The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. SATITZDAT EYIWING.
The President ha. made a speech at Strasburg,
which will maks still more noise, when publicly
known, than hi. manifesto at Lyons. As this is the
important thing of the day, I begin with it. The
=was delivered in reply to the chairman of the
or of Commerce, at the banquet given to the
President by that body i and a. the Lyons speech
was aimed against the legitimists, then the chief
object of Louis Napoleon'. displeasure, so the Stras-
burg demonstration is a blow at socialism, whose
pranks at Besancon and elsewhere seem fresh and
smarting in the presidential recollection :
Oentlenems.—Accept my thanks for the frank cordiality
with which you releiVe me among you. The best way to
fele me is to promise me, as you have just done, your sup-
port in the straggle whisk has began between utopias ano
useful reforms. (Prolonged cheering) Before my depar.
tars people wasted to dissuade me from visiting Alsace. It
was said to me again and again " You will be ill received
there. That region perverted by foreign emissaries knows no
longer the noble words of honour and country, which your
name recalls, and which have made vibrate the hearts of its
inhabitants for forty years past. Slaves, without dreaming
it, of men who abuse their credulity, the Alsatians will refuse
to see in the elect of the nation the legitimate representative
of ell rights, and of all interests." But I maid to myself,
"It fs my duty to go every where, where there are
dangerous illusions to dispel and good citizens to confirm.
(Cheers) Old Alsace is calumniated. In this land of
glorious recollections and of patriots sentiments, I chili Ind,
I arr. aura of it, hearts, which will understand my miasien
and my devotion to the country." (Yes, yes,) A few mouths,
in fact, do not transform a people, deeply labs d with the
solid virtues of the soldier and the labourer into a people the
enemy of religion, of order, and of property. (I',l-..nged
cheers.) Besides : why, gentlemen, slvuld I have
been ill received ? In what have I chanced to
forfeit any of your cor,fi knee ? Placed by the
ni arly unanimous vote of France at the head of a
power legally restricted, but immense by the moral oatluence
ol its origin, have I been tempted by thought, or by advice,
to attack a constitution, framed, however, as is a secret to
nobody, in great part against myself ? No; I have respected,
and I shall always respect the .overeignty of the people, even
in what its expression may have of p. everted or hostile.
If I have acted thus, it is because the title, which is the
chief onkel of my ambition, is that of an honest man. (Pro-
longed sensation.) I know nothing above duty. lam
happy, therefore, men of Strasburw, to think that there
o a community of sentiments between you and me. Like
me, you wish to have your country strong and respected.
Like you, I wish Abaco to resume her ancient rink, to
become again what she was during so many years, one of the
most renowned provinces of France, to choose the eiticens
most worthy to represent her, and to produce for the inahr.
tenianos of her glory the most valiant warriors. To Alsace,
to the city of Strasburg ! (Prolonged applause.)
Telegraphic despatches from Strasburg :
Aticue. 23, 8 a m.-0.1 the 21st, at .1 o'clock, the President
of the Republic received the authorities, the constituted
badies, and the functionaries. The recepti in was very nu-
merous. On the 22nd, at nine in the morning, the old sol-
diers of the empire, those glorious remains of our great
wars, crowilid about hem, and welcomed him with

4lasin. Till Presatic.t then received the maims of the de-
partment, who came in great numbers from dist.n: com•
mimes, to ewes. the sympathy of the inhabitants of the
Bea-Rhin. At 2 ~clock there wags brilliant review at the
Polygon. The President then attended a banquet and a
ball Witted by the eomsseree and inhabitants of Strasburg.
AVG. 23, 10 A.M received this morning (21,11), at
9 .—The prefect of the Bas-Rhin to the Nltilister of
the Interior:

The banquet off. ri d by the chamber of curimerce to the
Prcsldent was magoifieent. The eperch or the President
was greatly chterrd. The ball was rem ,tkuble f r:te mast
ritiN nee. The r.eeption given b the Pretil..nt warn warm
and sympathetic.
I understand farther that telegraphic despatches
have been received, announcing that the President
lett Strasburg on the 23rd for Nancy and Mrr'z. He
is to open the section of railway lying betaceu the
two latter cities.

it is said that cllolera has made its appearance at
MarEeilles. The enemies of poor M. 1)-61111N make a
grout outcry against him, as if the (I.,sase had been
cau.ed by his dissolution of the Board of 11,alth.

At the sitting of the Cammittee of Permanence
held to-day, twenty members were present.
'two books worth mentioning have appeared to-
day. Oae is "I: Ere des Ce.ars" by M. Romieu, in
which this hot partisan and aseiduons courtier of the
Elysee wants to prove that nothing but the regime of
fens will do in our day, and that during the last halt
of the nineteenth century a military despotism must
prevail. The other book is " A Nate to the C
General on the Revision of the Constita:ion," in
which this question is discussed in a Bonapartist
ann.
At the Bourse there was no news of importance.
The Renter experienced • slight rise of 10 c,ntimes
ea the Fives and of 5 on the Threes.
Just as I am about to close my letter I hear a ru-
mour that a pistol has been fired at the President at
Strasburg. But this report has no official founda-
tion.
Proround sensation was yesterday caused in the 1
quarter of the Nladt Leine by a deplorable covaltrophe.
M. de Th--, who occupies a high position as a
banker, went with his son to dit.e with his brother,
Baron de Th--, Ne. 4, Rue de f!i:-/.e. A diacussion
on matters of interest aroso between the three, and at
last the brother of the Baron flew into a furious
passion. lie drew a poignard knife from his pocket,
stabbed his brother in the breast, rear the right
shoulder, and hie son in the bowels. Be then threw
himself from the window, and in the fall broke his
arm and received other injuries. Medical caisistaeca
was immediately procurid, and the mounds were
dressed ; that of the brother is not d.tngeroug, but
the eon's is so serious that little hops is ertertained of
avicg his life. The father was conveyed on a littcr
to the Hospital Beaujon, where he died soon atter his
arrival. A vast crowd assembled in front of the
house, and municipal guards had to be required to
prevent the circulation from being interrupted. The
two brothers are twine, and are about fifty years of
age.

SUNDAY MORNING.
A telegraphic despatch from St rastmirg, dated 23rd,
at one in the afternoon, announces that the President,
after having lisited on that morning the civil and
military hospital, the fmndry, the arsenal, and the
cath.dral, took his departure from the city, amid
acclamations of " Vise le President r

M. Schmitt, governor of the province of Arlon, has
been commissioned by hie sovereign, the King of the
Belgians, to congratulate the President at 'Metz, in
the name of his Majesty.
The ministers at Paris have met several:time'', at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to deliberate on the
subject of the Prince de Joinville's residence at ltrus-
, sells. An interchange of notes has taken place with the
Belgian government on this subject.
The Mondeur contains a decree of tt..e Presidt nt
of the Republic, cm.ferring decorations of the Legion
of Honour ou several officers of the army.
Gentral de Garrembe is appointed to the etm-
mand of the Ardennes, in place of General S llegur,
placed on half-pay.
The councils-general of the tit partments intet to-
morrow. Th, re is said to be much division on the
quastion of extending the powers of the President of
the Republic.

Our l'aria e.wrerponditoce of last orating hod
arrived at tho hour of wing to press.

SPAIN.

Ti:e British minister, Lord Howden, leads a very
retired lite.

Tito corps of 4,000 men destined to reinfor.e tha
garrison at t',e Ilavannah, w It be ready to sail ou the
tat of next month.
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