The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

THE ORLEANS FAMILY CANNOT HOLD
PROPERTY IN FRANCE

PAYMENT OF TILE LEGION OF HONOUR.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
FROM OUR OWN CORRIMPORDINT.

PARIS, RUM MOllllll.lO.

Do Moray and Fould leave the ministry•, and are
replaced by do Persigny, Abbattueei, and Binean;
the last takes the finances.

De Maupas is gazettei as Minister of Police.
Another new ministry, named Ministry of State,
is created, and occupied by Casablanca.
A decree is promulgated which enacts that the
members of tho Orleans family, their husbands and
consorts, and descendants, cannot possess any pro-
perty (moveable or immoveable) in France. They
are bound to sell them within the year, and in de-
fault they will be sold by the domain. Another
decree cancels the donation made by Louis Philippe
on the ith August to his children, and enacts that
their properties, of about two hundred millions of
francs, shall be employed as follows:

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Ten millions to societies of amours notruclr. Ten
millions to the improvement of the lodgings
fur the working classes. Ten millions to the
establishment of a credit fourier. Five millions
to a benefit fund for the poorer clergy. All the
officers, sub-officers, and soldiers in active ser-
vice will receive, according to their rank in
the Legion of Honour. The Legionary, 250 francs ;
the Officers, 500 francs; Commanders, 1,000 francs ;
Grand Officers, 2,000 francs; Grand Crosses, 3,000
francs.

A national palace will serve for an establishment for
the education of orphans and families whose heads have
obtained a military medal, which entitles them to
a pension for life of 100 francs.
The palace of Severn will serve as an asylum to
the widows of high functionaries, civil as well as
military who have died in the service of the state,
and the state is charged with payment of their debts.
Civil list of last reign [sic].
The dowry of 31)0,000fr. granted to the Duchess of
Orleans is maintained.

The President renounces all claim respecting con-
fiscations pronounced in 1814 and 1813 against Bo-
naparte families.
The decrees are countersigned by tho minister of
state Casablanca.

PARIS. THVESDAY EVENING.
The retirement of M. do Morny from the ministry
is announced to me this afternoon as certain. I
understand that he will leave the ministry
of the interior to-morrow ; and that M. de
Persigny will be installed in his place.
The decree which has been talked so much
about is expected to appear, signed by M. do Per-
signy, in the Ifonifeur of to-morrow. I bear that the
confiscated property of the Orleans Emily will be ap-
plied to the endowment of the hospitals and
charitable establishments of France. I as-

same this, however, to be merely the destination
of a portion of the property to be confiscated. The
fall at the Bourse is traceable to this news, at which
the political circles are in a state of com-
plete stupefaction. Great precautions are taken
for the suppression of disturbances in case
any
.should break out. The soldiers are to be
consigned to barracks, and to be ready to act at
• moment's notice. A greater number of sergens-de-
ville than usual are visible on the boulevards, although
of course the news I give is not of a nature to be widely
known. Still you may meet here and there groups
of persons of the upper classes evidently engaged in
listening to some important communication, which is
delivered with suppressed emphasis by ono of the
party. There are not wanting persons who
suppose that the appearance of the decree
may cause an outbreak and more fighting. But
people do not usually fight upon arguments of this
sort; and if the bourgeoisie of Paris declined to take
up arms in order to defend the Assembly, simply
because the members of that body were supposed to be
more interested about preserving their sfr. than
about any good for the nation, still less will they build
barricades to save royal rents from going out of the
country. Probably mention will be made of the
Aosperes in the decree, for the sake of masking with
a charitable object an odious spoliation.

With regard to the conqultation of lawyers on the
question of the sequestration of the property of the
Orleans family, lam able to assure you that the
opinion of M. Tests is unfavourable to the pro.
posed measure. You are aware that the origin
of the possessions of the younger branch was an ap-
panage settled by Louis XIV. upon his brother the
Duke of Orleans. 'I he income derived from this
dotation was 2,700,000 fr. The property gradually in-
, creased, till in the hands of Louis Philippe it became
worth seven millions a year. It is now held that
however lawful it may have been for this prince to
make over his private domain to his own children
previous to accepting the French crown, he had no
right whatever to dispose in this way of the ori-
ginal appanage settled upon the ancestor of the
younger branch be Louis XIV. This portion of the
property is therefore claimed as belonging to the
state. Much of it was taken possession of as a part
of the royal domain by the Emperor, and dis-
tributed by him to several members of the imperial
family. Such chateaux and estates, it is reported
will now be given back to the Bonaparte'. Still all
such reports must be accepted with reserve.
Great agitation reigned to-day in the Bourse.
Tho enormous fall of 2fr. 35c. in the Threes is owing
to the news contained in the commencement of this
letter.

By the replacement of M. do Morn? by M. de
Persigny, you are to understand that violent coun-
sels have prevailed over moderate with the Presi-
dent. No one can in fact foresee to what
lengths a cabinet headed by M. do Persigny
may not go. Ile is the only person who possesses
the least influence over the obstinate and inflexible
'character of Louis Napoleon. In consequence of
M. de Morny's circular to the prefects, which
announced that government functionaries would
be excluded from the Corps Legislatif, it was
supposed that the moderate part of the cabinet
had carried the day, as the absolutists were for
craming the people's chamber with dependents of the
administration. But the preponderance of the mo-
derate ministers seems to have been merely me-
meutary.
Among the new senators talked of are M. de Tal-
leyrand, Duke do Valence, the Duke do Crean,
brother of the Prince de Bauvesu, the Marquis de
Belbeuf, M. Lupin, and others. Marshal Jerome
Bonaparte is to be honorary president of the Senate;
but the effective president or vice-president, it is said,
will be M. Baroche. M. Bdthmont has refused a seat
in the Council of State. M. do Chasseloup-Laubat,
Charles Lupin, Lacoste, Maurice Duval, Maillard,
and Paravey, are talked of u likely to be enrolled in
the Council of State.

The l'ays has an article headed " Credit Fancier,"
which looks like the forerunner of some bold finan-
cial measure. It praises the system of Law, and makes
an apology for the assignats. " Law's measure,' it
says, "but for a panic, would have been the
moat brilliant operation of modern times." The assig-
nata were based upon questionable security, beside,
which, the Pays admits that they were issued in too
great quantity. The government has, it ap-
pears, employed a special commission to frame a
scheme for tho establishment of branch banks
of issue upon a large scale, with the view of expand-
ing credit and facilitating loans to all clams of
proprietors, merchants, and tradesmen.

Yesterday, ibe President visited the works in pre-
parities at the 'nineties. The passage through the
court was stopped.
The 59th denivereary of the death of Louis XVI.,
was celebrated yesterday by what are culled " black
masses," which were performed in the expiatory
chapel of the Rue d'Anjou, at Notre Dame des
Victories, at the Madeline, and other churches. At
St. I)enis a grand funeral solemnity was performed.
Letters from Naples, of the 12th instant, announce
that the Duchess d'Aumale was safely delivered, on
the evening of the 11th, of a prince, who has re-
ceived the name of the Duke de Guise.
Madame George Sand, having been arrested in the
department of the lndre-et-Loire, where she had
taken up her residence, has gone to Brussels, where,
it is said, she intends to conduct a new review,
jointly with M. Victor lingo.
There is to be a branch from tho Paris and Bor-
deaux Railway to Pcrigueuse, which will join the
main lino at Montmoreau.

The members of tho working associations talk of
emigrating.
The Moniteur contains three decrees providing for
the formation of committees which are to determine
the price of purchase of the privileges attributed to
the three companies of the canal de Bourgogne, of
the junction-canal of the Rhone and Rhine, and of
the Quatre-Canaux..
Another decree enables sugar-refiners to receive
finished sugars of every origin, duty free, from the
day on which the works of defecation are terminated
up to the 31st of August next.
By another decree the duty upon tobaccoes of
foreign manufacture, differing from cigars and ciga-
rettes, is fixed at 10fr. the kilogramme. Such tobac-
coes are permitted to be imported to the amount of
10 kilogrammes for each person to whom they arc
addressed.

Two other decrees authorise the departments of
the Finisti,re and the l'as de-Calais to contract loans
for the execution of roads and other works.

The most important of the.. decrees is that
relating to the Quatro Canaanand the other canal
companies, whose shares are to be valued by com-
mittees, and bought up by the government. This
will entail an enormous expense upon the state, and
the gratuitous levity with which such weighty obli-
gations arc incurred at a moment when the finances
arc in a state of extreme depression, hints more self-
confidence than wisdom in the financial department.
The put chase-money for the land shares will be
payable in 30 annuities.
The Menikur of this morning contained, by the
way, symptoms that were noted by the sagacious as
forerunners of the retirement of de Morey. Among
the list of personages decorated with the cross of the
Legion of Honour is M. Leopold Le Hon, cluf de
cabinet of the minister of the interior, andM. Perrin,
director of the Opera Comique. What title to this
honour the latter gentleman, a protefp,of Ledru Rollin,
can possess in the eyes of the government is a mys-
tery ; but as M. de Morny is an assiduous frequenter of
the OpemComique, perhaps he has forgiven the former
intimacy of M. Perrin with the ministers of the pro-
visional government. As for M. Leopold Le lion, his
tender youth makes the distinction bestowed rather
extraordinary, particularly after the allusion in M.
de Morny's circular to the influence in the elections
under the old system of quelques rear pea meriVes.
For the rest, it is usual for a minister on the point of
retiring to shower these little marks of favour upon
his friends and adherents.

The espionage which goes on in societyy is every-
where complained of with bitterness. M. do Mau-
pea to stick at no excess of persecution, and
his assurance is equal to his rigour, for ho regularly
sends his card, with the corner turned down, to such
people of the fashionable world as venture to talk
politics even in their own salons. This is taken as a
gentle hint that a decree of " rus'ication" will follow
if such gossip continues to he indulged. His ad-
ministration as Minister of Police is dreaded, as it
is thou.tht that he will leave the most tyrannous
lessons of Fouchil far behind.

Louis XVI. is called by the Pattie the " Martyr
King." The designation was noticed for the first
time on the cards of invitation issued for the cere-
mony in the Chapelle Expiatoire. The legitimists
continue to maintain the haughtiest reserve towards
the new power. They have agreed to prolong tho
mourning for the death of the Duchesse d'Angou-
leme from three months to six, that they may have
an excuse for shutting their salons.
M. de Lamartine is in Paris.

General Lugnot, retired from the army after 47
years' service, and formerly colonel of the national
guard of Limoges, has been promoted to the rank of
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour; and M.
Prosper Merimee, Inspector-General of Historical
Monuments, and member of the Academy of Inscrip-
tions et Belles Lettres, to that of Officer.

Perhaps no decree yet promulgated by the govern-
ment since Dec. 2, will do the President so much
harm as that which appears in the Monitrur of yes-
terday, striking Colonel Charms and three of his
colleagues in the Assembly, from the rolls of the
army. An officer's commission 'is his property, by
quite as strong a title as that by which any landed
proprietor holds his estate. It would certainly ap-
pear as atrocious abuse of arbitrary power to con-
fiscate the estates of those proprietors who were
concerned in the resistance offered to the
coup d'etag of December 2. Nor has any
such measure been, so far as I am aware,
adopted; for although a decree sequestrating the
rents of several proprietors in the Allier and other
departments subjected to the state of siege was pro-
mulgated by Oen. Eynsrd and others, It was soon
revoked in the former department, and is only used
in the others as a means of coercing the insurgents
to surrender. It would, however, have been far
safer for Louis Napoleon to have confiscated the
estates of refractory proprietors, than to have
assailed a principle which is regarded as vital by
that class through whose services he has seized and
holds his present power. In fact, I understand that
this deeree has been exceedingly ill received by the
army. It is held as a fundamental rule of the military
service that no officer can be deprived of his commis-
sion without being tried by court martial fora dis-
tinct offence, and condemned. Here no crime is
alleged, no trial instituted. The executive power
breaks a colonel, two captains, and a sub-lieutenant,
by a mere decree in the Moniteur. Henceforth every
officer must feel that his commission, his property
earned by. years of service, his rank won by hard
campaigning in Algiers and elsewhere, lies entirely
at the mercy of power. To-morrow he may bo dj-
flounced as harbouring unfriendly sentiments to the
existing regime, as having spoken disrespectfully of
the President, and his means are confiscated, his
career broken, his name branded. The appearance
of such a decree is evidently a death-blow to the in-
dependence of the military service, and destroys at
once its dearest privilege.
The Ochn of Brest states that 488 of the men
intended for transportation, who had arrived in that
port from Havre by the Canada steamer, had been
removed on board the Duguesclin. MM. Martin
and Michot-Boutet, the ex-representatives, and
M. Peyreira, have been again handed over to the
military authorities.
We read in the Echo du Nord, "M. Schnolcher,
ex-representative of the people, now a refugee abroad,
left Paris for Brussels in the garb of a priest, and the
ecclesiastical robe became him very well. On ar-
riving at Brussels, having fur the time no other
clothes, he remained for several days among his
friends in the borrowed costume to which ho owed
his safety."
A history of the council of state has just been
published by M. Regnault. Although the import-
ance of this body was greatly increased by Napoleon
it is a very ancient institution, and one that has
better than any other stood the shock of revolutions.
Father Lacordairo preached to a crowded congrega-
tion in Notre Dame this morning, on behalf of the
' Capucin fraternity, a branch of which is about to be
established in Pans at Mont Parnasse. •

The review that was to have taken place to-day in
the Champs do Mars has been countermanded, on
account of the bad state of the ground, which is said
to be so soaked with tho late rains that the troops
could not manoeuvre upon it.
A deputation of the managers of all the theatres
in Paris have waited an the Minister of the Interior,
to ask that the proportion of their receipts deducted
fur the use of the poor may be reduced to 3 per cent.
The Belgian government seems to have placed its
police at the orders of France so far as regards French
refuge• s.
The Ec4o do la Fronliere states that the Belgian
police on the French frontier exercise the sharpest
surveillance over every foreigner who presents him-
, self. A special ageat inspects every traveller, and

'ARY 23, 1852.