The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

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WINES

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FRANCE.
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`PARIS, Towner 2•11113111.
_ understand that the chefs-de-bafleiloiss of the
national goods of Paris have been charged to draw
up liaise those officers who are unfavourable or
lukewarm towards the Bonapaftist cause, with a
view to their exclusion from the .number of those
who will be called on to partietpate in the distitibu-
den of eagles on the 13th of August, and afterrdsl
Gm the definitive roll of the national guard, which
la.'destined to a searching purgatiOn all over Frince.
"The deceitful forms of universal suffrage," so hap-
pily characterized by M. Odilon Barrot, are airain
predasing their inevitable results. The Menseverr
liallUtlllets the triumphant success of the government
candidates for the councils-general in all those de-1
patiments from which the returns have yet arrived.
The names of about 80 newly elected councillors UV
published. These include M. Bineau, minister of
finance, in the Maine and Loire, and M. Abatscci,
minister of justice, in the Loiret. In the Gard, the
Duke d'Uzes, who came forward as an opposition
auididate, ham been beaten by a large majonty. The
edictal accounts admit that in many places the elec-
tions are void, because the one-fourth of the regs-
tered electors required by law have not voted. The
Moniteur ingeniously suggests that these abstentions
are attributable to the absorbing duties of the harvest
field. This theory will not account for the state of
the poll in the manufacturing city of Rouen. There
the election for the councils-general is valid in only
one canton of six, and in that one M. Daviel ob-
tained only 1,113 votes out of 3,977 upon the register,
being but 67 more than the required minimum. Ths;
polling at Bones is curious, as showing the hollow-
ness of the "popular enthusiasm" so constantly ap-
pealed to as a justification of the coup defeat. On the
21st December out of 27,733 electors only 5,988 ab-
stained from voting. Now, the utmost efforts of t/se
officials only succeeded in bring 6,822 electors to the
'oil out of 26,890.
Later electoral intelligence has been received Is
the course of the day. At Lille, where the
abstentious have been very numerous, the go-
vernment candidates have barely obtained the
requisite number of votes in three cantons. In
a fourth canton an opposition candidate has been
elected, and in the filth the election is void. For the
councils of arrondissement at Lille the government

candidates have succeeded in three amities ; the elec-
tions ate void in the other two. M. de Maupaa, the
minister of police, has been elected • councillor-
17:at Bu-sur-Aube, as has also his relative,
111 septa, the deputy at Brienne Napoleon. M.
the minister of public works, has been chosenilerDeriorie ; M. Chevrean, the secretary-general
of the salable' of the interior, in the Ardeche; and
M. Heim a chief of a department in the ministry of
the our, in the Yawls's. In the Yonne the list
• COMeillors elected includes M. Carlier, es-prefect of
police, and now councillor of Mate; Vintry, , coped's,
of state, and Prince Murat, who was supported by the
government against hi. Chasseloup-Lanbat. M. be
la Onerronniere, of the Pays, has been elected in the
Haute Vienne.

At Montpelier the election of 38 municipal coun-
cillors resaWd in the choice of 21 legitimists, 13 re-
publinse, and two of the local party denominated
'that of essediatiou.
M. Avignon de Marisa, a republican candidate for
the sonnal-gesnal io the Ewe, had no sooner
is-
sued his address than he was dragged off to prison at
Evreux bye body of geodannes, where he is to re-
main till the elections are over. The excuse for this
proneding pet forth by the prefect is that, after the
Sad of December M. do Manic was ordered to live
(interns) at Rennes, and that although he was after-
wards permitted to return to his home, his candi-
dature is en instance of such black ingratitude to-
wards a merciful gonotiont, that it is now the duty
of the authorities to recall him to a sense of de-
cency by the strong arm of power.
Public Westin poetises to be absorbed by the
changes in the Chased (fEtat announced in the
Mo-
mitma of Sunday. You may remember that the offi-
cial journal of the day before eostaioed a note taking
credit to the government of Louis Napoleon for the
speciality of the selections in the latest ministerial
appointments. Ono might have hailed this boast as
a pledg of adherence to the principle of promoting
to high pshlic dices men fitly qualified by their
talents and antecedents. Certainly few who read
that note on Saturday, expected to find next
'boning three of the most tocapble men in the
Oman of State promoted to the important
pints of presidents itesetions. Oeneral AlLrd, made
prseiffest of the amain of war, unknown to the
army, is whose is vides he had long stuck,
owed.tho benne of Wins in his epuslettes to the
gratitude of M. West fee his defection fiat the
("ponies bsashaesof the Chamber of Deputise.
where M. Allied had sat for ten years wittiest at-
tering a single speak oe making a single report
that hit atteneiss. , )toudet, advanced to the
r=seribefosturpitisisl section, was far from re-
insignificance in the parlia-
ment by inseam at the her, where he never rose
show eits /nal of a third-rate advocate; while
Mosiiind, the president whom he replaced,
Was the father of the Council of State, and
Musically venerated for the luminous intelligence
ssd incorruptible integrity which accompanied his
Gammen cgs. M. Voathoy, the sooossior of M.
'Move at the heed of the semi= of public works, is
ifs agony still men ordinary and of a reputation
oti fns obscure than his companions in promotion.
•ssillipoild merit of all three consisted simply, as I
in ratifying as conciliar§ of state the
seta ,ass Lan Napalm. The met of "
ddle?' ielish renders En eligible to office under
the Innen opt assison in indeed tno apparent to
liNd killiantipties. Int is equally erving
Cl attestant is Ms osiffinmedhlsem_ aad abandon-
men of OW* via VW& ffisliognitind asses
like Pereffsed Onassis ma thew a endow one
ittowelktent patches of their post Inas by aiming
from an hosearai eadoismst at sock a mo-
ment to worship the ding power. The same Mom-
bur whisk montane the senniodos. of M. Cormenin
lathe seassilior of sten, nes* the first executions,
is isasesolkllmost of the instescoe of courts-martial,
of those who, in justifleatin of their rebellion, ap.
=:the clause in the nastitution moved by M.
a, and calling open off Frenchmen to resist,
if sseesemy by arms, the eleistfen of that charter.
Of wbot*etria is the oaths of Timm after so flagrant
anissilisens. It may pass that. a speculator like
M. Fond,' sr having resigned rather than consent to
the demoss Cl Jon fi, amid esantenigs the most
MO.* ilesleastraties of the t's inten-
'ties to penile is these demos; bat doss it not put
eamesinee to the Mask to sea the grave and eminent
keeper Cl the seals of Lens Philippe, allowing his
Mae to eclipse' itself by estseing a decree, which dis-
misses from seals, amid with honour and ability,
distinguished men, who obeying the dictates of con-
science and refused to ratify the spoliation of
his master'. pannity. Painful indeed is it to record
the weaknomes of men so eminent; but it is some
minsolados to Ind, as yet, the instances so rare.
M. Drouya a. hugs, upon returning to the
ministry of Miro affairs, has lost no time to apply-
ing himself to the renewal of the commercial treaty
with Belgium, on which he is the more competent, se
having been formerly director of the commercial
department of foreign affairs. The Belgian nego-
tiators have already resumed the conferences on this
subjoin, which were suspended on the breaking out of
the ministerial crisis in Belgium.
It is said that General Ornano will succeed
Marshal Excelmans as Chancellor of the Legion of
Honour.

The Emancipation Belga has been stopped at the
post-Mlos toilax.
The statutst of the new amalgamated Orleans
Railway Oomgtiny approved of by the .Nlinister of
Commerce,p• now before the Council of Slate. No
difficulties have been raised. and it is believed that
the decree of homologatioo will be made this week
and that the new shares may be issued between the
10th and 20th of August.

Ths screw steamer Bretagne left Nantes 3-ester-
day for Spain. This is the commencement of a re-
gular packet service, intended to be established be-
tween Nantes and the principal p its of the Yen-
', inside.

At the Boone the Four•and-a-llalf per Cents. fell
66c., closing at 103 fr.; the Threes fell 63e., closing
at 70r. Bank of France shares fell 23f. Tho settle-
ment in railways was effected with a fall. St. Ger-
main fell 30c. ; Rouen and Strasbourg, Isc. each;
Orleans, Northern, and Western, 12f. OOc. each ;
Lynam, llf. We.; Dieppe, of.

rt2NING, AUGUST 4. 11152

BELGIUM.

Ws rod is tho Emancipation of Bromide :
A report has been presented to the King in the 5150 ei
all his ministers. This report examines the situation which
a rupture with France would mate for Belgium, and treats
on several points of our domestic sad foreign policy. The
King hes the retort is his hands, and has said that he will
consider it.

SWITZERLAND.

A new incident has arisen in the affair of Neucha-
tel. The grand council of that canton, which had
held extraordinary sittings in the 29th and 30th ult.
to consider what was to be done in the present state
of the country, voted by 69 votes to 11 a decree pro-
nouncing the suppression of a politicalsociety in which
were concentrated the elements of the opposition
formed by the partisans of the sovereignty of the
King of Prussia. This society was known under
the name of the Corporation of the Bourgeoisie of
Valrugin.
'I he Grand Council of the canton of Neufchitel in
Switzerland, in its sitting on the 31st ult., adopted
almost unanimously the bill for the repression of the
crime of high treason, which had been submitted to
itz

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazette, of the 23rd ult., publishes the
return of the estimated expenses of the state kir
August; the sum is 128,223,0138 reale.

GERMANY.

The following telegraphic despatch has been re-
ceived from Berlin :

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"BERLIN, Auo. 2.
.. The Prussian Gazelle declares the secret conven-
tion of the Northern Powers published in the Morn-
ing Chronicle to be a mere fabreation."
The King of Greece arrived at Vienna on the 29th
ult. As he travels incognito, there was no official
reception, but all the Greeks residing in Vienna went
to the railroad station to receive him.

Letters from Posen state that 1,800 hare died of
cholera, out of a population of 12,000. The fire that
broke out consumed 80 houses. The greatest dis-
tress and misery pervade that city.