The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-06 00:00:00

4f—dlll, vote SecMtli. The new felons'
it, to* effective, must embrace:—se-
of the :electoral districts"; extension of
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Welira thaw "to Lo-rd Jonx RUSSELL, and tell
Wm animiy, deliberately, uncompromisingly, all these
Eillijill*"d
in any bill that reformers or the
TX. at his
x no measure .liter
thn
Lreanfett:
lhaley that open to the least suspicion of being a
new sacrifice to appearances. From Lord JonN we
turn to the gentlemen who are to meet next month
at Manchester, and tell them in the same spirit that
it is now too late to dream of adopting any course
merely or mainly to help ministers. They may lose
themselves, but cannot aid others by acting with that
view. They must sincerely and unreservedly aim at
obtaining a real reform, leaving it to the good sense
of ministers to act for themselves—to choose between
the people and the old corrupt system.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Lord John Russell to-day paid a visit to the Pre-
sident, at the Elysie.
Notwithstanding the attempt of the Club of the
Pyramides to prevent the interpellations announced
on the subject of General St. Arnaud's circular, it is
said they will be made to-morrow.
The following is the text of the electoral bill read
yesterday in the Assembly:
Art. 1. Within thirty days after the promulgation of the
present bill the electoral list will be drawn up by the mayor,
aided by two delegates from each commune, named by the
juge-de-paix, and living in the canton.
Art. 2. It shall contain in alphabetical order all French-
' seam 021 years of age, in possession of their civil sod
rights, and inhabiting the commune for six months at
inset; such persons as shall attain their majority before
the definitive closing of the list; soldiers and tailors on
duty inscribed on the electoral lists of the commune, where
they shall have satisfied the necessary conditions.
Art. 3. Public functionaries, whatever may be the length
or brevity of their residence; also clergymen of religions
recognised by the state. Members of the National Assem-
bly shall be allowed to vote where the Assembly sits.
Art. 4. Are excluded from the list the persons designed
in Paragraphs 1,2, 3,5, 6, and 7 of Art. 3 of the law of
March 15, 1819 ; bankrupts, individuals designated in Pa-
ragraph 4 of Art. 3 of the law of March 1.5, 1849, whatever
may be the term of the imprisonment to which they are
condemned ; persons condemned to imprisonment in
virtue of Art. 330 of the penal code ; individuals con-
demned for acts against public morals and decency ;
individuals condemned to more than three months'
imprisonment in virtue of Articles 98, 100, 101
102, 103, 105, 106 107, 108, 109, 112, and 113
of the law of March 1849; notaries and other public
functionaries dismissed to mal-practices ; persons con-
demned as vagabonds; pen ins condemned to more than
three months' imprisonment by the application of Arts,
439, 443, 444, 44.,, 446, 417, and 442 of the penal
code; soldiers condemned to the punishment of public
works, or to wear the heavy ball en the leg ; individuals
condemned to imprisonment by the application of Arts 38,
41, 43, and 45, of the law of March, 21„1851, concerning
the recruitment of the army; and individuals con-
demned to imprisonment hy the application of Art. 1 of
the law of March 27, 1851.
Art. 5. Persons condemned for violence to the public
authorities, or for violating the law relating to secret so-
cieties or clubs, or that concerning; the hawking and sale
of books, cannot be inscribed on the electoral list for five
years after the expiration of their punishment.
Art. 6. Individuals who shall have incurred •
condemnation for crimes provided for by Arts. 338
and 339 of the Penal Code, shall be struck out of the elec-
toral list for a period of not less than 5, nor more than 10
years, the duration to be fixed by the tribunal.
Art. 7. Soldiers and sailors in active service will continue
to be divided into the different sections of each department,
and their bulletins collected and sent to the chef lieu.
Art. It. No one shall be proclaimed representative at the
first ballot, if ho has not received a number of votes equal
to one-fourth of the electors inscribed on the electoral lists
of the department.
Art. 9. In case of vacancies by resignation or otherwise,
the electoral college which is to fill it up must be summoned,
within a delay of six months from the date of the notifica-
tion made by the President of the National Assembly to the
Minister of the Interior.
Art. 10. For the drawing up the electoral lists, all the
regulations provided for by the law of May 15, 1849, are to
be observed. The annual revision of the lists will also be
regulated by that law.
Art. It. The law of May 15, 1849, will also remain in
force for elections in Algeria and the colonies, until the
promulgation of the organic laws provided for by the con-
stitution.
Art. 12. All the former laws are abrogated, in so far as
they are contrary to this law.
In its sitting of to-day the Assembly proceeded to
ballot for the renewal of its board. I. irst the pre-
sident was elected. M. I was re-elected by 367
out of 552 votes. M. Michel de Bourges obtained
183 votes. The ballot for the vice-presidents was
next undertaken. In the first ballot General Bcdenu
obtained, out of 568 votes, 369; M. Daru, 327; M.
Benoit d'Azy.3o6; M. Leon Faucher, 208. The three
first, alone having obtained the absolute majority,
' were proclaimed vice-presidents. A fresh ballot
for the nomination of the fourth vice-president
will take place to-morrow. MM. Yvan, Chapot,
Lame, and Moulin were elected secretaries. A
fresh ballot will take place to-morrow for the election
of the two remaining secretaries. Hence the only
change yet effected in the board by the votes of to-
day is the election of M. Moulin, a distinguished
fosionist, and the first reporter on revision, to be se-
cretary, while neither of the Bonapartist secretaries,
Pea in and Berard, were re-elected.
The Assembly's vote of yesterday, by which
urgency for the new electoral bill was rejected,
implies not only the defeat of the ministry on the
cardinal point of its policy, but the rejection of the
bill in its first stage. This is the prologue to endless
delay. The bill will now, according to the organic
law of the Council of State, have to be referred to
the examination of this body, the slowness of
whose labours are so well known. This
vote is, indeed, the first blow in a tre-
mendous struggle between the conservative league,
composed of the regentists and legitimists,
against the President, backed by the Left and the
extreme Right, while the party of the Journal des
Deletes, forming the bulk of the club of the
Pyramides, waver in a position of neutrality. The
meeting at M. Daru's last night is the first step
taken to shield the government from the fury of the
new conservative opposition, led by Berryer and
Thiers. Every day this opposition must, by
the force of things, become weaker. There
will be such demonstrations throughout the
country as will show that such an attitude
on the side of the parliament can only lead to civil
war ; for the law of May 31 is doomed, and delay in
its abrogation will not bo brooked by the democratic
Part
Las Y• t night there took place a meeting of the club
of the Pyramides, at the house of M. Darn.
The sitting wan much occupied with the vote
by which the Assembly had rejected the urgency
demanded by the government for the new
Electoral Bill, and charged its bureau to con-
fer with the legitimist and fusionist club in
order to adopt a more conciliatory attitude to- 1
wards the government. It was deemed highly
inopportune and even dangerous to bring forward
the interpellations, on the order of the day, of Gen.
St. Arnaud at this moment ; and it was agreed to
vote against the menaced motion on this subject, in
ease it should be proposed. To-day the Assembly will
elect its board.
As for the tone of the press, the Debats merely
chronicles the meeting at M Danis.
Notwithstanding the conciliatory resolutions of that
meeting, the .Isaeniblee Nationale says:
We must not cherish fatal illusions. The political sites.
don has changed. The President of the Bennlits hes
ceased to be the elect of the party of order; hehsafhrsrrs
the Mountain. By the course he has adopted ls Ire thorn
the country into agitation, compromised the ME *IMAM se
oar prosperity, and given arms to civil war. The able of
1852 commences. The safety of the country henceforth 11111
in the firmness of the parliament-in the union of the ma-
jority. In this deplorable crisis, created by the executive
power, one subject for congratulation is, that the policy of
that power is no longer clothed in vague terms and
that the author of this electoral agitation has given all the
arguments upon which his attempt is founded.
The Union says: "It was prophesied that the
majority would retreat. The majority has not
retreated."
The Freese says : " It was prophecied that the
President would reflect and yield. He has reflected,
but not yielded, and the new cabinet has taken an
attitude which justifies the expectation that it will
not shrink from its task."
The Steele is cold, and while approving the aboli-
tion of the law of May 31, complains of the Presi-
dent's " puerile persistence in praising the law in rela-
tion to the past, even while he demands its abroga-
tion," and remarks on the insufficiency of the
ministry.
The National says : " The hour of reparation has
struck to-day, and sounds to our cars like the funeral
knell of reaction."