The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TII.I"Ii.DAT EVPNINO.
To-day tittle took plus a fresh ballot for the re-
maining vice-president of the Assembly. The result
was that nut of 511 votes M. Benoit d'Ary obtained
305; General Lanioriciere 151; tichceleher, 31; Ba-
niche, 15; Grevy, S. iettoit d'Azy having been
the only candidate who obtained the absolute ma-
jority. was proclaimed vim-pm:Meat. The ballot
for the remaining secretary was examined later, and
race following results :—Out of .192 vottl M.
lleckcieen obtained 250; Ilowyn-Tranchere, 147 ;
Cane, 15; Hance!, 39. M. Ileekereen being the only
candidate who obtained an absolute majority was
proclaimed secretary. Hence the bureau has been
totleted so as to fie perfectly identical with the last.
The Pays, ultra-Bonapartist organ, is headed with
a letter announcing the organisation of national sub-
sliptions throughout the piovinees, and opening
I,i:il•CP in I'uris to receive contributions. Another

... -
litter in the same paper suggests the plan of pur-
-1 Lasing the pork andpalaceof Nlalmaison,tioni Queen
rhristtua of Spain, in order to present to Louis
Napoleon, as a testimony of the national sympathy, a
property so intimately connected with the re-
menibninec of his family.
No serious attempts are likely to be made for the
ionisation of a definitive ministry until the approach
et May, when the queitiou of the rtvision may be
'nought forward. In the meantime the :Ministry of
friars sati.hietiou to the conservatives.
lhe pour Minister of Marine, Admiral Valliant, how-
• %tr. meets with much abuse from the ultra-montane

otg.tus, fur putting an end W a marine expedition to
all souge regions where French catholic missions
were established. He pushesr, economy to such a
that he refuses to feed. the three Bishops of
Guatemala, Martinique and Guyana, on their passage
nut to their several distillations.
A remarkable ducument ispublikhed by the Cos-
Oils/S./ea, showing the meal which animated the
finest-satire chiefs of the coalition at the general
sleirlon of May 13, 1849, in favour of the President
of the Republic. This is the manifesto of the elm-
Lou' committee of the club of the Rue Poitiers,
uhieh, after an extra t eulogy of the President.
wind, up with proclaiming that the welfare of
France depended on the elections of Mar corres-
ponding to the election of the 10th December. One
.r the most efketive hit 4 of Montalemberfs speech
on Monday had been a reference to the presidential
tone or theeteding+ of that committee : but he
was met wit flat contradictions front M. Placatory
and othtiu, the falsehood of which is now glaringli
Is raved by thy following language of the committee's
address, which, you must ionember, is signed by
31M. riders, Berryer, and Reniusat
when, just before the 10th December, the candidature
d gnu to triumph arose spontaneously from the bosom of
thi people, how is ft that it was so rapidly welcomed and
,vssavily gained ground among so may different par-
ties ? Whence came it that that election, carried by a
majority uuisampltd in the history of the world, rallied
withuut t furls eveo those who had not called for it ? The
idea of France was manifest. Her choice was not only an
beans to the most glorious of names; it was the exprmaron
of that instinctive conviction, that that name might, with-
out humiliation to any one, become a rallying cry for