The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Try,411.,y ErZNINn.
The committee on the Municipal Bill has termi-
nated the first reading of Book I. of the government's
bill. It has decided that in case of dissolution of
the Municipal Council the re-election ought to take
place within six months, and that the council is not
to be replaced in the interim by any commission.
The committee has charged the sub-committee to ex-
amine in what circumstances, and by what jurisdic-
tion, the suspended mayor might be visited with
temporary or absolute ineligibility.
The new ministry presented yesterday a bill de-
maturing an additional credit of 800,000 f. on the
budget of war for the distribution of succour to the
old soldiers of the empire.
The uppermost topic of political conversation is the
plan put forth in the Bulletin dr Paris, which I de-
scribed yesterday, for convoking an extraordinary
session of the municipal councils. The Unano believes
that the government will appeal to the councils-
general of the departments for a simple categoric
vote on the revision of the constitution. The cabinet

council which sat yesterday at the Elytic is said to
have been occupied with this subject.
The Duke of Levitt has arrived in Paris, with a

mission from the Count of Chambord, to confer with I
Count Mole. and M. Guizot upon the subject of fusion.
The ...IssemWe Nationale, organ of the latter party,
announces to-day the change, of which I informill
you some time ago, which has taken place in the
property of that paper. It states that personages of
high consideration in the political world have wished
to make this journal the vehicle of their opinions,
and the supporter of their efforts for the definitive
union of the great elements of the party of order.
An incident highly chatructetistie of the moment
occurred to-day at the door of the Assembly. As
M. Haze and a friend of his were exchanging con-
gratulations on the opening of the vacation, a
national guard on duty called out—" Would to God
that we were rid of the Assembly altogether r Upon
this the irate questor immediately summoned the
officer in command and gave the out-spoken national
guard in charge. The delinquent was immediately
arrested, and eommittcsl to the black-hole of the
guard-house during the rest of the sitting.
The benches of the Assembly were still thinner
than yesterday. The proposition on the order of the
day were adjourned ut the request of their authors.
The report on petition was then read, and resented
only one point of the least interest. M. Valentin.
a member of the Mountain demanded the reference

to the committee of a petition against the law of
P4:11, which permits the government to place officers
in disposability by widulrawing their employment.
General Lannwiciere having defended the right of the
gwernment, the Assembly passed to the order of the
it was yesterday affirmed that General Perrot,
commanding the national guards of the Seine, was!
to be superseded. It was said that the general,
when called before the council of ministers to give
his opinion on the bill relative to the organisation of!
the national guards, was not well satisfied to find his!
opinions opposed by a simple suiwrior officer of one
of the legions of Paris, introduced an instant after
him by order of the President. It is also said that
the general considered it his duty to oppose certain
personal exigencies, tending to introduce into his
stall; and even to place at its head, a man who does
not enjoy his confidence. The successor of General
Perrot has not been mentioned.
The o,avtitntimine/ contains an article setting forth
the necessity of completing the defences of Cher-
bourg, the arsenal of which, it says, might be easily
burnt by an English force of steamers, which
might reach Cherbourg in eight hours from
Portsmouth, or in three hours from Alderney.
The sums already expended on Cherbourg amount
to 151 millions. 'With the six millions now voted.
Cherbourg will be placed in a complete state of de-
fence on the seaward side. Four forts, three of
which belong to the breakwater, will protect the
port, and when those works shall have been finished,
an enemy rash enough to enter the harbour would
probably not be lucky enough to get out again. The
whole of the defensive works of Cherbourg arc to
comprehend, independently of the tbrtilieations in
the sea. a series of fiats on the heights above the
town ; but these last-named works ate of a less
urgent character, and it has been considered that
they may be adjourned without danger. It has also''
been thought that, as Cherbourg ought to lw some
day or other in communication with the capital by a
I railway, the facility to transport there in a ti:w hours
forces and stores, might render unnecessary part of
the works designed by military engineers. The
question of the land works consequently has been
reserved.
The government has determined to apply to the
Assembly for funds for the reparation of the damage
done to the Tuileries by the invasion of February.
A report on this subject gives a sad account of the
treatment which the portraits and busts met with in
the Hall of Marshalls. The full-lengths of Bugeaud
and Soult were, however. the only pictures of mar-
shals completely destroyed. The test gut off with
more or less shots and sonic tearing. The busts were
not treated with more revtrence.
A dinner was given on Sunday, at the Hotel des
Princes, to Generals lkinbinski and Chryzanowsld,
the former recently returned from Turkey and the
latter from Italy, by a hundred Polish emigrants.
Prince Adam Czartoryski was in the chair. Toasts
were given to the two distinguished guests and to
the fraternity of &laves. Count Teleki, die only
Hungarian who was present, proposed a toast to the ,
Polish emigrants and to the memory of General Bem. '
The whole of the company present loudly expressed'
their gratitude to the Sultan Alelul Medjid, and
wishes for his long reign. They considered that it
was owing to the liminess shown by him in defend-
ing the sacred rights of hospitality that they bud the
pleasure of again seeing General Dembinski among
them, instead of his being now undergoing captivity.
A convention has just been agreed on between the
Northern Railroad and that of Belgium and Ger-
many, by means of which travellers and correspond-
ence, from the Ist of May next, will arrive in Paris
on the evening of the day following their departure
from Berlin and Hamburg, and letters from every
part of Germany will reach their destination one
day sooner than hitherto.
The funds continue to fall. The Fives declined
15c., and closed at 92.85. The Threes fell also 15c.,
and closed at 57.30.