The Express. — 1850-12-14 (London, England)

FRANCE.  PARIS, FIIDAT EVINtaO. A committee of representative wu appointed :oday on the government bill for tbelway of the West. The majority of the committee appear to be favourable to the bill. The National makes the following observations on the bill in question: It Is easy to an why the government is anxious to terminate this affair. The Versailles (Loft Bank) Railway Company obtained in 1839 • loan from the government of five millions of francs, and the government has sines then never been able to receive back either its capital or interest. The Constituent Assembly gave orders to have the property of the company mired on. Proceedings were commenced, but not urged oo ; and now, la order to save the company, it is determined to concede the Western line to a company which will pay back to the state the advance which it could not otherwise obtain. The concemion in question consequently may be summed no (nth, fact of a present of five millions being mad* to the Versailles (Left Bank) company. But the company Welshes the concession ban taken care to gaud itself from loss The state abandons to it for nothing, with the exception of three millions reimbursed for stock and rails on the line between Versailles and Chartres, all the works executed en to the present time with the money of the budget—via , the stations of Paris and Vangirard, 5,380,0021 r. • works between Versailles and Chartres, 28.000 Mfr.; works between Chartres and La Loupe, 3,000,6001 x.; works beyond La Loupe, 3,380.0001 r. It en gages, in edition, to finish the works of art and earth works as far as Rennes. The company is to lay down the iron-way between Chartres and Relines, and to furnish the nemesary stock for working the line. It may hewn from the/statement that the state, in the first place, pays the new company dear enough for the five millions which it gives to the Ver. sallies (Left Bank) company; but, in order not to lavish his favours etelusively on the Left Bank Company, M. Bioeau prepcsee to oast/tract, at the ant of the state, the line which is to join the Right Bank Railway with that to Rennes. We should have imagined that the increase la the circulation produced by that junction would have enabled the financiers of the Place du Hem to construct it at their own eost; but we have not the honour of living, like M. Dineen, in the midst of capitalists, and we no doubt do not understand the full consideration which is due to them. The state is also to construct, at its own expense, the branch hoe to Viruflay, that being an additional trifle of 680,0001 r. felling on the treasury. Ralf a million given to the Right Bank Company is certainly very little, when five millions are given to the Left Bank Company.  In the Assembly's sitting of to-day a debate took place upon the third reading of the bill introduced by M. St. Priest for the prevention of usury. The proposition was defended by M. Laboulie, but attacked by the Minister of Justice on the ground that the law of 1807 was enough. After a speech from M. Odilon Barrot against the bill, the first article, which contained its principle, was rejected by 366 yot.es against 293. The sitting then broke up. A letter from Angoulime states that the AbbeGothland, on being taken to the prison of that town, recovered from the profound discouragement into which his condemnation bad thrown him, and on every day since he has smoked his pipe nearly the whole of the day. When arrested, hie pecuniary resources were very small, and they appear to have been entirely exhausted by his outlay for tobacco. The day after his condemnation he wrote the following letter to M. Beyselance,rerponsible editor of the Republicain de la Charente, who is confined for some offence of the press :—" Sir,—l am absolutely without tobacco. You know that it is a cruel privation—almost a torture— for a smoker. Would you have the kindness to send me enough to fill my pipe ?" The journalist immediately forwarded him a pound of tobacco. Minute precautions have been taken to prevent the culprit from committing suicide. lie converses freely with the turnkeys. After his condemnation he described to them with great calm his impressions, his hopes, during the last day of the trial, and his surprise and despair on hearing himself con, damned. Surprise having been expressed at the dir appearance of the letters he had received from Madame Allier, he stated that he had torn them up to light his pipe. Jeans Bearne, the servant of Mine. du Sableo, who, it witl be remembered, was arrested ' in the course of the trial for baring given false evidence, is kept in secret confinement, and was frequently interrogated by a magistrate. She has, it is said, made important revelations. M. Mon quits Paris to-day to repair to Madrid, where he is expected to take the portfolio of Finance. The provincial journals prosecuted by the Napoleonist organs of Paris for defamation have been acquitted. Monsignor Garibaldi, the new nuncio, is arrived at Marseilles.