The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EYRNINO.
We are told to-day, by the Monitear, that the
President's journey to the south will not take place
before September 13.
People talk of the President hieing retitt a
hydropathic treatment for loran Imalady„ w j •
attributed to an inveterat Tits..
Although the op i en ante t e go-
vernment in the de tione Zwen
it
aq.
able to check the pr adenine° its candidate% in
by fur the (greater number of the councils-general,
great dissatislactan is felt at head-quarters at
general rerult of these operations, and particularly
at the triumph here and there of republicans, of '
members of the provisional government, and even of
M. Ledni Rollin 's commissioners. It is also felt that

but too many of the government's successful'eandi-
dates belong at heart to the old parties of legitimacy
and Or'cannon, and wear their present oaths and pro-
fessions of adhesion to the power of December 2, as
lightly as their uniforms. In fact, beyond the mere
peasantry, faith in the Bonapartist creed seems as yet
to have taken no root, nor his it had time, even were
the disposition not wanting, to do so. The upshot
of all this is, that a new and greet design is spoken
of as a means of checking even the small tendencies
which exist towards municipal independence, and of
exaggerating still more the evils of excessive cen-
tralisation. A plan has been started of throwing three
or or four departments into one, and thus restoring
more or less ntarly the old provincial diviaious,
the abolition of which was one of the most impor-
tant reforms of the Constituent Assembly of 1789.
The present departmental organisation of France
wu due, as most of your readers will remember, to
the creative invention of Sieyes. It seems that the
party of the Elyse hold that this system is still
strongly redolent of its revolutionary origin ; that it
has seen its best days, and that now, when there is
no longer any fear of the old provincial rivalries, a re-
turn to larger territorial divisions would strengthen
the hands of the executive power and the monarchy
generally. In fact the moat dangerous enemies of
the present government belong essentially to the
proprietary class; and many of these have acquired,
from their long.standing, residence, and mixture inl
the concerns of their departments, no lees than
from their wealth, au influence, which cannot
be always successfully combated by the prefect. But
if the sphere in which the proprietors' power is now
strongly !ell were to be considerably
.enlarged, his
relative importance would be proportionably dimi-
nished. If instead of having four prefects with
fifteen hundred a-year, the administration were ro•
presented by a civil governor embracing under his
sway four departments, and receiving a salary of
three thousand a year, evidently. the government
would be in a much better position for combating
the ,local influence of wealthy opponents. By the
abolition of the councils-general, which is likewise
said to be in contemplation, this influence would lose
the chief means of manifesting its weight. Sup-
posing that a provincial council were esta-
blished, the notabilities that made a mark in
the departments would be lost in the wider in-
stitution, while the dignity and importance of the
administrative chief would be increased four-fold.

Such, I understand, are the views which 11;1;
turned the attention of the (government in this direc-
tion to break the opposition which the policy of
Louis Napoleon encounter, on the ',art of depart-
mental influences. Of course a project of this kind
would have to be submitted to the Corps Legislatif,
and would probably encounter serious resistance in
that assembly, tamo as It is. But the councils-
general being implicitly mentioned in the zonstito-
tion, a senatus cumndlum would be indispensable for
their abolition.

The Emancipation Beige has been stopped at the
poet to-day.
A curious historical donwient is made public to-
day. It is the letter by Awns of which Proudhon,
SW/arch-socialist, the mow of the famous work,
oProperty is Robbery, &Wined from the President
litho Republic, who dim the title of the " Saviour
Ilissitty," for hark, sorinteed socialism, his per-
usal inretionitioeltends. of a work entitled,
"ll* Social Dl•ostrated by the Coup
d'Etat." If it were pupate te believe that this per-
mission was given net demist tonaideration to the
vanquished, or if Ledo Simasen admitted the prin-
ciple that oath beams as woe owing the mean
it is canvassed, thine timid be rem he nandsh-
met at what, at I dgli at least, now appeals
.to
be a startling inoonsheimmr. Bat as avowed prin-
dpie of the Anent govennment is net only to crush
bet to arYilate an emery, and its daily prac-
tise is to gig hoe diemeha. Acting upon this po-
ise, the:BMA/Rif pima am you are aware, when be
hod dist Pleadban's new work was at the printer's,
WA so Omega bat how to prevent a single oopy
Rea wig light. The other himself amid not
pm
t am ma es a roof -sheet of lie own peril:moue.
aces wee wombed by polite mints
smPrisarj livery, and bestseller, printer. nod
palish devil were 111111 Med that dire reagens,
maid him any attempt to ode the vigilant* of
the Adel guardian
.91 jab nerds. Is this
iht, Prosaism unm
asideiseCie ope Me Mon lie
Of;itt war. ipten Itr lsaof the paiwe of the autocrat,
he was sputeed as a pariah. not a =mid Inehebng
wadi mane to trainee die wined 'sake.
PeesdhendvE letter
i bite the esemon peony
geskand aftwousdesstoonded end tenewbe•
Jos lade cm dui the inliadhlien whist
*Li Lille guile " had bees reamed by the
Podia of an Pisgah& The week appeared.
Tone Ibirail sepia more sold in a few hours.
tabs vele be dead to all political negation,
vim am sal iriak has been so boiled
Ems ea by mlikerity that she had lost all
rah he the mahnsat, head her palsied appetite
'suddenly excited by a banquet of the meet highly
spitted and intsodeating nature, mad she hoe eaten
tali *mak her fill. Every prineiple upon which
joterament and society areri=to rest are
attacked in this book With a payer, and
v pa;oele.rhich throws all callosey into
Religion is deal to be a
t • farce. " Anarchy:" is
at d" urrsntizional state of moiety. no ocludindisa
NNW& property, abolition, elle intend st
Oa fie ameelling of all tads( sesetilege
ama-
'teets ass openly
__prefeessd to be toss ma et
grput assuity. War, provided it be war tar the
propagation el 'evolutionary principles, is maple,-
tatty spin of u a sure road to inviesiblo
sky. And all these things, the anther lens ths-Pre-
dint he nest accomplish, or sement to to nothing.
aid of Ys segments, M. Proedhon at great Wirth
sod with sensnesetate ability, shows the dilisalties,
hoponibilitiee as he calls them, in the way of either
• emigrate republican, legitimist, Orkanist, or
lietiegiord government. He then concludes with
the damn of " IMO&
=or " Comtism," and, as-
-1:6 bast bbe Worm that Louis
in* be do mgrs dulled by fate to finish
ihe sow elothe by Fare to anarchy.
Illsimperales bigthis leek leaves upon the
mind of Obi of rosins is likely to los that
the a us esond, in so far as they toad to
show t lank Moslem is
!teedy tom orb
situation, and itiellos In tins' si bi
necessarily me lb power in furthwesse amidloa
From this an opinion has got abroad that Itrsibss,
who was brought op a ksuit, was in oonnivantelddi
the Presidea tor theßepablic,and has written
press purpose of strengthening his power. It is to
an indignant contradiction to this report that P
now publishes the text of his successful petitions to
the President. It must be admitted that if
Proadhon suffered the hardshjp• that he
With the settled purpose of appearing to thos7ralle
the world a republican martyr, while, is hat he
was a Bonapartist agent, no disciple of Luria erer
showed greater powers of endurance. I incline to
Whore rather that the President of the Republic,
flattered with the important part assigned to him in
Proudhon's book, accepts his advocacy as the Caw
of destiny, and smiles at the "anarchy" of white be
is to be made the instrument. The following is the
letter to the Mirk that accompanies the copy of that
to the President:

Paris, August 10, 1052.
Meunier,' le Reilsetear,—Against the Insults of shaineli as
sail imprineipli if pros•, you defend with .o much
seal th■t you will perhaps not refuse to add to your efforts
the following roramuaiestion, which may nut be without
its apropos "
Dining the last week welt Award report. have been in
eirculet ea spa the etilipet of the authorisation to publish
my l.s' work, gr mtrd rue by the President of the Republic.
Ace.irding to s•.me there Se a .ionnivence betweea the
outlier sad the bead of the state. Oonnivanee in what?
—upon whet l—why ? Others =Kauai that the Paillasse

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was taken by unwise. Surprise after eight days' examine.
Con? What penes..! Finally, it is said, in the very best
batiste, that it is impoeible—that the hook must be.stopped,
that the author must be prosecuted, and that an easmplkry
punishment must be inflicted upon him. The journal of
M. Usisot is the most ardent in this general hallooiug en ka n • lii;arip,. ret:44lPdti liar** the letter
for my book. wolditgaittgrnoblinsh it
Man in givin to nation a it does
dm him Wo seed it kg ass affirm'.
tics ow: . • to caw ape, even
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'Naa ' , T. J.Vs6uditort.
"To TIM PII.IIIIDINT o WIZ RITUILIC.

" Paris, July 29, 1803,
- "Monsieur le President,—Tn 184$ I opposea your candi-
datum for the presidiums of the republic bemuse I thought
it menacing for democracy, hostile to republicans. The
amateurs of pamphlets reeolleet my polemics at that time.
After the election of December 10, a serious illness forced
me to be absent dunce a month from the National Assem-
bly, of which I was • member. I need not till you,
Monsieur le President, what was the cause of that illness.
Tose* the people lilt nut up in triumph pierced my heart.
Towards the end of January, 1849, when scarcely recovered
from my 6tigue and vexation, I attacked your power with
all the irritation of covaleseence. This attack cost me
three years' imprisonment, which expired on the
tit of June UM During the first mar of my cap-
deity I reeseimenesd the as Neon as possible.
For this eiotimey I was twin Owed I. esilsory 0011fthe-
NNW, was tendon tesnallosed hem me prises le soother,
and was twies brought le Mid Memo a seem of law. The
first prosecution failed ham es inArmality, mid upon the
.11•1111111, indictment I was asistaided. I only resigned myself
to slimes when it was maid Mme by the prefect of police
that kmpeissument meent, fire me, • journalist, net surely
the segmetraden of my perms, bet the interdiction of my
pee. The pond low lays nothing of the kind, and under
the last Min ea was set We lane and circumstances
give le loweiMis
" Aim the map Send of Den. 2.
_amd the dehat of the
immemlion, Ims At fee age Me ens eseriessied to
den& I had =Weals her it my person, but the blow
'Male the teriblisireve us to despair. Ab ! Monsieur
11. Priddy* new had, yes never will meet with, a
seem ad, at the ISM time, a more disinter-
ested minermy time me. I Woe never been your rival,
as misses went yin my opium te be each, have been. I
do and =pike to be your somemor, as others, who, perhaps,
are hos worthy than me, think M become. I have no de-
signs either against your dignity or your person, and I do
net llllMspire. I saw in you the enemy of the republic
wedge I had mehresed seek no other muse for my
enmities Mom year ascend advent I have tried to
emmile myeif—l sheull he dead without this consolation
—by dmasseleaft to myeelf that you were the erection of
inevitable dienmeemeses, sad that of this revolution, which
I and my Meads detehtless bad not been found worthy to
make, Jen, ismpite of ymaeself, were the impersonation.
Loei/forsiens, 1 said to myself, is the mandatory of the
rewind.% ender paia of the forfeiture of his power. lat
owes noes my idea into a book; but the police prohibits the
sale of mg beak. Unmask's at the gems time both the
printer sail the besissolkm. Why ? That is what I come to
ash of yams*, Mansiewr is President. Pardon a republi-
can th6fatemepem. Tea are the revolution of the 19th
emeirety, fir 41aNmik be anything else. Were It other-
MOO OW Ind of Member would be but an historical
accident without principle and without ford; that is my
bat Oat. Now do yea, Monsieur le President, know that
yea see the revolution ? Will you be the revolution ? Do
yon din le say so ? These are thorny questions which I
dam MR solve. That is my second point. This is
the tilde of my book—a consolation for myself,
a hope he these of my own political opinions, •
&deem le the eimatar-revolution. To this book I have
bawled my inn, my style, my idea", my opinions, my
foam; hir the rest, and notwithstanding my extreme
frankness, net the slightest attack either epee the
President or the government. I did not shut my
eyes ee the fast that this book in showing •
ream kr the existence of Dee. 2, would crests
foe that apish a sort of legitimacy in the nature of things,
that se resehing its hiatoneal signification, the government
would lapin a new force, and that this sentriaos falling
hem my pm, "Leaks Napoleon is the maadatory of the
rorsmpfam," would vies yet higher among his seven mil•
liens of wise" that popularity of the man which has so
An been Mal to republicans. As a party man, I said
diem Weep es myself, but es a man of the revolution, I
went en aetwithetandimr. Let me tell you, Monsieur le
Pseddest, for what semen and in what hope. I consider
that yen, ea tat wrandetery of the revolution, could not
elitsia the lamas onesour in which the revolution would not
low heallemr. I begod.then,in the interest of this revolution,
that Alga enlightened with regard to her true situation,
rearmed by yon swami every surprise, would at last look
the aded to Istria February, steadfastly in
the trirkieWtliat this, tor country, at all times seen
at the heed of latellesenal movement, in the time
of the treshembms, of the reneismes, in the 17th and
18th materies, aught without denser killew the course of
the pkilseephis sad social valet Iwo in the 19th. and
is whim& you, Nowise, le Pisailksat. Mama part ;-
1 loped frially, that deeneung, Theis.' In exile or in pri-
ses. WWII receive sense Ilea he. my words, and
that wham it might be psemitted te them who share my
resigned= in Se moment and yy malidense la the future
to reeves as henimemble and mem M their futon,
and to their bare. All thaw emeiderod, I have net
thought it right le reader the morel Interests of the
revolution weeesimite tope% parzieresentaseet, or
to .onallile them old coati-
need mason deelded the memo of lmtle coop
d'o'ot, and who all, set eroeptiag the clergy, have
shows themeless without mercy to rejoice any longer in
beholding our aideetenss.
" Now the pollee stops the sale of my week The name
of the &ether, the title of the book, the bras d the km-
(nage, them are the eemplainto of the polies.
"I should think myself a hypo:ribs and • award if, after
being ander the neared/ of ',lbid.( year intervention,
Monsieur le President, I made the beet mow to lb=
vernsamt. What, then, lam I mod teenglin ? I have
isiscblioation to be an set of bye wasellign and it de-
m you le Monsieur Peeidenti,M Elbe it • po-
lka set. For that, my book mi
nas E~pe, sash m ham
written it, with its bitterness, Os Its &tenet, its
parade's,. lam WilliSi to be mmilemond may ma semoust
of what may kw declaredmime wwisisavasaer the
tribunals, and la that ems, I ask h I
the M
fall exclusively ea my own heed. mid 1. sped
dsys beck, ' Let • single mu et hued and home be hind
in the geveranient of Nesmith', 2, sad nsy wait will pees P
Mastth th ee 1-geman ?sa f you, Monsieur le~ogi~miisat, to meet
wiar as
"P. J. PIOODHON."
At the Bonne the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. rose
460., closing at 105.16 ; the Threes rose 650., and closed
at 76.60. The Orleans Railway rose 22.60 ; Room,
17.60; Northern, 13.78; Strasbourg and Lyons,
12.60 ; Manisilles, 7.30 ; Lyons and Avignon, 6 ;
Havre, and Dieppe, 2.60 each. Western fell sfr.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, AIJOVST 10.
The two chambers met yesterday together in
federal &Ignobly. About 120 members were present.
Dr. Casimir Pfyffer was elected President. The
post of Vies-President was hotly contended for by
M. M. Rottman, Hera, and Btampfu. After three
ineffeetnal ballots, M. Itutteman was elected by 71
teem
The Federal Moveably then paired to the discus-
, sion of a petition from the canton of Appensell, pray-
ing that the federal law of April 27, 1851, relative to
the administration of penal justice in the army might
be declared inapplicable to troops employed upon
cantonal service. Two members of the committee,
MM. Pioda and Happeler, proposed the Pee-
vious question. M. JUDOS Puy 1111Merted
the petition. He thought the Federal oils
were incompetent to trench upon the sovereignty of
the cantons. No article of the sonstitution laid
down the proposition that troops upon cantonal ser-
vice were necessarily subject to the mime penalties
as troops upon federal envies. He thought the ap-
plication of the federal legislation on the subject
should be optional with the canton. He stated that
M. Andcrigg, a member of the committee, was of the
IMMO opinion. On the other hand, it was contended
that the competence of the Assembly was incontest-
able, that the law had been accepted and acted upon,
and that to entertain an application of this nature
would be to open a door to others of an embarrass-
ing kind. After a long and stormy debate, the pe-
tition was shelved by 88 against 50, the radicals of
Bcrno voting against M. James Puy.
A letter dated Berlin, August 8, says
In consequence of the alleged continual provocation of
the authorities of Neufchatel, who unreservedly attack all
the institutions which have soy relation with the union
between the canton end Prose* the Prussian minister at
the Helvetic Confederation has received orders to address a
ronsessilur to the Federal Council, call upon it to re •
eseatantboin"oPNeaunfric;t:tet puhtical
relaue of rlawniistal,Ptrhe !Linear*
relotions will be looked upon as broken, and Vie necessary
coercive measures will be adopted.