The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY, 5 30 p.w.
The reception of the President at the Palais Elysee
Bourbon took place today, according to the pro-
=The unfitness of the Paled of the Elysee
foe the residence of the chief of the date
was masted quite apparent on this occasion. With
the exception of a few of the constituted bodies it
became necessary to hold the ceremony in the gar-
den, the rooms being altogether insufficient to receive
the visitors. At two o'clock the garden presented a
remarkably splendid appearance. As those citizens
who were officers or sub-offices in the National Guard I
had been invited to present themselves in uniform,
and as almost all persons in a position to visit
the President held that rank, the assemblage, with
the exception of a few dozen
.persons, was in uniform.
The officers of the line being invited at the same time,
the aspect of the place was as brilliant as could be
imagined. Before three o'clock there could not have
been less than 1,500 persons collected in the garden.
Instead of pawing, as usual, before the President,
they were drawn np in two ranks with an intervening
space between, along which the president, attended
by the Minister of the Interior, his aides-de-camp,
and suite passed. There was no individual presenta-
tion, nor any interchange of words between the presi-
dent and his visitors.

It is reposed that Dubois de S 'Hely is ap-
pointed ambassador at Brussels, and M. do Lagrone°,

not to Pre— iieiTtii7lselFagTin
as a candidate for the presidency of the National As-
sembly.
Quotations upon the late ministerial crisis will
be addressed to the ministry to-morrow in the
Assembly, by M. Oreby, one of the members of the
party of the Montagnards.
A list of fourteen appointments to departmental
prefectures eared in the Moniteur to-day, in which
were many well-known members of the Orleans party,
who had been displaced by the revolution of February.
Among these was M. Brun, who bad been prefect
from 1830 to 1848, and M. Ernest Leroy, a friend of
M.oa.isot, who had been an influential elector of the

arrondissement of Lisieux.
The Piedmontess envoys to the Brussels Congress
on the affairs of Italy have arrived in Paris.
The Pirate of this morning says: " Manifestations
are becoming more frequent, to induce the National
Assembly to observe the limits of its mandate. The
journals of the departments unanimously agree in
declaring it to be the interest of the country as well
as of the revolution of February, that oar representa-
tives should renounce the voting mast of the organic
laws that have been injudiciously inscribed on the
order of the day. The rote on the salt duty has still
more excited this feeling of hostility or mistrust 1
against the Assembly."
The late ministerial crisis continues to be the sub-

jest of conversation and comment in all circles. The
appointment of M. Leon Faucher to the Ministry of
the Interior is not, as is stated by some of the jour-
nals, an interim arrangement, 'oat a definite appoint-
ment. I have good authority for 'Willi; that M.
Leon Faucher has consented to occupy this important
post in the government truly with the greatest reluc-
tance.
The Archbishop of Paris has issued a circular to
his clergy, directing a collection to be made at the
churches for the Pope.
The Assembly has voted the 800,000 frame for
meeting the bills drawn on account of the govern-
ment of Monte Video.
M. de Ricci, the Ambassador of the King if Sardi-
nia to the French Republic, left Paris yesterday for
• Train, having been appointed a member of the minis-
[ try. M. de Ricci was to have represented the King
1 et Sardinia in the Congress at Brussels.
The National of this morning bar an article on the
postal arrangements between London and Paris, in
which it complains that the object of the recent visit
of the Marquis of Clanricarde to Paris has been mis-
represented in the English journals. The following
is the statement given by the Neiman/ :
The Amiens and Boulogne Railway being opened was a
shorter mode of communication than that by Calais. Taking
advantage of this new facility, it was agreed between the two
governments :-1. That the post should leave twice a day, on
the French aide alternately from Boulogne and Calais, and
en the English aide from Dover. 2. That the transport should
be effected as follows: That from Calais to Dover going
and returning by the French boats; that of Boulogne and
Dover to and fro by the English boats. This arrangement
was to be in force for one year; and at the expiration of that
time might be continued or modified for another year. Un-
tortunately, no mention was made of the time at which notice
of the discontinuance of the arrangement was to he given on
either side. A few days before the expiration of the year,
the English government gave notice that from theist of
January, or, at latest, the 15th, the Boulogne line of boats
[ would be discontinued, so that we could make no arrange-
ments, for want of timely notice, and henceforward it will be
impossible to continue the corresponder.ce by way of Boa.
Logue. Let it not be supposed that we defend this line ;we
know very well that if it is 104 kilometres shorter than that
of Calais, the sca passage is longer. We are not unaware
that the peat of Boulogne has km secure shelter and a less
easy entrance than that of Calais. But we could have
wished that a clause had been inserted requiring a greater
length of notice ; we could then have weighed the advan-
tages and disadvantages of a line which will now doubtless
be abandoned. To resume, The Marquisot Clasricarda did
not come to Francs to demand the revision of the treaty
of 11143. He came to °toter on the immediate cessation of
the Boulogne boats. In this the English government is
justified, it is true, but it should not have had this right if
the abuse of it could have been foreseen.