The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-28 00:00:00

FRANCE.

}CARIB. Fettle, Ezesto.
The resolutions of nil, .more nemeilogeslhe
published to-day. Mae of those . terms deinkfid
the empire. Oar, that of die Meurthe, conflate
itself to of eting the governmentaleyal and respect.
ful support. But all the others ask for astable
institutions," "a definitive form of government," or
use tantamount expressions, all of which we
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now
know are intended to allude to the i leti
empire. It is worthy of notice that the
directs the especial attention of its nodose
to the resolution of the council of the Hittites
Pyrenees. This is the model resolution to which
I attached so much importance yesterday. If the
word " empire" is avoided in most of the others, it is
only that they may have a certain colour of indepen-
dence. The theory is that the empire is to proceed
from the free spontaneous wish of the entire people.
Hence the studied variety of phraseology. It would
not do to let it appear too pelpshly that all the ad-
dresses came from the same aunt. M. Dwain de
Lhays is all smiles and blandishments to the corps
diplomatique, to whom he protests that Louis Napo-
leon will not "personally" do or say anything
which may hasten the empire, but that if
ill should be forced upon him Europe may be as-
sured that his intentions are meet friendly and
peaceable. It is generally
.believed here that Per-
ty's mission to London is to talk over the matter
Lord Malmesbury. In confirmation of my
amemise of yesterday that the last vote recorded in
firma of the empire would be the dying note at
universal suffrage I may mention that two councils
of arrondimetneht of secondary importance, these of
Coudom (tiers) and Saverne (Bu Rhin) have ex-
pressed a wish that universal suffrage should be used
sparingly end only upon great occasions. Depend
upon it, this is but the small end of the wedge.
The legitimist Asseteseitoo thus observes upon the
proceedings of the cossearegeneral:
We are et present atiqueinesi by the Mannewr with the
result of the deliberations of 62 easeeilogeneral on what
may be culled without fear the imentien on the ewer et the
dsy. The wishes which they uprises, if they Mae in helm
me at bottom the same. We have so desire to mum' it;
and, if we have hitherto confined ourselves to a very sum-
mary mention of those deliberation.,it isnot that which afflicts
or astonishes us, as the elections of the Ist and Bth August bad
prepared us fur them. Thus, some of them, and that the
greatest number, ask for stability to be given to our insti-
tutions, and the government to be consolidated and per-
petuated ; others pronounce formally in favour of the re-es-
tablishment of the empire, and for the definitive consolida-
tion of the power in the hands of the heir of the emperor ;
ethers, again, without asking directly for any mediSeation
la the present regime, express their granted* for the post,
mill their devetetiness for the future, ia terms which
WWII no doubt as to their disposition. Ones more, we my,
that there are but shades of difference, the groundwork
beVrigre sisbUt little political news stirring to-day,
tctnumbering illustrations of that system de-
in yesterday's Moniteur as the " largest
ales ore of liberty ever tried." As a specimen, St.
neer was one of the few towns that elected a mayor
God municipal council not proposed by the govern-
Met. Pursuant to a power prudently reserved in
Its new law, the prefect dismissed them all, and no-
abutted the defeated candidates in their places. On
receiving their oath of office, he gravely told them
that they were the only legitimate representatives of
the commune, and thut the only object of his inter-
ference had been to maintain the independence of
the electors. He added that he not only despised all
gainsayers, but might perhaps prosecute them. For
several days after the 15th of August the inquiry
was made, " When will the list of the 1,200 pardons
granted on that occuion appear r It still remains
uoenswered. Hitherto the names of fifteen political
prisoners only, set at liberty since that day, have
transpired. The torments of suspense endured by
thousands of anxious relatives may be conceived.
The delay is the more inexplicable, because the pre_
amble to the decree in the Moniteur deprecated the
old practice of granting indiscriminate amnesties on
the occasion of public rejoicings, and observed
that a wise government, however mercifully
inclined, could only show mercy to sincere pent-
tents. It was reasonable to conclude from this that
after careful inquiry into the individual case of every
prisoner, 1,200 only had been found worthy to be
pardoned. Enough was said at the time ot the un-
gracious and insulting nature of that amnesty which
mixed up in unknown proportions political prisoners
and exiles, with the refuse of the common felons'
gaol ; but, such as it was, it was supposed to be real.
People are now beginning to think it illusory.
I have seen in private circulation a copy of a spi-
rited letter of M. Jules Fevre to the prefect of the
Rhone. refusing to take his seat in the council-gene-
ral. You may perhaps owiliable that according to
reports in December Wets Ms ides Fevre was one of
the first to abandon his peleelphs and adhere to the
tap fr•Osi. Mb talon, ha already been contra-
dicted, bet an "Nadi courage as times go,
! fblr slam legn ups his practice at the bar in
Pals to pat upon pogee the truths exposed in this
latter, which of come no French joined will dare
to h publia
_ te Peelbar-illested a mietalmo of Os sessell-general
of the Mama obey a elesdaillos &Ng In refusing to
She the aelbLy aet test ie my view • mipmeemledee of the
=laany formalitylaiff=rdlegefili his inde-
gab regard to s power Kathie mien= to
lola and es restrain, but because, war existing eireum-
simion Nis esesudity is considered, an set of adhesion. As
• stimbise of the Assembly, which mini the eseetteatism of
ink sod weaved the edema seabeds Naha Desembor,
I samosa glee thie edheilea. ewe masslelly el limo whoa
alt the laws thmeeheold poseese the fortune, the holm
and even the lime of dams are violated by us=a pegs
secution stalest width every man of honour igw
test. lutes
The Belgian planipeeendariee, MM. F.Meewe sad
Liedta, Ws bail ad- walking with tie President aR'
St. Cloud. Congratulation were esshraged to the
conclusion of the convemlises.
The Sinstueelk of lonise, of the 24th, states that
the Charlemagne had arrived in that port from Bastin,
where she had touched in coming from Constanti-
nople. The steamer Philippe Auguste, which had
left fur Algiers with 300 passengers, had been oom-
pellet' to put into Javea, in consequence of her boiler
having burst. No one on board had been injured by
the snidest.
At the Bourns, the Four-ando-Half per Cents. nee
16e., closing at 106,50; the Three per cents. fell Mc.,
mad closed at 70.0.