The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 16, 1852.

=awilirtigrafiseta and their subordinates,
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employee of lama 81,4 puc
lie Instrudthu, with alts" engineers • without Ws
correspondents of a purely general intarast, alpering
any manner whatever, the relations of these several form.
thinness with their nspective ndaistries, pad wooksaini
the ties of the ordinary hierarchy.
At an epoch when four years of agitation and income%
struggles bad paralysed all development of ideas or useful
plans, klnaled so many passions, ucclassed so many euht,
moss by 'wilily; so noisy ambitions, thu tutelary sod= of
• ministry of penal poises became indispensable.
Now Oat France te ruing from bar prostration, it is
urgent to restore to her her strength and prosperity.
You are called upon to concur in this work of reparation
' and salvation, and, in order to second it, your action ought
to be exerted in a double direction.

To feeundate the victory of order over anarchy, by gee-
sauteeing to the country the material and moral repose
which is promised to it by the protseting power of Dee. 2;
to paralyse the spirit of disorder, especially by disarming its
audacity by the certainty of an infallible repression ; to out-
weary its mischievous activity by your vigilance and un-
shakable energy; to follow it in those dark associations
where the most abominable plots are hatching ; to combat
party spirit, under whatever colours ; to reassure opinion
against fables invented by an indefatigable malevolence; to
restore to the acts of the government their real character,
when a pertilious hostility is labouring to distort them ; to
encourage men sincerely devoted to the executive support,
by pointing them out to its solicitude; to seek out merit
devoid of ambition, and make it known. Such is, M. In-
spector-Dem:l.Al, what I may call the political side of your
attributions.

But if you represent the power which, observe, pointa out
and provoke, repression, you will know how to maintain its
dignity, its moral authority, by the scrupulous respect of
the judicial attribution. When the action of justice begins,
that of the police ends.
Above all, never lose sight of those social words hitherto
too much neg'ected—vagaboudage, source of all dimrders;
mendicity, of which you ought to furtive the repression by
calling forth the resoorees of public or private beneficence.
To puma the count, of those incendiary publications which
pervert the population; to exercise s 'name over hawk-
ers, and amcortain the morality of association,, and of the
objects which they propose to themselves. These are also
duties of which I recommend the accomplishment to you.
In the economical point of view, which is their second
aspect, your attributions are not less important. To study
everywhere the wants of the population, the amelioration
of all sorts demanded by the public interest ; to take ac-
count, in order to recommend them to the solicitude of the
government, of useful ideas too often buried, from the want
of some means to bring them to light; to sound the opinion
of the masses upon political or economical innovation,
thrown into the domain of discussion or of study ; to watch
for all that concerns the public health, and the material
and mural welfare of the population; to devote to these
objects your strength, your intelligence, and all the re-
sources which power places in your hands. Such is, I re-
peat, the economical side of the high mission confided
to you.
If at other period' prejudices have been raised against
the institution of a general police, it was because that in-
stitution had been diverted from its object essentially
moral, and pervi tied to the service of political and private
passions. This is a shoal against which you ought to be
for ev eron your guard.
Let your authority then be scrupulously kept within the
limits, beyond which it would become oppressive or inqui-
sitorial.
_ _ _

If you know, so I hope you do, bow to conform to these
instructions, the police will be a subject of fear only for the
wicked ; peaceable citizens will behold in it on the con-
trary only a safeguard ; and as the Prince himself has said,
only the meet efficacious means of conveying continually to
the head of tho state, the truth which is endeavoured too
often to be kept at a distance from the supreme power.
(Signed) Da Marra..
Minister of General Police.
The ..Voniteur contains a decree regulating the in-
ternal organisation of the Ministry of State. This is
divided into four heads—l. Cabinet of the minister.
2.

3. Direction of palaces and
manufactures. 4. Direction of accounts. The first
head includes, among other matters, relations with
the Monil, ur.

The secretariat-general comprises relations with
the great bodies of tho state and the ministries;
studies of all the questions submitted to the Council
lof State; summary of French and foreign news-
papers; relations w►th the periodical press; decora-
tions and pensions. The third department is suffi-
ciently described by its titles. The direction et ac-
counts includes the preparation of the general
budget.
By another decree there is established for the pro-
fit of the Invalid Fund a reserve of 11 per cent. upon
the expenses inscribed in the budget of marine and
the colonies for purchases of tisatelriel.
Another decree abolishes the royal ordinance of
Dee. 8, 1830, for the creation of battalions and cons-
panics of military workmen in the ports and arsenals
of the marine. This measure is based on the dissolu-
tion of the national guard, and on the consideration
that the said companies and battalions have never
been in reality anything else but the assembling as
maritime national paid of the working population
in the service of the mdse.

To-day I have ^
hMA tie rumours of schemes of
temitorial aggrandisement, which have prevailed
mere or lees ever elms the 2nd of December, se-
dately dimmed in me of the leading political circles
d the eapitaL Thus reports, which at first
seem no absolutely incredible that one can barely
anode to them in the most resemed manner without
appearing to exaggerate, gradually gather head, sad
ammo spelpable Fobabiay. I-alluded, on the se.
swim eM de Persigny to mice, to the sebum of
menu's Belgium as thus growls, Cato a settled and
serious plan. Tea have men elms that time bow
probing, the mummeeet of Leopold Me hem biro
every mask" that has bees made upon it. The
I.
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teme se etm thes
Bailtiiees= peen itbeen 'ertin-
the et reated ; and now
hear the deshielha d the W 'dilaterloo lion, and
the indemnity for the Antwerp expedition have
been granted ea soon as urged. It was all ahem
evident that Belgian had no support but
England; and now the notion has been taken
up by the Prone gewermsent that oven Great
Britain would only blister i little, and then
Five up the paint rather than risk war. Certain it
is that Belgium swarms with Prue* emilearles, and
that agents of the government of Loeb Ideptdeen have
been sedulously engaged in Nappies the allegiance
of the army of Leopold; so that a Wilton
_declara-
tion in favour of annexation to Premmorlieb might
easily be got up in any Belgian would be
interpreted here as the cry of the =mph, end
acted upon accordingly.
Intrigues are on foot also far abide; the mien
of the grand duchy of Baden, through tie =diodes
of the President's aunt, the Prineses
Dowager Grand Duchess of Baden. I
s, this, as the annexation of Baden, as
well u the Rhine province of Prussia, was
seriously discussed to-day in the drawing room (of
which I have spoken above), where such projects
certainly would not have been mentioned had they
been as unreal as might be supposed. .

The departmwis a the Pas de Calais, the Allier,
and the Wm, are authorised to awes themselves for
various rates and terms for the easetrootion of roads,
and the fulfilment of departmental obligations.
__ .

M. Bandsept, ex-representative for the Bee-Rhin,
his addrased a letter to the Moniteur, announcing
that having been comprised is the decree of banish-
ment, he conceived it consistent with his duty, after
the unanimous vote of France, to write to the Presi-
dent of the Republic to solicit permission to remain
in Frames, promising that he would entirely cease to
loseepy himself with politics. The President has
complied with this request. M. Bandsspt was a
member of the Mountain.

The Cinsetitationsia announces that its director, M.
Louie Veron, is the candidate of the government for
the OMNI Zajalatif in the arroodineement of &coax.
X. Napoleon Bonaparte, late representative of the
bribe, has addressed to the Corsican papers a letter,
arid from Paris, on the II th inst., stating, in
to a requisition to numerous friends to stand
fir that he cannot accept any candidature,
,maimollllmg to live in retirement, and quits aloof iron
The court-martial Ch atecy has condemned 13
spiv insurgents to, ftiMildeo,
,tbe 14. will cause a " TeDeunt" to
ved=
boxiiiret Queen Well& immose, is the Madeline, for the pewee-

Letters of the 12th from Berne state that Mr. Ma-
gennis, lately appointed British minister in Switzer-
land, had received orders to leave Loudon
and repair immediately to his post. As Mr.
Mageams had been indith a cove of
six months, this precipitate' for his return is
attributed to tho complications likely to arise in
Switzerland. It was also said at Berne that a spe-
cial mission had been proposed to General Dufour to
proceed to Paris, but that he bad declined on account
of his health.


. SPAIN.

A telegraphic despatch. dated Madrid, Feb. 12, 5i
pa., states that the convalescence of tbe Queen con-
tinues without the least accident. Her Majesty was
even able to get or in the evening of the 11th.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Faa. 15.
The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Cap-
tain Charles F. Burney, arrived here at 5 p.m., and
landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. James
Inglis, It.N., Admiralty agent. Iler dates arc—
Gibraltar, 0 p.m., 4th; Cadiz, 10 a.m., sth; Lisbon,
8 a.m., 9th; and Vigo, 8 a.m., 12th. There was no
communication with Oporto.
The Iberia brings the important intelligence that
Commodore Martin's expenmental squadron had loft
Ithe Tagus for the British channel, having been re-
called by the home government. The only ships of
war at Lisbon when the Severn left were her Ma-
jesty's steamer Dragon and the French steam-sloop
Newton, besides the Sampson, which had called there
for colds, on Ler way from the coast of Africa.
LISBON, Ise. 9.
An anticipated long debate upon the address in
reply to the speech from the throne was quickly
terminated on the 29th, by its having been voted,
almost unanimously, as it came from the committee,
and without any alteration whatever.
As no opposition 1. expected to the projected re-
form of the charter, I send you the " Project of the
additional Act to the Constitutional Charter," which
ministers have presented to the chamber.