The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

RANCE.

rAILIS, WELING4DAY DOMINO
I sent you yesterday a full report of the proceed-
ings before the Section du Contentieus of the Coun-
cil of State on the Orleans question. The decision
of the court will not be read until Saturday. In the
, meantime, I hear that the government has carried
the day, and that the con/tit raised by the prefect of
the Seine has been admitted, by a majority, however,
of one only, nine members of the Section du Conten-
tieux having given their votes against the competence
of the tribunals in the case of the seizure of Neuilly
and Monceaux, and eight in favour of the right of
the judicial power. When it is reflected that this
minority receive, as councillors of state, a salary of
one thousand pounds sterling per annum, which
hangs from the good pleasure of the head of the
state, it will be seen against what potent considera-
tions of interest they had to wrestle in order to main-
tain an independent resolution; and hardly a doubt
can rest on any reasonable mind that the question
would have been decided by a court perfectly inde-
pendent of the executive power in favour of the
claims of the Orleans princes. M. Maigne, the go-
vernment advocate, argued in a way that seemed to
waive the application of the decree of confiscation to
the domains of Neuilly and Monceaux, the seizure of
which by the state first raised the question before
the courts of law. For the decree of January 22
applies to the property included in the donation of
the King to his children on August 7, 1830, whereas
part of Neuilly was bought by Louis Philippe after
the date of the donation. The words of M. Maigne
on this part of the question being important, I shall
quote them here. Ho says:
We wilt not go however so far as to demand from the
council the confirmation of the arreN de cenflit in all its
putts. The Princes of Orleans claim to be proprietors of
part of the domains of Neuilly and Monceau'. To wit: fur
the domain of Neuilly u heirs of the king their father, who
brought it after August 7, 1830; for the domain of Nou-
mea: as heirs of Madame Adelaide, who was the joint pro-
prietor thereof with Louie Philippe. Now the decree of
Jae. 22 oi.ly applies to the estates comprised in the done-
lien 01 August 7, 1830. As to the estates of which the
Prince of Orleans claim to be proprietors in virtue of here-
ditary right, they evidently escape the application of this
decree, and according to our view the arrete confi,st is
wrong in pretending to withdraw from the civil jurisdiction
the cognisance of disputes which may arise with regard to
them estates.

The definitive conclusion to which the government 11
advocate proposes that the Council of State should
come is stated at the end of his speech as follows :
ler these reasons we deem that the erred de conifi: of
April,2B, 1842, ought to be confirmed, inasmuch as it unseises
the judicial authority of the cognisance of demands wkich aim
at discussing the legality of the decree of Jan. 22, 1852, or '
at determining the sense and reach thereof, and regulating
its execution with regard to the princes of the Orleans
family. We deem that the said arrete de comffit ought for
ell other rummies to be annulled.
This is the question upon which the vote whose
result is above described was taken. The decision of
the Council of State will not be made public until it
has been revised and approved by the Prince Pre-
sident.

I mentioned some time ago the arrival of Said
Pacha at Paris. On Monday this Egyptian fugitive
was entertained at a banquet at the Elysee, where
several ministers and high functionaries were pre-
sent, and where he was treated with the greatest
distinction by the President. You are aware that
Said Pacha is the son of Mehemet Alt, and
therefore, uncle to the present viceroy of Egypt.
Letters from Alexandria state that this guest of
Louis Napoleon lies under the gravest accusations.
His palace of Shernaul, near Damanhour, has been
searched by Abbas Pacha, and his servants and
friends, to the number of a hundred persons, accused
of having conspired with the revolted tribes of the
desert, are at this moment imprisoned at Cairo. Nor
was the capture of these retainers of Said Pasha ef-
fected without a desperate resistance, and an armed
conflict, in which much blood was shed. The soldiers
of the viceroy found, in the precinta of the palace,
a vast quantity of arms and ammunition, and six
pieces of cannon.
Sir Henry Bulwer has left Florence for Rome. It
is thought that the object of the British envoy to
Tuscany is to clear up tho case of Murray, and, if
possible, procure his reprieve.
Tho authorities received orders in all towns except-
ing Paris to take part in the procession of the Fitte-
Dieu.
It is said that Dr. Veron pretends to have in his
possession the manuscript of an article of M. Chattier
de Cassagnac, corrected by the Prince Louis Must-
Icon, and that his obstinacy in holding out against
warnings of the minister of police and communiques
of the 31oniteur, arose from this circumstance.
It is reported that a government journal is going
to be established on a scale equal to that of the
largest London papers. M. La Cluerroniere has been