The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the Times Private Correspondence.)
Pants, WEDNESDAY EvExina.---The journals are filled
with articles upon the state of parties consequent upon
General Lafayette's resignation, but I assure you they cora-
plituent each other in writing more than they do, viva
voce, when you meet them in their private circles. The
new law of election will not, I am informed, be introduced
this day : to-morrow is intended to be devoted to it, and
some warm speeches are expected. M. Mauguin has pro-
mised to speak this evening, and he humourously says,
" that man is entitled to be heard who was described in
one and the same day to be Consul, Minister, and pri-
soner," alluding to the rumours of the different parties
during the troubles of last week, that the people tneant to
make him a Consul ; the clubs+ a Minister ; and the Go-
vtrnmen., a prisoner.

You will be struck in reading the speeches in the
Chamber of Deputies yesterday evening, and the Presi-
dent of the Council Lafitte, who a few days ago denied
the existence of a conspiracy against the State, although
he said the Government would act as if they believed in
one, now says, there has been a plot, and offer, to pro-
duce written evidence in proof of it. M. Odillon Barrot
(who retires with General Lafayette from office) rather
negatives this assertion, and says, that as Chief Alagistrate
of Paris, he had no such proof before him.
General Lalayette's house last night was thronged with
viliters, and he was the object of every kind of homage.
There are many rumours about the new electoral law,
which is to produce the trial of strength betters the po-
pular party and the Government. Rutnoars of all kinds
are afloat upon its quality, and Ministers maintain a
strict silence until the development in the Chamber of
Deputies.
I am informed, however, from a person who professes
to have (and I believe has) access to good intelligence upon
these affairs, that the Government mean not to fix a ge-
neral and unalterable qualification fur the electors, but
while they nominally reduce the present standard of 300
francs to 250 or 200 (more likely 250), to leave that still
liable to a more reduced arrangement, according to the
local circumstances and wants of the departments.
In the first place, they mean to double the present aunt-
her of electors, which they consider will be sufficiently
extending the popular basis of the national franchise. They
will then request each electoral college to send forth a spe-
cified number of e!ectors, and if that number cannot be
found, according to the schedule of qualification already
alluded to, then there shall exist an authority to diminish
its amount, so as to comprehend the electoral sense pro-
vided for the locality. An inflexible rule is, they say, in-
applicable to the condition of France, and that by this de-
scending scale, according to local wants and circum-
stances, the electoral voice will be better heard. The
qualifications of the elected are differently spoken of ;
some say the standard for them will he fixed between 500
and 800 francs ; others, that the present rate will not
he altered.

There are arrests in daily progress. A M. Dumoulin
was yesterday apprehended, an old officer of Napoleon's,
and a friend of M. Cassimir Perrier ; but I understand
this person was liberated last night. A boy, connected
with the Duchess of lierri's household, was also taken
into custody; but I have heard tkat the pollee act upon
slight suspicions in these affairs, sad that the most im-
portant disclosure yet made is M. Lafitte's, yesterday,
when ha declared that there was written proof to show
that the friends of the exiled family were leagued to esta-
blish a republic, and expel the Orleans brunch from the
throne.

Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg is expected at his hotel
in Paris this evening. Rumour is again busy with the
negoeiation of a marriage between Princess iUary of Or-
leans and this Prince—the dowry to ha the throne of
Belgium.
Y.