The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TMOISDAT EVISIMO.
It is sow regarded as a matter settled beyond all
doubt that Louis Napoleon, notwithstanding his pro-
reeled willingness at Lyons to choose the part of
" abo•gatioe, if the national will should demand each
a saorifios from him, will not quietly lay down, as
Oatmeal Cavaigsao did, the presidential dignity at
the end of his appointed term of office. Meaawhile
it is absolutely impossible that any legal Illeisioo of the
ooastitatioo, such u would remove his disability to
offer himself as a oaadidate for the presidency is
1862, should take place. The vote of at least three-
Garth; of the members of the Legislative Assembly
present is required in order to take the first Aar
towards calling a fresh Coestitsmet Assembly, and,
at least, 500 members must be meant. Supposing
the whole 760 were present it would suffice for
190 members to oppose such a motion in order to
throw it out. Now the gauche pure alone amorists
to this number, without counting the opponents whom
the proposition would encounter SaKillg the fire-parti
and ultrs-legitisaists. And sines the Assembly can-
not be dissolved until it has completed its three years
of appointed duration, there is no conceivable legal
mode by which the constitution can be revised in
time for Louis Napoleon to be furnished with a con-
stitutional right to offer himself as a candidate at the
next presidential election. It being now generally
admitted by those who are well-informed as to the
situation that be will not consent to be replaced by
another President, it follows that the common put
upon which all parties at present meet, which is the
Constitution, must be torn. What will be the upshot
of the conflict which will ensue, no =arta
can predict; but every one sees that it must
come. Meanwhile all parties are secretly mustering
their strength for the day of trial; the legitimists,
(Meanies, socialist', Boospartiste, are organising,
stirring, and, it may be, arming. In all probability,
the "solution," as it is called, will not wait till the
spring of 1852 to declare itself in sums shape or other ;
bat a peaceable solutiun is what no person of Lresight
expects. Therefore, although the funds may remain
firm for a time, and affairs resume in the commercial
world a certain activity, this hour is not far distant
when another crash must be expected. Let none of
your reader" be blinded by the fine words uttered at
the banquet of Rhein." or the banquet of Wiesbaden,
or over the death-bed of Louis Philippe, about union
and conciliation, nor be deceived by the apparent
quiet of the socialist'. An inevitable hoer of straggle
approalbee, and everything announces that it will
be a fiercely-contested field, in which the question of
" monarchy or republic" must be definitively settled.
The folluwicg telegraphio despatch was received
yesterday :
CIieLOXIII, Avocet 28. 8 a Y.—The Provident arrived at
Cnalonssur-M sine at eleven on the night of the 27th. He
wspreesind by the inhabi,ents with cries of " Vim N.-
pekon!" mingled with " V,.@ !Morn ur !" The whole
any was illuminated, sad nearly all the houses dressed with
Rms. The at •yor received the Prsrdent at the gate of the
city, and delivered ae address, to which the President re-
tusee4 a brief sad appropriste reply. This morning the
President received, at eig-t o'clock, the authorities and the
eoeacil-general, and then repaired to the review. His di-
polar, for Rheims will take place at it... The President
was expected at Cnalene two hours earlier than he arrived.
This delay was occasioned by the prolonged halts which he
wee obliged to make oa the road, in order to respond to the
enthuriasen of the population. At Stair, Verde. Clermont,
te sed St. Menehould, he a, the cd•ject of veritable ovations.
He will set out from Rheims at three, in order to gala the
railway statics at Epereay by six.
Another official despatch says:

After the review at Chalons, the present proceeded to
Rheims, whore he was very well received by the inhabitasta.
Hs attended a banquet given to hint by the city in the arch.
bishop's palace, and made, in rely to the mayor, who pro-
posed his health, a speech which was hailed with great
applause.

I have procured from a private source a copy of
this speech, which is certainly remarkable. It is as
follows :

Mr. Mayor and Gentlessee' —The reception *high has bees
given to vas at Rheims, at the close of my journey, smarm
what I have seen myself throughout Prime, aid entertained
no doubt of. Our ornintry wishes owl, for order, re
aad • wire (oafs) liberty. Everywhere I hare been ibisllll to
convince =yews of We tact, that the member of agitatore is
infisitely smell, mediate somber of good eitiseu infinitely
great. GA grant that the latter become not divided. It le
as AM amount that, Media, myself to-dsy in this easiest
city of Rheims, where the kings, who represented also tiete interests of litigation, raise to be ermined, I would wish
that we could crows here, is longer. indeed, • lain, but an
idea—the idea of union and eoseilistion, the triumph of
which would restore repose to our ciientry, already so greet
by her wealth, her vine's, and her faith. To express wishes
for the pubils prosperity is to do so for that of the city of
Rheims, whom industrail position is of such high import-
safe. Permit Rs to propose • toast, "To Um city of
Rheims."

If one is to measure the truth of the official as• of the President's reception io the provinces by
the accuracy of the reports given from the same
source of his welcome back to Paris, the loyalties
faculties have been rarely taxed to a greater extent than
in the composition of telegraphic despatches and au-
thorised bulletins. An immense crowd was gathered
on the whole line of road between the terminus of
the Strasbourg railway and the Elyeee, from whom
there burst a cry of " Vivo la Republique, et nen
qua la Republique!" which overpowered the feeble
efforts of isolated groups to make their Ns,-
polemist cheers heard. The military prepara-
tions made by Changarnier were immense,
particularly in the faubourgs of St. Denis
and St. 1, which were occupied with troops, as
well as all their avenues. The military escort of the
President was also much stronger than usual. A
piquet of mounted chymous rode a-head of the car-
riage, which was surrounded by a dense body of the
cuirused carabineers, and followed by half a squadron
of hussar.. It would be difficult to describe the sirup
howl that pursued the cortege se it whirled rapidly
along the broad and populous road. At the terminus
' the President was received by the ministers who had
remained is Paris, and General Cougarein, who
embraced him on alighting from the train. Is the
neighbourhood of the noble strootar• of the terminus
there moaned several violent scenes of individual con-
Aiot between the President's partisans and the demo-
crats. Many of the latter were headed over to the cus-
tody of the osrgotss.de-vilk. In the faubourgs of St. Denis
and St. Martin all circulation was stoppei. At various
points, where groups of the Societe du Dix
Deoembre and their hireling, were posted, the Name
waffling and buffetting took place; and the Passage
Jouffroy was in partioalar one of the noisiest points
of omMet. The neighbourhood of the Elyse' was
deesely studded with a ragged herd, from whom you
would have expected eries of Vice la Socials." but
thew, on the contrary, were loudest in their Bona-
partist demonstrations. It was a clear case of enthu-
siasm purchased at die eons per Ms. At the bead of
the escort of dragoons M. Caller, the prefect of
police, appeared on horseback, and seemed, wherever
be showed his presence, to give peculiar animation to
the republican cries. The Nepoleonists were mounted
on the tops of cabs, from which they bawled their
with frantic gesticulations.
On the whole, the well-dresird citizens abstained
from all manifestation of political feeling, and
ware silent sad indifferent spectators, while the cla-
morous viotot7 was left to be disputed between the
blows of socialism and the feed bawlers of the Dix
Decembre. The party of the Pre.ident entered the
/Brim shortly after nine. The fatigue of this voyage
of parade seems to have had no unfavourable offset
upon his health.
On his cetera to the Birk, the President was re-
ceived oa his alighting by General Changarnier,
Carlin, the prefect of police, sad their respective
staffs, the ministers and sides-de-eamp, who stood
ender the perietjle to welcome him boas. The
Prisms Matilda Datidoft stood in the aka and