The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

THE EXPEBiIS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1852.

' FRANCE.
PARIS, WZDNZIIDIa HYMNING.
The following highly interest4ng and important
document appears in the A/couleur:
The went abandonameut of the barracks constructed in
1848 for the caesium of Pares has diminished by about
13,000 beds the barrack accommodation of the capital. The
army of Paris, reduced in consequence, is now dispersed
throughout a great number of barracks, the greater part of
which are capable of containing but few troops.
Amidst the security which now prevails uudrr the auspices
of a government whose strength consists in thu respect and
sympathy of the country, this subdivision of the garrison no
longer offers the dangers which it would have done during
the troubles and conflicts of recent years ; but it entails
serious inconveniences in the services, which it is important
to put an end to. by discontinuing tho occupation of smell
barracks, and collected the troops now scattered about, into
more considerable establishments.

It Is for these reasons the Emperor has ordered the eon-
struction behind the hotel de N ills of • barrack destined
to contain • standing t ire:tire force of 2,1U0 men, and ca-
pable of receiving a larger number if necessary. With •
isimilar object measures of still greeter importance are about
to be taken tor completing and ameliorating the tine range
of brrracks at the Lc*le bldiviire.

It is the Emperor's intention that this establishment,
which already constitutes the largest barrack to France,
shall become the centre of the principal organisation of the
army of Paris. His Majesty has manifested his intention to
transport the head.quarters there, and to organise barrack-
rooms capable of receiving imposing forces of infantry,
cavalry, and artillery.
The general commanding-in-chief will occupy in the cen-
tral pavilion, the apartments which were formerly eo occu-
pied under the Empire, and which were lately the residence
of the governor of the school.
Around the general will be grouped 6,000 infantry, the
regiment of guides, four squadrons of cavalry, and three
batteries of artillery; this will be almost a corps d'armee.
This organisation will necessitate the Junction with the
Eeole Militaire of the Aveous de Sutfren, and of all the
ground to the west comprised between the Avenues de
Lowendel and de la Moths Pivot, the barrier de l'Ecole,
end the Itoulavard hlestdco.

Six hectares of land will thus be added to the surface
occupied by the present barracks.
There wall be built therein in the first place quarters fur
for the regiment of guides, the principal building of which
facing the Champ de Mare, will resemble the architecture
of that due edifice due to Gabriel, the nephew of Mansard;
and one of the most able architects of the commencement of
the present century.
This establishment will possess the improvements recently
introduced into our principal cavalry quarters, the organ-
isation of which has for twenty years been the object of
such happy ameliorations, as to have excited the admiration
end envy of foreign officers. In the accommodation for the
men, the arrangement of the stables, ante the convenience
of the service, every advantage compatible with rightly un-
derstood economy will be provided. Rooms will be re-
served for officers where they may take their repasts
t igether, and enjoy the convenience of drawing rooms and
a library.
Being established under altogether special circumstances,
the quarters of the guides will, as a model for con-
structions of a like kind, which will be made hereafter, and
the extension which it will furnish to the resources for
quartering cavalry in Paris, will enable us to have two ca-
valry regiments besides the guides in the capital.
The cavalry will thus obtain a fitting share in the tempo.
skims of the garrison of Paris.
By the aide of the quarters of the guides, in the Avenue
Suffice' will be erected buildings destined to complete
barracks sufficient fur three batteries of artillery—there are
at present but two in this establishment.
The present barracks of the Beale &tibial?* are capable
of holding only 3,600 men ; 2,400 new lodgings will be re-
quisite to make it fit to contain 6,000. With this view a
story will be added to some of the misting buildings. Some
unimportant structures will be taken down, and large and
scious ones erected in their place. New buildings will
also be erected on the ground destined fur that purpose.
As to the four squadrons of cavalry they will occupy the
stables, and a part of the lodgings of the men now provi-
sionally occupied by the Guides.
Au an indispensable complement to this grand project, the
Emperor has resolved, besides, to annex to the P.colo Mili-
taire a vast field fur manceuvres, such as will permit the
exercise of troops in movement on a large scale, under the
eye and the command of the general-in-chief.
The Champ de Mars, in front of the Bade Militaire' is
insufficient for thatobject. His Majesty's will is that it shall
be extended so as to comprise the ground in front of the
barracks about to be erected, and that the ground com-
prised between the Avenue Soiree and the interior
boulevards shall be included in it. But, at the same time,
he intends that the present Champs do Mats shall maintain
its astral appearance. The shaded terraces form, with the
Ecole Militaire, the bridge of Jena, and the heights of
Tres:eider* the decoration of that great theatre of our
national fetes, our races, and our military ceremonies and
reviews. The terraces, therefore, towards the Invalides
and lon the °resells side will be preserved. The latter
judiciously sloped, will not hinder as evolution in
liae, end when necessary they will represent either
an obstacle to be crossed, or a position to be taken.
Thus the Ecole Militaire at the same time that it will be-
come the centre of the organisaton of the army of Paris will
form a permanent camp of instruction, such as exists in no
other country in Europe.
The Emperor yesterday visited the Hotel-Dieu and
the Hospital at Compiegne. Ile was accompanied
by General Canrobert, the prefect of the Oise, and
the mayor of the town, and was received by the di-
rectors and the attendant &curs de diorite%
The Minister of the Interior has addressed a cir-
cular to the prefects of the departments directing
them to prevent every description of clandestine
telegraph or communication by signals, however
innocent the apparent object of it may be.
From the Madeleine to the Place de la Bastille,
there were erected, up to yesterday, 1,782 stalls
along the pavement, almost every one of which con-
tains articles calculated for presents on the Jour de
'
PARIS, TUISDAY Evermio.
Tho Council of State has just decided an important
point of military law. General of Brigade Chadeys-
son appealed to it against a decision of the President
of the Republic, dated the 11th December, 1851, by
which he was placed on the retired list. It was
stated on his behalf that he bad entered the army
on the 29th June, 1813, and had served for 38
years, 20 of which had been in war, namely, three
years under the empire, fourteen in Africa, and three
in Italy ; that unconnected with political parties, he
owed his different promotions solely to his courage,
which had been eight times mentioned in orders of
the day in Africa; but that he had been placed in
the retired list in December, 1851, because he had
declined to accept the command of the department of
the Basses-Alpes, at that time in a state of insurrec-
tion • and that thereby the law of August, 1839,
which enacts that generals of brigade shaU only be
placed on the retired list at the age of 62 had been
violated, his age-being only 58. In reply to the gene-
ral, a despatch was read from the Minister of War,
setting forth that in the extraordinary circum-
staaoss whir* Jor_evailed in December, 1851, he was
perkily pinned in placing him on the retired list,
ta el his refusal to take the military
et tie DarawAlpes; that he fell within
the appalled= eta law of 1834, which gave power
to the gotreansest of placing generals on the re-
tired lint after they should have been 30 years in
service; and that cart from that point, the consti-
tution of 1852 woody confirmed all the acts done
by the Pendant kis doe 2nd December. As might
have Wm aziptaisi, the council of state have decided
againat the gansral, but they avoided the adoption
of the argoost that the °Destitution had confirmed
all the acts of the President, and rested their decision
upon the construed= of the law of 1934.
The Mersitetir shim that the Emperor has extended
his disobey to a great number of persons in the
army osaismned by the courts martial. Out of 488
such persons undergoing imprisonment, 443 have
obtains& the remission of the remainder of their
mitnattad 45 a reduction. Full pardon has
to 72 prisoners condemned to the
chain and iron weight on the leg ; and a reduction
of punishments to 135 others, subjected to the same
sentence. Likewise, 18 soldiers condemned either to
death or to five years' imprisonment in irons, for acts
of insubordination, or to the weight on the leg or
hard labour for desertion, have obtained commute-
tion of punishment. In fine, remusion of the re-
mainder
of their punishment has been accorded to 4
men condemned to imprisonment for insurrectional
acts. Thus 717 prisoners of various kinds have
already experienced the Emperor's clemency.
The Sleek then states that by changes recently
made, the vote of the ministry of state must be mo-
dified; that if, as stated by some of the journals, the
number and salaries of political agents abroad are to
be increased, a modification of the vote to the depart-
ment of foreign affairs will have to take place; that
the budget of the war department will have to be
modified from the retention of the army at Rome,
and the establishment of a new constitution in Al-1
geria ; and that other changes will, from different
canoes, be necessary in the budgets of other depart-
ments. It then continues :
All them changes, and those which may be realised in
consequence of the deliberations of the senate, give to the 1
budget of nal proportions different from those in which
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than wbielt may aks piece sbasaly.
All the roniiiiiel governallent journals contain
the following :—N The Room chronicle, under the
head of Serious news etelmeeted with the property
of the Orleans' family,' announces that it is in con-
I temptation to place a sequestration to the amount of
100 millions on the produce of the sales made in
conformity with the decrees of the 22nd January
last. The government renounces the contradiction
of the erroneous reports which certain foreign jour-
nals appear to take a pleasure in propagating ; hut
we can affirm that the article of the Chronicle is
utterly devoid of foundation."