The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY DINNING.
lilac all are agreed that at this moment the
President concentrates in his single person the
government of France, so little is the public aware
of his movements or Ling!, that he makes distant
journeys, and is back again 'at St. Cloud before a
single newspaper in Pal is gets wind of his start. We
are made aware to-day, by a country paper, the
:Wonderer du Luiret, of Yesterday's date, that the
President passed througfi Orleans on Saturday on
his way to the Chateau of Lamotte-Beuvron, which
the Prince lately purchased in the moors of the
Sologne, on the south bank of the Loire, and which
formerly belonged to the Beauharnais family. As
the decree authorising the fifteen ex-representatives
to return to France is dated on Saturday from St.
Cloud, the President must have left that palace on
the same morning. We are informed that
• special train was waiting for him at the
Paris terminus of the Orleans railway at half-
past four in the afternoon. He reached Orleans two
hours and-a-half later; and continuing his journey
by the Vierson line, arrived at Beuvron at half-past
seven. Although this journey took place in broad
day two days ago, so completely in the dark is the
Paris press with regard to the doings of the autocrat
of France that not a single paper, either of yesterday
or to-day, makes the least allusion to it.
I understand that the journals of Orleans have not
been distributed to-day, whether in consequence of a
retardation of the mail, or from an order of the minis-
try of police, I know not. Several sinister rumours
have been circulated in consequence of this failure of
news, but rest probably on no serious foundation.
The President was expected back at St. Cloud with-
out delay, but I have received as yet no certain in-
telligence of his return.
You are aware that when the recent changes were
made in the ministry M. Baroche was privileged, as
vice president of the Council of State, to sit in cabi-
net councils. I understand that since this arrange-
meet has been made a division has begun to make
itself sensible between the opinions of M. Fould and
Baroche on the one hand, and MM. Manpss and
Persigny on the other. It may therefore be doubted,
notw,thstanding the reassuing note of the Mundeur '
with regard to the permanence of the present minis-
terial arrangements, whether tho tendency of the
cabinet is not rather towards a fresh crisis, than •
consolidated form.

Michel Ney, the son of General Duke d'Elchingen,
and grandson of Marshal Nov, has just enlisted as a
private soldier in the 7th Regiment of Dragoons.
M. Cornudet, one of the councillors of state just
dismissed for his judicial vote on the subject of the
(Means confiscation, has inscribed his name on the
list of advocates at the Court of Appeal. M. Dufaure
has also returned to practice at the Paris bar.

M. de Varennes, the French ambassador at Berlin,
has addressed a complaint to the Prussian minister
for foreign affairs, relative to an article in the
New Prussian Gazette, in which the reception of''
Napoleon on the German aide of the
Rhine was described in • manner unpleasing
to the French government. The ambassador desired
that the editor of the paper should be prosecuted.
The minister replied that the state of the Prussian
law rendered it iml ossible for him to comply with
this request. However, in the &casette of August 6,
Doctor Beutner, the editor, announces that he has
received a communication front the president of
police enjoining him to refrain from publishing vio-
lent or spiteful articles against foreign powers, and
especially against the President of the Republic, and
stating that, in case of neglect of this warning, the
government would be constrained to adopt measures
against his journal.
The Pays says:
A letter from Vienas announces that in • note addressed
by the eabiaet of St. James's to the Austrian government,
the &animism is given that all measure, of meimation will
be taken to prevent the presence of Kossuth at London from
troubling the good relations established between Ragland
and Austria.

The
.Mareinis Turgot, ex-minister for foreign
efflux*, is about to leave Paris with his family for
Italy.
M. Achille Foetid, minister of state, has been ap-
pointed member of the council-general of the Mantes
Pyrenees.
Petitions for the empire have been forwarded by
the prefect of the Basees-Alper to the ministry of the
interior, containing 30,000 signatures, and the adhe-
sion of 200 municipalities. The Bassee-Alpes was one
of the fiercest battle-fields of the instant:Mon in De-
sember—s

near neighbours are socialism and im-

- M. de Persigny has addressed to the prefects a
circular announcing that subscriptions are to be re-
ceived by the government collectors for the execu-
tu of tits statue of the Emperor, which is to be
erected, in conformity with the President's decree of
September, 18.51, in the Cour des Adieux at Fon-
tainbiesu.
Serious

of a disorderly character
hani his place in the Boone-et-Loire, in cense-
gem= dim strictness with which the mayors and
geediemmo bee executed the decrees for closing ta-
rens duke mass on fete days.
The colon about to be given to the nationalmrd
differ but little from three of the army. The fringe
of the Sag is of silver imbed of gold. The head of
the eagle is not turned, aid the wings are close. The
letters 1. N embeekbred upon a scutcheon of oak
end hired brassie% on the four corners of the
ligt of sei set of colours will be about
Offildr., Ina esuotry regiments, that may object to
this expos, IN at Miry to suppress the embroidery.
A grand adlit•ry dramatic spectacle, of intense
heal intend, is in preparation at Toulon, which wiL
beesesedall the illustrations of the wars of Na-
=dyer witnessed at Astley's or the Porte St.
It is intended on the occasion of the Presi-
ears visit to that town, to entertain him with a re-
montation of the famous siege of Toulon, at which
the young lieutenant of artillery, Napoleon Bonaparte,
gained his drat laurels. A large number of
troops from the regiments quartered in Provence
will be sent for to add to the reality of the scene.
Who will be the principal actor, and point the real
cannon from the real redoubt, whether an officer of
modern artillery, or a professional gentleman accus-
tomed to the business from one of the Boulevard
theatres is not stated in the programme. The Toulon
entertainments will include a grand nautical display,
with real water. the Mediterrsni an squadron being
under orders to get up a mock fight in the port.
A warning has been given to the Petit Courrier
de /a Bretagne for having, in a leading article,
" gretimied the truth" of the official bulletins re-
lative to the Prince Presideurs journey to Stras-
bourg. The prefect desires that the text of his
warning, which is a snood one, may be printed at
the head of the journal in the same type as the
article complained of.
At the Bourse the Four-and-s-Half per Centa, fell
ckeing et 104.90; the Threes fell li, and closed
at 75.15. The St. Germain Railway roes 15; Or-
leans. 7.30; Havre, 5; Rouen fell 25; Lyons, ;
Marseilles and Northern, 2.34 each; Dieppe, 1.25.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10. 1852