The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PALMS, SATURDAY ETINING.
An caked warning has been given this morning
by M. de Mars to the editor of the P►eeae. The
OW of tide wesseing admonition, the first of the
kiwi adheres" to any journal, may be interesting to
year readers. It is as follows :
The Minimised General Police, asasideriai ra 32ad
ankle of the taper decree of Feb. 17 ea the peer, whish
enact+ that a jounal may be sagraded by a ilesidea of the
ministry, eves wises it hes lweired as saw
two waning% desisting the mothee rased, sad
period eat sweedier two maths; seselarieg ro
pa taisbed hydro Preset. Agri doh& antdas the haw-
kw puma. :—" Tin empire weal/ he the anal perosssokla
to ma atssaipt (alansamay wbtth ymilablr would ma balsas
i• eeaiag ; Ibir if so AMbs were bead is the repsidire
a anise wadi be toned is the !royalist

ParlY• to ens royalittrrty'"
the said artist Wag slimed " Emile de Girardia.' Con-
aidashig that it amid be permitted, without outraging
at the lam Oho palish morals and the character of the
naldrim, hi matabla at se inevitable fact, an attempt upon
die rte of the bed 004 stale, whatever be the pretexts or
Oa \Mena iirlellar111•11• qua which so culpable aa
arguatialidan b 11; atatidairhq that tato JPresm
swerapar boa dim Nlis that irasisa l pat-
dhow ara Ss left law at the parklikal pew aparese,
AM 1. Mistahcle the tams of art. 33, of She doom of
lobswafty 17, 11/114 a pmt warning is addreseed to the
Prow 11•111eraw in *apeman of M. Rouy. es* of the
Om" amot 111.Mmae 69 Oleardin Art. 2. The prefectof
the Wks at Timis brushed with' the ezecution of the pre.
ant isms. Dam at Pans, April 9, 1152,
The Yllaktia of General Police, Di MLUFAI.
Nor is Me the only growl of power at the
awakening freeds• et the press. You are already
aware the So Corsair, has been seised; and yes-
terday M. dr Maupas summoned before him M.
Millie, formerly the head of a ministerial division
under M. Guieot, and at present one of the •
tors and redarteurß of the Assembqe Nation .

paper, which, under the auspices of MM. Malvandy,
Duchatel. and Guisot, preaches fusion latterly with
more than usual vigour. has given more offence to
the government in proportion as the rumours of a
reconciliation between the Bourbon branches gather
credit, and tend to retard the adhesion of political
wnvercn. The Minister of Police declared to M.
Manse that, if the Assemh,ee did not change its tone, I,
be should be obliged to have recourse to that provi-
'ion of the decree of Feb. 17, by which the coot- '
petent minister is enabled to suspend a journal for
two months, after two warnings, without any prose-
cution before the tribunals.
I find this evening in the summary given by. the
Potpie of legislative proceedings, the following mini-
*leant hint with regard to the coming empire. It
ways that the petitions presented to the Senate
amount to about 200, of which the greater part de-
mand the prorlawation of the empire. You are
aware that the constitution does not allow any peti-
tions to be addressed to the Legislative Body.
It is rumonred that on the occasion of the review
for the distribution of the eagles, it is the intention

ot a 0
1 deersu

of the army to offer the
Pte, the expense of whid
ncriptioll of two days'
many promotions a e
The Pattie of t
Canino will not go o 1t047-71kfter biting penmen
some days in Italy to e‘ rifer about his interests with
the adnaninistrators el his affairs, ho will return to
France."
I antler I some time ago to the royal style in which
the Grand Duke Constantine had treated the Count
do Chambord at Venice. I forget whether I men-
tioned the fact that the Russian Prince, on receiving
the French Pretender on board his vessel, ordered a
salute of 21 guns to be fired. It appears that this
royal compliment to the exiled heir of the legitimate
throne has deeply offended Louis Napoleon ;
and certainly, considering the proud and sus-
ceptible nature of the French President, his
immense confidence is his own power, and
the natural tendency of his policy, particularly if
the empire be revived, towards war, one can hardly
conceive an incident more likely than this to set the
eabinets of Paris and St. Petersburg by the cars. I
understand that the want of spirit shown by the
French consul at Venice, in not protesting with be-
coming energy against this affront to the head of the
French republic, mid the lameness and want of
detail in his despatches on the subject of the fre-
quent interviews which take place between the son
of the Czar and the descendant of St. Louis, have
occasioned much dissatisfaction, so that it seems by
no means improbable that a more vigorous represen-
tative of the republic will be despatched to the Queen
of the Adriatic.
I understand from an unquestionable authority
that M. Berryer dined a few days ago at the Elysee.
Larochjacquelein dined with the Prince-President a
day or two before M. Berryer, but the chief of La
Vendee had at least the excuse that ho went on a
charitable mission. lie had written to Louis Napo-
leon to solicit the pardon of four legitimists con-
demned to transportation. The President enwiested
by an invitation to dinner, where they would tie
over the matter. I know not what excuse M. Bet,
iyer had.
The extraordinary influence of ladies of the stage
in procuring the pardon of people condemned to
transvortation, has caused it latterly to be said that
the French government of the present day is a de-
spotism tempered by actresses.
The opera world is in great ferment at the re-
ported disappearance of Mdlle. Cruvelli, the prima
donna of the Italian Opera, with an American, who in-
tends, no doubt, to offer the charming cantatriee up
at the shrine of Mr. Barnum. I believe that Mdlle.
Cruvelli has, by this precipitate retreat from the
French capital and rupture of her engagement, for-
feited a sum of four thousand pounds sterling to Mr.
Lem/a, who is, however, deeply concerned at the
10, ouch an attraction, and has been plying the
teoroph in every direction to discover the where-
Asti of the fugitives.
Tb government has thought it necessary to ease
So public mind as to the announced credit of seven
millions for the new coinage, which in itself is a
lucrative operation. The following note appears in
tb• Moniteur _ _

The hill which is now before the Legislative Body opens
• credit to the Minister of Finance of 7,560,000 f. for all the
esynses attendant on the calling in of the old copper
coinage, and the coinage of that which is to replace it. Per-
sons who may read the bill without the preamble may con-
sider this operation as onerous to the Treasury, but such is
not the case ; the bill, as it was presented by the govern-
ment to the Council of State, contained no demand for a
credit. The combination proposed withdraws from eircula-
lion 101 millions of kilogrammes of copper. The coins
which will be •truck off instead of them will only employ 5
millions of kilogrammes of metal, sod will only east, with the
expense of coining, the above-mentioned sum of 7,560,00dr,
and that expense will be more than made up by the sale of
the 3i millions of kilogrammes of copper which will remain
at the disposal of the state. The receipts will, therefore, at
least, cover the expenses. If the Council of State, while
adopting the bill of the government, has modified its word-
ing, it is in order to conform to the rigid rules necessary in
the accounts which compel the expenses and the receipts to
be entered separately. It is only • measure of order. It
is therefore evident that the substitution of a convenient
and better struck coin for the rough and heavy ones which
disgrace our monetary system will in no way affect the
budget.
Tho .Voniteur also says :
The indirect
markable degree. The produce of January, 1852, was in-
ferior to that of January, 1851, but the receipts of Feb•
rusry, 18'12, have exceeded those of the corresponding
' month of 1831 by •bkpt two millions; those of March,
183?, are nearly five hsillions more than those of March,
1831. This rapid increase is a striking proof of the re-
sumption of business and the development of labour.
Amongst these receipts we must particularly mention the
registration duties. tip to March these receipts were very
small, and in January and February they were scarcely
equal to those of the corresponding months in 1851, but
' last month they exceeded by 1,800,000 fr. those of March,
1851.

The committee named by the legislative body on
the Copper Coinage Bill held sittings on Wednesday
and Thursday. M. Peloaze, President of the Mint
Commission, was examined. It is confidently said
that the committee intends to propose some amend
meets. These, according to the new constitution,
cannot be brought before the legislative body with-
out the approval of the Council of State. In the
present ease, it is supposed that the amendments will
not meet with any objection, and that the report
will be brought before the Assembly next week. 'rho
order of tho day for Tuesday states that a communi-
cation from the government is to be presented. It is
said that this communication will be a message from
the Prince President, giving a general exposec of the
affairs of the country since his last message in No-
vember last. The Senate is to meet in its bureaux on
Wednesday, to appoint committees on its accounts
and on petitions.
By the senatus-consultum which allows the Prince
President twelve millions a-year, and the national
palaces, with their dependencies, the right of hunting
and shooting in various forests is reserved to him.
The forest administration has ordered about two

hundred workmen to clear the rides in the forest of
Compiegne. It is said that Levis Napoleon is to pay
• visit to Compiegne in the month of May. and al-
though the season will be rather late for such sport,
that a few stags, and perhaps a boar or two, will be
run down with much pomp and circumstance. The
President is making extensive purchases of hounds
of different breeds to compose his kenneL
The Public says:
Art. 24 of the new constitution declares that the sittings
of the Senate are not to be public. A journal states that
the Senate intends publishing the minutes of its sittings in
the meaner adopted by the Legislative Body. We can affirm
Not the assertion of the journal in question is quite er-
Sim* the 2nd of December eight journals of Paris,
and forty-nine in the departments have expired. Of
the latter sixteen were legitimist, twenty-nine rept&
one Orleanist, and one Bonapartist.
The following is a list of the railways already ter•
minated in France, and the length of each : Lo Nord
and all its branches, MO kilom.; Paris, Rouen, Ha.
vre, and Dieppe, 287 ; Paris to Orleans, 122 ; Tema
to Nantes, 196 ; St. Etienne to Lyons, 56 ; Stran
bourg to Bile, 138 ; Avignon to Marseilles, 120;
Montereau to Troyes, 102 ; Montpellier to Nimes,
52; Amiens to Boulogne, 124 ; Paris to St. Germain.'
20.60; Versailles (R. 8.), 18; Do. (LB.), 17; Paris
to Besanx, 11; Bordeaux to La Tette, 52; Montpel-
ism% Cette, 27; Chemin du Oard, 92; St. Etienne
to the Loire, 21 ; Andrezieux to Roanne, 70; Mul-
house to Thann, 21; total, 2,126 k. 50. The rail-
ways conceded and partially worked are 1,345 kilo-
metres in length; those conceded since Dec. 2, and
destined to ho terminated in a period varying from
two to nine years, but the greater part within four
years, are 1,245 kilom. (not including the railway
round Paris); and, finally the Lyons to Avignon,
previously conceded, is 230,ki10m; Thus, within four
years, it IS probable that France will have 4,946
Idiom., or about 3,090 English miles of railway.
At the Bourse, the Four slid-a-Half per Cents.
fell 10c., and closed at 101 f.; the Three per Cents.
rose 10e., closing at 71.60; Bank of France shares,
after falling 10f., recovered, and closed at yester-
day's price; Northern Railway shares were quoted
to-day at 100 f, less than heretofore, their nominal
capital having been fixed at 400 E, they closed at
006.25, being • rise of 11.23 from yesterday; BMe
rose 16.23; Rouen, Havre, and Strasbourg, sf. each;
Central and Bordeaux, 3.73 each; Orleans and Tours
and Nantes, 1.25 each.
PARIS, &mese ETZNINO.
This fine Easter day all Paris divides between
religious duties and recreation, shelving politics and
business. Early in the morning four or five thousand
persons of till ages and conditions crowded Notre
Dame to communicate. Among these were observed
enisinusual number of soldiers. The Archbishop of
Faris and his assistants were occupied during more
thin two hours in administering the sacrament to
this immense crowd.

EXPRESS, MONDAY ,

Admintt Bain, who is abbot to replace 11thitiral
lethedour in the command el the Fred* squadron
at: Plata, will take his departure is a few days
foißrest, when he will embark for hill destination.
de-St.Gemges, the Preach envoy satrtordinary
-to La Plata, is also upon the point of sailing. You
are aware that M. de St. Georges was latterly the
French minister at the court or BraziL
The appointment of Count Boot Schottenstein to
be president, ad interim, and minister of foreign
allure of the Vienna cabinet, is well received by the
government here, which sees in the desire expressed
by Prince Schwarzeuberg before his death, that
Count Buol should be his successor, a pledge for the
continuation of the same friendly policy towards
France. _ . _ _

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It appears that in the destruction of Lagos the
establishments of some French merchants, who pro-
fess to trade in gum. were involved. These mer-
chants, belonging chiefly to Marseilles, have ad-
dressed a memorial of their leases to the French
government, and applications are now being made
through the French embassy in London, to the Bri-
tish government, for indemnity. It is attempted in
some quarters to blow a coal of irritation between
the two countries out of this matter, which can only
offer some difficulty in the arrangement, in case of
the questionable nature of the establishments des-
troyed, and of the determination of the French go-
vernment to undertake their protection without
sifting their pretensions.
I have already sent you yesterday a short para-
graph from the Petrie, confirming the intended re-
turn of the Prince de Canino without proceeding to
Rome. The clearest account given of this inaus-
picious voyage has reached me to-day. The declared
object of the prince's voyage to Civita Vecchia was
two-fold ; he wanted to sell his fine palace in the
Piazza di Venezia at Rome, and to put in a plea of
opposition to his wife's demand for a separation de
corps. You are aware that the princess is the
daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, and that oho has
already obtained a separation de biens from her
husband. The President of the French Republis
gave his cousin the Prince de Canino leave to go to
Civita Vecchi to send for his men of business from
Rome, to make all necessary arrangements with them
at the port of the Roman States, but not to proceed
to the Eternal City without an express permission of
the Pope. Yon are already aware of the violent
mode in which the lauding of M. Charles
Bonaparte was effected in spite of the papal
authorities. It is incontestable that tho French
military commander at Civita Vecchia thus broke by
force through the interdiction of the Pope's delegate
by virtue of instructions which he received from
Paris. But the same officer pledged his word at the
same time that the prince should net leave Civita
Vecchia; and he is, in fact, garde a rue by French
policemen.
One of the principal cares of the government at
the present moment is the selection of the fittest
instruments to exercise its delegated awry in the
departments. The recent extension of the powers of
the prefects makes it essential that these satraps of a
modern Gaul should be not only initiated into
Napolconian ideas, bnt imbued with that fanatic
spirit of devotion to the Prince President which is to
make of the official hierarchy a corps organised with
Jesuitical subordination for carrying out the new
system of crutchetty despotism in its minutest de-
tails. One of the first appointments has been, I
understand, that of M. Berard as prefect of the
Somme, whither you may remark he was sent as
extraordinary commissioner during the days of
December. _ .

The .I)%bots contains an apology for its Into inert
silence. It answers, on one hand, the reproaches of
those who desire a spirited opposition; and, on the
other, the dissatisfaction of such as interpret its si-
lence in a sense hostile to the government. It re-
minds the moderate opposition of the new position
made for the press by the decree of February 17; of
the danger of shaking violently the present order of
things. It sees no harm in the substitution of the
empire for the present form of government; but it
dreads the agitation of parties by, reason of the dis-
asters, public and private, which may be caused
thereby. The country has, without much regret,
given up politics. The newspapers must follow the
public, or play to empty houses. After all, the old
Chambers were too much occupied with personal
questions. Meanwhile, political questions have lost
nothing of the ir iwportatice. The struggle between free
trade and protection in England, the tallofltosas, the
American expedition to Japan, the Russian operations
in t beCaueasas,t he dispute between Turkey and Egypt,
are questions to which France cannot be indifferent,
and which the Dalats will attempt to treat. On the
whole, this mild bleat of M. Armand Bertin must be
interpreted as a prudent refusal to imperil the in-
terests committed to his charge by risking a serious
opposition. The hopes of an amnesty that were
faintly entertained in some quarters seem to be at an
end. It appears that the delay in sending the trans-
' port ships out arose from the unprepared state of the
authorities in Algeria to receive so many prisoners.
Fresh orders have now been sent to the Isly to set
sail, and the Bordeaux papers state that, her accom-
modation being insufficient, two more ships are to
sill with her. General Canrobert requires all the
prisoners that he pardons to sign a watten adhesion
to the President of the Republic. and a promise to
abstain in future from political agitation.
The Mimiteur publishes a decree of the President
of the Republic, conntersigned by the minister of
public instruction, approving of the new course of
study proposed by the superior council of public in-
struction, pursuant to the reference made to them
by the decree of the 9th of March last, and directing
that the new system shall take effect from and after
the let of October next.