The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENINBff, AUGUST 6, 1852

=rally speaking, walked over die course. The ac-
masaa received to-day sue of Ore same elearester as
those d yesterday. In moat of the loalkine the
vase #eren to the successful candidata have oely
Jest exceeded the strict number required by law. At
ax the elections are void in all the six
mutton& In thethree cantons of Toulouse little more
than a seventh-part of the electors voted. Thus, in
all the principal cities of France the same feeling
has been manifested. The government has had two
defeats in the Pas de-Calais, and three' in the &utile.
In the I.oiret the legitimist candidates have neatly
balanced those of the government. In the Eure NI.
Seraphin Leconte, who was opposed by the prefec-
ture, has been elected. In the same department, and
for a canton where the election has not been com-
pleted, M. Claude Gree-Filay, who after the 2nd
December was subjected to triternetrienr, and after-
wards amnestied, had more votes than the official
candidate. Immediately after the ballot the perfect
of the Fore had him arrested, and transferred again
to the place fixed upon for the isrernenial. In such
a manner is the " sovereignty " of universal suffrage
respected.
The article, which I mentioned yesterday as mro-
ceeding from the pen of M. Ouizot, with the heading
of " Cromwell, scra-t-il Roi ?" appearsin the Assemblee
Naliesusk, with the signature of that statesman. It
would be difficult to cite a more ingenious instance of
historical allegory. M. Ouirot takes, as it were, the
skin of Cromwell, and stuffs it into the shape of
Louis Napoleon. 'fhe personages who figure about
the French President find their portraits in the cour-
tiers of the English Protector. The schism of the
legislative and executive powers, and the tendency
of public opinion to side with the latter; the flirta-
tion of thu royalists with the chief of the common-
wealth ; the support of religious parties, and adhe-
sion of some of the most fanatical republicans, fur-
nish so many points of contact for hanging and
adopting the thin disguise. The whole composition
professes to be a chapter:of M. Guixot's inedited his-
tory of tho English Commonwealth, but wes evi-
dently written tyre,' coup.
The fragment begins by introducing the protector
as not indisposed to negotiate with some of the
royalist chiefs for the restoration of the king,
perhaps more with the view of amusing and gaining
them to his own ambitious views than of re-establish-
ing the monarchy in the person of one whose father
he had destroyed, and whose elevation must neces-
sarily have crushed him. You will remember, uo
doubt, in reading this passage of M. Guisot's cypher,
the portion of (langarnier's letter which discloses
the attempt of the Elyse* to enlist him under the
pretence of preparing the accession of the Count do
Chambord. Cromwell at that epoch last no occasion
of conciliating the leaders of the royalist party.
Thus, on the death of Lord Beauchamp, he sent Sir
Edward ,Sydenham to present his condolence to the
Marquis of Hertford on the loss of his eldest son.
So Louis Napoleon despatches his sympathetic regrets
to Frohaderf on the death of the Duchene d'An-
gooleme, and establishes masses in the mortuary
chapel of Louis XVI. on the fatal 21st Jan. Needless
here to compare the Protector clearing the parlia-
ment-house, bidding his lictors remove that bauble
(pointing to the speaker's mace), and putting the
keys into his pocket, with Louis Napoleon dispersing
the Assembly with the bayonets of Colonel Espinasse.
Cromwell purged his new parliament with the hal-
berds of Colonel Pride ; Louis Napoleon employs his
prefects to put his opposition candidates out of the
way, applying the rake before instead of after the
elections, and thus evading a collision with that suf-
frage which is his main engine. For the rest, it is
easy for the intelligent reader to trace throughout
this clever metschronism the chief features of the
career of Louis Napoleon.
I sent by submarine telegraph the news of the
death of Count d'Orsay. The count had been ill for
aln time from an affection of the spine, which
caused
intense suffering, but it was only lately that
his life was considered in danger. Ili, physicians
ordered him to Dieppe, but his health, instead of im-
proving there, became much worse, and, on his re-
turn to Paris some days since, no hope was enter-
tained of his recovery, disease of the lungs having
been added to the original malady. The regret which
this death causes will be deeply felt by all the nu-
merous friends of the deoeiresd in France and in Eng-
land ; in all ranks of society and all classes of poh-
Haien.. In London, Gore-house was always open
to all political exiles, whether they were called
Louis Bonaparte or Louis Blanc, to all the
shipwecked of fortune, and to all the illustrations
of art and science. In England, Count d'Orsay
became acquainted with Prince Louis Napoleon, and
soon alter the arrival of the Prince in Frusta be
fixed his own residence in Paris. tie was spoken of
several times for diplomatic office, for which be was
well qualified, but the Prince President finally selected
him for a post for which hie peculiar attainments sal
refined taste so eminently qualified him. He was
appointed superintendent of the fine arts, with a
handsome salary ; but be was not fated long to enjoy
this mark of the appreciation in which he was held
by Louis Napoleon. He was no servile counsellor of
the Prince. Before the 2nd of December nobody
made greater or more reiterated efforts for a
policy of a different course ; and, after the
2nd of December no man exerted himself more
to assuage the stroke of proscription. His death is
an irreparable loss for the arts and for artists; but
it is a still more irreparable loss for the cause of
truth and for the President of the Republic, who can
ill afford to spare a man who boldly tells him the
truth.

WM Duke and Duchene of Orammont have given
notice that the funeral of Count d'Orsay, brother-in-
law of the former, and brother o f the latter, is to
take place to-morcow at Chanaboarcy, near St. Ger-
main.

M. Tony Johannot, the well-known painter, died
suddenly, of apoplexy, while leaving his club yester-
day. He was only 48 years of age.
Dr. VEron publishes to-day has third chapter of
" La France Nouvelle." He m still upon the subject
of finance. He now develops a plan for raising a
large sum of money, by means of a stamp upon
manufactured articles, to be issued only by theme
who may voluntarily apply for it, the inducement
being a government recognition of the genuineness
of the manufacture.

Among the various episodes of the fete of the 15th
may be mentioned the marriage of fourteen young
men and the same number of young girls chases
among poor but respectable families in the webs
arrondissements of Paris, and the two rural arron-
dissements of the department of the Seine. A dowry
of 3,000 fr., besides a trousseau, will be given by the
' city and the state to each married couple.
The plan for the section of the railway round
Paris comprised between the terminus of the titres-
' berg railway and the commencement of the tunnel
at Belleville hu just received the approbation of
the council general of the Pont, ct-Chaussees. This
section is about two kilometres in length. It com-
prises a series of nine works of art, consisting of
bridges or viaducts over different roads and streets,
and over the Canal de l'Ourcq. The expense of
Vases works is estimated at about 700,000 fr.
At the Bonne the Foar.and.a-Half per Cents, fell
45e., and closed at 104.95; the Threes fell 55c., and
closed at 75.60. Bank of France shares rose sf. The
St. Germain railway fell 401. ; Rouen, 30 ; Orleans,
17.50 ; Northern, Strasbourg, and Lyons, 12.50
each ; Lyons, 5; Marseilles and Dieppe, 2.50 each.

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ITALY.
ROMAN STATES.
Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 31st
July, states that the Pope had adhered to the Austin-
Italian postal league.
A military conspiracy had been discovered at
Vclletri, iu which several townsmen were also
implicated.
Murray's cue was still in stabs quo.
A young Englishman in Rome had been kid-
napped and kept for five days.

HOLLAND.

The following telegraphic despatch bas been re-
Delved from Holland : _ _

LA HATE, Auo. 4.
lo.day the States-General of Holland have unanimously
rejected, 3.5 members being present, the Meaty with France.

THE LEVANT.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Sultan, Cap-
tain George Brooks, arrived at Southampton yester-
day. Her dates are, Constantinople, July 19; Malta,
July 20; Gibraltar, July 31. She brought ship let-
ter mails from Constantinople, Smyrna, Malta, and
Gibraltar; she also brought 21 passengers, amongst
whom was Lord Dalkeith. She spoke the English
barque Osiris, July 20. On the 30th of July, 5.30
a.m., 30 miles east of Cape de Gatt, she put
despatches on board her Majesty's steamer Fury, for
the admiral, the English fleet in sight, hull down to
the northward. On the 2tith of July she passed the
Bentinck 25 miles west of Galit a; on the Ist of
August the Iberia, 30 miles south of Cape Eapichel ;
and the Bombay, off the Rock of Lisbon.

MALTA, Ana. 1.
The Medina arrived last night from Alexandria,
which port she left on the '..7,1t July ; but no news of the
Adjdah had been received.
The Austrian steamer, which had waited for tho Indian
news, would start on the morning of the 29th.
I announced in my last the arrival at Sues of the steamer
Victoria from Aden.

The ifeciusaP:SlTet left us on the evening of Wednesday
last for the fleet, when she would proceed to England. She
had thirty-two (I believe this is the number) invalids, and
would take more from the ships and Gibraltar.
The French steam-frigate Gomer arrived last night from
Tripoli. The Pasha had manifested some alarm at the
menacing appearance of the French fleet, and after some
mock bravado had delivered up the Frenchmen he had held
in confinement.

The Richmond brig, Cox, master, foundered at sea on
19th June. She was bound from London to Alexandria,
with railway machinery. Crcw have arrived here by the
Helen.

The arrival yesterday of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Bentinek, brings notice that the fleet
was off Cape de Oatt, joined by the screw flotilla, Arrogant,
Encounter, Hightlyer, and Dauntless, and in a few rays
they are going to Tetuan to water; they go to Gibraltar
about the middle of August.
The Vengence has proved the best sailer, having beaten
all the large ships—ahe is almost equal to the Photon in
'peed.
The Janus steamer hue left Gibraltar with invalids for
England.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Daphne, Captain Fanshawe, has arrived from
the Pacific, with a freight of half a million dollars.
She sailed from Rio on the 19th of June.
The yellow fever was abating.
Exchange at Rio 2s. 3d. per milrei.