The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-28 00:00:00

COMPOSITION OF TILE SENATE.

PARIS. Ti agnAr EVENINfi.
Bp a decree ill the Menitoir, the following persons
are appointed members of

THE SENATE.

General Achard, ex-representative ; Count d'Argout,
formerly minister of finance, governor of the Bank of
France ; Marquis d'Audiffret, president of the Court of
Accounts ; General de Bar, ex-representative ; General
Baraguay d'llilliere, former amhaesador, es-representative;
De Beauraout (Somme), es-representative; l'riocc de Beau-
vau, former peer of France ; Marquis de Belbeuf, former
first president of the Court of Appeal at Lyons ;
Derthier (Charles) Prince de Wagram ; Bouloy de
la Mturthe, former vice-president of the Republic ;
Count de Breteuil, former peer of France ; Count de Castel-
lure, general-in-chief of the army of Lyons; De Cambaerri,s,
Sen., former peer of France ; Viee-Admiral Cesy, mem-
ber of the Council of Admiralty; Count do Caumont La-
force ; Francois Clary ; Marquis de Croi ; Baron do Cron-
seilhes, former minister of public instruction, ex-represen-
tative; Count Curial, es-representative; Drouyn de Lhuys,
former minister of foreign affairs, ex-representative ; Dumas,
former minister of agriculture and commerce, member of
the Institute ; Dupin (Charles), member of the Insti-
tute, ex-representative ; Elie de Beaumont, member
of the Institute; Achille Fould, former minister of
finance, ex-representative ; Fouquier d'llerouel, es-
representative; Baron de Fourment, es-representative;
Gautier, formerly minister of finances, regent of the Bank
of France; Count Ernest de Oirardin, ex-representative ;
Goulhot de St. Germain, ex-representative ; Marquis de
Lagrange (Gironde), es-representative; °carrel Count
d'llautpoul, former minister of war, es-representative;
Admiral Ilugon ; General Hussein, ex-representative;
Lacrosse, former minister of public works, es-representa-
tive; De Ladoneette, ea-representative; General Lahitte,
former minister of foreign affairs, president of the com-
mittee of artillery; Count de Lariboissiere,ex-representative;
General Count de Lawresiine, commander-in-chief of the
national guard of Paris; Lebeuf, regent of the Bank of
France, es-representative; Lemarrois, es-representative;
Count Lemereier (Louis) former peer of France ; General
L. de St. Arnaud, minister of war; Leverrier, member of
the Institute, ex-representative; Lczai de Marnezia, for-
mer peer of France ; General Magnan, commander-in-
chief of the army of Paris ; Manuel (de la Nirvre), ex-re-
presentative ; Marchand (du Nord) es-representative ;
Meynaud, president of the Court of Cessation; Mimerel,
ex-representative; Prince de la Moskows, ex-representative ;
Prince Lucien Murat, ex-representative; General Ordener ;
General Count d'Ornano, es-representative; General Duke
de Padone, el-representative ; Admiral l'arceval Des-
ehenee ; General Pelet, es-representative; Duke de
Plaisance, former peer of France; Poinsot, member of
the Institute ; Marquis de l'ontis, former peer of France ;
Count Portals, first president of the Court of Caseation ;
General Count de Preval ; General Regnault de St. Jean
d'Angely, former minister of war, ex-representative ; Gene
cal Duke de St. Simon, former peer of Franco ; Sapey, for-
mer deputy, former conseiller-maitre at the Court of Ac•
counts ; General Count do Schramm, former minister of
war, president of the committee of infantry ; 1)e Segue
d*Agueeseau, es repre-entative ; Count Simeon, ex-repre-
sentative; Amedee Thayer, member of the municipal commis-
sion of the Seine; Thibandeau, former eonsciller of state of
the empire; Troplong, first president of the Court of Ap-
peal of l'aris; Duke de Vicence ; Vieillard, es-representa-
tive.

The decree is dated Jan. 26, and countersigned by
M. do Cusabianca, minister of state.

The following supplementary list of councillors of
state appears in the same official journal :

Brcnier, former minister, director of accounts in the
ministry of foreign affairs; Darricau, military intendant,
director of the administration of war in the ministry of
war; Daumas, general of brigade, director of the affairs of
Algeria in the ministry of war; Oreterin, direetor-
general of customs and indirect taxes in the ministry of
finance; Ilcurticr, director of agriculture and commerce in
the ministry of the interior ; Mastro, director of the colonies
in the ministry of marine and colonies; Niel, general of
division, member of the committee of engineers • Petitet,
director of accounts in the ministry of war ; Do Royer,
former keeper of the seal., procurcur-general at the Court
of Appeal of Perla ; De Sibert.Cornillon, secroxary-general
in the ministry of 4ustice ; Thayer (Edouard), director-
general of the administration of posts.

By another decree a direction of agriculture and
commerce is created in the ministry of the interior,
with salary equal to that of the directors of the
ministry of finance. M. Ileurtier, ex-representative,
is appointed director of agriculture and commerce.
Another decree appoints M. Pietri, late prefect of
the Haute-Garonne, prefect of police, in the place of
M. de Maupas.
M. ltomieu, former prefect, is appointed director
of the fine arts, in the place of M. de Guizard, who
is dismissed.

It was generally reported to-day at the Bourse,
and believed by well-informed persons, that the
decree of confiscation pronounced against the poor
session, of the Orleans family would be suspended,
and submitted to the Senate and Council of
State. This is by no means improbable, for
the character of Louis Napoleon although obsti-
nate and inflexible in taking rash resolves, displays
by no means the same infatuation in carrying them
into extreme execution when a formidable mass of
the nation shows decided opposition.' has immediately
after the coup Iflat, he issued a decree that the
voting on the plAiseite should be open. This pro-
duced such an unfavourable effect upon the nation,
that M. de Meetly, immediately he saw the breakers
ahead, put the ship of state about, and in
bet a day or two after a new decrecappeared, making
die tote secret instead of open. Still I give you the
111111111 W of the suspension of the execution of the
eeselseation decree with all reserve. Meanwhile, the
rise at the Bourse is attributed to it.
It is not clear, even if the decree be referred to the
Senate and Council of State, that, entirely pledged
as these &elks are to the policy of Louis Napoleon
and subservient to his will, they will give an opinion
against the decree ; particularly in tho face of the
foreign protests which will infallibly be received by
the government. That of the King of the Belgians
has, I understand, been already received. It will be
followed up by similar notes of expostulation from
Spain and Naples, on the part of the relatives of the
ex-queen, the Duchess d'Aumale, and the Duchess de
Montpensier. I have already indicated in a preceding
letter the other foreign princes who are touched by
this decree. The bad effect produced in England,
has I believe produced a greater effect upon the mind
of Louis Napoleon than anything else ; but probably
the attacks of the preen have produced more irritation
than contrition, richly as they are deserved.
Generally the composition of the Senate is re-
marked as being less creditable than that of the
Council of State. It seems that the restoration of
titles was brought about merely to give a lacquered
t'clot to the list. There is abundance of pomp in this
respect, and even some old family names, such as
those of Rcauveau and Crot, drag their decayed splen-
dour among a crowd of the mushroom nobles of the
empire and a few of the bourgeois peers of Louis
Philippe.
To the 72 nameswhich are published in tho Mani-
Sew are to be added those of the cardinals, marshals,
end admirals, which I have sent in a previous letter.
In one part of the l'st you will see the probable bait
that tempted the Minister of War, General St. Ar-
naud, to sacrifice his scruples about the confiscation
of Louis Philippe's property.
A few scientific notabilities, such as tho ae-
, tronomer Leverrier, the mathematician I'oinsot,
! and three or four members of the Institute, make up
in some measure for the brainless mediocrity of the
greater part of these senators, and in particular of
the ex-representatives selected, who were about the
least capable men in the National Assembly.
A new paper, with the title of La Iklntoerati•
Napdenriirmir, appears to-day.
It is said the abolition of the ortrnie is revolved
The following in an extract from M. Falloux's
letter, to which I alluded yesterday morning:

I am desirous to make politic the motives of my retire-
ment from a fear that my ideas may he mivontlerstood, and
and that an act solely and alwolutely founded on personal
and private eotividerationv may not be attributed either to
discouragement or to a feeling of systematic bovinity. Far
from wishing to give a political signal. I now 'spree., my
revolution without having convoked any of my old col-
leagu and f, on the contrary, intake my friend, to re•
double their devotedness, their activity, and their energy,
whenever they may be fortunate enough to be able