The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1852.

FRANCE.

INSTALLATION OF LOUIS
LNAPOLEON AT NOTRE DAME.

PARIS, THOSSIDAT BVINING.
The good luck which seems to have attended the
arrangements of Louis Napoleon since his coup d'etat
deserted him to-day; for the gaudy pageant ap-
pointed to celebrate his triumph has been drowned
in a dense fog. With singular fatality all those ope-
rations which ought to have been conducted with
scrupulous circumspection and deliberation, such as
the sifting of the polls by the Consultative Commie-
lieu, have been burned and precipitated in
the most slovenly manner, on purpose that
the grand pomp of the President's 111111.01.
ration might correspond with the opening by
of the new year; and the now year epees will e
freezing mist which renders the most finetydruell
and the most shabby objects equally 01:11011101111111 at N
pares of end at a hundred equally invieibb. This
fatal conersiessere has continued the whole lay with
unintermitted perseverance, and is now thawing a
compassionate veil over the scanty illumined's& A.
early as eight o'clock, notwithstanding the log and
frost, sight-loving Paris was all a het to see
the show, rolling in • living sew= of
most uncomfortable aspect towards the little
isle in the Seine, whence Paris first sprung, and
where its cathedral now stands. At 10, the Lennon
of the Invalides gave the signal for the troops to
emerge from their berracks and take up their posi-
tions. Ten guns were fired for each million of votes.
It is said that eighty were discharged in all. The
whole lino of street from the Elysee to Notre Dame
along the quays was occupied by a double lino of
infantry. Each regiment marched, its band ahead,
with 0 sonorous metal blowing martial sounds;" and
for the first time since the 2nd of Dec. tho drum was
heard. A certain set of streets were monopolised
for the passage of the carriages of people furnished
with tickets to be present at the ceremony ; so that
sergens de ville and municipal guards were engaged
in a perpetual strife with erratic carts, whom drivers
were often only reduced to order at the sword's point.
The bitterest ill-humour was visible among the offi-
cers of the army and the police among the whole
line, and the smallest contravention of their words of
command on the part of common wayfarers, male
or female, was the signal for explosions of
the coarsest and most ridiculous menaces. The
Place do Parvis, or square in front of the cathe
did of Notre Dame, was occupied by a regiment of
lancers. It was not until I reached the corner of the
great stone edifice which faces the church that I
could sec the huge towers looming through the fog.
All the effect of the decorations and the brilliant
diversity of bunting was completely lost. In
trent of the Gothic rose window in the
centre of the facade, was a red banner with gold
stars, in the midst of which was inscribed the sum of
votes in round numbers, 7,500,000. The architec-
tural lines of the old dark cathedral were distinctly
marked by the hoar frost, which had settled
along them like a fall of mow. At a quarter to
twel%aers.lburrze rs
ve note of the President's approach.
He wed by strong detachments of lancers
and ineers, who, as they arrived, formed on
either site the deep Gothic portal of the church.
The President was in a coach drawn by four horses,
with postilions in green and gold liveries. His two
qffiriers d'ordosaance, Edgar Ney and Fleury, rode
at either panel. To my great surprise, I perceived
fink he was dressed in the uniform of a lieutenant-
geesral of the line. And I beg you to note this cir-
einotance, as it is the leading feature of the day's
aormony. The clergy came, with the archbishop
at their head, in procession to meet him
as a sovereign, at the door of the church.
In the interior of the nave purple velvet, embroidered
with gold, struck the eye, already dazzled by the
brilliant light, which like fiery net work filled up the
depths of the aisles. The pillars, the benches in the
tribunes, the supports of the galleries surround-
ing the great nave, were all covered with
imperial velvet, and garlanded with leaves and
flowers. High above the pillars were orna-
mented with banners of a purple colour, strewn with
golden stars, with the letters L. N. Between the
columns of the upper galleries near the roof there
hung 90 more flags, bearing like those outside, but
with a richer decoration, the arms and names
of the principal cities and departmental towns.
The skill of the architect of Notre Dame, and
the taste of the director of the Beaux Arts were
admired in nothing more than in the fitting up of
the choir and transept. The immense dais of red
velvet trimmed with gold, which covered the altar
and the chair, and " Prie Dieu" of ,the President,
had es eneellent effect. The draperies of the whole
tredept seen by the light of 20 lustres were rich in
the extreme. The grandeur and interest of the
seem was greatly increased when the public func-
tionaries and privileged visitors took their places.
The mayors and delegates from all the arrondisse-
ments of France came first; many of them were
their robes, but the greater part were in plain
end only ornamented by the tri-coloured scarf.
Inthediately above these sat numerous functionaries
SMEAR. and distinguished puesasages with tickets
km sees one of the ministate. Nearer the chair
id ea dmo right and left of the WV the peiseipel
Jiff ann of the army and of the National Omni
of Paris. The members of the Oneaktive Oriedie-
aid the members of the differed Ilisoldes, the pre-
frets of the Seine, and of the polies, and all the pre-
fect peened at Paris, took their seats on the grand
platform, es the left of the transept. at the same
time that the judges of the Court of Csamtion, of the
Court el de the Cant of Appeal, and the other
dellteimeleeleepledtheagpasiteplatform. Tribune
earramingthetweplatidne were reserved for ladies
of the moo ifidowsligees and others. The foreign
andededere cad ministers were placed upon re-
served oats, beim the platform, on the right of the
and opposite to corresponding places pre-
t=itt ministers on the other side.

The most notable feature in the decorations of the
interior of the cathedral was the selection of mo-
narchic names, which had been blazoned on the
hangings of the nave. These were Charlemagne,
Franems 1., Louis XIV., and Napoleon, all of whose
glories were associated with the aggrandisement of
France by conquest.
The great bell of Notre Dame, the " Bourdon,"
immortalised by the poet who is now in exile at
Brussels, began to toll as the President alighted
and entered under the crimson pavilion, which
was extended beneath the central statue-studded
archway. Acclamations there were none. lie was
received with no demonstrations of any kind ; nor
was there the least show of enthusiasm even in the
prmtorians who surrounded him.
The ministers, tho marshals of France, the ad-
mirals, the officers of the President's household,
General Magma, and a largo staff, accompanied the
President

When the ceremony was over, there was a little leas
coldness among the spectators inside the church ;
and the cheers of " Vivo Napoleon!" were pretty
general. But outside all was apathy ; not a voice was
raised to cry, " God bless him !" He went back by
the 9uays, attended as he came, but instead of con-
tinuing his journey to the Elysee, his carriage
turned in under the archway of the Louvre, into the
Place du Carrousel, and hence gained the Tuileries.
The lancers dismounted in the square,piled their
emirs, and ray about to chafe their frozentamt
The people gazed vacantly through the grate of the
Carrousel, and some said, "II y est," and others re-
sponded, with a laugh, "11 y restera." Lusty-
lunged fellows were bawling medals of the new
potentate for sale at two sous. On one ride
is the head of Louis Napoleon, with the inscription
—Born at Paris, 1808. On the other side is the
number of the votes by which he has been raised to
be the arbiter of the destinies of France.
The receptions then took place at the Tuileries;
but no speeches were made.

PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.
We are informed this morning by the Moniteur,
that the palace of the Tuileries will bo henceforth
the official residence of the President of the Repub-
lic. After the receptions of the constituted bodies,
the President inaugurated his new residence by a
ben9uet of 400 covers, at which were present the
ministers, the diplomatic corps, the members of the
Consultative Commission, the Prefects of the Seine
and of Police, the new Municipal Council of Paris,
General Lccwestine, and the colonels of the National

ries. dolfTist, n
oen ot least, Gyeon;rillaris.Mayntaa
ber ie religiously borrowed from the number el
his motel guests at the same royal residence when
installed as Pint Consul. With regard to the cere-
mony of yesterday,. I find little in the Menitenr's
recount this morning to add to the recital which I
sent yesterday. Meanwhile, it confirms the note-
' worthy fact which I mentioned, of the President ap-
-1 peering for the first time in the uniform of a lieut-
enant-general of the army, and not, as heretofore, of
the national guard—a circumstance the more neccs-
say to note, as the accounts of some evening papers
are false in this respect, and have missed a main fea-
ture of the day. The Minister of War, St. Arnaud,
was alone with the President in his carriage. Not
only was Louis Napoleon received like a sovereign at
the door of Notre Demo by the clergy in proces-
sion; but after the Te Deism was chaunted the
4. Dwaine miens fee Republican et Napokenem."
The former of these words will, however-be soon as
completely obliterated as the thing. Louis Napoleon
is already de facto Emperor ; and the passion for dis-
play, which he possesses in a supreme degree, will
make him without delay assume the title.
The Prefect of the Var, to enforce the disarmamen
of the inhabitant' of the department, announces that
any one found in possession of arms after 24 hours
from the publication of tho present decree shall be
arrested and delivered over to the military autho-
rities.
Gen. d'Alphonse, commander of tho state of siege
in the department of the Cher, has published a
decree, declaring that whoever shall give asylum or
refuge, permanent or momentary, to accomplices in
the late resistance to the coup &fiat, shall be tried
by cow t-martial, and punished accordingly.
General Castellano has dissolved all the fraternal
associations of Lyons; and ordered that their affairs
shall be immediately wound up in the presence of a
commissary of police. Any person contravening the
decree will be prosecuted as a member of a secret
society, the punishment for which offence is, as you
know, transportation.
This is perhaps the most shocking. instance of
tyranny that yes yet occurred. The principle of as-
sociation
is dear to the labourer. He feels that by'
this principle ho can hope gradually to improve his
condition, and to secure for his own enjoyment a fair
proportion of the fruits of his own labour. Political
economists may doubt the eventual success of these
associations ; but the experiment has now been long
and extensively tried, and many of these bodies are
now flourishing, and, what is of at least equal im-
portance, contented. To dissolve them forcibly is to
attack not only liberty but property; and to punish
hesitation in submitting to an injustice so shocking
to the conscience with transportation, is a cruelty at
which the heart sickens.

The prefect of the Nievre has followed the example
of some others of his colleagues, and published a de-
cree, ordering all political emblems without excep-
tion, and particularly the words " Liberte, Egalite,
and Fraternite," which are inscribed on public and
private buildings in the department, to be effaced.
The trees of liberty arc to be cut down and given,
for fuel to the poor.

REPORTED ASSUMPTION OF THE TITLE
OF EMPEROR
PARIS, FRIDAY Evssiso.
The constitution is expected to appear in one of
the next numbers of the Mondeur is even said in
that of to-morrow. The Ist article is, I ant informed,
as follows :
"The President of the Republic takes the title of
Emperor."
At this moment I understand that money is coin-
ing with the effigy of Louis Napoleon. On the re-
verse is an eagle. This impenal emblem is, how-
ever, said to bo represented with the head under the
wing, and to be surrounded by the motto, "Je dors,
me m avid.: pas.' I hear that coins have been
struck with the inscription of " Louis Napoleon, Em-
pereur." The external inscription is Dice protege
la France."
The sittings of the corps legislatif are to be pub-
lic ; but no stenographic report is to be suffered to
appear in any paper. The Mondeur will give a sort
of developed proce4 verbal, that is, merely minutes of
des sittings; and even this scanty report will not
be permitted to appear in any paper until the day
after it is published in the Mondeur.
I understand that diplomatic missions to the great
marts are confided to MM. Urouyn de l'Huys, Bro-
oke, and two general officers, probably Baraguay
(Hillier, and d'Hautpoul. Brenier was temporary
Minister of Foreign Affairs about a year ago.
The instinct of the people yesterday was hot mis-
Mken in predicting that Louis Napoleon would take
mi his permanent residence at the Tuileries. This
shrewd guess has been confirmed by the Moniteur of
this morning, which informs us that for the future the
palace in question will form the official residence of the
President of the Republic. If the Moniteur of to-
11111ffiVe were to contain an erratum, saying, " for
ismoblic read Empire," I believe that few would bo
The President is already Emperor de facto ;
whether the title be assumed to-day or to-morrow,
matters little. No proclamation however grandiloquent
meld stretch his power, which is absolute, and as
tmlimited as that of the Czar or Sultan. Louis Na-
poleon has already, if I am rightly informed, taken
some important steps suitable to his new position, and
imalogoustothemodelofhispiousimitation. The minis-
lets see, I understand, to occupy in thenew regime quite
• aessiodary place, and will, m fact, become merely
sembisteative clerk& Under these circumstances,
like M. de Morny may, evidently from
of their relations with the Prosi-
est, silks to • much more distinguished post.
Ia fact I- bear that Louis Napoleon will no longer
hold direst smaimmiesdem with the ministers ; but
the ministerial Wilms will be Stared throngh a
sometaryshi soale to the in-
stitution by of This
Midas superior to that of any minister, is said
Is be Essilmed is M. de Morny.
I ansamind to you some time that M. Ber-
m the praliet of the Seine, would ago lie replaced by
M. de Maoism, and that some other official dis-
ts would take place in consequence. I un-
d that these changes are now upon the
se of completion. The prefecture of police is
is be abolished. The municipal attributions of this
ire are to be included in the prefecture of the
liaise, and the other functions relating to police and
security are to form a new department in the mi-
adAry of the interior, at the head of which M. de
St. Georges, director of the Imprimerie Nationale, is
to be placed.
M. Arright de Padone, a veteran Bonapartist, who
expected to be made prefect of the Seine, but has
bens set aside, on account of his age, is said to be
rapas.brioas et the preference granted to M. do
Louis Napoleon now drinks deep in the cup of
flattery. It is true that the wino is not generous,
it is udulterated with the poison of insincerity, but
it may not be the less intoxicating. The servile
accents of Baroche and of Veron may inflame his
vanity for a moment, but what lasting joy can he
find in this lip-service while he stifles the expression
of every idependent sentiment. He must know that
when the truth may not be spoken, all honourable
men would wish to remain silent.
The very Alexi/air that report, the fulsome speech
of M. Baroche at the Elysee contains a decree setting
forth that the offence of speaking against the go-
vernment multiplies exceedingly, and ordaining fist
for the more speedy and effectual repression of seek
offences, they are in future to be tried by the
police instead of by a jury. The decree has
a retrospective operation, and hundreds of men now
lying in gaol for no other crime than the utteranee,
in the hearing of a spy, of a few words of honest
i indignation, n which the whole civilised world would
sympathise, are to be deprived of trial by jury, and
to be hurried before a merciless tribunal, that will
simply register, in the forms of justice, the com-
mands of the dictator. However, Louis Napoleon is
now told that he has added an imperishable glory fo
the lustre of his name : that he is the saviour, not
only of France, but of Europe; that ho is wise,
courageous, religious, v i rt nous, disinterested, good, pa-
ternal, affectionate, loving, and withal universally
beloved. With many apologies, lest his well-known
modesty should be wounded by tho comparison, it is
attempted to be proved that he has not onlyequalled,
but surpassed, the civic achievements of Napoleon
the "great"--an addition which will henceforth bo
historically incorrect.
Now in listening to this accumulated adulation
one is driven to ask dispassionately what has Louis

NRicsloon doe, and what does he propose to do?
What he has done hitherto is certainly no proof of
extraordinary genius. It may bo admitted that he
has shown more nerve and more tact than people
have given him credit for, by the daring conception
of thecoup d'etot, and by the completeness of its
execution. Personal courage and a contempt of
possible consequences may readily bo conceded to
belong to the hero of Strasbourg and Boulogne. It
is quite possible that a man of less knowledge of the
world might not have been so happy in his choice of
instruments as the patron of M. de hiaupas and
Generals St. Arnaud and Mugnan. France is large,
and place-hunters in France are many, but a less
wary conspirator than Louis Napoleon might not
have been so luekly in the selection of his agents.
Louis Napoleon then having long concerted the mea-
sures, wielding the immense executive power of
France, commanding an army of 400,000 men,did, by
a proclamation aided by bayonets, the same thing
that was done in 1848 by nobody knows who, with
Ithe assistance of a mob—he made a successful re-
volution in Paris. _ _ _

It is surely not wonderful that cannons should
have been proved to be as successful aids to a sur-
prise as barricades, and that an immense disciplined
army should have equalled tho achievements of a
rabble. But it is said the coup deka of Dec. 2 has
been accepted by the French people. So was the
revolution of 1848, but with this difference, that the
proclamations of the provisional government were
universally obeyed without bloodshed, whereas the
rule of Louis Napoleon has only been established by
the aid of the state of siege and the unsparing use of
the bayonet. The history of France for the last ex) .
years proves too conclusively that France, owing to
its excessive centralisation, cannot but submit to the
government of Paris whatever it may be. That the
central government should havosuccecded by treachery
in doing that which has often been accomplished by
private adventurers, is then not an achievement
which can be hastily admitted as conferring a claim
to lasting renown. What has been done is merely
the acquisition of arbitrary power by an act exhibit-
ing considerable hardihood, but no extraordinary ta-
lent. It is said that society has been saved from
socialism. But his has been proved over and over
again to be a scarecrow, which Louis Napoleon has
made use of to frighten the people. And, besides,
assuming that socialism ever existed to the extent
alleged, it certainly cannot be crushed by what has
happened. Leaving, however, the means by which
Louis Napoleon has acquired his position to the ap-
preciation of history, the practical question is, to
what extent does he intend to turn it? No
doubt he does not wish to govern badly.
His only wish is to govern—honestly, per-
haps, if he can—but, above all things, to govern.
Fur his own sake he will not gratuitously do any-
thing to make himself unpopular. If people would
not be inquisitive about their own affairs; if they
would blindly rely upon the virtue and wisdom of
himself, and of all his hangers-on, he would doubt-
less try to do the best he could for them. lie pro-
mises an immense increase of national and indi-
vidual wealth. Dodoes not propose to effect this by
any profound measures of political economy; now
that he has absolute power it would be dangerous to
make promises of this kind. lie says this grand
desideratum will be accomplished simply by every
man attending to his private affairs, and thinking
nothingabout politics. Let the wine-grower attend to
his tube, the farmer to his corn, the manufacturer
to his spinning jennies, the astronomer to the
stars, the doctor to his patients, the lawyer
to his clients, and the chemist to his drugs, arid then
Dr. Veron promises them, in Louis Napoleon's name,
that they will all be prosperous and happy. Louis
Napoleon will then have nothing to do but to go-
vern them in the favourite attitude of his uncle,
with his hands behind his back. There being no
parliament, men will not be seduced by the ambi-
tion of distinguishing themselves to waste their time
in studying public affairs. Ministers, irresponsible
and not subject to be asked questions, will be able to
attend to the affairs of the country, and journalists,
having no parliamentary speeches to report, will
cease to take any interest in politics. This, without
a word of exaggeration, is a summing up of the pro-
mises that Louis Napoleon now makes to the French
nation. It assumes, as you see, that public money
is likely to be economised the more its expenditure is
uncontrolled, and that ministers will the better
serve their country the less their conduct is sub-
mitted to examination.
M. Royer, notary at St. Gcugoux, who accepted
the functions of mayor during the insurrection, has
been arrested.

A letter from Vienna, of the 27th ult., says the
Prase states that Louis Napoleon, in a letter ad-
dressed to the Emperor of Austria, requests him to
consent to have the mortal remains of the Duke de
Reichstadt, now lying at Vienna, near those of his
mother, Maria Louisa, in the vaults of the Capucins,
transported to Paris.
M. E. Pean, who had been recently removed from
Sainte Pelagie to the prison of Orleans, has de-
manded and obtained permission from the military
authorities to be again placed in Sainte Pelagic.
By decree of the 26th ult., a village of 228 houses,
is ordered to be created at the camp of Ain-Temou-
chen, in the subdivision of Sidi-ben-Abbes, province
of Oran, in Algeria. It is to be called Ain-Temou-
chen, and the site is described by the minister of
war in his report to be a very favourable one, both
as regards military strategy and salubrity.
As an instance of the fallen credit of M. de Girar-
din I have to announce the dismissal of M. \Vole-
dowski, receiver-general in the department of the
Vosges, who was appointed to that place through
the influence of the editor of the Presse,
at a time when the Elyske was anxious to
reward the services rendered by that journal in pro-
curing the election of Dee. 10, 1848. M. Wolodowski
was originally made receiver-general of the Enre-et-
Loire, at the instance of the same patron, by the go-
vernment of Louis Philippe. But ho was promoted
to the Vosges, whose receipts were much more im-
portant, owing to the forest domains of the state.
M. d de Villiers is appointed receiver-general
of tlternages, in the place of M. Girardin's client.
The illuminations last night were scanty beyond
measure. Long spaces of even the Boulevards,
which generally. need no additional lights to appear
brilliantly illuminated, put scarcely a fresh pound of
candles in requisition to celebrate the triumph of the
re-elect of France.

It is reported that M. de Persigny is to be made
Minister of Foreign Affairs. This appears to me
doubtful, as under the new order of things a person-
age so high in the President's confidence may aspire
to a much more elevated position than a simple mi-
nistry.
One conseqnenec of the widely diffused system of
'the state of siege is that the people are often de-
prived even of that slender security against the
abuse of power which may be afforded by the high
military rank of the author of an arbitrary edict.
At Agen, in the Lot-et-Garonne, a mere chef
descaron, ono M. Bourrely, commanding the
state of siege there, has taken upon himself to decree
the dissolution of the national guard of the depart-
ment. They aro not only to submit to deliver up
their arms, but they are to deposit them at the
main es within a given time, under pain of being
tried by court-martial. It is doubly galling to men
suddenly deprived of what they have been accus-
tomed to and taught to regard as a valuable political
privilege, to find the blow struck by an obscure
parade officer, whose ordinary duties are limited to
the military superintendence of 300 or 400 soldiers.
Tho Paine of last night says, " Ctesar is dead, but
Augustus has succeeded.' The language of the
Noniteur, in reciting the ceremony of yesterday, is
turgid to imbecility. "At the interval of half &cen-
tury," it says, " on Aug. 18, 1802, and Jan. 1, 1852,
two Napoleons, faithful to the ancient device of our
fathers, Oaks Dei per Raneus, inaugurated the be-
ginning of a new and desired era, by coming to
kneel at Notre Dame before the Clod of 13o-
tilde. In 1802, a Te Deuce was sung to celebrate
the resurrection of the catholic worship; in 1852 it
has been sung to render thanks to Clod for having
inspired Franco with that spirit of wisdom which
saves nations. This example of respect of the head
of the state for the ceremonies of religion, which the
first Napoleon had been only able to impose with
difficulty on his most illustrious lieutenants,has found
to-day only praise and admiration from all sides."
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose IFr. 20c.,
and closed at 103.10 ; the Three per Cents. rose
3f. 10c., and closed at 70.30. This was settlement-
day. There was a complete panic upwards. Bank
of France shares rose 45c. Railways rose considera-
bly : Orleans, 32.50 ; Marseilles, 27.50 ; Contra and
Tows and Nantes, 22.50; Strasbourg, 20.