The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVIMIXO.
The extraordinary sitting of the Committee of Per-
=nem* which gave Ties to or, meth speculation,
took plans to-day. General Larsoriciere, who is just
returned to Paris from his visit to the Herta, was
present ; but neither M. Molt nor M.Berryer was there.
Al pains were taken by Dupin,who presided,to procure
as tall an attendance as possible. Nevertheless, several
were absent, se the committee did not muster more
than 26 members, the bureau included. The Minister of
War gave the explanations desired upon the incidents
of the reviews, which have excited so meek the public
attention. The committee separated at 3 o'clock, and
adjourned until Friday, the day after the next re-
view, without coming, as far as I can learn, to any
resolution of importance.
A cabinet council was held at the Elyete before the
sitting of the Committee of Permanence.
The Piedmontne government contracted, on the
3rd, a fresh loon of 120 millions of francs, with the
house of Rothschild and Company.
Then has appeared to-day in the Prose a sequel
to the picture abick M. de Lamartine has presented
of the impeoved °maiden of the poorer clue., in
England. K de Lamartise, after describing his
dismal impressions of the vice, misery, and squalor of
the English poor in 1830, finds out in 1860 that the
present generation of paupers are all clean, moral, and
happy, thanks to what he calls the onservative
socialism of our aristocracy, to whose praise-
worthy exertions during the last twenty years
be &Unbitten thin wonderful metamorphosis. I
ressesaber is Mr. Cooder's " Hand-Book about Italy "
two descriptions by two different travellers of the
same city, but as opposite as light from darkness, the
key to this mysterious diserepaney being that one of
the travellers entered the city on a floe market-day,
when all was oolour, butte, and gaiety, and the
other chanced on a dull afternoon, when the dispeo-
pled streets borrowed additional gloom from a scowl-
ing sky. If the change observed by M. de lizar-
ds* be net in like manner des to external accident or
internal mood, then indeed we should have reason to
be proud of ow: advancement in the difficult art of
civilisation, and if the improvement be traceable to
the Christian spirit of our aristocracy, as the Preach
poet asserts, we should have reason to be still prouder
of oar peers than our pauper,. But in these letters
there is hardly one word which has the honest
dog of truth, either in observed= or representation.
The post sees all en couleur cis rose' even to the trashy
samosa of plater which debase our architecture.
M. de Lams:tine is absorbed in reflecting whence
totawedigisoepregress of bier etre can have__Pre-
wkaa a Mar appears to him, as Virgil did to
DAM% he the lima -Olormein with a book in hl
hand, whisk Inns oat to be a list of the charities of
Louden. He le mare a democrat nor &Algoma.,
neithersE nor risk, masa seism nor
this —bat tkookowieesenoiser cea =a;—
ro.
halm two eammOso a wolkthrolgh the circles
of laades. A Imetaldeeeripdixt Witagent.strest foi- 1
lows, is whim& like the &dans and Doria in
the ash Bnriat are said to abound, besides a
worig sl slum Gomeme, Weeds" ileoesque. and
Egyp, As sodosiestie and elaborate deeeription
of the eintedidimenis of shop-fronts follows :
64 Tee a city or- WOW lays OA rots eild he
add, well mg whet a maw of benelimme
in seeded. to @dada an equilibrium between so
mash lumpy sad so mash want." "Wait," answers
the guide, " this luxury is work. Yes; our 'nate.