The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

FRANC&

PARIS, TIIIIIDAT 6-30 P.n.
The government hive been doing all in their power
to get ue v.etes favour of their law on the mayors,
and for the purpl-e of delay, the examination of the
question in tLc Llatll9l, where the committee were
to be chosen. had been deferred. The cabinet, how-
ever, did not count upon an incident which has pre-
cipitated matters. NI. F. de Lasteyrie ascended the
tribune lost teening, and proposed that the bill rela-
tive to the nomination of mayors throughout Francs
stoti:d by examined the next day in the bureaux, as
it was eesentia! to have the matter decided as quickly
as poeinte.t.

Toe abin•t was taken by surprise, but could not
find an expedlent ready, and the house accordingly
voted that the bureaux should assemble to-day, for
the purpose stet •d. Accordingly, to-day, before the
sitting, the cumbers assembled in the bureaux, and
d.scused the law on the mayors. A most lively de-
bate took ?Lee, which esded in the triumph of the
opponents of goverr meat.
M.U. prrrser,Vatimeroil de Sete, Bechard, Pidonx,
Montigny, and other members of
the Right spoke at length, and attacked the govern-
ment b.. 1 as bvirg opposed to the principle ot adminis-
trative &tent:a:it ition, and as a violation of munici-
pal freedom. The majority against the bill was in
the HA considerable, six committee men for the bill
being chosen tipsiest Line opporients of the cabinet.
Thus the committee is pretty certain to reject the bill,
as it whist' of lifteen members, of whom orly six
are favourable to governmeLt. Amongst the latter
are MM. Placatory, lie Broglie, and Mathieu de la
liedorte. M. Thiel", who is in fsvonr of the bill,
was rejecud as candidate in his bureaux.
It was under the impression of this result that the
Asetta&y, when the publ•c sitting commenced,
entered on the hearing of certain questions that were
to be put by M. Puicatery. These questions had been
t red fir hearing to day by the Assembly yesterday,
std they relate to grave infractions of the laws of the
tola.try, and particularly on the respect due to pro-
perty, said to have occurred n certain preparatory
electwal meetings.
la the Legislative Assembly, yesterday, the discus-
sion on the Paris to Avignon Railway Bill was
brought to a cleat by the Brat reading being adopted
by 428 rows to 218.

The opposition journals, not without good founda-
tion, regard this vste, accompanied, as it is, with re-
refill; ea to the s?cond reading, as a defeat of the
ministry. However, it may be the probable result
will be .he njectionof the bill.
The result of the partial preparatory ballot of the
l:aim Elettnale has been made known to me this
emiag. The three fist candidates in order of
raefsrity are Ls Ilitte. Bonjean, and Ferdinand Foy ;
Gersral d Arbouville is fourth. The number of voters
at toe preparatory ballot was only 61,292.
Tee number of voters has been this time more con-
siderable than at the two preceding elections,
thereby showing that the electors have better under-
stood the importance of the present one. More than
sisly thousand votes have already been received.
The President of the Republic, accompanied by the
Grad Duchess of Baden, last night visited the Opera.

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SWITZERLAND.

The Swi•s government lase addressed a circular to
ttia ta%tqual authorities coocerning the refugees, in
tehichili authorities are intormd that the French
gir,v•rranes.t is disposed to admit into their service in
the r',rvien legion of Algeria all the refugees who
way be desirous of following the military profession.

HAGetli Mattel' 4.—We un-
flit/sLofti the sommithes
cudgeled th cud Chamber of the
filet's General taro their labours on the project
ths sow soviettios laws. It is affirmed that the majority
of the rosrot.r, are uoutmout upon the principal point.
lLe MAAS r h,r kureien Affairs letd before the &rood
Lluatter o the States General, lint, copy of the treaty
w4led between Austria and Prussia on the 30th of &p-
-n. le", te seLessi Wpowers Woo two charged themselves pro
oith the c•ntraldietharps of the busiest' of the 0 tram I:6i n, ie the name of all the other powers; and, sioadt
141,,kce5,.• 61 the Kiag of the Nethnlandt as Disko of
...swan ea the aid el Nemeime.