The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING,• OCTOBER 22, 1852.

FRANCE. .
PARIS, TNIIIIIIIDAY Byname.
The excitement of the triumphal entry, the release
of AM-el-Nader, the decree convoking the Senate,
and the reduction of the duty upon bacon has now
Eraaway. and left the political atmosphere dread-
ydull. In the absence of any tangible news,
people indulge in idle conjectures as to the precise
day
.when the empire will be proclaimed, and the
particular formalities by which it will be preceded.
It is surmised, and with much reason, that the de-
bates in the Senate will not be long. There can be
no qeestion but that a ready cut and dried pro-
wintion will be laid before it on the 4th of
November, which the senators, after a decent delay
of a few days, supposed to be devoted to the careful
examination of the people's petitions for the empire,
will embody in the form of a senates consulicon.
But, it is asked, will the Senate at the same time
vote the modifications in the constitution consequent
upon the altered form of government, or will it remit
to Louis Napoleon the power of framing .a new im-
perial constitution, and thus once more invest him
with a dictatorship P Then, again, speculation is
occupied with the question which of tho three
great anniversaries of the President's life, the
2nd, the 10th, or the 20th of December,
will be fixed upon for the assumption of the imperial
title. Each day has its partisans. Some think the
10th of December when Louis Napoleon, on the
mere strength of his name, obtained five millions of
votes, in spite of all the efforts of a republican execu-
tive, the day most worthy to be commemorated.
Others are of opinirn that the less spontaneous but
more numerically imposing demonstration of Dee.
20, 1841, was the crowning triumph of universal
suffrage. But the favourite supposition is that the
2nd of December, at once the anniversary of the
battle of Austerlitz and the coup d'elat will most
commend itself to the Presidents' mind as a day of
good omen. And although it has been objected that
the coup d'Not awakens mournful recollections of
strife and carnage, it is answered that no blood was
shed on December 2, and that the massacre of the
boulevards did not occur till the 4th.

Of somewhat more importance than the tittlo-tattle
to which I have alluded is the report that, simulta-
neously with the proclamation of the empire, the
Count de Chambord intends to issue a very decided
fusionist proclamation, and to exhort his friends to
abstain from voting. Such a measure would un-
doubtedly produce a considerable number of absten-
tions, and if the republican party were also systema-
tically to abstain, and I learn that great efforts are
making to induce them to do so, the polling clerks
might be hard put to it to make up the required tale
of eight millions of votes.
Since the triumphal entry the ministers use the
title of " Your Excellency" in the letters they ad-
dress to each other.

The creation of an imperial guard of 10,000 men is
spoken of.
The journals recount that the Prince President,
before leaving Tours, gave 20,000:r. to the General
Hospital at Tours. In addition to which ho gave
different sums to the old soldiers of the empire;
600 fr. to the Sisters of Charity for the establishment
of a Creche; 300 fr. to the Dames do la Hallo ; 200 fr.
to the young workwomen who presented him with a
bouquet; and 200 fr. to the workmen who preheated
him with a magnificent silk bell-rope. On passing
through Amboise, he gave 300 fr. to tho old soldiers
of the republic and of the empire. I understand that
the money disbursed by the President in the course
of his month's tour amounts to the enormous sum of
31 millions of francs. _

Fifty thousand copies of tho Bordeaux speech are
about to be distributed among tho miners of the
basin of the Loire.

The annual general meeting of the shareholders of
the railway company from Mulhausen to Thann has
Rnet been held in Lemardelay's great room, Rue
ichelieu. The company has constituted itself from
its state of en conamandile to that of socke. anonyms.
The accounts presented in the name of M. Nicolas
Bccchlin, deceased, were unanimously approved of,
and the dltectors were authorised to act as might
appear to them to bo best to obtain the extension of
the line across the department of the Vosges to
Nancy and TouL This matter is more particularly
confided to Td. Mathieu Dollfus, M. Javal, and M.
Benoit-Laroche.

At Nantes a petition praying the Pope to come
to France to crown Louis Napoleon is being signed.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per:Cents. rose
30c., closing at 106.6.5: the Threes fell 20, and
closed at 81.40. ,The St. Germain Railway rose
40; Orleans, 12.80; Dijon, 15; Bordeaux and Teste
fell 10; Lyons and Strasburg, 7.50.

ITALY .
PIEDMONT.

The Savoy otScial Gazette of the 18th inst. states
that the government,. having consistently held aloof
from the movement in favour of annexing the pro-
perty of the church to that of the state, had ad-
dressed a tirellar to the provincial intendants, recom-
mending them to dimuntenance petitions having
that measure for their object.

The Patna mentions that the Committee of the
Senate on the Civil Marriage Bill had assembled se•
vend times to examine it, and chosen for its reporter
M. de Margherita. The greatest part of the docu-
ments collected by the ministry had been already
submitted to them, and all the minutes of the littler
of the committee appointed to draw up the first bill
on civil marriage, which was rejected, were being
printed. The President of the Council and the Keeper
of the Seals assisted at the sitting held by the com-
mittee on the 18th.'

COMMANDER INOLEFIELD'S EXPEDITION
ill &BARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
The Admiralty have received the following letter
Gem Commander leg Wield, who has se disinterestedly pro-
Deeded, in the screw-steamer Isabel, to assist in ins bawd-
pus search fur Sir John Franklin's expedition :
(Cy.)
" Screw Discovery-vopessel Isabel, Aug. 12, 1862.
Oodhaven, Disco, Greenlaad.
Sir —The assistance I have received in so many ways
Ifrom this Board of Admiralty in equipping my little vessel
for her Arctic voyage induces me to suppose their lordships
will be pleased to learn I have so far advanced on my voyage,
and that the squadron under Sir Edward Belcher passed this
port on the 12th of June, having left it on the 10th, and
lading the Waigatt Passage blocked with ice, returned
southward to take the open bay.
, " I shall sail in a few hours, having only put into God.
haven to make good some lows sustained in a gale off Cape
i Farewell.
! "I am now (from the favourable appearance of the reason
land the opinion of these here as to the state of the ice
'northward) determined on proceeding direct to Smith's
I Sound. . . . . -

-71 s; ships having been seen returning southward from
Melville Bay, it is presumed that they have been successful
in making an early north passage.
" I am, Sir, your obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) "E. A. Inotsrucco, Comrnander,R.N.
"To the Secretary of the Admiralty, London."

Extract from a letter received from • officer on board
the Isabel, Commander Inglefield, R.N., now search-
ing for the missing Pular Expedition of Sir John Franklin.
The letter was posted at Helensburgh, and received in Lon-
don on Wednesday, the 20th inst. :
" At sea, off Goatee's,
" Island of Disco, Aug. 11, 1862.
" Here we are so far on our voyage, which, on the whole,
has been very favourable. Wo made Cape Farewell on the
last day of July, and encountered a great deal of ice off the
East Coast, meeting some very large bergs, but thanks to
Abernetby,• we managed to get clear of them. We ran
along the coast for two days, and then ran out to avoid
them. We bad a strong northerly wind with an occasional
calm up to last Friday, when it came on to blow a tremen-
dous gale ; so we were obliged to beer up, and make for a
Danish settlement called Lightenfells, or Fie Renesh,
which we reached at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and
remained there until Sunday evening, when we came out,
and have had • very strong breeze from the southward
ever since ; so much so that we could not go into Holstein-
burgh to get Adam Beck, which was the commander's in.
Mutton.
" Our first destination is to explore Smith's Sound, if
time will permit, and then go to Jones' Sound, and win-
ter somewhere near it, ready for travelling in the spring.
" Now the question that naturally suggests itself to you
is this: Is Commander Inglefield the man to head such an
expedition ? My answer is, that I really believe he is one
of those brave, fearless fellows who would face the devil,
but who, at the same time, has judgment with it. He tries
in every. way to make us comfortable.
" It is not • feather-bed expedition, bat one in which
you must rough it out a bit. But what of that ? There
ss plenty of provisions, and the commander lives as every
one in the ship does, with the exception of Tuesdays,
when we, that is the officers, dine with him, and then
he comes out. With this exception he lives as the slup's
conany.
regret that time will not permit me to say more
than that we ga up Lancaster Sound and communicate
with Sir Edward Belcher's squadron before we return
borne.

is only in momenta of danger when the worth and
experience of Abernethy are seen: ho is a moot valuable
acquisition
me a lineitiontethe aboutxpt liti
next
September twelvemonths,
directed to the care of Mr. Sievewright, Keith Inch, Peter-
head.

I had forgotten a word about the engines:—We have
***** *seceded three knots with them in a dead calm ;
they are at work r.ow, and work very well; our maxi-
mum speed has been 72 revolutions, with our ice-propeller
of 6 feet 6 inches diameter, and 6 feet 6 inches pitch."—
Nautical Standard.

• Snood Weir, who hu had also idaters la the Po:ar &gips&

BEAUMONT INETITUTION.—TME DUKE OF WEL-
LTNOVON AND Hts Tutu.—" The Duke of Wellington and
His Times " formed the subject of the first of two lectures
delivered last night in the hall of the Beaumont Institu-
Gen, Beaumont-square, Mile-end-road, by the Rev. T. J.
RowseU. M.A., incumbent of St. Peter's, Stepney. In
commencing the lecture, he said—The desire of the direc-
tors was to make the lectures secular, and of a strictly secu-
lar character too, and that the institution should never be
made the arena of bitter political or theological discussion.
(Applause.) With reference to the particular subject of
the lecture, he might observe, that the history of a great
man was the history of his country ; and unless he benefited
his country be could not be a great man. The desire to
benefit his country was what made the Duke of Wellington
great, and it might be said that had it not been for him the
history of his country would have been written in different '
characters. As long as he lived he exhibited a standard of
greatness to which future heroes would look up, and he might
be called one of the brightest patriots who have ever served '
this happy country. (Applause.) In referring to the birth
of the duke, he observed that however noble his family had
been, he had made it ten times more noble by the acts of
his eventful life. At the time of hie birth, the American
war was in progress, sad the great Earl of Chatham was
thundering in the British senate to those who would listen
to him in language which Demosthenes might not have
been ashamed to own. Burke and Fox weft also among
the great men of that period. Napoleon and the duke were
both children at the same time—thrmany gave forth the
gigantic mind of Goethe—France, the great Chateaubriand
—and Scotland had her Walter Scott, who in after times
caused every breast to thrill who read his immortal tales.
(Applause.) When they thought of these things, little did
they know bow infants of the present day might influence '
future times, and therefore it was most important that in-
stitutions like the present should give a right direction to
youthful minds, and endeavour to impirt to them solid and
useful instruction. The rev. gentleman then proceeded to
give a rapid sketch of the duke's military career, and said
that in his next lecture he should apply himself more par-
ticularly to these brilliant events which distinguished the
Peninsular war.

RAWAL WATZIMEN AND LIGIITERWMes ASYLP3II.
—The poor watermen of the river have many claims on the
public for support ; as from the advancement of science
consequent on the restoration of peace, the formation of
docks, and above all the development of the mighty power
1 of steam, the labouring waterman hie been almost deprived
of the means of his daily subsistence. Another and a
strong consideration for their support by the pubic is, that
they have been regarded by the legislature as one of
the nurseries for the royal navy, and by act of parliament
of the 4th and bth of Queen Anne the company Is corn-
polled, in time of war, to summon and provide such a
number of watermen, to serve in the royal navy, as the
Lord High Admiral of England, or the commissioners for
executing that oilier, shall from time to time give notice
they require : and such pereose se summoned are liable '
to, imprisonment and disfranchisement should they. fail
to appear when called upon, and many eminent
and distinguished naval Miura have borne testi-
mony to their excelleace as seamen. The propriety
of forming an asylum for the poor aged, de-
cayed, and maimed watermen and lightermen of the river,
and their wives or widows, was for some time under the
consideration of the court of the company (a very ancient
one), bur, being unali.e, from the state of their funds and
the general distress of their members, to erect a building
for that purpose, they were Induced some time sines to
solicit antmeriptious from their friends and the public for
the purpose; and by the liberality they experienced, and
the gift of a piece of land at Penge by the president of the
institution, Mr. John Bodin Brown, for the purpose, they
bare been enabled to build 41 houses for the accommodation

of 41 married couples, where many of e aged, infirm, and
decayed members of the company end their wives and
widows are now living in humble and decent retirement.
It was announced at the dinner that the institution had
been recently honoured by het mast gracious Majesty the
Queen sod Lis Royal Highness Prince Albert becoming
patrons of the same, and that they had contributed 106 f.
towards the endowment (aid thereof. Also, that his grace
the Duke of Northumberland had kindly consented to be-
come vies-patron thereof, and bad contributed a similar
lam. The allowance to the inmates and expenses of repaint,
&c., amount to neatly 6001. per annum, and which the
committee almost entirely depend upon themselves, their
friends, and the public to make up.
SEAMEN AND :MARINES' ORPHAN SCHOOL.—The
eighteenth annual meeting of the Portsmouth Seamen and
)larines' Orphan School was held yesterday after-
noon, at the rooms of the Institution, Lion-terrace, Portsea.
The chair wee occupied by the Commander-in-Chief, Admi-
ral Sir Thomas Briggs, 0.C.M.0., and a large number of
ladies and gentlemen were present, among whom were
Admiral Douglas, Captain W. 11. Johnstone, superintend-
ent of Clarence yard ; Colonel Menzies, Commandant of
Royal Marines; Captain H. D. Chad', Captain Boyd,
Captain Bastard, &c. The report of the committee was
read by the Honorer, /Secretary, Captain A. R. Savage,
A.M.A., and which was of a generally satisfactory
character. Since the last report, the schools had
been visited by Rear-Admiral his Grace the Duke
of Northumberland (First Lord of the Admiralty),
Commodore Bir Thomas Herbert, Montague Clore.
Esci , and others, the first named having presented a dons- I
Lion of 1001. to the funds of the institution. The directors
had also much pleasure in stating, that the endowment fund
had increased from ball. to 1,1601., principally through the
munificent donation of 6001. from Admiral Sir Themes
Ogle and Iltnry Denton, Esq., tho executors to the will of
the late Mr.. Henry Ogle. The building was nearly com-
pleted for the reception of • certain number of girls, to be
boarded, lodged, and educated for domestic servants ; some
additional Ain& being, however, required fur tl.is object.
The Pura received from annual subscriptions had decreased
nearly 201., ehiifiv through the deaths of some of the oldest
supporters of the institute= ; an appeal to the generosity
of the public wee therefore made, in order that tile bear-
finial operations of the institution might be carried out on
the most extended basis. A series of resolution. having
been paused, the children of the schools were regaled with
• and dinner of toast meat end potatoes.
PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. DIGHT SEYMOUR, M.P.—
On Wednesday a public dinner was given to Mr. l)igby
Seymour, ono of the representatives f[w the borough of
Suuderland, at the Lyeenm-hall, in Lambton street, by
about 100 of his political friends in the town, in testimony .
[ of their sympathy with his principles, and to commemorate I
bja ;flout election.

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