The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1852.

Wes people ; threw 011111111111111, and thus libraries wherein
Francis has for ages etill,eted invaluable treasui es, whieb are
the object of the envy and admiration of foreign ere; and those
manufactories of Sevres, of the o.,Lielins, and of lireuvine,
which are the models for national industry. The keeping
in repair of these palaces, the preservation of these tree-
sures, acd the mauagetnent end suiveillanc• of all these
establishments will entail considerable expenses on the civil
list. They now amount to about 71 millions of franca, of
which the budget of the state will be relieved. The pro-
duce of the clements of the crown only reduce them in
part, sines the reme of these domains, after deducting
the expenses, ricierce4 amounts to three miliim.a. The Em-
peror is not ignorant of this; hot hr oleo knows that the
reel trunnions of monarchy impose this charge 011 the im-
perial dimity. The domain cal the croon is in a greet men
sure the dentate of the arts; it into their natural protector,
it is to the chief of the state that it belongs to bear the
charges ss well es receive the enjoyments which are
thereto attached. It follows u a matter of coarse that
the emotes of Villeneuve-Letang, Lamotho Ileauvron,
and Ls °filbert., purchased by the Emperor, are,
couforruably to the uld monarchical leo, unitill to the till.
main 01 the crown. The project of Conaullans also
.ttlea that a dowry 14111 he fixed for the Empress at the
time of the marriage of the Emperor, and that an annuli
notation of 1.490,t100f. shall he toga), fished in favour of the
rse. aof the imperial family, to be divined among them
conformably to the decisions of hie Mejesty. According to
the .venorw Consuition of the 7th November. the imperial
family is solely composed of the princes who shell he
pieced by the will of the Emperor in the line of hereditary
aucces4ion. The Senates rorsa,flans crates nothing with re-
gard to the other members of the Bonaparte family. Like
the Emperor, the imperial family no longer belongs to it-
self—it belongs to Framer. It is, therefore, necessary that
the constitntton should regulate the position, the titlev, and
the dulls of it, which for the rest are all summed up in
that of devoting itself without reserve to the great interests
of the country.
The .Ifmaileur publishes the decree en long ex•
pected for the establishment of the Central Mortgage
Hank. The decree approves of the agreement of the
1801 November between the Minister of the Interior
and the Mortgage Hank of Paris, and enacts that the
bank shall henceforth be called the Hank of (Willi
Fourier ,lc France that the privilege accorded to it
by the decree of the 28th March shall be extended to
all the departments in which there is nu company of
mortgage credits; that the bank may, subject to the
sanction of the government, incorporate existing
mortgage banks; that it shall receive a Pubvention of
10,000,000 fr., payable in proportion to the loans
effected ; and that before the Ist July next a 'branch
bank or direction shall be established in every district
of an Imperial court of justice. The text of the
agreement of the 18th November, between the Minis-
ter of the Interior on the ono hand, and M. d'Eicht hal,
M. Emile Pereire, and M. Wolowski, directors of the
Bank, on the other, is then given.
An imperial decree appears this morning, promot-
ing the following well-known present and former ,
servants of the Emperor to the rank of commanders
in the Legion of Honour :—M. Fould, Minister of
State; M. Abbatucci, Keeper of the Seals and Minis-
ter of Justice; M. Ducos, Minister of Marine and
Colonies; Count Fialin do l'ersigny, Minister of the
Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce; M. Fortoul,
Minister of Public Instruction and Worship; M.
Banat, President of the Legislative llody ; M.
Itouher, ex-Minister, President of a section in the
Council of State; M. de Royer, ex-Minister, I'rocu-
reur-General of the Imperial Court of Paris; M.
Davie!, ex-Minister, Procureur-General of the Impe-
rial Court of Rouen; M. de Tleiringy, ex-Minister,
Councillor of State; and M. F. Itarrot, ex-Minister,
Councillor of State. All the ministers not included
in the above list are already commanders of the
order.

The Moniteur announces that the King of War-
tetuberg scut on the Bth his first chamberlain, Lieu-
tenant-General Baron de Spitzemberg, to the Duke
de (Niche, French minister at fituttgurdt, to congra-
tulate him on the accession to the throne of his Im-
perial Majesty.
It is expected that Marshal Magnan will he named
Governor of Paris.

The Garde Itepublicaine will henceforth be galled
the Garde de Perim.

Ou the marriage of the Marquis do Puysegur with
Madlle. St. Arnaud, the Emperor appointed him
one of his aide-de-camps, and gaNe the young lady a
portion of 12,000/.
The Courrier du Ras Rhin publishes the following
letter from the Emperor, addressed to tho Mayor of
Strasbourg:
Palace of the Tuileries, Dec. 7.

Monsieur le Maire,—The city of S!rasbourg has offered
me, through the organ of your houcurable colleagues, the
imperial chltean. Not content with the reception which
at has given me at two different times, it has wished to con-
fer on me the civic rights by a residence which should par-
ticularly belong to me. lam deeply sensible of it, end it
is an engagement for me to return as often an possible to
that Alsace so rich in patriotic souvenirs, and which nsw
gives me a fresh pledge of its attachment. Will you be the
interpreter of my gratitude to your fellow citizens ?
NAIVOLISON.
The Municpial Council of Ajaccio having been in-
formed that the Emperor had conceived the idea of
isolating the house in which the Emperor Napoleon
was born, and of enlarging the Place Leticia, at
Ajaccio, and considering the different works which
he has already decreed for the improvement of
Corsica, and the measures which have been carried
into execution for the suppression of banditti, which
have already produced the most beneficial results,
has, as a mark of its gratitude, voted a sum of
40,000 fr. for a statute in bronze of Napoleon 111., to
be erected opposite the house where Napoleon I. was
born. The pedestal is to be of white marble, and
will bear the inscription, " A Napoleon 111., Swear
de la France, et Bienfaiteur de la Cone, la Ville
d'Ataccio."
The Surds has a rather violent attack upon M.
Fortoul, the Minister of Public Instruction, whom it
accuses of being distinguished from his fellow-
ministers by his retrograde tendencies. The first
grievance is, that M. Fortoul has abolished the pro-
fessorship of constitutional law ; and the next, that,
in addressing the Emperor, he has made use of the
servile word, " subject. This is rather hard upon
M. Fortoul. The chair of constitutional law was
instituted subsequently to 1630, and its principal
object was to teach that Louis Philippe's
charter was perfection. That charter is at
end, and as to the present constitution as about to be
amended, the minister must feel that so far from
being a fruitful subject to lecture upon, the less said
about it the better. With regard to the obnoxious
word " subject," although the use of it towards Louis
Philippe, on a memorable occasion, produced a great
outcry, and that monarch did nut require French
citizens so to style themselves—the expression was
quite orthodox in the time of Napoleon 1., and for
that reason, if for no other, is of course exacted by
Napoleon 111. To cavil about a word, after all that
France has submitted to, is indeed to strain at a gnat.
M. Fortoul is not singular; M. Persigny to-day
subscribes himself the Emperor's " faithful subject,
and all the other ministers will do the same.

The latest known legitimist resignations are those
of M. de Botmilian, ex-representative of the Cotes-
du-Nord, mayor of Guingamp; MM. de Parcevaux
and de la Bi,gassiere, hiu assistants; MM. do Carne,
de Saint Maur, de Kerusec, de la Cloutte-Bernard,
Melee, and Duthoyn, municipal councillors of Guin-
gamp; I)r. Jarnoiien de Villartay, municipal coun-
cillor of Vitro; MM. Maximo, de Paul Dupla, and
Kcittenger, municipal councillors of Montpelier; M.
Ernest Dovault and Viscount du Buisson des Aix,
mayors in the Allier; M. Doujat d'Empeaux, muni-
cipal councillor in the Gers; I)r. l'issot, mayor of
Mausigueux-de-itives; and M. I)elafollye, vice-pre-
sident of the civil tribunal of Bt. Omer.

We read in the Espf►ance du Awl)le, the legitimist
journal of Nantes
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The Ami de la Religion announces in its number of Dec.
7 that in the principal cities of France, among which it
cites Nantes, the religious authorities lent their aid to the
solemnity of the proclamation tit the empire. Our Parisian
contemporary is mistaken so far as Nantes is concerned, the
clergy there not only took nu part in the external ceremo-
nies, but they did uut even perform a To Ovum on the oc-
casion.

M. Dupin's friends contradict the report that he is
about to return to his old post of Proeureur Oencral
at the Court Cas.ation. It is true that shortly
before the proclamation of tho Empire he had a long
interview with Louis Napoleon at St. Cloud, in the
course of which he strongly urged the expediency of
changing the confiscation of the Orleans property
into a sequestration merely. The Emperor, its is his
wont, listened attentively without disclosing his in-
tentions. M. Dupla is careful to give out that he
does not bind himself to stand aloof from the new
government in all time coming.
Abd-el-Kailer arrived in Paris this evening, anal
will leave to-morrow for Marseilles to embark on
board the Labrador which is to convey him to
Bromism

At the linume to-day business was done in the
Tbreo per Celts. at 82f. 40e., and closed for tit,
account at 82f. 50c.; Four per Coats., 98f. 2&c. ;
Four-and-a-lialf per Cents., 106 f. 89c.; for account,

Io6f. 70c. Bank shares, 2,900 E In railway shares,
St. Germain", at 1,425 f.; Orleans, new, 1,0,30 f.;
Versailles (left bank), 350 E ; Paris and Itouen,n94l. ;
Strasburg and Bale, 380 f. ; Northern, 897 f. :./oe.;
Paris and Strasburg, 827 f. 50c. ; l'aris and Lyons,
920 f.; Lyons and Mediterranean, 72.7 f.; Western,
780 f.; Caen and Cherbourg,6.lof. ; I )ijon and Besancon,
58.5 t; Bourdeaux and Cette, 63.7 E; Dieppe and
Fecamp, 353 f. ; Bordeaux and Teste, 260 f. ; Mon-
tereau and Troyes, 360 E