The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

TILE COUNCIL. OF STATE.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
PROM OEN OWN COKQE4PONDENT.

PARIS, MONDAY Monstsn.
Lefebvre DuralV, Minister of Commerce, is nomi-
nated Minister of Public Works, in place of Magne.
The ministry of commerce is united to dud of the
interior.

The govrrniucnt, with a view of re-assuring the
publicnuudaa toany fear of new measures of severity,
declares it will not recur any more to exceptional

The Moniteur publishes the organic decree on the
Council of State, divided into ten sections. The
following are the nominations announced :---M.
Itaroehe, Vice-President (with 60,000 fr. salary), to
preside in the absence of the l'resident of the ltepublic-,
six presidents of sections, with 30,000 fr. ; M. Maillard
l'resident of Committees of Debate ; M. ltouher, of
Legislation, Justice, and Foreign Affairs ; M.
Delangc, of the Interior, Public Instruction, and
Public %Worship ; M. Purieu, Finances; M. Nlagne,
Public Works, tee.; Admiral Leblanc, Military and
Admiralty.
Among thirty-four Councillors of State are :
Carlier, Generals Allard, Armand, Lefebvre,
Leroy, Dc Saint Arnaud, Villemain, Vintry, Conti,
Coriludet ; five ex-ministers, Ferdinand liarrot,
Bonican, Oriaud, Thorigny, Waisse ; nine ex-repro-
nentatives, llarbaroux, Bouchard, lloinvilhers,
Charlemagne, Darriste, Denoix, Flu,din, Fremy,
Claude ;j nine ex-councillors of state, 'hamlet, Boula-
tignier, Boulay de la 11leurthe. Cuvier, Ilurumun,
Janvier, Marchand, Stourm,
There arc to be 20 masters of requests of the first
class, 20 of the second; 16 auditors of the first class,
and 13 of the second.

The Emperor or Morocco has written a friendly
letter to the President.

The changes announced above leave the ministry
thus definitively constituted: MM. .lbattucd,
Justice ; De l'ersigny, Interior, Agriculture, and
Commerce ; Bineau, Finances : De Suint Arnaud,
War ; Duces, Nlarine ; Turgot, Foreign Affairs;
Fortnul, Public Instruction and Worship ; De Mau-
pas, Police; Ciissabicuica, State ; Lefebvre Durutli,,
Public Works.

TITLES OF NOBILITY RESTORED.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
By a decree published in the .Ifonitcnr, the decree
of the provisional government, dated Feb. 29, 1,418,
concerning the former titles of nobility, is abolished.
The great news of to-day is M. Dupin's resigna-
tion of the post of procureur-general of the Court of
Carnation. The ex-president of the National As-
sembly has written a pungent letter to M. Abbot-
taxi, the minister of justice, nottt)-ing his retirement
from the office, to which he continued to cling with
such unworthy tenacity after the coup it.'hit of Dec.
2. Like M. de Montalombert and others, M. I)upin
has seized occasion on the confiscation decrees
of expiating his first meanness and blunders.
No paper has been allowed to re-produce
the statement of the trisirers, announcing the re-
signation by MM. do Montalembert, de Merode,
and de Mortemart of their seats in the Consultative
Commission. You will have seen from the official
paragraph in the Pattie, which 1 sent you yesterday,
that although the list of Councillors of State is an-
nounced for to-morrow, that of the senators is still
postponed. The fact is, that no civilian of eminence
can be prevailed upon to form one of that body.
To the names of those who have declined seats in
the Senate I must add that of M. de Touchy. Se-
veral fresh resignations in the Consultative Com-
mission have been produced by the decree of confis-
cation. Among these aro M.M. llalley-Claparede,
Lacoste, and (heparin.
fhe President has determined upon taking off the
stamp duty on the fcuilleton of newspapers.
A credit of 2,950,000 f. is op reed to the Minister
of Public Works upon the budget of 1852, of which
1,3211,000 f. is assigned to the circular railway round
Paris, and 1,030,000 f. to the Lyons and Avignon
Railway. The above sum is annulled in Chapter VIIL
of the 2nd section of the budget of 1851. A fresh credit
of 333,33:5fr., being equal to the first payment to be
made by the grantees of the and Lyons Rail-
way of their share in the expenses of the execution
of the Circular ltailway about Paris, is opened to
the Minister of Public 'Works. The amount of the
above credits will be carried to increase the sum as-
signed iu chapter V. of the second section of the
budget of 1851. for the establishment of great Rail-
way lines. Another credit of three millions of francs
is opened to the Minister of Public Works for the
execution of the works of the part of the Western
Railway comprised between i.e Mans and Laval.
This credit will bo raised on the payment paid Au-
gust 15, 1851, to the Treasury by the Western Rail-
way Company for the object above specified.
A multitude of decrees are mentioned for holding
of fairs in different communes.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
Flysi.e, at which the new ministers were present.
The offices of the Minister of State arc to be in
the pavilion of Flora, in the Tuileries, near the
study of the President of the Republic.
M. David, Plenipotentiary Minister, President of
the international Sanitary Congress, is made Com-
mander of tho Legion of Honour. M. David, Seem-
racy of the same Congress, is made Chevalier of the
same order.

The Monitersr gives us the amount of duties on im-
portation received during the month of December,
1851, 9,012,020 f. The corresponding amount, in
18.111, was 11,791,050 f.; and in 1819, 10,299,176 f.
Tlw total anima of duties on importation during the
year 18,11 was 117,121,48 M. The corresponding
amount in the year 1840 was 121,090,101 f.; and in
1819, 127,850,282 f.

The President gave last night a grand ball at the ,
Tuileries. Between four and five thousand persons
were present at this immense fete. The tile of
carriages commenced at the Place de la Concorde;
'; and the unfortunates who occupied a rearward rank
were obliged to spend three hours en ratan before
they arrived at the perron in the Carrousel, and
could reach the foot of the great staircases Then
such as were not prepared to make a magnanimous
sacrifice of their paletots and wrappings had to
undergo a fresh quarantine before they could receive
a ticket for the deposit of the same in the l'estiaire.
Thus several parties who made a comparatively early
start from their houses did not succeed in reaching
the scene of display before three in the morning.
The whole range of buildings appeared to the outward
spectator brilliantly illuminated. The grand staircase
WWI profusely adorned with wreuth of flowers, which'
were continued into the magnificent suit of apart-
ments freshly repaired and restored to all their et i-
, gloat splendour for tho occasion. Notwithstanding
the immense spaciousness of the brilliantly illumi-
nated halls, the crush was so dense that people could
hardly arrive by forming en queue front the bottom
of the staircase to the top in less than half an hour.
Uniforms bedaubed with gold, and breasts plaited
with orders, glittered on all hands. Great numbers
of English and Itioadan officers appeared to be pre-
sent, from the sprinkling of scarlet and green coats
and furred hussar jackets. Then all the various dia-
lects of the British Isles greeted the painful exolarer
of this resplendent crowd. The President mimic his
appearance at 12, ir. the Salle des Mari,chaux, coining
from the Pavillon Menem. lie was dressed in the
uniform of u lieutenant-general of the line,
and wore the grand cordon and the crochet
of the Legion of Honour. lie had a rosette of
the same order attached to his sword-hilt, and in his
button-hole the little plain decoration which was al-
ways worn by the Emperor, and sometimes given
away, as a mark of high personal distinction. The
President's face looked worn, and his eyes fatigued,
but he forced an appearance of gaiety, and his nos-
trils swelled as if with a certain air of triumph. The
Princess Matilde, who stood by him, and wore a su-
perb diadem of hrilliauts, laughed incessantly, as if
in the highest spirits. Contrary to the general ex-
pectation, the person of the President, far from being
carefully Fpuirded, was only difficult of access front
the excessive crowd. Ile seemed desirous to display
a sense of security and fearlessness ; and I know
persons who stood in his immediate neighbourhood
without any mark to distinguish them from the ob-
scurest strangers. Whenever he perceived a uniform,
he advanced towards it, the crowd giving way on
vista r hand, shook hands with "the wearer without
speaking, and rapidly turned to some other object.
Ile seas attended immediately by the Minister of
We:, General St. Arnaud; General Roguet, his head
aide-de-camp; 1)r. eminent', his physician; and a nu-
merous and brilliant staff followed. The Marquis
and Marchioness of Douglas, the former in his
splendid Highland costume, appeared beside the
Princess Matilde. After ream g a quarter of an
Lour, the President retired with his suite to the small
apartments of the Pavillon Marsan, where what may
be styled his court were gathered. It was remarked
that General Magnum was rather in the background,
as if not in the nearest circles of favour. I need
hardly say that those who know the :lite of Purls
society found but a small fraction of it at this ball.
It was a mob of uniforms, and most mob-like did
they go to wurk upon the viands spread out on
long tables, between towering epergnes and vases of
flowers, under a deluge of light from the
crystal chandeliers in the Throne-room. It
was a repetition of the scene in the Orangeric of
St Cloud during theft- ,c of last summer. But greater
abundance prevailed, and the inexhaustible supply of
champagne left no throat enforcedly dry. Other-
where, in the amplest saloons, the brisk dance went
forward to the stirring impulse of loud and joyous !
bands. In deep recesses beyond the dazzling whirl
of epaulettes and diamond-studdeal hair, you saw ,
gray heads grouped over green boards at whist and
other games. This reminds me of a rumour that
Dr. 'Verse' is to be the director of the gambling
department when re-opened under the auspices of
the new ',Wine. The Italian Opera was closed last ,
night, notwithstanding the bills that appeared in the ,
morning, announcing the performance of "Nabuco"
for the evening. Several distinguished per-
sons, and among others I can name M. '
de Mortemart, went, and were astonished to find the
house closed and dark. It is believed that this mea-
sure was taken by the orders of the goveniment in
toiler to prevent a demonstration deemed disrespect-
ful to the Tuileries; for there appears to have been
something like a conspiracy of the persecuted salons
to avenge their wrongs by crowding the Opera with
the cream of l'arisian fashion on the night of the
President's ball. But Louis Napoleon, indefatigable
in his attempts to woo, as Richard the Third paying
his addresses to lade Elizabeth Woodville, still re-
pays the scorn of the faubourg St. Germain with
flattery, and in returning good for evil, restores to
the nobles of this modern "french," the titles of
what they were robbed by the revolution of Fe-
brttary. But in rand i renennni ; he does it to create a
speck and span nobility of his own, amid to class in
the cabinet of these titled antiquities the copper min-
tage of a fire-new batch of dukes and marquises of the
pseudo-empire.

The decree confiscating the property of the
Orleans family contains a clause renouncing all
claims upon the state fur the restitution of the former
possessions of the Bun apartes. It may be well to
explain the nature of these claims, in so far as they
concern Louis Napoleon. After the abdication of
the crown of Holland by the father of the present
head of the French Republic, the Emperor Napoleon
annexed the Dutch territory to France, and settled
as an indemnity upon the Queen Hortense, and her
children an income of 1,000,000 fr. upon the domains of
the state. The estates which yielded this income con-
sisted of forests and real property which had belonged,
before 1789, to the families of Orleans and Condi!,
and were confiscated by the government of the re-
public by virtue of the edicts against etnign's. After
the Restoration, Loni., XVIII. proposed to the Duch-
ess de St. Lc% as the Queen Hortense was then
called, to accept in lieu of these estates halt' a million
of mite upon the Grand Livre. The Duchess of St.
Lea resigned her claim; the property was restored
to the houses of Orleans and Condi! ; but not a
farthing of the promilvel Itente was ever paid. This,
therefore. constituted one of the claims of the Bona-
parte family upon the French government. Then
there are the 200 millions of francs of which you
may remember the Emperor makes mention in his
will as the value of his private domain, and which
wore confiscated by the government of the Res-
toration. Another claim is the property, jield-
imir an income of 670,000 francs, which the
Pnncess Pauline purchased with the proceeds of the
sale of the duchy of Guastalla. Last of all come the
arrears of pensions, emoluments, and dotatiuns duo
to the lionapextes when the Bourbons were restored
to the throne of their ancestors. You may remember
that about a year ago a good deal of noise was made
by one of these reclaniations turning up in the shape
of a demand from Jerome Bonaparte for the arrears
of pay due to him since 1P413 as lieutenant-general in
the French army. The National Assembly, how-
ever, showed as little disposition to allow the appli-
cation as to vote tho dotation of the President.
Ileuce the governor of the Invalidea withdrew his
unseasonable solicitation.

I call your special attention to an article in the
Univers, of which I send a translation. It is the
policy of the present government to put out feelers
in ono organ, and then, when it has overshot the
mark, to disavow them through another. The un-
easiness which this article will produce to-morrow
will probably bring forth a cornmuniqta, in tho
Patrie, throwing the entire responsibility of
it upon the writer, M. H. Vialetes. How-
ever this may be, it must bo borne in mind that
the press is under censorship, and that not a line can
be published to which the government objects. This
consideration gives an importance to the mischievous
propositions of a Jesuitical newspaper which would
not otherwise belong to it. We live in times when
nothing is too strange to be believed, and it is not
safe to treat this wild and reckless ploposal for a
holy war as unworthy of notice. The restless ag-
gressive spirit betrayed by the article throws a glar-
ing light i:pon the value of the pacific protestations
so vehemently made in other quarters.
This is the article:

Sines, in spite of the difficulties of its former position,
the governinint supported the claims relative to the restitu-
tion of the sanctuaries of the lioly hand to the whelks,
with n firmness that does it honour, we have reason to hope
that it will take advantage of the strength which has now
been given to it to conduct this noble enter-