The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVBMINO, DECEMBER 25,

titANCE•• .
c ILIICTItiO TILIONAIPIL)
PARIS, FAIDAT Evaniso.
The Semite has adopted by a majority of 64 against
7 votes the &nears Cbasaltuni fur aggrandising the
power of the Emperor.
The Emperor is expected in Paris to morrow.
M. Corneille is elected deputy for tho &ine
Inferieure.

The Convection with France hu passed the
n Chambers by 62 against 8.

Belgian
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PARIS, TuI'INDAT ETENTNO.
.te read in tho Cuttatautieneesi :—* M. Demerson
mayor of Compiegne, who accompanied the Emperor
in his visits to the Hospital and the Hotel-Dieu,
having expressed to his Majesty the happiness he
@Mould feel at commemorating his appointment to
the mayor', by the establishment of Sales d'-isile,
bat observed that he dated not think of it oti
amount of the limited resources of Compiegne, the
Emperor replied, *And what would the expense be?'
About 30,000f.,' said the mayor. *Well, then,' TO-
plied his Majesty, 'take this then while waiting for
something better,' at, the same time handing to M.
Demeraoo ten notes fora thousand franca each."

M. do Persigny, Minister of the Interior, has just
decided on immediately carrying into execution the
idea of the Emperor to make the entrance into Paris
by the Barrier, de l'Etoile the finest in tho capital.
The place do l'Etoile is to be made 370 metres in
length, and 1110 metres in width. lids great sur-
face, larger than the Carre Marigoy in the Champs
Elysees, will serve for an exercise ground for the
troops in summer, u well as a convenient place for
public fifes. The Prefect of the Seine has already
given orders to have the preliminary envoi. com-
menced. The expropriation is to be made at the
cost of the state.

An application has just been made to the goverm
meta for the concession of a railway from 1 oolongs
to Foix, branching from the line from Bordeaux to
Cette, and serving that part of the country comprised,
between the Garonne and the Ariege.
The sale of autographs forming the collection of
Baron de Tremont, which hu been going on for the
last ten days, has just terminated. The following
are • few of the prices given :—Abd-el-Kader, Of. ;
La Rochefoucauld, 3001.; 4301; Madame'
Lafarge, 141; Pope Alexander VI. (Borgia), 341;
Jacques Amyot, 1001.; Oliver Cromwell. 72f.;
George Monk, 3f. ; Bossuet, 391 ; Louis XIV., 401. ;
Fooquier-Tinville, 63f. • Frederick the Great, 1601.;
Galileo 2061.; Bayard, 3111. • Leon X., 1571. ;
King Leopold, 61.; Mlle. Ouio;ard, 61.; sad Arch-
bishop Affrr, 101.

Our usual French express had not arrired at the
hour of going to press.

GERMANY.

The Emperor of Austria left Berlin at 2 p.m., on
Tuesday the 21st, to return to his dominions through
Dresden. He was accompanied to the station of the
Mihail railway by the King, the Queen, and the
Princes and Priocesees of the royal family then pre-
sent in Berlin. Before entering the train, the Emperor
embraced the King and Queen, and saluted them in
the German fashion. The King of Hanover left
Berlin for his capital on Monday last.
On the 21st the First Prussian Chamber discussed
the government bill for repealing so much of the
constitution as provides for the annual meeting and
triennial election of parliament, and the voting of
the budget every year, and substitutes clauses pro-
viding for the meeting of parliament once in two
years, sixennial elections, and a two years' budget.
The committee of the Chamber appointed to consider
this project found that it was not reactionary
enough, and recommended that the ordinary budget
be voted for six years instead of two, the extraordi-
nary expenditure only to be voted at shorter inter-
vals. The ministers naturally accepted this gratui-
tous augmentation of their power. When the vote
was taken upon the biennial amiss of the Chambers
there was 73 for and 16 against the preposition.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Dec. 19.
The general result of the elections is iltvonrable, in
a government sense. Not that all the elected
deputies, lire government men—far from it—but, in
the present mate of Europe, they will support the
existing administration, rather than the government
shall fall into the hands of extreme parties; it may,
therefore, be considered that the majority will be
one upon • hich the government may depend in all
questions of a beneficial or improving nature, but
not one which will blindly vote at the minister's
nod. The Chamber, in tact, will be composed of
moderate men, I may say, of all parties; the ultras
being foe the most part, it not entirely, excluded.
This eke ion, however reprehensible the means may
have been that were used to obtain returns, is not,
however, without its importance; it has demon-
strated a fact which was known here, but which
might have been doubtful in other nations; that the
Cabrnlistas are not a party, hat a faction ; and conse-
quently all their elections were of coercion, and
their government, one of force. Notwithstanding
that they have had more than fair play, that indeed
an importance and sn i.npulie have been given to
thaw by many of their authorities being restored
from motives which I have already had occasion to
explain to you, yet on going to the urn as a party.
perfectly unrestricted, their list in the capital could
only boast of 410 votes: there is therefore no hope
of the resuscitation of that faction, except under ex-
traordinary and uolooked for events. The Portuguese
me not indifferent observers of what is happening in
the neighbouring kingdom.
As to the projected railroad, the plans and esti-
mates were given in on the 10th, and a commission
having been charged with their examination, the
report of the day goes so far as to say they have
been approved. Be this as it may, the government
has named the 24th as the day on or before which
they will come to a decision on the subject ;•no defi-
nite opinion can therefore as yet be given to the
grand question—ls there to be a railroad or not ?
The news of the proceedings at Madrid have
caused some excitement, and fears are entertained
that the example of the Spanish ministry may have
a bad effect as respects the Portuguese government.
The Emperor Napoleon the Third having been re-
cognised, has been saluted here by the Portuguese
and other vessels of war lying in the Tagus.
Exchange, 34; discount of notes of the Bank of
Lisbon, 2j per cent.