The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIIDNVIDAY EVINING.
The committee on the notation Bill has not held
any sitting to-dey. The interrogation of the Ministers
of Finance and Interior is put off until to-morrow.
Great efforts are made to overcome the opposition of
the members unfarlurable to the grant.
The Prase, alluding to the fear that has been mani-
f.sted by some persons of a rupture between the
President of the It lenblic and the majority of the
National Assembly, and of the c ins quenees which
might result from P., says that, by the promulgation
of the Electoral Taw, the majority have deprived the
President of the Re;mblic of his two last cards, one
of which consisted in the possibility of It's cabinet and
his system, and the other in the right of a direct appeal
to the people by means of a resignation and a pissible
re-election. After having thus represented the Pre-
sident as powerless ag ,inst the majority of the Na-
tional Assembly. the Presse alludes to a rumour that,
if the proposed giant be rejected, he will resign his
office.

Alluding to the supposition of a change of mink-
tei a the Prase eve:
The President of the Republic will not change his cabinet,
for, if he wished to do so, he could not, unless he took hie
ministers from hisante-Lhamben, and even then it would
be o ty a charge of ministers, and not a chewed cabinet.
The writer then, taking up a statement in some of
the journals that the President of the Republic is in
debt to the extent of 1,400,000 fr., recommends that
he should apply half his present allowance for the re-
maining two yean of his presidency to the payment
of these arrears, and amnia himself with the
600,000 fr. a year which will still remain to him.
Finally, the Pewee regards the question, whichever
way it be decided, as of little importance, considering
that if theraetbave its inconveniences it may be
considered mew light as the ooesolidation of the Re-
public. All the President can do is to remain the '
pos.ive depositary of the power confided to him until
1852. Before the passing of the Eectoral Bill a
change of cabinet, a change of policy, was possible ;
now the President can only drive on in the rut
which has been marked out for him by the leaders of
the majority.
In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the bill for
creating cams de retraite was proceeded with as far
as Article 12, which declares that, in order to encou-
rage workmen to deposit their aavicgs, premiums
shall be awarded to those who have for five consecu-
tive years paid in at least 131 r. a-year. This provi-
sion was rejected by 316 votes against 20'J. The
rectified budget of war for 1831, presented on Men-
der, by the Minister of War, was yesterday distri-
buted to the Assembly. The budget of 1850, voted
since the presentation of that of 1851, has undergone
various modifications, of which it is important to take
account ints:irnating tbeamount of the credit necessary
for the latter year. Fur instance, the National Assembly
deeded that t, e battal ion of Gendarmerie Mobile should
be carried up to 1,200 men, and that a second batta-
lion should be formed; and it also decided that a
third squadron of Guides should be maintained. On
the other hand, the Minister of War has thought it
necessary to (Mot some changes in the staff of the
fortified towns, in order to satisfy the wants of that
branch of the service; and has, besides, thought it
right to accede to the wishes of the councils-general,
and establish a brigade of gendarmerie in the 461
cantons which had hitherto been without them. The
total of the credit demanded was 320 millions ; the
corrected budget amounts to rather more than 306
millions; the saving is rather more than 13 millions.
la the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day
the debate on the bill for establishing ea:eses de retraite
was resumed. The system of distributing premiums
umong the most substantial and assiduous d positon
was rejected. Several articles relating to the ma-
chinery of the law, and involving no principle, were
successively adopted without any discussion of inte-
rest. The Assembly decided on submitting the bill to
a third deliberation. M. Charles Lagrange demanded
to address an interpellation to the government on the
unpaving and macadam's +ter -f the boulevards. The
demand was adjourned by the Assembly to three
months hence. The Assembly deferred the discus-
sion of the bill relative to the funds of mutual succour
(cam de serours mutuale) until the law of the cams
de retraite should have been definitively voted. The
debate was then opened on the credit proposed for the
completion of the Emperor's tomb.
Too bill for opening a credit to complete the Em-
pa or 's tomb, as amended in committee, was adopted.
The order of the day now tilled to the discussion of
the law for voting recompenses to the wounded of
February. An animated di bate took place on this
excitiaz theme. The committee proposed the rejec-
tion of the bill,az holding out a premium to insur- I
rettion. M. Barcche, Minister of the Interior, de- I
fended the motion of the committee. M. Pascal
Duprat opposed with energy the suppression of the
intended rewards, which wra equally insulting to the
revolution of February and to the repuhlio which
Wiled from it. Ile could not comprehend the govern-

Iment which disavowed the source from which it rose.
, sad cited the example of the government of 1830,
'which tweaked aid sfehispeased the combatants of
Jul ,and the materation, which rewarded the emigris
and ennobled the lather of Georges Cadoudal. This wu
a policy hostile to the republic, but not new. It was
not the first time that attempts had been made to dis-
honour the mother be cedes to kill the child.
M. Callet observed that M. Pascal Doprat chose his
examples ill, sines the restoration and the monarchy
of July had both &Bea, after having done honour to
the principles from which they proceeded. He pro-
tested against holding out encouragements to revolt,
and could not conceive bow the bill could find any
other supporter than M. Cremieux, the Minister of
Justice of the insurrection. (Violent interruption
from the Left.) M. Ferdinand de Lasteyrie advo-
cated the rights of the combatants of February to a
national reward. M. Monet, the reporter, mounted
the tribune when our report closed.
The Assembly motet one in the bureaux to appoint
three committees; one to examine the motion of M.
Pupil) relating to Monts-de-F.e.e, another on the
Node allowed for the administrative expenses of the
Assembly, and a third on the demand in authorisa-
tion of prosecutions formed by the Procurear-General
of the Court of Appeal of Martinique agsinat M.
Bissette, member of the Assembly, for defamation.
The affair of the Emperor's tomb seems at last to
have received a solution in the report presented by
M. Lsroct,ejacquelin. The only interesting portion
of this voluminous document relates to the jud4ment
passed by the committee on the financial proceedings
of M. Duchatel, under whose auspices a sum amount-
ing to fit 7 thousand pounds sterling was expended
upon this monument without the unction of a corre-
sponding credit in the budget. M. Larochejacquelin
regards this irregularity ei'h more indulgence than
the former reporter, M. Albert de Luynes, who pro-
posed to make the imprudent minister petsonally re-
sponsible for the unauthorised outlay. He distin-
guishes between the political condemnation pro-
nounced by the refue 1 of a bill of indemnity and
civil responsibility, rejecting the latter notion as
altogether below the dignity of the Assembly, and
wraps up delicately the blame iccurred by the minister
in yielding too easily to the su4gestions of persons
interested in the job. Finally, the report admits that
every shilling has been satisfactorily accounted for.
The modifications proposed by the committee in the bil I
of Cie government will effect a saving of 17,0001. ster-
ling. It proposes to suppress the equestrian statue
that was to be erected in the ring of the Esplanad,
of the Invalids, and to replace it by a plain statue in
the sepulchral chamber, which is to cast 1,0001. The
Assembly is invited to vote the reduced credit of
2,120,0001 r.
The election of Girardin far the Bos-Rhin was "or-
rently reported in the Chamber, but nothing official
was yet known.
The state of the p.ll in the election for the depart-
ment of the Lower Rhine, known in Paris up to this
afternoon, is as folios :—Girardin, 16,000 votes ;
Charles Muller, 10,900 ; Leichtembereer, 6,000. A
liter account given to Girardin 30,000 votes, while
Muller had obtained 21,000, and the third candidate
10,000. Several sections had still to vote ; but Girar-
din's election was considered certain.

Much surprise has been excited by the appo:nt-
ment of a civilian, M. l:erryer, to he prepident of the
c-Atimittee on the Recruitment Bill, while General
Cavaignac, whose special studies on military organisa-
tion have absorbed a I:f., is excluded from a board
over which a year sr) he would have presided.
There hiui been to-day a considerable improvement
in the funds. It was reported with much confidence
at the Bourse that the schism hitherto visible in the
majority on the subject of the increase of the Pre-
sident's all-mane had been closed, and that it was
arranged that the bill should pass. The probability
of this Kerns to be confirmed by the buoyancy sud-
denly exhibited in every di Ecription of security. The
' Five cicsed at 94fr. 20z., a rise of Sac. upon yesterday.
The Threes went up to 56f. Lae., 45c. higher than the
closing price of yesterday. The Bank Shares re-
covered 201 r., and the railway share-market exhibited
a marked improvement.
The President of the Republic yesterday held a
council of ministers. Before the sitting of the coun-
cil Lurd Normanby had an interview with the Presi-
dent at the Elyse,.
A manifesto is spoken of as on the point of being
issued by Louis Philippe, expressing his contrition at
having consented in Is3o to replacs the legitimate
Bourbon branch. People are much occupied with the
journey of M. Thiers.
M. Ronher, Minister of Justice, presented yester-
day- a bill for providing poor suitors with counsel,
free of expense.
Several of the delegates of associations who were
arrested on the 29. h May, in the Rue Michel le
Conte. have been removed to the prison of the Nou-
vdle Force.

M. Lucien Murat, who, as you are aware, is an in-
separable friend of the President, is reported to have
resigned the command of the 3rd legion of the ban-
Ilene of Paris, in consequ lnce of a dispute with ()me-
ral Changarnier. The latter refused to deliver orders
for the supply of cartridges to the colonel of the 3rd
legion.
The committee of parliamentary initiation heard
M. Dab:aux yesterday upon his bi,l L,r applying the
new electoral law to municipal election. M. Ciiss-
signe-Goyon was appointed reporter.