The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

ghe erpretiii. TO CORRESPONDINTS. • drateed Lattice of " The Eamon" weataistar tbe a. $ evoniefe Le published every Tubby oda Yeaday eft. In Www br plot admire wants Intended far '• llto Express." lawbal Swabs paper. inuat bo at the 4X4011, 10. b0.41,1114ir1i4 Two u'olosa ou the day of publication. RlOll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Taus Ilse—Morning, 31i. Afensece, 3b. 2ltu. Tasuaaow—Morning. is. 431 n. Arserupos, 6k. 2m. • LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 26. TIRE suggestion—first given iu this journal—that the Tag-as fleet, and such other ships as may be needful, should be brought home at once to make our coasts more secure, has found an echo all over Eng land. Not only has the press of the metropolis hastened to support our demand, but journalists in the previnces have at once responded to the justice and common sense of the suggestion by repeating from county to county the cry of—" Bring home the fleet." When this important sebject first found piece in our columns, it was accompanied by the decla ration that before the ministers asked fur arms extension they ought to 1w prepared to submit a pail fur army reform. .littl now. lest they should endeavour to evade thew terms, let us point out one or twe plain , and broad abuses which require no military skill to detect, and which no military bluster can hide. The people of England have ever been, and ever will be, ready to pay liberally for real aerviee— witness, for instance, the rewards to the Duke of WELLINVININ—Iet the people, then, not be called niggards, if they demand that military abu ses b e reformed. before more taxes are spent on the increase Of an army already too cumbrous and too costly without lx:ing at all too efficient. 11 e hail' often thr...eted public attention to the anti- Judy of having two branches for currying on the civil portion of the army expenditure, but Coloael t'ttessr.r. in his observations on fire arms, brings this forward in so serious a light, that Use sooner the matter is thoroughly investigated and put to rights the better. Nothing can be clearer than that in an army there should be but two branches the working ar.d the paying. This com mon-sense plan is adopted in agricultural, in coin meicial. in manufacturing affairs. But in our army there are some half dozen divisions of the subject. and, therefore, half-a dozen sources of patronage and expense. Them are, for instance, the Horse thsiziL,. the Commissariat. the Ordnance military corps, and the Ordnance storekeepers. Let us glance at one of these. The Ordmince.office in London is represented at all foreign stations by a Board, termed that of Respective Officer". This consists of the senior storekeeper, the senior officer of Artillery and the senior officer of Eng:ewers. If at the Mauritius, Hong Kong, or any other out of the way . station, some serious emergence arises, either sickness or war for instance, and that extra buildings are required, or extra stores have to be purchased, the general commanding, although enppesed to represent our government, has no civil officer to warrant him in undertaking these necessary expense 11,—he must rek'r his wants to the board of Respective Officers, two of whom aro officers under his immediate command. These officers. after con sulting together, and taking into consideration the propt4or otherwise of their commanding officer's refer the subject to the Ordnance-office at dome, and on obtaining its answer, give their con sent or refusal for the works requested. The consequence of all this may be—as was the caw at Hong Kong,—the loss of much lmman life, because no one would at once sanction :he hiring of a transport far the sick. By this system we tray for more servants than we want --lavish public maney, and have no one responsible for doing :what ought to be done. The general is not respon sible, for he is in the hands of his subordinates ; the " Respective Officers" arc not, for they must commu nicate with the Board of Ordnance in London ; and by the parliamentary report of Ordnance expendi ture, we find that that board is not responsible, either eollt Lively or individually. Now that some one should be responsible, and that that responsible person should he the chief man, is a maxim which has been adopted in every other public department. In all our colonies the governor should have a certain discretion allowed him, and if tkat governor is a general officer lie should certainly not be controlled by officers subor dinate to himself. What do we want with more than one civil branch? When a French army is in the field the senior officer of artillery is responsible for all the ammunition and guns, and the engineer fur all the stores of his department. It is both an econ onical and a safe plan, for. in ease of deficiencies and blunders, it is easy to find out who to cali to an account. Why should our plan not be the same ? Wo want but one civil department, represent in; our treasury. The Commissariat have the provisioning of the troops, the supply of transports, the furnishing of hospitals; and were the Ordnance corps transferred to the horse Guards,—as desired by Mr. Ilene, and by every artillery or engineer officer who has the welfare of his corps at heart,—the Com missariat could also be entrusted with powers of con trading for great coats, mending of tin kettles, and I other little varieties which at present constitute the I week of Ordnance storekeepers. If the artillery officer had charge of his artillery stores, we should . have one man responsible instead of a "board," and it would be easy for the senior commissariat officer I representing the civil branch, to make a half-yearly or I quarterly inspection of these stores. But, then, this effichmey and economy would lessen the amount of patronage. Colonel CITEANEY, writing for the information of i the public, and overlooking personal considerations, brings forward his own case as an example of the I evils arising from the present system. General D'AnctLaa, commanding at Hong Kong, baying ordered certain stores to be removed from one part of the town to another : the order had to I be obeyed ; but the Respective Officers reported the a circurnatance home to the Ordnance-office. The general, angry at being reported, suspended the I officers of the board. These officers referred I this matter also to head-quarters. and at the end of six months an ambiguous answer I was returned, to the effect that General IYAOUTLAR should be reminded of an order in the Qereses regulations, that he had no right to inter- j iltze with the respective officers; yet, it was so glar hag a CAW that . junior officers should not openly op =their seniors, that Colonel CIMINET was or home to England, and the Ordnance store- keeper was transferred to Ceylon. Now, had say damage been done to these stores, and the board of Ayers had not reported home the circumstance, they would have been held acconutable. !laving done so, they were punished for doing their duty. ' Of course, there was no redress. Let us look to another case which at present oceu pies much public attention. Oar soldiers are badly armed with muskets similar to these used fifty years Ago. 'Hie Commander-in-Chief is blamed, but un reasonably. It is true that the men arc under his com mand, and that ho is responsible for their efficiency, —but he has nothing to do with their arms. That belongs to the Ordnance, and not onl to the Ord nance, but to the (-Ira branch n it! A Mr. Laravaxte who has never worn a red coat in his life, or marched ten miles with a knapsack and the present regulation musket to carry, is controller of the small arms department. The London and Birmingham gunmakers t can make lighter and much better pfeces than those in use. Thu best sportsmen in the land look to the judgment of cumnakers— It men as a WESITLEY RICH %EDS, oral, V.'il*V4T ER— but the board will allow no one to introduce im provements objectionable to Mr. Lover. t., who, having found that the men of forty years ago did very well with the present muskets, dots not sec why they should not do so now. Why should not those whom the government have placed st the bead of our in. fantry be allowed to arm that infantry as it should be armed P Why should nut commanding °Seen —soldiers in fact--arrange the soldiers weapon P At present the Ordnance civil servants do this, mad as they want money to keep up the ()Mimes establielimente, they cannot afford new muskets, It is said that, if properly armed, one man out of tea will make a good mink-mum. Would it not be more wise and economical, then, for us to have an infantry composed of espert, well armed men, for on that principle ;pylon good marksmen would be worth more than fOO,OOO indifferent ones? Ordnance reform requires that Ordnance patronage Amid be given up, and that will net be done with out a hard struggle. But there are men willing tie attempt this reform, and all who clean may ... ciency and financial economy win with thlen success. No one probably will give them Ls a Lion than the NIASTEII•CENYJIAL, for no elle better than he does how little weight he hes at the hoard, where, when the object is to cut down expen diture, the stint is made to take effect in the wru n g place. It is not by giving infantry bad muskets and artillerymen tatteml great coats that the public will thank the Ordnance board for shortening the esti mates, but by being less fond of sinking thousands sterling on ordnance works in our thousand and one remote • - "-...—where they may he . lost in another war, or hive to be givia up to future co louist4. On our foreign stations we should have in each place but one responsible chief; ono who could be held accountable to the nation for any foolish ex penditure, and who should not be hampered by subordinates who, unable to restrain him if bent on his pm pose, have yet to bear the blame of that which they had not the power to remedy. if this and other reforms were effected, patronage might be lessened, but economy would be increats d. Nothing is really cheap that is practically ineffi cient; and whilst we wont a thoroughly complete defcnsi force—both afloat and ashore--we require, in the name of the country, that the money now spent on armaments should . be well spent before we are asked to pay more. AT last the inquisition into the stuto of mind and ealueity to take ears of her property, of poor Mrs. CATHERINE (1:11SIING, IA over. What might have been cheaply and satisfactorily done, in a day or two, under a rational and simple system of inquiry, it has takt. a a commis sioner of lunacy-, nineteen jurors, four learned counsel, and a bevy of attorneys. no less than sixteen days to get through, at a cost. it is stated, of 3501. a day, or of 3,600 f. in all ! This, we submit, is a much greater scandal on the law and its administration, on the country and its legislation, even than the petti fogging plunder by the low lawyers who prowl about Newgate ; and one which the many honourable members of a highly honourable profession should sea amend, il. And for the scandal we cannot help thinking that the counsel retained are very much to blame. The machinery provided by the law in such cases is, no doubt, bad, and cumbrous, and lumbrous, and costly enough. First, you have to convince the LoRD CHANCELLOR by reams of affidavits, .piles of briefs, and hours of argument that it is proper to ininire; and then you have to carry on the enquiry itself before a very imperfect autl insufficient tribunal, presided over by a judge or commissioner possessing no great weight or authority, and quite unable to restrain or check the tediousness of barristers refreshed every morning with substantial fees and anxious to see their names ' in the newspapers. This, we repent, is bad enough ; but, in Mrs. CCUMING's case, a bad machinery was badly worked by the counsel. Scores of witnesses were called to prove the same facts. To the opinions of everybody worth having were added the opinions of everybody not worth bating. Not a soul who had known or seen, spoken or visited, served or sold to the unhappy lady but was called on one side or other. Learned doctors were followed by gositipping charwomen. Her up getting. and her downlyings were exposed iu most offensive detail. Frye wituess, important or unit-- portant, was examined and cross-examined at a length devoid of all discretion or compunction. And fa diousness rose on tediousness until the robust " Brother WILKINs" complained of being sick, and the well-refreshed Sir Fitenfatex THESIGER boasted how much he was wanted elsewhere. To suppose that all this expenditure of money and of time was indispensable to arrive at Mrs. Ceemstc's real state of mind is a far gro s ser delusion than any she la boured under : it was 11 very wanton waste of both by the legal persons engaged in the case. This unfortunate old lady seems, in point of fact, to base been the victim of law and lawyers. In 1816 they squabbled, and quarrelled, and ditputed, and contested whethn she was sane or insane, over a former commission, at an expense of between 2,000/. and 3,000 L, without settling the question; and ever since she has been in legal hot water. First she had an action of trover to recover her title deeds. Then she had an indictment for perjury hanging over her head. Next came the preliminary struggle fora new corn m issaion before t he Chancellor. Lastly followed the commission itself. less than five years she has had no fewer than seven attorneys-at-law teasing, and tormenting, and plaguing her; assisted, pro bably, by twice as many barristers, whom she never saw. And all this fuss. and contention, and litiga tion, ill blood, bad feeling, irritation, and animosity, is about a lady. 73 years of age, paralysed in both limbs, and troubled with disease in the bladder. In humanity can hardly go further than is displayed in the case of Mrs. CATHERINE CUMMING, who, like TnumSON'S Lovely young Lavinia, once had friends, But fortune smiled, deceitful, at her birth. Had she been a pauper, a burthen on her family, or a mere life renter of some „miserable annuity, living in a petty lodging , and riding about in omni buses, small would have been the care of these gentry for Mrs. Cl:lemma. She might have kept ten instead of five cats in peace, been either as "dressy" or as dirty as she appeared to different witnesses, and have believed that in every pennyworth of milk she bought there was an ounce of prussic acid, without securingeither the regard or the sympathyof the people who stem to have infested, and invested, her person. But, unhappy old lady! she had 4001. or 500/. ayear in fee simple. And the real question the commission raised was whether it should descend to her heirs at law, who were her own daughters, or be divided amongst her attorney and his particular friends ;—a point on which society cannot have much doubt. The attorney who conceived so strong a regard for her, affected, of coarse, to believe her sane. Under such circumstances his duty was plain and clear ; morality imposed it, and professional etiquette could not avert it. It was to break down even well founded prejudices against her own children, to miti gate even her just wrath, to assuage her indignation, to promote domestic peace, to reconcile mother and daughters; and not to separate, exasperate, alienate, and keep apart those whom Quo and Nature had joined. Against such arts and practices and influ ences as were brought to bear against Mrs. Cue every family in England is interested. HCARICANE IN TIM efivetzt.—On Satunlat night it blew one of the most fearful gales in the Eaglet Channel ever known. The new West India steamer Ori noco, on its passage from London to Southampton, experi enced its full fury. The gale came on just as the Orinoco gamed Dover. The sea washed Over her funnels, and for three hours, although her engines were going at full sp ee d, she was , ensbled to make but little way ahead. She took eight hours in running the twenty miles from the Por,land to Dungeness. Nut a penes on board ventured to retire to rest dating the whole, night. She proved a lilendid sea boat , or she could not have lived out the gale. She tame up South amigtom water y...terday aft:rnoon after her fierce encour,t er with the hurricane of the preceding night iu splendid style, It is feared that there mast have been a great lees of *Lipping 1 and lif, in the English Channel. At Satathamt too it blew with tremendous fury the whole of Saturday ni.. t ht, so muc h so that the French nail boat from that port •ereo anablip to put to sea until yesterday morning. Tne rltr.Nett ARMY. —The United SerViee Gra:elle has the following : "It ii rumoured in well-in- Peened quarters that in the budget to be presented to the French legislature upon its assembling, • proposal will be made eliminating from the highest autbonty in the /e -goistic fir Ike reduction of the French army. This, takes in coma eau with the pacific tone of the circular to the Europium powers, ought to disarm apprehension." AMMUNITION TOR THE CAPY..—Threo waggons loaded with ball cartridges, with 1 mounted sergeant, 1 trumpeter, 6 gunners and drivers with 12 hones, and 1 n on . (*mini...Mined dicer and 10 dismounted gunners an escort, left the Royal Arsenal on Saturday last, at 10 o'clock am., under the command of Lieut. Bury, of the 11 field battery, for the Ilricklsyere Arms railway terminus, for isonveyance by special train to Portsmouth, where they will b, shipped em board the Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Release, for the Cape of Good Hope. DE.trit Or JOUN READ, FSQ., LITZ OP THE ORD -26 tarn D . Mr. Read, who formerly and for many yeus was connected with the Ordnance Department, died on the 22nd inst., at the advanced age of 98 years. In 1801 this gentleman acted as secretary to the military mis sion la the Tubs, when the French were driven from Egypt, and for his services received a gold medal from the Grand VisTer. Ile elan served in a similar capacity untie r Sir W. Congreve at the siege and capture of Copenhagen in 1807, and proceeded in 1809 with the oapedition to AVal cheren. Mr. Read had recently received the wee r wag medal fur the campaign in Agypt la 1801. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1852. FRANCE. THE NEW MINISTERS. PARIS, SATURDAY ETUNDICI. I mentioned yesterday that General do St. Arnaud bad tendered his resignation of the ministry of war rather than consent to the decree confiscating the pro perty of the House of Orleans. The Moniteur of this morning confirms this report, but adds that the Pre sident has persuaded the minister of war to remain in office. What arguments were used to work this remarkable conversion is not stated. But Louis Na poleon may live to regret that ho is served by ministers who allow the potency of any arguments, however solid, to prevail against the voice of conscience, and to push them fronethe path of duty. The words of the official journal aro these :—" The Minister of War and the Minister of Marine had offered their resignation, but have withdrawn it upon the instances of the President of the Republic." General de fit. Arnaud had served under the orders of the Duke d'Aumale, in Algeria. His scruples against tho decree of confiscation were natural and honourable; but it would have been far better fur his reputation as a statesman and a soldier to have concealed those scruples altogether, than to admit that they were overruled. M. de Mentalembert has acted apparently with more firmness and tact. He has seized, not without dexterity, en honourable , occasi .n for backing out of the desperate adventure in which he had engaged, to the scandal of all who believed that such eminent talents could not exist without some grain of morality. The tinkers of to-day announces that he, M. de lifrode, and M. do Mortemart, have resigned their seats in the Commis• sum amsttl Meier. As this step is evidently motived by the decrees which appeared yesterday in the .llonitettr, it means of course a complete rupture with the government on the part of those notable men, and a refusal to form part of the Senate or Conseil d 'Etat. It is expected from this manifesta tion on the part of the leader of the church purty, that the poor curates will renounce the provision that is made fur them out of a portion of the confiscated property. Tho conduct of M. de Nlontalembert is the more important, as the curates will have immense influence in the elections by universal suffrage, which will shortly take place for the corps Vilislattt: M. Fiulin de Persigny, the presiding spirit of the new ministry, has been lung quoted as the com pletest representative of the Ires Nitro/ea/deems, the fides .1, halts of the l'resident, his shadow, and through nll administrations his most intimate counsellor. Whatever ministers were in office, the influence of M. do Persigny was behind the curtain. Born in 1810, he became a pupil of the school of Saumur, and entered in 1829 the 4th regiment of humus. I laviug retired from the army, he founded in 1833 the Recite de 1' Occident Fran air, in which he published an elaborate examination of the impe rial system. This publication first introduced him to the acquaintance of Louis Napoleon, with whom he formed henceforth the closest ties of intimacy. M. Fialin figured among the most sanguine adventu rers in the expeditions of Strasbourg. and Boulogne. In the latter he was taken prisoner, tried before the Court of Peers, and condemned to twenty years of imprisonment. He had already suffered more than a third of this term of captivity in the prison of Doulleus, when he was released by the revolution of February. 1 need hardly say that M. de Pcrsigny has not shown much gratitude to his great liberator, Bonapartism, of which he is the soul, Irving been one long campaign against the men and inetitutions of 11418. M. do Persigny's diplomatic missions to Berlin and other courts are too well known to need further mention here. Meanwhile, it will be important to remember that this confidant of the President recently undertook a journey to Brussels, for the sake of urging up9n Leopold certain measures for the repulse or rigorous treatment of re fugees, and fur the coercion of the press. No one has been astonished, although many have been grieved at the tame compliance of the Belgian government with the dictates of the Tuileries. The expulsion of M. Carnet, of Alexandra Thomas, and several other cotimable men, and the violence allowed towards the exiles liberated from Item within the Belgian territory, are sufficient evidence that the independ ence of Belgium is gone. M. de Persigny, it is thought, will soon succeed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is to be hoped that his administration will be such as to give no colour to a fear very widely felt, and that the absorption of Belgium may not, like the confiscation of the Orleans property, be proclaimed to the world by a decree. M. Abbatucei, the new Minister of Justice, has always formed one of the leading advisers of Louis Napoleon. Until the appearance of his name in the , seam ministry w ith M. de Pervigny he was esteemed one of the moderate party. Under the monarchy of ; July he was a member of - the Chamber of Deputiee and a judge of the Court of Appeal at Orleans. After the revolution of February he became a judge ' of the Court of Caseation and representative of the Loiret- In both assemblies he was dumb, and is, ' therefore, consistently an advocate of parliamentary mutisen. Ile is called M. Abatucci pere, to distin guish him from his son, the representative of Corsica, to which island the family belongs. M. Bineau, the new Minister of Finance, was, as you are aware, Minister of I'ublic Works in the ministry of MM. Baroche and Fould. For the latter department he was not ill calculated, having been formerly head engineer of mines, and of diligent, business-like habits. I have already explained the chief motive for ere athig the ministry of state. In fact, you will have observed that the constitution of Jan. 11 suppresses the council of ministers, which bored the President, and offended his despotic notions by the usage of debating the measures laid uporrthe council board. Tho " new and simple politique," as M. do blorny calls it in his circular, does not admit of discussion. The ministers will learn the President's will through his Minister of State, who is charged with prectst ly the same functions that were discharged by Maret, Duke of Bassano, under the Emperor. M. Xavier de Casablanca, to whom this peat is confided, was formerly the advocate of the claims of the Bonaparte busily, and probablysuggested some of the chicaning emmiderations upon which_ the decrees of yester day were founded. M. do Pensigny has appointed as his chef dm cabi net M. Theophtle do Montour, formerly ono of the editorial staff of the Patric, then redactcur of the Pou roir, and lastly of the Public., the halfpenny news paper recently set up. The announcement that M. Piotri is to succeed M. de Maupas, seems somewhat distrusted, as the state ment of the Patric to that effect has not been copied by several of the morning papers. Hence it is sup posed that the censure cancelled the paragraph as inexact. I hew that an authorization will be required for all existing journals, as well as for those which are to appear here after. The morning papers are silent with regard to the decree of confiscation. The Patric of last night con fesses that the flr.t impression will be a painful one. But it hopes that after reflection people will see the hand of Providence in the retribution inflicted upon Louis-Philippe's family, for having placed upon hi) own head a crown that had fallen from the brows of an old man and a child, his relations. " Alas," ex claims the Patric, " fortune has strange reverses, and politics have inflexible necessities . ' This is a line of defence which gives up the whole question. Maria Lopez, the actress, has been set at liberty, owing, it is believed, to the interference of the Princess Mathildo. It is intended to augment the number of serge» cis rilk and of republican guards in Paris. M. Tieblin, chef de cabinet at the prefecture of 'sp lice, has been appointed chef do cabinet to M. do Maupas, the Minister of Police; ace M. Faujoux has been appointed private secretary. A " communicated" note in the evening edition of the Petrie, just out, says that the organi c l aw o f t h e Council of State, and the list of members composing it, will appear on Monday. This seems to imply that the senatorial list is not ready. M. Fabre, tho Chief Judge of the Civil Tribunal of Rodez was arrested on January 18. M. Silvan Blot, who was secretary-general to M. do Maupas, is doing the duty of Prefect of Police provisionally until the appointment of a new prefect. Count Joseph Szembeek, chamberlain to the King of Prussia, has just arrived from Berlin upon a spe cial mission. The Minister of Police will have under his direc tion six prefects of police, who will reside at Paris, Lyons, Marseille'', Strasbourg, Bordeaux, and Lille. A marble cutter, named CArtron, riNiding in the flue St. Martin, was arrested yesterday, and sent to the prefecture, for using insulting expressions to ware the President of the Republic. This man is an uncle of the ex-representative Joigneaux. By a decree of the Prefect of the Nord, sixteen wine shops have just been closed in different parts of the department. Steven demands for authorisation to open new wino shop" have been refused. The Moniteur do Loire has the following : " MM. Martin, Michot, Pereira, and the three other prisoners of Orleans, whose transportation has been changed into exile, are still in the fort at Brest, where they are closely confined. M. Pierre Lachambaudie, the 'socialist fabulist, who came with them to Brest in the Canada, and was confined with them in the fort, has been removed to Paris. The Cuurrier du Bar Rhin Nava that M. Ifochstuld, ex-repn.wentative, who is included in the decree of banishment, has received a passport for America, to which country he will proceed ria 114mburg. The Minister of Commerce has addressed the following notice to the various Chambers of Com merce : Cienticmen,—A decision come to by the sanitary council of Constantinople, in August, Mil, prewrilw. to In Cry VOh sel arriving in a Turkish port to display a yellow flag until declared to have a clean bill of health. As some French vessels havo experienced difficulties from nut having conformed to that measure, I hive to r.qucst you to make it known to all shipowners awl captains trading to Turkey. The part of the Rue Itivoli which passes to the north of the Hotel do 1 ills having been macadamised, and furnished with candelabra, was yesterday opened to public circulation. The Motif/cur contains a series of decrees of the President of the Republic dated yesterday. One directs that certain laws in force in France Anil henceforth be applied in the colonies. Another re peals the ordinance of the 15th November, 1812, which authorises the fixing of a minimum price for gum exchanged- for gothi4,. (a peculiar description of cloth). Two other decrees open an extraordinary credit of :18,798f. 20e. for paying the balance due by the budget of the Legion of Honour for nominations and promotions made in the Legion in 1810 and 1830; and a supplementary credit of 2:1,6321 50e. to the budget of 1851 for the purchasing of decorations for memhers of the Order. Another deerce appoints M. Pelletier, chef du cabinet of the Minister of Finance, referendairo of the 2nd class of the Cour des Comptes, in the room of M. liamot, deceased. By another the sociN anonyme called the " Corn pagnie des Services Nlaritinies des Nlessageries Nationales," is authorised. And by another M. Paul= d'lvoy, prefect of the Orne, is nominated prefect of the Manche, in the room of M. Jourdain. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 50c., and closed at 102.50; the Three per Cents. fell 1.50, closing at 64.75. Bank of France shares rose sf. Railways varied bat little from yesterday. MORE CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY. TILE COUNCIL. OF STATE. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PROM OEN OWN COKQE4PONDENT. PARIS, MONDAY Monstsn. Lefebvre DuralV, Minister of Commerce, is nomi nated Minister of Public Works, in place of Magne. The ministry of commerce is united to dud of the interior. The govrrniucnt, with a view of re-assuring the publicnuudaa toany fear of new measures of severity, declares it will not recur any more to exceptional The Moniteur publishes the organic decree on the Council of State, divided into ten sections. The following are the nominations announced :---M. Itaroehe, Vice-President (with 60,000 fr. salary), to preside in the absence of the l'resident of the ltepublic-, six presidents of sections, with 30,000 fr. ; M. Maillard l'resident of Committees of Debate ; M. ltouher, of Legislation, Justice, and Foreign Affairs ; M. Delangc, of the Interior, Public Instruction, and Public %Worship ; M. Purieu, Finances; M. Nlagne, Public Works, tee.; Admiral Leblanc, Military and Admiralty. Among thirty-four Councillors of State are : Carlier, Generals Allard, Armand, Lefebvre, Leroy, Dc Saint Arnaud, Villemain, Vintry, Conti, Coriludet ; five ex-ministers, Ferdinand liarrot, Bonican, Oriaud, Thorigny, Waisse ; nine ex-repro nentatives, llarbaroux, Bouchard, lloinvilhers, Charlemagne, Darriste, Denoix, Flu,din, Fremy, Claude ;j nine ex-councillors of state, 'hamlet, Boula- tignier, Boulay de la 11leurthe. Cuvier, Ilurumun, Janvier, Marchand, Stourm, There arc to be 20 masters of requests of the first class, 20 of the second; 16 auditors of the first class, and 13 of the second. The Emperor or Morocco has written a friendly letter to the President. The changes announced above leave the ministry thus definitively constituted: MM. .lbattucd, Justice ; De l'ersigny, Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce ; Bineau, Finances : De Suint Arnaud, War ; Duces, Nlarine ; Turgot, Foreign Affairs; Fortnul, Public Instruction and Worship ; De Mau pas, Police; Ciissabicuica, State ; Lefebvre Durutli , , Public Works. TITLES OF NOBILITY RESTORED. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. By a decree published in the .Ifonitcnr, the decree of the provisional government, dated Feb. 29, 1 , 418, concerning the former titles of nobility, is abolished. The great news of to-day is M. Dupin's resigna tion of the post of procureur-general of the Court of Carnation. The ex-president of the National As sembly has written a pungent letter to M. Abbot taxi, the minister of justice, nottt)-ing his retirement from the office, to which he continued to cling with such unworthy tenacity after the coup it.'hit of Dec. 2. Like M. de Montalombert and others, M. I)upin has seized occasion on the confiscation decrees of expiating his first meanness and blunders. No paper has been allowed to re-produce the statement of the trisirers, announcing the re signation by MM. do Montalembert, de Merode, and de Mortemart of their seats in the Consultative Commission. You will have seen from the official paragraph in the Pattie, which 1 sent you yesterday, that although the list of Councillors of State is an nounced for to-morrow, that of the senators is still postponed. The fact is, that no civilian of eminence can be prevailed upon to form one of that body. To the names of those who have declined seats in the Senate I must add that of M. de Touchy. Se veral fresh resignations in the Consultative Com mission have been produced by the decree of confis cation. Among these aro M.M. llalley-Claparede, Lacoste, and (heparin. fhe President has determined upon taking off the stamp duty on the fcuilleton of newspapers. A credit of 2,950,000 f. is op reed to the Minister of Public Works upon the budget of 1852, of which 1,3211,000 f. is assigned to the circular railway round Paris, and 1,030,000 f. to the Lyons and Avignon Railway. The above sum is annulled in Chapter VIIL of the 2nd section of the budget of 1851. A fresh credit of 333,33:5fr., being equal to the first payment to be made by the grantees of the and Lyons Rail way of their share in the expenses of the execution of the Circular ltailway about Paris, is opened to the Minister of Public 'Works. The amount of the above credits will be carried to increase the sum as signed iu chapter V. of the second section of the budget of 1851. for the establishment of great Rail way lines. Another credit of three millions of francs is opened to the Minister of Public Works for the execution of the works of the part of the Western Railway comprised between i.e Mans and Laval. This credit will bo raised on the payment paid Au gust 15, 1851, to the Treasury by the Western Rail way Company for the object above sp e cifi e d. A multitude of decrees are mentioned for holding of fairs in different communes. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Flysi.e, at which the new ministers were present. The offices of the Minister of State arc to be in the pavilion of Flora, in the Tuileries, near the study of the President of the Republic. M. David, Plenipotentiary Minister, President of the international Sanitary Congress, is made Com mander of tho Legion of Honour. M. David, Seem racy of the same Congress, is made Chevalier of the same order. The Monitersr gives us the amount of duties on im portation received during the month of December, 1851, 9,012,020 f. The corresponding amount, in 18.111, was 11,791,050 f.; and in 1819, 10,299,176 f. Tlw total anima of duties on importation during the year 18,11 was 117,121,48 M. The corresponding amount in the year 1840 was 121,090,101 f.; and in 1819, 127,850,282 f. The President gave last night a grand ball at the , Tuileries. Between four and five thousand persons were present at this immense fete. The tile of carriages commenced at the Place de la Concorde; '; and the unfortunates who occupied a rearward rank were obliged to spend three hours en ratan before they arrived at the perron in the Carrousel, and could reach the foot of the great staircases Then such as were not prepared to make a magnanimous sacrifice of their paletots and wrappings had to undergo a fresh quarantine before they could receive a ticket for the deposit of the same in the l'estiaire. Thus several parties who made a comparatively early start from their houses did not succeed in reaching the scene of display before three in the morning. The whole range of buildings appeared to the outward spectator brilliantly illuminated. The grand staircase WWI profusely adorned with wreuth of flowers, which' were continued into the magnificent suit of apart ments freshly repaired and restored to all their et i , gloat splendour for tho occasion. Notwithstanding the immense spaciousness of the brilliantly illumi nated halls, the crush was so dense that people could hardly arrive by forming en queue front the bottom of the staircase to the top in less than half an hour. Uniforms bedaubed with gold, and breasts plaited with orders, glittered on all hands. Great numbers of English and Itioadan officers appeared to be pre sent, from the sprinkling of scarlet and green coats and furred hussar jackets. Then all the various dia lects of the British Isles greeted the painful exolarer of this resplendent crowd. The President mimic his appearance at 12, ir. the Salle des Mari , chaux, coining from the Pavillon Menem. lie was dressed in the uniform of u lieutenant-general of the line, and wore the grand cordon and the crochet of the Legion of Honour. lie had a rosette of the same order attached to his sword-hilt, and in his button-hole the little plain decoration which was al ways worn by the Emperor, and sometimes given away , as a mark of high personal distinction. The President's face looked worn, and his eyes fatigued, but he forced an appearance of gaiety, and his nos trils swelled as if with a certain air of triumph. The Princess Matilde, who stood by him, and wore a su perb diadem of hrilliauts, laughed incessantly, as if in the highest spirits. Contrary to the general ex pectation, the person of the President, far from being carefully Fpuirded, was only difficult of access front the excessive crowd. Ile seemed desirous to display a sense of security and fearlessness ; and I know persons who stood in his immediate neighbourhood without any mark to distinguish them from the ob scurest strangers. Whenever he perceived a uniform, he advanced towards it, the crowd giving way on vista r hand, shook hands with "the wearer without speaking, and rapidly turned to some other object. Ile seas attended immediately by the Minister of We:, General St. Arnaud; General Roguet, his head aide-de-camp; 1)r. eminent', his physician; and a nu merous and brilliant staff followed. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, the former in his splendid Highland costume, appeared beside the Princess Matilde. After ream g a quarter of an Lour, the President retired with his suite to the small apartments of the Pavillon Marsan, where what may be styled his court were gathered. It was remarked that General Magnum was rather in the background, as if not in the nearest circles of favour. I need hardly say that those who know the :lite of Purls society found but a small fraction of it at this ball. It was a mob of uniforms, and most mob-like did they go to wurk upon the viands spread out on long tables, between towering epergnes and vases of flowers, under a deluge of light from the crystal chandeliers in the Throne-room. It was a repetition of the scene in the Orangeric of St Cloud during theft- , c of last summer. But greater abundance prevailed, and the inexhaustible supply of champagne left no throat enforcedly dry. Other where, in the amplest saloons, the brisk dance went forward to the stirring impulse of loud and joyous ! bands. In deep recesses beyond the dazzling whirl of epaulettes and diamond-studdeal hair, you saw , gray heads grouped over green boards at whist and other games. This reminds me of a rumour that Dr. 'Verse' is to be the director of the gambling department when re-opened under the auspices of the new ' , Wine. The Italian Opera was closed last , night, notwithstanding the bills that appeared in the , morning, announcing the performance of "Nabuco" for the evening. Several distinguished per sons, and among others I can name M. ' de Mortemart, went, and were astonished to find the house closed and dark. It is believed that this mea sure was taken by the orders of the goveniment in toiler to prevent a demonstration deemed disrespect ful to the Tuileries; for there appears to have been something like a conspiracy of the persecuted salons to avenge their wrongs by crowding the Opera with the cream of l'arisian fashion on the night of the President's ball. But Louis Napoleon, indefatigable in his attempts to woo, as Richard the Third paying his addresses to lade Elizabeth Woodville, still re pays the scorn of the faubourg St. Germain with flattery, and in returning good for evil, restores to the nobles of this modern "french , " the titles of what they were robbed by the revolution of Fe brttary. But in rand i renennni ; he does it to create a spe c k and span nobility of his own, amid to class in the cabinet of these titled antiquities the copper min tage of a fire-new batch of dukes and marquises of the pseudo-empire. The decree confiscating the property of the Orleans family contains a clause renouncing all claims upon the state fur the restitution of the former possessions of the Bun apartes. It may be well to explain the nature of these claims, in so far as they concern Louis Napoleon. After the abdication of the crown of Holland by the father of the present head of the French Republic, the Emperor Napoleon annexed the Dutch territory to France, and settled as an indemnity upon the Queen Hortense, and her children an income of 1,000,000 fr. upon the domains of the state. The estates which yielded this income con sisted of forests and real property which had belonged, before 1789, to the families of Orleans and Condi!, and were confiscated by the government of the re public by virtue of the edicts against etnign's. After the Restoration, Loni., XVIII. proposed to the Duch ess de St. Lc% as the Queen Hortense was then called, to accept in lieu of these estates halt' a million of mite upon the Grand Livre. The Duchess of St. Lea resigned her claim; the property was restored to the houses of Orleans and Condi! ; but not a farthing of the promilvel Itente was ever paid. This, therefore. constituted one of the claims of the Bona parte family upon the French government. Then there are the 200 millions of francs of which you may remember the Emperor makes mention in his will as the value of his private domain, and which wore confiscated by the go vernment of the Res toration. Another claim is the property, jield imir an income of 670,000 francs, which the Pnncess Pauline purchased with the proceeds of the sale of the duchy of Guastalla. Last of all come the arrears of pensions, emoluments, and dotatiuns duo to the lionapextes when the Bourbons were restored to the throne of their ancestors. You may remember that about a year ago a good deal of noise was made by one of these reclaniations turning up in the shape of a demand from Jerome Bonaparte for the arrears of pay due to him since 1P413 as lieutenant-general in the French army. The National Assembly, how ever, showed as little disposition to allow the appli cation as to vote tho dotation of the President. Ileuce the governor of the Invalidea withdrew his unseasonable solicitation. I call your special attention to an article in the Univers, of which I send a translation. It is the policy of the present government to put out feelers in ono organ, and then, when it has overshot the mark, to disavow them through another. The un easiness which this article will produce to-morrow will probably bring forth a cornmuniqta , in tho Patrie, throwing the entire responsibility of it upon the writer, M. H. Vialetes. How ever this may be, it must bo borne in mind that the press is under censorship, and that not a line can be published to which the government objects. This consideration gives an importance to the mischievous propositions of a Jesuitical newspaper which would not otherwise belong to it. We live in times when nothing is too strange to be believed, and it is not safe to treat this wild and reckless ploposal for a holy war as unworthy of notice. The restless ag gressive spirit betrayed by the article throws a glar ing light i:pon the value of the pacific protestations so vehemently made in other quarters. This is the article: Sines, in spite of the difficulties of its former position, the governinint supported the claims relative to the restitu tion of the sanctuaries of the lioly hand to the whelks, with n firmness that does it honour, we have reason to hope that it will take advantage of the strength which has now been given to it to conduct this noble enter- conclusion. prise to a good - _____ It is impossible to be ignorant that th e weakness of some, and th e : ambition of others, hoped to profit by our intemi ee embarrassments to decline to do us justice. Now that the dangers which threatened us arc happily averted, it m e , not be without interest to rec a ll th e i mportance of this questinn, and to examine with boldness, hut without ruh. ness, the extreme consequences that an energetic re se g„, ion to bring ahuut the triumph of the good clue.: might to. A great number of penises, seeing religious indite: a spreading in our country, cannot uudendetal how Fi t e° should be the exclusive protectress of catholic int erval , is foreign countries:, how she elintild remain th e sole supper the sole political succour nt phi. faith, Disine Previa:lig in his mercy has vouchsafed to us this glorious unseen.. .4 which we have not always shown ourselves eruct y Whoever in travelling abroad has hail the happiness to e• e i . " • municate with the catholic. spread over the surface of ;i v . globe, to take part in their fears :aid to :hare their hoe!. will have understood, without difficulty, the hianoun'ed position and the sublime mission of our en:entry, under the niece of I ontlis Philippe, fatal tendencies ede ma , WI from the secular tradition s o f our pil icy, th e catholic. „t the Levant , abandoned to th emse l ves , b ooed their le: e ' and looked for no human aid to diminish or to 'elanii; e mitering. They maid, with conviction, his state cannot last. Either the French government must chat its course of action, ur else its overterow cannot NOR hayed." Ercuts have verifi e d their entity:items. Se e men, when they enter upon the practice of alf drs, see 1 . ., necessary this soh ilienuse action is fur the prie rutin: .f our polleal influence, that, whatever may have been t. . personal opii,jriti., they have found th iiiselves forced p, in this respect in the same soeuner. Of all , cuss traditions at hi the only one that Las been cuestantly served in the midst of all the internal champ, that ac 1..t.i experienced. W e know that the Cesar:aim, which p ~,. crated the catholic. in Frame., protected them in se e . ; n . tinople. I have heard French unity-re, yii,ditr Men a tii little enough of devotion, speak with astunishimeut of hai found themselves led away, on visiting Leheemi, t o themselves to external demonstration of ph.ty the beet d a ys of their childhood. Ming r tti it. „ with great pomp at the doors of the duo. treated as brothers and friend% Itiy fervent c ith e l n ee , p rou d o f the eulogies that they heard Lento*, . their country, they dared not by en Mildli me, wiMe would have *boon bad taste, check those d, nionse re sa,,, and sadden such confiding hearts. I myself, in itatine tee island. of the Arehipelego, Lave met withthe in, :anti.... and the same sympathies frim catholic*. With te • pre: • of the great king who had founded their church,. the y Bled those of France, who Lad alwas vette: the in. It in usual in the east in embolic ehureeia to boor pro a s a. the faithful of all nations, Mute -e, Ttuliens, Armenians sing with a oud voice public pray, c, f ee e prosperity of France and for the preservation et the , . ate gone:anent. At another extremity of the world, i ll ta. Philippines, the former arehhinisop of Manilla, a sei t e re he : old mate, who had passed long year. iv. the Ctim e se said: ..tithoutch he wee a subject of cellimie sp e a k , l e a the church of the true God had not ninneg the pane, up n earth any other protector than France ; that iv r anion alone war at once t Incarnate and &sinter...ed." Betere Lilting asleep in the peace of the herd, this huly confesea ,AW French influence üb:ain religion+ h....rate:it on China In each of the various bathing that totujio, the (Manta! Empire. the catholic part is beyond contrattienan that which in the most honest and the moat pure. In the mast of general demoralisation thin part of the poputition cannot be lung without obtaining gre.a political imp:rutin. I. less these floc countries are dest:eed to push entirely, to he named by barbarians, to be devastated ! the secure,' of heaven, and, in short, to !acme like the tti nen and un cultivated land: of Egypt :and Arabia, if a ,octal n imeetien is yet possible, the ctitholies alone can bring it Ghent, and render it desirable. Everybody known that .ifs is leaving that great NI ussulman body formerly eo ferinieelile. It tan without doubt only regain some pre cesiees assail toncriee power, by borrowing from the Wt. net yet cud,: sound some part of their vigour. If this hope pointed, if the Turkish empire is to h. divided, the Canine races are still the only ones that could form tee makes of nationalities endowed with some life, and destined to have a future. It is then of the last importance fur us to prim rya with regard to those races our erne nt influence, now, un fortunately, much shaken, and of which the abandonment of the defence of catholic intereetn in Palestine, interests to which our brethren of tlic Levant attach the night et salve, would complete the destruction. If, instead ot taking ad vantage of the religious sympathies of the populations of Lebanon for the profit of mierable parliament:ay intrinus, we bad seriously endeavoured to found in theee m o untains a Christian anti catholic principality, protected by us as the principalities of the Danube are protected hp Its sin, if we had succeeded in confiding to it the guardianship ef the places isanetined by the aweteuplishment of the mem ries of our LW', we should have founded a work as ghat iota, es great. The dynasty and the bourgeois chassis that g rued us were, without doubt, too unworthy to participate in se splendid a design, and to deecrue so meat an honour ; it way necessary that the blast of a storm should overturn thew pewees as weak as they were proud. Now popular instinct lees corrupt, more devoted, more sincere, rule and govern. It has already been given to France to re-fate's/hat the Pope in the Eternal City ; may it yet be granted to l'rance to solve the question of the holy pleces to the autisfection of catholies. France, in punutne such an cud, may repeat with confidence the words of the hero of the battle of Nlittet—. Bow should I he conquered since the uuivi red church prays for the success of my army?" When Europa rose to march to the crusades, princes were jealous mid divided, society sow its loots menaced, as now, by the Albigenses, those ancestors of the socialists. Shall we ban the boldness to offer the assistance of our fleet and our army to the Porte if she will do to justice, and to threat n her in the contrary ease, with an ins aeion of Syria ? Ido not know, but these enterprises would not be so rash as might be thought on the fleet impression. Twilit). teousand men in Syria would be enough to raise the mountain and to group around no a numerous body of disciplined sharp 'hooter,. Egypt would proclaim its independence, the Wahatiites that Mehemet Ali only could subdue, would again rise ; the Porte, threatened with general ffisorganieetion, would be fenced to throw herself into the arms of Russia, and would excite the fears and rivalry of all Europe. Austrie is not tranquil enough. to wish to extend her possessions; Rusin, mistress of the mouths and of the lower part of the Danube, esta blished in Threw and et Constantinople, would inspire her with serious appreheinions. England would not resign herself to ace the entry of the Bed Sea in the heath of her rivets. The changes efficted at Trehisoode are too impor tant for the relations of Great Britain with l'pper Asia. This negotiation enters fur too considerable a part into the general commerce of England not to provoke serious and persevering efforts on her part. In a Collirnenet SO extended, SO various, let but one of its important branches make tie fault, and this shock may bring down the commereiel editive altogether. If, ou the other hand, the Turkish empire should claim our asnistauce, Europe would take good care not to help Ituseta. Diplomacy would rather tend to arn st its end. wises. Everybody mistrusts the anibitiout views of that power. in these circumstances, Russia, obliged to guard her Mintier!. could at most get together an invading army of 1.10,000 men ; the bad state of her finances would n nder it eery difficult to put even such an army upon it war footing. For und which it would co-operate with its r e sourc es , s till energe ti c , but li su s Ell a c n ie a n u t I to lli ru y force rniehto o ' f fu rA rk"ey a m c, en n , tre woul a d ro l doubt not he en tirely disorganiscd. Hewn again would enuipromise her maritime establishment., and tie prospect. of her caturacree recently grown up and already flourishing. This is not all, the l'orte would tied in its Emmert with us a means of rege neration. The families that remained faithful to the catholic faith, aided by our protection, would assume a great imp,- ttnte iu the empire, and by a natural and deserved negren dizement would replace the enfeebled race of the (Monona I have already said, these families ore the only ones that have preserved any svorth, any morality, their development and their political, preponderance can alone preserve this unhirtunate country from intestine anarchy and foreign. in- M. de Lavatette had on the Gth instant a con• femme with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of tlx Su'tun. lie union has an article upon the enormous in crease of the power of Russia since the commence ment of the present century. This journal, no longer under the influence of M. 'lterryer, has for some days shown symptoms of adhesion to the government. The secret of the simultaneous attack upon Russia by the racers and the rnim is probably to Fe found in the obduracy with which the Emperor has declined to favour the re-establishment of the impe rial ~, g ime in France. M. Persigny, the new Minister of the Interior, received this morning. the chefs de hattni.lons, mayors, and captains of tin. 16 battalions of the national guard of Paris just appointed by the President of the Republic. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter dated Copenhagen, Jan. In, is given in the semi-official Prussian Gazette, stating that the Danish Ministry had resigned in a body, and that its resignation had been accepted by the * King. Couu cillor Itluhme, Minister of Foreign Affairs, nud Count Charles Moltke, are charged with the tusk of forming a new cabinet. The accession to office of M. Tillisch is considered a probable event. The present President of the Council, Count William Moltke. is said to Lace refused any position in the I new cabinet, but it was thought likely that he would give way to the wishes of the King. The iledre tandet states that it was a pcisonal yucstiou, namely the nomination of Count Charles loltke, to the nu nistry of Schleswig, which produced the crisis. SWITZERLAND. Upon the disquiet lug state of parties in the canton of Berne, the Build sass : It is evident that the costing state of 64143 in the cante:t of Berne cannot be of much longer duration without eat :: ing deplorable consequences. The situation has beeoi intolerable ' since the ell etions to the (Brand Council on t!..' 211th of October proved that the legal mi ~,, rity might said , count on the majority of the citizens. Under such eircime stances there is only one course fur a republican goceronw ~* An appeal to the ele( t.Ts is Tu. mu. try in order that pe t • ' and governed may knew where they stand.