The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

[ST iLRCTRIC TILSOILAPII.]
(PROM OCR OWN COMIZIPONDIXT
PARIS, Tun DAT.
The Spanish Cortes are dissolved.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY Evsnitio.
The columns of the Muniteur are crowded with
tel hic despatches from the prefects announcing
in the hackneyed style the enthusiasm with which the
Im=stites of the empire has been received in the
At Havre the Bishop of Kentucky, who
17erieesliggei out of the steamer from America,
joked the direr who were marching in preemies
On n. I find nothing else is dime
meek notice.
ellMllipt. the minister of police, has appointed
the faliewise remnant committee to examine books,
pamphlets, and engravings, before they can be
allowed to be sold by hawkers.—MM. Latour-du-
de la Guerroniere, Baron do Jouvenel, De
Anoelot, Paul de Agaves, Firmiu Didot,
Bane Angier, Count Eugene de Montlaur, and Dr.
Maxims ernois. M. Paul Core is appointed secre-
tary to the commission.
The Emperor heard mass yesterday in the chapel
of the Tailenes.
In all the churches of the diocese of Paris the
Domino soleuni foe Imperalorens nostrum Napulemeene
was chanted yesterday, according to the form pre-
scribed in 1804 by the Holy See.
The Moniteur de I' :trove discloses an incident in
the history of the coup clew of Dec. 2, 1831, which,
I believe, is not generally known. It was supposed
that while the succoess of that adventurous step was
questionable, Louis Napoleon remained guarded in the
Palace of the Elyike. The military journal now
states that at the moment when the excitement of
Paris was at the highest pitch, the author of the
movement, knowing that in France it is expected
that the head of the state should, when necessary ex-
pose himself to danger, appeared on horseback before
the troops assembled oa the Place de la Concorde.
Several battalions then hoisted their slakes on the
points of their bayonets, and cried " Vire l'Empe.
reur !" "To the Tuileries." But Louis Napoleon,
determined to owe the crown to nothing but the spon-
taneous voice of the people, crossed the garden of
the palace, without so much as entering the royal
abo&, thus avoiding even the appearance of sove-
reignty.
Government inspectors have been sent to visit all
the schools under the spiritual jurisdiction of the
Bishop of Lugon, and if an infusion of legitimist
principles have been mingled with the instruction
given to the youth of this diocese, the fact will be
embodied in so official report.
The Prem.. in allusion to the extraordinary two-
neoti.in of Count de M. roy to the rank of Grand
Cross in the Legion of Honour, says that the iffeei-
leer justly observes that this is altogether an excep-
tional reward, inlomuch as it constitutes a radical
derogation from the statutes of the order. This fr.*
comment upon a personal act of the Emperor rira
suineo largely upon the liberal disposition toy.sects
,rho press which people hope, rather than believe,
is to be one of the consequences of Louis
Napoleon's having attained the summit of his
ambition. It is true that he his keenly felt the
worthlessness of that servile adulation which is
drily offered to him by the government prints, and
would delight in a little
.genuine approbation. Hence
tho lures held out to the independent journals, that, if
they will only be moderate a little liberty shall be
allowed them. It would be very agreeable to the
government if opposition papers could be trained to
confine their hostility within such bounds that the

.Aurnal (b. 'EmpL•e might always have the
best of the argument. But I fear that it they at-
tempt to go beyond sparring, and get to real blows,
there aill be no long-enduring tolerance for them'.
'rho question is, whi.ther the doings of those about
the court have been or are likely to be such that to
speak the truth concerning them would not be a
stinging libel. The Ntrie says in plain terms that
loyalty to the Emperor includes an abstinence from
opposition towards all those honoured by his confi-
dence. This maxim, if acted upon, as it doubtless

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