The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

PASSING OF TALE

ORAL LAW.

FIIIDLT Bymmoo.
The sitting of the Legislative Awashlpyr=
csanamenoei at the usual hoar. M. Finnan
a petition demanding an appeal to the people. K
Leon Faucher asnonneed that the committee on the
Electoral Law would not be ready with their mat
on the petition, against the law until to-morrew.
The debate was resumed upon the Electoral Bill
Article 9 excludes, for a pericd of five years, from the
right of voting, all persons condemned to more than
use month of imprisonment for rebellion, outrages,
and violence against the authorities or publio fores,
for offences specified in the law on attroupmente, ea&
the law on clubs, and for infractions of the law on
hawking about articles for sale; the same term of
imelthion is visited on soldiers sent for punishment
tale eampanies of discipline. M. Charm proposed
to suppress the paragraph applying to the military-
Hia amendment, having been opposed by M. Arne
and General d'Hautpoul, was rejected. The Oth
article wee adopted, with an addition of MM. Manila
and Mortimer Ternaux, applying the exclusion to
persons condemned for outrages against witnesses or
juries. M. Nettement proposed to extend the same
disqualification to persona convicted of adultery, or of
keeping a mistress under the conjugal roof, or of sell-
ing adulterated liquors, or of selling by false weight.
or of indulging in stock-jobbing frauds. This amend-
ment was adopted, as far es related to adultery t the
other parts were rejected.
The suooeeding articles were adopted without any
discussion of interest, after the rejection of a lot of
amendments proposed by MM. Vau,uas, Peupin, Cho-
'mix, St. Romme, and Leroy. The last of these was
highly important, and was only thrown out by an in-
considerable majority. It proposed that every Preach-
man of 21 years of age should be en, itled to vote at
the elections of 1852, provided that he were iescribed
on the roll of the persocal tax, or of the highway
duty for 1551 and 1852, saving the disqualifications
specified in the
The first vote, taken by aisle et let', was doubtfuL
M. Lagrange proposed to incapacitate from serving
in the army or navy persons disqualified to vote.
Numerous voices called for the previous question.
Toe motion of MM. Levet and de l'Espinasse to Sue
electors who made no use of their franchise, was re-
jected. On M. Moreau (de la Crease) proposing to
exempt from taxation all disqualified to vote, the
previous question was voted. M. Larabit eomplained
that the vote of urgency reduced to three days only
the constitutional right of the President of the Re-
public to submit the question to a fre.h deliberation.
The President of the Assembly said that the Chamber
had no business to interfere in what concerned the
c institutional prerogative of the President of the Re-
Eublic. The debate on the separate articles of the
lectoral Law having closed, at FIX o'clock the ballot
commenced on the ensemble of the law. The result
was as follows:
Number of votes ..
Absolute majority.. ..
For the law
Against

. 1174
. 338
. 433
. 241

Majority for the law .. , 192
Several members of the Mountain abstained from►
voting.
General de Orammont has presented to-day a pro-
position for a credit of three millions for the purpoee
of transferring the sittings of the National Assembly
to Versailles, as well as the residence of the President
of the Republic, to date from Oc:. I, 1850 ; and for
the appropriation of the palace to this ohject.
The committee of parliamentary initiative has ter-
minated the examination of propasitirms recommend-
ing_the convocation of the councils-general in case of
an meld", and transferring to these councils the au-
thority of the central power in case of a rupture of
communications. It reeommtmds the measure to be
taken into consideration.

Neither Lord Not manby nor any person attached to
the English embassy was present last night at the
Foiree of the Elyeee.
The report of the committee appointed to examine
the bill to prolong the time for which the law against
the clubs was •oted has just been sent ie. The com-
mittee declares, that although it is to be hoped that
the disorders against which the WI was voted will
not recur, still as the peril remains, it is of opinion
that the bill against the clubs cannot be safely re-
scinded. The committee also d( clans in favour of
urgency, es the bill on the clubs will cease to be in
force on 19th June.

The omnrnittee on the proposition of M. d'Olivier,
tending to replace the law of Nov. 18, ISI4, rel►tive
to the suspension of labour on fd a days, his sent in ita
report, and recommends to hare it taker, into °onside-
! ration, declaring that M. d'ollivier's views appear of
a nature to nsefally modify the old law.
The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular
to the prefects, recommending them to forward by
every possible means the estab'ishment of gratuitous
communal libraries.

Dr. Remy has just been charged by the French go-
vernment to go and study in Brazil the variety of the
yellow fever known by the name of " cernada." After
quitting Brazil, 1)r. Remy is to go to Angola and
Congo, for the same purpose.
The .31,1 in wial of Sainte. states that, on the 10th,
at twelve o'clock at night, not less than 6,000 COM-
munists assembled at Beziers, and decided that 10 or
12 men should poet themselves be'ore each house de-
stined for destruction, in order to prevent the owners
from going out ; also, that the provision stores for
the troops should be set fire to, in order that whilst
the inhabitants flocked to that quarter, time should
be gained to erect barricades, and appoint new au-
thorities. This plan did not satisfy the mass of the
conspirators, and they threatened their chiefs to act
without them. The latter, finding themselves forced,
considered taut their only hope of escaping from a
dreadful massacre was to go sad reveal the whole
plot to the heads of the town. This was done,
and numerous arrests were immediately effected.
General hosteler, on being informed of what was
passing, sent a reinforcement of troops. Not leer
than five quintals of gunpowder and a great quantity
of fire-arms of all kinds were discovered ; also, a
number of long pikes. The country districts were
said to be calm. A letter from the same town, of the
26th inst., states that four arrests were effected on
that day.
Above fifty persons were arrested yesterday, 4
connection with the association which I mentioned as
having been discovered in the Faubourg St. Martin.
There was an extraordinary improvement of priors
to-day at the Bourse. The Fives closed at 92.65, a
rise of Ifr. 100. on yesterday. The Threes expe-
rienced a rises of 60c., and closed at a7.30._

The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has
slightly increased during the past week, being 1 Ladd.
lion more in Paris, and 1 million more in the country.
The discount accommodation has increased 31 mg-
lions in Paris and of a million in the branch banka,
the amount of the former being 42,970,777(r., and of
, the latter 66,283,327 fr. The protested bills have
I declined about 70,000 fr. in Paris, and remain nearly
as they were in the country, the former being
885,265 fr., and the latter 1,363,323 fr. Oa the side
of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have aug-
mented 21 millions in Paris, and about of a million
in the country. The current account of the treasury
has increased about 1 million, being at present
40,282,633 fr. Private accounts current in Paris has
increased about 11 millions, and in the country about
1 of a million, the account of the former being
90,129,6931 r, and of the latter 28,304,5388% The
whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 471 easl-
lions to 4941 millions of notes in circulation.

PARIS, MAT 31. 1 FOC i I
Money. i tiimiii
3 par Otata. 37 36 t
il
3 per Cleats. . 93 60 ^ 92
3 do. New lass ! ,
44 par Crou I .
i per Oasts. I 79"19
1133238a5e al Laidig 1 at 4
Bees. 6, 1840
Ir
Do. h 1
Du. 4 - -
Madame 3 per ONO +441 10 „
&wawa -St. lawman, 330; Vera
bank), 143 30 ; Paris and Orleans, 7J
sad Havre, 918 73; Marieilk• an/
Mlle, 103; Orleans awl Tiaras
348 73 ; Northam, 443; Park
NiIDISS 114 74.

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