
As an American packet-boat was leaving the port
of Havre two days ago for Now York, the central
commissary of police appeared suddenly on the quay,
and signalled to it to stop. He demanded a list of
the passengers, and arrested one of them, a clerk of
commercial house of La Fere, who had absconded
with a sum of 12,000 fr. The order for his arrest had
just arrived by the electric telegraph. The sum
stolen was found on MM.