The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FltllllT, . 31 r N.
The elections of Paris are now near at hand. On
both sides the utmost endeavours are being made to
concentrate forces. Tee organs of democracy and
socialism are all agreed, and in the meetings of the
several arrondissements for oho).* delegates to the
. .

central democratic committee, the parties of combina-
tion have the upper hand, notwithstanding the rant
of many fiery spirits of either shade of extra ne
opinion, whose endeavours d, not fete them from the
sulticion of their being police suits. It would seem
from this that the extreme repubicans ate &el< d

yet to trust to the suffrage for an exhib'ti,tt of their
influence, leaving to the provocation of power tte
chance of afittrourable opportunity for more active

measures. Tolerance is their motto:
The Nationa/rays M. Victor Seim!cher and
M. Perrinon, whose . ele edam fn. Guadalonpe were

annulled by the Legislative Assembly, have rust been
re-elected in that colony by an immense majority. A
merchant vessel just arrived from Guadeloupe has
b:ought the news, which will be slaw ly confirmed by
the mail steamor which is daily expected."
The delegates that are to form the central com-
mittee are 223 in number, and are to meet th'srvoi-

ing for the purpose ofcaming to a &amen. As the ex-
clusives are accused of having amongst them mars
friends of M. Carlier, and as i, is the objectof the pc I.ce
to s re/ divisions amongst the members, i. has been deter-
mined that the meting this evening shall take pis?*
with closed doors, and that the committee ..hail adopt
its list ofcandidatt sat once. The first questions that
will be sztike, will be w, ether the cenirnittie means
to take its resolutions by the law of majority. 1 th:s
is objected to, the case must be referred back the
meetings of the people. It not the list of cartli.letis
will be definitively fixed to-right. It is supp that
Emile de Gaudin, Leon Vidal, and a third -..ia:`

(14 lentlemain will be chosen, and bS the deco: or

the committee is to be final, these gentlemen will be
voted for at the general election. Oa the part of the
conservatives, MM. d'Arbouville and Ls Hitte, b•.th
generals, and the latter minister of foreign affairs, acd
M. Bernie-di will unite most suffrages.
The Education Bill took a egentic stride yester-
day, and all the clauses up to the 59th passed. Tne
pent which led to most debate was the question of
normal schools, in which M. Triers, sacriticing his
dislike for them, did not ask for their abolition, h.;
expressed a wish that the question of retention or
suppression in each department should he left to the
councils-general to decide. Though M de Parieu
opposed this course by moving an amendment, the
Chamber adopted the views of M. Triers, which on
this paint coincided with those of the committee. The
debate resumed to day off, red no p Ant of werest up
to post-hour. Previous to its being commenced an
incident occurred on the motion of M. Vitet, for fix-
ing the order in which the Paris and Avignon Rail-
way was to be taken. Several members demanded
that the law should be referred to the conseil d'etat;
but on a vote it was determine.' not to send the law
to the council of sta.e, but to take it in the house im-
mediately after the law on education.
M. Nlawsuin has presented the following amend-
ment to the Paris and Avignon Railway Bill :

Art. 1. 1. The minister of pubic works ia authorised to
concode the Paris and Avignon railway by nubile adjudics•
don on tenders, on the clauses tied conditions of the eahter
nes charges annexed to the present bill. The adjudication
shall be announced at least 45 days beforehand. The person
obtaining the grant shall be bound to deposit a csu't six•
money of 20 millions of francs. Th;s caution-mon, y rhea
he returned to him by tenths, in monthly papas:eta, so .00it
se the credit of its account cures ne. with the treasury, oyeaci
according to the tsetse of the ca/der des charges, shat: h o
exceeded 50 millions of francs.
Art. 2. No one shall be admitted to tender, unless he hes
previously deposited in the CAB,. des Consignations a 5:1111
of 10 millions of trance. This par mem shall be carti..l t
the account of the person obtaining the contract, s h.ch
atu,t be completed within the month, and besore talst;
pores/don of the line. The other deposits shall be Mime.
distely returned. The eautionsmoney, es well as the des -s:3
made before the tender, may be made either in cash or in
rentes, calculated at the average price et the mono pre-
ceding that in which the adjudication shall tale
Tne committee on the bill for the sanatory
improvement of lodging-houses proposes to in-
terdict landlords from letting lodgings which an
adminietrative investization may have shown to be
insalubrious; and M.lVoloweki and M. de Montemart
have proposed that communes shall be authorised to
impose an extraordinary tax of 5 per cent. on the
principal taxes, in order to construct new lodging-
houses for workmen, and to improve the unhealthy
lodgings of manufactories and workshops.
Baron Gros left Paris last night ea rout.. for
Athens.
Count d'Ormy has been offered the post of ambas-
sador at Hanover.
General Castellan, one of the new litutenante-
general of France, arrived at Bordeaux on the 21st.
The metallic reserve of the Bat.k c 1 rrtitce has
again increased about 3 millions, beinkr 'low about
dtitri millions to 46-14 millions of notes in circulation.
Tr e discount accommodation has fallen ott about 1;
million in Paris, sad about 600,000 tr. in the depart-
ments, the amount of the former being 39,1Y9,23'nfr.,
and of the latter 67,226,405 tr. Protested bills hare
diminished about titkl,ooofr. in l'aris, and about
70,000 fr. in the branch banks, the amounts piing re
spectivelyy. 1,623,:152tr. and 1,509,49tfr. t)11 the side
of liabilities, the notes in circulation 'nave it.creared
about 3.10,000 fr. in Paris, and have &creased a
little more than 1 million in the provinces. 'fhe
account current of the Treasury has increased about
70,000 fr , being now 83,290,854 fr. Private accounts
current in Pans have &sneered about 745,004 qr., and
in the country about 197,0001 r., the amount of
the former being 73,072,937 fr., and of the latter
25,113,765 fr.
PARIS, Feu. 22. Pat I;
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SWITZERLAND.
The rejerist Ceuta of illoitz..rland heo admit/4
,wing rimier to the governments oi t.he 1
'
mai sore tapscoolly to there of the frontiers: !
Ott Bona, Fan. 15.
La tehl awl dear Cowlinlevireo.—ward i•onsals have
I that some powers, among; rr.ben Austria and
"r~,..:•re eoho Stealing tr.,* demi. ed march !against
Ss' teas sad else to lava to it. in order to wrest Mae it
r :
,6 twosome swap `title with its dignity and hide-
mi. AlO .4.,b up to the priming, time there has bees'
i is es. en the wart 01 those powers, no note, written
64; ,b6L so loans
cirtct or iiidirect, of the nature
re-
„fiend tee public pap n—notew or ternands re-
m^ - worm, lad which would toad to eicremsh cm
woe to t
~-iimage sad the richnio: Seettzerlasil; althoegli them
** ben Do arierranees swaseet t. • otafederation, which
h•u•ly fulfilled its oblieations, sad will matins'
elthongh We are ctusequestly very far from
or veto won Nippon. 11 the projects ascribed to
alwGtu
rif'r e• not withstar mot that, we eay, our duty Wine
dry
watt rte ',eery of Suits elided, end Ott main-
• ,i 1 its indereodenee es well as its aeutralit!, we beg
to make known what you may kauw or learn, touch-
., ter cocrontrE tons or movement, of weigh troops, wattle
▪O, h. iti d against Switzerland, to order that It, con-
. to ail espectattos, the ranitiers which at, spread be
▪ tom we ma be able to take oppartgatily all the
marline r.quired for the deter a of the cogatry . You
s
ear ....•n faithful contetheatio, if head.
p.croland do's not mean to allow her soil to serve as the
telt, ot a propaganda, and to schemes whfith may cause
j,...,lietude to uogntiouring states, so the federal council
roiled by its decree of tee 16 h of July, 1849, and its
ettir m** ***** relative is the sending into the interior of
rehm,s. and the expulsion of their chiefs, measures
ut,...h sr, a.% eocerosions, I,ut the tree and voluntary so
Ini.meat if our fee and iaternational duties; on the
e.r bats% won, in this positi'n. 80010111111 will know
kee to re Met with the tawny which the seetintent of a good
ones, any ezigehey which ruse exceed the hmi.s of
woo. any attack ~.n its rights. Sash Is the firm r solo
t :he nation, and of its authoring', both centoual and
5.."1.:• It is chneeneently cur 7.800111,01 rho, attain as
e, .7e. that it Switzerland does sot pe..voke, she will not
it. :tit before, mesatet But we repeat, that the hostiiinee
• whisk certain jonruals menace Swiiserland are so de.
• of Imindation, they would be so contrary to reason and
-, to tpp wed to the saint. Sara of general win-
, ,•?. that we should consider it as Insult to the powers
.4pes• that they would snow themselves to he mauled by
'pity which d iss not ma** to calnicinate Switzerland, in
e, t x tea', deceising the European goer ensign!' by in
t tool falseno.ids. it will succeed in making them verve
,tttments to its perilous &Diens. Do to either behave
tt ...et) woes it Metes that the Federal Council has COOP
I. ere the iejnactions of diplomacy, or has anticipated
Tres is so contrery to the truth as when it
that the Federal Council has not the power to cause
. -zee. to oe respected. or that Swi zirland is a permanent
perturnaiion to tee artreboaritig states. These in-
e ate, like so many others, pert it the inhumes of the
• cr* party, on which it is necessary to base the eye
tie et / • in is occeiaon to recommend you, dear and
• •111e0e1te1, anti eurielvie t•o the divine protection.
la the nimie of th* bwi-a Federal Council,
II Pt.' LY, l'r. intent of the Conlederatioa.
V,.. h1t.104, Skatatltehl of the Chancellor of the
torifederation.

s(' 11 LESWIG HOLSTEIN.

CONCLUSION OF PEACE.

BERLIN, Fin. 19.

io-d sy serscd conference for the conclusion of
a dtll4l ice pace 11 i.h DJumark takes place, at the
h 'tee of 1.3:d Westmoreland; and the Prussian ple-
n:poter.sisr3 , Abu Usedesm, brings forward the coun-
tts-isejer of his gorernmeut to the Danish pro-
p ,tio.r. I wish:4.nd to-day that this coun-
to-project ell,as a much more limited in-
&pet d.w to S:ltswig than will content the
11.sebier. ,:ing to the same scheme, are to
•epar.,t,d. 'Dv cos:cessions made in this plan to
Polnark are cniderably greater than are required
re::tuitaries of peace stipulated in July,
are r.,st arc.red there is very little hope
ciniug to arsy arras gesuen..

:By Eecnic T.legraph j
FEB. 21.
11ar COM opoadent it (omit., that at the conference
L.}rd Westmortland's, the Prussian
rait. rloij,c: for the s-parstion of the duchies, with
indep.ndence of Schleswig, was agreed
. I lie piece is to be cocclultd on this basis.

GIAIMANY.

BERLIN, FEB. 19.
To rrimate aright the pecuniary sinews of Prussia
for frrrt of wo-, to !he eighteen millions now
r4r expenses avowedly =Hairy, we must add

•atupwie miiii.ns ahead) toted for the Eutern
~.Airs, nivel% the government will not scruple to
?.y to warlike purposes it occuion demand. Here
:v new loan Iv called the price of the royal oath.
:t.st war is txpuld seems to be indicated by an or-
.:ace on the organisation of the landsturm, which
et, the point of appearing. It is doubted whether

txtetsive peparations can be pointed against
Ns..zoisnd, whose Federative Council will probably
;)ss !at u Prussia can reasonably desire in expel-
. 7,4 •I. Gbtuzious re:tigtee. Neufchatel, alttough
Leap buthen is a fiscal pint of view, is no doubt
toT.:ul as an acquisition. A demand of 40,000 thalers
e.r.:e upon that canton. The Hohenzollern priori-
ps. • • • are to be erenised by President Spiegel.
1:.o micistar of jubticv ham composed a memorial,
•.••:rg !octo a plan fur supplying prov•stonally the
d• : mad, by the Ctumbers in the constitution by
r•jettioti of the royal proposition relating to the
rr, cest of entails. Ttere is a provision made in art.
• ; :o tz by an ordinavce the conditions under which

t.•t iss,.lbeation of an hereditary peer is to be con-
tend me the possession of a certain amount cf
latded prope►ty. In conformity with this provision,
:mogis meets oat a statute from the Landreeht,

5:.;., Lions I proprietor in cages were no entail
to niakt a aett.emeot in favour of the first and
Ttiis memorial he lays before the
.4irl of (nation, at Etirer.breitatein, which is to re-
Lift % ?malted judgment thereon.
lA it to draw your attention to an important notice
tc ht &obi, 1,. ReArns, which wears all the appear-
;zee of an official ongin:
C mow of war's application for ea extraordinary
tri lit has been the mare favourably received by the'
ti-res of parliament, as certain apprehensions started
Lere sad there are cow in a great mesoure allayed.
It meets with approval that Prutsis should prepare
ter”.l is a constitutional way for all eventualities;
ael Lenity many deplorable occurreacee may be timely
as rid. We deem it oar duty to Irma the public simian
t• e I air renewed exaggerations by which mem from Frame
• used for the purpose of exciting alarm. We axe of
'; that putts' disturbances in Frame would not avail
my serrespasdiag trouble in this country. Me go.
'mt.. at, we believe, sees indeed in such disorders &ream to
te •eirful on the west frontier. but is thoroughly per-
mat the precantiona taken are quite sufficient to pro-
t' ...I'M= any serious disturbance that may threaten as on
ttkt rat,.

Itadimi.7 and Gegen' are spoken of as likely to be
m.t.isu-ra in 'he Bunnentaat. Ike revision of the con-
atindion by the Erfurt parliament is hoped to be
eo"eluded by the 26th of May, the day on which the
League of the Three Kings expires.
The Ih.ovhe Rearm says;—" Yesterday rumours
were spread of a new Russian note, protesting against
the Erfurt parliament, aed of Russian troops being
dream Cl) as an auxiliary reserve for the Austrians on
the CChem frontier. We have reason to believe
that ttere is no foundation for these reports."
The Polish member for Erfurt, Count Dzialineky,
eacniuiseioned by his constitoents to pretest against
Li
and then to retire.
In many of the ice-stoppages of rivers in Silesia,
Le-tme by gunpowder, and shattering the ice with
tAeten-lonl, has Dien found of effectual service in
rimoriag those formidable obstructions.
The Chambers are galloping through he rest of
t:e r week somewhat blindly, it is thought. In the
train, sitting important Second Chamber yesterday the
"b Rill. the Land-tax Bill, and the Bill
tal"Perting the Families of Needy Landwehrmen,
Itte P"eed ; and today the Municipal Bill was got
fur as the 100th clause. The reformed bill for the
Pubtioa of property held in common was wined as
"we from the upper house. On the other hand,
L., a.:!eratiori made by the First Chamber in the
I.andlord end Tenant Bill, as applied to Upper Silesia,
a.% rejected by a lsrge majority.
10 Weimar and Baden the Erfurt elections are at
t.I
4. l
uh. e Darmstadt they are put off to the middle
M

The Austrian whams for a Oerman customs onion
hes met with a particu'arly unfavourable tecerion at
Frankfort, and has given a fresh impulse to the party
in that free city who advocate adhesion to the Pros-
ean Bandeasioat. Frankfort probably wishes to sti-
pulate that the Reichstag should be held there instead
of at Erfurt.

Fan 20.

A royal message has just been read to the
announcing that dal ais to be dissolved on the
26:h inst.

(By neetsks Telegraph.)

Fan 21.
The SCOOIIII Chamber has unanimously voted the
ztraordinary coedit of eighteen millions, d.•anded
by the minister of war.

VIENNA, FIR. 17.

The if Zeilung, of this day, cone ins a semi-
official article, in which the introduction of a new
stamp-tax is announced. M. Kraus expecte to get a
revenue of three millions sterling from this new ti,cal
expedient.
The Grata Gazette announces that General d'Aspre
has received orders to march on Rome, and set up the
double eagle again over the Austrian embassy, while
the Pape met-s hie entry into the E;eroal City.
Oa the 12th the prefect of police at Agram notified
to the editor of the Slareneki Jug, that the Ilan
Jellachich had given orders for the suppression of
that paper, and proceeded to seize the number of the

rine& Ob.lewsky, secretary of the 1111,sian ca-
binet, arrived in Vienna on the 15th inst. from Mol-
davia. Oa the stun day several Hungarian notables
let for Preaburg.

Nast" Tu. IL—Voluntary Loan, 104. National Debt. Vt.
Contiarreill Karla' laeletra preratoras, 104. Bank Marva. 1141.
VlSYNA,aletaniques. ; Date Yaw per
°eats, 71. Beak Shane, 1130. Ezenamite on Fran •i&rt, 114