The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-05 00:00:00

THE QUARTERLY REVENUE.

The quarterly returns of revenue to be made up
this evening, as compared with the corresponding
quarter of last year, will show a falling off in the
department of exciie, a fact which is in a great mea-
surP attributable to the postponement of the hop
duties. In the customs' receipts also there will be
lou•.l to be a dPcr.ase, while in the minor depart-
is of the pos*-affice, stamps, property tax, and
arsesred taxes theta will be an increase.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WROMPADAT,
.5 30 P.M.

It was premature to state that the ministry had
resole d to submit the law on public instruction to
the consideration of the council of state. The error
was owing to the mistake of a rerrts r. M. de Fel-
Inux, s i far from yielding, is only cohfirmed in his
determination to proceed uncons'itutionally in the
matter. lie announced this det. rmination to the
L. gisdative Assembly ye.terday. The debate on the
riglement is promeding, and soon the Assembly will
be completely under curb ard bridle.
45,MX) electors of the Seine have taken part in the
preparatory scrutiny of the Electoral Union. The
resul' hut been the 1.11, ming series of names, to
which all shades of the meditate party will tally :
MM. Leon de .Nfalleville,Lanjainatt, General de Bar,
Genf ral Magnin, Crambolle, Louie Lucien Bonaparte,
F. rdinand Barret, Achill. a Fould, Benjamin Delessert,
Theodore Duca., Boinvilliers.

The moderate; will thushave the ad rantagm which
they bad not lut time. They will be themselves un-
divided, whilst a .chum exists in the ruks of the
democrats.
It has been seen how M. Proudhon his taken
his name from the lista for Paris. M. Esquiroa
has replaced him. The division among the democrats
is, however, not very serious, u the Gutsidera are not
TILIMETOUI.

M. Prondhon has written another letter, in the
name of the prisoners of the Conciergerle, in which
he proposes a list for the consideration. of all good
repo. home: Dupont (de l'Et.ire), Ferdinand de Les-
sops, Jules Fevre, Emile de Cluardin,Bdlauit, Dupont
de !Busse, Claudehaux, Guinard, F. Vidal, Ribey-
rolle,, and Malarmet. "In this list," says M. Proud-
boo, "the first represents national honour, the second
bored diplomacy, and the third the republican orator.
The fourth is the courageous journalist, and the fifth
the partisan of right of labour. The rest represent
democratic law, republicanism of the bank, neon-
eiliition of the notional guard and the people,
Ititnrfle souislies, ttc persecuted press, and the
proletariat'
The Assembly closed its sitting yesterday by trying
new machine for resembling the votes of the
ettamb-r. " When," pays the Peeve, " will they per-
fen that other machine called the government.'
Now that lt,me is I kely to give no more trouble
in a military _seam, people here ask themselves
what will M. Bedew, who has just been sent to Italy,
have to do. His mission seems from henceforth to be
uelee•, if. se is supposed, he was intendrd to super-
se!e M. Oudieot. The Assembler Nationale says that
General Bedesu goes to negotiate, but are not MM.
de Curcelke, d'Hareourt, ar.d de Rayne'sl there al-
ready. Perhaps the difficulties of the French are con-
Bier ill as likely to be so great that a considerable
iiplomatic reintorecmt nt is rendered necessary. It ie
stated positively in the above-mentioned journal that
the desire of the Pope is to enter Rome, without any