The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUSIMAT
The red republican manifesto. are transcribed in
all the Paris journals to-day, and the Count de
Chambord's protest is given in all but one. The
Assembler Nationale, by way of showing its disgust
at the publication by the government of the socialist
provocations to civil war and the Bourbon protest
upon the same sheet, will not re-produce the latter
till to-morrow. 'file other legitimist organ, the Union,
takes a more direct mode of expressing the same feel-
leg. Reversing theorder in which the Moniker printed
the four anti-Bonapartist dacuments, it places the
Chambord proclimatton in large type at the head of
its columns, and then prefaces the other extracts
from the utficial journal- by the following bold re-
marks;
The ilosiiteur, with a taste which we leave the feelings
of our readers to appreciate, inserts before this grave docu-
ment three other papers emanating from the haunts of so-
cialism and revolution. We for an instant recoiled from the
idea of sullying the page which contains the declaration of
the descendants of St. Louis, by plating these abominable
manifestations 'ay its side. But while branding with the
most vigorous enmity of our soul the ignoble and culpable
sentiments of the party of crime, we ultimately thought
that their hid. one contemt would only display to more ad-
vantage the grand. ur and majesty at the language of the
heir of so many kings. Franc. can but learn a lesson when
she thus sea lace to Lee the geni4s of royalty and the
genius of revolution

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The Ik bats publishes all the documents without
comment, but contrives to put the inconsistent con-
duct of the government in a glaring light, by placing
the following extracts from pros incial journals im-
mediately after them :
%sr read is the/'man Bream's*, under the date of Nantes
Nov. 13—

We spoke in one of our recent aumben of a seditious
writing, ported at Nantes, and seined by the police. We
learn twiny that a nurnher of similar placards, containing
a specie of manifesto from the Coen de Chambord, and
'isnot Henry,' have been distributed *mom private iadi•
mines. 'The prelect, having helm infeemed that M.
Brody, the publisher of the &pintoes dal Fagot*, had been
arrested in La Vendee, for having distributed eopien of this
manifesto, this morning ordered the immediate arrest of
M. Einerand de la ltochette, the principal editor of the
Eipt'ronre. Perquisitions were instantly reads at the real-
lences of M. Names, the printer. and MM. Charles de
Kergabiee and Favreau, writers M the journal. After these
domiciliary visite, M. Ferrets was arrested."
The following circular has bees sent to the subscribers
to the newspaper:

" Nanteo, Nov. 13.
" 1 has* the honour to inform you that, by order of the
prefect, dated this day, the Esp.'rance do rev,* bye been
provisionally suspend, d. Measures will be taken as loan as
passible to present this state of things from being prejudi-
cial to the otitiocriben of the journal.
" Your obedient servant,
" For M. Reseraud do Ia Rochette, under denote,
" J. llimetanoso."
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M. Granier de Cassagnao says in the Pup:
We laud the government for having pulthshed the above
papers without comment, but we do not feel called upon to
be leo reserved. and we shall ezprees our opinion upon them
in oar number of to-marrow.

IN: Emil. de Girardin ;n the Pres.. says :

We praised without restrietion the act which redeemed
the preemies of France, by restoring Abd-el-Kseltr to the
liberty which was solemnly promised him by Lieut.-Generel
de Lamoriciere, and which promise was no less solemnly
ratified by the Duke d'Aumsle, at that time Governor-
General of Algeria. Here is another act which we will
also praise without restriction, that which brings to
the knowledge of all France the proclamations of
London, Jersey, and Fruhsdorff; it is the act which before
the ballot of the 21st November, 1852, transforming ten
million electors into ten million jurymen, constitutes them
supreme judges of the accusation thus rendered public.
This act, which appears audacious, is even more than bold.
But if the ;universal publicity which the four manifestos
inserted in the Mosiiteur will obtain shall ant climionh
the number of voting tickets on which will be
written or printed the word "Yee"—if this pub-
licity shall have rather a contrary effect, what must
henceforth be thought of the utility and necessity for
restrictive and repressive laws in mitten of the prom? The
Mortiteur of yesterday is implicitly the striking condemna-
tion of such laws. That condemnation is a memorable one ;
it has been given by reasoa, and will once more be con-
firmed by experience. The -Vomiters, has resolutely en-
tered into the large and sure psth which the great judge
of the slips and errors of the free press in the public cor-
onet:ft. That is • great act which iesesnas should inaugurate
the era of a new policy ! Already has the government de-
eland that the political offenders condemned to forced resi-
dence in particalar please shall take part in the vote of the
21st November; the government will not remain half way,
but will complete the measure by extending it to all
exiles. Their return to France cannot have the danger
which, according to the avowal of the government, their
manifestos have not.

Although M. de Oirardin thinks fit to declare that
he sees in the unexpected measure of the gov,rn-
ment the inauguration of a new and liberal policy,
he knows better. The truth is that it was felt neces-
sary to get up some excitement to rouse the people
from the deplorable apathy which threatens the im-
perial regime with an unlooked for check at the
coming plebiscite. Eight millions of votes at the
least are required. The prefects, mayors, and their
subordinates are expected to return 80 per cent. of
the constituency of France as having voted " Yes."
But if it should be generally notorious that
half the voters stop at home, the difficulties
in the way of making up the requisite tale will be
appalling. Nothing could be better calculated to
stinelale the bourgeoisie to vote than the exhibition
el a termer of the red flag, and the insinuation that
the4seur but the empire can save them from the
I underaand, however, that the most
:: of the socialist proclamations published by
• , and which it sagaciously puts at the
Lof all, is spurious. At least I know from
good authority that it is repudiated by all shades of
republicans in Paris. The second it admitted
by the friends of the refugees to be the compositions
of Lars Rollin, and they complain that the signa-
ture of that republican leader is suppressed for the
purpose of confounding his address with the
ams which they disown. It is true that both
Lein Rollin's roclamation and Victor Hugo's are
evisiestly redolent of civil war to strike terror into
the hangeeinis, but their friend' draw this dis-
!ballet—they saiiee:e admit that the London
and Jersey re do contemplate the over-
throw of Louis apoleon by violent means ; but
we awe that the paper " No. 1," in the Monitore.,
which Ispeamete them as intending to guillotine all
the hnewo- who have ewarn allegiance to him,
is an invention of their enemies.