The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EY*ll JULY 13, 1852.

CM that eeteetit Film up the eltablisitment of the
Myskyvhiela suite him by the facility of getting
4t without attracting general attention, and by the
convenience of the garde's where the Prince likes to
ssi ilk MA. inoening.
11 joint circular of General St. Aroma and M. do
?ileum, addressed to the officers of the gendarmerie
and the general and special inspectors of police,
dated June 15, has only just come to light. It states
that several officers of gendarmerie have felt some
doubt as to the nature of their relations with the mi-
nister of police and with the depot boons! authori-
I ties. It admits that tho police inspectors] have
not always rightly understood these relations, and
have in some instances exceeded their rights and
powers. The ministers of war and of general
police, when applied to separately for instructions
by their respective agents, have also sometimes ,
dif-
fered in their interpretation of the text of the laws
" and decrees relating to this matter. They have there-
" fore determined to issue joint instructions, in order
to remove all doubt for the future. The circular thus
shortly defines the effect of the creation of the new
office upon the gendarmerie :—Tho institution of the
ministry of general police imposes no new obligation
upon the gendarmerie ; the minister of general
police has purely and simply been substituted
for the Minister of the Interior in everything
that relates to the general safety. With
some inconsistency, considering that the ministers
have, by their own avowal, differed in their inter-
pretation of the law, it is stated that the mere quo-
tation of the texts of the law will be sufficient to in-
form officers and police icspeetcre of the limits of
their respective duties. A royal ordonnance of 1820
is then Net forth rerbutina, with the instruction that
" Minister of the Interior" must now be read " Minis-
ter of Police," and then all will be simple. With re-
ference to the excess of their powers attempted by
the police inspector, it is said that the only object
of placing the gendarmerie under their orders for
certain purposes is tho general safety. The gend-
armerie is never, either directly or indirectly, to be
employed is any occult mission of a nature to alter
its true character. It is to act in the face of day,
under the eye of those whom it protects. The small
account made of M. de Persigny in this circular is
very remarkable. It has been often noticed as ex-
traordinary that the oldest and most intimate friend
of the President should consent to fill so secondary an
office as that of minister of the interior has been
made by the creation of the minister of police. It
might at least have been expected that he would
have been a party to any definition of the powers of
the new functionary. hut General St. Arnaud and
M. do Maupas, without admitting him to their
councils, coolly tell the gendarmerie that all doubts
and difficulties will be removed by reading " minister
of police" instead of "minister of the interior."
Simultaneously with the issue of this cir-
cular there appears another upon the same
circular, from General St. Arnaud, to the
generals commanding military divisions, which
makes confusion worse confounded. The joint cir-
cular states distinctly that no new obligations are
imposed upon the gendarmerie. The minister at
war, writing by himself, says : "New duties are im-
posed upon the gendarmerie, but its zeal and devo-
tedness will always rise to the height of its mission."
The generals are then ordered to send the two circu-
lars to the officers under their command, with direc-
tions to study both of them carefully. Rather hard
reading this for military men.
You will remember a succession of reports of some-
thing wrong at St. Omer. At one timo it was said
that a military rebellion had broken out there, peo-
ple talked mysteriously of men having been shot
behind walls, and all sorts of sinister rumours were
current. Nobody however believed that any thing
serious had taken place till a general official contra-
diction in a Jfoniteur .• communique" drew attention
to the subject. What may have been the founda-
tion of the unquestionably exaggerated reports is as
much a mystery as ever, but it is clear that some-
thing out of the common way is yet going on in that
town. The Emancipator of Carnbrai gives without
comment the extraordinary intelligence that all the
police agents of St. Omer have been suspended by
order of the mayor. The duties of the police'are to
be performed provisionally by the garde champkrea
of the faubourge, the two apparitors of the town,
and any other person that the mayor may appoint.
The .Patrie contains tho following discouraging
account of the state of opinion in another district :
The information which the Minister of War has obtained
as to the state of public opinion in the department of the
Allier, not only from the local authorities, but from notable
pemons of the country, is far from being satisfactory. We
'thew from a good source that from this serious examination
results the unquestionable proof that the demagogical party,
overthrown for a time, is acting secretly, in seeking mon-
strous alliances, and encouraging guilty hopes. But the
vigilant eye of the government will know how to baffle all
these schemes, the insputuanee of which equals the folly.
If the several departments the amnesties accorded have
produced good results, it is not the sone in the Allier,
where the violence of most of the pardoned tends to cams
disquietude amongst men of order. In comparing these
Dmptoms with the abortive attempts of the Rue de la
ins Blanche, we can only sigh over the audacity and
injustice of the parties who respond to the clemency of
Louis Napoleon by ingratitude. Is it thus, then, that they
thank him for those beautiful words lately utterred by his
mouth, " Be the faithful echo of the feeling which reigns
here • confidence in conciliation and peace ?"
The elections for the councils-general are to be
conducted upon the principle which was applied to
these of the Legislative Body. Government candi-
dates are to be designated by the prefects.
To-day the President is diverting himself with the
chase in the Park of St. Cloud. Several of the
ministers are of the party.
A frightful accident occurred yesterday evening at
Rouen. At about ten in the evening the steamer
Minion, from La Bouille, arrived with 700 peiwgees
on board. On approaching the landing-plaaaa the
quay, the vessel upset, owing to the passengers rush-
ing simultaneously to one side. In an instant the
fore-part of the ship filled with water. It was so
near the quay, that several were fortunate e
to jump to land. Numbers, however, fell iniroTt
water. The Seine is notoriously dangerous at Rouen,
owing to the shifting sands, in which lives are con-
stantly lost. Many of the boatmen and persons on
shore plunged courageously into the stream, and
rescued numbers amidst piercing cries, ren-
dered more distressing by the darkness. It
was feared that many must inevitably perish,
bat at a late hour last night no dead body had been
head, and only two persons were known to be
The hut despatches received from Rouen
to-day says that, thanks to the courage and activity
theinhabitants, there is reason to hope that there
fa not a single victim of a disaster which, in all pro-
bability, might have had such terrible consequences.
The Astemblee Nationale, in its commercial re-
dew of the week, says :
New materiali sash as cotton, silk, and wool which are
=lla OW great manufactories, keep up their prices.
ime is lases Ilan in cotton than in the preceding
week, prices are sasiatained, and important transactions
take glass at Ram. The same Is the use In Provence for
silk, =dist the dilltritat markets of France and Europe as
regards weal. Wiens and spirits keep up at good prices.
The seep draw will be indifferent in most of the wins-
distrlete. Oa the other hand the crops of corn will
Carnig dent, sad a draw of 3fr. the hectolitre, hes in
esasenweems, taken *se in our markets.
At the Bourn the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
rase 10e., and closed at 103.20; the Threes rose 15c.,
and closed at 7240. Bank of France shares expe-
rienced the extraordinary rise of 45f. The St. Ger-
main railway rose 70fr. ; Orleans, 32.50; Rouen and
Ilavre, each ; Marseilles, 3.75; Northern and Stras-
bourg, 2.50 each; Lyons, 1.25. Western and Dieppe
fell 1.25 each.

SWITZERLAND.

• Letters and journals from Neufchatel confirm our
yesterday's report of the signal majority of the Re-
kublicans, in comparison with the Royalists, at the
meeting held on the nth inst.
?ho following is the speech addressed by M.
Lambley to the Republican Aseembly
If you sad been told three months since that you would
to day enter the li,ts to defend the Republic, and to cause
the will of the people to bo respected, you could not have
believed it. The party of your oils, .sarica Lid been com-
pletely beaten at the elections. What then baa happened
that they have dared to raise their heads? Has not the
government performed its duty ? (" Yes, yes.") Has not
the Grand Council acted for the interest of all ? Why has
this assembly become necessary ? I will tell you. A pro-
tocol has been drawn up in London regarding the rights
of the Sovereignty of the King of Prussia to the Canton.
(Several voices: " Ile has none.") On that our adversaries
have thought that they might destroy all we have dune
since ISIS. is our will no longer of any avail? 11°,4 the
King of Prussia again believe that ho can oppress the great
majority by the minority? (Several voices: "It is un-
just.") Whatever may bo the tenor of the protocol we
will .not acknowledge it. (" No, no; long live the Ite
public.") The protocol signifies nothing, unless it proves
that the great majority of the people wish to return under
the ancient yoke. We do nut regard the interest of the
greet powers; we see but the interest of the country. We
will he Swiss, and nothing but Swiss; but you must give
your assent, nut verbally, but in writing. (Enthusiastic
cheers.) That is the reason why the committee propose to
you to sign a declaration.
Upon this, the declaration given yesterday was
handed round and signed. A. second resolution
adopted in like manlier was thus framed:—" The
people of Neufchatel demand of the government the
adoption of necessary measures for suppressing the
agitation against the republic and for punishing the
agitators; for this purpose it also demands the intim,
diate convocation of the Grand Council."

The two assemblies separated without any breach
of the peace beyond one or two insignificant private

SPAIN.

MADRID, JULY 7.
The rumours of a coup <Mat arc revived, in conse-
quence of an article in the Onlre, concluding with
these words : " The President of the Couucil expects
his colleagues at La Granja, and everything induces
a belief that the journey to that royal residence will
be fruitful in incidents, which we will endeavour to
lay before our readers as they occur."