The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29. 1851.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TVIVIDAT EVTJCINEL
Scareely a single organ of the press expresses the
least satisimetion withthe new cabinet. The AseemblAr,
like the Debars, wants to know what it means. The
Opinion Pablique and Ordee regard it as a defiance.
The Elaitia looks on it as concealing an arrie;re-
Arei&e of transitory administration. The liberal press
m not a whit better contented.
The Ordee says: " The crisis might have had a
disastrous end : it has only had a ridiculous one."
The des Ifi'lotts inquires what is the mean-
ins of the new cabinet? and reports that no states-
, man of credit could be found to pin it, because the
President wanted to separate Ina own policy from
that of the ministry.
If we arc to trust Dr. Veron, it is the President's
intention, if te-elected by universal suffnige, to pro-
pose a partial revision of the constitution to the pre-
sent Assembly. This supposes a double illegality;
first, the continuance of the President in his func-
tions, iii despite of the lath article of the constitu-
tion ; and, secondly, the violation of the 22nd and
111th articles, which commit the revision, either
total or partial, to a Constituent Assembly. The
editor of the Cuattitutiwand thus foreshadows the
tenour of the President's message :

It is true that the great political game is to commence on
the 4th November, and will be played and decided over
the heads of ministers. The affair will take place be-
tween the Assembly and the President. It remains to be
seen if the message will be a challenge. The
message, if we are well informed, will be full of wisdom
and good sense ; it will cause to pass as it were in review
before us that numerous and powerful demagogical army
which threatens France and Europe. Between the National
Assembly which refuses the revision, and the two millions
of petitioners, the eighty councils-general which demand
it, there is a natural and sovereign arbitrator—the country.
The President of the Republic, opening of his own will the
arena to all pretenders, demands ❑n immediate appeal of
this arbitrator. Is it nut more wise to put an end in the
month of Nov., before the claims of all kinds which become
due at the end of the year, to tee fever of uneasiness which
will prevail in the pa die mind, than to wait on a lied of
agony for the crisis of NU ? If in this election, approved
by the prudence of the National As.embly, accomplished
tinder the most absolute universal suffrage, and when it
will be allowed to vote for every one, Louis Napoleon Bo-
naparte a second time obtains • majority of votes, he will
appeal to the wisdom of the present representatives to mo-
dify the constitution. Let any sensible man be applied to :
will the country in the midst of the dangers which in-
crease every day, incur the ri-k of being submerged
under the tumultuous waves of the election of • Consti-
tuent, and would it not be threatened with destruction
under the storms wnieli would take place during the
arduous and tumultuous labours of this new Assembly?
The President of the Republic will confine himself to
pointing out some important points to he treated of in the
new constitution, such as the abolition of the seridin de
lisle, and the cu-existence of two Chambers. S.nee we are
in the vein for prophecy, we will go still further, and we
will say, confident us we are of the elevated sentiments and
the disinterestedness of the representatives most engaged ;
we will nay, with joy for the future fate of civilisation and
of our society, that France will be once more saved, and
that everything will be settled by honeurable void patriotic
compromises.
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Dr. Veron indulges in the preceding lan-
guage, M. Grassier du Cassanac, who assumes the
editurial aceptre turn-about with the doctor, predicts
in the most ominous language the necessity of
establishing a provisional military dictatorship.
After comparing the privileges of alarming the coun-
try by faction enjoyed by the leaders of the majority,
to those of which the feudal seigneurs divested them-
selves in the first French revolution, he says:
Such are the privileges which the Montmureneys never
enjoyed. It is Vine that this kind of feudality should
CCAAU, and the avant:nacoss and ardent appeal which the
fatigued and alarmed people make to the military regime
ought to make the high and mighty lords of parliamentary
feudalism understand that a fresh night of the Ith August
would be generally and favourably received.
If we except those three organs, the Cimatitu-
tionesd, I'rrsau•. and Pays, which have given the
President their decided support in his new policy,
we shall hardly find a word in their favour on either
side of the press. The Constifistesand says that if
there is out a ministry, there are at least ministers.
According to Dr. Veron,
The new ministen are all honourable men, and more or

les.:7l;iillieabitheir special acquirements to fill the de-
partments confided to them; but all these new names,
which must be rather surprisvd at now compo,ing a minis-
terial game of cards, hare morcoser a decisive signification.
The significative sod reasonable composition of the ministry
enable us to answer with more force and authority for the
wisdom of the message.

The Pattie preaches patience to the majority.
which it compliments on all the new names
being drawn from the party of order. The
Frew congratulates the country upon getting
rid of the administration of MM. Ltaroche and
Faucher, the author and reporter of the law of May
31. The name of M. do Thorigny, who defended
the Gazette de France when under prosecution, is a
pledge of liberalism aril zeal is favour of universal
suffrage. M. de Girarditt is glad to recognise

In Aim an enlightened defender of the liberty of the
prow, at a time when it appeared only to count declared
enemies out or the ranks of the democratic opposition. The
name of M. de Thorigiiy excludes all idea of n coup d ;
if it were necessary to seek an analogy in the past, the The-
rigny ministry might be compared tothe Martignac ministry,
in Itl2B, succeeding to the Villele ministry, una preceding the
Polignac ministry, This is a warning to the sovereigu ma-
jority. Let it reflect on it. The overthrow of the The-
riguy ministry is the path which will conduct it where the
klartignac ministry conducted traditional royalty—to a te-
volution. Assuredly the new ministry in not a ministry of
opposition ; bit let at merit the name of ministry of repa-
ration, and the repeal of the law of the 31st May will count
as a glorious title to the gratitude of all Frenchmen who
incline the less to civil war the more they have confidence
lin pacific progress.
According to the Pays the President seems to aim
a is twofold object
The re-establishment of universal suffrage, and the legal
revision of the constitution. In order for these measures
of public safety to he accomplished, whence was a ministry
to be taken? Was it from the Hight? The majority re-
fuses the repeal of the law of May 31. Was it from the
Left ? The minority rejects tie revision of the constitution.
Thus, on the one side as on the other, the President was
debarred from choosing. There remained, therefore, only
one plan to be adopted—to select new men, strangers
both to the majority and to the minority, men
in some measure without personality, and who, is
presence of the Assembly, would only represent the ne-
cessity of the state of things. The charicter of the ministry
is, that it is an impersonal ministry, which will not be called
by any name of a man, and which will bear the name of the
law it is charged to restore and to defend. It wilt be the
ministry of universal suffrage. This name is glorious
enough to console the new ministers for not giving their
name to the policy of which they will be the interpreters.
It is not men who give importance to things, but things
which give it to men.
1 had almost forgotten to class the Gazette de
Fiance among the journals which approve of the
new ministry.
A proclamation of the new prefect of police to
the inhabitants, has been posted up to-day all over
l'aris. Nothing can be more in consonance with the
President's pledge to persevere in a policy severely
repressive of all attempts at disturbance than the
language of this document, the most important part
of which dwells on the prefect's duty of opposing an
insurmountable barrier to the attempts of anarchy.
Disturbances have taken place in the Var. The
prefect having ordered the closing of a democratic
club at Gavle-Freinet, and the members having
broken the sealed doors and met in despite of the
authorities, a considerable force of gendarmes and
troops of the line marched against them from Dra-
guignan, and took nine prisoners, among whom was
the apothecary of the place. An immense mob, of
which the female portion displayed excessive fury,
followed with their clamours and curses for two
miles the departing escort. Incendiary fires broke
out on the nights of the 21st and 22nd in the house
of the mayor and of Lis predecessor in office. An
inhabitant who had attempted to check the populace
was tired at and wounded.
M. Blondel, the new Finance minister, is at pre-
sent in Corsica, where he is charged with a special
mission.

Several prefects and sub-prefects have arrived in
the capital to receive fresh instructions. Extensive
changes are expected in the prefectures.
The onih•ar announces that upon the proposition
of the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour,
the President has signed a decree promoting to the
rank of grand commander of that order, M. Leon
Faucher, by reason of the extraordinary- services
which he has rendered to the state as Minister of the
Interior.
M. Wolowski, the brother-in-law of M. Faucher,
is promoted to be officer of the Legion of Honour.
fhe President will not return from St. Cloud until
the 30th.
*the Ortlre save: "Our correspondent in London
informs us that Prince Casteleicala has received from
his government to conyt% itlimitt, to return to Naples."
A company at Bordeaux has applied to the minister
of public works for the concession of a railway from
I Bordeaux to Bayonne, with the guarantee of 4 per

cent. interest. This application is backed by the
Chamber of Commerce, and has fixed the attention of

the ministry.
Odilon Barret has returned to Paris.
The condemned of Lyons have appealed from the
sentence of the Council of Revision to the Court of
Cessation.
A letter from Macon states that M. de Lamartine,
who was to leave for I'aris on Thursday, has been
attacked with acute rheumatism in his knee, and his
medical attendant fears that he wi.l not be able to
leave bed for several days.
The action brought by M. Cartier on the Lingots
' d'Or comes before the court to-morrow.
It appears, from a report to the prefect of police by
M. Clement Reyre, the special commissary of the
lottery of golden ingots, that the amount received
for tickets, or the payment for which is secured, is
5,435,099 fr. • of the remaining 1,344,901 tickets to
complete the seven millions, there are 970,619 in
the hands of the commissioner, there are 81,037 on
their return from Italy, 66,186 respecting which
there is &legal dispute, and 427,259 disseminated in
I the departments, for whichi the returns have not yet
been received.
I To-day the Fives closed at 90.15, with a fall of
30c. The Threes fell 3c., and closed at 33.63.