The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

settlement of a pestilential swamp under the tropic.
It was in the evening of the day before yesterday
ithat a battalion of the 14th of the line marched to
' the fort of Ivry. to conduct the 46$ prisoners destined
for transportation to the Rouen railway-station. In
the dead of the night, at the hour of two yesterday,
they were placed in a special train, accompanied by
their guards, and conveyed to Havre, where they
arrived at 11 in the morning. They were thee
immediately embarked on board the Canada, Capt.
llonet, whose orders were to put them on board the
Duguesclin, now lying off Brest, and awaiting their
arrival to act sail for Cayenne.
Besides the five representatives whom I mentioned
yesterday as destined for transportation to Cayenne,
two others, Alexandre Martin and Michot-Bouttet,
members for the Loiret, doomed to the same
dreadful fate, were among the 464. l'erreira,
commissary of the Provisional Government, was also
ono of the party. M. ltiviere, an advocate, was
about to be embarked at Havre, when he was rt.
prievcd, on the point of sailing, by a telegraphic
despatch.
'I be following additional details have reached me
concerning the liberation of the prisoners of 'lain.
General Ledo was the only one of the party eon.
vcyed to England. Two agents of the police at. tended him to Mover. The only prisoners allowed to
be set at liberty on the Belgian frontier were Gene-
rid Changarnier and Colonel Charras. General la-
moricii,re had to promise that lie would go to Aix-
la-Chapelle and M. 'laze to Cologne. General Chan-
gamier, Colonel Charms, and M. Baze, escorted by
several policemen, were conducted to the railway.
There the agents took places beside them in a train
which was ready to start. The policemen did not
quit their prisoners at the frontier, but aceorupinied
them all the way to Brussels. M. Baze only remained
in the Belgian capital long enough to wait for the
German train, which he was obliged to enter with the
French pol ice, wl io ere companied him toA x-la-Chape Ile.
Changarnier and Charms remained at Brussels, where
they arrived on Friday, hut the former was to go, as (
stated in my despatch of Friday, to Malines,the second
to Louvain. The policemen remained to watch thou
in the same hotel. General LarnuriaVre took his
departure from Ham Liter. He arrived at Brusce:s
the same evening, continually attended by policy.
men, who remained in the same hotel with him, and
conducted him to Cologne. Gen. Belleau started
from Ham, it appears, a considerable time after the
others, and is expected at Brussels this evening.
None of the prisoners made any application on ar-
riving to the Belgian government. M. Thiers has
taken a furnished house at Brussels.
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I am informed that the generals who were confined
in the castle of limn, namely Changarnier,
Bedeau, and Lai), will continue during their
exile to receive the pay of generals en diepondn't,,l.
There is evidently a wish to avoid driving these ex.
',striated officers to despair, and perhaps a hope that
they will be induced later to "adhere."
The Belgian government has expelled from Bel-
gium MM. Bianchi, of Lille, and Debuchy of Rou-
baix, against whom warrants of arrest were issued
by the prefect of the north on lice. 2nd. They were
conducted in custody to Ostend and compelled to
embark for England.
Although decrees are dated from the Tuileries,
the President has continued hitherto to bleep at
the Ely-sic. But he will proceed to install himself
this week definitively in the palace of the French
monarchs. ills new guard will appear the week
after.

The two batteries of artillery which have been in
the court-yard of the Tuileries since is N, under the
windows of the apartment formerly occupied by the
Princess Marie, have been removed to the Ecolo
Milituire.

A council of ministers was held yesterday at the
The Patrie contains an article headed Armemens
en Angleterre," which, after describing the general
alarm about possible invasion, the articles of the
London papers on the measures necessary for de-
fence, the conferences between high official persons
to carry such measures into effect, concludes with
affirming that there is nothing. in the relations of
France and England, which justifies these pre-
occupations.
News has been received from Algeria up to the sth
inst. The colony was perfectly quiet. I mentioned
yesterday the arrival of General Landon on the 30th.
General Pclissier took his departure for Oran on
board the Tanger.
The Monitcur contains a long decree regulating
the coast fisheries.

Several of the ministers have given balls and con-
certs this week. It is the desire of Louis Napoleon
that they should set the example of profuse expen-
diture, which their increased salaries will enable)
them to do. Private theatricals, acting charaiks,
and scientific conversational soirees are on the tapir.
People are to appear joyous and indOlitiont by order.
Those who pout and talk politics in their drawing-
rooms must expect to be punished as children aro
who look grave when the schoolmaster tells them to
be merry. The emperor says in some of his memoirs,
that he gave high salaries to his functionaries be-
cause it was necessary at first to stimulate their zeal
by pay, but that he always intended at a future time
to make almost all offices gratuitous, and so to or-
ganise society that the honour of serving him would
be a sufficient inducement to attract the highest order
of ability. As everything relating to the con-
sulate and the empire is now being paro-
died, we may fairly suppose that Louis
Napoleon intends to diminish public expendi-
ture at some future time. Probably the pa-
rallel will be exact in this respect, that the opportu-
nity will never arrive. To what extent the system
of transportation is to be carried before the country
will enjoy the blessings of the tranquillity which we
are told was inaugurated on December 2 it is impos-
sible to say. 'rho arrests go on in all parts of tho
country as briskly as ever.
A letter from Aix, of January 8, states that ar-
rests and domiciliary visits are going on with great
activity throughout the department. At Marseilles
very many arrests have just been made in furnished
lodging-houses. In the neighbourhood of Aix itself
positive " razzias" have been made in many villages.
Several against whom warrants are out have escaped.
The Journal de Loire-cl-Cher, of this moraines
date, says that many arrests have been lately made
at Courchcverny and Cheveray. This is the latest
news as given by the government journals, and there-
fore free from the suspicion of exaggeration.
The Ocean, of Brest, says that a committee, con-
sisting of a geologist, a botanist, and a physician. is
to be sent to explore Guyana and all that part of the
American continent extending as tar as the Amazon
river.