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

FRANCE.

PARIS, 714 DAT Eveurso.
Althoesk it is affirmed that the President exerted
' himself t 4. suppress tie imprudent manifestations of
imperial/it seal which ware called forth by the chant-
pogo* of the Illysis among the officers and sergeants
of the snaitipal guard, the impartial chronicler
cannot entirely acquit him of virtual complicity with
such intempwite and mischievous demoastrations.
To what end are the banquets given ? Why ere all
the regiments of the gammon to be treated in micas-
aim P Not simply for melting down the presidential
income, that were mere insanity, bat as an invest-
meet and deliberate calculation. The illicit toasts
and exclamations of the banquet have excited all the
more nodes frost their occurring on the eve of a
joarney made in the hope of reviving the
President's decayed popularity in an impor-
teat region, where Bonapartism always counts,
when bard-pressed, open being able to mate a stand.
Among the guests at the banquet of the Blysee were
a great many membered a secret Bonapartist society,
called the "Dix Decembre," which counts among its
5,000 members several old military officers and sub-'
officers. But the most ardent zealots of this impe-
rialist club are of Cagigas origin. The existence of
this society has been often signalised by the press,
and never denied by the government. From its ranks
are famished the troop of elopers that attend the
President on his journeys of paraie, and the cones-
pendent' who describe the enthusiastic receptions
even by the provincial population to the heir of the
Ernperoll.
The President of the Republic, according to the
latest accounts, has definitively resolved to pass the fleet
in review at Cherbourg as his return from Lyons and
Strasbourg. One of the ministers announced this in-
tendon today in a manner nearly official.
Three of the ministers, namely, General d'Hant-
pout, and MM. Binean and Ronher, will accompany
the President on his journey. The Minister of Marine,
M. itontain-Deefoselts, is going to make a semi-mari-
time excursion ; while M. Fuld, the Minister of
Fiascos, assists at the sittings of the Council-General
of the department of the Mantes-Pyrenees. The four
remaining ministers, MM. de Lahitte, Baroche, de
Parieu, and Dumas, will stay at Paris to attend tto he
affairs of the government.
A deputation of three persons from the municipal
council of Marseilles, SIM. Albrand, Abeille, and
Lombard, arrived today is Paris, for the purpose of
promoting to the Minister of Commerce the remoo-
strances of the council against the late decrees rela-
tive to the board of health.
M interesting ceremony yesterday was the inau-
guration of the statate of Luray, the famous surgeon
of the imperial army, at the Val-de-Grace. Among the
assistants at this solemnity not the least interesting
portion was a cirri of 100 invalids, upon whom
Laney had operated. It appeared strange to many
that an occasion so intimately connected with the
memory of Napoleon should not be graced by the
presence of his nephew the President. Probably the
eirearnstanoe of the government having recently sup-
pressed the surgical school of the Val-de-Grace wee
the reason of his absence, as well as of that of the
Minister of War. Grating to the ears of brh would
have been the reproach of M. Baudens, the head-
surgeon of the Val-de-Grace, when he alluded to this
sore subject. The hero of the day was Dupla, who
walked in to the flourish of drums and trumpets, at
the head of the commission of the monument. The
statue of breeze, by David, of Angers, was unveiled
amid the clang of "sonorous metal blowing martial
*Decd.." Old Dupin, in a fit of happy inspiration,
jumped up on the chair from which he presided, and
delivered perhaps the best speech be ever made.
He drew, in lively touches, the mission of
the man whose hospital is the battle-field
of his in'rrpid coolness and humane devotion.)
Larrey war wounded, while binding the wounds
of others, in Egypt and at Waterloo, in the days of
glory and of disaster. The President of the Assembly
spoke with much feeling, and when he jumped down
from his chair a general rush was made by his friends
to embrace him.

The government has given its consent to the crea-
tion of a lottery of seven millions, five of which are
to be devoted to the transporta.ion of five thousand
workmen of Paris as emigrants to California. Most
people think the government has been duped by this
alluring bait into the indulgence of a speculation,
whose aim to rid Paris of dangerous subjects will
be accomplished.
The sitting of the Assembly to-day was entirely
devoid of interest, being taken up wholly with the
reading of the report on petitions.
M. de Rothschild gave a grand dinner at the
Jardia d'Hiver, on Wednesday, to the members of
the Assembly, merchants, and financiers, previous to
the dispersion of these notabilities for the vacation.
Various touts were drunk—" To the union of all the
parties of order ;" "To the prosperity of the capital
and departments," &c.
M. de Lamartine arrived at Marseilles on the 6ih,
from Constantinople and Smyrna. He is expected at
Macon.

The Ami du Peuplo his been seised to-day.
There was a slight improvement at the Bourse to-
day. The men of commerce did not conceal their
satisfaction at the breaking up of the session, and
closing for some months of the Assembly, which they
regards' a volcanic source of political excitement.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has in-
creased t millions in Paris, and somewhat more
than 1 million in the provinces. The discount aooom-
modation shows an angmentatioa in Prins of about
lt millions, and a diminution in the departments of
41 millions, the amount of the former bring
61,374,799 fr., and of the latter, 75,131,028 fr. The
protested bills have diminished in Paris about
60,000 fr.; and in the branch banks, about 6,000 fr.;
the amount of the former being 2'22,3491r.: and of
the latter, 1,383,469 fr. On the side of the liabilities,
the notes in circulation have fallen off in Paris 9 mil-
-1 lions, and in the provinces 11 millions. The account-
current of the treasury has increased 4 millions, the
present amount being 62,369,240 fr. Private accounts-
current in Paris have increased about 11 millions, ,
whilst in the country they show but little change. the
amount of the former being 69,314,693 fr.; and the
latter, 23,394,125,r. The whole amouut of the me-
tallic reserve is now 446 f to 507 f millions of notes in
circulation.

The report of the committee on the bill demanding
• credit for the Minister of War orators than 12 millions
for the maintenance of the effective strength of the
army beyond that determined by the budget of 1860
was yesterday distributed to the Assembly. It ad-
mits that the minister has been compelled by the
force of circumstances to exceed the credits allowed.
It states besides that, in order to own* within the
limits of the original budget, it would be necessary to
immediately send 64,000 men to their homes, and con-
sequently to reducet he general effective streog th for the
rest of the year below 345,000 men, which would be
a'tended with serious inconvenience, and the more so,
as the reduction would affect thesub-officers, corporals,
and the best trained soldiers.
The report of the committee on the propositions of
certain representatives for authorising an extraordi-
nary meeting of the Councils-Cieneral in the event of
a revolutionary crisis in Paris, was yesterday dis-
ltribated to the Assembly. The report, in accordanee
with the propositions, recommends that, in the event
of the executive powers being unable, from force