The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-30 00:00:00

RELEASE OF PRISONERS.

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Pioll 0011 OWN CORINSPONDINT.

PARIS, FRIDAY MOININO
Persigny has addreiised a circular to the prefects to
release immediately from prison and restore to their
families all " poor, misled insurgents." Military and
judicial authorities will receive similar orders.

TILE SENATE AND COUNCIL OF STATE.

PARIS, THUILSDAT
By a decree inserted in the Monitcur of this morn-
ing. Prince Jerome Bonaparte, Marshal of France,
Governor of tho Invalides, is appointed President of
the Senate.

M. Mesnasd is appointed first vice-president. The
other vice-presidents are MM. Drouyn de I'lluys,
Troplong, and General I3araguay d'Hilliers. General
Count orlluutpoul is appointed grand referrndary.
M. Latrosse is appointed secretary of the Senate.
Another uecreo appoints tho several members of
the six sections of the Council of State, which is to
enter immediately upon its functions. The Consulta-
tive Commission is dissolved.
M. Holley is appointed Secretary-General of the
Council of State, in the place of M. Chevalier, who
declines that office.

M. Pietri, the new prefect of pollee, has issued ■
proclamation to the inhabitants of Purie on his ac-
cession to office. In this document the Prince Louis
Napoleon is styled the heir of the Emperor. M.
I'ietri promises to be paternal as well as severe.
The sections of the Council of State arc composed
as follows:

SECTION ON DISPIrtIOMATTELL-M. Maißard, President.
Councillors—MM. Bauchart, Bonds?, Boulatignier, Coma-
det, Marchand. Mast:roof Requests--Ist clan M M. Blanche,
and Gomel. 2nd class: MM. Do Borneo, Daverne, Redon,
Michaud, and Vaillermay. Auditors—lit class MM.
II udault, Lemarie, and L'llopital. 2nd class: Ds Belle-
bcuf, and De Rennepont.
SIECTION or LiUIOLATION, JCSTICZ, AND FOIINION AIN
TAIRS.—M. Rouher, President. Councillors—MM. Bon-
jean, Conti, Janvier, Limn, Leftism (Armand), and
Suin. Masters of Requests—lst elan: MM. Chsdenet,
Chassairrne-Cioyon, and One. 2nd class: Francois, De
Montcaquiou, and Portalis. Auditors—lit class MM.
Canton do Sandra's', L.hon, and Maynard. 2nd class :
MM. Cottin and Dufau.

SECTION OF THE INTERIOR OF PUELIC INSTRUCTION
AND Won/intr.—M. Delangle, President. Councillors—
MM. J. Boulay (de la Mourthe), Cartier, envier, thread,
Hannan, and De Thorigny. Masters of Requests-Ist
ease: MM. Do Businires, De Padoue and Mowed. 2nd
doss : Aubernon, P , and De Si:gur. Auditors—let
class: MM. Do Doaxdon, De Garel, and Marbesu. 2nd
ease: MM. Aimee, Leehanteur, and Do Nareillee.

SECTION OF FURLIc WORKS, AO RICULTV RI, AND
CON ItERCE.—M. Mune, President. Councillors—MM.
Ferdinand Barrot. Michel Chevallier, Denjoy, Frimy,
Vuißefroy, and Waiase. Masters of Requests—let class:
MM. Debussy, Loyer, and Thierry. 2nd class: Dubois,
and Jahan. Auditors—let claw: Fare, Levies, and
Robert. 2nd clue : Edouard de Boinvillien, and De
CXamblain.

SUCTION! or WAR •xa M•atxa.—Vice-Admiral Le-
brane, President. Councillors—MM. General Allard, Bar-
barous, Dariate, Flandin, and Villem.tin. Maaters of
Requests-Ist clam: MM. Brehier, Chasseriau, and Leila-
tondo* 2nd elm: bilf. Helaine, De Clumiron, and De
Mamas. Auditors—lst class: MM. Fouquier and Sere
2nd class: MM. Domicile* Leroy, and Visyra.
SICTION or Ftx•xcas.—M. do Perim, President.
Councillors—MM. Boinvilliers, Charlema-ne, Godelle, Le-
roy de Saint-Arnaud, Stourm, and Vuitry. Maitre+ of
Requests—lit class: MM. Gulonde, De Pomade, and Pas-
calis. 2nd class MM. D'Argout, Du Iterthier, and Oarini.
Auditors-Ist class: MM. Da Caaabi►nea, and Menton-
Davernet. 2nd clue: MM. Bartoloni, Du Guernon-Itan-
t•iLe, snd Portalis.
The Councillors of State, whose names follow, are
appointed to make part of the assembly of the coun-
cil of state delinerating nu contentieuz, conformably
to art. 19 of the decree of Jan. 2.5 :—MM. Jam-ler,
and Suin, section de legislation ; J. Boulay, and
Giraud, section de l'interieur ; Vuillefron, and
Wails*, section des travaux publics; Allard and Vil-
lemain, section do la guerre; Charlemagne and Vuitry,
section des finances. .

MM. Dumartroy, Maigne, and Reverchon, Maitres
des Requetes of the let class, will fulfil the functions
of commissioners of the government in the Conten-
tieux Adminiatratif.

The nomination of Jerome Bonaparte to be presi-
dent of the Senate, which appears in the Moniteur
of to-day, has been expected for some time past. As
the ex-king of Westphalia's appointment is purely
honorary, and founded upon considerations of family
and purse, it is more important to note those of the
vice-presidents. M. Nlesnaud, the first of these func-
tionaries is a president of the Court of Cassation. As
such, to use the languageof M. Dupin, he is called upon
to maintain the highest principles of equity, and to
decide with regard to the reversal and the annulla-
tion of acts which violate the laws, and constitute
incompetences or excesses of the executive power.
How is M. Mesnaud conscientiously to discharge
this arduous duty, when it lies with the executive
power to fix how many thousands a year he is to
have, and to revoke the gift at pleasure. The other'
vice-presidents are MM. Drouyn de l'Huys, Trop-
long, and General Baraguay d'Hilliers. The
great wealth of the first will dispense him, it is
presumed, from any obligation to the treasu The I
ry.
consummate incapacity of Count Turgot as Minister
of Foreign Affairs, a position which he has acquired
simply by the merit of being the son of a chevalier
d'honncur to the Queen Hortense, rendering his con-
tinuance in so responsible a position next to impm-
Isible. M. Drouyn de l'Huys has been designated by
report for his successor. In fact, the latter was on
the point of becoming foreign ministry when the con-
fiscation decree scared him. But the fact of his
having accepted a seat in the Senate intimates that
his objections have been overcome, and renders it
probable that he will soon become a member of the
cabinet. M. Troplong, another vice-president, is
first president of the Court of Appeal at Paris, and
the most eminent lawyer in France. The " Contrat
des Ventea," duo !to the pen of this voluminous
writer on French jurisprudence is reckoned a mas-
ter-piece of legal composition.
Tho division of the Conseil d'E'at into sections
suggests a few reflexions as to the names which ap-
pear in these lists. The Section do Costenti tic,
which comes first, is a court for the decision of ap-
peals of citizens against the administration. The
person originally selected to be president of this
section was M. Chaaseloup-Laubat, M. Faucher's
Minister of Marine. But no sooner was the fatal
decree of the 22nd published, than M. de Chasseloup-
Lauhat declined a Neat in the Council of State. M.
Maillard, the president appointed in his place, is one
of the few surviving councillors of state of the empire.
M. Ilauchart, the first name which appears in this
section, is guilty of flagrant apostasy, as he was
one of the representatives who signed the
decree fur the deposition of the President,
at the famous sitting in the mairie of the 10th arron-
dissement. For the rest, M. Banchart's ambition
seems in the inverse proportion of his capacity and
principle; as he has been constantly hanging about
the Flyts,e to pick up one of the small ministries, and
insinuated himself into the friendship of Odilon Bar-
rot to creep into the cabinet by holding on to his
(skirts. Another functionary appears in the section
of finance, who also signed, as councillor of state, a
protest against the usurpation of Louis Napoleon.
This is M. Stourm, whose apastacy deserves to he
Istigmatised with the more vehemence, as no man has
stormed more about thew liberties which have been
extinguished by the emir Vial of Dee. 2. Stonrrn was
an opposition deputy under the monarchy, aid when
I the republic succeeded he became a zealous adher-
ent of Cavnignae. Lifted to a post in the Cooneil of
State, he distinguished himself by the violence of his
opposition to the Elysi,e. But all the eloquenee of
' Stourni was like that of ton many others. "full of
sound and fury signifying nothing." The section of
Public Works is presided over by M. M wile. This
gentleman ens one of the few eo/eibf,,, in Louis
polenn'n ministry. 'f he pains which he took to pro-
claim in the 3totitcur that he gave in his resigna-
tion on the eve of the promulgation of the deeree of
January 23, seemed to announce an honourable re-
pugnance for that fell spoliation. So much the more
WAY every right-minded man disgusted to observe
that the retreat of M. Marine, as well as that of his
colleagues, Rouher and Fould, from the cabinet,