The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENTNG.
An echo full of dignified sympathy for the lcks of
the great Etiglish statesm..n whose career has been
closed with such appalling staldeent es, has enmeshed

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to-day from the National Assembly of Fmtce, and
Wilt to hailed acrese the Channel as a noble and

touching tribute to his memory. It is a natimal
condolence, couched in the true 'internal spirit erLich
ought to animate two nations whose hearts beat so
near each ether, and are swayed by the came broad
feelings and intertete.
A 4 soon a, the kittir:r of the Assemtly was opened,
M. I)upin, who spike for the lira tim, lance hie re-
el.ction to the pre.idency, addressed the hou.e in the
following words:
At the m•ment whin a r eithDoseise and friondiy ;merle
ie denoring the low• which it has jest suff,red of ono of
it• stttriintrs mtst iis orrinu of re!tre*, I think that it
will do honour to the F.. eh tribune to mike ',curd from

it in this Aopoin'dy the ea reimion of our ,empathetic re-
ants, and to manifest our hi.ds esteem for that eminent
srator, who, throuehout the contra of his Meg and r!orio to
career, has amr eiderteisied any ether feelings but those of
justice and hcnerolence for France, nor made use of any
other exor. to car but !hoes of courtesy towards her govern-
ment. (Chores.) If the As.embly d'lgn to atilrove me
meminn 'hall he made of it on the pros rtextl.

(Uovnimous mirks of Realism.)
The duel which I mentioned yesterday as on the
point of . ccurring 13 .one and Detrac-
t/Lye took pluce yest rd..y tvening its the BA de
Boulogne. The adveraines fought with swords. M.
Desiminee had his shirt tarn at the first engagement ;
and M. }Lune reeeired, on the second, a pit in his

brew., nhie'i d.d no•, howe7er, draw blead. The
affair wax then arrangrd by the sec4nds.
Tr.e press law continues to be at-sicked on cli
handy, by the conservative k$ well as the liberal

papers.
1111. Nettement and Barthelemy St. Hilaire have
proposel arnenircents in mitigation of the rigour of
the webs law.
Yesterday a debate of o'neilerable interest took
place in the bureaux, on the occasion of a committee
being. app inted to report en M. Itinesu's beep rela-
tive to the Orleans and Bo,deeux and the Tours and
Nantes railways. The bureaux in general approved
the principle of the Mil. They were or °Milieu that
the present state of things rendered it impossible for
the companies to fulfil the obligations they had
utiderniken, and that the state was reanerd to the
alternative of taking the enterprises cut a axle
bands, or of coming to their ...Wane*. Several
members elrerved that the state was not like en
oelinary contractieg party, and could not pr.flt hy
the ruin of thrsee aith whom it treated; that it
represented tho public interest, and had consequently
the s ruagret claim to be put in Iwamoto's, as
prorptly as pomible, cf tho railway lines. 4 fly
swelters, and acme even of the epposition,dwelt upon
the importance of the bill to the public. M. Dnima-
roux hiving asked the Minister of Public Worhs if
it was intended to apply the principle of the bill to
all the cempsnies, M. threats answered that the fia.
VOMMt!Lt had prepared a bill en the subject, which
had Len submitted to the Cors.il d'Etat, bat which
11119 founded upon a totally different plan. 31.11theau
said that the other companies bad accomplished their
task ender conditions more or less advantageous for
th. m, but that the public interest had been at least
eatistied; whores+ the situation of the two corn-
, paniks in vacation was each that it was
im-
possible foe then to terminate their lines, in
which the whole industry at Franca was interested.
11. de Very and some others :a"neked the B T-
deaux co:spiny, a great number of %hose shareh
ld-
ars had not paid up. They also criticised the onerous
conditions iMpose4 by the companies for the post
service, and demanded that, if the mails were not
curried gratetouly, this service should, at ell events,
he performed en easier terms for the treseuty. M.
Benoit d'Azy defended the companies, and said, in
answer to those who camplained of tare enormous va-
riation, in the v.iluu of shares, that the speculators
were earnest, and that the original shareholders still
held three-quarters of the shares. He thought the
measure of the government did not go far enough to
allow the companies to resume the works with ne-
t tivily. M. Leon Faucher was of the rune opinion,
and wanted to extend the concession to 99 years. M.
1/aru took the minister to task for not having cern-
municated it either to the Central Committee of
Railway., or to the Conseil d'Etat. MM.
Chums, Gravy, Repetlin, Cusramaule, and others
strenuously opposed the bill. 11. l'emberel de Leyval
was erheily opposed to the bill, and red the govern-
ment owed the companies nothing. lie is the only
one of the committee hostile to the bill.
The Minister of Finance presented some days ago
to the Assembly the accounts of the public experdi-
ter:. in 1818. Same curious revelatiors as to the pros
digality of the provisional government appear in
these voluminous documents, which are now printing,
and will be shortly distributed. The report made by
the Court of Accounts upon the expenditure of each
year ought to be presented at the same time, but is
not yet ready. It contains a severe review of the
ithancial scandals of the e .rly republic, and a stormy
debate is expected to take place in the Assembly upon
this subject.
The remainder of the sitting of the Assembly to-
day, stier the opening speech of M. Dapin, was net
signalised by any occurrence of interest. The re-
maining articled of the bill on the agricultural colonies
of Algeria were passed, and a third deliberation
agreed to. The bill f,r eetablishing chests of mutual
succour among woiknaen in eat(' of sickness was
adoptea after the second reading, and a third delibe-
ration agreed to. The bill for regulating the admis-
sion of public functionaries to certain conditions el
I (lamination was, on the third reading, altogether
abandoned, and replaced by a resolution, which
I charges the Conseil d'Etat to frame, within the next
year, a rule of piddle administration on this subject.
Then the sitting broke up.
nn. Lamarque has presented to-lay an amendment
to the buiget of rceeipts, moving that the governor ut
should propose for 18-52, and -before April, 1851, a
system of taxation proportional to the means of each
citizen, in compliance with the prescriptions contained
in the constitution.
M. In-lbetz presented a motion, with the object of
allowing committees to take put in the votes of the
Assembly.
A motion by MM. Raised and Merrelet, tending
to modify the law of expropriatton in favour of the
public advantage, his been reported on by the com-
mittee of initiative, through the organ of 11. Cluulenet,
who sees in the proposition the annihilation of the
guarantees of private proprietors, and has decided
against taking it into considerati m.
Tie bureaux have examined the bill f.ir opening a
crciit of two thousand pounds eterliug to defray the
expenses relating to the London Exhibit hoz of 1851.
M. Lopils-Duhec, a representative of the Oirorde,
reminded membne that at the lett French Exhibt-

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