The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY, 6.30 p.n.
There were several lines of conduct to pursue alter
the elections of March. Louis Napoleon might
either form • new cabinet in the sense of the Paris
majority, or he might choose a cabinet from the par-
liamentary majority—he might resign and throw
himself on the country, or he might coalesce with the
chiefs of the majority in order to modify the constitu-
tion. The latter course is that which the president
seems to have chosen, and it is the worst. To that
end, as I told you yesterday, M. Barrot has been
sacrificed. But M. Barrot deem not make place for a
great genius, nor does the change that is about to be
made render the cabinet lees a government of nonenti-
ties than before. It seems that M. Baroche takes the
portfolio of the interior. This is the only change that
will occur.

After all the expectations that had been raised this
slight change has disappointed many. The chiefs of
the majority u well as the ministry had absented
themselves all day yesterday and to-day, and the sit-
tings of the Chamber were very dreary in conse-
quence. The laborious workings of the Mountain
have produced their time-honoured result, and the
country will probably not be more pleased at the re-
sult than the Chamber. It is to be supposed that
M. Baroche's appointment is meant as a protest
against socialism, against which he so feebly pleaded
lately. But it is more than this ; it will lead to the
proposal of such measures as the re-establishment of
newspaper stamps, and the doubling of the amount
of caution-money required from all journals. It may
even lead to modifications in the electoral law, and
to the proposal of M. Thieres favourite plan of hunt-
ing out of Paris all workmen not born there, and who
do not yield to certain conditions. Such is the poli-
tical meaning of the appointment of Baroche, and
thus is inaugurated, not in a direct manner,
but, as it were, side-long, the policy of
resistance which the Debars for two or three
days past, and the Petrie ;yesterday, have
preached with such perseverance and violence.
The two extremes of democracy and reaction will
now more than ever be pitted against each other, and
the result none can tell.
MM. Thies, Mole, and Berryer are no strangers
to the ministerial modifications and its probable re-
sults. They were closeted with the President for
several hours lest night.
All the democratic journals had warned their ad-
herents not to go to the Hotel de Ville this morning,
03 be present at the calling off of the names of the
succLssful candidates. All went off peaceably, and
the ceremony was over at 10 in the morning.
After the announcement had been made that MM.
Carnet, 'Vidal, and De Flotte were duly elected repre-
sentatives of the people, some cries of " Vire la Re-
verl3.lle" arose, after which the crowd quietly dis-
The definitive state of the votes was thee

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Exchange on London : SO days, 25 47S ; 90 days, 25 33.
Belgian, 5, 1440
Do. 5, 1842
Do. 4i
Do. 24
Piedmont 3 per Dents iltl 50 „ Bank Shims
ncomar..—Pars sad Orleans, 779 SO ; Avignon and Marseilles,
197 50 ; Straahourg and Basle 113 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 400 ;
Northern, 437 30; Paris and atisslinarg, 243 75; Tours and Nantes,
247 S 0; Paris and Rolm, 540; Bourn and Havre. 237 51; Mon.
terms and Troyes, 105; Versailles (left bank,) 157 50; Orleans and
Viarzon, 320.