The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 23, 1852.

FRANCE.

(IT BLECTZIC

PARIS, TORADAY.
VOTES ON TILE QUESTION OF TILE EMPIRE.
Department of the Seine, Yes, 206,615 ; No, 63,617.
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PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains the following description
of the voting in Paris yesterday :
The ballot was opened this morning in all quarters of
Paris. In spite of very unfavourable weather, and a heavy
fall of rain in the middle of the day a very large number of
electors hastened to fulfil their civets duties. For the rest
the whole day passed in the most complete calm, and no.
where, either to the sections or the mairiee, were any
extraordinary measures taken. According to the in-
telligence which hen reached us the inhabitants
of the faubourgs went to vote in considerable numbers; in
the banlieue the people voted en mass*. The spirit of the
entire population as escrellent. Everything leads to the hope
that to-morrow (Monday( the result wall be am goal as on
Sunday. To give an idea of the eagerness of the electors of
Paris to vote, it will stake to say that about 106,000 elector@
have taken pert in the vote of the first day—that is to may,
more than hOll the number of electors. The electors of
&eau: and St. Denis, whose eagerness is remarkable. are
not comprised in this number. In the banlieue the enthu-
siasm is g L Entire communes vote with banners un-
furled.

The Pays says:
In the COWIN of the day we visited nearly all the polling-
booths of the capital. Every where we observed the utmost
eagerness on the p ire of the electors. We mixed with the
grasps. and we bad an opportunity of seeing that the people
fully understood the grandeur of the sovereignty which
they were accomplishing, and looked with vast hopes to
the result. They discuem-d the subject calmly and with
liberty, and we were able to ascertain the system of absten-
tion so strongly recommended by some remnants of ancient
parties bad no when found disciples.
These official accounts of the upect of the polling-
booths differ so widely from the result of my perso-
nal observation communicated to you yesterday, that
I am glad to fortify the accuracy of my own impres-
sions, by an extract from the independent journal,
the Press., which says:
We have just visited the different electoral bathos of
Paris, and the greater part of the polling-rooms; and, as
faithful historians, we meat state that this first voting day
has bees cold. The electors have shown but moderate seal
in the accomplishment of their duties. The eavitins, as well
as the interior of the polling-rooms presented an appearance
far from animated. The Parisian elector has an inveterate
habit of waiting till the last moment before be gives his
vote, and therefore th, re fa little reason to be surprised at
the indifference which we notice as the characteristic of
this first day.
In allusion to the working men's proclamations, of
which I spoke yesterday, the Prase ironically mays:
Some proclamations signed by operatives made their ap-
pearance side by mile with the official proclamations. The
profusion with which they were placarded seems to prove
either that their authors do not mind expense, or that they
must be animated with very intense political feeling.
The government journals assert, however, that
more than half the registered electors of Paris voted
yesterday, and it is a singular tact that according to
returns given in the Pays as neorly as possible half
the electors, neither more nor less, voted in each of
the twelve arrondissements of Paris. These are the
figures:
Arrondisse- Registered Voted.'
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1
2
3
4
6
6
7
8
9 .. 10,647
10
U.
12

212,824 108,221
But what is more curious still, 37 telegraphic de-
spatches from the prefects of various departments are
published in the Moniteur, and nearly all of these
either state in terms that about half the voters
polled on the first day, or giro figures showing
the same result. The Defoete drily chronicles this
fact, and is evidently struck with its singularity.
That in upwards of *0 districts, comprising an infi-
nite variety of political opinions, subjected to differ-
ent degrees of influence whether by persuasion or
intimidation, and where the disparity of the diffi-
culties in the way of men repairing to a given place
on a given day, must necessarily be very great, this
wonderful uniformity of result is indeed enough to
startle a calculator of probabilities. But it would be
affectation to conceal the fact that nobody believes in
the accuracy of the official returns.

The iles;itisir contains 37 despatches from the
departments, mat of these say that half the electors
have already voted.
The weather was everywhtse bad. Heavy rain
in Paris this morning.
The votes of the army of Paris are :—Yes, 20,077 ;
No, 3.53. _ _

PARIS, SUNDAY BUNNING.
A enpplemeatal edit of 161,700 f. has been given
to the Miaieter of Page be additiocal expenditure
in the pubes depedemet at Lyons.
A eirmidag esse 1 aesessination has jest occurred
in the Rem hL J. Leooq de Ilareelay, a
maritime insunambiallt. of Nantes, yin, to a
good family ia Brltsieff. mired in Paris a sew days
Mice with his @Wert
_Maims Jan Fialy and leak
lodgings at 31, Rae Theist. Oa th:oustblostre
the fatal occurrence, M. de Ibreelay of
an uneasy feeling et ids head. His gym, with
whom he lived upon the most Isms,
nursed shim, and thinking his ilium have
mimes from an unwholesome breading, she swigged •
sap of chocolate for him at eight In the
morning. The concierge went into the aappaarraa
meats at that hoar, mid found
Addy lying deed apes the deer. Her brother had
killed bee with a sword, aid had given himself
gsvegal dowses winds be the Ghost with the name
sempea. Ha !mind kil by bee side in
week Mao, eelwas
eggerentlyan gseginging. On losing
gssetioned he mid that be hod 1101s1 her, aaa
bis iftne te likansH, bi arks tie agape a teed-
eehish Wbias plesemeeed spinet all
the mgmlime et his hemimable hmily, whisk jade-
meat hail pima time his beak" to the Minister
of laud's. Those see be wheat that the unhappy
man is fa a Mate st

ITALY.
TUSCANY.
FLOILINCB. Nov. 11.
The Grand Duke braves it oat. lie affects to de-
spise the eseeratios of Buxom and ceases it to be
understood that the impeisoament of the Madill is
but a slight foretell* of the seal which he is pre-
ps:ad to exhibit es a true eon of the church. Re has
been heard to say, " I will root eat heresy from my
dominion, though I should be regarded as the
bloodiest tyrant known to history.'
I have sew to mamma the sweeping expulsion of
the lasebord, Rai, and Neapolitan refugees.
About ase thin& ivitiliattf=ly, If at
astogemaimi fa
te of their
own anima, or they woo met have hem permitted
by Austria to main ben hem ISO to the prig
time, have remised as MIR to quit Tommy width
live days. lisme them are am et it had
fortune, when a pen Wild to that et their
fallow-oonatrymem hes boa of late the aid sup-
port of the regik Assaying trade of Floramo. An
expenditure of at host 100,000 i. per annuls will be
las to Tommy by Ms measure. The refuges* will,of course, proceed toPiedniont, now the only asylum
in Italy of constitutional liberty ; but their
position even there can hardly be said to
be snared, and you may judge, therefor% et
the anxiety felt, and the prayers that are offered here
by all Italian patriots, for the assess of the ministry
of Oast Cavoor—the thst /masses of Italy—an
ideas ditty st amiss. a warm admirer ot
institios, and a &hod et free trade. The
appointment at Turin of a Caviar ministry has
L7LpyWeinlii cad
tte,hr:stiorn it, basaideVebil Fren art
ch and
A bilis% will be anserupaloaaly need.
Against than we trait Tube M =listed the commer-
cial Mai of Enema, set the liberal sympathies
of English stateless. port of Genre, is still
open to English trade. That of Leghorn
will soma be ahead, by the aceessiaa of
Tummy to the aAlliffilla coousaudal league. We
are witoushe a yid arrival of the spirit of the
Ili de m% and I look not shall me, ere long,
es =so te asele, to shut op the Conti-
_Angier, and enforce an
=
Will blest. stele shipping. It may be
well to bear is id that seek an attempt will pro-
bably be proemial sr /snowed by as imitation ‘the
Napoleon presethat, of amides mination of Eng-

fish property, and an arrest of all English travellers.
Should such a step be resolved upon no
warning will be given, beyond police in-
timation' that our presence is not wanted,
and of this kind of warning in the Austrian states, at
least, English tourists have already had more than
enough. Tuscany, which may now ho regarded as
Austrian, is already becoming almost as intolerable as
a prison for the residence of English families. They
live under the strictest eurreilautee, and those who
had children at school have been obliged to withdraw
them from the inquisitorial and rigid precautions
adlp.ted to prevent the inculcation of any principles
not in harmony with those of Rome.
A short time back some hope was entertained of a
misunderstanding hetweeu Rome and the Grand
Duke on a question of private interest. He was
about to appropriate to himself the revenues arising
from the valuable woods of Camald.iii, belonging to
the state t but the church interfered us a rival chiim-
ant.. This property was formerly attached to the
Cathedral of Florence, but had been made over to a
couvent of monks, from whom, many years ago, it
had been taken by the government, on account of
their gross misconduct. On the very day the deeds
were to have been signed declaring the woods of
Camaldoli the private property of the Grand Duke, a
" monitorio " arrived from Rome forbidding the
transfer. The Grand Duke was at first irritated by
his disappointment, but was soon taught to kiss the
rod, and has now resigned himself to a higher and
holier will.

The acconehement of his duchess is daily expected,
and with it the liberation of the Medial, " as an act
of special favour." Should it be granted, I trust it
will not be forgotten by the English public that
there are many hundreds in a similar position to
Francesco and Rom Madiai, but without English
connexions, who will still be left to suffer, and that
their cause is equally the cause of English protca-
tantism and of the common rights of humanity. If
it be contended in Downing-street that England
cannot interfere in foreign questions excepting fur
the protection of British subjects, let our statesmen
be asked why this very Grand Duke who now treats
them with contempt was allowed in February, 1849,
to take refuge from his own subjects on board an
English man-of-war. When Cromwell heard of the
sufferings of the Waldenses, we are told that he felt
" emit they had been endured by the members of his
own family," and in a few hours his envoy extraor-
dinary was on the road to Turin, and his special
messengers hastening to the courts of Denmark,
Sweden, France, and the United Provinces, and to
the Swiss cantons."

ROMAN BTATEB.
Oar Barran correspondent, writing on the 14th of
November, relates an interesting conversation
between the Pope, Cardinal Antonelli, and M.
Odilion Barrot, respecting the political prospects of
the Roman States.

The Pope's nephew is about to marry a grand-
daughter of Murat.
The railway propositions will be deferred by the
Pope to the consideration of tho financial council.
Princes Doria and Borghese had left Rome for
Naples on hearing of Lord Shrewsbury's illness.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.
A remarkable article on Piedmont appears in the
semi-official print, the Austrian arrespondeme.
Speaking of the change of ministry, lately accom-
plished at Turin, the ministerially inspired writer
felicitates his readers on the accession of M. de
Cavour, applauds the tendencies which for some time
have been becoming apparent at Turin, and expresses
the expectation that a man so intelligent, so en-
lightened, so practical as Count Cavour, instead of
following the mistake' policy of the Marquis
d'Azeglio in the matter of the differences existing be-
tween the Sardinian state and Nome, will do justice
to the " fair and imitimate pretensions" of the
latter, and bring the Koly See into happier and more
intimate relations with Piedmont. 'While this is
written in Vienna, we observe that the clerical
organs in Piedmont treat M. de Cavour as no less an
enemy than M. d'Azeglio.
The Elberfeld Gazette, in asserting the extreme
probability of an early visit of the Emperor of
Austria to Berlin, states without qualification that a
written correspondence between the monarchs of
Prussia and Austria has been carried on for some
time, and that the relations between the two powers
are daily becoming closer.
The Constitutiorial Gazette of Silesia says
"Whoever has examined the official part of the
Kenna Gazette with some knowledge of the Aus-
trian military service, will have noticed the extraor-
dinary number of officers who have lately been placed
on the retired list of the army, especially officers of the
higher grades. Every officer who is not fully capable
of rendering efficient service in the field is remorse-
lessly struck off the active list. At the head of
every regiment, in the command of every fortress, is
placed a man, young, if not in yesrs, in constitu-
tion, and any emergency arising now would be met
with far greater energy than at any previous period
of the history of Austria. Of course the warbudget
has been greatly swollen by this mosso."

PRUSSIA.
With the_ seh of the see ion, parties in the
Prussian Otm are somewhat changing their
policy and form. The cavalier or feudal y,
which desires to see ea Immediate revision of the
constitution, giving increased power to the titled
orders, has convinced itself that the government
majority, which is conservative and not feudal, bat
bureaucratic, is so powerful, that any change in the
constitution made at the present moment would not
be to the advantage of the aristocracy. The Left is
equally satisfied that to disturb the disposition of
power provided by the charter would be to recede
still further towards absolutism. It is thus probable
that the two extremes of the climber will combine,
as they have done on a daft esseedon, to
rthe existing armament:. The con.
ulatiolists, up= whom Ms devolved the
whole weight of the areggle kr Memel "mew
mat, have just gained asi sl med eie.l
My at Berlin, on the osossM d the
election awed by the deteemielisa el hL
not to sit for the capital. The liberal
M. Reims; hers buten M. Blesses, the rainisuldert
eissj let is lees
ere atilYat f›)::saildorfth. °big,
for
w censtitueney M.
In
elected in several
plum lad declined to sit. In the supplementary
elation la the 4th electoral district of Berlin, which
Seek plea en the 18th, M. Mathis, • member of the
astral rrasiarty led by M. Bethniann-Hollweg,
beat M. ,
86. the director of police, by a mlo-
ri
The Ciplegues Gamete states that the resolution of
the goverment to tolerate no newspaper attacks
• on
the Berlin friendly governments had been signified to all
journals.
Our own correspondent writes :
BERLIN, Nov. 10.
The Ring and Queen of Prussia, and the royal
princes, yesterday attended a solemn service at the
Eat..r°huh in Potsdam, in ommeneoration of
uke of Wellington. The commemoration
service at the garrison church here was attended by
the British anibuiador and several other members
of the diplomatic corps.
The King of Prussia established, a few years ago,
an order of knighthood for the distinction of
eminence in literature and science. The number of
members war restricted. By the death of the poet
Thomas Moore, a cross became disposable. It has
been bestowed by his Majesty, at the recommend&
lion of the Berlin Royal Academy, on Burliest:le,
the orientalist. His competitors were Wile= and
IDumas.

_
The Vienna Lloyd states that the family
.of Wan
is making preparations for the inarrizg
Princess Carols,-who lately went over to ca
with the future Emperor of France. Considering the
strict control under which Austrian newspapers are
placed, we must presume that the journal in question
would not dare to make this direct assertion without
being fully authorised to do so.