The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARISTOISDAT EMIINO.

cai,tsin Dueasse, as aide-de-camp of Marshal 1
i . has just written a work, entitled, " The
Nibtire Errors at M. Lomartine; or a Critical Exa- I
mope° of his History of the Beetoratioo." The t
jgosit.iir informs us that the Emperor has
wed to to accept a copy of this work front the hands
d tlo: author, who was presented to his Imperial
11,joq by King Jerome. This marked manner of
'pouncing the publication of a book, with a title
go he from complimentary to M. Lamartine, is in-
s/00as/ reproach to him fur aome severe strictures
go the Emperor Napoleon. The book is pr baqy
ithe made to order fur the Bonaparte family. But
ofortanstely the brilliant writings of M. Lemartine
st open to much animadversion upon the score of
kfeorical accuracy. Ile is too apt to draw upon his
ferule imagination for his facts. For instance, in
the work in question he represents Wellington at
ITieerloo beandishing his sword over his head after
having hail three horses killed under him, the fact
kvieg that the Duke rude but one horse throughout
the battle, and never drew his sword during the
eboir day.
N.ltrial ot the bishops have written laborious vie-
ratan to their clergy, explaining the grounds upon
which they conceive it desirable to offer up speeial
praers upon the occasion of the establishment of
Os empire. Although the language of these dam-
sots Is studiously hazy and ambiguous, it is easy to
rneive from them that the support given to the
opine by the clogy is anything but hearty and'
theinditional. The circular of the Bishop a Or-
ono has excited particular attention as showing in
'..riking light the disposition of the church to act
glen its favourite maxim of . nothing for nulling."
11. urges the cletgy tome that the new government
"Iv grant the church more lawns., by which he
means more power. 1k does not &signior that any
tlimg like support to the empire by the eicrgy can
role be expected upon this condition. Bo shows
Iffy clearly that the clitirch never commits itself by
oiling up prayers, and referring to the not very
distant time when the priests of Paris blessed trees
tawny and prayed foi the provisional government,
be rebuts any Imputation of toconsistency, by ob-
serving that perhaps but fur the church's prayers the
oh ippy republic might hare done more harm than
it did. There is no doubt that this prelate speaks
the voice of Rome, inspired not perhaps by the Pope,
trbo is almost a nonentity, but by the cardinals.
They know that it is a darling object with the Fm-
rue to bring the lope to Paris to crown him, and
they hope to secure a concordat as the price of this
spikesoloa. It is impossible to say what may come
/Phis There is no love lost between the parties,
sad 'het are thoroughly alive to each other's designs.
Low N4pgron knows the value of the church as an
instrunitut of government, but he has no idea of
letting it get too strong for him; and following the
timhtions of his uncle, it is probable that lie will
play the Pope an ugly trick before long.
I informed you yesterday that the single document
sublistosl by the government to show that a political
personage of eminence had accepted the amnesty
son the conditions offered, turns out to be a forgery.
tie .5.,../e now publishes the following letter, ad-
*mud to the Puy, :

figments, Dee. ft.
Iklasiestr le Itedscieur,--1 love received here • copy of
glom, purporting to he written by me, and which sp.
lewd Boer days ago in several French journals. All men
al pod letting will comprehend the diverse sentiments
deck must bare agitated ene on reading that product', n.
De. frit of all. in so 'crimes aa affair, I consider it an im-
purities duty of honour to state the truth te the Rosem-
ont and to my fellosearitisons. All who know me are
swam of the elieptional and adlicting situation in which I
myei If placed, an of all the misfortunes which I have
had to support. if or coils is prolonged, new and grave
nusforuses will probably overwhelm me • but in presence
of a quest on in which political honour aid probity are so
deeply c warned, I obey the cry ot my consoeses as mak.
iag the tolowing declaration net who is the
antler of that letter; I neither wrote it wearied It.
Weft thu, I rigout you, in year mat number, and se
Sept. tc CHATOII,
to lifPfallOtAtiTe of the People for the Dordogne.
The adhetiaw alluded to by 11. Chavoix is the
/nuns Walesa of his wife.

The prefect of the Herault has suspended the ma-
Mimi council of Frontignen. foe having refused to
vote fends fur a distribution to the poor on the mos-
non of the proclamation of the empire, and for
haring abstained from attending the oeresassy of
the proclamation.
:Captain Augustin I topouy has boa
the &NMI"' Is
the command of the new war steamer, spasm
arrrired in Lyons on Sunday night,
be steamer from Chalons. He was about to proceed,
without stopping, to Marseilles, bat the Saha Pei&
an. that, at the pressing instances of Marshal Ole.
Wale, he consented to puss Monday in Lyons. It
wu expected that he would witness a sham fight on
the plain of Grand Camp, and attend a periareasese
at the theatre.

Three new medals are now being struck at the
Imperial Mint. All three have on the face the 'Spy
of Louis Napoleon, with these weeds: "Napoleon
fl.. Ernie reur." On the reverse of one of them is
as eagle, surmounted by the insperisl morns with
my., and holding in its claws an esemedsses on
Which is inscribed the number of votes • the 21st
November, 7,824,129. Hound the eagle are the
mottos: "Suffrage universe! —2l-22 Novombra, len
—likabliasement do l'Entpire." On sneers. is ea
me side the bust of the Emperor, and on the reverse
the following inscription " Plebiscite du 21 No-
vember. 15.2. Le Liberateur de la France, Louis
Napoleon preclami Emperear des Francais line
7.821,129 rola, le 2 Dicembre, 18a2." On the third
them are on the two faces the bads of Napoleon I.
and of Nepalese 111.
It is suggested that a decree will shortly appear
frog a sew scale of commission and brokerage far
look brokers, goods brokers, and the loennume
broken of Nantes. It is also mid that the numbs
el aembero of the Member of Commerce of Paris
will be iccremod from U be 21.
At a meeting of ohswislihre el the worohemmiin
the Marais it wen =Wed minimmillfdl bob se*
vote, that the selebibhumil shall be hotbed& ceded
lathe Napoleon Disk Ossarmy. The latter will Doge-
Idea operations immediately, and will begin by
elentag depots for oils, soap, and leather.
Id ugly building which has disfigured the wart of
the Palau Royal for the last three years is to be
Piled down, and the annual exhibidon of modern
Midi wilt in future take place at the hotel of the
ministry for foreign affairs.
The central commission on railways, which was
Muted to replace the general commission instituted
1+47, crwiLd to exist in lit3l ; hat it is now said
that the !preeminent intends to institute a new cern.
miMon charged to decide an the opportuneness of
he demands for now lines, and on the promise dime-
boa to be taken by them. The haws ember of
demands for eensemions refined to by the Monitorr
kss It is said, led to this measure. Thervernment,
I &Med, will submit to the commionson a project
ke erabliihing secondary lines, is which, as in
142, the different directions which it is desirable for
the, to take will be indicated, and the number of
them will be limited.
PARIS, WIDNUIDA• RIMMING.
The Emperor yesterday visited the Hotel de Ville,
Itellehe through the new Ito de Medi. His Modesty
as is sa sten carriage, accompanied by M. de-Per-
IVY. M. riltel, the prefect of pohoe, sad M.
TwArt de la Paged*, con of his nithe-dos.
carriage was esemied by a Maass* of =e
On reselling the Hotel de VII* the Impser wee re-
""'d b the pretest of the Bain, M. Menem, tbe Sa-
mar,: ;mer the unpaid fightres 41 the=
tore. and the viee-presit of the Municipal
H. conferred the Cross of Mime of the Legion of
Honour on M. Frfmisot, chef iie divides of works at
the Prefecture of the Seine, sad that of Chevalier
oa M. Chatfield, who directed all the expropriations
of the Hee de Nicoll; on M. Allard, chef du
bwess de la liquidation, who arranged the payment
of all the expenses attendant on that operation ; and
on MN!. Round and Vaudrey, the engineers charged
with the direction of the works. After visiting
the Irrand reception rooms of the Hide' de Ville, the
Emperor proceeded to the barracks, which he ex-
amined in all their details. On quitting the latter
building he left 4,000(r. to be divided among the
w,,rkinen, and :Mgr. for the widow of one who had
hi:en killed ma the works a few days liner. This
net lees in fact the inauguration of the new Hoe de
RITOII some of the last &stacks which obstructed
the carriage-way were not removed until
the Emperor had quitted the Tuileries.
nu splendid street was begun only eleven
Soothe ago. During that period more than 240

iiimiit
pandsituated
in narrow tee I hy streets.
how . Handsome hoommil gay shops
aso rising in their plasm. TM welt to the
dike Paris is 20 millions of franca.
workmen who raised a triumphal arch in
homier of Loads Napoleon at the entrance of the
Tuileries on the occasion of makieg his public entry
into Paris from the south, conceived the idea of
having a modal of it executed in silver and presenting
it to the chided the state. Thin intention having
been communicated to the Emperor, he sent word

that he found himself under thip necessity of abso-
lutely refusing son offerings. The workmen then
sent him in an address, in which, otter expressing
their regret at nut being permitted to make the pre-
sent, they proceed as follows:
Sire,—You osee said, " My real friends are in the chow.
mien:' they are also, believe it, in the garret mid the
wobaimp, eve here,
is abut, among those (Am he of
familia, who will give to your Mojeaty soldiers each as those
that MN eigaanamiled by Napoleon I. Live loop, then,
sins Am ralappleares of all of us, and may our respect,
our solniona ta yesr laws, our gratitude, be the brightest
diamonds M your imperial crown, which our hearts' our
arsososil these of our children will know how to defend
sessiry•
1 se unable to state whether this address was pre.
=by order of the Minister of State. as from an
dent admission made by a government journal,
IMP know was the case with regard to the triumphal
mit in question. The Emperor has vouchsafed the
/snowing answer:
relate of the Tuileries, Dee. 11, 1862.
I was already aware of the sentiment, which you feel
towards niv personally, but the warm .nourtnces which you
now again give me on the subj. rt do rot the less affect me.
If I love to he or you afllria that 1 have numerous friends in
the workshoys and in the habitationv of the poor, in the
same manner be certain that they who labour and they who
suffer can r,eknn on me. NAPOLEON.

The .Ifuniteur states that General Baron Fagel
yesterday had an audience of the Emperor, to pre-
sent his new credentials a. Encoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plcnipotentisry from the King of the
Netherlands.

Baron de Dalwigk, Minister of Foreign Affairs
and president of the cabinet of Darmstadt, has offi-
cially announced to the charge d'affaires of France
that the Grand Duke of Hesse had received the
news of the proclamation of the empire with the
greatest satisfaction, and that it was the intention of
his royal highness to re-establish the legation of the
grand dechy of Hesse, which has been suppressed
for some years.
B an imperial decree, reciting that the corps of
• employed in the capital cannot preserve
a title which alludes to • form of government no
longer in existence, it is enacted that the republican
guard is henceforth to take the title of Garde de
Paris, and the two battalions of the Gendarmerie
Mobile are to be called Gendarmerie d'Elitc.

Thom Emperor has appointed thell;b;fiinoulhiac,
akar-general of the Bishopric of Aix, Bishop of Gre-
noble, in the room of Mgr. Philibcrt de Bruillard,
whose resignation has been accepted, and who is
named ("aeon of the first order of the Imperial Chap-
ter of Saint Denis; and the Abbe Daniel, member of
the Superior Council of Public Instruction, is named
Bishop of Coutances, in tha room of Mgr. Itobiou de
a Trebonnais, who has resigned, and been also ap-
pointed to the Imperial Chapter of Saint Denis.