The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, NaIDAT Eveiritio.
To-day the whole interest of the Assembly's sit-
ting was concentrated in the bureau:, which were
employed in examining the new electoral law and in
appointing a committee to ,report.on the bill. The
debate was carried on with great warmth in all the
bureaux. By the list of commissioners chosen, which
I subjoin, you will perceive how decidedly opposed
the parliamentary majority is to the new bill. I
give the names in the order of the bureaux. The
fifteen members of the committee are—Laroche-
jacquelin, Wolowski, Baze, Chegaray, Grevy, Darn,
Kermaree, Janvier, Dufour,. Amebic. Dubow, Vial-
mesnil, Benoit d'Axv, Jules de Lasteyrie, Mole,
L'hassaigne-Goyon. 'Larochejacquelin and Grevy are
the only commissioners favourable to the bill.
In this committee there are eight Orleanists—
Daru, Wolowski, Chegaray, Kermaree, Janvier,
Chassaignc-Goyon, Haze, and Jules de Lasteyrie--
the last two known by their bitter hostility to the
Elysee, and represented in the press by the Ordre;
the others milder, and represented by the Delete.
There are two Herryer legitimists, Vutimcsuil and
Benoit d'Azy ; twu fusionists, Mole and Dufour;
one ultra-legitimist, Larochejaequelin ; one member
of the tiemparti,Dubois; and one republican, Grevy.
Cavaignac, in the 16th bureau, considered that as
the law of May 31 might be looked upon as dead, the
question for the majority lay in its modification. With
regard to the executive power his policy will not
change—it is the policy of re-election. Let us not
(said he) recognise the principle of domiciliary capa-
city. Let us admit six months as the time necessary
to constitute domicile. We would have it shorter.

I regard the pure and simple abrogation of the law
only as acceptable.
NI. Piscatmy regarded it as a political question, of
which the Assembly had at once shown its compre-
hension by an immediate resLtance to the proposi-
tion of the President, in which resistance it should
persist. Were it not far this political character he
would consent to modifications.

M. Ikrryer said the principle of the law was not
in the question of domicile. The majority might
modify the law, but not at the expense of its
di.aity.
7lke elections of the presidents and secretaries of
the bureaux exhibit on one hand the coalition of the
Orleanists and legitimists against the l'resident, and
on the other the alliance of the Left with the govern-
ment party. In the llth tureaux ten members of
the Mountain supported General de Bar, an
Elysean, awainst M. de Beininat, who was, however,
elected president. In the 3rd bureau, through the
exertions of Count Beugnot, twelve members of the
Mountain voted for I kfilon Barret, and thus threw
out Changarnier. In several bureaux attempts were
made to get up a debate about the law of May 31,
but fell to the ground through the agreement of
parties not to stir that question prematurely.
Baron Wilier is spoken of as the probable minister
of finance.

The budget of the ministry of justice was voted
without any debate of importance. That of the
ministry of worship is now going forward.
The questors' proposition has excited great indig-
nation at the Elysip. The constitution nowhere says
that the Assembly can appoint the commander of
the troops it demands for Its protection. The pro-
position is therefore taxed by its opponents with
unconstit utionalism.

Fur the first time since the election of Louis
Napoleon, a republican tone is observable in the
Bonapartist organs. Such men as Cavaignac, La-
mm-tine,llault, and Lamoriciere, who have hi-
therto often been roughly handled by them, arc
now spoken of with complacency, and represented
as affording a sufficient rampart aguinst extreme
democracy m a moderate republic, between which
and a government of diviim right the Bonapartists
now soy the real question lies.
M. Monet has presented amendments to the Com-
munal Administration Bill, to the effect that all

Frenchmen who have attained their majority, who
have fulfilled the provisions of the law of recruit-
ment in the commune, and who have continued to
reside in it—that all those who have not fulfilled the
provisions of the ►aw of recruitment, but have ac-
quired their domicile in the commune by a residence
of one year—that public functionaries and ministers
of religion invested with functions for life—that fo-
reigners authorised to tiz their domicile in France,
and who, previous to that authorisation, have resided
for one year in the commune, shall be inscribed on
its electoral lists. lie also proposes that the names
of all persons deceased, those who have lost their
quality of Frenchmen, and those who have taken up
their residence in other communes, shall be struck
off the lists.

The Communal Bill, forming the most important
part of the great bill on internal administration, was
read for the first time last session. M. Vatimesnil's
report embodies the amendments of the committee
for the formation of the electoral lists. The chief
feature of these amendments is that a residence of
only one year is required in the same commune, iu-
stead of three years as in the law of :fist of May.
The legitintists have adopted these amendments, and
intend to vote for them when the Communal Bill is

placed on the order of the day.
The Club of the Rue des Pyramidcs, in a meet-
ing held last night at the house of M. Daru, do
termined to oppose the electoral bill ; but they re-
solved at the saute time nut to juin in any aggressive
legislative act ugaiust the executive power, from
whatever side it might come. If they adhere to the
latter resolution, the bill of the questors will be
thrown out by a large majority. About 200 mem-
bers were present. NIM. de Broglie, Odilon Barrot,
and Leon Faucher, were the chief speakers.
The following is the text of the questors' bill,
which I mentioned yesterday :
Art. 1. The President of the National Assembly is
charged to watch over the internal and external safety of
the Assembly. He exercises, in the name of the Assembly,
the right, conferred on the legislative power by Art. 32 of
the Constitution, of fixing the number of troops required
fur its safety, to dispuee of them, and to select the chief
charged to command them. To this elect he has the right
to call on the armed force, and all the authorities whose co-
operation he may think accessary. The demands may be
addressed directly to all officers, commandants, or fan,-
tionaries, who are bound to attend to them under the pe-
nalties fixed by the laws.
Art. 2. The President may delegate his right of requisi-
tion to the questors or to one of them.
Art. 3. The present law shall be placed on the order of
the day of the army, and posted up in all the barracks
throughout the terntory of the Republic.
The Gunton.,
Ii see, General LCFLO, DE PANAT.
Urgency is demanded.
The Coastitutioor.e/ contains an important article
on the above proposition, which says that if it be
voted by the Assembly that body had better at once
demand the whole army of Parts fur its protection.
This would place the public force, which forms the
strength of the executive, at he disposal of a
questor of the Assembly.
The Press, says that the real aim of the questors
bill is the maintenance of the law of May.
The second ballot for appointing the two remaining
secretaries of the Assembly resulted in the election
of MM. Grimault and Peupin. M. Berard is there-
fore not re-elected.

It was announced lad night that M. Blonde' had
defi..itively refused the Ministry of Finance.
The French government has ordered two war
steamers to be prepared at Brest for an expedition
against the Moorish pirates.
General d'Alphonse, commander-in-chief of the
state of siege of the department of the Cher, has issued
an order closing fourteen cafes and public houses at
Bourges
M. Conti, a native and formerly representative of
Corsica, has been appointed secretary-general of the
ministry of justice.
The Petrie of last evening says : " The govern-
ment has received from Lyons most satisfactory ae-
I counts of the commercial situation of that manufac-
turing capital. The orders from America are abun-
dant, and promise to keep the Lvonese looms at work
until the end of January. The Exhibition of London,
where French silks obtained such a triumph, has
contributed much to this happy result. The news
from the coal districts are also satisfactory, and state
that that important trade is every day improving.
From Roubaix, Tourcoing, Lille, Elbecuf, and Sedan,
the official accounts received also state a marked
o improvement in business."
To show the practical change already produced by
the demonstrations of the executive against the law
of May, I need only call your attention to an article
of the litipublique, which would infallibly have been
prosecuted under the ministry of 31. Leon Faucher.
This journal says that "the law of May 31 never
had right in its favour, and now it ceases to have