The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY, 11.30 A.M.
The 28th article of the project of the constitution,
now under debate, requires that the places of
election in each department shall be the chief town
of each canton. It is contended that this
would have the practical effect of excluding from the
exercise of suffrage the great bulk of the operative
classes in rural &Ark% who would never submit to
travel from the extreme limits of their respective can-
tons to the chief towns to deliver their vote. To give
practical effect, therefore, to the great democratic
principle of universal suffrage, it is contended that
polling places should be established in every commune,
a designation which corresponds nearly to that of
parish in England. This point will probably be
settled definitively to-day.
The discussion on the question of the election of
president will be opened on Monday, to-morrow being
devoted to petitions.
I find that the democratic party of the Palais Royal
has been more divided than I supposed on the ques-
tion of the president. A considerable number of its
members, as well as more than half those of the
club of the Institute, will join the party of the Rue de
Poitiers in voting in favour of the immediate election of
the president by universal suffrage against the govern-
ment. The general opinion now is that this principle
will prevail. The extreme party which meets in the Ras
Taitbout, and which is distinguished from the other
ultra democrats by the appellation of Montagne:4
will vote against any president of the republic.
The committee on slave emancipation have fixed
the nominal amount of the indemnity to the slave
, holders at 120 millions of franca. One third of th's
amount to be paid in b per cent. stock at par, the
other two thirds rensainkg due and payable in eight
annuities will be immobihsed, attached to the soil, and
destined to support labour in the provinces.
La Preue contradicts the report of the prolongs
tion for 30 days of the armistice between c
Albert and Radstati, and announces " officially" that
during some negotiations on the subject of the repub-
lic of St. Mark, it was agreed that the armistice
should be tacitly renewed every eight days. This
renewal, it is said, will probably coutinur until
the ultimate decision of the Italian question.
The same journal affirms that the King of Naples
has accepted the Anglo-French mediation in the

Sicilian question, only on the condition that his right
to the submission of Sicily shall not be called in
question by the mediating powers.
Prince Louis preserves the strictest incognito. He
goes into the Assembly without being per...eived, and
pays much attention to the discussions. His faithful
mentor, M. Veillard, has already presented him to
several representatives, who are much pleased with
the modesty of his manner and his intelligence.
The Bien Public of to-day speaks of the discon-
tent which prevails in most of the regiments forming
the garrison of Paris. The soldiers complain of being
badly encamped and fed, and with being subject
to extra duty extremely annoying. They want
even straw, and their tents are full of mud.
The bread is of a very bad quality, and
under plea of an experiment, some biscuits were
served out to the 11th, which from long keeping had
lost their nutritive qualities. Their discontent is not
thee without reason, and they say if the state of siege
is imposed, they ought daring that time to have pay
equal to that on active service.

STATE OF TIM BANK OF FRANCE up to Sept. 28, with
the corresponding items of the preceding week :
Week ending Week ending
Sept 21. bept. 2s.
LIMCLITTIS. F. c. •.
C.

_.....____
Capital
c.pltd of nen Bred banks 13,3%4000 0 28,350,000 0
limns 10,000,000 0 10,000,000 0
Iteverve of new find banks 2,060,750 14 2,910,750 14
Worm in rsal=s 4,040,000 0 4,000,000 0
Bank notes In
Do. Branch banks
Bills to order
Acaiunt current of Tenantry, creditor 56,115,101 81 41,134535 G 4
Divers utmost& anneal. 67,396,317 2 71,W0,267 88
Aocounts current In the branches
Receipts poplin, at debt
Itereipts payvitle at sight la the
branches
Drags of branch basks payable by
bosh 4,822,930 22 3,417,483 14
Drafts of bank mans by branch
books 2,194,244 0 2,090,321 0
Dividends payable
lariakl. of branch bank of Algiers— 100,389 4 729,816 4
Disount, divert interests, and ex
1,219,715 27 1,661,938 G 9
1 liarunta and divers Inierests In
branch basks
Etedirconst kat holf-yoar 422,932 27 422,1232 27
Ditto in heathen beaks
Sundries

643.981,621 17 613,690,377 51
AMOR
Coln and Inlets
Cmeh in the branch banks 98,362,379 0 99,6;4,703 0
12113 over due.........
Bills and occeptances In Paris 71,794,430 82 75,858,068 31
Do. do. in branchbanks 118,120,695 40 115,218,184 38
Advances on bullion
Advance" on French pablie binds 34,007,7% 63 33,981,200 6.5
Advances on French public funds by
branch dank"
Advances to the skits on newer,
boos

.-- -
Advance* to the state on loan of 130
million' 25,000,000 0 23,000,000 0
Stock forming reserve
Stock, disposable tomb.. _ 83,302,413 63 33,962,413 62
Inrenment of neer footed badge ht
public fun,la
Hank buildinmiand furniture 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0
Haul 'invert,' of branch honks 2,5240001 0 2,524,088 0
',moot 10 millions to the City of Paris 1,000,000 0 1,000,000 0
Interest in National Disiount Bank 300,000 0 200,000 0
latereat of branch !rinks In the
National Dianaunt Banks of the
produces' towns 230,066 11 230,000 0
Pinneted bills
Prutreted bills ha branch teaks 9,199,013 0 9,029,131 0
Kspenresof management
Moore" of management of branch
!scan 209,140 0 809,972 0
Fumbles . .
Treacuryßcinate.ceee;iiiide (f.o.rtet4ly
compriud in " Bills and Ames
bunxs in Paris")

1147,561,1121 17 64;648,377 51

We have rectived the Madrid mail of the 24th.
—The government has received information that a
band of Spanish refugees had entered Spain by the
valley of Anao. The authorities were in pursuit of
them. There was no Boise, the day being the
Sabbath.