The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-29 00:00:00

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had of this...'oohmns. But although Dr. Wren has
called it," a law of violence and defiance, dear only
to perverted minds, and an infernal machine to light
up civil war," it has become sufficiently manifest that
no serious intention of proposing the abrogation of
the law lay behind all this -liotec, which was in fact
meant to frighten the royalists, and to flatter the re-
publicans. Meanwhile the law, assailed on all sides,
has lost its authority; but will it on that account be
abolished P Such, certainly, is not the intention of
any fraction of conservatives opposed to the law.
The ultra-legitimists, for instance, call not for the
abolition, but the modification of the law. Now
what portion of the Left of the Assembly can
be gained over to revision by mere modifications of
the law of May ? The National, I have already
shown, will vote revision at no price, not even on
condition of a full restoration of universal suffrage.
The Pays and the Presse seemed latterly to be nego-
tiating with the Onistitutionnel the clauses of an ar-
rangement. The former has said as yet nothing de-
cisive. Be the Prow has come out with a distinct
declaration by M. de Girardin, that " the democratic
party forming in the Assembly the constitutional majo-
rity of 188, understands, by the abolition of the law of
May, the total abolition," and will be satisfied with
nothing lea. Henceforth, therefore, the fact must
be considered as settled, that even profound modifi-
cations of the present electoral law would not ad.
Ivance the prospect of revision one jot. Nothing less
than the total abolition will gain over a single demo-
cratic vote.

M. de Gouyon, the legitimist candidate, has been
elected representative for the Morbihan, in the place
of M. Monier, deceased. In the Finisterre, where a
representative is to be chosen in the place of Admiral
Romain-llesfosses, ex-minister of Marine, the contest
I lies between M. do Kersauson, a legitimist naval
captain on half-pay, and M. de Geste, marine engi-
neer, a moderate republican. M. de Gaste carries
the day in the towns, and M. do Kersauson in the
country. Notwithstanding the abstention of a great
number of republicans, the election of the latter is
not yet certatn. In the three cantons of Brest and
nine others, M. de Kersauson had obtained 9,480
votes, and M. do Geste 3,103. On the other hand,
at Quimper, out of 3,030 votes, M. do Geste obtained
2,738, and M. do Kersauson 1,174.
M. Roily, ge%rant of the Presse, will move the court
to set aside the judgment by default against him to-
morrow. M. Vacquerie, editor of the Athtenient,
has appealed against his sentence to the Court of
Cessation.

Rose Tamuner is to be tried again by a Court of
Appeal.
To dispel the uneasiness felt by the public, in con-
sequence of the recriminatory charges of mal-
administration of the lottery which have been so
freely made by MM. Langlois and Reyre against
leach other, M. Carlier has issued a notice, the most
' important part of which is, that funds more than se-
Beent to pay all the prizes arc already lodged in the
Bank of France, and that no diminution or delay in
the payment immediately after the drawing can take
place. All unsettled accounts with the lottery are
to be sent at once to M. Oudine, the accountant ap-
pointed to wind up the affair under the superinten-
dence of the government commissioner. The prefect
of police has closed all the depots where tickets
were sold at a premium by the lottery office itself;
but he now admits that he has no power to prevent
the traffic in them by other parties, who are at
liberty by law to sell the tickets like any other mer-
chandise for as much as they can get.
Tho Count de Chambord has purchased the Palazzo
Casalli at Venice, where he intends to pass tho
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