The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. llowtokT Evenixo.
The Spanish ambassador received yesterday morn-
ing the following telegraphic despatch, dated Madrid,
13th inst.:—" The Queen was delivered yesterday
afternoon, at 4 o'clock, of a prince, who died a few
minutes after his birth. The health of the Queen is
good." A second telegraphic despatch, dated at a
later boor on the same day, announces that the health
of the Queen continued to be good.
The Patric says that, according to accounts re-
ceived from Buenos Ayres to the sth May, there is
reason to fear that the negotiations opened with Ge-
neral Row by the French government will not be
attended with a pacific result.
The regret expressed by Larechejacquelin at hav-
ing had any finger in passing the Electoral Law, and
his announcement that he and his friends were pre-

pared to bring forward a motion for the repeal of ghat
sweeping measure, has produced great 'rotation. In
fact, the coalition between the opposite erremes of
the house which began by a victory upon the law of
mayor., and then fastened M. de Tinguy's amendment
to the law of the press, is becoming daily a phenome-
non more pregnant with import in the proceedings of
the French legislature; and this coalition is gaining
ground, and extending its sphere of action,because, in-
congruous as it is, it has been found of service in
defeating the perverse and sinister policy of the go-
vernment. Already many wavering adherents of the
burgesses may be seen availing themselves of this al-
liance to break out in successful mutiny against their
leaders, and to swell the ranks of the new heterogene-
ous majority.
To-day the law on the press passed through a new
phase, quite as startling as any that have marked this
unprecedented debate. As if res3lved to prove that
its rejection of the proposed application of the stamp
to works of a non-periodical nature was not prompted
by a motive in the least allied to liberalism, the As-
sembly has adopted, by a majority of 54, a motion
proposed by M. Dabeaux, imposing a tax of 5 centimes
upon publications not periodical, treating of political
subjects or of social economy, which are not at present
in the course of being published, or which have not,
before the present law, become the property of the
public, if they are published in one or two numbers,
having lees than three sheets of letter-press of from
25 to 32 square decimetres. This result excited im-
mense sensation. The division gave 326 votes against
272 in favour of the amendment

3d. Riancey moved an amendment which obliges
every newspaper that publishes a feuilleton of the ro-
mance kind, to pay an odditional centime for the
stamp. After a debate between the mover, Emile de
Girardin and M. Coouerel, the hoes, proceeded to
divide. when 3M voted in favour of the amendment
and 232 against.
M. Cordier moved that the de' should be reduced
to half a centime for provincial newspapers. The
Assembly referred this amendment to the examination
of the committee.

M. d'Olivier moved to raise, for tits profit "of the
treasury, a tenth of the brute proceeds of advertise-,
ments inserted in newspapers. This amendment was-
on the demand of the reporter, M. ;de Chasseloup
Laubat, rejected.,
The Assembly then proceeded to pan some ar-
ticles which are purely of a formal administra-
tive character, concerning the exemption of the
stamped newspapers from postage and other details,
which are already known, and which include no
principle.
Notwithstanding the importance of the amend-
ments mentioned above, the event of the sitting
which produced the greatest stir wu the hurried en-
trance of M. Base, questor of the Assembly, into the
Chamber, holding up a newspaper displayed in hie
hand, out of which he proceeded to read at the tri-
bune the first article of the Pouvoir, headed .‘ Gra-
dual declension of the Assembly into a state of weak-
ness." M. Bare' in indignant language, drew the
attention o f the Assembly to this barefaced incision
of its privileges by a journal which professed to sup-
I port the government, and demanded that the respon-
sible editor should be arraigned at the bar of the As-
'
suably. The principal editor of this paper is M.
Granikr de Cassagnac, the writer of the series of ar-
ticles called the " Solution" in the Convtilutionnel. M.
Itonher declared, in the name of the government,
that he was quite ready to prosecute the journal, if
the Assembly thought proper to demand by a vote
this course. M. Emile de Girardin and M. Chants
protested against the prosecution.
M. Clirardin, in the course of his speech, addressed
some severe expressions to the Mountain, whose mem-
bers were not satisfied with him for screening the
Postroir from prosecution. He reminded them that
such a step was in direct opposition with the princi-
ples which they professed. To this a member of the
extreme Left crud out: "Speak for yourself;" and
others reminded him that ho was not the leader of
that section of the Chamber, and had no right to dic-
tate to it. Otrardip, greatly offended at being thus
rudely aporrophised by a party for which ho has
exerted himself with somuchnergy, and at such

frpossaminssie leleited—" He who addressee suoh
le melee* worthy to sit is this Assembly."
These Wine palsied a tremendous uproar, and
feeneskeits at the list incidents of this agitated
The Amiably then voted by eerie and lea, and de-
i iiitsiaahrp majority in favour of arraigning the
p editor of the Pewit at the bar of the
hum That the sitting broke up.
Lf the. hetilmeles of the sitting the Assembly
Whirled efter the third reading, by 580
Intel aZa on chests of mutual succour.Th e ,he the article foe which it is to be ar-
steel, saps that it bad been thought that the Cow
=Arrahad reached the extreme limit of
ie paint Amiably seems destined
M eta isle deeper esobenipt. 'rise eireunistame
if the Nisi le, late Dix Daelaire, being reputed the
argue stile his caused this article to excite
"A psia returned yests=vening from his
trip to Oemplips. The semi publish
a long esseat et th;s journey, in whil' e°
however,
there is little which will have anv interest for your
readers. The President visited the ootton-spinning
manufastory at Corso's', 8 miles from Compiegne,
which stands upon the ate of the old abbey.
The Prate contains a letter addressed by M. de
Oirardin to the syndics of the tribuce of short-hand
repotters in the Legislative Amembly. In this com-
munication M. de Gtrardin adds some further deve-
lopments to his project, annonneed in the last sitting,
for procuring for all the papers an authentic and im-
partial report of parliamentary and judicial proceed-
ings. He premien to present a motion in the Assembly
en this sublet*, a step to which he has been 'noon-
▪ by the favourable reception given by the house
to his plan. Bat, before recurring to this measure,
he wishes to snare the co-operation of the syndics.
He reminds them that, by the law of March. 1822,
heavy floes and imprisonment may be initiated on
editors who publish inaccurate accounts of the sittings
of the parliament, or courts of law, and the same
editors may be Interdicted, for a limited term, from
giving any.reports wha' ever of those pro°, edir g*. It is
true the ngonrs of the law sleep, bat they may, at
the least expected moment, start into application.
The number of the doily papers which report the
sittings is about 20. Pith his one or two short-hand
reporters. M. Oirardin proposes to select the ten
best reporters to make one report for all the papers.
Thus there would be a great economy of labour, and
a much more e flicient result. The short-hand
reporters thrown out of employment by this arrange-
ment, he proposes to engage u reporters in the courts
of justios. Finally, he invites the syndics to hold a
meeting to discuss the matter, and promises to answer
all the arguments that are brought against the scheme.
M. Onisot has addremed a long letter touch of the
Ave classes, written in his own hand, to decline the
candidature offered to him for the superior council of
instruction. M. Onizot founds his objections upon
the nature of the law, which 'would have the effect of
lowering the moral influence .of the state.
In the south the harvest has commenced, and thus
far it realises all hopes that had been formed. In the
department of the Vaucluse, the rye and wheat are as
fine as ever were seen, and in the Lot-et-Oaronne and
the Gironde they were in every respect satisfactory.
The vines in the Cher, Lot-et-Garonne, at Ai, and
elsewhere, promise a magnificent harvest.
The lifottileur publishes a comparative statement of
the Customs returns; for 1847, 1848, and 1849. The
imports in 1849 were 1,142 millions; in 1848 they
were only 881 millions, but in 1847 they had reached
1,342. The year 1819, therefore, shows an advance
of 281 millions on 1848, and decrease of 200 millions
as compared with 1847. Out of the 1,142 millions of
1849, 400 millions were imported in French vessels,
and 349 millions in foreign bottoms. In 1817 the
proportion was different, 447 millions coming in
French, and 612 millions in foreign bottoms. The
exports in 1847 were 1,270 millions; in 1848, 1,163
millions; and in 1849,1,422 millions; the difference

in favour of 1849 being 269 millions over 1848, acd
162 millions over 1847. The French shipping has
equally gained on the export trade. In 1848 it carried
539 millions, and foreign shipping 545 millions; in
1847 the amount by the latter was 530 milieu against
433 by the former.
M. Poitevin made a second balloon ascension on
horseback yesterday from. the Champ de Man, and
an immense crowd assembled to witness it. The
same horse was used as on the previous occasion. He
displayed no alarm as the strings, Bc., were affixed,
and when raised from the ground appeared quite
accustomed to this singular way of travelling. To
prove to the public that he was in no way fixed to the
saddle, M. Poitevin, when about 100 yards high,
stood on the horse's back, and saluted the public. The
balloon went in the direction of St. G.Tmain with ex-
treme slowness. Just as the preparations for the
ascent had been commenced, some alarm was occa-
sioned by a loud explosion at the Barriere de l'Ecole,
which arose from oce of the octroi men having im-
prudently approached a lighted match to a hole ia the
pipe from which the
.gas escaped. Three men were
injured by the explosion. Orders were given to close
the conduit, and as it was from it that the balloon
was supplied, some delay was occasioned in the
ascent. There was yesterday also another balloon
ascent from the Hippodrome, that of M. Godard, who
was accompanied by his sister.
Prices at the Bourse to-day attained a very unusual
height. 'Various came* may be assigned therefore ;
the chief of which is, that the public mind regards
anything like an Imeige as becoming daily less likely.
'The reception of the President during his trip to
Compiegne, and the absence of seditious or ultra-
democratic crier, is regarded as a by no means unim
portant item in the list of favourable signs of the
times. The Fives closed at 9610, and the Threes at
57.90

For Maxon.
PAWS, JULY I. For
Money. Opening Menet. Lowest. Mang.
par Cants. YS7 75 j 57 70 57 95 57 70 67 93
per Cants.
do. New Gam „ I n 10
pi, Cent& ,, •• OP Of
per tank.
Zunanie on London: at sight, 25 40..90 days, 15 30. "

S gar Dints. YS7 75 j 57 70 157 33 57 70
5 per Cents.
3 do. New Lam
41 pry Dents. • • 119 •• .•
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8ar,4144:211: ce LrAil 61, sight4sllo; so dap:l:434 ~
5, 1543
Do. 41
Do. Si
Piedmont 5 per Cents &I 95 " Beak Sturm 1295
331711)11.—Verualles (right bank), 160; ditto (left bank), 140; Paris
and Orleans. 761 50; Paris and Bonen, 347 SO; Marseilles and
Avignon, 142 50; Strasbourg and Bale, 11l 23 ; Orleans and
Vlerson, 350; Boulogne and Amiens, 208 7S; Orleans and Bordeaux,
400; Rouen and Havre, 237 30; North, 430; Paris and Strasbourg,
337 30; Tours and Nantas, 254 73 ; Montreau and Troyes, 9130.