The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 5.30 P M.
The government still hesitates to present its re-
pressive laws, the ardour of the Or'cantata being still ,
considerably checked by the avowed intentions of the
legitimists not to suppart a position in which com-
pression would become the only instrument.
'I he Opinion Putil;qus tc-day puts the question
clearly, " Are the new laws that are proposed
necessity ?" and, after examining each, declare s that
they are not. The situation of the country is not
such as to give any motives for coercion. Besides,
the measures intended are not nnovatiens wrath
running the risk of trial. The increase of caution-
money and imposition of stamp-duty are fiscal
measures, which, if intended, should be sent to thecom-
mittee on the budget. But it must be borne in mind
that they did not prevent tither the revolution of
1830 or that of 1548. There is little use, there.
fore, in exhuming such useless and impotent
remedies, when they have been known to
fail so often. With regard to electoral meetings,
would it not have been seise to prolong the existence
of the law on clubs. As to the law on juries, the
ru'o of decision by majority has been found wanting.
On the whale, therefore, those laws would bo inoppor-
tune; nay more, they would have no effl:acy. Soch
is the language of the legitimists ; and their senti-
ments being public the idea of presenting amass of
compressive la vs at once is abandoned. There is still
an lett a of compressive legislation, but it must be done
by small steps if at all. Meanwhile matters remain
in state Quo.
All the journals this morning are in a fright lest
one of the articles of the law on stamps which
specially. emanates from the committee should pass.
This article imposes a tax of 5 per cent. for every
100 fr. of nominal capital on the trader of recites and
treasury bonds. This article will not pass. It was
under debate at post-hour.
M. Larabit yesterday presented a proposition to
the Assembly tending to modify article 71 of the
regulations, on the discussion of the law of the
finances. It this proposition be adopted, it will
annul the right of initiative of Every member with re-
gard to financial measures. It is as follows "No
amendment for increasing the expenses shall be
taken into consideration, if there bit not a
clause to make a corresponding diminution under
some other head. No amenement proposing a dimi-
nution of receipts shall be taken into consideration
unless an equivalent increase is also provided for."
The President of the Republic has received a letter
from the Emperor of Russia, announcing the birth of
a grand duke, son of the Grand Duke Constantine
Nicolaewitch

fitti ti-e following in the Stivk:
Yesterday morning, at 11 o'cloc k,pickete of the gendarmerie
mobile were marched to the prisons of the Abbate and
Cherche-Midi, in order to form an escort for the soldiers who
are to be transported to Africa for their republicanism. From
the prisons these unfortunate men were taken to the terminus
of the Lyons Railway, by which they proceed to Chalons,
and thence by the steamers on the Saone and Rhone to the
Mediterranean. Several of the barracks of the capital have
famished their contingent ; among others, that of the 30th
regiment, from which a sergeant major, • corporal, and a
private have been removed. At the moment when the men
left the Abbaye, the people arsembled, bourgeois, workmen,
and women, eagerly, deposited in the kepis of the soldier,
all the money they could colleen, and which, though the
quarter is • very poor one, amotuated to • very considerable
sum. The hawkers who were in the streets presented the
sun with some of their merchandise ; it was • general out-
burst of feeling. Some cries of " Five la Republique" were
raised.

The soldiers removed were probably those who had
been to deposit their chaplets on the column of the
Bastille.

The money market was not so firm yesterday, and
prices from the opening kept gradually looking down,
Fives touching 91fr. 65c., and Threes, 56fr. 30c.;
towards the close, however, a slight rally
took place, leaving the last quotations some-
what lower than on Mosday. For the end
of the month, Fives have declined 35c., Threes, 30c.,
the former closing at 9lfr. 80c., and the latter at
56fr. 750. For cash, Fives have fallen 25c., and
Threes, 50c., the prides being 91fr. 803. and 56fr. 60c.
Bank of France atiares are 27fr. 50c. lower. Foreign
securities have been little dealt in, and prices have
varied but little. Railway shares have been rather
offered.
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