The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

• PARIB. TURSDAT Ermine°.
The whim between the Minister of the Interior
sod the Minister of Police, which was one of the
main causes of M. de Moray's retirement, continues
between M. de Persigmy and M. de Maupas. The
former feels that the Importance of his department is
completely eclipsed by the attributions of the new
ministry. The prefects are shorn of their authority
in the presence of M. de Maupaa's inspectors-gene-
ral; and the withdrawal of the press, the theatres,
and the prisons from the sphere of the Minister of
the Interior lops him down to a level with the Mi-
Miner of Public Works, or any other secondary de-
partmi nt. As to how this struggle is destined to
sad various opinions prevaiL Some say that the
Ministry of Police will again be suppressed, or if not
suppressed, that its attributions will be annexed to
the Interior, under M. de Persigny. Others imagine
that de Maupas will carry the day; and that M. de
Persigny will take the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Whatever truth there may be in these reports the
.shies referred to is positively certain.
The electoral tactics of the opposition go on but
slowly.. But the list of the candidates of the govern-
ment is preparing with much activity. Only a few of
UNSO have already transpired. Thum a telegraphic des-
patch to the prefect of the Indre-et-Loire recommends
fo the suffrages of the electors of Tours. M. Gouin,
formerly deputy and minister of Louis Philippe, a
financial notability in the late Assembly, who was
reporter of the budget of 1851. M. de Itichemont is
recommended as the candidate fur Loches in the same
department, and M. de Flavigny for Chinon. In the
department of the Oisc the government candidates
are : for Beauvais, tho Duke de Mouchy, member of
the Legislative Assembly, a wealthy proprietor,
greatly interested in railway questions: for Cler-
mont, M. de Plancy ; for Compiegne, M. Philibcrt
Curial, son of General Curial. M. Lemairc, formerly
deputy, and an Orleanist member of the late Assem-
bly, has announced the intention of appearing as
independent candidate against M. Curial.
I hear daily from the most authentic sources in-
dances of the overbearing intimidation of the govern-
ment to cow the least show of opposition in the
elections. I know that a member of the late Assent-
My of the constitutional party announced to the pre-
bet of his department that he should offer himself as
as independent candidate. The prefect, starting at
the word "independent," said that ho only knew of
two sorts of candidature, that of the government,
and that of the opposition. If the person who ad-
dressed him was not the former, as ho supposed he
was, the prefect having received no intimation from
head-quarters to that effect, he must be ranked as a
member of the opposition. In that case he begged
leave to give him It word of friendly advice, which
was to withdraw his candidature, as otherwise his
18 ccusins, who held different offices in the depart-
ment, would be all dismissed without exception.
For obvious reasons I suppress the names of the
parties concerned, but I can positively guarantee the
truth of the story.
Dupin is mentioned as the independent candidate
for the Nievre, and Vatimesnil for the Pure.

• i The President s greatly absorbed at the present
' moment, and more inaccessible than ever. Hence it
is believed that he is employed upon some important
piece of legislation, which will shortly appear in the
shape of a decree.
During the last day's a decree, settling the fate of
the press, has been expected to appear ; but for some
reason it hangs fire.
A consultation of eminent juris•consults has been
held upon the decree confiscating the Orleans pro-
perty. MM. Odilon Barret, Dufaux, Dupin
Berrycr, and Vatimeescil, have drawn up a document
embodying the opinions of the council held, but it
has not been allowed to appear in print. Thegovern-
ment is said to be preparing a memorial on this sub-
ject through the hands of M. Duvergier, appointed
advocate of the treasury in the place of M. Boinvil-
tiers. M. •Chaix d'F.stange is also mentioned as
having had a finger in the composition of the latter
document.

The Conseil efEtat is to hold a sitting to-morrow,
in order to invite the executive to fix a day for their
installation. This is expected for the 15th or 20th.
The presidents of the sections are said not to have
been quite satisfied with their costumes. It is even
said that they went yesterday to the Elyste, to re-
tknest that the silk embroidery which has been as-
signed to their coats might be exchanged for gold.
The government has not yet intimated the degree
of liberty, if any, which it intends to leave to inde-
pendent candidates for seats in the Corps Lfcgialatif
The Constilulionnel and the Petrie are writing ela-
borate articles to insist upon the importance of
using all the means at the disposal of the go-
vernment to prevent the electors from being misled.
All their arguments assume that the moss of
the people have intelligence enough to know that
they wish to be governed by Louis-Napoleon, but
that if any less simple proposition should be submitted
to them, there would besreat danger of their going
astray. To vote by " Yes" or " No" to a revolu-
tionary question suddenly proposed to them, offering
no alternative, is a task worthy of their sovereignty,
and their judgment in such a case must be taken to
be infallible. But when they are called upon coolly
to decide whether A or B will be the best representa-
tive of their political interests, it is necessary that
the central authority chosen by them in their haste
should interfere to protect their minds from the
influence of their neighbours. Cassagnac, this morn-
ing, complains that in every department there are a
certain number of honourable, influential, and for the
most part well-intentioned men, who take upon
themselves the direction of political opinion in every
town and village, and in this way they constitute a
new feudalism, of which they are the barons. A more
healthy natural political influence than that here
deprecated is not easy to imagine. The object of a
wise and honest government would be to extend and
not to destroy such influence. Instead of that, the
excessive centralisation so long admitted to be the
curse of France, is to be carried to an unheard o
extent. There is • marvellous inconsistency in the
complaints now made of local influence with the
reason given for abolishing the serials de lisle. It
was said, with some truth, that when candidates
were elected by lists containing several names, the
electors often voted at the dictation of committees
sitting in Paris, and did not know for whom they
were voting. It was then convenient to argue that
the honest peasant, when called upon in a limited
electoral district to pronounce the name of the single
candidate of his choice would naturally give his vote
to some neighbour, whale social position and known
character commanded his confidence. Now it is said
that the elector must be warned lest his estimable
neighbour should mislead his politics, and that for
these he must look only to the fuglemen in Paris.
From the pertinacity and hardihood with which
these monstrous absurdities are advocated in the go-
vernment prints, I have little doubt that some mea-
sure is brewing which will make it impossible for
any but government candidates to have • chance of
emcees. There is always meaning in these articles.
The system is to order certain writers to preach up
particular measures, and then to adopt them as being
billed for by public opinion.
M. de Lamartine has addressed a letter to the
Journal de Sai;ne-et-Loire, in which he expresses his
intention to refuse any invitation to offer himself as
a candidate for the legislative body.
The sentence of deportation decreed against Marc
Durnsiase and Greppo, ex-representatives, is com-
mutted to perpetual banishment.
The three other representatives who were com-
prised in the sentence of
rtiiissortation, which has
just been remitted, with to Messrs. (Ireppo
and Marc Dufraisee, were I. Lefton, now in the
peon of St. Pelagic; M. Richardet, sick in the
hospital of St. Louis; and M. Miot, who remains in
one of the prisons of La Nievre.
The appearance of M. do Morny in company with
the President on a visit to the palace of the Corps
Legislatif hail given rise to much comment, and per-
haps the report that M. de Morny is to be appointed
president of the Legislative Body is due to this cir-
cumstance.

The President of the Republic, accompanied by
M. do Morny and one of his orderly officers, yester-
day
.visited the works going on at the Palace of the
Legislative Body.
Gale's/natal says:

vend changes appeared to be definitively decided on in
the internal arrangements of the salle. The tribune will
be removed, and on the spot will be placed the
seats intended for the commissioners of the go-
vernment. These mats, which will have their
backs towards the bureau of the President and
the secretaries, will face the semi-circular seats
occupied by the members of the Assembly, and, from the

mt. being raimd, the voices of persona speaking from th
I will be heard as well as when they spoke from the tribune,
and they will is their turn be able to hear perfectly well
any remarks made by the members of the Chamber. in.
old Chamber was capable of containing about 600 members,
The room has been now decreased by suppressing one row
airiest+ and enlarging the space of the others. The Prinl.
dent afterwards proceeded to the new hotel of the min tit
of Foreign Affairs, which he visited in every part.
A decree of the President of the Republic concedes
the property of the old Sorbonne and its buildings
and dependencies to the city of Paris, on conditiou
that they shall for ever be appropriated to the Am.
demy of Paris, and to the Faculties of Tlieohrre
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Science, and Letters. Another decree regulates the
conditions on which pupils, Bonn of soldiers, and
others, may obtain "bourses " r. gratuitous «lio
cation) in the public schools nod un arr4ti of the Mi.
nister of Public Instruction regulates the examilia•
tions they are to undergo previous to adniissiots.
The Stele says:
It would he too long to reregister all the candidates tot) e
Legislative Body who arc announced by the depanini r.t4
journals. We will, however, cite some of the best kr...on
names. In the Loire Inferieure there is a question of
Demers for the orrondiseement of Savenay, Ililault fur tb.g
of Ancenis, and Ferdinand Fevre for Nantes. In the Kn.
de-Calais, MM. I'liebon ; Leon dllerlisicourt, and dila.
vrincourt present themselves in eemPctilihn in the arron.
disitement of Arras ; MM. Lequi. a and Gnaw de Gone fa
that of Bethune ; M. Lefebvre Demerit in that of ht.
Omer; MM. elllerantliault and Legros Demi in that
of Boulogne; MM. Grum Capron and Drgouve d,
Nuncques in that of St. Pol. Threc
ex-representative', MM. Kolb.Bernani, de Milan,
and if Beeps.' are brought forward in the Nord. 'I be al,
morns! de la Somme announces the candidateship of Dr.
Cuisneau at rtrolllll2 ; the Courrkr de Torn•et-tionoitiv
that of M. Elie Janvier, elder brother of the counc,ll.l of
state, at Montauban the Journal tie Tare-ef • Garonne tle.e
of MM. Paul Dupont, printer, at Paris, Dusolier, do T.
lefer, and Adolphe de Belleyme, for the Muir
meets of the Dordogne. M. filmed des Eocherolles top
mcrly secretary-general of the prefecture of
tonne, presents himself in this district of Agen. M. Vines,
says the Guettcur has not accepted the tan.
didateship offered him in the department of the AISIW. and
M. de Nieuwerkerke him withdrawn his in the
partment—his functions as director of museum" not he,,z.
iniin=)l tng to the electoral law, compatible with• those of

M. ltenaud, ex-representative of the Basses Priql.
nets, who was included in the decree of hanislirrient,
has obtained permission from the Spanish govern.
merit to take up his residence at Yalcarlos, uear his
relative, M. Aguirre, ox-deputy of the Cortes.
Yesterday took place at the Academy of Sciences
the election of a member in the place of NI. Maurice,
deceased. The candidates Presented be the com-
mission of the Institute were M. Delessert and NI. C.
Bonaparte. No other candidate obtained the mild-
site majority, and upon a ballot M. Ihdessert, having
obtained l 7 votes to 24 given to M. C. Bonaparte, was
declared to be duly elected, subject to the
ofapproba-
tio,tiihe society thei lt'yeresoildebtolot
booksellers,
titersHeppriunlitltn
ie.,
and stationers
of Paris have addressed a letter of thanks and con-
gratulation to M. de Billing for the zeal displaced by
that gentleman in the matter of international copy-
right, on occasion of the ratification and exchange of
the recent treaty between France and England. The
society glance at the difficulties which rruvent fur
the present the adhesion of Belgium and Holland to
the principle which acknowledges and the law which
protects the right of intellectual property--and ex-
press a hope that the cordial agreement of the cabi-
nets of London and Paris on this point will produce
a disposition in those states to reconsider the grounds
of their former refusal to treat on any masonable
basis.

At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 21c. and
closed at 103.10. The Three per Cents. roe
and closed at 64.8.5. Bank of France shares fell lot.
Most of the railways rose slightly : Rouen, 7.50;
Boulogne, 5 ; Lyons, 3.73 ; Central and Strasbourg,
2.50 each.

yhor fisc than a full return to the system which
'brained before the revolution. It is an unqualified
restoration of pure bureaucratic government, and is
yeytuvocally declared to be such. The cavalier
▪ *Web is naturally averse to the bu-
irWrmy, is violent in its opposition to this
which it denounces as • poor cop/ of Louis
lisp▪
oloit'.• infatuated proceedings. The Irma
jell tog now stands up for the constitution, which it
flyway wished tomes abolished without ceremony.
It hopes to change the tint chamber into a house of
101,4 get the second chamber fully into the hands
of the landow nets, and then establish the sway of the
sii,t,,,rscy in the rural communes, the circles, and
&torments, thus ousting the popular element, and
rendering the bureaucracy subservient to its influ-
ence. The cavalier party, however it has leaders
a predominant talent in the chambers, and the ablest
of all the Prussian newspapers for its organ, cannot
core uitlt the immeasurably superior strength of the
bureaucracy: the opposition of the Krea: Zeituny
will moiler strengthen the democratic interests than
am Its own plans. The King lately had a confer-
rue with M von lkthmann ilollweg, the represen-
Utive of the conservative bureaucracy, from which
circumstance the public concludes that the govern-
molt w tli decide for the pro4ect before deeertbed, or
f, thing Very like it. The desired changes will,
however. be proposed to the chambers in the hope of
abolishing the constitution in perfectly constitutional
form.
The proceeding.' in the First Chamber to-day were
unimportant. The debates on the budget in the
ticeond. however, brought out M. Manteuffel in a
tviveti upon the press. The government, he said
n'ust, and would support particular journals
with money. Every govcrnm. nt required means
for 1:s cat(l4. and these could nut be had without
moray. Other governments of gnat states, even
that of England, used considerable sums of money
in a similar manner. When the censorship was
abolished, it was found more than ever necessary to
cudeevour to influence the public in favour of the
government by means of the press. An official news-
paper was established with more sacrifices than the
result had justified. However, the government
would now come forward openly and declare the
intention of applying money as it seems right and
prudent for the subvention of newspapers.

BERLIN, Pas. 8.
The clergy and the teachers in public schools for-
merly enjovcd exemption from direct taxation in
Prie,,in. 'rho constitution, however, abolishes all
such exemptions. A motion brought forward in the
Virg Chamber for restoring the said privilege of the
clergy and teachers has been opposed by the govern-
ment and consequently rejected in spite of the sup-
port of the reactionary united with the conservative
Bethman-llollweg party. In the Second Chamber
a grant of 12.000/. was made for secret service money,
the smallness of which sum proves how very cheaply
the government work is done in this country. For
the ministerial bureau, which has to watch over the
press and keep up the government's connection with
the newspapers, 3001. were demanded and granted.
N. Von Manteuffel praised on this occasion the effi-
ciency of the bureau in question, and said, among
other things, that it had succeeded in establishing
connections with the English press.
The Russian government has declined connecting
the St. Petersburg-Warsaw railroad with the Great
PrutsianlEastern railway, now being built, from
Berlin to Konigsberg. Russia is too intent on cut-
ting ott all connection between its subjects and the
population of Western Europe to allow its confines to
be crossed by locomotives.
VIENNA Pas. 4.
The riesas Lloyd, hitherto a moat violent de-
fender of Louis Napoleon, has, this morning, a
milieus article respecting the confiscation of the
Orli.ins estates, and it is but justice to the best con-
duit' d paper in Austria to say, that "it does not
attempt to praise, or blame, or defend, or discuss the
matter. but only to explain some of the reasons which
probably led to it." These reasons, it states, are
precisely identical with those which Woad
the Orleans dynasty to banish and 111111,411111
the elder Bourbons ; the House of flaaffer•
to adopt such severe measures against the
Stuarts, that their last lineal descendant is a Heats-
sant in the Austrian army ; and Beemeistio. tedeead
and bumble the mighty name of Woo. The Lip/
therefore argues, that what the world did net sew
dioin in them, and even looked tqlen as a sissensaey
precaution, it has no right to censure in Lash Ne.
picot. It urges that we are too apt to anddir
recent events under the bias of personal feelings NA
prejudices, and calls upon its roadies to j
meseure of the President with the ease
with which they would review it had it him plass
lee years ago, and the parties Winn by it MONO
'had; i. e., as simply and purely an net of good or
bad policy.
The Imam Blatt, Vienna paper, has been for-
bidden by government to appear for 14 days. The
Celeste, which announces this measure, states that
the editor, after many warnings as to consequences
of his tactless, tasteless, manner of conducting hie
journal, had tilled up the measure of his iniquity by
naming the statue of ltotteck, the voluminous histo-
rian, after Berthold Schwarz, the Capochin, and by
publishing a number of imaginary appointments of
generals.
The manufacturers are beginning to cry out sorely
against the provisions of the new tariff which
abolishes the old prohibitive system, and many of
them have been obliged to dismiss a portion of their
workmen. and to have the others only working short
time. The trade, however, which seems to suffer
wet of all is that connected with objects of luxury
acid fashion, which will be henceforth almost all im-
ported.
The Minister of the Interior has just issued sew I
very stringent orders providing for the prristlisill
inundation of the Danube which usually talon plan
at the melting and descent of the ice bled sr and
tares the suburbs of Vienna into a navigable him
Lest year the descent of the waters was so iispettssas
Is to sweep away everything before it, sad the
damage caused to property was estimated at thew
lauds of florins.