The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1852.

PRANCE.
OATII OF ALLEGIANCE TO LOUIS
NAPOLEON.

PARIS, SATORDAT EVIKINO.
The constitution is expected to appear on Monday.
For the present the idea of assaming the title of Em-
peror has been dropped. It is a fact, nevertheless, that
on Thursday night it was determined to push on for
the empire without drawing breath. More moderato
counsels have, however, prevailed since; find Louis
Napoleon will content himself for the present with
the title of President of the Republic. Others say
that ho will nesumo that of Prince-Regent of the
Republic. Ono of the difficulties which stand in
the way of tho President's proclamation of his title
as Emperor is obvious. Is ho to call himself Napo-
leon 11.. or Napoleon 111. ? If he assume the
former title, he ignores the imperial right of the
late Duke do Iteichstadt, and hence his own heredi-
tary claim. If ho assume the latter, he flies in the
face of the European cabinets, by ignoring the p-
vernments which were established in France under
their auspices and by their treaties. This embar-
rassing question is said to have reconciled Louis
Napoleon to the maintenance of his present title.
His civil list is to amount to 12 millions of francs.

I have now to announce to you a very important
fact, which will make an immense sensation through-
out France. The oath of allegiance to his person is
to be established for public functionaries of every
order. The elections to the corps legielatif have
been again changed from direct to indirect. At pre-
sent I hear that this chamber will be chosen in their
own body by 36,000 electors named by universal
suffrage. Owing to the changes which take place
daily in the determinations of the highest councils
it is impossible to announce anything as definitively
fixed before one sees the actual decree in the Mons-
ieur ; but these, I am assured from an excellent
source, are the latest resolutions of the President and
his most intimate advisers. It is reported that at
the same time with the constitution there will be
published a decree embodying the proposition of M.
Cretan, for the repeal of the laws of banishment
against the Bourbons.
I announced to you some time ago that a marriage
was on the lapis between the President and a Prin-
tees of Sweden. You willhavescen thisnowsconfirmed
in the German papers. The princess in question, a
descendant of Gustavus Vasa, King of Sweden, now
resides in Austria. She is about the President's age,
and passes for possessing a dowry of 100 millions.
lam now able to throw some light on the results
of M. do Persigny's visit to Brussels. The Belgian
government, I hear, has consented to the extradition
of the socialist representatives, but not to that of any
others who have taken refuge on the Belgian terri-
tory. The demolition of the fortresses will not be
granted.
I learn, this moment, that the Belgian ministry is
on the eve of dissolution, owing to a difference of
opinion between the members of the cabinet on the
subject of the demands of France. I have already de-
scribed in a previous letter what these demands were.
M.Rogier, President of the Council, vras of opinion that
the propositions brought by M. de Persigny ought
to be rejected as to the extradition of refugees, and
the imposition of severe restrictions on the press, as
well as with regard to the demolition of the for-
tresses. M. Teich differed with M. Rogier, and
thought that the socialist refugees ought tobe given
up ; and that it was desirable to curb the license of
the press. The King was greatly perplexed, but in-
clined to favour the opinion of M. Teach.
The Elyske, if I am rightly informed, is to be
restored to the family of Murat, in the person of
Prince Lucien Murat, son of Joachim. the former
King of Naples.
M. Kisseleff, the Russian charge d' affaires, was
the only foreign minister not present at the Te
Dews. He is confined to his house owing to a
wound in his foot. M. Kisseleff proposed to be
carried to Notre Dame in a litter, bat was dissuaded
from so doing by his physician. He was represented
by his chief secretary, Prince Kourakin.
Five judges of the Court of Caseation were absent
from the ceremony at Notre Dame.
On Monday the President will give • grand ban-
quet of .500 covers at the Tuileries to the delegates
sent from the departments to be present at the cere-
mony of his installation on the Ist of January.
Terrein do Laroque, a knight templar, who
has worn the ribbon of that order without molesta-
tion since 1834, has just been tried for illegally
wearing a decoration. His counsel urged in vain
that many ex-representatives, and among them M.
Clary, were knights templars, and habitually. wore
the decoration. The court held that the wearing of
any decoration not legally authorised was prohibited
by the code, and sentenced M. Lasagne to pay a
fine of 30 francs and the costs, excusing him only
from imprisonment upon the ground of the miti-
gating circumstances.
The proscription of the press in France has given
an extraordinary impulse to publication in Belgium,
where it is proposed to print a great number of pam-
phlets, which could not possibly, under present cir-
cumstances, issue from the press at Paris. The
speculators who have set this enterprise on foot under-
take to smuggle the pamphlets and journals so pub-
lished into France with as much certainty as Geneva
watches are brought clandestinely over the Swiss
frontier.

In the 23rd regiment of the line, garrisoned at
Meta, two sergeants have been arrested, and con-
ducted to the tort of Bitche. Two others have been
arrested and imprisoned at Mets. Two more have
fled; and two are broken. Similar facts are said to
have 'scarred in other corps garrisoned in the same
tows. All these arrests have arisen from the dia-
-1 esateet expreassit at the way in which the soldiers
were *bilged to vote.
The ifoniteur du Loiret announces the arrest at
Briars, on the 30th ult., of M. Dupin, commander of
the National Guard of that place, and cousin of the
ex-preeldent of the National Assembly.
The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has
fallen half a million in Paris, and nearly the same
amount in the provinces. The discount-accommoda-
tion has increased half a million in Paris, and about
two-and-a-half millions in the departments, the
amount of the former being 55,467,8701, and of the
latter 74,733,771 fr. The advances on French stock
have increased from twelve millions to fourteen
millions. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in
circulation have increased thirteen millions, whilst
in the departments they remain nearly as they were.
The account current of the treasury has declined &e-
ared-a-half millions, the present amount being
52,188,125 fr. Ordinary accounts-current have in-
creased three quarters of a million in Paris, and one
million in the branch banks, the amount of the
former being 117,271,670 fr., and of the latter
30,296,482 fr. The whole amount of the metallic re-
serve, at present. is 3771 millions, to 6041 millions
of notes in circulation.

The adjudication of the Lyons to Avignon Rail-
way took place this day, at the hotel of the Minister
of Public Works, in the Rue St. Dominique St. Ger-
main. Two tenders only were presented—from the
company of Seguin, Reuther., and from that of the
Forgo Masters. The former offered to reduce the
subvention of 60,000,000 f., which the state was to
grant, by a sum of 10,051,000 E, and the latter by
11,000,000 E In consequence the Lyons to Avignon
line was declared to be duly adjudicated to the com-
pany of the Forge Masters, otherwise the former
company Talabot.

The awastitsotionsel says :—" The Russian minister
at Paris has handed to 111. de Turgot, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, an autograph letter of the Czar ad-
dressed to Prince Louis Napoleon, in which the Em-
pia. of Russia congratulates the President of the
Republic on having served the cause of civilisation
by the great act of the 2nd December."
At the Bourse, the Five per Cents. rase 60c., and
closed at 104.60 ; the Three per Cents. rose 1 fr.,
closing at 71.40. Railways were well supported.
Orleans roes 22.00. Rouen, 20 fr.
SUNDAY EVXWINO.
The Pays contains a remarkable article by M. do
la Guerronniere in which we receive the first inti-
mation that Louis Napoleon intends to dispense with
the usual official notification to foreign courts of his
re-election, as a step below the dignity of France.
The President intends to let the result of the elec-
tion of December 20 and 21, be communicated by the
ordinary channels of diplomacy. Whenever a revo-
lution has occurred in France tt has been usual to
make the same accepted by foreign courts in a
mode humiliating to the nation. -Louis Napoleon
might have employed either extraordinary and spo-

vial envoys to announce his re-clection, or the am-
bassadore already accredited at foreign courts. The
meet dignified course he can take is to do neither.
" This," says the Pays," has nothing menacing for
foreign governments. But it is well to show to
Europe that if the new power counts upon the
friendship and loyalty of European cabinets, it counts
before all upon itself ; and its confidence in the re-
spect of treaties and in the sincerity of alliances of d
or new is only the confidence of stiength."
The following decree appears to-day in the Muni.
tear:
I. Coin. of gold, silver 'and copper shall bear on their
lace the effigy of the l'resident of the lit public, with the
inscription " Louis Napoleon Bonaparte." On the reverse
shall be graven the wards " Republique Francaise," and in
the middle of a wreath of oak and laurel leaves the value of
the piece and the year of its coinage. 2. The edge of
pieces of 20 francs and 6 francs shall bear these words in
relief, Dieu protege la France." 3. With regard to the
weight and alloy of coins, the provisions of the decree of
I May 3, 1848, are maintained.
The llfonitear Parisien contains an article in
favour of re-establishing the titles and orders of
hereditary nobility.
Two fresh battalions of chasseurs de Vincennes
are to be raised, and organised under the orders of
General Forey.
On Friday night the police effected a great many
important captures, chiefly of persons affiliated to
secret societies, who exercised an influence on the
events of February. Among others, one Barbaste,
the comrade of the notorious Farah', was arrested.
One of the prisoners attempted in the Rue de Harley
to make his escape, but wan shot down by his escort,
and so badly wounded that he is not expected to
live.

The municipal council of Le Puys, capital of the
Haute Loire, havieg refused to appoint a delegate to
the ceremony of Louis Napoleon's installation, on
New Year's-day, has been dissolved. M. St. Ferriol,
one of the six Montagnard representatives of the
department, has been arrested.
The municipal councils of Briondo and Langone,
towns in the Haute Loire, have been also dissolved;
and at the latter place the national guard has been
suspended and disarmed.
The constitution will be published in the Monitebsr
of to-morrow. It is at this moment printing at the
Imprimerie Nationale; and the strictest precautions
are taken to prevent the leaking of surreptitious
proofs. Unless some important change should be re-
solved at the last moment, I understand that the
promulgation of the new charter to-morrow may be
regarded as certain.
You will observe that in the above decree for the
coinage Louis Napoleon does not assume any quali-
fication whatever. The suppression of his official
designation as President of the Republic is regarded
as a highly significant fact. The old title is thrown
off like an old coat, previous to assuming the impe-
rial purple.
M. 'froplong, first President of the Court of Ap-
peal, has declared to his brother judges that the pre-
sidency of the senate had been offered to him but
that he had declined the office, saying that he wished
to remain a lawyer, and to stand aloof from political
life. M. Barocho was, 1 hear, greatly chagrined
that this distinguished poet, which he had marked
out for himself, should have been offered beforehand
to M. Troplong. But the vice-president of the Con-
sultative Commission is not expected to entertain
any scruples on this account should the presidency
of the senate be offered to him, as is highly probable.
Whatever may be the organisation of the legisla-
tive body in the forthcoming constitution, it is cer-
tain that its power must be virtually null; for
whenever it opposes the will of the President he has
only to appeal to a plebiscite to set aside its deci-
sions ; and seven millions of French adults will be
ready to drown the voice of the parliament, and arm
the executive with the means of its destruction.

The ball of the Hotel do Ville last night was a
very dull affair. The President was not there. The
members or the diplomatic corps appeared for a short
time and retired. Very few ladies of distinction
were present. The failure of the soirée is partly
attributed to the impending retirement of M. Ber-
ger, which is now certain.
On l)ec. 30, a court-martial at Lyons, of which
Colonel Ambort, of the 2nd dragoons, was president,
condemned the following individuals to death for
rebellion against the public force: MM. Garay, pro-
prietor, ex-assistant to the Mayor of Lyons ; Rome-
gon, proprietor; Julien, farmer; and Houstain, pro-
prietor. I have not heard whether the sentence has
been executed or not. The same court-martial
sen-
tenced a garde champetre, named Astier, to 20 years'
hard labour, as an accomplice, for having given an
asylum to 1101140 of the other prisoners, who had fired
upon the gendarmes.
The CeneNtaionttel says that the companies that
have long been in treaty for the concession of the
railway from Paris to Lyons have come to an under-
standing among themselves, and have agreed to
the terms proposed by the Minister of Public
Works. The concession of this important line may
therefore be expected speedily to follow that of the
Lyons and Avignon. Many people are now sanguine
enough to hope that the whole line from the British
Channel to the Mediterranean will be open within
four years.
Besides Dupin, four magistrates of the Court of
Caseation were not present at the 7b Dews at Notre
Dame. These were MM. Hardonin, Pataille, Mo-
reau, and Itenouard, all of whom were judges of the
High Court of Justice on tho 2nd, and the last, pre-
sident of the tribunal which then pronounced the
decheance of the President. The two other judges,
who completed the High Court, have made their peace
with the Prince, whom they condemned as an usurper,
and attended the ceremony of his installation. Five
or six legitimist judges of the Court of Appeal also
abstained from the solemnity. It was observed that
no judicial corps joined in the acclamations at the
conclusion of the service. The absence of M. Cousin,
the celebrated philosopher,. was generally. remarked:
As a member of the superior council of instruction,
his attendance was looked for, and greatly missed
by the new court. This remarkable abstention is I
attributed to M. Cousin's dissatisfaction at the sup-
pression of the chair of philosophy at the Ecole Nor-
male ; which is regarded as a preliminary to the ex-
tinction of philosophic teaching in all the colleges.
I understand that Xing Leopold, in his interview
with M. de Persigny, explained that it was only pos-
sible for him to expel such of the French re-
fugees from Belgium as had been condemned
by justice for some offence ; but that he could
not regard the democratic members of the late
assembly as falling under this category. M.
Felix Pyat, upon whom sentence was pealed by the
High Court, Leopold was ready to regard in this
light, and, as a criminal condemned by the tribunals
of his country, to expel from Belgium. M. de Per-
signy has returned to Brussels, on his way to Berlin,
and has had fresh conferences with the Belgian Bing
and ministers relative to this and other subjects of
negotiation. Dronyn de rHuys has set out upon his
=salon to one of the great northern courts.
It is reported that liberty has been offered to the
prisoners at Ham, upon condition of their quitting
Prance, and not residing in Belgium.
A "communicated" article in the Masitesr states

a false report has been spread, to the effect that the
recent importations of gold into licence have occa-
sioned corresponding exports of silver. To contra-
dict this allegation it publishes the following custom-
house returns from Jan. 1 to Deo. 20,1861 :

OOLD. OILTI2. TOTAL.
Frame. Francs. Priam
Imports
Exports
Exam of imports
as conspired with
exports 101,699,500 83,943,200 185,642,700

According to this table, silver, so far from dimi-
nishing, has increased in France within the above
period to the extent of 83,943,200 fr.

REDUCTION OF SHIP DUTY AT HAMBURO.—A
meeting of the burghers took place here on the 29th De-
cember, when it was proposed that the ablp-duty upon all
vessels unloading in the port of Hamburg should be re-
duced to Os. and 4s. per 6,0001b5. This would reduce the
duty to the sum now levied in the Altona port, where, con-
sequently, an immense number of vessels go to unload their
burdens and take in fresh cargoes. According to the pre-
sent number of ships which now come to unload here, this
city would probably lose about 150,000 marks a year. But,
the experience of the preference given to Altona, induces
the expectation that, considering the peculiar advantages of
our harbour, the revenue of the city will not suffer any de-
triment, but will in all likelihood be considerably increased
by the proposed reduction.
RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER ?111 VISTULA.—The Rus-
sian government au taking contracts for iron in the English
markets for the construction of the Vistula and other royal

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dec. 28.
The Gaulle publishes a Royal decree, ordering
the construction, at the public expense, of a railroad
between Antiques and Almansa. The works are to
be put up to public auction. The government will
create the number of shares necessary for the execu-
tion of the enterprise, at 6 per cent. interest, and I
per cent. for a sinking fund, and issue them by de-
grees when required fur the payment of the works
executed.

The following is an extract from the budget of
l 852:

BUDGET OP ZIPZNSTA.

Royal Palace
Legislative body
Presidency of the Council of Ministers
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 10,114,204
Ditto Orate and Julia* 38,826,369
Ditto of War 280,167,776
Ditto Marine 86,150,570
Ditto Interior
Ditto Foamed, 57,616,901
Ditto Fames
Arrears of salaries sal asterai 31,807,1191
Eapenees of justice 169,642,673
budget of the clergy

Rods ~043,4 A
Extraordinary credits
16,708,000
Honors or Maestri'.

Direct contribuiicins-- - ----
---
407,349,189
Indirect do.
Customs
Fanned taxa (telseese, reit, ile.)
Lotteries
Tetentry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 597,800
Do. Grace and Justice
Do. Interior 28,536,768
Do. Fomento
Do. War
Do. Marine
.

Revenue from Ursa ass

Rea

The amount of reproductive expenditure to 171,671,051

The vacancy in the Order of the Golden Fleece
caused by the death of the Prince of Peace, has been
filled up by the appointment of the Marquis de Al-
eanices, grand major-domo of the king.
The progresiata deputies are about to hold
a meeting to protest against the publication of
the tariff, without its having previously been sub-
mitted to the consideration of the chambers. A Cata-
lonian deputy has resigned his scat. General Aupick
yesterday gave a grand banquet to all those who had
taken part in the preparation of the literary treaty
between France and Spain. M. Baroche, junior,
leaves for Paris to-day, to submit to his government
some trifling modification in the treaty.

Dtc. 30.

General Espartero has written a letter of congra-
tulation to the Queen upon the birth of the Princess
Royal. It is not true that the garrison of Madrid
was under arms on the night of the 27th. It is said
that Lord Bowden will leave Madrid should the
news of Lord Palmerston 's retirement be confirmed.
It is not yet known whether the minister will sum-
mons the tortes to obtain its authorisation to collect
the taxes.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

TURIN, Dec. 30.
The Pitchnonteac Gazette publishes the law recently
passed, authorising the government to collect the
I taxes for the month of January, ltis2.
The Senate has adopted the Military Conscription
Bill by 43 to 10. The Chamber of Deputies, after a
short debate, has adjourned to the 2nd inst. the dis-
cussion on the treaty of commerce with Austria.
The Risorgimento thus remarks on the recent
ministerial change in England:
Lord Granville will continue the mission of his prede-
cessor, at the same time that he will avoid all acts calculated
to wound the susceptibility of other governments. Lord
Granville and all the ministry will persist in that liberal
and progressive course which reconciled to England the
sympathy of all civilised nations, and constitutes the prin-
cipal basis of that moral authority and political influence
she exercises on the Continent. The acceptation of Lord
Palmerston's resignation can have no other importance, no
other political signification, than this : The English govern-
ment has proved that it considered it necessary above all to
live in good harmony with the other governments of Europe.
It consequently consented to • personal sacrifice, in order
to remove, with the person of that minister, all pretest of
incessant vexation.

JAN. I.

The Gazette publishes the treaty of commerce and
navigation between Sardinia and PortugaL
GENOA, Dec. 31.
Baron Alphonse do Rothschild has arrived here
from Marseilles.

GERMANY.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Jan. 2, an-
nounces that the Emperor has abolished the funda-
mental rights sane Pined by the constitution of
March 4, 1848. The institution of juries is also abo-
lished. The Imperial decrees enacting these mea-
sures are accompanied by others, in which the founda-
tions of the future organisation of the State are
defined. The Constitution is to be altered in a con-
servative sense, and with due consideration for all
preponderating interests. A civil and penal code
will be gradually introduced into the Crown lands.
The district functionaries and governments will
appoint committees of conservation, selected from
Imembers of the landed proprietary and the commer-
cial classes.

The same authograph letter in which the Emperor
accepts the resignation by. M. Krause of the post of
Minister of Finance, nominates him a member of the
Council of the Empire, and confers upon him the
Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold.
The senate of the free town of Bremen convoked
the burgesses on the 30th ult., for a secret sitting, in-
tending to propose substantial modifications in the
civic constitution. The burgesses assembled, but re- I
fused to deliberate and vote with closed doors,where-
upon the senate accepted this decision as rejection of
their proposals, and the meeting broke up without
result. Brunswick has joined the number of the
states that have entered into engagements for the
reciprocal extradition of offenders. The Duke of
Nassau has issued a proclamation against all societies
formed for the purpose of influencing public opinion,
unless such shall have been authorised by the v•
vernment. M. Lex is the new premier. M. Faber
the minister of the interior in Nassau. The Thurin-
gian states of the Zollvcrein have declined to send a
delegate to the Vienna customs conference.
The Leipsie Gazette of the 20th ult. states, from
Berlin, that the ministers have agreed to propose
certain modifications of the Prussian constitution to
chambers under form of a bill. The plan is to
maintain the chambers, but to reduce their powers
to those of the states.