The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY Brzirtiro.
If any proof were needed that the quarrel with
England ham been picked designedly by the Burgrave
cabal out of a flimsy diplomatic punctilio, merely to
pitch over the English alliance, and to get rid of the
inconvenientTorgles suggested by constitutional tea-
ditions, that would be furnished by the leading
article of to-day's Conditutiessad, a paper which re-
presents more nearly than any other the hidden
power which roles this country. In the opinion of
this organ parliaments, the press, juries, and
all those institutions which it admits ere
the most solid guarantees of society, become,
'in the present state of France, mere instru-
ments of anarchy. This is the daily language of the
moderate papers. The Assemblie Nationek deems
the petitions presented against the wbokeele didrea-
°hutment contemplated in the government's electoral
bill sufficient motive for imposing the dictatorship
implied by a state of siege. Listen to the anstitio-
tionnel:

Francs has as mouths power. she has as army, • ma-
gistracy, a periodiag , and all the ***otiose whisk
soutituts regular well seated goveruatents ; bat from
the effect of that irdinsive, hostile, and anarchical society,
whisk has established Itself in the midst of legitimate moiety,
and under is peesetlea, thete initiations *eery day sad to
lose their virtue, midolesearami boo their real carpet If
you are impeedeat waragh to allow the Masao of this
eassellelessistp ar isieneee, the executive power will be
wadosed,polept boded, by the legislative power; the
army will be woilsomod, and pat fa clamor by the =Waist
guard ; the reasiOnep will be woelsood sad usderoined by
the jury; oder will' be enfeebled, and public ophtiaa bled
astray by the podgiest pow It may be seen that Institu-
tions Mewl ea guarantees (or society, may compromise what
they IFINI isleadal to protest. Ones "pia we repeat, this
detallohleerark of thetiews *gaiety, Oahe* to transform into
instramsalo of saarehy or el brutal despotism the lastita-
dons which are raked far order sad for liberty, this work it
course of amulet/oil szerstiovi, ham use attaierd its eldest
The lorkdatio Assembly star the dosser, and as a duty
sods to ward it OIL There is, Angers. sagas; to be done
with the Logisiatho Assembly. Neither will we say that
the tugboat guard should be dissived, the jury destroyed,
or the liberty of the prom swept away; bat we say that It is
irsporible not se open ear eye to the deep changer whisk a
period of 'waggle sad of anarchy sago la our institutleas,
and that the most erdisary good sense conssaands the
taking owe of the oseerares neeessory to give them that
power
th and oldenoity which NOM and public order regain
frees em.
The cry eternally kept up about anarchy is one of
those lying pretacess which bullies raise before they
Iseult a pemeable victim. The attitude of the
people it, notwithstanding multiplied aggressions
in every shape, that of the most admirable patience
and order.
No provocation has been neglected which could
goad to rebellion ; yet Paris bee been unruffled by the
least riot. Day after day fanatics like M. Placatory
mount the tribune, in carter to tar on the ministers to
rasher violatiens of the law, and walk unmolested
home through the crowds, who are obliged to go to
bed without reading a paper, thanks to the influence
of such; then they .it down, and write, with unblush-
ing foreheads, outrageous articles about the reign of
anarchy.
M. Thieve spoke on Saturday evening at the club of
the Quai d'Orsay•with much energy, and in favour of
the Electoral Bill.
The wooden barriers which closed the quincunxes
of the Invalid's have been removed, in order to gain
more space for the encampment of the cavalry, in owe
of any disturbance, and to allow them to extend from
th" quays to the Hotel des Invalidate. With the di-
vision of (lateral Fort y, thin epees will be occupied by
12,000 men, the sphere of whose occupation will ee-
ltend to the Champ de Mars, the Military School, the
Cliamps Elyse's, the Place ea le Concorde, and the
Tuileries.

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The Comasiutionsel,
after quoting from the Times
the explanation of Lord Lansdowne, given in the
Engiiah papers of the 17th, says :
Lot ta remark ben a cireamstaaes sot without Janet
ana. Lord L .asdowae woes, that it the conversatiot
which gratided his departurv, 111. Drool* de I'Litys recand
kcal Lord Psimentoa decumesto, of which the Frmica
Revertant toted have to knowledge, and which appeared
to his of a nature to produce a happy effect u, on the rela-
tions of the iiio countries. This circumstance si:y servo to
sepias Use sem of
tlw words preareuwed Lad Palaw-
an, Owl M. Dank de Pligre would aim better at Pais