The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

LOUIS NAPOLEON'S LAST DECREES.

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A summary of the following important intelligesee,
received by submarine telegraph, appeared in the
Erprets of yesterday :
PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.

The Moniteur of this morning contains several de-
crees of the highest importance. The tint decree is
as follows:

Louis Napoleon, President of the Republic, decrees:
A minister of state is instituted, who will have the (ol
lowing attributes The relations of the government with
tke senate, and the corps legislatif and the council of state;
the correspondence of the President with the several minis-
ters ; countersignment of the decrees nominating the
ministers, the pr indents of the senate and of the legis-
lative body and the senators, granting the &nations
which may be attributed to them, nominating lb. mem-
bers of the council of state ; the countersignment
of the decrees tendered by the President in execution
of the powers which belong to him, in conformity with
the articles 24, 28, 31, 48, and 54, of the constitution, and
of those coneerning matters which are not specially attri-
buted to any ministerial department; the drawing up and
preservation of the minutes of the council of ministers ; the
exclusive direction of the official part of the Monsieur ; the
administration of the national palaces and manufactures.—
Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, Jan. 22, 1832.
Loins NA roccom.
A decree follows, appointing M. do Casablanca,
former Minister of Finances, Minister of State.
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The next decree defines the attributions of the
ministry of police as follows :
Louis Napoleon, President of the Republic, decrees:
Art. 1. A ministry is created under the name of Minister
of General Police. . _

Art. 2. The Minister of Police will possess t►e following
attributes. Ihe execution of the laws relative to the
general police. to the safet)• and internal tranquility of the
republic. The service of the national guard, the republican
guard, the gendarmerie—fur everything which has refer-
ence to the maintenance of public order. The sow oeillance
of the newspapers, dramatic pieces, and publications of
every description. The police regulations of the prisons,
houses of detention, of justice, and of every ether description
of prison. The peraoftnel of the prefects of the police of l'eris
and the departments, and all agents of general police. The
commercial, aruitary, and industrial police. The repression
of meodwity and vagabondage.
Art. 3. the Miui.ter at l'oliee will have correspondence
with all the constituted authorities in all matters having
reference to the security of the public.
Art. 4. An ulterior decree will regulate the central
organisatioa, and the active services of the new ministry.
Art. 6. The ministers shall be charged, as far as concerns
each of them respectively, with the execution of the
resent decree.
Done at the Palace of the Tuileries this
22nd January, 1&52.
Loma NuruLsos.
The Minister of State, X. Di CASABIANCA.
The nest theme is *a fo:lowa:

Louis RANI, on, President of the Republic, decrees :
Art I. M. de Nlisupas, Prefect of the Police of the Seine,
is appointed Mini•ter of General l'olice.
Art. 2. Our Minister of State is charged with the execu-
tion of the present decree.
Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, Jan. 22,
By the next decree, M. Abbe tucci, Honorary
Councillor of the Court of Cessation, is appointed
Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, in the place
of M. Rouher, whose resignation is accepted.
By the next decree, M. Fialin de Persigny, formerly
Plenipotentiary Minister, is appointed Minister of
the Interior, in the place of M. de Morny, whoso
resignut ion is accepted.
By the next clo..cree,Sl. Dineen, former Minister, is
appointed Minister of Finance, in the place of M.
kould, whew resignation is accepted.
The next decreett is as follows :

The President of the Republic, considering that all the
!governments which have succeeded each other have deemed
at indispensable to compel the family which hod ceased to
reign to dispo-c of all the moveable and immoveable pro
petty which it possessed in France ; That, whereas, on the
12th of January, 1516, Louis XVIII. compelled members
of the linaperor Napoleon's family to sell their personal pro-
perty within the space of six months; and that, whereas,
on the 10th of April, 1832, Louis ;Philippe did the same
with respect to the princes of the elder branches of the
Bourbon family ; Considering that ouch measures are
always enacted for the sake of order and public in-
terest; that, whereas, at the present juncture, more
than ever; high political considerations imperatively
meteaand the diminution of the influence which the pores-
sioa of three hundred millions of territorial property be-
stows on the Princes of the Orleans family Decrees :
Art. 1. The in •mbers of the Orleans family, their
husbands, widows, and descendants, cannot possess
any movable or immovable property in France ; they shall
be forced to dispose definitively of all the property which
they possess iii the extent of the French territory.
Art. 2. This sale shall be effected within one year—,
to take date, as to that property which is free from
mortgages, and unembarrassed by other funds, from the
peoatalsahoo of the prceent elveree, sad mato that portion of
their prow ty which may be mortgaged or open to litiga-
J tiuu, from the day on which such property shall be aver.-
I cably declared to belong to them.
Art. 3. In default 01 havint effected the sale within the
above-mentioned periods, suck sale shall be effected with
all due diligence by the administration of the domains,
nemeding to the forms prescribed by the law of the 10th of
April, 1832. 'I he proceeds of the sale shall be handed over
le the proprietors, or to those who may be entitled to them.
Done at the talace of the Tuileries, this 22nd January,
1162. Loom NAM/LION.
By the President,
The Minister of State, X of CI.B•IIIANCA.
The next document is as follows:

The President of the Republic—Considering that, without
wishing to striae at the right of property in the person of
the princes of the Orleans family, the President of the
Republic would not justify the confidence of the French
people if he were to permit property that ought to belong
to the nation to be taken away from the domain of the state ;
Considering that, according to the old public law of France,
maintained by the decree September, of 21st of 1790, and
by. the law of Nov. 8, 1814, all the property belonging to
princes at the time of their coming to the throne were of
full right and on the instant reunited to the domain of the
crown, that thus the decree of 21st September, 1790, as well
as the law of Nov. 8, 1814, enacts: " The private property
of the prince who comes to the throne, and that which
he may have during his reign, by whatsoever title it
may be, are of right and on the instant united to
the domain of the nation, and the effect of the union
is perpetual and irrevocable ;" that the consecra-
tion of this principle goes back to very distant epochs of
the monarchy; that among other examples may be cited
that of Henry IV. This prince having wished by
letters patent of 15th of April, 1690, to binder the
union of his property with the domain of the crown,
the parliament of Pans refused to register these letters pa-
tent, upon the grounds mentioned in a decree of July 15,
1591 ; and Henry IV., applauding this firmness at a later
period, issued an edict in the month of July 1607, which
revoked his first letters patent ; Considering that this fun-
damental rule of the monarchy has been applied under the
reigns of Loris XVIII. and of Charles I. and reproduced
in • law of January 15, 1826; That no legislative act hsd
revoked it on the 9th of August 1830, when Louis Philippe
accepted the crown; and thus by the sole fact of his
acceptance, all the property that he possessed at that
period has become the incontestible property of
the state ; Considering that the general gilt to his
children, reserving the life lame. CM elation uni-
verselle soya reserve etwelifreil 0) ansamed to by Louis
Philippe for the benefit of his iii6dres, to the exclu-
sion of his eldest son on tie bli of August, 1830, on
the very day that royalty wee efillared to him, and before his
acceptance, which took pbs. en N. 9th of the same mohtb,
had only for its object to pmewant tie to-union with the
domains of the crown, of amildarallea yeaprrty powered by
the prince called to the the,.. VMS enheeignestly, when it
became known, this set the pails auseissea • That
if the nullity of that act was set priassased, it was because
there did not steal, ea under tin ancient monarchy,
a competent authority to repress the vitiation of principles
of public law, the guardianship of whisk was 'formerly con-
fided to parliaments ; That in reseturing to himself the
usufruct of the property eomprind is the donation, Louis-
Philippe deprived himself efnething, and intended only to
assure to his family a trinsony which had become that of
the State ; That the donation stuff, no less than the exclu-
sion of his eldest so, its the view of that son coming to the
thecae, was, on the part of the Xing Louis-Philippe, the
meet funnel recognition of this feadiunental rule,
sines so many precautions were requisite to evade it;
That it would be in vain to object that the uni'-n of tbe
public domain with the property of the prince ought to re-
suit only from the acceptance of the crown, and that this
acceptance not having taken place till the 9th August, the
donation consented to on the 7th of the same month bad
then already taken effect; considering that at this last date
Louis Philippe was no longer a private person, since the
two chambers had delared him King of the French, subject
to the sole condition of taking the oath to the charter ;
That as a consequence of his acceptance be was
Xing from and after the 7th of August, since upon that
day the national will had been made manifest by the organ
of the two chambers, and that the fraud upon • law of pub-
lie order does not the lees exist because it is concerted in the
view of a certain fact to he immediately realised ; Consider-
!is hat the property comprised in the donation of August
7, having been irrevocably incorporated with the domain of
the state, could not be abstracted from it by the diepos4-
, lions of Article 22, of the law of March 22, 1832 ;
That it would be contrary to all principle. attri- 1
hating • retro-active effect to this law to allow it to
validate an act radically void, according to existing
legislation at the epoch whoa this act was consummated ;
That, moreover, this law, dictated by private interest, under
tie induenes of • policy of circumstance, cannot prevail
eg nioet the permanent rights of the state and the immutable
rules of public low; ComWeriag further that, the right, of the
elate so restored, them still remains in the Orl, sus family 1
more than a hundred millions of francs with which it can I
m.intsin its rank shroud • Considering, also, that it is
gluing to continue the owl allowance of 300,000 francs
in the budget for the dowry of the Dachau of Orleans,
Domes :