The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1850.

FRANCE.
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PARIS, ithstressr, II sot.
The distension' in the buries:day era the
Eleetorellteform Bill wend snob of Boa
izteffl6.42 the Mountain & to take any part
Masan the elootion'dthe new esesattatse of is them
preliminary debates an the bill. The bureaux counted
about 480 members, of whom 326 voted far candidates
favourable to the law. The only member of the new
committee opposed to the law is M. Combated de
derone the Tiers-part. The members of the
ettneittes a
repudiated with vehemence the impu-
tation of having originated the measure in conse-
quence of the late Paris election, and protested that
they were eineemly attached to the constitution.
Among the members of the moderate opposi-
tion who criticised the bill were MM. de La-
martins, Gustave de Beaumont, Coquina, Ferdinand,
de Lu:syrie, Corns, Oscar de Lateens, Rsudot, and
Monet. These found fault with the revision which
exacts an absolute majority for the elected, with the
three years' domicile, and the mode of attesting the
same; with the arbitrary power placed in the hands
of masters in regard to their workmen, and of mayors
and municipal councils In the preparation of the deo-
total lists.

M. Napoleon Bonaparte has published as address to
the electors of the departments of the Barthe and the
Charente Inferiure, protesting against the proposed
changes in the electoral law, and stating that, if the
bill should pare the people Easy have to consider
whether there may not be reason to organise the re-
fusal to pay taxes. He adds, "As universal suffrage
must be the fierce organirotrice of Republican Franca,
the refusal of taxes must be its force of resistance."

On the 9:b, a meeting of more than fifty niemb-rs
of the Tiers-parti was held in the house of M.
Coquerel, to consult upon the course to adopt in rela-
tion to the new electoral law. It was agreed to vote
against the ensemble of the law, and to reject the tax
qualification, fixed domicile of more than one year,
and the influence of masters of servants and work-
men over the franchise of those whom they employ.
Orders have been given to recall to Paris several
regiments of horse and foot which lately left the
capital. The 2nd Dragoons, 5.11 Lancers, 11th, 61st
and 57th line are mentioned. The number of troops
conoentra:ed in Paris and the baulks* is 150,000.

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The Toulosnais says that several vessels haws
flailed with provisions for the French fleet in the
Mediterranean, which seems to contradict the report
that the squadron would teturn to Toulon.
M. de Segur Dupeyron is appointed French consul
at Damucas. M. de Segue Dupeyron was charged
with a mission to Wallachia.

8•TVIID•T Evveino, 7 P.M.
M. de Broglie bas been appointed president of the
committee for the examination of the electoral bill,
and M. Leon Faucher secretary. The report is an-
' pounced for Monday : the debate will take place pro-
bay on Thursday.
In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day,
IL Placatory gave notice of en interpellation on
Greek affairs, which was fixed for Thursday.
Several motions for introducicg modifications into
the electoral law, were referred to the committee ap-
pointed to examine the bill.
Several chapters of the budget of finances were
adopted without any debate of interest. Upon the
chapter relative to the expenses of collecting the
revenue, a reduction of 193,000 francs wu proposed
by M. d'Olivier, but rejected by 330 votes against
259.
There was a good deal of conversation in the house
about the arrests mentioned by the Pays. No im-
portance is attached to these except as a proof of the
energy which the government resolved to exhibit.
The Evenernent was seized yesterday in conse-
quence of the tenour of a letter by Alexandre Dames
which appeared in its columns.
In the debates in the bureaux on the Electoral Bill,
2d. GOSTATZ DC BEAUMONT was of opinion that the pee-
s:at electoral law stood in need of reform. But although he
approved of some features in the bill proposed by the govern-
ment, such as the extension of the present short term of six
months required for residence in a fixed domicile, the dis-
franchisement of persons convicted of offence against the law,
the cessation of the separate publication of the military vote',
and the uncretionary power given to the government to
defer, for a period not exceeding six months, elections for
suppljiDer • vacancy—although he approved of these features
of the bill, he entertained many weishty objections both
against its substance and spirit. The time of bringinethe bill
(orwud was most inopportune and if the measure wee
sot an attack upon universal suffrage, it had the appearing
of Minn an. It was • common them. of the papers, which
supported the government, to insist daily upon the necessity
of proceeding without delay, and in the teeth of the law, to
the revision of the constitution. Universal suffrage was
painted as a devouring evil, which mast instantly be
scotched, otherwise the country was lost. There were eves
persons who openly expressed their opinion, that it was
desirable to bring on a crime, and an immediate conflict. He
acquitted the government of any connivance at such views;
but although the best government could not escape calumny,
every government ought to act in such wise that no per-
son of sense could give evidence to such calumny.
He believed the opinions he bad described to be
fraught with dangerous won. Society was certainly
is a state which betrayed great perils. But to come trim.
phaut out of the struggle the party of order had only one
arm which it could employ with safety and efficacy! and that
was universal suffrage. This principle loyally applied would
heal its own excesses. It was the arm with which the whole
of France would conquer the demagogy of Paris. It
was a common argument to say that socialism was on the
increase ; that he entirely denied. During two years what
progress had socialism made ? It had produced the Nati-
tuent assembly. Well to that assembly M. Prouthon had
made a socialist motion which aimed at the destruction of
property ; end how many votes did he enlist 2 One ; that
of M. Oreppo. Then came the election of
the President of the Republic. Wu Louis
Napoleon chosen as a symbol of socialism ? In the
month of May the legislature had been elected, in which the
conservative party had gained 100 new vote*. Then as to
the partial elections, nearly all except those of Paris had
been in favour of the party of order. And who could per-
suade him that the 130,000 pangs who voted for M. Eugene
Su were enemies of property, of (amity, and religion ? He
did not believe in the inners of socialism ; on the contrary
he thought its tendency was to decline. He saw no gulf
yawning at their feet ; sad did not comprehend the conduct
of those, who in order to avoid being swallowed in that gulf
two years hence, wanted to precipttate them into it imme-
diately. Not only it was necessary to abstain from attacking
universal suffrage, but to avoid carefully even the apps
of doing so. A peat mischief would be accomp=ear
they seemed desirous by a stretch of ingenuity and sone
technical saving of legality, to strip of their right a gnat
mass of Onion; If the law seemed to aim not at the regula-
tion of universal !suffrage but at its mutilation. He would
par over the provisions of a secondary order, such as the
dependence of the workman upon the master, of the sea
upon the parent, foe the genies of his vote ; of the clams
which puts the right of the citlseu of Path and 12 map
cities la the heads of the municipal conniption. But lookho
at the spirit in which the measure had been trained, it wee
evident to his this the provisions of Art. 1., midi sensed
three yams of desileile, combined with the trecillsey ow
Hiss, seemed aimuleted for the end, not of securing the
mesas of Mho sernlarly ineseibed in 1852 to the electors,
*op might te be se esesedimg to the law, but on the eon.
Wry to issomelhesiliiii ofeenolderabie number of them,
mod se poise edam Orem emir upon the lists until the me.
mat Iry egossileg their right wu peeped. Thais's:mod se
hie to be bed, very bed. Let then take aro • they ran the
risk by the unteat that would be anted of deist a
great dsel mw hum then the aim would de The
electoral body eves after the redassioos eesasmpYW would
stilt be very sumereas. They Asked two Wogs, the dialog
of rebellioa swag the eadadod, sad the ey may
who would hue yeti OM thou bediertisrei with wee
fairness. People wove Whoa of ilia;
into wagd the quid= _ ogee ptila
opinion, end sus wpm the soommumtless thouseivac. He
would borrow ea mean* freselike destine of Perk After
the duties of the lethal Heidi, it wee thought *auks w-
eer of the seatenetive party would be mond by sulking
off tea or twelve *used bad vote. Osneeffinor *see votes
might have Dena goeser, bat whet WM ea ?
After rereArropr en electors had bout illskeibiad,
there was still a mirky of tea thomead wee soli then.
Therein* he was spinet &liking *fund wage. He
would, ea the ontrery, hue it manutodeil hey sir raisersary
guarantees. He wished the mamma of ilia& se be
limeade/ beyond six swathe. Is the eseetkutiou of the
desseeratie suatriee—for isitease, to the Vatted States of
America, the exereies of neiveleei maw was con-
pseud with the ice**. of =fine tax, and
having a residence. In Flamm it unconatitu-
Urinal to introduce the aloolate smiths of usesusent
sine' each a cosititutios was expressly excluded by the
chorus of 1848. But that was a roma for being all the
strider in exacting the audits et damisile. To exercise
the skis of a citizen it woe isesollel to have a fixed resi-
diesels a semasuns. When he esooldsied all the rights,
z i=gaisrly the right to orilmosselliehed to ousimenal
bethought that elitism smooths, et two yew% per.,
Wall set he too ma* tedsimai is the bursa* oi the
He wiled she that the userommet of the skater
should set be the gay aims of eirtifyiss hie gesiwk , why
Do adept tie Vet noise by the civil code at a double de-
dinibui toe_ quitted and the new sae Mend? He
gqiesmi goo* slog
_hotodissosii ef the' master to ve-
difp the Ismoihke of wonsusa or eaaa. He was equally
egoist** dielowel its of Pads lad other greet oltiorbeleg
soleseled to the !Annoy boodlister:
that the municipal sea-
Nilo* which. the ona ea dos of serous &hie
esomelsokl woad have the Fewer of eroding or destroy-
ing weak Is Auld wish te um the kw famed k meek a
seism Ile these citizens who it his spike were 'stilled
is lie, would set be deprived of the power of giving those
wets at the sect elections, nor be plass& he the dimities of
sok Despising electors six mosithe Mar the elections were
101 i. If the bill won said* be this Imo be would gladly

teits unsessenablreess.
jig. Maas showed that the floatiog population of workmen
h r t system. in 41IN"'
Men voted, la monquenoe of t p
eve for it, and forget the reproach which he had addressed
eat
works's* en the Lines
to 5, versed by the line, and when their peeked of
lostrusents in the wares of therostoclet
yotnedr.i•Foronsmetft°the
of Reuses, for example—where they voted a scoond time.
Bath an abuse of the suffrage ought to be put an end to.
deeliPetrawa;teatriland immediately passed to author line—that
With respect to the threats held out to the commission, the
oonsaimunas that they were seeing
member despised then). encouraged eta, were by the
country. He did not believe the people woult descend to
the streets; bat eve. were it the case, the National Assem-
bly ought to est Gaudin* to the dictates of its tionacienos,
and not be leflamised by fear.
M. LawAßTttts endeavoured to reconcile his present Op
position to the ministerial project with his late publication,
In which he imposers the glaring defeats of the present system,
sad proposes remedies which, if adopted, would be am stem,
as the reject of the othimindoo. M. Lama:tine, ne-
vertheless, did not believe that the ethstitution was violated
in Its form by the law, bat the hoisting on a residence of
three years would, in kis °pinkie, establish a species of
"aristocracy of sesidanee" mane the elector'. M. Lamar-
tine defended at some length 14 pprenvious writings. and
maintained they were not ineoatra&slloa with his present
opposition to the maim*.
M. 13swour D'Ath raid there was no use in disguising
the feet that in the departments there existed a permanent
ethspirmy ageing the republic, not fomented by those who
were generally supposed to be hostile to It, but by those very
nun who boasted of being Its exclusive defenders. The
result would be disorder, moray, and pillage; and the
proofs of this were clear ete the noon-day. He did not mei.
eider the law as tourist. ly ellemiotts, but he was of opinion
lhst its affect, would ba good. It beenme absolutely peer-
eery to defend society, menaced as it was, and this would
be done by adhering, as they had adhered, to the spirit and
I the text o the constitution.
111. I'ISEATOHY was equally clear and decisive in giving
hie opini ss. He said that the members of the commission
who framed the law acted with all due respect to the con •
citation. The question at issue really was whether the
country should or should cot be saved. The republic its: If
was menaced of the actual system of universal suffrage was
maintained. For tis part, be had wished for the re.
public, but when it was founded he accepted it frankly and
honestly.
M. Laos FAIIEHNIs defended the commission from the
attacks hurled at it. It was complied of men who had had
mush experience in the nunegement of pubic aflais. To y
were at all events men who had never *conspired against
the laws under any farm of governmer.t. What
better guarantee could be given of their intentions ? The
agitation in the public mind that had been reentaked was not
owing to the bill or Reform; that agitation had b en occa-
sioned by the elections of the 29th cf April, which tad fling
a horrible light en the real situation of the country. They
showed what they had to expect from univerral suffrage
without organisation sr limit. It was felt that social orth r
was menaced with destruction ; every one looked around,
and found society without protection. Hmoo the alarm
that existed ; and hence the minden sosponaion of business and
all commercial affairs. H. Leon Faucher showed that even at
present the suffrage was not universal, as women and chil
dean, who also are interested in good government, are
excluded. It was not too much to require that the elector
shall not be • vagabond or an outcast of society owing to his
crimes. The present project was the best deferee of the suf-
frage, which, if it remain without organisation, will not be
the basis of representative government, but an instrument
of destruction and rule.
M. DE CoMssisAL Ds las Test, a moderate, ar.d the only
dissentient member of the present commission, did not attack
the principle of organiain; and reforming the law of universal
suffrage. He, however, objected to the period of residence
of three vein as too long, and he considered sin months too
short. lie objected to some other details, and hoped some
modifications would be made in the bill.
M. ANTHONY TuuCTIET, a delontignard, thought it be-
swath his dignity to discuss such a project. The only speech I
he should make would be crying " Vera la Constitution !"
M. Thouret, who is an immense'', corpulent little parson' at
ones suited the action to the word, and shtuted at the full
pitch of his lung., sod in a manner that made the perspire•
tient burst from has Lrehcael, and his ',ins swell and strain
like whipcord, '• la 11*;.nblique !"
By a decree of the President of the Republic the
railroad company from Marseilles to Avignon is autho-
rised to raise a loan of 30,000,000 of francs.
M. Napoleon Bonaparte yesterday deposited in the
bureau of the Asetmbly the following declaration :
Inasmuch as the sovereignty of the people resides in the
universality of the eit:zens ; inasmuch as the sovereignty is
inalienable and impreecriptible, and as no fraction of the
people an attribute to lull( the exercise of it ; inasmuch as
the repreeeetative cannot annihilate the rights of the persons
electing him without snail ihtting his mandate; inasmuch as
the tight of suffrage is a primordial right, higher than all
others; inasmuch as the project of electoral reform, if con-
verted into law, would deprive an important fraction of the
people of a part of their rights, the uedenigned, reprmenta-
tive of the people, declares solemnly that he persists in the
line of conduct which be entered on in moving the previous
quake, that, in consequence, faithful to the principles of
the soversheety of the people and of the constitution, not
considering that he has any right to do injury to universal
suffrage, he protests by his abstention against a revolutionary

measure.
The Pays mentions a rumour of the discovery of a
Socmhat plct yerterday, and states as positive that 30
members of the democratic eccialist committee cf the
Salle Martel bare been arrested. Six other members
are stated to have &l.

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PARIS, SCNDAT, 6 P.M.
M. Lahitte, in his answer yesterday to the inter-
pellation of M. Piscatory, stated that the French
government had received from Greece news equally
unfortunate and unexpected : that explanation. had
been demanded from the English cabinet, and that
an answer was expected before Thursday. He
would lay before the Assembly with as little delay
as possible all the documents relative to this affair.
IThis was the subject of much private conversation in
the house. It was said that on Friday evening an
interview had taken place between Oen. Lahitte
and Lord Normanby, in which the former had given
vent to vehement remonstrances against the list pro-
ceedings of Mr. Wyse, and the conduct of the English
government at the close of tho negotiation..
The elections of the six democratic members for the
Seine-et-Loire were confirmed. The official majority
was stated at 25,000, which agrees exactly with the
first statement I sent you on this subject.
The Estafette say.: "M. Pierre Bonaparte his, it
is uid, the intention of imitating his cousin M. Na-
poleon Bonaparte, in laying before the Assembly a
new protest against the modications in the existing
electoral law.
The

of Agriculture, Commerce,
and Manufactures, brought its sittings to a close on
Saturday evening.
The fate of the Electoral Reform Bill seems the
only subject on which any Frenchman can at this
moment speculate. If the government bill pass, h
will only be by so narrow a majority as to take from
it all authority.
A fearful event has signalised the fete of the 4th of
May at Algiers. This day had been fixed by the
engineers for the explosion of a mine in the quarries
of Bab-el-Owed. It was charged with about 8,00016 e.
of powder. The numbers who were on the heights
at the moment of explosion may have been about five
thousand. The match was lighted, and about twenty
minutes passed before the two receptacles, one holding
6,000 and the other 3,0001 be. of powder were reached,
when the twenty-one boxes filled with powder ex-
ploded ; some minutes afterwards a detonation was
heard in the interior of the mountain ; a thick cloud
of smoke covered the quarry, and a shower of stones
and pieces of rock were thrown in the directionof the
town with prodigious force. Persons at more than
800 yards from the quarry were struck, and the pro-
jectiles even reached the terraces of the Cabash. One
universal consternation prevailed, and as the specta-
tors were divided into groups, it was not for some
time that the whole extent of the evil could be
appreciated. Eight persons were killed, and many
dangerously wounded. Amongst those killed is M.
Jourdan, jugs d'instruction, who was struck more
than 000 yards from the spot. The festivities were
after such an event, postponed.
Strong remonstrances having been made against
the
_government project of macadamising the boule-
vards and quays, the Prefect of the Sake has received
an order to adjourn the execution of the contract for
the present.
The President of the Republic, accompanied by
Generals Changarnier and Perrot, reviewed on Satur-
day, at the Champ-de-Mare, the troop. under the com-
mand of Generals Franoois, Ouillabert, and Forey.
The organisation of the association (Hose-Coniptoir)
for guaranteeing railway securities, shares, or bonds,
is now complete. All the companies have given ad-
hesion to the articles of association, some only reserv-
ing the condition of consulting their shareholders.
The votes have by common consent been thus divided

between the companies who will be represented in
the direction of the earceiation : the North will have
three votes ; Btrubourg, two ; Orleans, two ; Centre,
ono; Bordeaux, three; Nantes, one; Rouen, two;
Boulogne, one; Havre, one; and some other com-
panies of minor importance, one.
The number of votes has been divided by the com-
parative amount of the capital of the companies. The
capital of the association will be two millions of
moms, and will be considered to be formed so soon
u 800,000 francs are paid up.
Tho Chantilly races continue to-day, and equipages
of every description are now wending their way con-
voying the "beauty and fashion" of 1 to the scene
of action. The weather to-day affords an additional in-