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

• • • • The souvenir with which France then formed
a horn alliance is also, it may be said, a notional patri-
mony. He whom she chow eassprcheruled without hesita-
tinn the idea which carried him to power. He kn:w how
to discover, in the midst of counsels, offers, and menac-o,
the policy of domestic pcaee which could alone promise to
his constitutional athuini-dration a good and durable
ram in the memory of the people. His fidelity his
firmness, owl his perseverance already manifested by
deciAive trials, have become public guan.atef s of confidence,
of order, Ile. What is now required is to establish and ee-
ment between the two legislative and executive powers that
harmony uhisli is the necessary condition of the power and
the stability of the government. It is necessary that the
t lietion of the 13th 31... y should respond to that of the 111th
Ifect

~igued) BrIttlYER.III:0111.1E, CHAVITtOLLE, DVVEIIIIIT.R,
L.E lIAVILANNE,
LEox MALI:VILLE, Jlut.r, Dz NUAILLIM,
T stmts.
The majority against the flotation is composed as
follows Left, 211 ; Legitimists, 122 ; MolC, club of
lo.ionists, 12 ; party of the Regency. headed Ly M.
Thiers, 28 ; Tiers-porti, 23.—Tota1, ;196.
in order to point out to M. Thiers the nature of
his new allies, the Debella reproduces a ktter com-
posed by M. Bartholon, a member of the Mountain,
to the praise and glory of Robespierre. This is ad-
dressed to M. de Montalembert, who ea:led him the

exetrabie" Robevierre, and excluded him from the
number of those heads of the executive power to
whom, according to his theory, obedience and sup-
pmt were due. A more striking proof of the blind
frmaticism of the Mountain than this absurd pane-
gyric it would be difficult to imagine.
Dupiii is going to sptuk before the Cotut of Cris-
Ration on the competence of the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police to try contraventions of the law of sig-
nature.

he funk to-day were not quite so firm as on the
ptreed;ng days. the Fire-. declined 2-k., doing at
96f. 80e.

The Assembly proceeded, after the ballots for the
remainder of the bureaux, to discuss a bill relative to
Ptipplemeillary credits for 1850 and 1811 to the
amount of more than a million and a half of francs.
The report made by M. Etienne on this bill exposes
clearly the comolttely illusory nature of the state-
tr.ents made by .ministers of finance on bringing for-
ward the budget. Such statements inviolably pre-
sent a surplus, whereas the final bulunec-sham of the
same budget, after the accumulation of a series ofi
extraordinary credits, invariably shows a large de-I
fieit. The report concludes by calling on the As-
sembly to put an end to a system which, at the close
of 1851, might leave the state charged with a float-
ing debt of more than 600 millions; and insists upon
the necessity of looking to the even balance of ex-
penses and rciAipts at the definite close of the
laidget, joshed of at its presentation. Mean-
while, the debate in the Assembly was
chiefly conducted between MM. Benoit and
gassy. M. Passe reproached the Ministry with
having proceeded irregularly in effecting to the
r‘ ice of 1850 negotiations of bonds of the Rouen
railway, and of mites proceeding from the savings'
banks-negotiations which ought not to base been
mude without the consent of the legislature. M.

Fould attempted to justify their openitions, which,
if irregular as to the form, did not affect the general
financial situation of the state: and they would be

regulansed by the law of accounts. 11w articles of
the bill were then adopted. Nothing else of any
interest occurred.

The Amemblv adopted the law which places Chi-
lion vt suet. and imports upon the tboting of the most
favoured nations.

The Minister of Public Works declared to-day in
the Sixteenth Committee of Initiative against the
proposition of M. tie Laborde and de Ranee, relative
to the coemtruetion of the railway from elution to
Avignon, and from Moulins to Itoanne and Clermont.
The committee rejected the motion of M. &Adel...-
ward for defining the right of the Assembly over
the armed force.

Sehneider, Minister of Commerce, announced
ve,terday to the tommittee on the Western Railway,
that the goternment would bring forward a special
law for a branch line to Caen by Aleneon. lk there-
fore demanded the separation from the bill submitted
to their examination of all clauses relative to this
brand!. _ _ _

'llw Committee of Initiative has rejected the pro-
position of M. Duceux for creating, at the cost of the
tiotsurv, it Bourse for worknun; and that of M.
Segvur.d'Aguesseau for instituting religious services
for the cekbratiun of the anniversaries of 24th Kb.

and 4th of May.
A banquet hw4 been given to M. de Lamar-
tine by the editors as his works. M. Gosselin,
in proposing the health of M. de Latnartine,
gave a sketch of his literary life, commenc-
ing with his earliest work, " Les Meditations
Poetiques," which was published anonymously, but
met with the most brilliant suCeeSA, to the work he
has now in preparation, " de In Ite4aura-
tion," for wide!' the editor predicted a success es
great. M. de Lenuirtine, in returning thanks, ob-
served that it was not only the glory of their
name that poets and historians owed to the pro-
fession of editors; they owe them in modern tunes
that independents: of sentiment, that dignity of cha-
racter, and that attitude of pride before power, which
so well becomes those devoted to literary pursuits.
This independence the greatest poets, the most splen-
did geniuses, the most immortal writers of ancient
and remote times, did not attain. In France, Cor-
neille, Racine, Boileau,Lafuntaine, were compelled to
sacrifice their dignity and independence by the sub-
mission of mind, the necessities of existence of them-
selves and their families, enforced on them towards
the kings, the marts, the favourites, even the
moneyed men of their day.

THE LYONS NIANUFACTURFItS AND THE

GREAT EXHIBITION.

Our Paris corresliondent writes :
The following circular has been cent by M. Bros-
set, President of the Cluuntwr of Commerce of
Lyons, to the principal manufacturers of that city :
Sir,—Corvineed of the importance to the manufacturer.
of Lyons that the exhibition of our products at London
should take place in the name of the manufacturer. who
produce them exclwdyely, and that it should not be subject
to the competition of the retail dealer in silk stuffs, who pro-
, pared themselves to exhibit, the Chamber of Commerce of
Lyons has demanded of the Minister of Commerce that the
right of exhibition should be confined to the manufacturers,
with the power of indicating on such products the name of
the retail dealer or =emit:cot who should have purchased
them. This demand has not been complied with. From
these circumstances and the nature of the ontnexiou between
the manuf.icturem and the- silk raereltants, it results that on the
one hand the manufacturers cannot exhibit their most beanti-
ful products, and. on the other, those which they shall exhibit
1 will necessarily be also exhibited by the silk merchants. It
is beyond a dciubt. therefore, that the exhibition of the silk
manufacturer. of Lyons will be neither a faithful exposition,
our convey a correct idea of the state of our principal local
manufacturers. For these reason., the chamber of commerce
is compelled to renounce the project it had conceived of
centralising the exhibition of silk goods of Lyons at London
be giving it all the unity and all the eclat of which the ex-
hibition was susceptible, and which would certainly have
distinguished it if the condition of a kind of division with
the silk merchants had not been imposed an it. I hasten to
communicate to you this decision Or the chamber of eons-
mercy, with the view that, being informed of It, you may
take such steps en you may think proper to conform, if such
be your intention, to the last general instructions published
by the journals. (Signed) Bios, XI, :tine.