The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PAM% Tavasnax,4l.fie
The debate of yesterday en primary teasherstban,
such a chaos at contending opinions and votes,
sea with difficulty even be understood from the repels
of the Montan.. Vs the whole, however, the law of
M. Parka received such modifications as to render it
far lees efficacious for the purposes intended. M.
Montigny's amendment, granting the right to com-
munal councils to appoint the teachers, was carried,
with the consent of M. Paritu •, but another amend-
ment, by M. Salmon, and which the minister opposed,
was carried also, by which the peed, before cashier-
ing a teacher, must take the advice of the committee
d'arrondiesement. However, as the Debate, truly
says, the prefet will not be obliged to follow the ad-
vice given. Still, the fact of the amendment having
passed cannot be at ell pleasing to government, and
mustincrease the ire of the President against the
Assembly.
The debate was resumed to-day. Several amend-
ments having been referred back to the com-
mittee last evening, M. Beugnot, its reporter, ap-
peared to-day at the Winne to explain the re-
sults of its deliberation. The committee had
taken successively into consideration an amendment
proposed by M. Fanitrier proposing the temporary
suspension of teachers by the prefet from one to six
months ; and one by M. Mortimer Ternaux that there
should be no suspension. The committee had re-
jected these amendment!, and proposed one them-
selves, depriving the suspended teacher of his pay
during the time of @lupe:mon. M. L'Herbette opposed
the decision of the committer. The Assembly then
deliberated upon the second clause of the government
motion thus worded: . . .

"The suspension is pronounced by the pretest, with
or without suspension of salary."
The debate was proceeding at post-hour.
M. de Girardin was sent for to-day by the com-
mittee on ministries. This committee had been
formed on the motion of M. Betting de Lancastel, to
examine the question raised in the constitution as to
the definitive number of ministers who are to govern
the state. The committee, chosen from the body of
the Chamber, is a deliberative body, and not a com-
mittee of inquiry. It is therefore an unibull thing to
eall before it a stranger who is not a member of the
Legislative Assembly. The fact of calling M. de
Oirardin before this committee may be taken as con-
firmatory of certain rumours which have been spread
as to the influence of that gentleman in certain quar-
ters. lie is a pietism, as you no doubt know, of a
plan which he has "written up" for a long time in the
Prase, by which the government of the state should be
intensted to three ministers only. It is improbable that
his plan will be adopted, but the step taken by the
committee, of calling him before them, is a curious
one, and as such 1 give it. M. de Garardin is one of
those who have been advising the President to start
popular measures. Since socialism is progressing and
inevitable, let the flood come hom above, and not
from below. Socialism may be compared to a prairie
fire, burning all before it; but if it: the centre of the
prairie a solitary individual clears a circle round him,
and then se's the fire to the circumference, it recedes,
and he is saved. Socialism may be likened to the
fire; the means proposed by M. do Girardin are to let
a adalusm go from the centre to the circumference, in-
stead of from the circumference to the centre. The
President is doubtless wntswhat imbued with these
ideas. But can he carry them out? .tt all events,
this somewhat explains the hostility between hint end
the nisjoriiy.
The The .tre Francais is cr mn:s.ng a great trap. dy,
entitled ' Charlotte Corday," in which all the cele-
brated tact. of the revolution cf '92 will be repre-
sented—such as Vergniaud, l)anton, Robespierre, and
Mast. It is supposed by n any, who have sten the
piece, that it must either be Interdicted or it will
create great uproar in the theatre. The author is
M. Poetised, who has written several gad tragedies.
The following is the text of the proposition pre-
sented br General Subervie, and MM. Charms, Testi-
fuer, Milotte, A. Bruchner, Versigny, and Emile
l'eao, relative to the increase of the pay of the sub-
officers of the army
Art. I.—From April 12, 1840, the pay of the sub-sfllcers
of all ranks .and of all srms shall be increased by one-fifth in
all ouritions.
Art. 2.—Ths augmentation of expense resulting from the
chat ge in the rate of pay shall b c vela by means ut a
emote in the numb. r of. privates, ?Iterated on the effective

kroposed in the rectified budget of tie minutcrof war.
The committee on the bill ni tra:spurtation for lift
assent led yesterday.. It has terminated the dis-
cussion cn the choice of a punaehment to replace that
of civil death. The resoile:cn adopted by the corn-
Mace is u follows: "Transportation fur life shall
n..t imply civil death. Prev4iunally, and until a law
shall have regulated the civil state of prisoners con-
demned to transportation for lite, they shall not be
subject to legal interdiction."
The miniver of justice gave a grand dinner on
Tu, sday, at which the President of the Republic was
pre,ent. Amuog the other Muesli sere M. 'lupin,
the President of the National Assembly, the minis-
ters, the Archbishop of Pari4, General Changarnier,
several high law functionaries, the prefects of the
Seine and of police, d:c. In the evening a number of
representatives, maeistrates, members of tle- corps
dipl.matique, and hie um were received by M. and
Madame Rouher. The President of the Republic did
not retire until a very late hour.
The t nien of the Mans gives some further details
of tt.o late revolt of the pupils in the military college
of La Fleche. The cause of the outbreak arises from
the hab;ts of indiscipline which had been introduced
into the establishment after the revolution of Feb-
ruary. Political clubs had been permitted, which
materially tended to interrupt the studies. Other
abuses were also introduced. By the aid of com-
plaisant and well-paid agents, the pupils were in the
habit of r cawing supplies of wine, spirits, tobacco,
Sze., and secret orgies took place equally preju.iicial
to their studies, their health, and the cause of order.
The new commandant of the school, being desirous of
putties an end to these abuses, adopted those ener-
getic measures which led to the revolt.
The glass works at Rive-de-Gier are now more
busily employed than they have ever been. "'Phis
amelioration," says the National de Meet, " is due
not only to the general tranquillity now enjoyed
throughout the whole country, but to the active sur-
veillance of the police in that district. The number
of socialists arrested in that hot bed of communism
during the last year amounts to 200."
The Moniteur du Soir says it has heard that the
3rd February has been fixed on as the day for the
elections to replace the representatives condemned by
the High Court of Versailles.