The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

• • 7711.18. Pavanix. 7.16 a.
There jai* remours-tb* the *blast will be inodi•
bed by the expulsion of Fogad sad Masan. The
Gault@ talks of a long interview between Gulled altd
Duple, * tbe bouts of the latter.
M. Buvignier, the 'et-member of the Cidstititemt
Assembly, and who was returned on the election Of
the 10th oh, to the Legislative Assembly for the
Saone-et•lsire, but who had his election invalida•ed,l
and the other defendants in the affair of the Solids-
rite Republiealne, were yesterday found guilty by the
jury. MM. Buvignier and Hitcy, the only two de-
fendants who appeared in person, were senteneed—
the:former to one year"' imprisonment, and Ave years'
interdiction of civil rights ; the latter to six months'
imprisonment and interdiction of civil rights. The
other defendants were condemned by default to two
years' imprisonment. In consequence of this verdict
M. Buvignier cannot take his seat in the National
Assembly, if he should be returned for the Saone-et-
Loire at the election of the 28th inst.

Their Excellencies the Marquis and Marchioness
of Normsnby gave a grand ball and supper last night.
Among the guests were the President of the Republic,
the Grand Duchess of Baden, the Marquis and MU.
chioness of Douglas, the President of the National
Assembly, the ministers, the Duke of Botomayor, and
the corps diplomatique, General Changarnier, MM.
Mole, Berryer, and other eminent members of the
National Assembly, &c. The supper was of the
choicest description, and the whole arrangements of
the evening were such as to leave a very favourable
impression on the minds of the distinguished guests
of the attentions of the noble marquis and mar-
chioness.

The Patric says :—" We are assured that the go-
vernment has decided, in a council of ministers, to
withdraw the bill on the press. There will no longer,
we hope, be any pretext for the msmbers of the
extreme right to reject or modify the measures of
order and of public ea'ety presented by the ministry,
with the co-operation of a considerable portion of the
majority."
essrs. Gate, Beaumont (Somme), Loyer, and de
IlDoebet, have presented an amendment to the Paris
and Avignon Railway Bill, according to which the
Minister of Finance is to be authorised to issue
Treasury Bonds at indeterminate dates, to the extent
of 236 millions, either altogether or by parts, as he
may think advisable, at a rate of interest which he
shall tie, with a sinking fund calculattd in a manner
to bo able to pay them off by means of drawings, and
until they are all extinct; the capital thus raised to
serve for the completion of the railway from Pads to
Avignon.
M. Charamaule has proposed to the Assembly to
add the following defuse to the amendment of M.
Combarel de Leyval, adopted on Thursday :
" The companies of the Northern, Centre,
and Western Railways shall not be allowed
either directly or indirectly to tender for the
Paris and Lyons, and Lyons and Avignon 'tail waya."
SUNDAY, 6
Yesterday an important interpellation was made in
the Assembly relative to the energetic measures of
M. Carlier in the suppression of several dem critic
assemblies, which, under the name of electoral meet-
ings, were in fact socialist clubs. By passing to the
order of the day, a result which I was enabled to send
you at the latest hour, the Assembly sanctioned the
arbitrary use which the government had made of its
power, a vote the more important, as it will be cer-
tainly followed up by the suppression of several other
meetincs, perhaps of a lees Illegal character. The
interpellation was made by M. Baune, and answered
by the Minister of the Interior, who rested the case of
the government upon the law of Jane, 1819, against
clubs. This law, he maintained, was equally appli-
cable to meetings called electoral, but which were
really clubs.
The facts cited by M. Baroche, to prove that the
suppressed meetings were clubs of an illegal charac-
ter, were sc-,rcely deserving of the solemn gravity
with which they were delivered. Om of the speakers
at the meeting of Montmartre bad worn a red cravat;
and at the meeting of the 10th arroudi Bement the
honour of being chosen delegate was refused to a ce-
lebrated sculptor, because ho was a proprietor. Then,
in the 11th arrondissement, the notorious Abbil Cha-
tel had preached the swinish doctrines of sensual gra-
tification. M. Jules Favre combatted, with his usual
power and talent, the ponderous statements of the
Minister of the Interior. If the law of June were ap-
plicable to electoral meetings, why had the govern
meat brought forward a bill to give it the powers
which it had just been tieing. And who was the
minister who pursued this course? Ti.e former vice-
president of the anti-reactiocary club of the second
arrondissement.

M. Baroche had just time to express his disdain for
this attack upon his consistency, when the house
called impatiently for a decision; and M. Dapin hav-
ing announced that the Assembly voted to pass to the
order of the day, the Itight rose in • bxly and bolted
out of the chamber. The Mountain will protest on
Monday against this surprise.
With regard to the alleged affront offered to the
President on Friday, the Napoleon says' that one
of the horses fell, and that some bystanders
helped to get the animal on his legs again, but that
no manifestation of any kind took place. Far the
rest, the Sunday organ of the Elysee is full of the
Emperor, of Austerlitz, Marengo, &c.
The socialist meetings or clubs, under the guise of
electoral reur.ions, are in full activity. At that of the
Salon de Mara the secret of the popular manifesta-
tions when the President of the Repuhlio appears in
public has escaped—a body of patriot+ are commis-
sioned to follow and stun him with shouts. They
fulfilled their mission on the road to Vincennes a few
days since, and again at the review of Friday were
they found representing the people. An orator at the
club declared that he had righteously fulfilled his
duty during the entire day. Contemptuous expres-
sions addressed to the elect of the 10th December,
insults proffered to the constituted authorities, all the
powers of socialist rhetoric, adorned the speech of this
citizen. The orator stated that he had stuck close to
Louis Napoleon, shouting in his ears " Vive la lte-
publique democratique et social,e" and added, that a
captain of the staff had forced him aside with
his horse. " This captain is a coward," vo-
ciferated the speaker, " and I desire the re-
actionary journals will convey a challenge to him
from me." Another orator took great credit to him-
self for having given a good lesson " to the person
who wore the uniform of a general." Citizen Male-
pert then ascended the tribune, and spoke with an
expression of benevolence of " Pere " Cabet and that
good Pierre Lorenz, " who could not injure a fly."
In the Salle Valentino he had seen very gentlemanly
men, extremely well dressed, and charming women,
' with white hands, adorned with manehettee.

A representative of the people, Citizen Cambier,
followed him in the tribune; but, being somewhat
rational, met with little attention.

The same fate attended a former editor of the
lb:forme, who spoke of Muffles and Scipio. But all
the enthusiasm of the club was called into action when
the Abbe Chatel addressed it in language conformable
with the tastes and principles of his auditory. The
primate of the Gauls excelled himself. He reminded
his hearers that, spite of Joshua and the Inqxisition,
the sun turns on its axis in twenty-five days and a
half, neither more nor lees. That Christianity
had committed a grave error in declaring war against
the flesh. The flesh should not be neglected, shouted
the Abbe Castel. It should be attended to as much
as the spirit, and even more; "physical comfort, be-
lieve me, is a good thing. It is the will of the God
of reason, who is not an idol, as the God of the catho-
lic.. Let us first satisfy, fully and without reserva-
tion, the wants of the body. Glory and honour to
matter. Matter is the standard of liberty." The
Abbe Chatel preached to converts, as was demonstrated
by the warm and long continued bravos which hailed
has address. Another sitting of the club of Mont-
martre was held on Friday in the Salle of the Her-
mitage. It was at the conclusion of this seance. that
the authorities decreed its being closed. At this
meeting were assembled about 1,500 citileu and 40
citoyennes. The President announced that at the end
of the sitting a collection would be made for the