The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

the Owego. CIORRESPO2(DWNT S . immad WO; la tier TM layma," amaMiai .b. amasse paliaall vary Tema* ma PM* • PI& aMaummialr %mulct' •or "TM Taporaa.. Larks IMMig paper. ▪ br al do Mak IlemanaMlea. Tao Via* ea th. Of Of rilibitlOL, 111011 WATER 11T LONDON BRIDGE. Tots DAT —Westai. Ob. If.. l.resar —minims. a sea. Akeraleat 916 LONDON, WBDNESD47; DICEMBSR 31. Tens —the last day of the year —is one on which people politically, u well as domes tically. are inclined to look gay and to think hopefully. And with respect to }:lngland, viewed as an isolated kingdom, there is no maul for aught but cestidence and congratulation in undoubted progress. But if we contemplate Europe as a whole, and Freud as nmessardy implicated to a certain degree is the fate of Europe, it is impossible not to have complacency dashed by a feeling of uncertainty, dis satidection, and danger. That Europe has gone backward, fearfully back ward, within the last two years, is a fact now be yond a doubt. Italy, Sicily, and Hungary in 1849 were robbed even o f the liberal hopes of the pre ceding twenty years, and their liberal institutions of centuries, to be dung into the most rude and naked state of bondage. The year 1840 was marked by the subjugation and extinction of all that was con stitutional and protestant in Germany, for the profit and ascendancy of all that was catholic and despotic. This subjukition was completed this time last year in the Conference of Dresden. During these striking events of the last years, we in confess to have regarded them with a mournful and desponding eye. We felt, that however difficult had been popular rule, yet that military ascendancy wee more pernicious still. And we felt convinced, that military predominance in one nation would beget and necessitate it in another, until there would be little to be found from one end of Europe to the other save a bayonet rigone. Our contemporaries, wo recollect, were more san guine. Two yeses ago, when the Austrian armies triumphed over all constitutions, the Times deelared that it was all fur the best, that the only object worth thinking of was Order. It declared that the new ministry, which SI'IIWAR7.ENBERG instituted on the annihilation of every promise, was democratic and liberal, and that it would set to work to found liberties and institutions, after having destroyed anal.• shy. lVe said at the time that a purely military power was ntterly incapable, from its nature, of do ing any 01 these things. And we wore right. Instead of laying one atone of institutions of any kind at home, Austria made use of her military advantages and Russian alliance to crush Prussia and the Erfurt parliament, and to drive constitutional Germany into the absolutist fold of the old diet. Yet our contemporary continued to applaud. It bailed as the tutelary deity of the epoch, that military power which then extended itself from the Baltic to Sicily. Wo have within the last month seen the comple tion of the movement. That it must end by absorb ing Franco was pretty evident, for the French con servatives, as well as the English reectionists, were loud in their admiration of SCOWARZENBEROR M. 'limns lauded Austria as much as Lord ABER DEEN did. The Journal des DAM* was as great a partisan of HATNAU, and as bitter a maligner of oastmi, as the Times. It was but natural that Louts NAPOLEON should take his lesson from such eminent men as TutEas, Guam, and MOLY- They all admired Seteivaurstienc's military rule. Wu not this indirect incitement to Louis Naroutore to imitate it? Ile has so closely followed the example, and obeyed the doctrines of the conservative party in the different capitals of Europe, that we do not wonder at its being even said that M. GUIZOT had given in his adhesion to the present French govern ment. Affairs abroad on the last day of the year 1801 Look gloomy indeed. IT is obvious from the tone, not only of the London, hut of all, or nearly all, the provincial journals that strong feelings prevail throughout the country on the subject of Lord PALMERSTON S resig nation or dimissal. The people see in this event a dark shadow cast upon the pathway of the political future. They feel that anxiety which excites alarm —that doubt which partakes of dread of an indefinite consequence; they feel a strong sympathy for the minister who has so long held office ; and they also feel much apprehension as to the consequences of his fall. Imperfectly informed as they arc concerning the cause of that occurrence, they naturally feel great anxiety as to what may be the issue of it. The state of parties at home, the serious aspect of affairs abroad, the doubt which this occurrence casts upon the future policy of the government, all tend to in crease the concern which the people feel in the event, and to make them more anxious as to what may be its issue. Tie question constantly asked is—What are the t going to do? lbw, remain i n o ffi ce -- filled up Lord Pwriseroz i ;'; di cace--they dstrengthening their haads,and Lew life and vigour into their adinialstratims. Lord mama- RON, we aro told (and it is a statement set to be far gotten). was an impediment to such arrangements. That being so, wo memo Lord JOHN Ressztes messeres Ilw next elegies are determined ea, sad that they an of eme a nature as will west with very' general concurrence. Bemuse, if perusal objection to Lord PALMERSTON me the only impediment to a reconstruction of the cabinet, it is obvious that Lord JOHN must feel sawed that those he intends to invite to strengthen his loads and give new life and vigour to his government. will cordially concur in the policy he proposes to pumas. This being so, what are the measures Lord Joint istends to propose? and whence does he hops to derive the "strength, and life, and vigour," ho re quires P A manifesto which appared in a govern ment journal of Saturday even gave the world to understand that tbe policy of the new foreign secre tary was to be identical with the past policy of VUTOWM PALMER/RON. If the policy of the newly formed administration is to be identical with the past policy of Lard Ione( Rossam, we shall have to look for the new life, and strength, and vigour to another infinite of whig lordUngs and Treasury hangers-on. And it is to be remembered that all " the life, and elessith, and vigour" lately given to the has been thrived from this old blood. the last One menthe two places in the cabinet have been IBsd by whiglings ; and the fittest men Lord Joan sail dad for hreign minister was we of this ran and prosistro Wad It may be, then, that, confident is the beaves•endowed imaliScatiossof hiskindsikbeialembs Meow Wenn/ life and vigour out of this stagnent peel. Why sisals there he reason to expect elbsewise P 11. plegie have thought that the life. and stringth. and skeiur of political society was =Wide the benniwy of whip gime ; bat Lord Joint Rues= Ms sent yet arrived at that conclusion. On the other hand, it may be that the Pause MINISTER desires to avail himself of this opportunity for an entire reconstruction of his cabinet. It has long been known that Lord Lywoovilig is willing, if est anxious, to retire from the political arena; sail that everybody but himself desires Sir Osamu Wow:is retirement also; it is she b► lined that Sir Osonos GIRT% declining Itsailli map bin he the active duties of the Nem am; end that lard BROCOMTON DE Onverahe tent we have ensestly given our old Mod of lira Clenet-gardsa brabym the title in which be taw writhe a Noma brew),—that Dad Bemoans na Oirroao keine* ready, New be his got hie peeing% to surrearin the plan which le say sae donee hoe arrest to hiss. If these raw cats we b% a► Petthere is teeny s ebaass for Lori Se." e as enlist Mr mei wbe an aft at Nat assisted with his genesinsat. Sat as we said before, depends upon his sionsuit b to be his policy, will be the flat fairsky et One who an shed to assist la its Gan these eireemesteacee de ter iaL neenikintion" bunnies a natter el amideable neseal. Lord Jean has cos et two manes sou le hie; to 111 cap vaunt plane ken mane his eldaisseate" nark in eat a bald line stiry he the mein asesisa, toinvoke the aid deices who, having the confidenee of the people, can alone assist him through his &S -miths. A Wan in which all those should be THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 31, 1851:. represented who affirmed the policy of 1848, seems- ,Thers wreath:se eso m pi d ths tine rdetend is seitestehisk4oflet to be the likeliest chance for the present prime minis two selmsees *sly had vs Yobs. TM mai ter's lengthened retention of his plate. auks of et the . Stair Wawa try Under any circumstances —whatever ally be the nicht to dr Coml. elemilsoiet issue of the present state of tighlic affairs—one thin_ jg, ents, if end Itp e eare to be in the hest degree decirable. the ..• st a r tie odes I mama. time has gone by when important ministerial changes, whether they be the result of court :11.17..wmegassisamweb:irsa rou ve t tiv iv je g la: um. ar id e llei s : intrigues, of cabinet squabbles, or of great vans- minms t Inoue the coops Y s al w ays dons. tioos in a nation's policy—the time has gone by, Deolaradem elver, the et pease, anima, solasr we say, when, under any circumstances, important twee, ware =4, llameek piemalpaml changes of this sort ought to be made without the as mattessohses was Is sash sommairi Jugs de pail, elected for three fullest and earliest explanations being afforded to the arn "' am ' m . the beer leTZtet *is the tribunals of lett p eo ple, We, therefore, with the utmost seriousness, y „„ ti „ : „, this tribim b sow ; aiming I demand of L ord. Iwo Resent that not a moment's matters, it admitted a jeer seseestion end a Sir et unnecessary delay be allowed to intervene between judgment, sad ice simple - esels, a tribunal of emir the commencement of the year and the meeting of the ti°llll,r ll of lifejudil4l_7it_houa ll the l juries. The law n fhb tr 4 islataleed parliament. We would not unnecessarily harem the Prime Minister in any attempts he may be making to a„,=. 1 7 1 6'' '''"7lllTri'pemeed7rir The mml. reconstruct his cabinet upon a more popular and with** exegetes etthajuresisiistx, wen he solid basis; but these efforts must in a very short time life. Tbe law sunsuaded Udlvidaal liberty with some either result in success or terminate in failure. In it . dit e v t e s "attic bru m e's:gl i tz tame at bus either case it seems to us highly, necessary . that the w tot o e b ; el U ; su lt bjeet:d tai the colonies es le ea exceptional %glean government should lose no time in submitting them- Ibtall. it expressly stiputated that the constitution of Ms selves to the assembly of the nation. Constitutional an VIII. should not be declared valid until atm hawses principles require this : the exigencies of the period been French presented, without delay, to the aomptseisa die require it. The court may approve the recent Prof change ; the whigs may approve it. We demand, M. Ronciere-le-Noury, staff-officer of the ministry on the part of the people, that the House of Com- of marine, has been despatched to Brest on anextraor mons should have the earliest opportunity of approv- dinary mission. He is to study the means of accele ing it, or otherwise, us the case may be. rating the equipment of ships of war, which now take a couple of months in getting rea dy for sea. It is believed that by abridging certain formalities this period may be considerably shortened. The trans. portation squadron is to be got ready for sailing to Cayenne with all despatch. M. de Persigny has returned from his minion to Brussels. The consultative commission will continue to-day and to-morrow to examine the returns of the poll, and to-morrow afternoon will approve in a general sitting the partial reports of the bureau, which will be presented the same evening to the President. The following decree appears in the Moniteur : 1. The result of the votes delivered on the 20th and 21st of December, 1851, in consequence of the appeal to the people, shall be proclaimed, published, and posted in the communes of the republic. 2. A national fete shall be celebrated Jan. 1, 18.52, in all the capitals of departments, and on Jan. 11, 1852, in all the communes of trance. A re beam shall be chaunted in all the churches. The following decree is published : 1. No café, tavern, or other place for the sale of drinks to be consumed on the premises, can be opened for the future without the previous permission of the authorities. 2. The closing of the establishments designated in the pre ceding article, which exist at present, or shall be autho rised for the future, may be ordered by the prefect of police RN arf enure of public security. 3. Contraventions of the above provisions ere punishable by a fine, from 25L WU, and imprisonment, from six days to six months. The government claims great credit for the het edict as a measure of public safety. Were this mew sure confined to Paris it would be less objectionable; but it will open an endless field to the tyranny of prefects and sub-prefects in the provinces, where every extensien of arbitrary power is committed to the rude constructions of a servile zeal. Advantage has been taken of the decree uniting the administration of the customs and indirect taxes, to dismiss a great number of functionaries appointed by the provisional government. The decorations of the cathedral of Notre Dame for the fete on New Year's-day are proceeding rapidly. I Ten tall masts, like those before the cathedral of St. I Mark, at Venice, are to be planted before the front of the church, to be surmounted with great tricoloured banners, and dressed with trophies with the cipher of LN. in the midst. A great velariutn, like that which is suspended on the facade of St. Peter's on l Easter-day, only crimson with gold stars, is to hang l above the portal. Above the Gallery of Kings will be hung the banners of the 86 departments, with their armorial bearings; and from the Gothic rose window of the centre of the facade will project an immense faisceau of flags. The towers on either hand will be decorated to match. The inside of the cathedral will be lined with hangings, garlands, ban ners of all colours, covered with a profusion of L.N.'s, mad the columns clothed with brocade. The Pre sident's chair and canopy will be set in the transept, having the seat of the Archbishop on the aht of the altar, and the assisting bishops on the Three hundred singers and 200 instruments old the extremity of the choir a to perform teedpe lusic, composed by Lesucr, for the re mere of the A TM old fetes of the carnival, disused during latter yeses, are to be restored in 1852. The electric telegraph is opened to Nantes for pri vate despatches. M. Croce-Spinella, the rich jeweller at the corner of the Place de la Bourse and Rue Vivienne, has 'been set at liberty. His shop is re-opened, but he retires from business. The five following companies have applied to be allowed to send in tenders for the Lyons to Avignon Railway: Seguin, Brothers, and Co.; the company of General Daulle ; that of the iron masters; that of the national messageries ; and that of Jules Seguin and Co. The Mint has been very busy all the week coining gold pieces of 10 and 20f., and silver of 5,2, and If . Several millions of francs in silver have also been coined at the lame establishment for the Swiss go vernment The only Belgian paper allowed in France is the Emancipation Beige. A revised and correc'ed edi tion is made for this purpose, containing a cones pendent* MEI Paris favourable to the actual regime, The Jrilipsisisisse is to be allowed to circulate again here as rho some conditions. From the keguent changes in the distribution of =Weary post% it should seem that scarce a night =without some alarm, although the attitude of so ins never more quiet. Thus, last night, kit NM 10111111 or other unknown, the private hos pitel situated in the Faubourg St. Denis, we occupied by two companies of infantry of the line. It is said that the President wishes to purchase the Chateau of Neuill7 from the Orleans family. The 29 representatives now detained at Sete- Pdlagie are divided into three categories :-1. 'These who were arrested at their houses between 6 gni II o'clock in the morning of the 2nd., viz., MM. Nadler% I Greppo, Valentin, and C.Lagrange. 2. Those who were arrested at the maine of the 10th arreadhae• ment : MM. Joret, Paulin Durieu, Teilbard Lab rime, Antony Thonry, Pascal Duprat, Latmde Been, Renaud, and Marc Dufraisiie. 3. Those who have been arrested since the 2nd inst.: MM. Belin, Choi bat, Richard, Burgard, Gambol], Colfavru, Laboulaye, Racouchot, Delbetz, Chair, Perdiguier, Faure, Benoit, Madet, Huguenin, and Lafond. It is by error that M. Canet has been included in the list of refugee representatives at Brussels. He has not left Paris. The Journal du Cher announces that M. Viguier and M. Miot, ex-representatives of the Cher and the Nievre, arrived on the 26th at Bourges, under an escort of police, and were immediately placed in the prison of that place. Fifty-five prisoners have just been removed from that establishment to another place prepared for their reception at the new semi- The ample report which we give in another column of the meeting of engineers, at the Hall of Commerce, last evening—convened for the special purpose of supplying the ant wer to the previous meeting of employers—will put the public in complete possession of the workmen's side in a controversy which each day increases in imoortanee. The whole case is now before us; and the workmen will at least not have to complain that tiny have not received the Justin of an impartial hearing. Everybody who reads oar report will admit that the tone and character of last night's demonstration reflect credit upon that portion of the working classes whose in-' wrests are so deeply concerned in the ultimate decision of this question. There is no doubt that the thronged assem blage of hard-handed artisans was ardently and deeply in earnest—believing themselves to be in the right, and reso lute to risk the utmost in the pursuit of their two specified objects. It will also be seen that their advocates who ad dressed them—the leaders whom they follow—spoke in a tone which for moderation and feeling was unob jectionable. In Mr. Newton's speech, for instance, which was warmly cheered throughout, there were none of those senseless and mischievous clap-traps which at other times, with similar bodies, hare been substituted for reason and fact. It was a meeting to re monstrate with the public and with the masters, to state facts, and to declare opinions; and while the view which the employers have taken of the attempted dictation will remain unchanged, those masters will certainly be somewhat more disposed, and be probably better enabled, to accede to some compromise. The men complain that the masters have been raided, and are acting altogether upon deficient knowledge ; and Mr. Newton, the recognised agent of the amalgamated society, offered, amid the warmest ap plause, to leave the whole issue to honest arbitration. The idea of a strike on the lit of January is repudiated. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the whole affair may be ami cably settled without further contest, or any recourse to those extremities by which both parties must be injured, but which must throw the heaviest amount of injury on those least able to bear it—the workmen and their families. FRANCE. PARIS, TVISDAT EvisiNo. The total number of votes in favour of Louis Na poleon given by the last official returns is 7,120,000. Political circles are chiefly occupied to-day with speculations regarding the constitution which is on the eve of promulgation. You will remember that the memorable " Appeal to the People" of the 2nd Ike. enunciated the leading features of the proposed charter, and added that this system, created by the First Consul, at the beginning of the century, had already given to Frame repose and prosperity, and would secure those blessings once more. People have been therefore scanning atten tively the polity thus proposed as a model, which is ummonly known by the constitution of the year VIII. But before I proceed to give you a summary of the provisions of the pattern, I will briefly state what I have been able to extract from good sources as to the ( T . is said by persons well informed, that the new esastitution will contain the following provisions: The Senate will be composed of 150 members, own among Frenchmen possessing an income of 23,000 fr. per annum, or, in detault of this qualification, loving rendered distinguished services to the state. 'blotter are to receive a salary of 25,0001 r. per ann. I nd attributions of the senate are to be as nearly as three of the senate of the empire ; its de- W 111 not be open to the public. The bglelative body is to be composed of 250 wowthers only ; each electoral arrondissement is to aeon three members, among whom the executive will select one as legislator. Hence there would be 750 candidates elected, of whom 250 would be appointed. Nothing is yet decided as to the degree of publicity to be given to the debates in the legislative body. In fact, if the pro visions of the constitution of the year VIII. are to be sallied out, the legislative corps is to be simply a voting wedience, who are to listen to three speakers appoialsibithe government from the Conseil d'Etat, to esphda mud defend bills, which the ministry alone haw tbs. light of initiating, and to three ted by the Tribunate, a body of 100, = e h g r i rienate out of eaptibles elected by the aIIISIMIL Thus, the part of the corps kgislaq is ,lurid to that of mutes in this funeral of all Now take the following digest of the contents of the pattern : deelesellest of rights sad duties preceded the consti tution cede ha Vll,l - lint of all, it regulated the eter i• edr Odd of siemens. sad the conditions which mesa the of Yeah oldies to be lost or .acquired. The din. el these Asir wee sleuths, which manifested itself by the bee ties item lies. The lbw of these was oiliest the lie ef esediese beeleheed the rem of those wino the se oldie obsess weep by seerniess de r et folillhe web Inbar haidoss ; th▪ e aweber Omar= vows a Nadi shirt of the deeds. It was bum die eseemedd Est Oat the public funetideries of the arremelimemed led to be idea ; ore their pert the citizens pissed ea the Ile of immildence assembled at the ebet-lies of shalt eneedessamils, and designated a wash sessepe thee, wise Iterml Dew category of notables, 4=W lira frees edge were chosen the public of the depertemett. The Meet of this second Mai bf • tenth of their such;es e r= ~sutrad ullir i a L ballot • third list, seed the atiliael list, which emptied in each de de Arm eligible for Modems ef higher order. flees Wes suns, 1111 1, eak _wed revised every three yews. The mairetha oarsmeees created a end con avvralemr. The tease we impend of 80 'ambers, no• war el he Ilk sad seed et bee 40. Only 00 were no meisseei t two aeubletioes a yeer suede during 10 years beets distiest iserbeeW weer of 80. The as des bed the asseatica of its owe .sabers. It had to diem hem three smoddstes, preented, the first the the 11161141 w seeps. the read by the tribunal, third the Meet Osesel. The haste wee obliged to Waft seellftee who el& be prepesed at the seas gem by the Owe ere sefteriees. A se rater was &dared he me diemedild he my ether pub- lie fiesess. The surd amsette be resered to it the maimed list ef each deeermat. rod bee that list it elected itself the legislators, the trade% the ensids, the judges as ode. re the amelesiesses of seems as. it run bred w sailed ell the Not whisk were referred to it as' saseastitatinal by the Whoosh is the Revenumer. Re dness were set epee ie the erases of the erste and inch weber el do body enjoyed obey of nos her the 16,000 tr. The *Mega et fts mate wee sat rabid me emeeleesies 11118111111111141 agreed in le swielbe peaty; the perement sleep reg rind Ile b•ss. end then laws, reersiested Ant Se = reed eat be reaseirrial seal after they bad the erislisa of tbe asps higistatif The triburatereener wed ef 11l remben, aged 23 years at least, ,sawed sash yaw by Mk, bat indefinitely re-eligible se beg r *Mr armee awed on the national list. The lei. bane dbeeleedl blle. Ned voted the adoption or eddies of the.. Aid this rate, it charged three of is e submit te the trope Wisiistif the motives of its or its veimmi. The tarps kgesistif was composed 7 61 --boot bpi :Son at lust, and who wen as be se. newel ems" lime a fifth. This assembly, esessiliss the lawr when uted it, was to contain se Moe we diem et midi department of the republic. ♦ =dig kebilee seal set be re-eleete I until atter • pads it desk babe wee *dewed to fulfil the dudes ellammth The sedan ed the corps legistatif th e er the Ist itimise (21st Nov.), but emit set be beret he sassalla The orps "mg discussion. t ne 11%114 the let the as _ pone peewit at either dem* meld elu Oh Tbe lideas at tier ese gime r kgialstse woe seleelell by the mama nary. The number of persons now detained in the prison , of Beziers amounts to more than 300. The arrests in the arrondissement since the 4th inst. exceed 430. The Ordre says that when the constitution shall have determined the conditions of the peas, it will inform its readers what steps it will take. One of the gatekeepers of the Bois de Boulogne was arrested the day before yesterday, and sent to the prefecture. At his residence were seized several muskets, pistols, poignards, demagogical writings, and a portrait of RaspaiL The number of works printed in all languages at Paris during . the year is 7,350 ; and during the last ten years it is 64,368. In the present year there have also been printed 48.5 musical works, 1,014 en gravings and lithographs, and 133 maps and plans. The Prefect of the Lot has ordered that the words Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" shall be erased throughout his department. It is curious that these words, described by the prefect as the emblems of pillage, murder, violation, arson, anarchy, and civil war should still be allowed to remain upon all the public buildinp in Paris. Moreover the obnoxious words have been used by the President himself sines the coup dad, as a heading to one of the moat arbitrary decrees yet issued. We know that prefects , leave" no passion of their own," and act only in the I spirit of the orders they . receive from Paris. It is therefore rather to be inferred that the formidable protesting minority of 96,000 men, who in spite of ' the extensive weeding of the population by trans. potation and imprisonment, are yet left with in the walls of Paris, inspire the govern- k lu meet will' 'some degree of wholesome respect. It is doubtless this consideration which has "therto suspended the execution of the design t o establish a censorship upon books in the capital, although, as you are aware, that measure is in actual operation in some departments, and has been recom mended to all the prefects by a ministerial circular. The Procureur-General of Toulon has addressed a circular to the jades-de-paix of the department of the Var, telling them that they must now aid the clergy in exhorting the people to reject the poisonous doc trines of communism, and yid a submissive obedi ence to the authorities. The railway round Paris, which is to unite all the stations. has already been begun between La Vil lette and La Chappelle. Although the concession of this portion to the Strasbourg Company allows a year for its completion, the contractor has engaged to finish it before the end of January. M. Nicolas, the master of a public school at Dudes (Indre), has been suspended and deprived of his salary for a month, for having attended a banquet at which the principal demagogues of 'the arrondisse ment were asembled. M. Grenier, Professor of the Faculty of Sciences at Besancon, has been suspended by the Minister of Public Instruction. The electors of France have in very many in stances departed from the instructions given them to put a simple Yes or No into the balloting boxes. A great many added their signatures. This has been held a departure from the principle of ballot, and the signed voting papers have been treated as void. Several bulletins bore the name Napoleon, or Louis Napoleon. These were considered as affirmative votes. Others bearing other names, such as for instance Cavaignac, or Ledru-Rollin, ought perhaps in fairness to have been reckoned as Noes, but they have been set aside as void. One elector wrote, " I vote Yes, upon condi tion that Napoleon set at liberty my friend Cavaig , nac." This was counted as a good vote, and, with I much reason, the condition having been already performed; but the principle upon which a vote " upon condition that the 200 fr. allowed to the cure i of my parish for a low mass shall be suppressed" i was allowed is . not so obvious. Perhaps it tenth, "Itegleinent pour les Voyages ;" the eleventh, " Bermens;" and the twelfth, " do la Cour." It is sufficiently piquant to think of Napoleon Louis smelting oaths fr a dn his sefvants, after he has showa how much his own oath is to be relied upon. Some of the maxims of the imperial legislator on etiquette will be extremely applicable to the court of his nephew. For example, we are told, in the 21st article of the Bth chapter, of the Ist title, "Bien nest an dessous des aides-dc-camp pour le service." The military hangers-on of Napoleon Louis have in deed shown that there is no dirty work too low for them. The minuteness of the instructions for setting out the dinner table is amusing : " On pose nue serviette sur la nappe I la place oft doit etre mis le convert de l'Empereur et cclui de l'lmperattice. Cette serviette dolt tomber de la mita de so longueur au mins, de manure d pouvoir etre rejetee sur le couvert lorsgu'il est place, et le courrir tout-afait." In the Imperial Court the minimum number of , pages was 36, the maximum 60. The followiug re gulation suggests a curious picture. The multitude of pages clambering urn, and clinging to, the imperial carriage must have given it pretty much the appear ance of an old-fashioned stage-coach at the " breaking up " of some school for the holidays : " Quand S. M. se sort de sa voiture de ceremonie, il en monte antant que possible derriere la voiture, et six derriere to cocher." Napoleon I. seems to have been extremely anxious to obtain the reputation of a good shot ; he took pre cautions to have credit given him for every beast or bird he brought down : " Le gibier tub aux tires de l'Empereur est porte dans les paniers que fait suivre le grand Ecuyer ; un des Pages marque to giblet qui a ete tue par an Nlajeste." As Napoleon Louis was not present in person at the late great butter on the Boulevards, none of the gibier brought down on that occasion could be marked as havinghad the honour to be " tue par sa Majeotb." What fine sights there will be for the Parisians after the coronation of Napoleon 11. was upon the legal ground than an inipioui condition ought never to be recognised. Some modest electors wrote that they declined to vlte on account of their inexperience in politics. These were of course carried to the list of nullities, but generally spciking the addition of comments, whether comph• mentary or otherwise, to the words Yes or No have not been hold to vitiate the votes. The Pays gives the following details relative to the prisoners at Ham : 'What was at first stated as to their being in solitary con finement is perfectly true. Nut only were they prevented from having any communication with persons without, but they had no intercourse with each other, and their keepers ob-erved the most complete secrecy towards them. Lech of them was ignorant as to who were his companions in captivity, and particularly of what events had token place in l'Aris and the departments from the moment of his arrest. The utmost attention was paid to them, nod in this respect they have all rendered full justiee to the manner in which they have been treated. It was only at the end of ten lays that they were allowed to communicate with each other. and from that time their families and friends were permitted to visit them, and alleviate the ennui of their contnement. There now remain at Ham, MM. Changer nier, Bedeau, Lamoriciere, Charms, Base, and Leflo. They all dine together, and are served by sub-officers, who pay them the greatest attention Mesdames Liunoriciere, Ledo, and Base share the captivity of their husbands, the first in particular, by the affability of her manners, beguiling the tedious hours of imprisonment. Madame Lotto is unfortunately labouring under great depression of spirits, having, since she has been at Ham, lost one of bar children. General Changarnier, whose cold stoicism pre sents such a contrast with the vivacity of Colonel Charms, and the energetic ardour of General Lamorieiere, has again restmed that imnsobilite which has distinguished him during his political life. He seldom keeps up • regular converse don, and it is ditficult to know the secret thoughts which agitate his grave and serious mind. He occupies the same apartment as General Lamonciere. As to the latter, with the rapidity of intelligence for which he is distinguished, he soon understood the bearing and character of the act of December 2, and he easily resigned himself to • fact which adverse opinions may well criticise, but the power and authority of which it is no longer permitted to misunder stand. lie loudly protests against any idea on his part of conspiring; and, although he may'couceive the necessity of his arrest at the first moment, he does not imagine that any more rigorous measures can ever be adopted against him. Colonel Chartas, while sharing in the seine convictions, admits the serious fault which the republican party has committed by linking itself with socialism, the de feat of which might, by a movement of irresistible reaction, lead to the fall of the Republic itself. None of the prisoners appear so crest-fallen as M. Base. lie fears that the documents seized at his house may com promise him more seriously than his companions in cap tivity, and the idea of exile inspires him with great sorrow. He has no fortune, and the impossibility of exercising his profession of avocet in a foreign country, makes him fear serious embarrassment and great privations. It is, however, positively stated that General Bedeau takes upon himself all the responsibility of the documents found at the resi dence of the ex-questor. It is he who, as Vice-President of the Assembly, is said to have had them drawn up and printed. These papers, however, de not show any con spiracy against the President of the Republic, and the general expresses his astonishment that his military honour could be su-pected of plotting against the chief of the executive power. The conduct of General Bedeau is dis tinguished by more than common piety. He is • fervent Christian, who takes refuge in meditation and prayer against the instability of human affairs. It is not now for the first time that these religious sentiments are manifested by the g I. Our soldiers remember having frequently seen him in Africa, at the moment of combat, alight from his horse and invoke in silent prayer the protection and support of the god of battles. It is in conversations where each prisoner expresses his personal impressions, that the days which successively bring their captivity nearer to its termination are passed. At the Bourse the Five per Cents fell 60c., and closed at 101.23. The Three per Cents feU 33c. and closed at 66.43. Railways fully maintained the rise of yesterday. IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES. In a dusty corner of our library, among a con fused heap of forgotten books, we have accidentally picked up a volume not altogether without a certain curious interest at the present moment. It is a quarto, printed in Paris in 1806, with the meet lavish luxury of typography and paper; and for which the binder, too, has done his part. Its title is, " Etiquette du Palais ImpErial. Annie 1800." It is in fact the code of regulations drawn up by Napoleon himself, or under his immediate inspec tion, with a view to establish and maintain the decorum, state, and splendour of his new imperial court. Sceptics may doubt whether the nephew has inherited the genius of his uncle • but that the mantle of his uncle's love of melod ramatic display has descended upon him, no one calls in question. The Ickes Napokoniennes, embodied in this forgotten chapter of the Emperor's legislation, are quite within the range of Napoleon Louis ; and as the Tuileries are now being furbished up anew for the reception of the elect of the 21st of De«mber, it is pretty cer tain that the code of etiquette will soon be recalled from oblivion, and installed in equal authority with the cinq codes. The code of palatial etiquette is divided into twelve titles, and most of these are subdivided into several chapters. The first title treats of the "Fonctions et attri butions des wands officiers de la Conronne, et des officiers et autres employ6s dans leers services." The arrangement of the seven chapters into which this title us subdivided throws a curious light on the emperor's estimate of the relative importance of the domestic servants of the palace. The first is devoted to tho functions of the " Grand Aumonier and his staff ;" the second to those of the " Grand Marechal du Palais;" the third to those of the " Grand Chambellan ;" the fourth to those of the "Grand &flyer ;" the fifth to those of the "Grand Venenr ;" the sixth to thew of the " Grand Maitre des Cere monies; the seventh to those of the " Garde Ira periale et Colonels Genera=;" the eighth to those of the " Aides-de-camp de l'Empereur." "Le neven de son oncle " intends to reward the' good services of Pio Nono, sundry French bishops, and M. Montalembert, by awarding the same pre cedency to the clergy as his uncle did • but will the army be content to take rank after the Grand Master of Ceremonies and the Grand Hunts man ? It is a rather amusing illustration of the light in which religion was viewed by the Emperor to find on the ecclesiastical staff a " master of cere monies" stuck in between the chaplains and the clerks. The second title treats of " the distribution of apartments, and who have the entrie to them ;" the third, of the "levers et coacher'" of their Imperial majesties ; the fourth, of the " Ceremonial de la Chapelle Imperiale ;" the fifth, of the " Reps de LL. M.;" the sixth, of balls and concerts at the palace; the seventh, of the "service d'honneur" of the Emperor and Empress; the eighth is entitled Grande Parade;" the ninth, " Ceremonies ;" the GERMANY. A telegraphic dispatch, dated Vienna, Dec. 28, announces the retirement of the Finance Minister, Von Krauss, who is replaced by the Minister of Commerce, Von 13aumgakner. A letter dated Vienna, Dec. 27, says :—ln St. Petersburg as well as here, Louis Napoleon is re garded as the conqueror of anarchy. An autograph letter from the Emperor Nicholas has testified that Monarch's high approbation and satisfaction. In another, written on the 25th, we find the following : In addition to the total sum of 68,413,600 forms collected by the loan is an item of 17 millions raised partly on the old invasion bonds," and partly on account of certain public institutions ; so that, according to the official report, upwards of 85 millions and a half were contributed. To judge by the self-complacent tone of the ministerial journals, in reviewing the list of the sums contributed, one would bo led to suppose that the effects of the loan were at least commensurate with the result so pompously announced. But this is, as you are aware, far from being the cure---the market tieing still de luged with paper money equal to about 230 mil:ions of florins, and gold and silver are at a premium of something more than 20 per cent. In fact, the loan was universally declared to be a complete lailure, in so far as its effect upon the course of exchanged served as a criterion, tbo only marked improvement for months past in the value of go vernment paper having arisen since the c2rce.ts__at_Patis_._ . . BERLIN, Dac. 27. The Sardinian ambassador extraordinary . here, Marquis 1)e Ricci, has been recalled from motives of economy. Count Redern will consequently be re called from Turin, and give over his 'business there to a simple chargé d• affa ires. Baron D'Ohsson ' who acted as Swedish ambassador here from 1835 to 1850, died yesterday at the advanced age of seventy-two, universally respected and regretted. The Krenz-Zeitung pointedly asserts to-day what it lately hinted, that the King of Naples has been required to act es umpire in the differences about the demarcation of the confines of Holstein and Schleswig. Lord Palmerston is said to have sent a conciliatory reply to the collective note of the Frankfort Diet, calling the attention of the cabinet of St. James's to tho manner in which political refugees abuse the asylum granted thorn, and inviting the British go vernment to assume a position more accordant with international duties and friendly relations to conti nental states. _ . The German federal commission for marine affairs has drawn up its report, setting forth that the North Sea fleet must comprise at least four frigates, four corvettes, nine war steamers, and twenty-seven gun boats. It distinguishes six maritime dis tricts, namely :-1. The Mediterranean; 2. North America, Mexico, and the West Indies. 3. The cast emit of South America and the west coast of Africa. 4. The west coast of South America and the Pacific. 5. China, the Indian Gulph, New Holland, and New Zealand. 6. The Indian Ocean, from the Moluccas to the Cape of Good Hope. The first district, it says, is sufficiently protected by the Austrian fleet; and it would require too large a navy to keep ships perma nently stationed in all the other districts • but the vessels of the North Sea fleet, it is proposed, shall visit them all a few times every year, " in order to inspire respect for tho German flag, and assure the consular agents, and other Germans abroad, that protection shall not be wanting in case of need." The Leipzig Journal states — , that in consequen of the Cuburg chamber having rejected the project of uniting that duchy . with Gotha,' the duke intends going to Vienna, in order to advise about the best mode of effecting his proposed reforms. This report, however, is quite at variance with the liberal character hitherto assigned to his highness. As delegates to the Vienna conference have been further nominated :—Nassau, president Vollpracht ; Oldenburg, M. von Philippshorn ; Saxony, upper post director von Schimpf ; Hesse Darmstadt, M. von Briegleben ; Brunswick, director von Amsberg, not M. Krueger. A Vienna paper says that Baden will appoint the Austrian commissioner Dr. Hock, which must surely be a mistake. Lippe Detwold has declined sending a delegate, on account of its intimate relations with Prussia. Several dele• gates will propose that in future consuls shall not be appointed by separate German states, but only by the Commercial Union. The Austrian ministry also contemplates raising the excise duty on beet root sugar, as provided in the treaty between Prussia and Hanover ; an abolition of the river dues on the Elbe within the Austrian territories is mentioned. ----- The political divisions of the Austrian state are to be consolidated. The Serbian Woiowodina is to be attached to Hungary ; the coast district with Fiume joined to Trieste; and Upper and Lower Silesia an nexed to Moravia. One of the motives of Baron Jellachich's visit to Vienna is said to be the obtaining of the imperial sanction for a rail way, which a Croatian company wishes to build from Agram to Fiume, partly at its own expense. The Ban supp or t s th e project on account of the high military importance of such a means of communication. An Austrian, Captain Knechenbaecker, who desertei to tho Italians in 1848, was arrested in Paris among the barricade men on the 4th of December, and delivered over by the French police to the Austrian authorities, who will now carry out the sentence of hanging, which they some time since performed in effigy . The final reply has been sent by the Vienna cabinet to the Porte, relating to the difference about offence given to an Austrian official by the Governor of the Dardanelles, whose dismissal is demanded. It is toilistly believed that this will be complied with, big mops-Sod by Iteschid Puha, whose influence is dim sal cob earnestly desires to reconcile his gewerament with Austria. llse remonstrance on the subject of the refugees, addressed by the Federal Diet to the cabinet of St. James's, was not voted unanimously, the non-assent ing plenipotentiaries were those of Hanover, Den mark (for Holstein), and Holland (for Luxembourg). DEC. 28. A railroad will be commenced next spring from St. Petersburg, eia Wilna and Bialystock, to Warsaw, nearly 700 English miles, to be completed in five years, and without recourse to a loan. The commercial treaty just concluded between Prussia and Holland abolishes the differential duties on Zollverein produce imported into Dutch colonies from Dutch ports, in Dutch or Zollverein ships; ad mits , several specified articles into those colonies at a very low duty, namely mineral waters, Nuremberg wares, silica, &c. • places the Zollve rein's ships in the Dutch colonies, as regards port dues and export duties, on the same footing as Dutch ships; and materially reduces the transit duties for the Zollverein's commerce through I follan& The project of a central federal German police commission has been abandoned. Since the Parisian coup-de-main the German governments no longer find it necessary to keep people in a fever of alarm at pretended socialistic and democratic conspiracies. The Austrian fleet has anchored off' Castel Nuevo, with a view to prevent any landing of Turkish troops. VIENNA, Esc. 20. When Austria recovered possession of the South Tyrol, in 1814, she found the system of municipal government in a state of very high perfection. Every little town, nay, every village, had its local administration, and regulated its own affairs. Even universal suffrage was established. Every one, ex cept the great landholders, was satisfied. So de sirable a state of things, however, was not of course allowed to last ; the old obsolete forms, and so forth, came back with the rule of Hapsburg mid °ppm akin. All existing regulations, no matter how wise or necessary, were at once destroyed, and an army of new officials, with titles ten and twelve syllables long, impeded alike the course of justice and the march of improvement. At length some show of remonstrance appears to have been got up, and the affair forms one of the most immediate difficulties of government. A great deal is being said about the present tran quillity of Vienna, and this fact appears more or less to falsify the accounts daily received in England of the disturbed and discontented state of Austria. It must by no means be inferred, however, from the apparent calm that these accounts are incorrect. The elements of discord are fermenting beneath the surface ; the next outbreak will be a tre mendous explosion, but till then the police are too strong for any petty disturbances to show themselves very often. Nevertheless, • few evenings since, on a play called the " Carl whaler" being performed, a very decided demon stration was made in favour of the republican prin ciples it contains. They were applauded to the echo, and the emperor is said to have left his box. The play has been since forbidden. This is a tolerably strong evidence of the state of public opinion, con sidering it can find no vent in the papers. The salt treaty between Austria and Itu.ssia ex pires next year, and negotiations have already com menced for its renewal. On the 18th instant, it being the birthday of the Emperor of Russia, a solemn act of homage was offered by the Austrian court at the Russian em bassy, every one except the Emperor himself appear ing in the presence of Count Nleyendortf, the Russian minister, in their uniforms of state. An English architect, Mr. Clark, is occupied in building a winter haven at Petah. It is to be made largo enough for 1,080 vessels. Dye. 24. Accounts from Russian Poland state the last year's harvest to have been so very bad that no more corn is likely to be exported from that quarter. Throughout Austria, both in town and country, the prices of provi miens have risen enormously; a factpartly to be accounted, for by some of the peasantry refusing to cultivate their land under existing regulations. Large tracts of land, formerly devoted to the cultivation of tobacco in Hungary, are especially lying waste from this reason. The necessaries of life throughout Austria have risen nearly So per cent., from the combined causes of bad government, and the depreciation of the cur rency. So little, indeed, is the paper money esteemed, or, rather, so universal is the distrust in it, that people are not persuaded without great difficulty to sell anything they can keep, and merchants distinctly refuse to execute extensive orders unless from abroad, where they will be paid in silver ; it is a cri minal offence to insist on this condition in Austria. It might be supposed that the value of land and houses would rise enormously under such circum stances, and that people would be anxious to invest their capital on almost any terms; but this is com pletely contrary to facts. Sales of estates can scarcely be effected at all • and the reigning desire of every one is to have all they possess either in foreign se curities or in as portable a form as possible. The Austrian Lloyd's Company, at Trieste, have sent to England to buy five new steamers for their service. Baron llruck, the enlightened ex-minister of Commerce, is chief director of this company. I lANOV ER. The King has very ill received the deputation which presented to him the addresses of the Cham bers. It is stated that the Prussian envoy at the Federal Diet has received orders to support the peti tion of the equestrian order. Upon the vacancy in the superior court of appeal of Hanover, the remain ing judges have called upon the Diet of Calenberg to elect his successor ; thus recognising the legal existence of that body, contrary to the law sanctioned by the late King. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The latest accounts from Copenhagen represent that the King, the chambers, and the cabinet are of one accord, not to make any further concessions to Germany in the matter of the duchies. The Danish ministry has received a check in the second chamber, where an important credit for the merino service has been refused by a majority of 33 against 25 totes. TURKEY AND PERSIA. We have received the journals and correspondence of Constantinople of Dee. 14. The first news had been just received by Trieste and Odessa of the events of Paris, and a council had been held at the Porte. I The last steamer from Trebizond had brought important news from Persia (a summary of which appeared in yesterday's Express). Musa Taghi Khan, prime minister since 1848, had been disgraced and replaced by his brother Mires Agha Khan, Minister of War. The day after the fall of the prime minister Teheran was in a state of com plete anarchy. Several robberies and assassinations were committed. The hotel of Mirza Taghi Khan was pillaged and sacked, and it is said that the life of the fallen minister was only saved by the ener getic intervention of M. Dolgorouki, the Russian minister. The Sultan has just issued a firman in favour of the Christian protestants, allowing them to meet together freely, and permitting their marriages and births to be registered. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. I For Arneont. PARIS, Dan. SO. Ea - Money. !Opening WOW Lowest Clown& 3 per Ceuta. 5 pee Cent*. per Cents. re do. New Lows 3 per Orton Exchange on London : at sight, 25 20 ; 90 dais, 2 5 2 . , „ Belgian, 3, 1810 — Mlortey. Naples Kentei ... 0007 Do. 3, 18,3 — Ronson Leon, 1851.. . 09 ... Do. 11 Do. Piedmont o. Cent 9l 25 !Unit Shorn ZPAII.III, Dan. 30.—St. Germain 525; Versailles (right Wade). 3-5; do. (left lank), 280; Paris ' and OfirSlll4 1,047 50; Pane sod. Boum. 657 50 ; Rouen sod Havre, 350 ; Marseilles sad Mi me. 240 ; Strasbourg end Bale, 107 50; Cenue, 500; Boukcne and AllliColl. 291115; Orleans and Bordeaux 423 75 ; Northern, 37 0 ; Paris and trastounr. 461 25; Tour; and Menlo., 290; 3200. terser' and Troyes, 120 ; Dieppe and Yeoman, 212 ; Bordeaus and Toms. M. VIENNA, DEc. 29.—Five per Cent. Metalliques , 94t • Four-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 841. Bank Sha;es, 12,62. Exchange on London 11.5(. A sen sible improvement continues in exch ange. GERMAN POLICL—One day, last week, Baron Manteuffel, whose interest in the police system of P 1116614 naturally increases with its growing importance in hii sys tem of government, paid an unexpected visit to the bares' of M. Hinckeldy, the president of the Berlin police, tam spect the buildings, offices, records, &c., of the establish ment. In one of the offices he observed a long range of books, in which, he was informed, were entered the names of the inhabitants of Berlin, with personal and biographi cal notes and illustrations. The Premier, on inquineg whether these records enabled the police to give instant information concerning any person who might be named, and being answered in the affirmative, denred to be told what information they possessed respecting his own history. His name was turned up, and he immediately received exact details upon his birth, parentage, educatinn, and entire official career until his nomination to the premier ship. M. Manteuffel then named his brother and other peptone, and received concerning them information equally minute. In the course of his inquiries be learned that there were 25,000 inhabitants of the city bearing the surname of Schulz, and nearly the same number of Mullen. 34,000 of the residents had been convicted of greater .0 lesser offences. On leaving the bureau he visited the iseliFe Udegraph station, and witnessed several experiments. Berlin Is divided into six telegraphic districts, each having its Lion in communication with the central bureau of the rest dent of police, so that an order may be conveyed to all the bureaux at the same moment. We bi $ ▪ storm Cherbel mini+tr4• the !übj i t ;d by I cor ded t cbambet but Wb( crimes, 1 Chourm order elided ehambe this mel debate full of f the chat of War V the cha — The the On to it frt prevale state th cessfull fir•W The this me an d you pony *1 Prnn panied Lord SI a nd 13.. At tt Duches waiting the Bat Hon. II bad". Earl for 1•'or yesterd The re (Count Weyer: cn), S Suites Tricou c1e404 e Dennt. (the N Walla Pied were n five in o'cla Co or F &Loth to be Co OP LA ensigr liilin myth time aUudi agent arrest not iv amba BoAi He i Mau( Ctpu toler Ti; con as the Par