The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The government of Hesse Cassel having expelled
three opposition members from the Second Chamber,
several of their colleagues have resigned their seats.
The government has ordered the latter to leave Cassel
immediately, pretending that a conference which
they had held was an illegal meeting. The popular
indignation is excited, but uo disturbance of public
order is apprehended.
This being Asceasion-day, the Bourse and public
offices are closed. This holiday, always very gene-
rally observed in Paris, is kept even more strictly
than usual to-day. Almost all the shops are shut,
the churches are very full, and the Boulevards and
public promenades are crowded to excess.
Two religious services, is commemoration of the
death of Napoleon 1., were celebrated yesterday,
May 4th—one attended by the Emperor in the
Chapel of the Turneries, and the other by Marshal
Prince Jerome at the Invalides.

The old leaders of the society of the 10th of De-
cember are now concocting a manifestation of" publio
opinion " in favour of removing the remains of the
Emperor to St. Denis. They lately had a banquet
en famille, at a restaurant outside the Barriere de
l'Etoile, where the subject was broached, and shortly
afterwards: the following. petition, signed by one of
the most active and notorious members of the frater-
nity, was presented to the Senate, which illustrious
body will doubtless in due time draw up a proper
report upon the subject :
To the Senate, deliberating by virtue of its legislative and
constitutional initiative,.

Monaieurs les Senateurs,—Considering, in the first place.
that the government of the Emperor Napoleon 111. cannot
allow the atbes of Napoleon I. to remain in the place as-
signed for them by Louis Philippe, whose object necessarily
was to hide the founder of a dynasty, the emperor, under
the mantle of the hero:;
Considering, moreover, that the vaults of St. Denis re-
uniting in one monarchical tomb Merovingian., Carlovin-
gian., and Capetian.;
Considering that the vaults of St. Denis represent and
symbolise, not this or that dynasty belonging to each of the
different phases of our history, hut the whole monarchical
spirit of France ;
Considering, consequently, that to leave the ashes of the
founder of the fourth dynasty out of the monarchical tomb
of St. Denis would be implicitly to admit that France.
breaking with the twelve centuries of her past history. has
ceased to be monarchical ;
Considering, on the other band, in democracies the
grandest political language that governments can speak to
the people is the language of monuments, or statues in
public places;
Considering, therefore, that to leave the founder of the
fourth dynasty out of the vaults of St. Denis would almost
be to endeavour to destroy in the mind of the people that
monarchical spirit of France which, in spite of all the
sophisms and regrets of parties, triumphantly vindicated
itself in the three " Napoleonienne " elections ;
The undersigned, full of respectful confidence in the ex-
alted wisdom of the Senate, prays that the law of May,
1840, may be repealed, and he ventures at the same time to
call your attention to the urgency which exists with s view
to the complete re-establishment of order in melee minds
that the Bonapartas should be laid in Saint Detain by the
side of the Meroyingians, the Carlovingian', and Capetian..
Loom Corr-ono.

The Empress has not yet recovered from the effects
of her untoward accident. She still keeps her room,
and all the arrangement's that were made for fetes at
St. Cloud are counterr.ianded. The production of a
mow opera, comPorf,d by the Tuscan minister, Prince
Joseph PoniatowrAi, has been postponed until her
hall bc, well enough to attend the opening
ce.
M. Engem.) Scribe, president of the Society of
Dramatic A labors and Compsiers. accompanied by a
dePutatioo., was received by the Emperor yesterday,
st • Prir.ite audience. M. Scribe called his Majesty's
ittentie a to the law which limits the duration of
••Pright in dramatic works to twenty years after
the death c the author, and solicited a prolongation
sff that P'eriod._The Moniteur publishes a decree relative to the
1•00. e of constituting consultative chambers of agricul-
trao in Algeria. The preamble states that difficulties
have arisen with respect to the manner of electing
tlnse chambers, which it is urgent to put an end to.
All these difficulties are now removed by simply em-
powering the governor-general to nominate the
chambers, to fix the durations of their session, and to
dissolve them at pleasure,
The Bank of }trance has given notice that it will
accept warrants for wheat and other grain deposited
in warehouses approved of by the state, in lieu of a
third signature to bills for discount. Hitherto flour
has been the only merchandise aooepted by the
Bank.

Latest telegraphic quotations :—Amsterdamt In-
teg. Two-and-a-Half per Cent., 63i; Four per Cent.,
911 ; Metall. Five per Cent., 83 7-16 ; 1851, Letter
B, 93y; Belgian (Rothschild), 52 15-16; Spanish
One per Cent., 241; Three per Cent., 431; Coupons,

6 15-10 ; French Three per Cent., 741; Mexican
Three per Cent., 26 7-14 ; Portuguese Four per Cent..
39 7.16; Exchange on London, two months, 11.76;
short, 11.140. Vienna: Metall. Five per Cent., 9x ;
11431, 1071; Lombardo-Venetian, 101 ; Bank Shares,
1,19;4; Exchange on London, 10.41; silver, 14.
Antwerp: Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent., loci ;
Austrian Five per Cent.,B6l; Spanish One per Cent.,
231; Three per Cent., 431; Roman Loan Fire per
Cent. (Antwerp), 871; Exchange on London. 25.0.5.
Frankfort : Austrian Five per Cent., 98; Four-
and-a-ltalf per Cent., 7141 ; Prussian Three-
and-a-Half per Cent., 931 ; Russian Four-and-
a.llalf per Cent., 1031; Four per Ceut. (Ilope),141 ;
Four per Cent. (Stieglitz), 92; Polish, 3
Bonds, 921 ; Spanish Three per Cent., 43 7-16 ; Sar-
dinian Five per Cent., 99 (Rothschild); Five per
Cent., Hamburg, 941; United States, 1171; Ex-
change on London, 119, money.