The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, ii

seise. &tweet Lord Jae Runelre sod Lard Paimeralsrea
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VMS es it lest the Mae little
time age. iallEustilmst we his se • most grave
said @wises . Web dowdy sse bow it tea be
lo stilled. ?he lessim be-erlst sett? We be-
lieve, is moves es this esetlige, hot there es be no doubt
whitener that the Melee ismiered by Lord J. Ruesll se tM
Queen will be be Need he Lied Derby. He is the head of
the grail? he sategesdom to reheat sad tree trade. ll*
has the hilewiag lea home et postleeseat. lie
will sot— .roast—essehe the supped of the Several
maims of rehossan sad fns leadere, who have coo-
%Abated to give bba this soma opportuaity. But
he eon no lessee ream Ohm. Neither is be a
man to Adak hem, se le desert for mere elyediramy
his mowed sod shothhoil 'plasm. He must take
ofee—
sad we trams be will. The battle of reform mil tee trade
met be fought sa the hustle's. Lord Derby himosif has
deemed this. There will Mao pesos tee hiss—se are any
ether selaister--tlll the quertiee of peelettles, exited by
the Warrant brawlers of his pally beset Moist see way or
another. lot the oasis, beriled. Let the peeps decide.
Dot la the rimset mama hsterest—eftho very
easiM sod stability of the emetor—bot the queen be thee
sod hem dosided finally end fee ever. Even with the pre-
seat smilitomeies we have ter dealt of the reek—mmes
whesesse. It bola midget fur wane time that the de-
ciding, esoothotirmal meet seem come. It is toss.
Whatever my ham bees former din/reams or jealou-
sies—their hostilities, or their holdings back—the hus-
tings have a voice that must be dearly and distinctly
answered. It is idle to escalate whether Lord Derby
mean to satisfy. or to obis his eseddlog followers.
That is hie business and theirs. 'summa of all shades
now at least see what they have atm sod whet is before
them. They have helped to imolai govern-
ment in ellos—and they must now deal with it to best they
can. We ars told that Lord Derby is in on tretror 'sedition
to accept ohm now than he was lest yew, when be threw
up the uagratsful task. That is guile Mae. He is not.
His men are no better. His morose have not improved,
whilst those of hie opponents have Mesa smother yeses test
of progressive prosperity sod peseeful memo. And yet
with all this, we believe that he will take *Mee, because no
other worse Is loft to him. No bock-door is open for re-
treat. The vaunted day of " Deer Breed" and "No Re-
form," mud be tried on ever, Imam. lathe United King-
dom, sad be indignantly scouted, once sad for ever. The
protectionists say "we are ready." The people should be
ready to reply, " to are we."

LORD PALMERSTON'S RECEPTION.
Viasonnt PaWanton's " reception " on Saturday
• was attended by • brilliant Miele of the
rergevineay end aristocracy.
M lba amembly, the noble viscount and
ekoosensineateetebed a immll pm, at &sum, the Furst.
ladluMage—Msa Zed COMISOO Mrsitratrary_ , Viscount
andirisaaneassa MehosOrimast llalesett, Lied Brough-
er= =I U. MB. Mebbseas. Lard, rod Lady Stanley
of AMaskyi Nan. Ma lhatainta, M.P.; Hon. Spencer
P•aslaby, Mr. Manaltess MON% M.P., and Mr. H.
Plasing.
Thu omarais WWI b the vesaptina " began to set down
at 10 AIME. Alla whisk keen
Ow until midnight, • continuous
saasuima al sidish to& .
The Dales at Walliaosse r astial paid hie tesPects to
the seMs viseensilms, anteing about II &sleek.
ANNBI th• sastaber• of Was
we mimicked lds Exisellermy Ib No lAemabeasarail"
the Cowan Walasidd. lasallusay abs Turkish Minis
t sad
er sad Maiimas Masstras, aecompealed by Prince A.
iltiurdes, his Excellency the Minister for the Nether.
his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excel-
ths Neapolitan Minister and the Princess Calked,
Ms dim Belgian Minister and Medium Van de
,eyor y the Brazilian Minister and Madame
litssiselm B. Excellency the Russian Minister and the
BMWS Illsanow, the Countess Buol•Sehanenstain (wife
of the deinisn Minister), his Excellency the Bavaria.
Mininar ad the Baroness de Cetto, his Excellency the
Denis& Meister, his Excellency the Greek Minister, his
Excellency the Portuguese Minister and the Countess
Wrath°, his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs.
Lawrence and Mies Lawrence, the Spanish C hare d'Affaires,
Carat Louis Corti, Count Benteroghi, H. de Willa, M.
J. L. Urbistondo, M. Rothman Heaver, Count Penponcher,
M. Simone, the Secretary of the Portuguese legation,
Baron de Geer, de.
A great many distinguished foreigners, whose names it
was impossible to note, were preset= during the evening.
M. Thies was among the early visitors.
The general circle included, among others, the Duchess
of laverness, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Clanricarde, and tho Ladies Emily and
Margaret De Burgh, the Marchioness of Salisbury, the
Marchioness of Adeabury and Lady Hermlone St. Maur,
the Consumer Cl=l6ll4=o sad Lady Selina Meade and
the Hon. Miss Lyttehes, the Earl Pitswilliam and the
Ladies Fiuniniaa, the Earl of Malatesbury, &c.,

lATION OF MINISTERS.

FRANCE.
ARREST OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
ORLEANS DOMAINS.
PARIS, 8/4171DAT RYzente.
The arrest of M. Bocher, of which I Wormed you
yesterday, continues to protium a painful sensation
throughout Paris. The following official note has
been communicated on this subject to the Ctinstite-
tioniwl :

One of the allaisisketees of tile peeysety of the Orleans
family, as OZIRIV the rekll/1/0/11/7 coslitioa, who
had bees pcoseA• tbe fadDew/mhos ertbe sitting at the
Moires OW esemilheinseet, mil whew the generosity
of the Prince ftsaisat W eraseed te be set at liberty,
M. Beim, wee aneeled ea Theeelay whoa is the act or
diniesieethig @Males pehliselleas. Tee asses time beck
the Oleo have bees reales ea wheat containing thou-
mask at eliwlar_ pabliseelase. mad
_they were aware that
they wen pitied et Lesley ireits clandestinely into
Paris, era themdbttriMad in the espied and provinces,
where they wen wiiresed to several members of the elercy,
of the miestrcey, bar, orliceratiftbe army, se well as to high
functionaries la the admintstratioa. It was supposed that it
was subsltern agents who carried ma gush manoisvres, and
no one imagined that one of the administrators of the house
or Orleans would condescend to elereirie such a propa-
gandism in person. We regret to be obliged to my that
every kind of doubt appears removed on the point, and that
M. Becher really occupied In this plot the double office of
organiser and agent. The vigilance of the administration
led to the failure of this attempt. M. Becher is detained at
the Conciergerle.

The Petrie of this evening states that besides M.
Becher, three other persons have been arrested, and
are being prosecuted as accomplices in the same acts.
The imagination of the President is haunted for the
present with fears of Orleanist plots. The confidential
friends of the Elyste complain of the money distri-
buted, and of the publications disseminated by agents
of that party. This credulous appetite for bugbears
is sedulously fed by the tales of spies, and the denun-
ciations of the secret police. Meanwhile there is one
patent conspiracy, which he who runs may read, and
that is a determination of all the enemies of the
government to indulge in no expenditure which is
not absolutely indispensable. '1 he plot is now as it
was after the revolution of February, to starve the
government, and to produce disaffection in the
masses, on which it depends for support.
The wealthy classes, the proprietary and the bour-
geoisie, are in the vast majority resolutely opposed to
the present government. The rural population and
a portion of the workmen, who believe in the vague
professions of regard for their interests put forward
by the organs of Louis Napoleon, and have some
notion that the depression of the affluent is to be
attended by the exaltation of the poor, are as yet in
• state of hopeful obedience. But daily through the
inexorable parsimony of the monied orders, and
through diminished work, a deficiency which cannot
be compensated by the decrees of the Moniteur, the
masses will have their eyes opened, and bo brought to
that cruel state of indigence which can only dis-
cover a remedy in fresh revolutions. The Orlean-
ists and all other shades of politicians who
are opposed to the government of Louis Napoleon,
know that by simply buttoning up their
pockets they bring that hour inevitably nearer ;
nor do they need noy other sort of conspiracy effec-
tually to undermine the present regime. Meanwhile
it is self-evident that the government, finding a re-
lentless, passive resistance in the wealthy classes,
will be driven to take revenge by taxing them.
Hence, however such schemes may be for the present
disowned, sooner or later a progressive property
tax, or some such measure, is the only remedy which
the government will be able todevise for a blockaded
exchequer, and the only retaliation by which it can
effectually punish its inflexible adversaries. When
fiscal weapons of this kind begin to be resorted to, it
will bo time for the victims to seek the shortest way
of defending themselves. But the charge of sedition
which is brought against them at this moment is to
all appearance ridiculously ill-founded ; and the
alleged conspirators have something better to do
with their money than to distribute it in premature
corruption.
The news brought by the submarine telegraph to-
day of the defeat and resignation of the English,
ministry will perhaps modify considerably the diplo-
matic attitude of Louis Napoleon towards Great
Britain. Meanwhile, notwithstanding the pacific
communication lately inserted in the Ilfoxileur, the
news circulated this morning was decidedly of a
warlike cast. I already drew your attention some
time ago to the projected occupation of Switzerland
in the spring, in concert with Austell". The creation
of a fresh active division of infantry at Lyons, to be
commanded by General d'Herbillon, is considered a
step pointing in this direction.
Divisions are talked of more than ever between the
President and General do St. Arnaud. It is even
said that the latter has been pressed to resign, if he
still refuses to sign the dismissal of sixty officers ac-
cused of favouring the Orleans party. But he de-
clines to give up either his resolution or his post.
The quarrel between M. de Penile), and M. de
Maupas has found new fuel in disputing the man-
agement of the new official weekly journal to be
distributed through all the communes of France. M.
do Cesena, redaeteur of the Petrie, is the candidate
of the Minister of the Interior for the editorship of
this Moniker of the communes; but the Minister of
Police has a client of his own, whom he wishes to
promote to the same post. If M. de Chien*, there-
fore, should obtain the appointment, it must be hailed
as a sign that de Maupas has been defeated.
The Honiarur contains decrees authorising the
transference of a number of convicts to Guiana, and
regulating the preen in the colonies.
General Lawcestine has published a notice that,
after the 23rd Instant, • register will be opened to
receive the names of individuals desirous of being
members of the National Guards cavalry of Paris.
The Saint Etienne journals state that an order has
been received in that town for a large number of
long carbines for the infantry in Algeria, in order to
place the men on a par with the hostile natives, who
with their long guns have now an advantage over
the French troops, armed with muskets, whose
reach is not equal to that of the weapon of their ad-
rosaries.

A letter from Cherbourg states that orders have
been received there to fit out immediately the Alccste
and the Forte frigates.
"It It announced," says the Pram, "that the go-
vernment will shortly summon to Paris detachments
from all the regiments of the army, to receive the
new colours, which will be delivered to them with

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=posng ceremony.
A great number of the cleeten of the Ist arrondis-
sement of Paris have addressed • letter to M. de
Morny, declaring that his eoblo and courageous con-
duct, during the late critical events, has induced them
to invite him to represent them in the legislative
body. M. de Morny, the Poys says,has stated in
reply that he cannot accept the candidateship offered
to hum unless it receives the support of the govern-
ment, for which, be declares, his election ought to be
a triumph, end never a defeat. Oulvonniere has a
leading article in support of de Morny's election,
biking it for granted that he will haws the govern-
ment support. A country Bonapartist paper is so
enthusiastic in praise of de Morny, that it applies to
him, with reference to his conduct on Dec. 2, "par
qui tont a litre fait qui fut fait"
M. Dufaure, whose name was included in the list
of opposition candidates for Paris, given by the
&see yesterday, has written to that paper to say
that nothing could induce him to accept a seat in
the corps llyisiaq. The Sink says it has received
a new list of opposition candidates for Paris, but it
will withhold the publication until it is ascertained
that the proposed candidates are ready to accept.
The opposition gets on but slowly. The Prow re-
peats its offer to publish electioneering addresses, but
its services have not yet been accepted by anybody
but M. lore.

The Council of State held • public sitting to-day
in disputed matters. M. Mallard presided. An
application was made by M. Bocage to reverse a de-
CISIOI3 of the Minister of the Interior of July 27,
1830, by which he was deprived of the direction of
the Odeon Theatre. No decision was oome to.
The Strasbourg railway company has made an ar-
rangement with its contractors for the completion of
the line at an earlier period than had been fixed
iupon. The junction between Commercy and
Fronard will be effected by June 15. This will
place Nancy, Metz, Postfach, and Rhenish Prussia in
direct railway communication with Paris. Two
months later, on the 13th of August, the section
from Nancy to liarrebourg will be opened, and the
whole line to Strasbourg will then be inaugurated.
It is expected that in October Prussia will have ef-
fected the junction of the 13aarbruck and Forbach
railways, and thus an outlet by two points of the

'apiaera roe Iv* be openertiato Central and Beath
era Ciamanr.
We find the following in the Impartial du Nord :
The Prisons Nereid, peabelece of the Emperor of
Hank, anived et Vehesiesses duos days with the
Lady Spooner of the Older of tft. Viscose de Paul. Their
object was to enemies the halidiegs of the Hospice
ra4 sad le maks ts for the installation
of the listen of thierlierga=4:l•4! _ prisms desires to
occupy • cell in their Amble asayien. It is said that,
having descended voluntasily from the highest steps of the
impede) throne, to which her reek sod birth called her,
she has abjured the Greek religion to adopt that of the
Homan catholic church, and to take the veil amongst the
humblest listen of charity. She resolved on this vocation
in a journey she some time ago made to Paris, after the
death of her father, on seeing the exemplary life of the
sisters of the congregation of Bt. Vincent de Paul. In
order to end her life amongst them, far from worldly
gresellses, she hesitated at no sacrifice—neither the low of
her property, which was confiscated, nor exile, nor the
meet complete abnegation of her existence. 814 possesses
a perfect education, solid and varied information, to
which she unites a modesty which adds another flown to
her almost angelic crown.
At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 10e., closing
at 103.33; the Three per Cents. fell 10e., and closed
at 63.55. Bank of France shares fell 5. The rail-
way market was weak. Northern again fell 3.73.
Versailles (left bank), sf.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The characteristic of the official list, published by
the Petrie, of the government candidates for the
Corp Legislotif is the obscurity of the names it dis-
closes. Montalembert stands almost alone as a per-
sonage known to fame. The fact of the chief of the
church party being adopted by the government as
the candidate for Besancon would seem, at the first
blush, to confirm the report that the secession of that
powerful supporter was only momentary. It is, how-
lever, not to be forgotten that the system has
been embraced of adopting such candidates as were
sure to succeed independently of the government's
patronage. You might naturally infer that such
independent candidates as found their names upon
the government's list would pretest against the
attempt thus made to pass them off as nominees of
the executive. This has, in fact, been done in one
remarkable instance: M. de Merodc, brother-in-law
of M. de Montalembert, whose name you will find
down in the Pstrie's list for a district of the Nord,
has addressed to a provincial journal the following
letter:

Frain. Feb. 17.
Mr. Editor,—My conduct and votes since my entrance
into the Chambers in 1810 prove sufficiently that I am
much more a eisaservative than member of the opposi inn ;
but if lam elected to the Corps Legislatif. 1 look to keep
in that body all my independence, and to owe this honour
to the free and perfectly spontaneous choice of the electors.
I feel the necessity of making this declaration, as 1 see that
my name figures among those whom you designate as van.
didates of the government.
COVNT W. DR MLitt/DE.
It is to be hoped that tho example of M. do Nlerode
will be followed by all candidates placed in the same
compromising position ; and that in no case the in-
solent usurpation of government patronage will be
tolerated in silence out of an abject fear of
power. You will perceive the name of M. de Morny
down as the government candidate for a district
of the Puy-de-Dome. It was given out some time
ago that the minister who counter-signed the decree
of December 2nd would be brought forward as the
government candidate for the first arrondissement of
Paris. So late even as yesterday I drew your atten-
tion to a long article by M. de l.a Guerronieie in the
I'ays, trumpeting the candidature of de Morny for
Paris, and proving clearly that it was the ambi-
tion of the ex-minister of the interior to be returned
triumphantly for the capital. But this aspiration
was doomed to meet with a check from the iplarter
most indebted to the services of the discarded minister
The Conslaulionnel publishes the following semi-
official paragraph in reference to this subject :
The Pays publishes this morning a letter, which offers to
M. de Morny, in the most honourable terms, the candida-
ture of the let arrondissement of the Seine. This journal
adds that M de Monty would have accepted under the rt.
serve of the government's support. The government would
certainly have been glad to support the candidature of M.
de Morny at Paris if it had been proposed early enough.
But the candidature of M. de Morny has been produced by
the government in the Porde-Dome, and it cannot be
brought forward at the same time at Paris, the principle
having been absolutely laid down that no candidate can be
presented at the same time in two colleges.

The jealous mortification thus inflicted upon the
ambition of the ex-minister has not passed unnoticed
today in the salons of I'aria; and the piquant para-
graph of the Constitutionnel has elicited much amus-
ing comment. For the rest, this seems a continua-
tion out of office of the snubs to which de Morny
frequently subjected himself when in the pa-
lace of tho Rue de Grenelle, by what was
considered as fatuity and presumption. A series of
successful audacities made the name of de Morny,
till then unheard of, familiar throughout France, and
destined to figure in her history. But the President
views with umbrage every rising (nine that inter-
feres with his own "bad eminence," and shows thit
he will " bear no brother near the throne." M. Peron,
while undertaking with malicious alacrity the task of
clapping a wet blanket on the aspirations of M. de
Morny, puffs in three separate articles hisown candida-
ture for the arrondissement of Seeaux. In one of
these we are told that this notable occasion has furnished
the inhabitants of Gcntilly with an excuse for holding
a banquet, at which a pompous eulogy of the editor
of the Constilutionnel is delivered by the ex-president
of the Society of the Dix Decembre, M. Gallic.
Another candidature on the list of the government is
that of M.Sallandrouse de Lamornnix,who is proposed
for Aubusson, the town of the Creuse, to whose fame
he has added by his carpets. Equally ebbe-
=to all governments in succession, M. Sallan-
is not one of those candidates whose return
is likely to cause any repentance in the government.
I hear that several arrests have been issued against
persons suspected of complicity in tho alleged Or-
leanist plot. There is little hope of a cessation from
persecutions of this sort; for a government that has
need of figuring as the saviour of society in order to
keep up its reputation, must be ever inventing new
plots; otherwise, its titles to be regarded as a second
Providence are liable to fall into oblivion.
The following fact, given by the Constitutionnel,
confirms the report which I mentioned yesterday
respecting the seizure of pamphlets printed in London
on the confiscation decree:
At Celsie, on Sunday last, the custom house officers, in
making the usual examination of the luggage of en English
traveller, Mr. ltenou, an architect, who had arrived from
London by the Fame, discovered in his trunk 4,000 copies
of a pamphlet entitled " Facts in support of the defence of
the rights of property wind the decree of Jan. 22, 1852."
Mr. Reuou wiz imosiately arrester!, and taken to the
Calais prison, and the pamphlets were seised.

The reorganised national guard of Paris will, it is
said, be drilled upon the system of the chaaseurs of
Vincennes.

A letter from Never,, of the 20th, states that a
considerable convoy of prisoners had just
through that town, on their way from Mourisit
Paris. They almost all appeared to belong to the
class of gentry. Two of them were rich merchants
of Moulins, and ono was a distinguished physician.
Lord Cowley has presented his credentials to the
president as British Ambassador.
The powers of the councils general and municipal
are prolonged for three months.
Dufaure declines to stand for a scat in the Corps
Legislative.