The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Tuxanay, 7 s.x.
M. Baroehe tendered his resignation of the port-
folio of the Interior on Sunday evening. It was not
accepted. The minister has been induced to retain
his post by the privately expressed adhesion to the
government's bill of many who abstained from
speaking and from voting. Among these are to be
reckoned MM. Thieve, Placatory, Estancelio des
Rotoars, Woloweki, Fourtanier, and Boinvilliers.
The cabinet has had a most narrow escape. The
absence of the Ministers of War and Public Works
from the ballot of SaturdaT evening has received as
yet no satisfactory explanation. MM. Thieve, Piece-
tory, and Boinvilliers beg the Constitutioanel to state
that but for their accidental absence they
would have voted with the government. The
Prairie says that the greater number of the mem-
bers of the moderate party had resolved to vote against
the enembla of the Transportation Bill in consequence
of the adoption of the amendment of M. Odilon Bar-
ret. It was only at the entreaty of several of the
ministers that these honourable members consented to
vote for the bill which has been so mutilated by the
vote of Saturday.
The Press. of this morning contains a letter of the
17th from Madrid, announcing that an extraordinary
courier had arrived at the Belgian embassy, with the
news that Lord Palmerston had definitively con-
sented to the arrangements for terminating the dif-
ferences with Spain, and that this news had bison
immediately telegraphed from Madrid to the pro-
v.nces. I have made inquiries on the subject in
quarters well informed upon Spanish affairs, and can-
not find anything to confirm the announcement of
the Press.. On the other hand, the papers of the,
18th have been etc. ived from Madrid, and do not say
a word about this news, which mast have appeared in
the Oaceta de Madrid of the 18th if it had been tele-
graphed
to the provinces on the 17th. The Spanish
bankers here equally ignore the auspicious, or rather
suspicious, intelligence. Meanwhile, from all I can
hear, it seems that some hitch has occurred in the
eettleme:it of the Spanish question. I have it from
excellent authority, that the two notes prepared at
Brussels., with the consent and approbation of Lord
Palmerston, were laid by the Belgian minister at Mad-
rid, at the close of the last month, before the
Spanish government On the 31st, Fidel, Spanish
Minister of Foreign Affair'', signed ore of the notes,
with the full unde:standing that Lord Palmerston
would sign the other without delay, and on the same
day both the Doti s were sent off to Brussels, where
they arrived on the sth inst. On the 7th they reached
London. Nothing has been heard of the matter since,
until this statement of the Prem., which certainly
tallies very well with the time when such a result
might have been expected, hat unfortunately is not
confirmed from any other source.
In selecting their candidates for the Paris election
of the 28th, neither the socialists nor the moderates
have been fortunate enough to hit upon a champion
wko will be acceptable to all fractions of his party. The
proposers of D spout de l'Eure w:11 not vote for Eugene
Sue; the proposers of Fernand Foy will not vote for
M. Leclerc. There may be some few exceptions, but
this will be the case with the mass. Now the result
of the election will entirely depend upon the propor-
tion of the fractions which refuse on either hand to
vote for the candidate of the majority of their respec-
tive parties. And as far as one can judge these frac-
tions appear to be very evenly balanced, amounting
probably on either hand to about 20,000. At the
lest election the average of socialist votes given to
each of the three candidates was 130,000 ; the average
of moderate votes 125,000. So that the number of
votes for Eugene Sue may be expected to amount to
not very fur short of 100,000, while those for Leclerc
will in all probability be some thousands less. At all
events the run between the two is expected to be a
neck-and-neck affair, and from the tremulous sensi-
bility of the magnetic needle of the Bourse to the
most trifling electioneering news, one would suppose
that the fate of the Republic hung from this decision.
In order to repair the serious breaches battered byl
the Moir du People in the candidacy of Leclerc, an
attestation of the heroic trait upon which his title to
represent Paris is founded has been sign S.-1 by several
officers and men of the corps of National dotards to
which ii. Leclerc belonged. This is published at the
head of all the moderate papers.
The sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day
opened with the adoption, without debate, by 451 votes
against 41, of the bill presented yesterday by the
Minister of War fora credit of 130,000 fr. for succour
to the victims of the catastrophe at Angers. The
order of the day called the house to the renewal of the
discussion on the budget. Oa Chapter 34, relative to
inspection of departmental services, fixed at 114,0001 r.,
M. Raudot proposed a reduction of 40,000 fr., upon
the ground that inspectorships of charitable establish-
ments were sinecures which drained the funds of the
poor. M. Baroche opposed the reduction. Upon the
chapter of prison M. Jules !rime complained that the
prisons of the Seine were placed entirely in the
power of the prefect of police. He also found fault
with the division of prisons at the ministry of the
Interior, and demanded explanations with regard to
the suicide of a prisoner at Mout St. Michel. 7.1.
Baroche defended the actual state of prisons, and
declared that the prisoners at Mont St. Michel, guilty
of armed rebellion, had not been treated with excep-
tional rigour, and referred to en inquiry which
had been made on the subject by a counsellor of the
prefecture. The author of these calumnies was a
discharged employ.', who had sought this means of
being revenged on the director.
The Assembly, having adopted the remaining
chapter of the budget of the interior without debate,
passed to the budget of agriculture, of which the first
chapters were also adopted without discussien. A
debate without interest followed concerning the
Agronomic Institution of Versailles.
In the sitting of yesterday a violent attack was
made upon M. de Lamartine by M. de Mornay, who
loathed sentiments of humanity upon the lips of men
who had helped to subvert society. An allusion of
M. de Lamartine to Napoleon drew from General
Regnault de St. Angely an exclamation that it was
blasphemy to compare Napoleon to convicts.
General Dumas has been appointed director of the
affairs of Algeria at the Ministry of War.
General Rostolan has addressed an order of the day
to the troops of the Bth, 9th, and lOila military divi-
sions, which are under his guard, passing a high eulo-
glum on the conduct of Sub-Lieutenant Simon, of the
66th, for firm and decisive conduct against the band
of rioters at Limoux, on April 1. Another order of
the day.states that the major of the 66th regiment of
the line has been placed on half-pay, for having
evinced a want of firmness on a similar occasion.
Count Zamoyski, whose extradition had been de-
manded from Turkey, for being concerned in the in-
surrection of Hungary, has just arrived in Paris.
The committee appointed to examine the various
modes of voting recommended to the notice of the
Assembly has made choice of that invented by M.
Lanet de Limancey, to which some improvements
have been lately added. The bulletin for voting by
this method will consist of a little plate of steel, either
blue or white, and bearing the name of the represen-
tative. II is supposed that a considerable saving of
time will accrue from this plan, and that errors will
be impossible. The committee demands a credit of
29,984 fr. for the execution of the apparatus required
for this new method.

A cabinet oouncil met yesterday at the Elyse., in
which an important decision respecting the club law
is said to have been taken by the government.

The Evenement was seized last night by the agents
of ➢f. Culler, wherever it was found selling in the
streets.

P.B. There was some conversation in the Assembly
to-day of negotiations for an important modification in
the ministry. The President, dissatisfied with the
state of things, thinks, it is said, to strengthen the ca-
binet by admitting to act with M. Barocho some im-
portant members of the majority. Overtures have
been made to two of the most honourable members of
the legitimist party, whose hesitation has prevented
anything having been yet decided.