The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDDIZIDAT ETZNIXO.
I have little to add to the information I sent you
yesterday relative to the proceedings of to-morrow.
The ceremony of " proclaiming the empire," so far
as Paris is concerned, will be performed at the Hotel
de Ville, by M. Berger, the prefect of the Seine,
immediately after the reading the final result of the
vote, as declared by the Corps Legialatif. The army
and the national guard will be represented at this
solemnity. Salvos of artillery will follow the
declaration of the vote on the plebiscite. The
Corps Legislatif will assemble, for the second
time to-day, at 7 o'clock in the evening, and after
having settled by their vote the final result of the
election, they will proceed toSt. Cloud by torch-light,
assorted by the " republican guard"—so denominated
for the last time. The corte{e will consist of about
100 carriages. The Senate, which met at two
o'clock to-day, will arrive at St. Cloud before the
Corps Legislatif.
The Bourse will be closed to-morrow, and the
Post-office will be shut at twelve o'clock.
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the
following circular to the prefects for the proclama-
tion of the re-establishment of the empire:
you, Nov. 27.
Monsieur le Prifet,—The result of du vote for the re-
establishment of the empire is not yet completely known,
but it will surfed by four or Ave -hundred thousand the
vote of Dec. 20. The proclamation of Napoleon 111. will
take place at Paris on Dee. 2. Make all your anange-
meets that it may be Nude publicly on Sunday the
6th in all the commanse of your department, or on the Sun-
day following is the communes where the news cannot
reach in time. For this purpose concert with the civil and
military authorities. The proclamation must be made la
presence of all the authorities, by the prefect. in the
chief town of the departments, by the sub-prefects in the
chief towns of anvadissemcnts,and in the other communes by
the mayors related by their municipal canaille:l. The
troops and the national guards will be under arms. As far
as (regards the religious authorities, the government will
always be gratified at the spontaneous co-operation of the
clergy; but u the purpose is now only the political pro-
clamation of the re-establishment of the empire, the official
religious ceremonies will be reserved for a future period.
Receive le.,
The Minister of the Interior, F. DI PIIISIONY.
The Monileur publishes a decree of the Pince Pre-
sident, ordering the immediate release of all indivi-
duals who are in prison for the recovery of fines and
expenses due in consequence of condemnations for
offences or contraventions, and remitting the said
fines and expenses. This is the only real amnesty
which will accompany the establishment of the em-
pire. The abundant clemency so ostentatiously pro-
fessed with regard to political sufferers is •
delusion. As to tho men actually in prison or
in penal settlements for having taken an active
part in the insurrection of December, 1851, nothing
is offered to them beyond a promise that their appli-
cntions for pardon will be taken into consideration if
sent through the usual channels. But in common
parlance an amnesty is understood to have reference
to the political exiles and refugees—to the men
whose only crime was that they supported, or were
thought likely to support, the constitution which •
year ago, it suited the purpose of the man who of all
others, to use his own admission, was most bound to
observe it, to tear to pieces. Now the few among
these men that will consent to return to France
under the humiliating condition attached to what—
by a misapplication of terms—is called their" pardon"
have done so long ago. I know from the best au-
thority that very long since the French ministers
in England, Belgium, and Piedmont, either directly
or indirectly signified to every one of the refugees
that a recantation of the past, and a promise of sub-
mission for the future, would at once procure the
Prince President's permission to return to his coun-
try. The offer was in most cases scornfully rejected.
The public repetition of the same offer now, is in-
tended for effect, and will meet with no better success
than before. These men labour under a bitter sense of
wrong done to them, and they are capable of enduring
any privation rather than pass under the yoke so
ungenerously prepared for the irreception. Some few
obscure individuals, borne down by poverty, may
possibly yield to the entreaties which their relatives
and dependants are encouraged to besiege them with,
but no men of note among the refugees are disposed
to give way. Had a real amnesty been offered many
might have come back to their country to pursue a
private calling. Cavaignac was released from prison,
and 'niers recalled from exile without conditions,
because it was known they would have accepted
none. Refugees of less eminence have not less manly
pride.
The result of the votes as given in the Monitore
differs but slightly from that of yesterday. The
figures are:
Yes. No.
For 86 departments 7,489,130 237,244
Army
Navy
Algeria: Civil population 6,269 869

7,778,975 248,689

As a curious instance of the respect for leiality
practised in high quarters, I may mention that in the
summary of the proceedings of the Corps Legislatif
yesterday, which M. Billault, as president, is bound
to make public, the fact of M. Bouhier de l'Ecluse
having made a speech upon the mode on which
the election was conducted in the Moselle, wu sup-
in the evening mere. It appears in the
Volosullil Moniker to-day, because after consideration it was
thought useless to conceal a fact which must be soon
made public; but all the other morning journals
obey the first orders, and lead their readers to sup-
pose that no speech was made.
Muni, the Acts of imperial munificence which are
to signalise the proclamation of the empire is the
donation of 300 hot baths, gratis, to the working
chums of the second arrondissement. These baths
are to be given at the rate of 30 a day, from the 2nd
to the 17th December, at the Cite Napoleon, in the
Rue Rochechogart.

PARIS. TORID•T
It is tolerably certain that from this day forward
the preamble of the government acts will be "Napo.
leen, by the grace of Ood and the will of the people,
Emperor of the French."
The Crps Legislatif met again to-day for about
two hour., for the purpose of receiving the reports of
the committees for verifying the elections. Before
the proper business of the day came on, M. Billault
read • letter, in which M. Calviere tendered his re-
signation. The hon. deputy gently intimated that
he had accepted Louis Napoleon as a useful defender
of society, but he already had • sovereign. When
the reports of the bureaux were to be received, M.
Bonhier de l'Ecluse produced a protest against the
elections of the Moselle, which he attempted to pre-
sent, but was met very abruptly by M. Billault, who
told him he was too late. M. Bonhier repeated his
protest, and said the country ought :to know the
manner in which the balloting had been carried on.
The Bonapartist members of the corps here inter-
rupted so violently as to terminate the incident, and
the formal business was then proceeded with.
Notwithstanding the affected indifference of the
government with regard to all the machinations of
its adversaries, whether republican or legitimist, the
authorities are haunted by fears of privy conspiracy
and rebellion. On Wednesday last the Bishop of
Lucon's palace was surrounded by gendarmes, while
a domiciliary visit was made in search of seditious
papers. The prelate has written a circular to the
clergy of his diocese, which was read from the altar
on Sunday last,:wherein ho protests against this out-
rage, and states, that, after a minute search of his
house, which lasted for six hours, nothing political
was found.

The legitimist resignations in the departments are
on the increase. The Count de Champfen has re-
signed several offices in the Allier; Count Rene du