The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

period. He did not, indeed, explain either misetely
or lucidly how the saner came to be wanted, but he
assure
in op,
hours that it was absolutely necessary to
keep it n op, ration during the summer months and
hinted that none but the most ordinary precautions
had been taken to render the process ianoxious to
those who are unfortunate enough to be in their im-
mediate eh:laity.
Opinion is much divided as to the object with
which this troubling of the dirty waters of West-
minster has been set on foot. Some allege that minis-
ters, anxioas to abeidgre the session, have instigated
the Commissioners of Sewers to stick our legislators
out of their respective hones. If this be really the
case, the means are certainly admirably calculated to
ensure success. It sill not be easy to persuade any
member of parliament who regard. his health to ven-
ter, near the house while all the filth and pollution
of Westminster and Pimlico is being tossed about and
ventilated under the beams of a hot midsummer sm.
Others, again, assert that it is • manoeuvre of the
Commiseioners of Sewers, prompted by sheer pique
because the drainage of the Houses of Parliament has
been entrusted to Mr. BARRY, and because Mr. BARRY
will not conform to their instructions. We have no
disposition to take up the cudgel. for Mr. BAIRN,
but really parliament has suffered sufficiently for the
sea (if mu it be) of eninloyiog him to coestruct the
new palace. He has thrust the Lords into a ball
where they cannot make themselves heard ; he ha.
subjected the Commons to the necessity of emulating
tho bottle conjurer, and cramming themselves into a
space of less cubic capacity than their aggregate per-
sonal proportions ; he Ilse, by deficient provieions for
ventilation, subjected them /o the but and cold blasts
of Dr. Boswatt REID ; and by offending the sewer-
age conmission, he has entailed upon them expoiare
to typhus, cholera, and other pestilential visitations.
Some words that dropped lest night from Lord
ASHLEY have suggested • th;rd passible object ef
these proceedings. Lord ASHLEY was understood
to state that tie commies eners are at present
" sitting upon three cesspools," just as the famous
lady of B ibrlon is understood to sit upon seven hills.
It Ills been IHrgested that the peculiar taste which
Ir.ii induced the commission to select such • locality
and mode of holding their a &rows may have led
them to imagine that the tastes of parliament may
resemble their own. Satottnrr, already referred to,
has, in his " Humphrey Clinker," indeed recorded
the existence of a learned doctor who professed to de-
rive great enjoyment from a somewhat similar mode
of stimu'ating his olfactory nerve.
Altogether the other nations of the civilised world
must at present entertain neher a strange no-
tion of English taste in matters of smell. They
hear a bishop of London declaring his pre-
ference of a residence in immediate proximity
to a churchyard overrrowdtd with festering corpses;
they hear the united dignitaries of the City clamorous
for the maintenance of Smithfield ani all its odours;
they are told that the Serpentine, the favourite resort
for drives and promenades of I be fashion of London, is
a perfect retort for the development of fetid gases;
and in a few days they will 1-arn that a michire has
been deliberately erected to distribute foul airs and
noxious smells throu.eh ell the halls, I cbbios, and
committee-roa ms of the building in which the na-
tional legislature assembles. Tracy will fan that the
muse of Swim so prone to dilate upon stink., could
alone do justice to the existing generation of Lon-
don,' s; that the winds which blow over London
must be the very antithesis of the "spicy gales from
Araby the blest."

FRANCE.

PARiS. EVENINO.

Lest sight *ere occurred a very serious dis-
turbance at the Barri&e Poisemiutere, which might
easily have ended in another 13•11ofittee. A drunken
quarrel, about half-past tight, had collected a crowd
Lear the nillitary prat of the barridre. The com-
mander of this par, which 11141 occupied by six men
and a corporal, sent two so.diere to disperse the mob.
Two of the republican guard and tome soldier, peas-
lag on their way to quarters assisted in this duty ;
sue their joint efforts being met by a determioed re-
sistance on the part of the crowd, the soldiers collared
two of the nearest and led them off to the plat.
This was the signal for a row. In • few
minutes upwards of .7/00 blouses were on the
spot and prepared to storm the post, giving
vent in the mean time to their rage in insults. The
corporal, in the first moment when the afftir assumed
la serious aspect, had sent off for !Niehus to the
barrack of La Nouvelle France. lie drew up his
six men in order of battle, and made them load their
arms. The pause which followed on this demonstra-1
tioa of energy 'cabled the reinforcements to arrive in
' time to save the post. The new com rs were how-
ever received with a shower of stoner ; but after a
few charges they suceeded in clearing the space in
front of the corps de garde, and in arresting six of the
rioter,, who were conducted before the commissary of
police at La Chapelle, and sent thence to the prefec-
ture. Tula scene lasted for two hours. Shortly after
half-put 10 quiet was completely restored.
The Assembly decided yesterday, by a majority of
372 against 226, against bestowing rewuils upon the
combatants of February.
The election of Girardin for the department of the
Lower Rhine is announced, but the official figures are
not given, lie is stated to have obtained a majority
of 6,000 votes over the con,ervative candidate.

The committee on the flotation Bill met to-day. Six
members are favourable to the bill. Of the rtintin-
leg nine, five are opposed to it, and four propose to
grant the augmentation yearly, under the form of
supplementary credits to the budget.
The Petrie retracts its announcement that the ma-
jority of the committee on the nutrition Bill were
favourably disposed to the measure. In fact, the
dissensions which have arisen in the committee have
removed for the present all hope of an underat Lading.
The committee did not sit yesterday, bat some attempts
wire nude by persons deputed by the government to
procure the adjournment of a decision until some
arrangement suitable to the dignity of the Assembly
and to the views of the President could be arrived at,
in order to settle this awkward affair u speedily and
with as little noise as poesible.
In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day,
after some explanations had been offered by %I. Le-
rochejacquelin and others upon the sitting of yester-
day. a debate commenced upon the bill relative to the
rewards to be granted to the wounded of June. M.
Segue d'Aguesseau proposed to put upon the same
fouling with these the soldiers wounded in February,
and the families of those soldiers who were killed in
the defence of order. This amendment was not taken
into consideration. The articles of the law were suc-
cessively adopted, as well as a pill granting a
pension to the widow of General Itegnault, and
another bill granting the salary of a legionaire "
to the decorated veteran officers of the garde mobile.
M. Baroche brought forward and demanded urgency
for a bill establishing a theatrical censure. Urgency
was voted. The Assembly then adopted the articles
of a motion by General Grammoat to repress the
cruel treatment of animals, and agreed to hold a third
deliberation thereupon. A proposition of NI. Pascal
Duprat for the appointment by election of the councils..
general and municipalities of Paris, was then dis-
cussed. The committee proposed the rejection of the
motion. This conclusion was opposed by M. Ilanne-
quin, and defended by M. Labordere, in speeches
which offered no point of interest.
The proposition of Pascal Duprat was rejected by
a large majority. After this result the sitting broke
up, at half-past six.
The commencement of the sitting to-day was
marked by an incident which created some interest.
Larochejaquelin occupied the tribune to utter a vehe-
ment protest against the phrase of " amassin," which
had been applied by the Left yesterday to the Van-
dean hero, Georges Cadouhal. The president, how-
ever, cut him short, and the Assembly passed to the
orders of the day.
M. Gaizot is on the point of setting out on a jour-
ney which will comprise the loading courts in Ger-
many. The motive swiped for this tour is together
materials for a great historical work. The great ac-
tivity in conducting political intrigues evinced by M.
°idea during his sojourn in Paris, and his assiduous
appearance in the salons of the Russian embassy,
gives room for surmise that his mission is by no mesas
confined to literary researches.
The expression to the President's speech, on die-
' tributing savings-bank tickets to the workmen of St.
Quentin, that " his sincere and devoted friends were
not in the palace, but in the cottage; not under gilt
ceilings, but in workshops, in the streets, and
fields, has been mach oarreeeed, as hinting a dis-
position to revive the name of his decaying popularity