The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Reims, TUESDAY, 6.30. P.Y.
The deputation cf the Peace Society. will reach
Paris from Loaekn this evening. Extensive arrange-
ments have beelljade to accommodate the guests.
M. Victor Hugo, wlto has accepted the preaidency of
the congress, will mske the inauguration speech. A
summary of the progress of the society since the
congress at Brunets will be read by the gentleman
who presided ea the occasion. More than six hun-
dred visitors from England will, it is said, attend the
cong.ess. The Archbishop of Paris and other emi-
nent individuals have given in their adhesion to the
object of the meeting, and M. Emile de Girardin, M.
Batelle, M. Wolowski, and other well-known gentle-
men, will, it is expected, take part in the proceedings.
The .R.psitlipre, alluding to the notice issued by
the Committee of the Peace Society, that the regula-
tions interdict all direct allusion to the political events
of the day, seems to infer that this restriction has been
imposed by the French government. It is almost
needless to remark that the regulation is that of the
society itself.
The reactionary policy which hu fatally marked
the dominion of the French bayonets in Rome divides
the attention of the Paris pl.( se to-day with the cri-
tical position of affairs in Piedmont. The Dawes
now deplores the result to which the Roman inter-
vention hu tended—a result to which none but itself
and its fellows cf the press had blinded themselves
since its commencement. .

The Cotistitutionnel learns with regret that Pied-
mont is on the eve of • political crisis. It shows on
ono side the government engaged by a treaty with
Austria, on the other s. Chamber that refuses to ratify
the engagements taken. The resignation of the
ministry would only terminate its personal difficulties,
the question itself remaining unsolved; for power
would fall into the hands of a party which would repro-
duce such a catastrophe as that of Novarra. To dissoi ve
the Chamber is a step replete with danger, and the
Constitutionnel sees no way of guessing at the ulti-
mate issue of the struggle.
The polemics of the reactionary press nn the subject
of M. I)ufeure's alleged partiality to the prAfets of
the provisional government continue unabated, bat
offer no additional point of interest.
The National speaks out on the subject to-day.
For some time the ministry has been violently attacked by
certain organs of the reactionary faction. It is • concert of
malevolent insinuations, formal accusations, recriminations,
and invectives, that are quite edilying. It is the minister of
the interior to whom all this noise se addressed. What do
they want t Plenty of dismissals. From which it appears
that reaction has still many pretenders to satisfy, many op-
petites to feed. This can well be imagined, and there gentle-
man are right. It is well known,buides, that they shine by
disinterestedness. But disinterestedness is a rare virtue, and
cannot be too highly recompensed. A the declamations come
to this, that the administration is still encumbered with re-
publican functionaries. But, say the journals in qaertien, can
a shavers co-operation be looked for from functionaries devoted
to the republic ? It would be difficult to admit with more
simplicity, and to express more clearly, that all that is done
at present is opposed to the spirit of republican institutions.
In that respect we cannot contradict the reactionary jsurnals,
but we must confess that their complaints have surprised us.
We have sought everywhere for these numerous republicans
by whom the ministry commits the crime of getting the
republic administered, and we have not been able to discover
them. We really thought that none remained; that M.
Lean Faucher had we left one to his successor. However,
M. Leon Faucher has rec qtly said his mea eulpa, end hes
accused himself of being too clement. The worthy man!
the present minister, in his turn, has spoken out, and the
Monitew du Sow declares that in fact there still remain in
the administration five prefets who date from the republic;
and he seems to say : Can so much noise be made about five
prefers. Five are but very little, it must be admitted ; five
prefectures to satisfy that army of solicitors who besiege the
ministry, and place in battery against it the formidable
artillery of weft-thinking journals! Poor ministry! Its
embarrassment ought to be great, and we do not see how it
can get out of it. After all, that disturbs us but little ; it is
not our business.

The President of the Republic has gone to inhibit 1
the château of St. Cloud, where he intends, it is said, I
remaining until the re-assembling of the Ltgislative 1,
Astembly.
Baron Fain has written a letter to the journals con-
tradicting the statement lately given of the value of
the property of the old Civil List. The amount <rated
of 250,000,000 fr. is, he says, much exaggerated.
The assembling at Champletrenx, M. Mole's
chateau, of certain political nutsbihtee, is exciting
great attention, the democratic organs seeing in it a
proof that plots are being formed to carry oat reac-
tionary measures; whilst more resemble journals
see in it but a natural meeting for arraying the policy
of the party after the recess.
From another source we have the following intelli-
gence respecting the congress:
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The vice- residents are Mears. Cobden, Vesechers,
Coquerel, , and Durkee; and secretaries,
Messrs. J Gautier, Henry Richard, Eliiiii Bur-
ritt, and A. bin.
Among those who have signified their intention to
be present at the congress, are the followwg: Messrs.
Cormenin, Bastiat, Bouvet, Wolowski, Emile de
Oirardin, Larochefotioauld-Liancourt, Roussel, Van
i Hoorebeke, Suringar, and many others. M. de La-
. wartine would have acted as president, bat the bad
. state of his health will not permit him to do so. The
Archbishop of Paris was use invited to accept the