The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNLIMAT, 5.30 P.Y.
The Fete de l'Assomption to-day will prevent the
publication of any journals to-morrow. To-day they
might as well not have appeared. They are devoid
of interest or news. Ttie .Riforme reappears, fierce
and fiery as is wont, and equally determined as ever
to support the republic.
The St. Napoleon, the President's birthday, is this
Wednesday, to which had been postponed a kind of
millenium of government, when all kinds of coups
d'iltat were to break out. The day will doubtless
pus peaceably enough.
The President has recovered from his cholerine,
which was serious enough Ni hile it lasted.
The &forme reappears to-day, informing its readers
that it was seized the day before yesterday, at half-
past five in the evening. • These" says the repub-
licau journal, " are our betrothals with the laws of
September ; but why did the judges of the country
allow our poison to be inflicted into the public during 1
twelve hours. It seems that ministers held a plenary
court before striking this great blow, and that is the
reason of our having lived for the space of a morn- I
ing." The Democratie Pacifique is to appear shortly
as soon as it can comply with the formalities re-
quired by law.
All the journals, provincial and metropolitan, are
dilating, for want f better matter, upon the split in
the party de la resistance, which was noticed some
time since in this correspondence. It is not doubted,
notwithstanding the attempts of M. Thiene to conceal
it, that the schism does really exist, and that it will
show itself on the meeting of the Legislative Assem-
bly. There are vague hints thrown out of a legitimist
congress, and an appeal to the people on the part of
the democrats between this and the let of October.
The Debate takes sir, to-day the letter of the Arch-
bishop of Paris on the sebject of Venice, and finds
much for comment, therein. The sympathy of the
prelate is deseritied as incompatible with the clerical
difinity
We are riot amazed at seeing the clergy meddle
in politics, bat we may be allowed to observe, with
all respect, that the manner in which the arehbilbep

of Paris intervenes in temporal affairs isnot quite that
which one might expect from the minister of the
God of Peace. Whin we find him saying that there
might, perhaps, have been some glory and wisdom in
making war, we cannot but recollect that the spiri-
tual chief of whole church has compromised his
temporal throne precisely because he would not
make war." The Debate concludes by saying that
though it is as much intetested as the archbishop by
the heroic Cefince of Venice, it must be observed that
pastoral letters do not engage the responsibility of a
government as do diplomatic notes.
The Constiteetionnel notices the fact that incendiary
fires are immensely on the increase in France, and
that in the department of the Dreime the numbers
that have taken place must be the result of political
plots aga'net a certain claes.
Lola Monte! and her husband left Paris last night
for Germany.
The Union says :—" A report has been in circula-
tion that the Councils-General intend to propose the
revision of the constitution, and that a great number
of representative!, before leaving Paris for their de-
partments, engaged to use all their influence to in-
duce the Councils-General to assume the initiat,ve ore
this occasion. It is also stated positive:y that yeti
tiaras demanding the revision of the constitution will,
under the same influence, be signed throughout the
whole of Fraree."

The committee on the budget, the osly one which
is to continue its labours during the prorogation of the
Assembly, held a general sitting yesterday, to deli-
berate en the various bills submitted to it. The bill
on the income-tax was not in general approved of. The
several members who spoke agreed that a necessity
undoubtedly existed to augment the resources of the
treasury, in order to mire at the equilibrium of the
budget, but they considered that this tar was ob-
jectionable in many ways, and particularly in its mode
of collection. Such a tax existed already, it was said,
as the taxes on real property, on boasts, on lent,
even on the peonies, are nothing but a presumed
duty on the profits arising from property, industry,
or commerce. Tte uncle of collection proposed i❑
the new tax, it was observed, would give rise to acts
of an arbitrary character, as a sort of inquisition
would be exercised in each man's case, which would
produce an impression on the public of a more ob-
jectionable character than could be made up for by
an increase in the revenue. The committee, in con-
aequence,app arc d in general to prefer partial additions
to each branch of the revenue to a single tax on the
general appreciation of men's property. Some mem-
bers spoke of a duty on paper, and others on the
dividends given to shareholders in public companies.
The committee, without coming to any division, rent
the matter to a sup-commit'ee. The duty on putable
liquors was considered indispensable. Tho bill
relating to the concession of the I'aris to Avignon
Railway was favourably received, it being admitted
that the state could nut at present undertake the
completion of the works.
This, being the festival of the Assumption, was
observed as a close ho'iday at the Bourse and all the
I public ottic's. A few speculators aseembled at the
I Passage of the Opera, and the Five per Cents. were
I dons at b9fr.