The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-19 00:00:00

CIIAPTI2. I.

Preliminary authoriaati;;;nd caution-money of journals
and periodical publications.
Art. I. No journal or periodical publication relating to
political subjects or social economy, and appearing either
regularly, on fined days, or in numbers and irregularly, ern
be started or published without the previous authorisation
of the government. Such authorisation can be accorded
only to a French subject, who has passed his majority and
who is in the enjoyment of his civil and political rights.
The preliminary authorisation of the government will be
likewise necessary whenever any change is effected in the
personnel of the gerant, chief editor, proprietors, or adminis-
trators of a journal.
Art. 2. Journals on political matters or on social economy,
published in foreign countries, cannot circulate in France
unless with the authorisation of the government. Any per-
son introducing or distributing a foreign journal, the circu-
lation of which shall not have been authorised, shall be
punished by an imprisonment of from one month to one
year, and a fine of from 1001 r. to 6,000 fr.
Art. 3. The proprietors of any journal or periodical pub-
lication, treating of political matters or of social economy,
are required before its publication, to pay into the treasury
• caution-money_ in cash, for which interest will be paid at
the usual rats allowed in such matters.
Art. 4. For the departments of the Seine, the Seinsect-
Oise, the Seine-et-Marne, and the Rhone, the caution-
I money is regulated as follows :—lf the journal or periodical
' work appears more than three times a week, either on fined
days, or In irregular numbers, the caution-money will be
60,0(10fr. ; and if the publication takes place only three
times a week, or at more distant intervals, 30.000 fr. In
towns of fifty thousand 'Dula and upwards, the caution-
money of journals or periodical publications, appearing
more than three times a week, will be 26,000 fr. In other
towns, it will be 15,000 fr. ; and respectively, one half of
these two sums fur journals or periodical writings appearing
only three time a week, or at more distant intervals.
Art. 6. All publications of a journal or periodical work.
without previous authorisation or without the payment of
caution-money, or without the whole of the required cau-
tion-money being paid up, shall be punished by a goo of
from 100 fr. to 2,1100fr.,:f0r each number published in con-
traveution, and an imprisonment of from one month to two
years. The person publishing such journal or periodical
work and the printer shall he conjointly responaible ; and
the journal or periodical publication in question shall cease
to appear.
CHArtill 11.

The Stamp on ir;Wrnals.
Art. 8. Journal, or periodical publications, and periodi-
cal collections of political engravinn or lithograpic plates,
of less than ten sheets of hum twenty-five to thirty.two
decimetres square, or of less than five sheets, or from fifty
' to seventy-two decimetres square, shall be subjected to •
stamp-duty. That duty shall be 6 centimes for each sheet
of seventy-two decimetres square and under, in the depart.
ments of the Seine and the Seine-et-Oise ; and 3c. for jour-
nals, engravings, and periodical works published elsewhere.
For each fraction above ten decimetres square and under,
lie. shall be levied in the departments of the Seine and the
Seine-et-Oise, and le. everywhere else. The supplements
of the official journal, whatever may be their number, are
szempt from stamp-duty.
Art. 7. An allowance if one per cent. on the ttamp duty
shall be made to the publishers of journals or penodical
works fee spoiled copise.
Art. 8. The stamp duty imposed by the present law shall
be applicable to journals and periodical works published in
foreign countries, unless in case of diplomatic arrangements
to the contrary. A regulation of the public administration
will determine the mode of levying this duty.
Art. 9. No periodical works, treating of political matters
or of social economy, which are not at present in comae of
publication, or which, previous to the present law, have not
become public property, if they are published in one or
seven: numbers, having less than ten leaves of impression of
from 26 to 32 decimetres square, shall be subjected to a
stamp-duty of be. per sheet. There shall be levied lie. for
each fraction above 10 decimetres square and under. This
provision is applicable to non-periodical works published in
foreign countries. They shall. on importation, be sub-
jected to the stamp-duty imposed on those published in
France. _

Art. 10. The heads of the registration-office and the
officers of the public force are authorised to seize such
journals or publications as may be in contravention of the
present enactments concerning the stamp-duty. They are
required to make declaration of such seizure by a proces-
verbal, which is to be signified to the offending parties
within a delay of throe days.
Art. 11. Each contravention of the enactments of the
present law for journals, engravings, or periodical writings.
shall be punished, independentl♦ of the restitution Of the
duties held back, by a fine of 50tr. per sheet or fraction of
sheet without stamp, and 100 fr. in ease of repetition of the
offence. The dine cannot in its totality exceed the amount

of caution•money. For other publican ins, each contraven.
lion shall be punished, independently of the restitution of
the duties held back, by a tine equal to the double of ty
said amount duty. That line cannot, in any case, Ix
ter or to 200fof r., not exceeding in its totality 441,000 fr.
Art. 12. The recovery of the stainp.ilitty and of the fines
for contravention shall be effected in conformity with Art.
76 of the law of April 28, 1816.
Art. 13. In addition to the stamp-duty fixed by the pie,
sent law, the tariffs existing anteriorly to the I.IW of J
ury
16, 1850, fur the transport of journils and oilier publiit•
Lions, by the Post-oftlee, are re-e.tabh‘lail.

CHAPTLit
Offences and Contraventions not provided for by pre,,,ling
laws —J urisdietMes—Executiou of Judgments -Right of
Suspension and Suppression.
Art. 14. Every contravention of Art. 12 of the tomtit*.
tion, relative to the publication of the official reports of Ma
sittings of the Legislative Body, shall be punished with a
fine of from I,ooofr. to 5,000 fr.
Art. 15. The publication or rt production of false 'tumor
documents fabricated, falsified, or falsely attributed to third
parties, shall be punished with a fine of from:Mfr.
If the publication or reproduction is made with hit...ebony
bad faith, or if it is of a nature to trouble the public p-are
the penalty shall be an imprisonment of from une tumuli to
one year, and a fine of from .500 tr. to I,ooofr. The
mum of penalty shall be applied, if the publication or re-
production is at the same time of a nature to trouble the
public peace, and made with intentional bad faith.
Art. 16. It is interdicted to give any account of the sa-
tin?* of the Senate other than the rctirsdue:i.,n of the
articles inserted in the Official Piero tl. It is to.ter.lictril to
give ally account of the private sitting* of the Councilor
State.

Art. 1,. It is forbidden to publish any report of trials for
press offences. The case can he merely in, ; in all
cases, the judgment can he published. In all elegies, eie,j,
correctional, or criminal, the courts of law ran prebitat see
publication of the proceedings. This Ustr,nl action i,
wd to
apply to the judgment, which may he always made public.
Art. Is. Any violation of the disposition. of .trtieles
bi
and 17 of the present law shall be punished by a bee of
from fifty to five thousand franc., without prejadico to the
penalties pronounced by the law, if the report be uidadlsfel
and designedly incorrect.
Art. 19. Every gimig shall he bound to in- r at the
head of the journal official iloentnerit+, autheutie nlatiera,
information, replies, and r. etifications which may be
al-
drrsatd to him by any public authority. The pu.diration
must take place in the neat numbs r of the pretrial wh.ch
may appear after the reception of the documents. The
tertian shall be gratuitous. In cue of infraction, offenders
shall be punished by a tine of from fitly to one thousand
franc.. Besides, the journal may b.: suspended, by admi-
nistrative authority, duriug period not eacceilitig tiftma
days at the outside.
Art. 20. If the publication of a journal or periodical
under suppression or administrative or judicial su.oension,
shall be continued under the Wile titleur under a disguised
title, the authors, gerants, or printers shall be cued, mned
to (rum a month to two years' imprisonment, and jointly to
a tine of from five hundred to three thousand francs for
each number or sheet published in contravention.
Art. 21. The publication of any article treating of politi-
cal matters or social economy, and emanating front a per
condemned to a prise cylli.ti,e et infffivude, or infam,,,te
only, is interdicted. Publishers, getatits, and printers who
may have taken part in the puldicateni, shall be joiutly
condemned to a fine of from one thousand to tire thousand
francs.
Art. 22. No drawing., engravings, lithographs, medals,
prints, or emblems, of whatever nature or kind they may
be, tan be publ'slied, a ahihited, or offered for +de, without
the previous authorisation of the minister of pollee at Paris,
or of the prefects in the departments. In case of contra-
vention, the drawings, engravings, lithographs, medals,
prints, or emblems, may be contincatod ; and those wan
may have published them shall be condemned to (roman*
month's to a year's imprisonment, and to a fiae of trust one
hundred to one thousand francs.
Art. 23. Judicial advertisements required by the laws for
the validity or publicity of proceedings or contract+ shall be
inserted, under the penalty of nullity of ineettion, in the
journal or journals of the arrondissement which shall be
designated every year by the prefect. In ease there shall
be no journal in the arrondissement, the prefect shall
desiguate one or several journals in the department. The
prefect shall, at the same time, regulate the tariff oh miter-
tisements.

Art. 24. Any person who carries on the hooksellinz tr.ale
Nithout having obtained the license required by Art. II of
the law of the 2nd Oct., 1814, shall be puni.lied by tram one
month to two years' imprisonment, and by a fine of from
one hundred to two thousand francs. The establohment
'hall be closed.

Art. 2.1. Prosecutions shall take place before the Tri-
bunals of Correctional Police fur, Ist, offences committed
by means of the press, or any other means of publication
mentioned in Art. 1 of the law of the 17111 May, 1419, and
which were referred by previous laws to the jurisdiction of
the Courts of Assize. 2. Contraventions of the press, pro.
vided (orby previons laws. 3. Offences and contraven-
tions set forth by * present law.
Art. 26. The appeals from judgments given by the tor-
reetional tribunals on offenees committed by means of the
' press, shall be carried direct, without regard to a.,y local
distinction between such tribunals, before the Con e.:ional
Chamber of the Court of Appeal.
Art. 27. Prosecutions shall take place in the forms and
periods prescribed by the code of criminal proceedinlts.
Art. al. In no case shall proof by witnesses he ielmitted
to establish the truth of insulting or defamatory statements.
Art. 29. Within three days from the judgment ur full-
tire decision of condemnation for crime, offence, or contra-
vention by the press, the gran( of the journal must acquit
the amount of condemnation which he may have incurred,
or fur which he may be responsible. In case of appeal to
the Court of Caseation, the amount of the cendemuatioas
shall be deposited within the same period.
Art. 30. The deposit or payment prescribed by the pre-
ceding article 6411 be established by duplicate re( ends deli-
vered by the Receiver des llamaincs. This receipt shall bs
on the fourth day at the latest, remitted to the Pbearear
of the Republic, who shall gise an acknowledgment for it.
Art. 31. In ens., the gCrant shall not have remitted the
receipt within the period above fixed, the journal shall
cease to appear, under pain of the penalties preser.bed by
Art. i of the present law.
Art. 32. A condemnation 6ir crime committed by means
of the press, or two condemnations for offences or contra-
ventions committed within the period of two years, shall of
full right cause the suppression of the journal of which
the p;rants may have been condemned. After a wedeln-
nation pronounced f.r eontrasention or offence of the press
against the responsible editor of a journal, the goverment
has the power, during the two months which may tallow
such condemnation of pronouncing either the temporary or
permanent suspension of the journal. A journal may be
suspended by ministerial decision, even when it has not
been the object of any condemnation, but after two formal
notifications, and during a period which cannot exceed
two months. A journal may be suppressed either after
a judicial or administrative suspension, or by measure of
general safety, but by a special _decree of the President of
the Republic, published in the Bulletin tks Lou.

CHAPTER IV.
Transitory Disposition.
Art. 33. The proprietors of j ournals or political periodicals
actually existing are dispensed from the authori•atiun re-
quired by Art. 1 of the present law. A delay of two months
is accorded to complete their caution-money. At the expira-
tion of that period, if the caution-money be not completed,
and if the publication continue, Art. 5 of the present law
shall be applied.
Art. 3a. The dispositions of the present law relative to
the stamp on journals and periodicals shall only come into
effect from the lit March neat. The stamp duty and
postage on subscriptions made before the promulgutlon of
the present law shall be reimbursed to the proprietors of
I journals or periodicals. The necessary demand/and proofs
shill be made in the forms determined by the regulations
of the —. This expense shall be placed to the ortdit of
Chap. LXX. of the budget of finances relative to the re-
imbursements on indirect proceeds.
Art. 35. A delay of three months is accorded to obtain a
bookseller's license to those who have Rot obtained one, and
who at present carry on the bookselling trade. After that
delay, they sl•all be subject, if they continue their trade, to
the penalties set forth in Art. 20 of the present law.
Art. 36. The present law is not applicable to Algeria and
the colonies. The clauses of previous laws contrary• to the
present one, and especially of Arts. 14 and 18 of the law of
the 16th July. 1630. are repealed.
Art. 37. The ministers arc charged each in what concerns
him with the execution of the present decree.
Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, the lith of Feb-
ruary, 1852.
By the President, Louis NArIII,I:4IN.
X. DR CABABIANCA. Minister of State.

The greatest anxiety is evinced by the govern-
, ment to arrest the commercial crisis which is immi-
nent by calming the terrors excited by its infatuated
crusade sguinst all liberties. The following note,
inserted in the Moniteur of to-clay, repudiating the
warlike designs attributed to Louis Napoleon, is
dictated by the same solicitude to assuage the agita-
tion which prevails, and restore something like
public confidence and credit:
The following, „communicated," appears in the
Monikur :

When in 1848 it was in contemplation to nominate Prince
Louis Napoleon to the office of President of the Republic,
several English journals, and the greatest part of the per-
sons interested in opposing that nomination, pretended
that to place a Bonaparte at the head of France,
would be to throw a defiance to all Europe—would
be, in fact, the signal for • general war. It is now
apparent to all that these apprehensions were not realised.
Since December the 2nd the same system of calumny has
been pursed, and party-spirit and ignorance have contri-
buted to got them accredited. The most ah•urd suppositio•s
have been invented; at one time it was that demands were
made to neighbouring states in a tone almost of Menace: at
another, that preparations were being made for war, and
the letters of the foreign correspondents, by means
of audacious lies, presented our situation in a point of sieve
altogether imaginary. Time, which ordinarily is prompt
enough in treating as it deserves any work of =alert+ nee
and fully, appears at prevent to encourage these persons tO
go on. More than ever false alarms aro propagated, de•
algae of invasion are attributed to the government, and even
some of our regiments arc represciited as on the point of
the frontier. The consequence is that iujur}. %keno toren-

en.jit sod obstacles me Wawa is the may of tM mind
g b,warr. lint the truth is, that lam Dee. 2, the Frisch
portritoo .nt has sot oddness''s demand of say Mad is fa
Wren, except 108441821, ia seder that the goverraina
et that country might prevent the syslost of immortal attars
'hitt had been commented there, hen brag regularly
wpm,. • It has sot armed a soldier the more, bar sot
„,.a rl.ed a general review—in fact, has tot dean any-
*brevet. which could arouse it the slightest
dtpte the susceptibility of our smighbosre. All
the views of the government la France are
towards internal improvements, and unjust
attics cannot turn it from that tonne. It will
.4µ &slut torn its calm demeanour, except on that day
who as attack shall have been made on the tatiotal
sour „„d dismay. Its attitude has tot ceased for a ono
tint to be 'title, and every piece of Intelligenee which
was to present it ander any other aspect, is a clumsy
übb-, whach. after a contradiction as formal MI the present,
taa only be treated with contempt.

Thl., note has been to-day the object of still more
nvention than the law on the press. It is thought
be that it has been dictated by diplomatic re-
-B.,,,..tmnces. It seems that the occasion has been
:led to attribute the alarming state of commerce to
t! vlorevalenee of apprehensions of war. For the rest no
n rliiiiport.oieeean beat tattled to an official assumn ce of
thi• set, as the situation may resolve itself into 4
neiveitv for war, as the lust card which remains to
in despite of the most earnest wishes of
the President to avoid such an event.
The Duchess of Orleans has addressed the follow-
ing letter to the Presideut, refusing the dotation of
300.0tioir. per annum, maintained to her in the de-
em. of January 22:

Moctieur,— AY I do sot acknowledge pint right to plan-
der my family. neith. r do I acknowledge your right to so-
urn to me a dotation ia the muse of Preece.
.1 refuse the

dowry.

AILLINA D'OaLiLaito.

The greatest pains is taken to persuade all who
approach the President that the reign of rigour will
be soon over, and a milder rryiner set in. Thus I
am
.informed from a sure quarter that notice has
been conveyed to the wile of one of the moat
eminent statesmen on the second list of exiles, that
it is in contemplation to allow all the 18 persons,
including the generals at Liam, inscribed on that
list. full liberty to return to France on March 3.
Still it is doubted whether this intention will be
really carried into execution, as it seems scarcely
possible for so suspicions a government to tolerate
the presence of M. Thieve at Paris.:
Lord ('owlet', the new British minister to the
Frenth republic, arrived in Paris last night. The
Marquis of Normanby left this morning fur London.
Nothing is yet settled as to the candidates of the
opposition at the elections.
M. Callas de la Mottc, a legitimist, has written the
(Aiming curious and, with reference to the position
of the It gitimiat party, important letter to the Ocean
of Ilrott :

Two letters whieh I have this instant received from Paris
reader it obligatory upon me no looter to accept the
candidature which our political friends hod offered me. It
is nut from caprice that I refuse what you had led me to
look urn as a .lute. A• an obscure soldier of the legiti-
mist party. I know nothing but discipline; and I need not
develop to you at greater length reasons w hich I doubt not
you know of.

The Prase states that, u 'M. de Morny is certain
of being elected in the Puy-de-Wine, he will not
come forward for Paris.

Among the 1,111 scholars jolt expelled from the
Louis Ic Grand Lyceum are M. Lefebvre Durufle,
the am of the minister of public works, and M.
Quentin Bauchart, sou of the couuciUor of state of
that name.

The President is understood to be very inveterate
against the university of Paris, which has ever nur-
tured a spirit of independence and free enquiry.
The affair of the college of Louis Le Grand
has augmented the terrors of those whose
intemts and affections attach them to the univer-
sity lest a sweeping decree of abolition should
throw all education entirely into the hands of the
priests, already much too powerful. Many political
personages notoriously conservative are attempting
to intluence the mind of the President by represent-
ing to him the danger to himself of any large aug-
mentation of pri..sly influence. The well known'
perseverance of the President in acting ultimately
upon his own ideas forbid any sanguine hope that
the university will be preserved from some very
ecriuus blow. It is not improbable that it may be
removed from Paris to some distant part of the
country.
A great sensation has been occasioned at the Aca-
demy of Sciences by the resi;nation of M. llnvernoy,
a professor who has hitherto been most assiduous in
his academical labours. The reason for this step—
most unusual one--is not known.

MM. Ad. trEichthal, Ernest Andre. and Emile
Pereira, the committee of the Versailles Railway
fright bank), have published a remonstrance to the
directors of the Western Railway, complaining that
the statutes of the latter company have been settled
without their being admitted to take a part in framing
them. They protest against being called upon to
extrcise the option reserved to them by a treaty be-
tween the two companies, of taking 15,000 shares in
the Western Railway, until they know the exact
position which they are to fill with reference to its
management, and are enabled to assure their own
shareholders that the enterprise of the Western Rail-
way will be watched over by parties in whom they
can have confidence.

At the Bourse the Fives fell 10c., and closed at
1113.6.5: the Threes closedwrithout change at 65.60.
Bauk of France shares rase .sf. The Central Rail-
way rose 6.25; Strasbourg, 5; Boulogne and North-
ern, 2.5 n each. Havre, 1.2.5. Test. and Bordeaux
again kll 6.25. Veraaillts (right bank), 2.50.