The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS. Monau, 7 P.M.
All yesterday the electioa went forward with the
utmost quiet and order. A tarbulsat fellow, whom
the opponties inspected to be a useacherd, was ar-
rested the Place du Pantheon for holding a sedi-
tious harangue. M. Cartier has postpaid epos several
hundreds of parses., whom he accuses of vagrancy,
and them eff into the °wintry. The papers
ara istremphstis addressee to the dilatory; who am
threatened with the rosput of their names being
posted app at the amities If .they don't make haste and
vote. The most decided of the moderate papers mys
thatualssesosisty be protected with avotetWtet to-day
perhaps it will have to be protected a few days hems
with a musket. Tao war cry of the Knights is
Polimesovereiguty or Liberty It seems that Leclerc's
bead clerk is a nephew of Culler, a circumstance not
lost sight of by the socialist pope's. Great disputes
arise about the results of the military elections : it
turns oat, however, that the upshot of the military
polling at Orleans was correctly reported in the de-
mocratic papers. Now the votes of the garrison of
St. Omer are disputed : the numbers of the democrats
are, Sae, 18; Leclerc, 3: those of the moderates,
Leclerc, 68; Sue, 4. It is as yet impossible to obtain
any clue as to which side the election is tending.
Meanwhile the military votes, according to the list
published is the Press, are decidedly democratic.
Up to the present moment the only results known
at the National Assembly with regard to the election
concern the votes of the army at Paris and cf the
section of the Assembly. These are: Army votes
for Eugene Sue, 6,600; for Leclerc, 6,600. In the
section of the Assembly there were 696 votes (ex-
cluding the representatives who voted) for Leclerc,
sad 273 for Eugene Sue. At the Invalides Sue
polled 660, Leclerc about double.
The great number of cards which remained this
morning in the moiries of the several arrondissements
proves that, notwithstanding the eager stretch of ex-
pectation and intense anxiety of the extreme parties,
• considerable mass remain in the middle, who are
neutral and apathetic. It seems very improbable
that the sum of votes polled will be so considerable
as on the 10th of March and yet even then a fourth
of the electors abstained. All sorts of stimulants, in
the shape of addresses and agents, were applied to
drive lazy and indifferent voters to the poll. As
there are 280 electoral colleges in and about Paris, the
journey which a citizen has to make in order to
comply with his electoral duty is facilitated as much
as possible. But the crowd at the mcurie is consi-
derably greater than at the college. liere the elector
has to establish his identity with the person he repre-
sents, whose name is hunted up in the register. All
this takes time, and the municipal queries are not
inviting : in fact, iitequires some energy to go through
the process of getting a card. At the college the card
is shown, and the ticket put into the ballot-box with-
out trouble. Some of the electioneering devices
resorted to by the moderate party are very like the
worst which that par .y imputes to its adversa-
ries. Thus I noticed to-day a flaming red placard,
addressing itself visibly to the democratic eye,
and insidiously preferrirg the title of Leclerc as
a democratic candidate to that of Eugene Sue,
who is described uan effeminate voluptuary. Tule
is addressed to workmen and signed by a workman.
The pavement is strewn with tickets bearing the
names of both candidates. At every street-corner
touters attack you with these bulletins. You cannot
open a fresh newspaper, bat out Hies a shower of
little squares of paper, inscrib.d with the name of
its champion.
In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day
business commenced with the adoption of the bill oar
savings banks. Teen the debate was resumed on the
budget of war. General Lamorcire repeated the ar-
guments which he had used on Saturday against the
creation of a new battalion of " gendarmerie mobile,"
in the way of an amendment to the budget ; and pro-
to make a special law necessary for this cbjtct.
he Assembly passed to the order cf the day. Cnap-
ter 7, on recruitment and reserve, and chapter 8, relative'
to the general expenses of military jurisdiction, were
adopted. On chapter 9, relating to the pay of
the infantry (115 millions), M. Savatier-Laroche
proposed a reduction of ore hundred millions, with
a •
.correeponding diminution of the effective troops.
This proposition was rejected by a large majority.
M. Bouvet proposed a reduction of 24 millions, cor-
responding to the dismissal to their homes cf the class
of 1843. This motion, having been opposed by Ge-
neral d'Hautpoel, Minister of War, wan rejected.
The sitting of the Chamber broke up at half-past
six, without any result of importance.
I hear that the quarrel with the Spanish govern-
ment
is at last definitively settled. Lord Palmers:on
signed the note accepting the satisfaction offered by
the cabinet of Madrid on Thursday last, and on Sa-
turday the courier of the Belgian government arrived
from London, be way of Brussels, in Paris. He will,
barring accidents, tea' h Madrid oa Wednesday, and
probably the two notes will be published in the
Gaceta de Madrid of Thursday, the 2nd of May.
I understand that the English government will
wait for a copy of the Madrid Gazette, be-
fore the appointment of the British envoy to the
court of Spam, and his accompanying secretary and
attaches, is made officially known to the public. 'lluse
appointments may be therefore expected to appear in
the London Gazette of May 10, or thereabouts. Mean-1
while, who the successor to Sir H. Bulwer is to be seems
as yet by no melee decided, although, as you know,
public report has more than once given the appoint-
ment to Lord Howden. There are two other candidate e,
I hear, one of whom possesses the title of a close rela-
tionship to the former English minister at Madrid. I
mean Lord Cowley, Sir H. Bulwer's brother-in-law.
The other candidate is Sir Hamilton Seymour, British
minister at Lisbon. The Duke of Sotomayor, Spanish
ambassador at Paris, must have been considerably
mortified at the unimportant put which has been
attributed to him throughout this negotiation. I un-
derstand that his excellency was not in the least
consulted on the notes, and they passed through
Paris with thd Belgian courier on the way to
Brussels, after one of them had been signed
by Pidal, apparently without his knowledge,
although the fact was communicated to him subse-
quently by his own government. Having been the
principal agent in the expulsion of Sir H. Bolwer, the
Duke of Sotomayor no doubt fancied that he ought to
have figured more prominently in the reconciliation.
I hear that the Spanish minister in London is more
likely to be Mimicries than Isturitz.
M. de Falloux, ex-Minister of Worship, has arrived
at Lyons from Italy.
A letter of the 22nd, from Cannes, says that Lord
Brougham has latterly astonished the natives by
pleading his own muse in French in some trial before
the tribunal of Grease, chef lieu of the arrondissement.
For the department of the Saone and Loire the pro-
portion is equally in favour of the democratic list.
The. Prince de Beauvesu, former Peer of France,
has been elected by a great majority a member of
the Council-General of the department of the Suttee.
The Presse publishes the result of a consultation of
M. Langlais, representative and advocate on the ques-
tion of Carlier'e seizure of the opposition papers. The
papers interdicted from sale are the Charirari3Oridit,
Democratie Pacffique. Eatafette, Ecinsment, National,
Press, Slick, Pins du Peuple.