The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

THI,RADAT EVENINO.
The .I(oeiteur announces to-day that by a decree of
the 3131 instant, issued upon the report of M. Fortoul,
Minister of Public Instruction, M. Villemain, profes-
sor of French eloquence at the Faculte des Lcttree de
Paris, and M. Cousin, professor of the history of
ancient philosophy at the same faculte, have been
admitted, upon their demand to, justify their rights
to a retiring pension. 'Phis is merely an official form
of announciug that those celebrated professors have
been deprived of their chairs because they decline to
take the oaths of fidelity to Louis Napoleon. The
designation of faculte des lettres do Paris is the new
jargon invented by the government since the coop
,t, tat. Before that event the professors of the college
de France and l'Ecole Nor/wile, were irremovable;
but the late decrees of public instruction have broken
down the independence of these institutions and
made a fusion of the same branches of various metro-
politan institutions under the name of faculties.
To-day have been distributed to the regiments of
artillery at Vincennes some howitzers, of which
trial has been made lately, executed on a model in-
vented by Louis Napoleon. These pieces are very
well made; they bear on the breech the entwined
cypher of LB. and, report adds, an imperial crown
above ; but this is possibly an exaggeration. To-day
a new engraved portrait of Louis Napoleon made its
appearance for the first time in the windows of the
print shops. The medallion enlosing the Prince's bust
is supported on one side by a cuirassier, and on the
other by an agricultural labourer. The bourgeoisie
may well be scared at a scutcheon resting on such sup-
porters; for the policy of the Elysee, long ago de-
scribed by M. de Persigny to Count Montalembert,
was to crush the middle classes between the army
and the peasantry.
The ephemeral reign of modern princes in Franco
must naturally tend to make those who are not blind
to the experience of the past or insensible to the
hazards of the future, cast about while they are in
power for a foreign asylum, where they may find re-
fuge when fallen, and devote a portion of their civil
list to the acquisition of property which the may en-
joy when they have no longer a complaisant senate
'to mama them with 12 millions a year. Thus it is
rumored that Louis Napoleon has purchased, for the
prime Alt 64,0001., a vast property, which belonged to
the Deauharnais family in Poland.
A few days ago a communicated note appeared in
the Mmiterr, to announce that none of the tickets
bleed for the ball of the 11th at the Ecole Militabre
would be admitted, and that a set of fresh tickets
of another mime would be distributed. It appears
that this in the arrangements for the ball
was ooeadma the disappearance et some 1,600
tickets tesa tko Tian where they were kept. No
end of gemtp
_is he circulation about this angular
Jobbery, MIMI was probably dictated by a pecuniary
spaelatko.
01811•16 OMB is charged, kr the department
tithe Bohm via a gado: skim to that whisk
MM. Quark agar" rasim4 and Cannibal
have emoted kr the dspartalak dlle Centre mai
bath. M. Myra is to verify the Meiers of the
implitated in the eveuts of December. A
14nr arugsnber of these still remain in the forts of
bayed Biostre; het by far the greater number of
lbw who VISO asould sad condemned for partied.
tka tassosis at Paris hays been already
to Africa.
A olowardested note in the Moositewr says:
t hie mom to the mostatim te
lieeeseiesmisa et the loos of Whew fon Pods
Cbw-
hmuj, hid *sea %Mow to Ossle. howner,
SSW imam the montion et them tue in, sad to
emionog fhb weeks, a hill ha jolt Dm NA hire the
KM bete, Irving too In shiest to open a opodlt of
=oases the leinetes et lift to Ito divided
the negotiate. The wens whirl will be
I
% tatea stateby lama et these merits will be
over to the mmiseetnising Ms cat-
ne=ls part of the orahvostft whit* win be allowed
to dom.
This** has pods's& a certain swamies at the
Beum, where,
_ I/omm" it was oomidered as a

" bearing • niancenvre.
We read in the Petrie:
time speculators for • fall have eadeaverenel to raise a
report that Ruda was radiate' by daily sake the Five per
Coat. Rests whisk she pareheeed la 1847. Redman tea
be mere Ise thee this statement; so sales of the WM
have tam Hesides, hew meld it be probable tint
Russia mead sell. even at 100 tr., Week whkh, with is-
tenet at lye per seat. sines the Stasi March, represented a
reimbursement valise of mere then ISO& We.
The awsefillutiestesei ear :
The pubis retinae le la rapid prognedea. The math
of March led presseted ea bmweeme- et eve Wilkes as com-
pared with the serrespeadien swath et lest year. It ap-
pears that the increase la April wee 1111 ret eoesiderabW
The Patric obtains a oommaameAM 110 t• st*
that the commander of the Ist military division can-
not gm invitations for the ball to the President of
the Republic to soy foreigners not mereareeuded by
their =hammer. The general-b-slibt ham issued a
similar notice.
It has been decided that the bands et the regi-
ments at Paris shall execute at the Chun Mars
on the 10th, M. A. Adam's meat, ailed the St.
Civil*. Yesterday, M. Adam had a eentweace with
General Marian, relative to the chaise et the other
pieces.
The Petri, of yesterday evening, says : 0, It is
positively stated that the &play ei Stomas which
was intended for the evening et the 10th will not
take place until the 12th."
Sixteen allkers of the 'Turkish army have arrived
in Perim to attend this fetes.
The prise at the Seias in to give a grand dinner
end ball next week at the 116 tel de Ville, in hawse
of the tiertalions et the army who arrive to receive
the se& es
__May, 10.
Themion dState, at a general meeting peter-
daif:tell al urgtititeviteliflrentieg a endit
. fte the i et the Seises% and
aka 11111 br =Meg 20.0 lam They aim %r-
-adiated the dim essiss of the MA Le asseaffas the
seas d " Lotman Ceimiaslie
The eath hes hem reseed by 31. Menet, the ex-
repromilative and 'member et the coonsilieneral of
the Memtbm IL de Beitivsiz as °nisi% oho has
sat is the same oessen-cosend fw the lest 22 year%
M. Fells Daehomolat,s/ the eesadliessral of the
Puy de Deem. IL de Chasdville, ea es-
ti.* weeibm dthe eouncil-peoral of
Lderismo adIL A. Osipia of the woo somil-
members d the icipal mama of
rasirastoLari Too
have signified to the ma inneyor their Metal
to take the ea&
Although Frame is still nominally a repnblie, it
z=b) le miloortlel es speak slightingly by and-
el the empire that is to come. The
mkt of the lie and Vilaine has given a