The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1852.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SATURDAY WINNING.
The /hallow contains a decree establishing the
much talked of new bank, under the title of " So-
ciete General de Credit Mobilier." The statutes
alluded to in the decree are not published. The
bank is prohibited from making loans upon foreign
public securities without permission from the govern-
ment.

Among all the prefects who have distinguished
themselves by servile and idolatrous flattery of Louis
Napoleon, M. L'hapuys-Montlaville, of the Haute
Garonne, has always kept the lead. He has now,
however, outdone himself. The following decree has
net been issued by him :
We, the Prefect of the Department of the Haute Garonne,
an Officer of the University sod of the Legion of Honour,
Commander of the Pontifical Order of Saint Gregory the
Great, and of the Order of Saints Maurice and St. Lazare,
conaklaing that it is important to transmit to pos-
terity, by imperishable monuments, the acts of Gml,
now about to be accomplished by the ministry of the
Fresh people on the 21st and 22nd of November of the
year of grace, 1852 ; considering that it is important to
preserve in every commune the Souvenir of the part taken
by each in this the last phase of social salvation ; seeing
that among the nations of antiquity it was customary to
engrave upon bronze
imliamerble, memorable facts of a
to be interesti history ; seeing that the re-
establishment of the b roach empire is of the number of
those facts destined to exercise the meet powerful influence
is the present time, and in the future, upon the destine* of
this country, and even upon thereof universal society, decree
' Art. I.—The result of the vote for all the departmests of
the Haute Garonne, canton by canton, commune by com-
mando, shall be engraved epos btoase. This bronze shall
be placed in the prefecture, in the hall of the deliberations
of the council general Art. 2. The result of the vete of
every commune shall be engraved upon marble, beneath
the results of the department, arrondissement, and canton.
Art. 3. Them marbles shall be placed in the principal towns
of the arrondissement at the sub-prefecture, in the hall
of the deliberations of the council of arrondissement,
in the principal towns of the canton and the communes, in
the halls of deliberation of the municipal Councils. Art. 4.
This bronze and these marbles shall beer the date of the
first day of the reign of his Majesty the Emperor Napo-
leon 111. Art. 5. The expense of the departmental broom,
and of the marbles of the arrondissement, will be borne by
the departmental funds. The expense of the marbles of the
communes will be paid out of the municipal fuuds.—Tou-
louse, Nov, 15, 1852.—CHAPUT4MONTLLYILLE.
After this I have no scruple in mentioning a
' report, that it is seriously debated in high quarters
whether it may not be necessary to dismiss this
prefect on account of the state of his mind.
The deacons and chaplains of the church of St.
Genevieve (late the Pantheon) have taken possession
of the house provided for them in the Rue de Foam*"
Saint Jaques, where they will live together as a fra-
ternity. According to a religious journal, a project
is in contemplation with regard to the church which
will certainly find no favour in the eyes of the Roman
catholics. The Press* Religieuse says:
A project is talked of according to which the Pantheon,
which still belonging to the chapter of St. Geneviiive' will
open lateral chapels for different Christian rites. It is
even contemplated that on great occasions the body
of the church should be allotted at certain hours
to the use of all denominations of Christians, as is
now practised ia the East. Thus in the church at Beyrout,
when the rite is Latin, a solemn mass is performed every
Sunday at the great altar according to the Armenian rite.
Tho frequent commusicallons established by railways and
steam vessels will henceforth bring to Paris a number of
priests and foreigner+ of different creeds, and it will be of
great advantage to them to Lad a church where their reli-
gious services may be performed. The religious influence
produced by this variety of oaressonial is the same church
will be powerful in the age in which we live. People will
see in it the common parentage of all the Christian religions
spread over the surface of the globe.
Trials of insurgents of Deumber, 1851, are still
going on in different parts of the country. In the
Vat several mem have just been sentenced to dif-
ferent periods of imprisonment and hard labour, and
two, named Mourre-le-Pacifique and Jaquen, to death.
The capital sentence is, it is said, to be executed in
the town of Cuero.

The lower part of the town of Asps was completely
inundated four days ago, and the inhabitants had to
abandon their houses. Walls were thrown down,
gardens were ravaged, and other damage was done
before the waters retired. No inundation has done
' so much injury in the town since 1809.
The Monikur contains a decree from the Prince
President, approving of the modifications proposed
in the statutes of the Lyons to Avignon Hallway
Company, which is henceforward to take the name
of " The Lyons to the Mediterranean Railway Corn-
Pipit"
adame Palmyre, the fashionable dressmaker, has
gone to Moravia, where the Princess Wasa is now
staying.
The Courrier de Bourges of Nov. 17 says:
We learn from a certain soon* that the incorrigible de-
, inmate are very active at Semmes, and in the department,
on the occasion of the ballot which will be opened on Sen.
I day. We have reason to believe that they are acting, not
in obedience to Boarder tram the revolutionary committees.,
but in pursuance of izetromiesse from a Parisian comminee,
al; katertrEtapirte tie t to
das utlise Npaa4 I people, nt
the
men who have already saluted Louie Napoleon with
the title of Emperor, nut go to Bleep, relying upon the
certainty of an overwhelming majority. The majority will
never be too great to were the future well being of the
country—to close the door against any new revolution.
Eagles in bronze have been replaced on the Columns
of coloured marble of the triumphal arch in the Place
du Carrousel.

The Prince President hu granted a pension of
600 f. from his privy purse to the soldier named
Champion, of the Lth Regiment of Artillery, who
had his arm blown off in firing the cannon on the
Prince's entry into Grenoble. Champion has besides
received the military medal with the pension attached
to it.

The Union has the following on the funeral of the
Duke of Wellington :
Our readen will readily pardon us for net sharing in the
opinion of the boaourible Mr. Carter, member of the
English parliament, u to the honours which governments
and people pay to illustrious men, used to those who have
deserved well of their country. We not only approve of
these honours, but we praise them. We maintain that the)
have the effect of raising characters and exciting courage.
It is a grand and noble spectacle to one motion surrounding
with public homage the tomb of a as who during his life
had honoured and glorified it. It is not for us to join with the
voices which on the other side the channel celebrate the vic-
tories of the Duke of Wellington; but we may say that the
English people have/ ust set a noble example to the world, and
we must say it in order that these traditions of respect and
public j
ustice may also remain amongst us. It will be re-
marked that all the marshals' batons which the Duke of
Wellington had received during his military career were
carried after the b of Wellesley by ofßcers of different
nations. Then were seven of them in the following order:
Spain, Ennis, Prussia, Portugal, Holland, Hanover, and
England. The baton of Marshal of Franco was not there.
That was because the Duke of Wellington bad been
honoured with one. Here therefore is another falsehood
which vanishes—another calumny which falls to the ground.
How many honest men have believed, en the faith of libe-
ralism, that the Restoration had mods the English General
of Waterloo a Marshal of France.

Letters from Algeria (says the Moniker) state
that the colony is flourishing. The nows of the
liberation of Abd-el-Kader had not produced any
agitation. An are, named Mahommed-ben-Oanah,
has been thrown Into the fort of Mersel-Kebir, under
a charge of spoliation exercised towards the persons
over whom ho was placed, and two raids of' Mesta-
-11 warn, and one of Mascara, have been fined for acts
of mat-administration. The Beni-Snsssen, a tribe
of Morocco, had joined with the Maghsen of
Ouchda to chastise their countrymen, the Msaouire-
: Moines, who had been making some predatory
incursions on the district lying at both sides
of the boundary line. The Maghzen of Ouchda had
taken 18 Moors prisoners, who are kept as hostages
tie the good behaviour of their tribe. In the other
parts of Algeria the Arabs were peaceably engaged
, In public or private works. Wells are being sunk at
Mefta in the sub-division of Oran; three houses
'
, have been finished at Bidibel Abbe's by the natives,
who had hitherto always dwelt in tents; the line
of the new road from the /Mate to the Thelat was
covered with materials; at Tiaret, in the market
place, instead of the tents which served as shops, a
company
of Jews and Arabs have built a bazaar in the sub-division of Themeen, the read of the
Traras gave every prospect of being finished at 11
tho end of November ; and the Ouled Mimoum
had applied for authorisation to impose a tax on

themselves, for the purpose of having a bar con-
structed on the brier, to render about 1,600 hectares
of land irrigable. The weather was favourable for
thus works, though unpropitious for husbandry, the
ground being dried up from the drought. Cattle
were dear in the neighbourhood of Mostaganem,
because the supply was limited, bat an abundance of
cattle of all kinds was to bs found in the western
districts. A great number of schools had been of late
established in various parts of the colony, and the
aversion of the natives to French education was
daily diminishing. Some alight agitation of a purely
local character had manifested itself in the Sahara,
220 leagues from the coast, but it was not of any im-
portance.
At the Bourse to-day public; securities were dealt
in as follows :—Fuur-and-a-Half per Cents. 106 f. 25c ;
and closed at 106 f. 40c. for the account; Four per
Cents. 98f.; Three per Cents. 84f. 75e. Orleans
Railroad new shares, 1,076 f.; St. Germain, 1,500 E;
Paris and Hence, 980 f.; Rouen and Havre, 545 f.;
Strasburg and Bale, 373 f.; Northern, 890 f.; Paris
and Strasburg, 860 E; Paris and Lyons, 940 f.; Lyons
and Avignon, 790 f. ; Western, 770 f. ; Bordeaux and
CiAte, 660 f.; Dieppe and Fecamp, 360 f. • Bordeaux
and Taste, 800 f.; Centre of Italy, 1,030 f:

PARIS, By EVINING.
This is the first day of the vote " relative to the
re-establishment of tho empire," for so in all official
proclamations it is candidly and accurately described
No functionary by any chance uses language imply_
ins a power of choice in the electors. All the exhor
cations to rush to the poll dwell upon the crimi-
nality of abstention, and depict the frightful state of
isolation in which a man will hereafter be who shall
be condemned to say, " I had no part in building
that stupendous edifice of perpetual glory, happiness,
and prosperity—the empire. From what I can see
of Paris today, I fear, however, that a vast number
of its inhabitants will be in this benighted condition.
I have been to several of the polling places, and have
observed a marked falling off in the attendance of
voters as compared with December 20. There is
nothing like a crowd anywhere. People straggle in
two or three at a time, and I have seen many of the
voting-rooms tenanted, for the space of may minutes,
only by the president of the bureau and the polling
clerks. The wetness of the day may in some mea-
sure account for this, but I hear in all quarters that
the abstentions in Paris will be very numerous. I
hoped to have sent you as a curiosity a printed bul-
letin with the word " No" upon it. But although
1 have made extensive personal searches, and have
sent to inquire at more than a dozen polling places,
I have not beee able to procure one. Bulletins, with
the word "Yes" are thrust into your hand in every
street, but believing that if any "Noes" existed I
must have found some, I presume that the printers
have been prohibited from issuing any. I remember
that in December the Monileur contradicted as a
calumnious imputation upon the government the re-
port that the printing of negative bulletins had been
prohibited, and towards the end of the olection,in order
to give a semblance of fairness to the proceeding a
few were seen hawked about the streets. Perhaps,
upon the same principle, we may see some to-morrow.
In Paris, where the electors can either write or get
some one to write for them, the want of printed bul-
letins is comparatively speaking unimportant. But
in the country it is practically impossible for the bulk
of the population to vote "No" without them. They
are brought up to the poll under the pressure of a
system of intimidation, of which people in England
can form no conception, and, when there, affirmative
bulletins are put into their hands. If any one asks
for a scrap of paper to write his vote upon, he is told
there is none; and if he goes out to get paper he is
marked.

Nothing it observable in the streets today to indi-
cate that anything of importance is going on. There
are a few new addresses in favour of the empire,
signed by operatives, to be seen upon the walls. But
I have seen the same in widely distant quarters of
Paris. They arc evidently placarded by authority, I
and indeed nothing can be placarded without.
Monseigneur Parisi', bishop of Arras, has written
to the deacons of his diocese to express his wish that
no priest within his jurisdiction should abstain from
voting. The bishops of Nancy and Toul, and of St.
Flour, have recommended the electors of their re-
spective dioceses to vote in the affirmative. The ma•
jority of the bishops have not, however, openly in-
terfered in the election. The prefect of the Ille-et-
Vilsine has compelled the Juurnat de Rennes to,
insert the pastoral letter of the Bishop of Bernice in'
favour of the empire, at the head of its columns. The
pretect's requisition informs the editor that voting
bulletins will be sent him in proper time, and that
he is expected to distribute them.
The .&Ao de l'Ed, a journal of the Meuse, employs
a curious argument to cumulate the zeal of the elec-
tors. It says:
Many electors say theyare tired of universal suffrage. Well,
if they will only vote now with the patriotism end union
called for by the occasion, we will undertake to promise
them them that they shall not be called upon again fur a
very long tints to come.
At Limoges, in the evening of the 19th, four men
in blouses paraded the town, bearing a red fiag, with
the inscription o Death to Napoleon ! Vivo la Be-
pubiique ! Vive la Guillotine! Citizens do not vote!
To arms!" The flag was seized by a police agent,
who drew his sword to overcome the resistance of the
men. These facts arc made public in a proclamation
by the prefect of the Haute Vienne, who praises the I
agent for using his arms, but does not state whether I
the authors of- this foolish demonstration have been
arrested, nor whether they are known.
The engraving of Louis Napoleon in his imperial
robes has disappeared from the shop windows. It
was too ridiculous and has been suppressed by au-
thority. Orders fetire been given to put a stop to
the ale of the cheap copies of it which have been
hawked about the streets for several days past.
I call your attention to an important paragraph in
the Mondeur de l'Artnee, in which you will see the
true nature of the much vaunted reduction in tho
army, described in the terms and almost the very
words used by me when the decree appeared on
Thursday last :
Our readers familiar with the natural movement of the
calling out and discharge of the annual contingents, will
understand perfectly wed how the government may bring
about a" budgetary" reduction in the numbers of the effece
tire of the army without disorganising its "cadres" or
materially affecting its strength. Fur this purpose all that
is requisite is to advance the period for discharging those
men whom time is nearly out, and to postoone the em-
bodiment of the new recruits. They will oaly see there-
fore in the measure just prescribed an operation of wise
economy, lwhich takes from the army none of its real
ressourees, since both the men sent to their homes by anti-
cipation, and those whose call to active service is delayed,
remain constantly available and ready 03 march in ease of
need, their MUM being still upon the rolls of the army.
The Pays, speaking of the new bank, does not
deny that it is a monopoly and an enormous power
for the benefit of a privileged establishment ; but it
say., that this power is limited by the public interest
of which the state is the surety, the guardian, and
the director. This argument assumes the soundness
of the main principle of the present government,
namely, that unlimited confidence should be reposed
in unlimited and irresponsible power. The bitter
experience of ages has taught all free states the very
reverse of this maxim. The Pays thus describes
the object of the new bank :
It has been reported that the only object of this bank was
to facilitate the difficult settlements which agitate the
Bourse of Paris twice it month. It is now known that the
Societe Generale de Credit litobilier " is constituted'
upon a scale much more vast. Its object is to fa-
vour, in considerable proportions, the development of
public works and great manufactures, whether
by opening accounts-current with their founder,, or by
subscribing for shares and bonds in companieslegally
authorised, or by looking tenders for the execution of works
of public utility. In all these particulars the society tends
directly to the encouragement of industry, in which it will
investoupnrguctiLeg millions.
of ilitort.. It will he. concerned in all the
g
our age. In other resetets its opera-
tion is more directly financial. It is thus timid is authorised
to purchase shares or honda issued by railway and other
companies, to make loans, and to lend upon the deposit of
public securities or shares in trailing operations. In this
point of view it is • gigantic bank, offering to holders of
public securities advantages and guarantees which no pri-
vate establishment can give them. To realise this double
series of operations, it has formed itself with a capital of
60 millions of francs; 20 millions are now issued,
represented by 40,000 shares of 400 francs each.
The society his the right to issue for payment
of sums due for the purchase of shares in manu-
facturing undertakings, and to the extent of the
mount of such purchase', bonds, which after the complete
realisation of the partnership capital, may go as far as ten
times the eipital, that is to say 600 millions. Until that
time bond, can only be issued to the canna of five times the
realised capital. They may be issued at 46 days sight, and
must always be integrally represented by securities in the
portfolio.
A decree in the Mtmileur states that the 600,000 fr.
granted on October 4 last for repairipg the da-
mage done by the inundations of the Rhine is on

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the point of being exhausted, and that it being in-
dispensable, in the of the security of tho territory,
and even for the preservation of the works already
done, that the repairs should proceed without inter-
ruption, a further supplementary credit of 300,000 fr.
upon the budget, is opened for that purpose.