The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-02 00:00:00

*ME EXPREBI, MONERY NVENII443. aIIOUST 1. 1852

net. In the second half ter4loli be found the minister
,ofthe coup rlitat, and the dl party of the Elysee.
The note of the Monkeur dwells spun the spa
iislitY of the appointments just made. But the
speciality of M. Achille Fould is generally recognised
Wbe finances. Hence we may infer that either the
Minister of State will absorb the leading functions of
Wit financial department, or that, if the cabinet is to
he consideied as definitively constituted es regards
the persons who compose it, some further internal'
change may take place in the distribution of tba
places, and that thus M. Fould may resume the post
of financial minister. In the first case, M. Hinton,'
the present Minister of Finance, would become a ss
clerk in his own office, and in the second, some
further exchange of places might succeed. Mean-
while it is regarded as more probable that M.
Fould will remain in his present position, and wield
from thence the chief financial power, to which his
speciality applies. This view, moreover, is favoured
by the stress laid in the official note, which is attri-
buted to the President's immediate dictation, CO
" the importance of the functionsof Minister of State."
It is true that, ou the re-establishment by Louis

Napoleon of this institution of the empire, it wee
thought that the new Minister of State would con-
centrate in his hands the high comprehensive func-
tions formerly attributed by the Emperor to Marct,
Duke of Busance But this expectation was so far
from being realised, that it is known that the Mar-
quis de Turgot declined to change the department of
Foreign Affairs for that of the Minister of
State, because he considered it to be a de-
ment in the scale of ministerial importance. This
Motion, for the rest very generally shared by the
public, may, however, have been au error, arising
lhou the limited capacity rather than attributes of
M. Orabianca. In fact, if you consult the organic
decree instituting the Ministry of State you will find
that it includes—l. The relation', of the government
with the Senate, the Corps Legislator, and the
Cbuncil of State. 2. The correspondence of the Pre-
sident with the different ministries. 3. The counter-
signature of all decrees involving the exercise of the
extraordinary powers conferred on the President by
his own constitution. 4. lho retarding and keeping
of the minutes of cabinet councils. 5. The exclasive
direction of the official part of the Moniteur. 6. The
administration of the national palaces and manufac-
tures. In the Ministry of State are prepared studies
of all questions brougV before the Council of State,
studies of general questions ordered by the Presi-
dent, and last, not least, the draft of the budget.
Perhaps we shall find in the last circumstance the
secret of M. Fould's appointment. Fur the rest this
unexpected arrangement has been greeted by a con-
siderable rise in the funds—the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. having closed a franc higher than
yesterday.
As we are told by the Monileur that no more
ministerial changes are to be expected for a long
time to come, it may be worth while fur a moment to
innsider the transitions which have led up to the
resent result. The last respectable ministry which
surrounded Louis Napoleon was that headed
M. Leon Faucher. The great pivots of change
M. Faucher and his colleagues Fould, Baroche,
sad Rouher, endeavoured to procure the re election
d the President by the legal revision of the
'institution, have been:-1. The declared resolution
leLouis Napoleon to abolish the electoral law of
May 31, 1850; 2. The coup d'etat of December 2.
L the confiscation of the Orleans property. The
presence of General St. Arnaud in the ministry
which succeeded M. Faucher on the 2Gth of October
indicated the imminence of the coup d'ilat under the
pretence of restoring universal suffrage. General
d'Arbouville had said some months before, " When
▪ Arnaud comes home from Algiers, look out for
the coup rang." M. Fould at such a moment was
not the man to be found at the financial helm,
which was given up to the advocate of the Bona-
partist claims, Casabianca. The obscure extra-
parliamentary names of David and Thorigny,
as Ministers of Justice and the Interior,
show to what straits Louis Napoleon was reduced
at this period to find men to back hint against the
Ateembly. The 2nd of December approached, the
funds sinking ever lower. The blow was no sooner
struck than Fould, Magne, and Rouher, who had re-
tired with M. Leon Faucher, came forward again, and
consented to sit at the same council board with 1)4
Morey and St. Arnaud. On the 22nd January these
four ministers tendered their resignation rather than
sign the decrees of confiscation against the house of
Orleans. But General St. Arnaud contented himself
with allowing to transpire through • coin-
mainigeod his reluctance to remain iu the service
of Louis Napoleon after the spoliation of his former
commander in Africa, the Duke d'Aumale. The
appearance of his name in the list of senators,
which came out a few days later, and the conse-
quent addition of a handsome &teflon to his
salary as minister, showed that General St. Arnaud
had done less violence to his worldly position than
to his conscience in withdrawing his resignation.
Those who hoped that the other ministers had
been disinterested in their opposition to those ne-
farious decrees, had to undeceive themselves on reading
the name of M. Fould among the senators, and those of
Magne and itouher in the roll of councillors of state.
l)e Morny alone accompanied his resignation by no
compromise ; and the fact of his not having re-
entered the ministry with MM. Fould and Magne,
is accepted as a proof that upon the Orleans question
his opinions have undergone no change; while it is
clear, that if the other two ministers had been
sincere in their disavowal of the confiscation, they
would never have accepted the lucrative positions
offered to them upon their retirement from the
cabinet. On this account their return to office has
always been looked forward to ; and it is but
fair to say, that the administration will have
gained two able hands by the completion
of this arrangement.
pus The railway undertak-
ing will be on vigorously under the new
Minister of Public Works; and if the talent of M.
Achille Fould is rather that of a dexterous manager
of the Bourse, than of an able financier in a com-
prehensive sense, still his presence in the cabinet is
recognised u a pledge that those wild schemes of
innovation generally attributed to Louis Napoleon
are for the present laid upon the shelf. On the
other hand it is thought that the nomination of M.
Fould does not argue well for the progress of those
commercial reforms in a Free-trade sense, which have
been supposed to form a part of the President's

Serious disorders have taken place in the commune
of Demuin, in the Somme, in consequence of a severe
decree of the mayor on the subject of gleaners. The
Sub-prefect of Montdidier, and the substitute of the
precursor of the Republic repaired to the spot, but
failed to appease the incensed inhabitants, who have
from time immemorial exercised this privilege of the
poor. By order of the prefer', a detachment of
cuirassiers and a body of infantry were despatched to
Demuin ; and the prefect himself, together with the
procureur, proceeded to the scene of divurbance.
Madame Victor Hugo, accompanied by her son,
arrived yesterday at Havre, and embarked the same
evening for England to rejoin her husband.
M. Leymaire, author of a lithographic correspon-
dence not very favourable to the government, has
been Aced 5,000 francs for not observing some of the
formalities prescribed by the law of the press.
The Or eau of Brest, arrived in Paris to•day, con-
tains an article attacking M. Lacrosse, minister of
public works before the coup (rectal, and now senator,
and opposing his candidature for a seat in tho Coon-
cil-Oeneral of the Finistere. It is said that a
warning will be sent to this journal for its bold
samara on a government candidate.
To-day several misinformed persons spread a re-
port in Paris that an attempt had been made on the
President at Cloud. This wild rumour seems attri-
butable to a letter from Paris, dated the Bth inst., to
the Awed de 11ronekfort, and has not the last
foundation.

The Union states that M. de Casablanca is to re-
oeivea dotation of 30,000 h. as senator.

All the railway compenjes have addressed a con-
joint representation to the Ministers of Finance and
of Public works, tending to have the double liquida-
tion per month at the Bourse done away with.
The workmen at the ship yard of the Rue de
Rome, at Marseilles, struck on the 27th for an in-
crease of wages. One of the ringleaders having been
arrested, some of the men resumed their work. An
investigation has been ordered into the matter. The
men employed in the spinning establishment of M.
Isaac Kcechlin, of Villa., near 'lhann, have also struck
for an increase of wages. Ile at once offered to give
them an augmentation of 10 per cent., but the men
held out for 17 per ant.

The Minister of the Interior, Agriculture, and
Commerce has charged M. Leclerc to visit the south
of Franco, and, it necessary, parts of Italy, to exa-
mine the malady in the grapes caused by the uidiune
tucheri. That gentleman has been passing some
days at Bordeaux in examining the vines. He as-
certained that the malady prevails at Nlerignac and
in the Meduc. In the famous growths from Ludon
to St. Est4phe the malady was discovered on several
points, especially in the communes of Pauillac and
St. Julien.
The production and consumption of beetroot sugar,
which for some months had fallen off, has acquired
fresh activity during the month of June. It appears
from the official returns in the 3fonitcur that the
number of manufactories at work at the end of last
month was 329, or 23 more than at tho corresponding
period of last year. The amount manufactured since
the commencement of the season is 73,972,760 kilog.

against 79,463,382 in 1850-51. The qnantity sent oit
was 61,704,527 king. against 70,003,616 in 186451.
There remains in the manufactories 12,268,233
kilog. against 9,459,766 kilog. at the correspond-
ing period of last year. There has entered into the
entrepots since the commencement of the season
30,334,487 kilog. against 33,630,574 in 1860-
1851, and there bas left them 24,719,968 kilog.
against 26,816,693. There remained in entrepot
at the end of June 5,614,519 kilogrammes against
6,783,881 kilog. on the 30th of June, 1831. It re-
sults from these returns that the decrease on the
quantity manufactured is much greater than on the
quantities remaining in stock, or in the entrepots,
from which it may be inferred that the difference is
made up to consumers by colonial or foreign sugar.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVINING.
The Moniteur contains several appointments to the
Council of State, which are significant as recording
the adhesion of sonic eminent men, who have
hitherto stood aloof from the government of Louis
Napoleon. Some resignations, not less expressive,
are also given. Thus we learn that the resignation
of M. Maillard, president of the judicial section of
the Cuuncil d'Etat, has been accepted. You may re-
member that this councillor of state favoured the
cause of the house of Orleans in the late trial on the
seizure of their domains. M. Cornudet, reporter on
the same suit, has also retired from the Council of
State for the same reason, and is replaced by M.
Persil, the eminent reporter on land-banks. M. de
Cormenin, the famous publicist, who, under the
nom-deluerrc of " Timon' " played the part of
a French Junius towards Louis Philippe, has in his
70th year recanted his liberal professions by enter-
ing the service of the spoliator of that king's pos-
terity, and consented to become councillor of state
in the place of M. Oiraud, formerly minister of
public instruction, who is now removed from the
(Conseil d 'Etat to succeed the late lamented Oriental
scholar, Eugene Burnouf, as inspector-general of
superior instruction for the order of letters. M.
Cochelet, consul-general of France in London, is ap-
pointed member of the Council of State in place of
Oen. Allard, who is named president of the section of
war and marine, from which post Admiral Le-
blanc, retires to re-enter upon active naval
service. M. Edmund Maigne, mailre•de-requetes
of the first class, is appointed councillor
of state in the place of M. Boudet, promoted to be pre-
sident of the judicial section, vice Maillard. M.
Arrighi de Padroua, an old friend of the Elysee, and
another mailrc-de-regwtes is promoted to be coon-
cillr of state in the place of M. Vuillefroy, appointed
president of the section of public works, agriculture,
and commerce, in place of the present minister of
public works, M. Magne. I had almost forgotten to
notice, among the important resignations, that of M.
Reverchon, mailre-de repartee of thr first class, who
was appointed commissioner of the government in
the Orleans toyed, and has retired from the same
honourable and conscientious motives as MM. Mail-
lard
and Cornudet. MM. Pages, Eugene Dubois,
and Lavenay are appointed maitre-de-reputes of the
first class; MM. Missiessy, Count Napoleon Camerata,
and de Chamblain maitre-de-requeles of the second
class. To the latter must be added M. Leopold Le-
bon, created auditor by M. de Monty.
Besides these nominations and some decrees which
are mentioned below, the Moniteur contains an im-
portant note, which seems designed as an answer to
the rumours propagated as to the intention of the
government to exclude Jews and protestants from
the Ecolo Normale. This note states that the exami-
nations for admission to the Ecole Normale will com-
mence tomorrow. 163 candidates have. presented
themselves to compete for the 23 vacancies which
occur this year. Of these candidates 141 have been
admitted. Among the 22 rejected there are 18 ca-
tholic., 3 Israelites, and 1 protestant. Among the
candidates admitted there are 153 catholic', 4 protes-
tant', and 2 Israelites. Hence the reports spread
upon this subject are devoid of foundation.
It is now known that the destination of the French
fleet is Tripoli, where you may remember that a dis-
pute has occurred: between the French consul, M.
Pelissier, and the regency. It is said that the fleet
has orders to bombard Tripoli, unless full satisfaction
is given to the French government.
Two lieutenants in the navy, Allain-Launay and
de Lessen, have refused the command of the ships
Cliraffe and Ozapock, to which they were appointed,
"alleging reasons, which, according to the Minister
of Marine, cannot justify their refusal, and which the
law of discipline cannot admit." Hence, by a decree
of the President, they are placed upon the retired
list.

Another decree authorises the statutes of the
Land-bank of Paris, co-extensive with the jurisdic-
tion of the Court of Appeal.
Another decree authorises the Mulhouse and Thalia
Railway Company.
Another decree suppresses the naval sub-arron-
dissement of Bayonne, in consequence of the dwindled
importance of that port.
On the 14th of August will come on the trial of
Pradeaux, the wretch who has assassinated four wives
in succession. The last of these murders, which has
led to the detection of the rest, was only discovered
the other day by a flower girl, whom he wanted to
replace his victim.
The jewels of Madame de Persigny have been dis-
covered, quite undamaged, in their caskets, under
the heap of ashes to which the furniture of her bed-
room was reduced.

The opening of the exhibiton of the works of
French and foreign:artists for next year, is announced
by the minister of the interior for March 15.
The government has resolved, reversing a former
decision, that the arcades of the Rue Rivoli shall be
continued in front of the Tuileries and Louvre, and
as far as the Rue de Ponties. This will occasion an
additional expenditure of 6,800,000 fr.
The municipal council of Paris yesterday voted
90,000 fr. for the ate of Aug. 15. This is in addition
to the sum that will be expended by the state.
At the same sitting the report of the committee
upon the important question of the fusion of the gas
companies, and of a new treaty with them, was'
presented. The existing companies are 6 in number,
namely: 1, Mamb , Marguerite; 2, Laden, Brun-
ton, Pilte ; 3, La mere and }Jerre ; 4, Dubechet,
Pauwels; 5, Payn and Co.; 6, Charles Closeelin.l
The treaty entered into with them in December 1846
expires on January 1, 1864. Negotiations, which I
have for some time been on foot with the prefect of
police, have resulted in the companies consenting to
suppress the differential prices of 35c., and of 24c.,
40c., and to supply the public at a reduced uniform
price of 22c.; to reduce gradually the price to private
individuals to 35c. after 1837; to lower the price of
the pipes, and to raise the rent of the gas works • to
execute a complete system of canalisation, according
to plans to be pro treed by engineeers ; and to admit
private individuals as well as the city to partici-
„int. in the advantages arising from new
discoveries and the progress of science. Upon these
I terms the companies further consented to a fusion,
and in oonsideration of the above conditions the pre-
fect proposed to prolong the treaty till December
31, 1883. The report of the commission recognises
the necessity of the fusion. It states that the com-
panies have consented to a further reduction to 20c.
in the supply to the city, which reduction of 2c. re-
' presents • sum of 120,000 f. per annum. In eonsi-
I deration of this the committee proposes further to
prolong the treaty to December 31, 1884. The most
; Important addition to the terms made with the pre-
; fect of the polioe is the recommendation that the
three gas works now in the interior of Paris shall be
removed without the walls. This resolution is
founded upon the consideration that these gas
works offer an insurmountable barrier to the pro-
jects of making new rireets in the quarters where
they are situated. In other respects the principal
terms proposed by the prefect of police are adopted
by the committee. The reading of the report was

istened to with deep interest, and the decision upon
the subject was adjourned to the next sitting.
The Journal de la Meurthe has received a warning
for an article upon the departmental elections, calcu-
lated to mislead the good faith of the electors. Ne-
veral other warnings have been given to provincial
journals for articles of no I oilfield importance, upon
the ground that they are disrespectful to prefects or
sub.prelects.
The Prefect of the Rhone has suspended the mayor
of Neuville for addressing a letter to a newspaper in
favour of a unitlitlate for the council-general nut it:-
commended by himself.
General Italesme, the commanding officer of the
engineers in Africa, has been sent for, and appointed
a member of the committee of fortifications in France.