The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1850.

sad thiagatas of the asthma pawl awl the mode-
that the lean whichl Opts* Israel.was
gamed of law I hek Oyes se raped IS as net brag haw
east, m tt was the Mai et a siestritolman.
The Mialeur gives the sum of %meaty
presidents of asethes and delegates of the Leetoral
Union who have seat in their me asst aad also
that of Oentil de Busy, one e f It. foutes. Toe
same journal states that General d'Arbouville has
declared that his same has been brought forward as
a candidate by the Eloncral Union without his au-
thoritThey.
Mats and Omeshlectioserel have both adopted
the candidacy of Leclerc.
The Asaraiblie Nationale mays : tt At all the thea-
tres of Paris last evening bulletins were distributed
on which were written the name of M. L-elero aed •
summary of the principal acts of his life. They were
everywhere received with load applauee and cries of
enthusiasm."

Notwithstanding the article of the Napoleon to
favour of Fernand Foy, Louis Napoleon has adopted
Leclerc, and an spot of the Ripe. la said to have
distributed his biography to representatives of the
Assembly.

Tao sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day
opened with the mood debate up3n the law of trans-
portation, which had been tiled for the order of
the day. M. Jules Fairs had presented the follow-
ing amendment:

in. 1. Whoevor shall reader himself guilty of one of
tho CAMP er politioal attelapte palliated with death by the
penal cod*, shall be pus' hisd by basis/sant oat of the
territory of the republic, either for life or for a find period.
—Art. 2. The present law shall be applicable to the iadi-
viduals who have been coadeasued for aims or political
(Weskit, gulf* the lit Kay, 1848.
_ _ _

In defence of this proposition M. Fevre proceeded
to re-produce the arguments already urged against
the government's bell in the first debate, main-
taining that the punishment of banishment is suffi-
cient for political mimes, and consonant with the
precepts of humanity. Alluding to the captivity and
exile of Louis Napoleon, he professed astonishment
that a law should be presented in the name of the
President of the Republic, which declared that nei-
ther banishment nor imprisonment were sufficiently
severe for the castigation and intimidation of political
delinquents. After this speech, the Minister of Jus-
tice replied. M. Matthien de la Dram. succeeded.
Then the amendment was put to the vote and rejected
by a large majority. General Cavaignao wee
re-
marked among those who voted against. A debate
without interest on the first article of the bill then
took place, and the vote has been adjourned to to-
morrow. The sitting broke up at a quarter after six.
M. Duey, Under Secretary of State of the Interior,
has, it is said, given in his resignation.
The Prccareur of the Republic has commenced a
prosecution against the Abbe Ctitel for having
outraged religion and morality in a speech delivered
in an electoral meeting at the Salon de Mars.
it was stated some time ago in this correspondence,
that the police authorities had begun to carry into
execution an order of the government for the expul-
sion from Paris of persons without fixed domicile,
and who had no means of subsistence otherwise dal;
be shift or mendicity. We learn, by the Gazette des
Tnbunauz, that the police have just commenced
active proceedings, and that 400 arrests were effected
yesterday. Most of the persons arrested were found
hanging about the barracks of the *Adler.; they will
be brought before the correctional tribunals, and, if
cmvicted, placed at the disposal of the government.
Those who are foreigners will be sent out of the
country.
The lifoniteter contains a list of all citizens* who
have been singled out during the first quarter of 1850
by the Minister of the Interior as deserving of re-
wards for acts of courage and devotion.
M. Ferdinand Barret is gazetted as Knight of the
Legion of Honour.

*e read in the Putrid of yesterday evening " Yee-
terday, at the moment when Gene cal de Castellani,
after having reviewed the nationel guard, the cavalry
school, and a battalion of the 11th Light Infantry
which wu passing through Sumas., on the Place do
Chardonnet in that town, wu addressing the troops,
b's voice was several times drowned by the noise of a
handful of riotous men. They were in vain requested
to be silent by the police-office's. Recourse was obliged
to be bad to the legal summing, and the mob was
quickly dispersed by • vigorous charge of the men of the
I Ith Regt., supported by • squadron of cavalry of the
Military School. In this affair the 11th, against
which so many calumnious imputations had been
raised, gave a striking contradiction to its detractors
mod a proof of its fidelity to discipline, and of its '
de-
votedness to the cause of order. Several of the rioters
were arrested, and many of them were wounded by
the stones thrown at the soldiers. Order has been
completely restored in the town."

8 P.M.

P.3.—Tbe President, accompanied by General
d'Hautpoul, Mini,ter of War, and M. Bineau, Minis-
ter of Public Work., has taken his departure for
Angers, in order to b.: present at the funeral of the
victims of the terrible accident of the 16th, which is
fixed for to-morrow.

ead.we Muth ales ; the Weems Owed de Reser, unbowed°,
M awls, will wive trowerrew, sad will inhabit the Mi-
nerva Hetet. At te the ambassador et kreiria, Ite has had
&pusses* rewired sir his at the pathos Terleala. It ap-
pears that the !reach pollee is to he nalatethed, eves alter
the Pope's eaten. eat that hi theme with the mottled ea-
%betide+.

SARDINIA.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin
of the 13. h, N. Torelli, reporter of the esemisittes ea
differential duties, read the opinion of that essamithse
on the abeam., noticed by M. Revel, of a law pro-
bibitiag foreign vessels from exercising the coasting-
trade. The coustnimiott thought that it would be
proper to introduce such prohibition into the present
bill, by denoting the coasting-trade by the wards
" from poet to port," used in navigatlea treaties.
And, to avoid further mieunderstaading, it would
propose an additional article, to be Art. 4, declaring
that the law introduce no ionovatioo in the interior
navigational the state. M. Feriae moved that Art.
3of the bill aboeld be suppressed sad repl by
Art. 4of the comosimioo. To this the Chamber
agreed, and the bill was passed by a msfority of 110
to 14.

A duel with pistols took place= the 13th, between
MM. Arlo/tor and Carom, two deputies of the Turin
Chamber. Neither of the two combatants was
wounded.

According to a statistical account published by the
Abbe Amid, the founder of infant-schools in Italy,
there ere 61 such asylums in Piedmont; the number
of children educated there is 8,648, and the annul
expense amounts to 181,316 fr.
A letter of the llth from Ceva (Piedmont), in the
Corriere Mereantiled Genoa, states that the Capuchins
of that piece joined the municipality and the national
guards in singing a Te Deem for the abolition of ec-
clesiastical privileges.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
•
STAATENH AU13.1
We have received by electric telegraph intelli-
gence (rim Erfurt under date the 17th inst. The
Staatenhaus had commenced its deliberations on that
day, the constitution being the subject under debate.
VonPatow's propositions wereadopted by 72 against 20.
Thus the adoption en blue of the conitinition and ad-
ditional act is sanctioned by all parties, by the two
Chambers at Erfurt and by the Prussian government.
In the sitting of the Volkshans, on the 15th, at
Erfurt, Bismark-Schonhausen, and Gerlach sup-
ported, and Bolster and Count Schwerin opposed the
proposition to substitute the word " union " for
" reich," in the text of the constitution. The proposi-
tion was lost. The amendment to the additional act
proposed by the committee was accepted. It runs
thus " The execution of the decision contained in
sections 2 and 3 of the constitution, affecting
provinces which have the same bead with
non-Germanic states, is reserved for • nearer
understanding with the governments concerned." Sec-
tion 14 was adopted with an attention recommended
by Tries!. The section ran—" The chief military com-
mander nominated by tke executive, and all generals
who may be appointed to the independent command
of single corps, as well as the gavernors, command-
ants, sand higher officers of fortified places, shall take
the oath of fidelity to the Director of the Union and
to Ike constitution." The amendment was" shall take
the oath of fidelity to the Director, and swear
conscientiously to observe the constitution." The pro-
position cf the extreme right, to give up the College
lof Princes, and substitute a HOMO of Primes for the
Stsatenhans, was negatived by an immense majority.
It was supported by Bismark-Schonhausen, and Stahl,
and opposed by B:seerman, Riesser, and the Presi-
dent of the Administrative Council. The Prussian
minister voted against the motion. The right of the
absolute veto was, according to the recommendation
of the committee, conferred on the Director of the
Union without discussion.