The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1852.

Art. L The pettarty, isereable sad isemoviable, "Ada
is the of the diemednimiede ea Aug. 7,1880, by Lag
Loan b settend W the dame' of the gets.
'Arts!. esssenthehe wish the payment of
the delft 6111 eivil liC
' of Art. 11,t &weer of 'Bowed to the Duthie.
Art. 4. T to et by virtue if
A. 1 will ha ia et the donnas,
sad delimited' 0,
Art. b. Sea wain. DS to the seneties of tu-
tu] assietanoe eatheried bry the keret 1212, July, 1850.
Art. 6.—Tsa nhileas win be legisi Is lie ameliora-
tion of the dweilMes of the lel Wee =tourer).
Wing towns.
Art. 7. Ten =Moss will be aliened for the establish-
ment of institutions of ortidit J 44446, r the departments
which may ask for this nesene, awl esbnlt to the condi•
Lions judged necessary.
Art. e Five millions will sieve hir the establishment of
a retiring fund for the relief of the resent numbers of the
priesthood.
Art. 9. Tbs moles of tie prepselg dowited in Art. I
shall be eddied to the endowment el the Laths of Honour
ia order that its resswes way be espied te the following
so, is ere et lee b deg iswellelest, recourse
rzttika,.6. rewires. .1 the budget.
Art. 10. Ivory sneer, sab.diesr, et seldisr, in active
service, en sibs sea or land, wbe may hasoefurth be
named or promoted in the national Order ef the I.
....„11f
Honour, shall receive, according to his reek hit
the following annual allocation :—The legfinarires (es
tofore), 200 francs ; officers, 600 francs; ossememdses, 1,000
francs; grand officers, 2,000 francs ; greed meow 3,000
francs.

Art. 11. There shall be created a military medal which
will bestow <ha right of en annual endowment of 100
francs, upon such *radian and sub-ofßcers in the sea or land
service as may be placed in the conditions which shall be
defined by an ulterior regulation.
Art. 12. A national chateau will serve as au educational
establishment for the daughters and indigent orphans of
such families, tho heads of which may have obtained this
medal.

Art. 12. The chateau of Severna will be restored and
completed to serve as an asylum for the widows of the
high civil and military functionaries who may have died in
the service of the state.

Art. 13. In consideration of these presents the President
of the Republic renounces all reclamation wit► respect to the
confiscation decreed In 1814 and 1816 against the Bona-
parte family.
Art. 14. rho ministers arc charged, inasmuch es concerns
each of them respectively, with the esecution of the present
decree.

Given at the Palace of the TaUeries this 22nd January,
1842. Lowe NAPOLEON.
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By the President, ____...
The Itlinistcr of State, X DI CABARIANCA.
The appointment of M. Casablanca to the ministry
of state is a merely temporary arrangement, as M.
do Persigny is destined to till that dace later.

PARIS, FAIDAT ETZNINO.
I understand that General St. Arnaud gave in his
resignation of the portfolio of war on Wednesday
evening, and was greatly offended to find that the
decree accepting it had net appeared in the Mondestr
of to-day ; but I hear that it will be published in
that or to-morrow, with the date of the 21st attached,
in order to show that he has had nothing to do with
the decrees of confiscation. M. Magne, Minister of
Public Works, had also given in his resignation. Inflict
the department of public works, which he holds, is
suppressed, u I believe I already told you. l)rouyii
de IHuys is, I hear, to be installed to-morrow in the
ministry of foreign affairs, in the place of Count Tur-
got, who is to go to Madrid as ambassador. M. Le-
febre-Durufie, :Minister of Commerce; M. Fortoul,
Minister of Public Instruction; and M. Magne, are
to be made councillors of state, and thus compensated
for the suppression of their ministries. As for M.
Itouber, it was to be wished that his retirement from
the ministry of justice were dictated by conscientious
and disinterested sentiments; but, as I understand
that he is to be promoted to the lucrative post of
vice-president of the council of state, one can give
him credit for neither. M. Baroche, who expected
the latter post, is greatly chagrined.
I shall not attempt to paint to you the consterna-
tion produced throughout society at Paris by the de-
crees which have appeared this morning in the ifu-
sitettr, and which at the present moment arc being
read eagerly by crowded groups from the placards
posted in every part of the capital. I prefer to give
you briefly and dispassionately such information as
is essential for the full comprehension of the mea-
sures taken for the ruin of the house of Orleans.
Louis Napoleon, who justified the coup detat of Dec.
2 by the necessity of saving society, from the spoliation
of socialism, has not only committed an actof spoliation
from which the apostles of socialism, Ledru-Itollin and
Louis Blanc shrunk when they held the reins of power,
but he has given to this robbery a colour completely
in harmony with socialist doctrines. People feared
the socialists precisely because the latter contem-
plated the endowment of national institutions from
the confiscation of property. But in the present in-
stance the flotation of charities is merely a vulgar
and hypocritical mask for declining the odium of an
implacable confiscation. You will observe that there
are two separate decrees upon this subject.
The first, under pretence of a regard for
the public safety, obliges the Orleans family
to sell all their real and personal property in
France within • year from the date of the
present decree. The second decree annuls the
settlement made by Louis Philippe upon his family. of
all his property, a few days previous to his accession
to the French throne, and annexes all that property
to the domain of the state, Now there are three
descriptions of property belonging to the Orleans
family:-1. The property left to the princes by their
aunt, Madame Adelaide, the king's sister, amounting,
I believe, to about 20 millions; and the property of
the Duke de Bourbon, inherited by the Duke
d'Aumale, rated at 40 millions. 2. The private do-
main of Louis Philippe, which he made over
to his family on the 7th of August, 1830.
3. The propertywhich the king bought and annexed
to his private domain during his reign. At first it
would appear that, since the second description of
property alone reverts to the state, a considerable
amount would still remain ir, the possession of this
family. But I shall presently show you that, so far
from 100 millions remaining, as is stated in the 2nd
decree, in the hands of the princes of the younger
branch, their total ruin will be effected by these de-
crees. In fact you are aware that in February,
1830, a loan of twenty millions was contracted by
Louis Phillips, in order to pay the debts which he
had contracted as king, such as the sums duo for
the improvement and repairs of the royal chateau,
for the works of artists, and other objects. This
loan was secured by mortgage on the property given
by the king to his children on August 7th, 1830,
which is now confiscated to the state. Hence the
creditors will entirely lose their guarantee, as the
state only undertakes to pay the debts of the
civil list, and not of the private domain. Of course
the Orleans princes will be bound in honour to sa-
tisfy those creditors as to their principal and arrears
of interest out of the sale of the property which is
indicated in the first decree. Observe that this loan
of 20 millions was contracted with the sanction of
Louis Napoleon's own government, and the name of
M. Fould, his own minister of finance, figures among
the signatures of the deed. Thus the government
destroystheguarantee of a loan in which it played the
part ofone of thecontracting parties. The property of the
Orleans family is rated in the decree at 300 millions.
This is universally recognised aa a great exaggera-
tion. The brute revenue of the private domain left
in 1830 by Louis Philippe to his family was 130 mil-
lions. But the greater part of the property consists
of forests, the maintenance and exploitation of
which costs so much that the net revenue only
amounts to two or three millions, and this sum has
to be divided between nine persons. Since the death
of the king all the proceeds of the estate have trosol
to the creditors, and the princes have lived chiefly
upon the dowry of the queen. The portion
which will remain to the family after the confisca-
tion of the property settled in 1830 will be the pro-
' nerty left by Madame Adelaide, the property of the
Due d'Aumale, and the property bought by the king
, and annexed to the private domain during his
reign. Deduct from this the debts of the
family, and it is calculated that not more
than twenty-five millions will remain. The chief do-
mains and chateaux belonging to the Orleans family
are Eu, La Ferte Vidal, in the Eure-et-Loire ; Ant.
!poise, in the Indre-et-Loire ; Bisy-Vernon, Dreux,
La Fore, in the Aisne; Corbeil St. Gildas, St.
Dialer, in the Haute-Marne; Arc Chateau-Vilaine,
Aumale, Tournau, Bretcuil. The confiscation will
inflict a grave loss upon 'several foreign princes.
Thus the King of the Belgians is deprived of the
magnificent chateau and domain of Asiboise settled
as a dowry upon the Princess Louisa of Orleans
when she became the Queen of the Belgians. The
Prince Augustus of Saxe-Cobourg married to
I the Princess Clementine, will lose the Chateau Bice,
the forest of Vernon, the forest of Mercy, the wood
of Epied, and other estates. The Infanta Louisa
Fcrnanda of Spain will lose the domain of Anna-
villiers, in the Moe-et-Marne, settled on the Duke

at . The Prince Philip of Wurtemberg,l
son of "A
liaTior
eons Marie, of Orleans, will be de-
pnved o the domains of Ivry, Roseux, and St.
Hence, I ma not surprised to hear that the
trairrepresentatives of Spain, Belgium, Saxe-Cobourg,
and X urtemberg have held to-day a conference, in
which the harshest terms were applied to the decrees
which have appeared this morning. I need hardly
speak of the number of persons who receive at pre-
sent pensions and aid from the Orleans family, who
will be beggared by the decrees in question.
The considerations with which the decrees of to-day
are accompanied bear on their surface a consciousness
of the injustice of the act which they pretend to justify.,
But supposing that the confiscation were perfectly
just, what is the use of those new bodies, the senate
and the council of state, if they are neither to be
consulted as to the legality of the measure, nor as to
the application of the property which thus reverts to
the state. To dispose arbitrarily of 200 millions of
francs beloiging to the state, after framing a constitu-
tion, with great deliberative bodies, whose business
it is to manage the affairs of the state, is an act com-
pared
with which the assumption of the title of em-1
peror would be a trifle.
The installation of M. do Maupas in the ministry
of police is viewed, I may say, with terror. It is ex-
pected that some act of violence will be exercised to-
wards the correspondents of foreign journals.
I hear, at this moment, that M. earlier is to be
struck by a decree of exile. The motive
of this sentence is not quite clear. Some say
that' the ministry of police was offered to
Curlier, before M. Nlaupas, and that the former did
not like to incur the responsibility of the decree of
confiscation. The President is then reported to'
have said, " Ile who is not with me is against me."
But it seems that M. de Maupas has long harboured
a secret jealousy of Curlier, in consequence of the latter
still meddling with matters of police, and keeping
his old acquaintance with certain subordinate
officials. In fact, it is said, that the present minister
of police accused M. Curlier of exercising a sort of
counter police against him, and has taken advantage
of his present powerful position to procure his
expulsion.
The 3foniteur publishes a decree of the President
of the Republic, appointing the chefs de battalion of
sixteen battalions of the National Guards of Paris ;
the same number of captain-adjutant-majors and the
captains of the respective companies.
Another decree raises to the grade of Officer in the
Legion of Honour M. Chevreau, Prefect of the
Ardelche ; M. de Prcissac, Prefect of the Lot-et-
Garonne; M. Combes-Sieves, Prefect of the Pas-de-
Calais; and M. Charles Lucas, Inspector-General of
Prisons. 'I here are also several nominations of sub-
prefects as Chevaliers of the Order.
It is reported that the companies of insurance will
be absorbed into the state.

The following striking anecdote has been told of
M. de Persigny. When he was under the surveil-
lance of the police at Versailles, in consequence of
his participation of the affair of Strasbourg, it was
proposed on the occasion of the Duc d'Aumale's mar-
riage to include him in the amnesty granted upon
that occasion. But M. Finlin, as he was then called,
refused the proffered grace. saying that he felt per-
fectly convinced that the principles which be advo-
cated must one day triumph, and the party which he
served come into power. He did not, therefore, wish
to tie his hands in case of such an eventuality by re-
ceiving a favour from the house of Orleans.
A leading article in the Pattie, headed " Tho
Drawing-rooms of Paris," contains a sentence which
has mused considerable sensation. After stigma-
tising in severe language the disposition to carp at
the government manifested in the higher orders of
Parisian society, it says that the President having
put down socialism, they have no longer any fears
from it, and concludes with these words: "These
men are incorrigible. They will not believe in the
reign of terror till they shall have one foot upon the
scaffold." The expression is ambiguous enough, but
it has certainly excited an uneasy feeling.
The Bourse, contrary to general expectation, has
kept up; but I have already told you of the species
of intimidation which is exercised against the agene-
de-change, and the menace to double their number.
Several arrests were made to-day at the Bourse of
people who were accused of spreading false news.
They were conducted to the prefecture of police.
At the Bourse the 3 per Cents. rose 30c., closing at
103 fr.; the 3 per Cents. rose lfr., and closed at
Mfr. 23e. Bank of France shares fell 5.3 e. Little
business was done in railway shares. Rouen fell
10fr., and most of the other lines fell to a less extent.