The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

STATE OF PARIS LAST
EVENING.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
PARIS, MONDAY, 5.30 p.m.
The capital has continued perfectly tranquil to-day.
Numerous groups are collected, as usual, on the Place
Vendome and in the neighbourhood of the Chambers,
but they are perfectly quiet. Now and then " Vive
Napoleon" is heard from individuals, addressed to
those who pass to and from the Chamber.
The voting to-day in Paris is slackened consider-
ably as compared with yesterday, owing to the
greater number of electors having already delivered
their votes.
Tne result of the ballot in one of the cantons near

Amiens has just been announced. Prince Louis bad
obtained 1,000 votes, General Cavaignac seventy-nine.
In the 18th Regiment of Infantry, quartered at
Versailles, consisting of 1,079 men, 1,060 voted for
Prince Louis, and 19 for General Cavaignac.
A waggon was seized to-day by the people, on the
Boulevard Montmartre, loaded with voting papers
bearing the name of General Cavaignac. The popu-
lace burned them, with indignation. A packet of
voting papers in favour of Prince Louis, addressed to
a merchant at Beauvais, were wised by the people in
that town and similarly burned.
The rumours most accredited to-day on the Bourse
respecting the composition of the new ministry under
Prince Loris, are that MM. Odilon Barrot, Achille
Fould, Leon Faucher, and General Oudinot will
take office. General Changarnier is almost certain
to be included. Jerome Bonaparte, ex-Ring of
Westphalia, will be named Governor of the
Invalides. Bd. Emile de Girardin is spoken of for the
prefecture of police, which is to be formed into •

ministry. _
The Monazite publishes two decrees in execution
of the bill passed on November 21, the one directing
2,300,000 fr., 3 per cent Renter, to be inscribed in the
Grand Live* to the account of the holders of treasury
bonds, with dividends commencing from 22nd June
last, and also 190,000 fr., 6 per Cent. Rents, to be
inscribed on the Grand Lives to the account of the
subscribers to the national loan, with dividends com-
mencing from 22nd March last. Both these credits
are to be subject to ulterior regulation. The second
relates to increasing the inscriptions of the conso-
lidated Recounts In the savings banks from 71 fr. 60c.
per cent. to 80 fr., according to the same bill.
A duel hu just been announced as having taken
plus between MM. Bourbosson and Iteynaud
Lagardette, the representatives of the department of
Vauelune. The latter has had his arm broken.
The delay of the mails on Thursday evening has
produced a much more serious injury to &incest
Cavaignae than did the publication of the lists of
national pensioner
It is said that there are 90,000 troops in Paris.
The whole of the National Guards are held ready to
turn out on the first symptom of revolt. All the
posts are doubled to-day. In abort, every mea-
sure has been taken for the repression of disorder on
its first appeFance.
Since writing the above I have received the result
of the ballot in the department of the Somme, which
is as follows:

In Amiens 80 per cent. of all the votes have been
for Prince Lome.—ln the 'section of Hengist-sur-
Somme Prince Louis has had 988 votes; Ge-
neral Cavaignao has had 81 votes ; Lamartine, 2.-
-The section of Picquigny has given nearly the same
result.—ln the section of Allouvdle, Prince Louis has
tad 229 votes; Gen. Cavaignac, I.—ln the section of
Naours, Prince Louis has had 98 per cent. of the votes.
—ln the section of Bretenil the votes have been una-
nimous for Prince Louis.

Tne third canton, Mug=lley, hassled been unani-
mous for Prince Louie.
The Name Mate, of Marseilles, states that of the
troops and seamen in that port, 1,282 voted for Gene-
ral Cavaignae, 893 for Louis Bonaparte, 69 for Louie
Napoleon, eight for Napoleon, 406 for Ledru Rollin,
64 for Lamartice, lost or doubtful, 69.