The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESD tY EVBNING, JULY 27, 1852

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PARIS, MONDAY ZVINING,
The Monitetcrlives us thi ►pcech of M. Casablanca,
pronounced at cerenway of laying the feat stone
[of the new Wing of the Loewe antiTuiliwieso The
most remarkable passage in this speech Is that in
which the Minister of State informs the world of the
destination of the united palaces. It is as follows :
The same building will comprise, together with the resi-
des., of the head of the state, three ministriee, the tele-
graphs, the national printing oMee, and an imposing mili-
tary fixes. This the most active, the most energetic means
of government will be concentrated in the hands of him to
whom France, by an ansuainimas vote, has confided her des-
tittles, and who, issessanUy watchful lot her repose and
prosperity, will be enabled instentaasonsly to transmit the
expression of the sivareign will even to the most distant
provinces. Buell is the programme which he himself has
dictated, and which an -able architect has already so hap-
pily designed for execution.

Thus we find the temporary President of a Re-
public speaking, through the organ of the minister
nearest to his person, the language of the most des-
potic monarch, and avowing that vast public works
involving an immense outlay during many years, are
to bo conducted with a view to afford himself per-
sonally the most energetic means of exercising abso-
fute power. Every act of Louis Napoleon is care-
bully calculated to ignore the fact that his legal posi-
tion is that of a chief magistrate elected for ten years
only. But if any evidence of his settled intention to
grasp the imperial sceptre were wanting, the terms
of his proposed occupation of the old abode of
royalty would go far to supply it. In his closet in
the Tuileries, guarded by an " imposing force,"
dictating his orders to irresponsible ministers of war
and police, printing under -hie own eyes such ver-
sions of public affairs as he may think fit to circulate,
and aided in all by the miraculous electric telegraph,
he will wield a more fearful amount of power than
was ever before concentrated in the hands of man.
Meanwhile the nation looks complacently upon the
t of the completion of a grand national work.
prospect of of Louis Napoleon's government were to
expire to-morrow, his name would be found insepar-
ably concected with public works, which would form
his best title to the favourable remembrance of poste-
rity. The central markets, the Rue Hindi conti-
nued to the Hotel de Ville, and the clearing away of
the piles of mean buildings which deformed the
grand ssquaof the Carousel, aro accomplished facts,
ire
whichn the present financial state of France no-
thing but a despotic government could so speedily
have achieved. Indeed, with regard to the Lower
M. Chasseloup-Lanbat's report to the Corps Lef.
gislat if Indulged in a grumbling tone on
the score of expense, and observed that the
ease of the tax-payer was to be considered as well
as the fame of the Prince who desired to connect his
name with a national edifice. M. Casabianca takes
pains to show that a wise economy will preside over
every branch of the present undertaking. The con-
ditions of every contract have been settled by the
committee of control of civil buildings, who will
watch the progress of the works to the close. The
architects are to have fixed salaries, instead of being
paid a per centage upon the money they spend, ac-
cording to the unsatisfactory system which prevails
in England. Careful calculations have been made as
a basis for a tabular series of prices fixed for all ma-
terials, and according to the promises of the minister
the work will proceed with uninterrupted celerity,
will be finished even before the appointed period,
and will be not only a model of architectural beauty,
but a precedent of unexampled economy.
You are aware that the title of highness has been
given by various prefects to Louis Napoleon, that it
has been adopted in the Pairie, and echoed in the
Monileur. I am now informed that this flourish has
been adopted by. foreign courts, or at least by their
representatives in diplomatic communications. In-
deed some foreign cabinets go a step further and
style the Prince Allem, Insperiale, a title which was
used in the despatches of the prefect of the Vosges,
and repeated in the official journal. I am informed
from a good source that Count Turgot received at
Strasbourg a letter from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs at Berlin, in which it was asked how long
his Imperial Highness intended to prolong his stay
in the Alsatian capital.

It has been stated that Louis Napoleon insisted, as
a condition of his marriage with the Princess Caro-
line de Vasa, that she should become a convert to the
Roman Catholic church. This is a mistake ; the
princess has been a Roman Catholic for some years
past; so that on this side no impediment exists to
the marriage. On the other hand, the father of the
President's intended has not yet given his consent,
and her brother, who is in the Austrian service, has
been heard to declare that no Vasa can consent to an
alliance with the house of Napoleon, who replaced
the dynasty of that name opm the throne of Sweden
by one of his marshals. Meanwhile it seems that
the son of Bernardotte, and present King of
Sweden, would look with some apprehension on the
union of a princess of the ancient line with the ruler
of France • for the altramontane interest, which is
ever seeking for a hole where it may get in its
cloven foot, would like nothing better than to lay
hold of a Roman catholic sprig of the home of Vasa
to serve as a legitimate A& for hoisting their ban-
ner in & protestant country, and appealing to the
few partisans yet remaining to the exiled dynasty.
It is said that among the changes likely to be
proposed in the constitution it is highly probable
that the grant of a handsome salary to the deputies
of the Corps Legislatif will figure. The daily sum
spoken of at patent is 1001 r. ; but as this would only
last during the session of three months the expendi-
ture would be a trifle compared with the inferior
stipend of 760 members of the National Assembly.
The Mondesir publishes a decree of the President
of the Republic declaring the works for enlarging
the building occupied by the Calm des Depots et
Consignations, in the Rue de rOratoire, to be of
public utility, and ordering the expropriation neces-
sary to carry them into execution.
A further list of nominations of mayors and de-
puty-mayars to 73 Ahem in different departments,l
tpctre is the ifsies.
Yenesur de r.drinie protests, with profes-
sional mew, spinet the kiroposal of Dr. Venn to
reins, Se army by 50,000 or 100,000 men. Accord-
ing to this journal, Veron is altogether wrong in
stating that the saving thereby effected would be 60
or 100 millions of fumes. The real saving it
would be but 17 or 36 millions. It ealculateatetailli
SSA of a Pints Wow at 320 fr. per annum. After
=tote staff and African garrisons and non-
0111aasserts that the army only
moist* of 216,142: soldiers.
The Pilots do has received a " warning,"
having attempted to convey to its readers a Wm
impression. of the nature and true meaning of the
ovations given to the Prince-President on his jour-
ney to Strasbourg. The expressions " vain theatri-
cal pomp," and " trivial enthusiasm at the service of
every government," used by the journalist, are cha-
racterised by the prefect as alike wanting in accu-
racy and propriety, when speaking of one of the
grandest celebrations of national industry, and one
of the most brilliant manifestations of national gra-
titude.

Prince Jerome Bonaparte was to have embarked
at Havre yesterday, for a marine excursion in the
Heine Hortense, but he countermanded the prepara-
tions for the voyage as soon as he heard of the death
of Marshal Excelmans, in order that he might at his funeral in Paris.

For some time pest a certain degree of agitation
has been manifested among the journeymen masons
employed en the works now gang on in various
parts of the capital. On Saturday some of the men
exployed by M. Florentin, in the Rue de Fleurus,
assembled in front of his bans, and refused to work
unless they bad five sous a day extra wages. M.
Florentin would not comply with their demand, and
gave notice to the authorities, by whom the ring-
leaders of the coalition were arrested, and the other
men then west quietly to work.
The Marquis d'Azeglio has arrived in Paris
from London, on his way to his country seat in
Piedmont.

It is stated in a letter from Vienna that M. Le-
febvre-Durufle, the French Minister of Public
Works, will visit Austria next month, for the pur-
pose of examining the works of the Semmering
railroad. • _ _ _ _

Thicoleasrcial bulletin of the Preue states that
there has hems very little activity in general trade
during the hat week, but that the accounts from the
fair of Bstaesire continue to be good, and that an
imperialist in trade may soon be expected. The
samemtriel gives very unfavourable accounts from
the districts. It states that the grape disease

very general, and that the expectation of a bad
harvestUs ceased a considerable rise in the price of
wines and brandies. As regards tho corn crops,
however, the P►csse says its accounts are decidedly
favourable. _

At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cent..
closed without change at 103.20; the l'hrees fell
110 e., and closed at 72.35. Bank of France shares
rose 10. The Lyons Railway rose 11.25; Orltuna,
5; Western and Strasbourg, 2.50 each; Rouen fell
3.75.