The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-10 00:00:00

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Resides the prisoners of Ham, these of St. PelaE

have likewise received their liberty on the same con.
ditions. They have been conducted to the frontier,
and have been menaced with transportation if they
again set foot in France.
Among the persons in the casemate!' of the forts of
Ivry and Bickre, destined for transportation, aro
mentioned MM. Maullanc, advocate ; ashenter, for-
merly editor of the People ; and Benoist, shoemaker.
These three formed part of the last socialist electoral
committee, which is said to have been considered by
the military commissions as falling under the same
category- in the secret societies. Besides these,
M. Beaumont, formerly commander of the republican
guard, and all the editorial staff of the journal 104
Revolution, are raid to be destined to transportation.
The military commissioners have drawn up their
reports chiefly from documents of the police, without
interrogating the prisoners. Madame Greppo, wife
of the representative, was arrested the day before
yesterday, and rase an secret.
Tho Patrie addresses the following menacing
language to the salons of Paris :
e race of lunatics and ungrateful persons, which will
we, fail in France, return to their factious habits. The
ground of the press and the tribune, which is wanting to
their 'opposition, they supply by that of the salons, and
turning against the hand which has saved them, and which
they have blessed, they go so far as to deny the danger
which has been averted, to have the right of contesting the
benefit. The old parties are not only oblivious, and mein-
riglble, but they risk,in their rashness to weary the modera-
tion of the executive power, and to constrain it to secure the
success of its work of organization of modern society and
French democracy, by measures of vigour and exception,
which are as yet far from its thoughts.
I stated latterly that the publication of the Consti-
tution had been deferred till the 16th inst., and that
the delay had been occasioned by the incompleteness
of the organic decrees, with which it was to bo ac-
companied.
The Constitutionnel of to-day confirms both these
statements in a semi-official paragraph. It says the
elbastilution will appear between the 13th and2oth.
A decree appears re-organising the administration
of the war department. The war depot will con-
stitute, as before February, 1848, a distinct service
and a fourth board is created for directing the affairs
et Algeria. 'the central committee of directors, re-
sided by the Minister of War, which existed in the
time of Marshal Soult, is restored.
The seven directors of the central administration
of the war department, just appointed, are Generals
Peyssard, de Bressolles, Mengiu, Daumas, Morin,
and MM. Darrican and Petitet. lona Mandel is
named the minister's chef du cabinet.
A grand review of the whole garrison of Paris is
to be held in the Champ de Mars on the 22nd init.,
weather permitting.
The metallic reserve of the bank of France has
declined half a million in Paris, and not altogether
a quarter of a million in the branch banks. The
discount accommodation has increased 31 millions in
Paris, and 11 millions in the provinces, the amount
et tie former being 58,964,087 fr., and of the latter
74976,813[r. Advances on public securities have
issrsased from 14,061,676 fr. to 24,429,070 fr. On
the side of the liabilities the amount of notes in
circulation has increased half a million in Paris,
and 21 millions in the departments. Tho account
current of the Treasury has been augmented 31
mil-
lions, the present amount being 67,825,863 fr. Pnvats
accounts current have increased 91 millions in Paris,
and declined 4 millions in the provinces, the amount
of the former being 126,916,920 ff%, and of the latter
26,202,738 fr. Thu whole amount of the metallic
reserve is at present 6611 minims to 606} millions
of notes in circulation.
It was fondly hoped by sanguine people, when the
seven and a half millions of votes were registered
sod when the Te Ileum was sung, that Louis Napoleon
would find himself strong enough speedily to relax,
and gradually to abolish, those repressive measures
which were the necessary accompaniments of his
violent assumption of absolute power on Dec. 2. But
so far from there being any symptoms of the realisa-
tion of this hope it becomes daily more evident that
Os system of Louis Napoleon will fatally urge him
on from ono act of tyranny to another so long as
public patience shall submit to his dictatorship.
It might "lave been thought difficult to carry re-
pression further than it has been done within the
last month. Hundreds of men of wealth, station,
and character have been tried by- courts-martial.
Thousands are in prison. The judges of the Court
of Cessation intimated that they were prepared to
quash illegal sentences; and to get over this little
difficulty thousands are about to be transported
without trial. Not only are the poorer classes driven
Ma their places of amusement and watched in their
private dwellings, but their harmless associations for
'haring the produce of their own labour are dis-
solved. the press is annihilated. Trial by jury
abolished when it is most needed. The independence
of the bench and the bar is menaced, and the national
guards are dissolved. All this will not suffice. Peo-
ple aro expected to kiss the rod that amain them.
Spies report that in the private drawintrooms
of the faubourg Bt. German, educated people express