The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEIMIDAT, 530 PAIL
The Assembly yesterday declared closed the general
debate upon the project of government relative to
primary teachers. The house divided on the question
of aecertainiug whether the articles were to be brought
forward, when the matter was decided affirmatively
by a majority of 144, the numbers being 352 to 208.
In the course of the sitting the Minister of War
presented a bill to augment the pay of the non-com-
' mirsioned officers in the army 20c. per day.
To-day the debate on the primary teachers was
resumed. I told you that the government would
I adhere to the proposal that the appointment
of 'primary teachers should be left to the com-
munal councils, the prefet preserving the right to
dismiss. An amendment to that effect was pre-

seated to-day by M. de Montigny. M. Denagrouse,
however, obtained priority for an amendment, pro-
posing to place the primary teachers under the care
and watch of the academy rectors. This amendment
was rejected, as also one by M. Nettement, substi-
tuting for academy rectors the committees of

M. de Montigny then moved his amendment, to
which he added a clause fixing tho duration of the
law to six months.
M. Mole supported M. de Montigny's amendment.
Other orators followed, after which the first article
of the bill, as amended by M. de Montigny, was
adopted.
The bill presented the previous day by the:minister
of justice, for increasing the pay of non commissioned
officers by 20c. per day, was referred by the Assembly
to the committee on the budget. In the course of
the sitting of this day, however, on the motion of M.
de Mornay, who, being struck with the political
importance of the bill, thought that it should be
examined by a special committee, the Assembly came
back on its decision and referred it to to the bureaux.
Left sitting.
M. de Salvandy returned yesterday from his visit
to London.
M. Damara has finished his report, in the tams of
I the fifth committee of parliamentary initiative, on
the proposition of M. Loiset, having for object to
have indemnified by the state all lases of crops,
and all destruction of cattle by disease, by means
of a premium of 331. It vied on the principle cf the
tax of all lands cuitivat.d for crops, and of ii per
cent. for cattle on their estimated value. The coin-
mittee is of opinion unanimously that the proposition
ought not to be taken into consickratioe. M. Ponjou-
lit, in the name of the same committee, has completed
his report on the proposition of M. I)erriey, calling
upni the government to lay before the committee ap-
puinted to draw up the laws concerning Algeria, all
the documents relative to the effect of the climate of
that: country on Europ,ans, and particularly on
French subjects. The committee is of opinion that
the proposition is unnecessary, the committee having
a right to call for such documents if it thinks fit. .
General Lamoriciere has arrived in Paris from St
Petersburg, and M. de Beaumont from Vienna.
" In the apace of five days," says the Sikqe, " the
new prefect of the Allier has suspended three mayors,
those of Loddes, Cuulandan, and Couleuvres, and cite
missed ten subaltern functionaries."
The (currier de Lyon states that the Refl•rme and
the Voixda Peupk are s&zed every day ut the past-
office ut that town, their distribution in the au mili-
tary division being forbidden.
sl. Guizot yesterday read at the French Academy
an historical fent: ent, relative to the restoration of
the Stuarts. The number of persons present was
unusually great.

PARIS, log. 9.

%nima 11Ighass. Lowest. Closing.
—0
3 per Dente.
S per Cents.
. do. New Loan „ I
, a Pt n n
44 per 04liti, l9 Ii Pt 99 99
4 Per Centa. PP 1 SP ~ tt 99
Exchange on London : 30 dale, 23 45 • 90 dsys, 23 33)
Belgian, 5, 1840
Do. 3, 1843
Do. 4)
lie. 14
Beroasa.—Parts and &Wag, 835 ; Paris and Rouen, 530 ; Boren
and Havre. 215; Avignon and Marseilles., 220; Strasbourg sad Basle,
11750 ; Orleamiand Bordeaux, 416 23; Paria and Strneiourg, 342 30;
Toni and Neaten. 277 30 : Dieppe and Feeamp, —; Versailles (right
beak), 210; do. (kit bank), 168 75; Orleans and 1 ierzoo, 313 75 ;
Montereau and Troyes, 115 ; Paris and Bourn, 59u ; et. Germain,
410 ; North, 468 71.

BOUT sE.

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For
Money.

MADerpa Jaa. L—ntree per Cents., 201 paper. Four per
Cents., I 2 paper. Fire per Cents., J 34 paper. Coupons. Si pale'
Bank of St. Ferdinand, 8& Exchange on Loodm, 30.30.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Letters from Rome, of the
31st ult., state that the ex-deputy Cerunschi was still
contintd in the Castle of St. Angelo. There was no
symptom of the coreusion of the neptiations for a
loan, without which the Pope cannot return to his
capitol. Large numbers of citizens, including nearly
100 superior military officers had been driven into
exile.

LOMBARDY.—The Milan Ga:ette publishes the
following proclamation :
The confidence of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria
having invested me with the functions of Lieutenant at
Lombardy, and the military command of the Lombardian
provinces, I have this day taken up my residence at the pa.
lace. Inh,biunts of Lombardy,—His Majesty, our very gra
chute sovereign, desires to heal the wounds shim you have
inflicted upon yourselves; he wish,. tracquillity and confi-
dence to restore these provinces to their former flourishing
state, which elicited the admiration of the world ; he wishes
you to enjoy the institutions he has granted to all the other
provinces of the realm. Experience has shown you to what
results vain theories lead, and how much bitterns. and
misery they entail upon society. I trust that such illueions
have disappeared. A friendly hand is extew'ed towards
you ; his the hand of peace ; conduct yourselvi s PO that I
may soon have effaced every vestige of the peat. Let every
one henceforward labour to uphal.l the respect due to the
laws. In order to maintain their authority, circumstances
still call for the state of siege, which, however, shall w vet
rfere with the pursuits or habits of quiet and respectable
'shifters. I shall be severe, but just. All persons shall have
free access to me to obtain assistance and prot. ction, and I
shall prove to you that, impressed as I am with the paternal
intentions of our sovereign, I have no other object in view,
but that of ensuring your happiness.—The Imperial and
Bevil Lieut. Maeshal,
de- Milan.

I. SINCE CIIARLIN OP SCHWLIZINIIIIIIO.
Jan. 1.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

The New York Herald publishes a letter, dated
Pairing, Dee. 4, which contains the ()arming statotarnt
respecting her Majesty's ships Herald end Plover, coestitu•
tug the expedition Bent to /Waring Straits, in search of Sir
John Franklin :

"I send you with this a list of the eiippktg in the clout
ports on the tout that the Panama stopp: d at in comime
down. I would call your attention particularly to the
arrival at Mnzstlan, on the 13.11 November, of the British
man of war, Stu Herald, Captain Kellett,. She wan in
search of Sir John Franklin, and proceeded at far as 73 10
latitude, but could not get any tidings of him. The Rena
left the Plover man of war to winter in llehrinei fiorhtz.,
The Plover's boats had been mint up the Mackenzie River,
in murk of Sir John Franklin. The baits were to winter
at the nearest station. The impression of the c mimander
of the Herald is, that Sir John Franklin it safe, al-
though I cannot give yes the data es which that impres-
sion is founded!

Powremours, JAR. I.—TM Terrible, at. frigate, was
taken into dock title storming to aseertem whet lounge was
(x oiened by grounding at DeT0t111,1“. The Myrtle et.
awls today for D.ronoort with Royal Maria.) At tillery
for service In the Gladiator, fitting at that p ort. Tbt Myrtle
then returns to Sheerest's to be petd oil, 44 the Sprightly it
now ready for service of this port.

AMERICA.

Our New York correspondent writes an follows :
NEW YORK, Deo. 26.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury recom-
mends higher duties, as a protection to American in-
dastry,in strong language, and the levying of specific
duties, in most cases. I BM inc;ined to think the
Secretary would not bare been so marked, if he had
r thought his measures were likely to be carried. By
this recommendation he keeps up the whig issue of
" American industry," while he is very sure it is not
likely to be successful.
The British minister and suite have arrived in this
country. The Hecate, after touching at Bermuda,
steamed over to the Chesapeake, and threading her
way up through rather a muddy channel, and pass-
log Mount Vernon, our Mecca of the mine)
dropped anchor two miles below Washington city.
I judge, from the accounts I have seen, that the
minister is prepared to represent his government
in a style to which we have been lately some-
what unaccustomed. Mr. Fox made no display
whatever, except, perhaps, in his linen, which
Lrarted far away and above his cravat. He was
y and 'A taxy in his habits. Sir Henry will do
ass favour if he will mingle in oar society, and a
substantial good to his own country besides. We
regret that some young ladies of his family connexion
did not accompany him. We see very few well-bred
English in this country, and these who have not met
them at home do not fully understand the
polish and courteous bearing of your better
clams. The example of one thorough-bred
English family at Washington would do more
to correct our feelings towards the " mirdier
country" than all the jibes of "Blackwood,"
or the I)odonian thunders of the Tones. Lord Ash-
burton produced a very good feeling at Washington,
and so did Lord Morpeth, albeit our merry demoiselles
did not think him a very elegant personage. Sir
Charles Banks was an agreeable man, and his lady
was altogether a very charming acquaintance; but
England has not been represented here as
she is in Paris, or at the Hague, or
in Vienna. I have an intimate friend and
relative, who, by virtue of his position abroad, has
been at seven difibrent European courts, and certainly,
from his descriptions, I imagine it must be altogether
delightful to mingle with a class of persons who are
in the highest degree "civilised; with education,
tact, and manner, that prepare them fir every possible
contingency of social intercourse, and never permit
them to make any mistakes. That gentleman has
several times described his receptions at the mansions
of the English great, and in nothing do they appear
greater than their admirable knowledge of the little
things of life.
Sir Henry will be rather astounded at the appearatce
of Washington, a strangling town of "magnificent
distance-, with avenues radiating from various
'entree, and the deign of a French engineer of the
une of I: Enfant.

In connexion with his arrival, we have the grati-
fying information that Mr. Lawrence has copmuri-
cated the views of Lord Palmerston in relation to the
Nicaragua question and the affairs of Central Ame-
rica, and that they are so frank and so friendly as to
have n room to fear a rupture on this subject. It
would, indeed, be a pity to see two nations cf the same
blood cid language fallirg out ab ut nothing. On
all this glob.: there are but two sane countries, Eng-
land and the United States, and they should under-
stand each other. We seek a transit to the Pacific, not
exclusively ; why should not your coml. ry juin
hands with us, and help us through. It is, it must
be impo-sible, that in our tfferts to make a communi-
cation which will benefit the whole world, the Eng-
lish government should refuse its aid. We there-
fore augur from the appearance of your new envoy, a
strenglln,n;ng of our mutual bands, acd a guarantee
of perpetual amity.
My private information from one who is in the
confidence of Mr. Clayton, leads me to believe that
no difficulty whatever is apprehended in this matter.
An election was held in California on the 10th
Nov., to ratify or rejtct the hew constitution. From
the returns received it was certain that the con stit utiou
had been adopted by an almost unanimous vote. It
was b. lieved that Mr. P. H. Barrett would be elected
governor, and Mr. John M‘Dougall litutenant-gov.r-
nor : M• sere. R. M. Price and O. W. Wright, repre-
sentatives in Coonress. The democratic party ap-
pealed to carry all before it.

ANIERICUS.