The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

on that road which, in the consistency of their logic, 'MI relpieition of the censors. Mr. Nettement replied
led them to Rome; who has approved of and sane- I withtheepiritanddignitywhichhavealwayscharacter-
tioned all the wrst practices at reactarismism i who,j ised his public life, whet her as a representative or. writer.
th Abs, iray, titteibrded aid 'farenitna, • her. G. IHe said that as a staunch moldier of the dropeau
1 the de of the Questes supremos , and I /done he could never submit to so unworthy a capitu-
tho cr of t ' put:ells gercrnment. is Intim' ; and that he preferred to !week his pen ratherlllit4n
the security the plc of Viva° are now thrown than write under such humiliating conditions. In
balker. . fact, the Opinion l'seblique desired nothing better
....--..-..1.wee,..
r t than an opportunity of dying sword in hand on the
4, , field of battle, as it was only kept going since the
FRANCE. imposition of the stamp at a loss, and its ruin was
evident under the new is,;/One. Thus the fairest,
PARIS, THURSDAY EVICIIINCI. most manly, and talented organ of the legitimists'
The Marquis and Marchioness of Nornianhy will has given up the ghost.
leave Pans to-morrow for England. The departure The story is quite true which I reported to yea
of the English Ambassador, at a moment when our yesterday of a soldier who deserted during the days
of December, and pleaded in extenuation of his
relations with Franco are of such pre-eminent im-
portance, induces the belief that his excellency's offence that he had been a sentinel tit Ham, and con-
visit to England is not unconnected with the minis. nivcd at the escape of Louis Napoleon from
terial crisis on the other side of the Channel. that fortress. I now, again, allude to the
You aro aware that the news given by the Coma- circumstance, to call your attention to the
remarkable fact, that t'he officer before whom
tiabontel of a complimentary note from the Emperor
this impudent justification of one breach of military
of Russia, received an official contradiction from the
duty by another still graver, never dared to rebuke
M *tear. lam enabled to-day to present you with
the canine' delinquent for has ',harmless defence, but
an explanation of these conflicting statements. Its
silently admitted the perverse palliation. Thum the
true enough that the Czar has written no autograph
letter to the President; but a note has been addressed grossest offences which have accidentally served as a
stepping-stone for the progress of ambition beeome
by M. de Neeselrodo to M. de Kisaclef, the Russian
interpreted as redeeming merit'', and the voice of
chargi, d'affuires at Paris, with instructions to read
the contents to Count Turgot, minister of foreign authority which ought to challenge and rebuke
affairs, but nut to deliver any copy. This note abuse is choked by dastardly apprehensions of giving
umbrage to corrupt power. lour centuries ego the
congratulated the l'resident upon the success of the
Lord Chief Justice of England condemned the heir-
coup debit of Dec. 2; but recommended him, in dip Lord
of the crown of the Plantagenets for a min-
lomatie language, not to be hurried away into any
demeanour; and his fearless integrity was rewarded
precipitate measures, such as assuming the title of'
emperor. The latter advice has been very ill re- afterwards by the prince who had been chastised by
(Tired by the government; and it was chiefly on this his impartial sentence. To-day in France an officer
dares not punish a deserter, because that deserter
account that the congratulations of the court of St.
l'etersburgh were disavowed. winked at the escape of the prisoner whom he was
s
The national guard is about to be dissolved, and set to guard, and whom France has now chosen for
will he replaced by a voluntary guard, which will be her master. Such is the progress which morality
called the "Guard of the President of the Republic." and manly virtues make in four centuries.
It is said that very important news his arrived I called your attention some time ago to the fact
that the military commissions, at first instituted to
from Algeria, to the effect that many regiments were
in insurrection. rimer° the indictments of the prisoners to he tried
The members of the now council of state are all
Ey court-martial, acre disposing summarily of the
accused without trial. It now appears that the trials
chosen, and the names will appear in the Moniterer
b
at the same time as the constitution, the publication by court-martial will not take place at all; and that
of which is for the present fixed for the lath or 16th some 2,004) of the citizens arrested for resistance to
1 inst. the coup d'etai will bo transported to Cayenne uu-
It deserves to be remarked that on Tuesday night, judge
d.
at the Opera, the imperial etiquette was punctually The family Lehon, intimately related to M.
followed. Ono of the most striking features of this Morny, will, it is said, have 6,000 shares in the Paris
ceremonial was that the signal for applause was always and Lyons Railway.
given by the President, and then became general. It is affirmed that the name of the Assembly will
You may observe by such innovations how accu- be changed to some other than " Senate."
rate were the predictions of those who foretold its There is much tale of a pamphlet by M. Thicrs,
the supremacy of Louis Napoleon a return to the published abroad, and copies of which arc even now,
sycophant usages of the Bas-Empire. it is stated, circulating in l'aris.
I drew your attention lately to the circumstance M. de Ntrode, late representative• and now mcm-
of an article giving the palm to civilians over the her of the Consultative Commission, has bought the
military, appearing in the Assemble'e Nationale. Emancipation, of Brussels, which is to be turned
This has given great offence to the military aristo- into a Belgian Unirers. M. de Nlerude is a near
cracy, and appears to have been disapproved by the relative of M. de Montalembert.
government ; for the censors have been had up before The construction of the viaduct of Viroflay, thrown
M. de Morny and severely reprimanded, for allowing across the valley on the sides of which the two Ver-
the article to pass. It some the censors are so ashamed miller lines of railway now run, is getting on with
of their employment that when the proofs of jour- frrelli activity. Thin viaduct is to connect the two
nets aro presented they aro merely passed through lines. The two new termini of the Western Ra-
tan open parcel, or rather slit, behind which the mys- way. one at the Plato de l'Europc, and the other on
terious castigators of the press cannot be descried. the lidulevatd Mont rammer, are also rapidly pro-
This precaution, worthy of the old Venetian police, greasing, and the works will certainly be completed
has only just been adopted. in the course of next spring. The fine terminus far
The I)ibats and "IssensWe Nationale exult over goods in the Plain of Vaugirard, is also nearly
the erasure of the democratic device, " Liberte. Ega- tiniehed. •
lite, Fraternite," claiming an independent right to tri- The Directors of the Bank of Franeelhave just had
umph in the abolition of revolutionary symbols, which constructed in the middle of the garden of that build-
they have never ceased to assail. These organs would ing extenske cellars, the masonry of which is nine
do well at the same time to reflect that it is mainly feet in thickness. These cellars which, at the slight-
by those violent tirades against all that remained of est alarm, may be immediately tilled with water, and
the revolution of February that the conservative the entrance to which is, besides, secured by thick
party gave Louis Napoleon an instrument which ho iron doors, arc intended to receive the immense masa
of gold and silver, both in coin and bars, which forms
turned to their subjugation and enslavement. lied
they been as sedulous and vigilant in their guar- the reserve of the Batik.
dian.hip of constitutional liberties as they were blind The Marseilles journals publish a note from the
and rabid in their denunciation and persecution of de- Minister of Commerce to the Chamber of Commerce
magogic phantoms, they would never have seen can- of that city, calling attention to a report front the
non planted on the Boulevards, for the destruction of French consul at Pares, relative to the falling off in
their houses, under pretence of putting down the French commerce with that part of Greece, and eon-
socialists. Their cry against " Liberty, Equality, caning suggestions for its revival. 'he consul states
Fraternity" has ministered to their captivity, depres- that articles of French manufacture are still much
sion, and disunion. As a political party the conger- esteemed in that part of the country, and that al-
cadres can no longer be said to exist. More and though Corinth raisins, the principal article of ea-
more of them daily will be registered among the port front the Nlorea, are not in great demand in
"adhesions" to the new power. The rest will re- r'rance, it would be possible to encourage large ex-
main condemned to inaction, obscurity, and ennui, ports of oil, wool, raw silk, and other raw materials
The great orators will exchange the glories of the for which there is a demand in French manufac-
tribune for the "odium sine eiegreitate "of the Acade- tories. But for this purpose the consul thinks it
my arm-chair. Those whom political aspirations necessary that, after the example of England and
lured from the exercise of the bar on other lucra- Austria, the French merchants should form penile-
tive professions, will be fain, like M. Nadaud, the nest establishments at l'utrus. By these means he
mason, who, from being a candidate for the prem.- thinks they might advantageously compete with the
dency, now seeks a jab for his trowel, to go English.
lhe Messayer des Chambres of Brussels, explains
back to their abandoned career, and resume the web
of their earlier and humbler labours. Let us hope and corrects as follows the report of M. Victor
that such will prefer that honest independence to nue,' arrest :
cringing for offices and employments to the unprin- M. V. Hugo could not have got away from Paris with-
cipled trate who has trampled upon them and
out the help of a disguise, and a pavvport in a fictitious
magis name. On arriving at Brussels he was obliged to deposit
betrayed the liberties of their country. his pa
at the Hotel de Ville, and to take a permis de
You will no doubt have noticed the remarkable s9oeir in his supposed name. But immediately afterwards
expression let drop by M. de Moray at the dinner of M. V . Hugo called upon M. Hagler, the Minister of the
Interior, to whom he was personally known, informed him
the Prefect of the Seine, "Providence," said the
of the necessity which had compelled him to take the false
minister of Louis Napoleon, "never does things r:siiii:i.g,umanllnobtrapedct saaltassurNsTyceertttal he might
by halves." This oracular maxim his been
interpreted as meaning that the President " goes in" be the foundationPe for the report of M. '‘'.e."l-I-uagno'st &resell:twit
for the whole empire. Few had, indeed, the aim- two police agents went to his hotel and desired to see him,
plicity to believe that Louis Napoleon would sit down but upon hearing his explanations they politely made their
contented with a consulate for ten years, when he excuses and withdrew.
had the
game
all in his
own hands,
and therewas A shocking murder of a priest has just been com-
nothing to restrain but his word from playing it after witted at ltoybon (Isiere). In the night of Jau. 2,
M. Drevon, the cure of Beaufort, was called up upon
his own fashion. But it appeared so absurd an
anomaly for the re-elected power to call itself the pretext that ho was requtred to administer the
last sacraments to a dying person. Ile at once left
" Emperor of the Republic," that I felt no little his house, and had only walked a few yards when
hesitation in sending you this news ; which has, the pretended messengers cut his head open with a
however, been since confirmed from various quarters,
and in particular by the correspondence of the hatchet, and afterwards mutilated his body and cut
Independence Beige. The latter source gives out
off the head. M. Drevon has been curate of the parish
ears. The assassins are not yet in custody.
to-day that the imperial title is seriously expected. 20
'
A provision in the new organic decrees pro- At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 65c., closing
which forbids
mud at 105.55. The Three per Cents. fell Sc., and closed
gated by the Emperor of A ustria,
at 72.20. No cause for the fall in the Five per Cents.
oral pleading in the courts of justice, has struck a was assigned, except the realisation of profits cense-
panic into the hearts of advocates here, as they fear
that Louis Napoleon intends to copy this new feature were,
upon the recent rise. Most of the railways
of Austrian le elation. To-day there has been a were, however, weaker. Rouen and Havre each fell
good deal of talk upon this subject in the lobbies of 20fr. ; Bordeaux, 17.00 ; Centre, 15 ; Northern, 7.50 ;
Teste and Bordeaux rose 10fr., and Dieppe, 100 fr.
the Petals do Justice.
Bank of France shares fell I(M)fr.From an early hour this morning numbers of
workmen, perched upon ladders, or suspended in
cradles from the roofs of the public buildings, have
been busily employed in erasing the proscribed
words, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
A variety of medals are being struck to comme-
morate the election of the President M. Borrel, the
engraver, has just finished two. One represents the
bust and profile of Louis Napoleon, and on the re-
verse contains the numbers of the vote of Dec. 21.
The other has a bust of the Emperor on the face, and
that of the President on the reverse.

SPAIN.

MADRID, 3.
General Peznela has resigned hie post as captain-
general of Madrid. Generals Sane, Pavia, and
Canedo, are spoken of as likely to succeed him. The
last has the best chance.

The motive assigned for General Pezuela's re.
signation is his dissatisfaction with the explanations
given by the Minister of War.

It is said that a conspiracy was on foot to liberate
the convicts in the bagno of Rochefort, and was dis-
covered by M. Becker, the shipowner of Rochelle,
who informed the authoritiet, and enabled them to
frustrate the designs of the conspirators.
I informed you yesterday of M. Proudhon's en-
gagement to write a weekly review to tackle the
Jesuits. lam able today to add some more details
on this curious subject. It seems, that when the
decree was published for transporting persons under
the surveillance of the high police, who had broken
their ban, it excited great apprehension among the
political prisoners of St. Pelagic as the decree might
be applied hereafter, and it was agreed that Proud.
lion, who is allowed now and then to leave the pri-
son on parole, should seek an interview with de
!Horny, to shield them from such a terrible visita-
tion. The conference was granted, and was of con-
siderable length. l'roudhon represented to the go-
vernment that the course they were launched upon
would infallibly end in a revolution which would
bo their ruin. M. do Moray took this occasion to
engage the pen of the celebrated editor of tho l'eople
to harms the ultra-inontano party, whose preten-
sions are foiled insupportable at the Elysk.
The Opinion Publique has been suppressed. The
immediate motives of its suppression, I am in-'
formed, ix the appearance of a gnat deal of the
paper yesterday in blank columns, owing to the exci-
sions practised by the censonthip. Yesterday after-
noon a commissary of police called at the office of
the journal to demand the reason of this exposure of
the deeds of the censorship, the wounds inflicted by
which are expected to be marked by the insertion of
trivial matter of no political interest. It wax signi-
fied to the editor that if he wished to avert the sup-
pression of the paper, he must write a letter to the
miaistry of the interior, promising to conform with

SWITZERLAND.

The Gazette de Lausanne states that Sergeant
Boichot, the ex-representative (who is not dead as
reported in one of the French journals), and M.
Avril, another ex-representative, were arrested in
the night of the 30th ult. in a house near that town,
in which they had been hiding for some days.
The same journal states that M. Kopp. professor at
the Academy at Lausanne, has been ordered to leave
Switzerland without delay.
The Suisse of Berne states that the explanations
demanded by the French government relative to
political refugees relate more particularly to those
who had published a seditious proclamation at Lau-
sanne. The fact appears certain, for the federal
council has ordered their expulsion. The Bund,
however, declares that no expulsion of French refu-
gees has taken place.