The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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ethal polled 55,099; the mailerstes I,1120„
The' Machete' Bin of- the Commi of the Bun
staves, is it is-nicknamed, is so far advanced that it
will be ready to be brought forward on Monday or
Tuesday,
The Volt de Peuple says, that by abrogating the
right of universal snffiage, the right of insurrection
has been restored to the citizens.
In yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Assembly
M. &hatcher addressed an in•.erpellation to the
government on the aubject of the attacks made by
the Moorish tribe of the Braknas against the inhabi-
tants of St. Louie, on the coast of Senegal M. Ro-
main•llesfosses answered that the last despatch of the
Governor of Senegal, dated 27th of February, stated
that he had not lost all hopes cf concluding a treaty
of peace necessary to the French:commerce.lt would,
under these circumstances, be premature to under-
take an expedition ; but the Eldorado, a war-steamer
of 450 horse-power, was on the point of starting for
Africa. It would take 20 days to complete the voyage,
and on arriving could place 150 of its crew at the
disposal of the governor, to keep the hordes of savegei
within the bounds of respect.
General Beraguay d'llillier,' bill for repealing the
law of gratu tons instruction at the Polytechnic
School and the Schools of St. Cyr and Brest, pissed
by the Constituent Assembly, was read a second
time. With the exception of one modification, the
old state of things has been restored by the vote of
the Assembly. To supply the pace of the principte
of gratuity removed by the bill, an amendment was
proposed by MM. Dafournel and d'Adelsward, grat.t-
tig purses and half-putses to etuderts who could
bring certificates of the insufficiency of their family
revenue. 'ibis proposition, alter an animated
debate, in which Gen. Lamoriciete took a distin-
guiehed part on the liberal side, paced by a small
majority. An amendment of the committee, pro-
posing to transfer the Polytechnic School to ?deaden,
was rejected.
At the end of the sitting M. Cremie ux complained
that the Assembly had received no official invitation
to be present at the tote of the 4th of May.
The report of the bill demanding a grant of
4,810,000 f. for the execution of the part of the Paris
aud Stiasburg Railway comprised between Strasburg
and Rommartin, has been presented to the Assembly.
The committee has reduced the sum to 1,700,000 f.,
which sum it proposes shall be voted on account of
the definitive credit necessary for the completion of
the above section.

SUNDAY, 6 P M.
The festival of the 4th of May went off without the
least disturbance or accident. The weather was sin-
gularly favourable. The only fine spring day we
have had jumped with thefete. All was warm, radi-
aat, and joy-inspiring. Tne sinister predictions of
reactionary journals received were splendidly belied
by the crowded feces of the festively-attired citizens.
Nut the least disturbance ruffi:d the vast assemblage
which choked the ample Places of the Place de la
Concorde, and waved a sea of hats and bonnets up
I the avenues of the Champs E'yskes to the Bar-
riers de l'Etoile. The gorgeous tinsel of the
show was arranged with the most artist-like effect,
and never were 12,0001. tquandcred with more ad-
mirable economy. The crowd was entertained with
fauseie fits of variegated flame till midnight, and
then dispersed quietly to their homes, scarcely dream-
ing of the skilful combinations which General Chan-
gamer had formed to prevent any explosion of demo-

erotic rage.
I hear that the electoral law will be present:A in
the Aieembly on Timothy. The reporter of
the committee is M. de Broglie. The pro-
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positions are likely to be milder- than the com-
position of the c3mmittee would have warranted
men to expect. Ore provision of the bill is, that
a candidate to be elected member, at the first ballot,
must poll an absolute majority. A simple unjority
would be admitted at the following ballots. Toe
other clauses refer chiefly to domiciliary conditions.
Trot franchise of the army will not be toucte.l: only
the military votes will merge in the civic and not be
published separately.
The Ordre states that the Tiers-1)11,W, of which it is
the organ, will vote for a wise and effectual electoral
reform, but will certainly oppose such schemes as
are put forward by the Petrie, and other papers
of the extreme reactionary party.
At this moment all minds are centered upon this
question. The government, by waiving its right of
initiation upon so vital a measure, has virtually signed
its abdication. Six months ago the President of the
Republic dismissed a cabinet upon the ground that it
was led by the nose by the heads of the old parties.
" France," said he, " alarmed, seeks the hand and
the will of the elect of the 10th of December." Now,
the elect of December, after a trial of his hand and
will, which has spent his popularity aed alienated his
adherents, appeal to the heads of those old parties 10
take on them a task which, if the government had an
atom of firmness, ought to have originated from
ministers. The composition of the Committee of
Public Safety, as this council of 17 is called, is re-
mat bible equally b' the omission of Bonapartists and
of the tiers-parti. Tne Duke of Monteb.llo, for all his
imperialist title, is still the adherent as he was once
the minister, of the house of Orleans ; and although
Darn, son of the peer of France and historian of Ve-
nice, de Chatoeloup Laubat, member of the Conseil
d'Etat, and Jules Lasteyrie, the devoted adherent cf
the Duchess of Orleans, are not without a tincture of
liberalism, none of them belong to the tiers-peril, or
party of Odilon Barret, Dufsure, Piny, Cavaignac,
Lamoricidre, and their followers. Probably. the Pre
sident was less influenced in this exclusion of his
personal friends by calculation, or a desire to shirk
responsibility, than by the necessity of consulting
men of parliamentary influence who could act togs-
ther in concert. On the other band, he would have
acted perhaps more prudently, as far as the interests
of the country are concerned, to have dashed the de-
liberations of the Burgraves with a spice of liberal
opposition. The reason assigned for the omission
of this wholeome precaution is that it was feared
that the scruples of the tiers-parti men would
have been fatal to an energetic measure. The
reason is a foolish one • for it is much better
that a moderate electorali reform should pass
with a large majority, than that the sweeping mea-
sure which will perhaps result from the energetic bias
of the committee should call up a formidable opposi-
tion in the house. Very recently nearly all the names
on the committee were to be found in the minority on
the retto-active clause of the transportation law. This
is a most dangerous symptom, for while the illi-
berality of that clause is a proof of their political ran-
cour and a bad augury for the spirit of the bill, their
defeat upon that occasion is a proof of their political
vincibility, and a bad augury for the success of the
bill. If the luxuriant tendencies of re-action had
been pruned in committee there would have been no
doubt as to its fate.
To-day, contrary to custom, a considerable number
of members have gone down to the Assembly to de-
liberate upon the course to pursue in case the com-
mittee of 17 demand for their electoral bill a vote of

urgency.
Neither the Napokon nor the Vas du reside has
appeared to-day. This reminds one of Lsmoricii:re's
expression in the Chamber, throwing equal blame on
high and low sources of revolution. The Napoleon of
last Sunday provoked au 18th Brumaire ; the Voix
du People of yesterday preached the right of insur-
rection it universal suffrage should be invaded. It is
to be hoped that the portion of society which equelly
condemns both will daily improve the influence ma-
nifested by the disappearance of organs which offend
its taste, to achieve some substantial and just remedy
for the evils of the situation. The cellular system is
going to be adopted in all tho prisons called" Maisons
centrales" of Ft4lloll. A cellular branch of the prison
will be set apart for offenders otherwise incorrigible.