The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-01 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDtT, 7 PAL
RESULT OF THE PARIS ELECTION.
For Eugene Sue 126,966
For Leclerc .. .. 116,211

The Paris election has been decided in favour of
Esgene Sue. The latest state of the poll reported
gives 126,966 votes to Sue, and 116,211 to Leclerc.'
this statement compri.es the 12 arrondissements of
Paris, the arrondissements of St. 1/ennis ar d Sceaux,
snd the army. To render it complete, the results in
8 sections of the banlieue are wanting, and the votes
of the navy. This supplement will not modify the
main result in any important way; It will, in fact,
swell the majority of 11,000 already gained by the
socialist candidate. The certainty of NI. Sue's election
was known between nine and ten last night, when
sufficient progress had been made in the examination
of the ballot to foresee a majority of several thousand
votes in his favour.

Thus once more the red has won. Once more
nearly 130,000 men of Paris and the banlieue have I
borne the champion of democracy and socialism tri-
umphant into the National Assembly. On the 10th I
of March they did homage to the insurrection of
June; on the 28th of April they confirmed the revo-
lution of February. We shall now see whether the
government will have the pluck to fulfil the promise
of its organs, and aim a blow at universal suffrage.
The electoral law which is to be brought forward,—
will now be the great question. A collision thtween
the legislature and socialists seems inevitable. No
one can doubt the will of the Assembly to modify the
principle of universal suffrage in a way that would
put an end once for all to the possibility of repeating
such results as the lost two Paris elections have
brought to light. As little can the determination of
the voters for Eugene Sue and De Flotto be
doubted to resist, if necessary, by armed rebellion,
the impositi.in of such a law. Now one
fact has been brought out in this last election quite as
significantly as on the 10th of March, and that is the
demucratio tendency of the army. If we subtract the
republican guard aad the Invalides, which firm a

&sedge of the government, the military votes of
Leclerc will be found reduced to an insignificant num-
ber. Four-fifths of the soldiers voted for Sue. Sop-
peeing the provincial members of the army to be ani-
mated by the same spirit, a legion of ebangarnier
Gould Never brine foar-fifths of the troops to act in
the teeth of their own convictions and consciences.
Meanwhile the head of the republic is surrounded by
men who preach habitually against mitigating the
rola of the government, or assuming lees illiberal
ministers as a commies. I und.retand that M. de
Persigny is one of the moat influential intimates of
the President, and pitches his counsels in a key
which seems borrowed from the northern courts.
Perhaps that huge military force now eencamped
in Poland, and which might, by the continuous line
of railroad stretching from Warsaw to Paris, be
transported hither in a month, figures in the back-
ground before imaginations of the advocates of re-
pression and the dupes of ambition, as a last resource
for clapping a straitejacket upon writhing socialism.
The greatest praise le awarded by Mucaulay to our
Queen Bras for her good sense in not overstraining
the endurance of the people, but in giving way at the
right moment. The best thing the President could
do would be to imitate this example, and take a hint
from the two emphatic protests of the 10th of March
and 28th of April against the errors and oppression
of hie ministers, to choose fresh ministers whose names
would be a guarantee for the maintenance of the re-
public, and their abilities for the firm and wise con-
duct of the government. Many of the Emperor's
maxims are Rooted in the Napoleon, but there is one
which says it is no mean wisdom to know when one
is beaten," more applicable to the present state of
things than vspouring about the 18th of Bromidic.
' The diminution of the numbest sof the socialists and
republiorne of the National party appears, from the
returns, to be about five thousand ; that of the party
of order is about eight thousand. Consequently, more
electors have abstained from voting than at the elec-
tion of the 10'h of March. As it is well-kr:own that
the socialists, from their discipline and ardour, would
present the same compact body, and that the secession
of the National party could only be small, it was
evident from the first, that the party of order could
only hope to gain a victory by a display of increased
strength. The contrary is the result. This can only be
removed
-by such an amendment of the electoral law
as will compel every elector to go to the poll. There is
no other cure for apathy than this. According to the
account given by the Constitutionnel, allowing for
votes which may have been given to other names, at
least 60,000 electors have abstained from voting,
which is a larger Lumber than at the election of the
10th of March, as compared with the electoral hate,
for at that time the highest candidate on the exialist
aide had 132,881 votes, and the highest on the other
side 125.673.

Nothing has been more remarkable than the quiet
with which this vast doctoral operation has bon
conducted. No more striking argument cluld be
witnessed in favour of the bsllot. I hear that it has
been decided to drop the Napoleon.
The Bourse bears to-day expressive signs of the
discouraging effect of the election on the money
market. The Fives fill to 80 90. There has there-
fore been a fell of 21r. within the last two days. There
was a great demand for gold ingots to be transported
abroad. Many travelling-carriages were sten leaving 11
Paris this morning.
To-morrow evening we expect to Lear the result
of the elections of the Saone and Leire, which were
also to commence on the 28th of April.
Yesterday the report on judicial reform was pre-
sented in the Assembly by M. de Crouseilhts. The
chief future of the committee's amendments is the
proposition of a more severe test of qualificati-n for
judges.
In the Legislative Assembly to-day the discussion
of the budget of war was resumed. Nothing o
interest occurred.

About M. Carlier's interdiction of the sale of the
opposi ion papers en masse there is but one opinion
among sane persons. The raving nonsense of the
Napolem I have already txpised at length. An
article which appeared in its last number threatens
France with a new 18th Brumaire. This was much
talked of yesterday in bath camps. The reds treated
the threat with the scorn which it merited ; the
moderates spoke of the necessity of suppressing such
dangerous antics in the confidential press of the
Elys, r.
Paris was alrsady at fever heat with the election ;
if anything could make the public spirit Bill over it
was this menace of a coup tretat, accompanied by M.
Carlier's worrying of the liberal press. No organ of
any government ever dated before to hold such lan-
guage ; no tool of a government ever dared before to
misuse his powers so audaciously. The ministers are
said to have declared their intention of resigting un-
less the Napoleon were suppressed. Interpellations
in the Clamber have been announced on this subject.

na•n:e.

PARIS, Aram kl. PR
Nary.

For Account.
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course the house will take is doubtful; but for the
few days it will continue to sit the public will be
deprived of the usual report of the proceedings. The
official short-hand reports seldom appear until a week
after the sitting.
The Volkshaus met to-day at the usual hour, Pre-
sident Simeon in the chair.

After the transaction of formal business, the house
proceeded to the discussion on the report of the com-
mittee on the draft of the bill regulating the pro-
ceedings of the federal courts in cases of disputed
legal questions. The recommendations of the com-
mittee were adopted without exception, including the
last, for suspending the operation of the law until a
penal clause shall have been added by the Verwal-
tungs-Rath.
The house adjourned at 12 o'clock until Nlanday
noyt_

ADJOURNMENT OF THE ERFUItT
PARLIAMENT.

Electric telegraph despatches, dated the 29th ult.,
from Erfurt, announce' that the parliament there has
been adjourned, and thanks have been addressed to it
for revising the constitution, and for ita labours ge-
nerally.

BERTAN, Aram 29. Voluntary Loan, IN ; National Debt, 874;
Commercial Marine -octety'a Premium, 104; Balk Sbarea, 91.
VIVINA, Aran. 27. lies per Cent. Metalliques, 42j; Four per
Cent. Metalliques, 8861. Bank Mares, 1064.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Aram 25.
The palace question, ad it is here called, has been ad-
journed for a few days. The partisans of the ministry
give out that it has been resolved in their favour, that
the misunderstanding between them and the King-
Consort has disappeared, that the Queen gives them
every mark of confidence, and that Queen Christina
has managed, as before, to impose upon the King-Con-
sort with promises made merely to gain time. On the
other baud, the opposition allows equal confidence in
the approaching downfall of the ministry, assailed is
it is both in public and private. The pray, when it can-
not be overawes, is kept fast muzzled ; the Clamor
Public° has been seized again this morning, as were
the Observador and the Everansa of yesterday- even-
ing, and yet they contained nothing that would
seem to merit so rigorous a measure. By these
means the voice of the opposition cannot make itself
heard in the palace, since the only condition upon
which the anti-ministerial prints may appear is that
they forbear attacking the c.tbinet. For this reason
not a single print has commented upon the royal de-
cree inserted in the Gazelle directing the Clamor to
be prosecuted for libel for having remarked on stock-
jobbing that has taken piaci, with reference to the bill
for the adjustment if the state debt, and the (Junior
was seized this morning for having defended itself.

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ministers, to choose fresh ministers whose names Maus, Aram 29. Voluntary Ulan, 106; National Debt, 861; 1 ' '
Commercial Marine -ociety's Premium, 10.11; Bent Stares, 91.
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