The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

has already done. Young sold old lialpisis' of a
and drills, and field-fights, and fortitisatbna Joni
BVLL bristles up ands defiance on the mere
ainuation that a forstgu enemy may ligd 'on his'
shores, like a cat when is tail is troddsn.upon. We
have no abstract I4liniratlo..a( war, and isish n
not come. We are not easily susceptible of alarm;
and do not very potently believe that it will come.
But, if this country is invaded, we know that the
pe,ple have enough of pugnacity, courage, and enter-
prise, to give a good account of tho invaders. What
has been will be again. Civilians will at once be
transformed into soldiers, and these soldiers will
display that self oantrol, that reasoning spirit of sub-
ordination, that enables them to wait patiently till
the word is given to advance, and that impetuosity
that rushes their advance—irresistible.

NOT yet recovered from the surprise of the whole-
sale eonflreation decreed by Lours NAPOLEON, we
are treated to a re-organisation of his ministry and
16-overnment, still more startling and important. It
at pears that as often as the PRKSIDENT meets with
an obstruction to his will, straight there must be a
coup rlYlni, a revolution, and a completely new relay
of me. 1 and things to suit the occasion.
The dictator's cabinet having differed from him
lon the a,
ibject of confiscation, not only are the mem-
ber, of th. it cabinet dildaced, but the very system
of adminia tration is changed. One of the useful
conipiegs of representative government has been the
establishment of almost all the members of the ad-
ministration it t a cabinet council, whose decision is
Jr fin-to the so, nreme power in the state; and the
great rule of thin cabinet council is that the members
ate equal, and t ho vote of one as good as that
of another. The A "rinse minister has, of counts, ta
certain supremacy 0, ' form, with the nominal power
of appointing and el ismiasing his colleagues. Bet
this, like every thi lg else, is subject to the
will of the cabinet w. Inch is broken up, if say
appointment be not to their mind. Louts NA/0.
LEON has very natural!) found this constitutional
council highly inconvenient . And in order to obviate
such a thing again occurring•as his ministers turning
against him, and threstenink 7
is a 6'4° naign.
10. bas appeinted a Minister o/ • State. who is to be the
&mod elfcommunication bet* cen his Imperial Ma-
jesty and In other ministers, as well as the other
" the
Indies of state. The Minister o. Stale will alone
no doubt have the privilege of cola 'nag closet ;"
and, although Senhor CASABIARCA is aPPoinled to
initiate this office—a reward for his having counter-
signed the decrees of confiscation—
there is little
doubt that this position of utter ego to Lona Naro-
LEON is intended for M. PERSION T.

prams% in truth, well des °ryes to be
tttiistl tbe olheizeof the dictator. The fti"fidsbili
between the sad his follower is I tot one of
Ilmeo hand open eonberioties, but upo. I resent-
llannes. Neither went @muteness. Both ha ve their
minds full of the most daring projects; in. 'd both
an inclined to that pneekinate precipitancy which
fit only. persists in executing a resolve, but a Lich
rriin executing it immediately. So little can
xastosir wait, that even before the coup d'ewie
be undertook a mission to the German powers to
ask them to give up the barrier of the Rhine.
Per this reason M. DE MORNT is said to have
hided that M. PERSR.NT should have nothing to
isla the coup delal. But Monsieur DE MORNT
accomplished what he was charged with, was
cd by having his ministry cut in two, and the
diet of its functions made over to a Minister of
Police. This, the idea of Louts NAPOLEON, who
endeavoured to establish it before, on which M.
FAUCUER threatened to resign, is now fully
developed. The police is everything. It., chief
has fall power over the liberties, movements,
fortunes, words, and even thoughts, of French-
men. lie is to manage the election by the
gendarmes, and enable the prefects to return what
members they choose. Those who know M. DS MORN!,
however, do not suppose that his retirement costa
him any chagrin. In the brief space of a month he
has, it is said, made his fortune; and it would
seem that, feeling himself for the first time a man
of capital and property, he shrinks with the instincts
of his new class from the precedent of confiscation.
Louts NAPOLEON is said to have been angered and
startled at the number of personages who, even
amongst those around him,.have shown unmistake-
able sympathy for the House of ORLEANS. How
few, thought he, put real faith in my dynasty, when
even my own followers look to the restoration of
the ORLEANS as a contingency to be provided for.
That FOULD and others who had served the ORLEANS
Should entertain compunctions was naturaL But
that Sr. ARNAUD, the man whom he had raised from
disgrace—made a man, a general officer, and a mini-
ster—that he would not sign the decree confiscat-
ing the Oatitstos property, did seem to the Elyse°
preposterously ungrateful.
Nothing, it is evident, will /Misty Louts NAPO-
LEON but Bonapartism, even to behef in the heir
that is yet unborn. Bonapartism in the Council
et State, in the Senate, and in whatever he
calls the mock Commons that the preteens are to
Mara This is what Louis NAPOLEON looks for, and
*msbs will not find, unlew.ho selects all these from
es use vulgar and most ir;norant of his subjecte.
Oar Paris correspondent., is his ample and excel-
lent letter of Friday, giving an account of the
ORLEANS property, and the mode in which the de-
crees would select it, lives a striking anecdote. M.
YIEILLARES„ an old Br inspartist follower of the PRE-
SIDE:Vt. saga to cb.eer his low spirits by observing
that • retained the same friends u ever.
"Tr vex observed 'Lotus NAPOLEON, " the mme, but
DO others." Time, success, moderation, justice,
e'mld not have failed to make friends to any govern-
ment ; but to hope for friends, and want all these, is
madness.