The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENIXO.
A fresh hitch seems to have occurred in the nego-
tiations of the President with Odilon Burrot for the 1
formation of a definitive cabinet. Louis Napoleon
still insisted upon the entrance of Fould and Buroche I
into the ministry hut, in consideration of these ex- ;
ministers having been Visi•ed by a vote of cot- I
sure, he offered to neutralise this objection I
by admitting M. Lanjuinais, the reporter on
M. de ltemusat's motion of censure. M. Lan-
juinais declining office, M. Barrot was next com-
missioned to form a ministry of new men, and, when
such were not to be found. was invited to accept as
colleagues tour of the present ministers, NlNl.Waisse,
Boyer. Bandon. and Magnc. M. Barrot seems to
pause before this offer. lie declared that his task

must be one of conciliation, and that he must present I
himself before the Assembly with colleagues who
could command its confidence. Ile grants the revision
of the constitution, the re-eligibility ot• the President,
and even a liberal reform of the electoral law of May.
.‘t present it seems that M. Barrot is attempting to
form a combination of moderate republicans and legi-
timists.
The Coratitationarl states that at the Chamber, on
Saturday. M. 0. Burros declared to two groups of
deputies, that in labouring to form a new cabinet he
should make a reform of the law of May :il the hula
of his miniseCrial prcrrramme. M. Itarochc. when
requested by the same deputies to make known his
opinions of the ideas and intentions of M. Barrot. did
not hesitate to assure them that he should neither
join in one or the other: and that he would not enter
a cabinet the result of whose policy would be to
enervate the government by an act of weakness, and
to increase the socialist votes in the electoral colleges
without taking by that concession a single musket
from the rioters.
I understand that the declaration by M. Baroche
in favour of the electoral law of May was not made
until Odilon Barrot had definitively announced his
determination not to admit him or M. ltouher as
colleagues. On the other hand. M. Fould's exclusion
is less certain, and MM. Baroche and Itouher mourn
over the indifference protissed by their old financial
colleague to the law of May 31, and speak of him as
little better than a renegade from lus party. The
transitory ministry has tiulen into such contempt
that its MCIIIIIWN obtain with difficulty a hearing

from the Assembly.
To-day General Bedean, who presided at the sitting
of the Assembly, read a letter from M. Lupin, de-,
manding leave of absence fig a month, on amount of
the state of his health. NI. Dupin concludes by ten-
dering his resignation we President. in order that the
abours of the Assembly may not 1s interfered with
by his absence.
M. de Vatimesnil having moved that the resigna-
tion of M. Dupin should not be accepted. the As-
sembly voted this resolution by a large majority.
The Assembly entered to-day upon the second de- I
liberation concerning the Sugar Bill.
M. de Douhet developed. at great length. a system
which would give the state the monopoly of the ode
of sugar. The proposition was njected. and this
house then discussed an ainendment of M. Beaumont
;de la Somme) which present's" no interest. After
this the sitting broke up.
The committee on the Municipal Bill decided in
its sitting of to-day that the validity of communal
elections should be submitted to the 'decision of the
councils of prefecture. The principle of making
public the sittings of the municipal councils was I
rejected generally ; but the question of publicity was
reserved on some special occasions. us the discussion
of the budget and audit of accounts. to be examined
by the sub-committee of five monlwrs, who arc to be
chosen to-morrow to draw up the communal bill, in
order to submit the same to the last deliberations d
the committee.
The funds continue to decline. There was a fall
of 30 centimes in the Fives, which closed. at 93.90,
and of loc. in the flaws, which closed at 07.7.5.
The railway share market was heavy. The line of
Havre declined 3.75, those of Boulogne. the North.
of Strasbourg, and Nantes fell 1.2.3.
NI. &Bien an ex-professor. a landowner, and
mayor of an important commune in the department
of the Nievre. has just been tined 50fr. by the Fri-'
bland of Correctional. Police of Clammy, for having
given in the evenings gratuitous lessons tat writing
and arithmetic to his servants and other persons, ten
in number. The law dues nut allow such teaching
without an authorisation; and the tribunal inti-
mated that if M. Sillier continued to teach he would
subject himself to a sentence of imprisonment.
The Prefect of Police has sent NI. de *fourdonnet
on a mission to London, to study questions respecting
the supply of food to the capital, and especially the
freedom of the butchery trade. The prefect is pre-
paring a new organisation of these matters fur the
city of Paris.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MARen 26.

Coeßo, director of the Rpoen. made to-day, in the
Chamber of Deputies. a most violent speech against
the bill fur the settlement of the debt. lle attempted
to prove that the deficit amounted to three hundred
millions of reals, while all the boasted economies of
the ministry did not reach three hundred thousand
reels—one•-thousandeth part of the deficit. lie was
answered by Bertran de Lis, who said that the
question of economy would be treated better when
they came to discuss the Budget. The ministry had
done their best to effect retrenchments, and next
year they would propose further reductions.
The Ilrrahh, has an article on the extraordinary
rise which has recently taken place in the Five per
Cents. un the Madrid I?schantre•. A month ago they
were at between 12 and 13. and on the 23th at 11);
and it warns its readers against purchasing at the lat-
ter price, as it says it has been forced up by speculators.
The period. it acids, had arrived at which sales would
become necessary by these persons, so that a fall was
to be expeetecL ,tin the 21ith the Fires fell to lts
But their plan, it declares. is again to purchase when
the bill on the debt shall be presented to the Cortes,
and to keep up prices until it shall be adopted, when
they will sell.