The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY, 6.30 zi.e.
As there was no Chamber yesterday, and but little
business done at the Bourse, there is but little news
to be gleaned this morning.
The Marseilles papers, which have just arrived
contain a letter from the Pope to the Mayor
and Municipality of Marseilles, who, EOM time
since, sent a litter of condolence and sympathy
to hie Holiness, telling him how grieved they were to
see him kicked out of his palace, like many other
potentates of even smaller pretensions. The Pope
replies to-day, expressing his thanks, &c., for their
sympathy; but this letter is a mere inter-
change of unmeaning civilities, and must not be
considered as any indication that his Holiness ap-
proves of the wanton act of aggression committcd by
Gen. Oudinot and his employes.
The Maltese mail steamer arrived at Leghorn on
the 7th. Avezzana and Pelligrini wero on baud,
on their way to France.
The Si,'cle does not wait for the debate on the
press, but gives at once the following as the list of
new ministers, which, it says, was very rear appear-
ing iii the Moniteur :—Mile, Pres:dent of the Coun-
cil, without a portfolio; Thiers, Minister of the late-
ricr ; Falloux, Foreign Affairs; Benoit DlAzv,
Finance; Napoleon Darn, Public Works; B Aroche,
Justice; Montalembert, Public Instruction; Ruttier,
War; Cecile, Marine; Moray, Commerce. All
this is anything but re-assuring in the pre-
sent state of affairs. The (Minds, in a leading
article to-day does not dissimulate the gravity
of the situation of tee country. It sees gnat emu
for anxiety in the passive victory obtained in the
elections, a victory due entirely to the fact that an
immense number of electors refrained from voting.
This it is," says that journal, " that appears to be
a bad symptom. It is an evil upon whit hwe cannot
close our eyes. We are the strongest to-day, but we
can find nothing to show that we shall be so to-mor-
row." In conclusion, the DeFats adds that the
situation it deplores is the result of the republic.
The minister of finance has presented a project of
law relative to the budget of 1850, on the subject of
direct taxes and the service of the departments.
This project is entirely independent of the main por-
tion of the budget, but involves a sum of
429,000,000 f. The proceeds of the direct taxes
devoted to general expenditure amounts to
291,779,580 f. The same source lest year yielded
292,792000 f. There is, therefore, a diminution on
that branch of public income cf more than a million
of francs. The deficiency is most visible in the re-
turns from the shop-tax. This item displays a fall-
ing off of 2,000,000 f. The furniture and personal
tax has yielded about a millicn more this year than it
did last year.
Bt. Etienne suffered on t%e 12. h inet. a second in-'
undation, equally as disastrous as the first. The un-
fortunates who had been drowned but two days before
had scarcely been buried before the river Finals egain
broke its banks and overflows d the town, destroying
flourishing manufactories, and carrying away furni-
ture and goods of all kinds. A subscription his been
opened on behalf of the sufferers.
The Moniteur of to-day contains the law passed a
few days since in the Assembly modifying the 64th
and 76th articles of the law on the national guard.
In the same journal is gazetted the appointment of
General Limoriciere as minister plenipotentiary on a
temporary mission to the court of the Emperor of
Russia.

Tim Etraora, captain Lott, sailed fmais Liverpool
on Saturday, for Halifax and New York.
A TRADING PRINCESS.—The Journal du Ilivre of
yesterday, says: "For some days crt Ty one has been able to
perceive, in the roadsted in front of the Irtthing establish-
ment of Frascati, a large steamer. This vessel, namei the
William, belongs to the Princess of Orange, who is at pre•
s nt it Dieppe, for the bensll'. of bathiag. Thence shot is
alsout, it is said, to proceed le. Pales,ine. This priocev. is an
Intrepid tourist, and pr•.reeds where she pleases in her
yacht. Independently of this steamer, the princess FA.
leases, we are informed, eleven steamers, which trade fog bee
with England, Rtr,aia, and the Netberlai.ds. WI r,.venue
is estimated at three millions of frolics:*