The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

FRANCE

PARIS, SUMMT EVFNINU.
The bureau of the senate went y ....tertiar to Com-
piegne to present to the Emperor the &nut*,
COW(l'luni voted on Thursday last. The official
promulgation of the changes in the constitution will
doubtless appear in the Monifrur to-morrow. In
consequence of the holiday yesterday there is no
Mot tear to day, and several of the other journals
have likewise withheld their usual puldieatl,n. It
is, I believe, certain that the Emperor will return
from Compiegne tomorrow. A report that he was
going to La F.,re to witness some experiments with
some newartillery of his own invention tscontrudicted.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has informed the
Pope's Nuncio that the Emperor will give kilo an
audience at the Tuileries on Tuesday, at one o'clock,
to receive his new credentials.

Madame Pauline ltenimid, one of the victim,' of
the 2nd of December, whose sent( nee of transporta-
tion was lately revoked, is just dead. She arrived
in France a few days since from Algeria. but was
unable to proceed farther on her way to l'aris than
Lyons. there her son, a pupil in the College of St.
Bark, went to see her, but he arrived too late to ho
recognised by his :motile.., and ire time only to see
her die.

Generals Bouses.ren and Yustif have been promoted
to the rank of grand officers of the Legion of Honour;
General Peliseter has been made to officer in the
order, and moat of the officers, nos-commissioned
officers, and soldiers of whom honourable mention
WWI made in the report of the taking of Leghouat,
have received crown or =dal&

The Emperor has ordinal that the new copper
money shall be distributed exclusively to the army
in the first instance, so that every soldier mar ten lee
at least one decime before the coinage shall be issued
for general circulation.
Boa Maze, who has hitherto been a state pf isener
interne in the town of Ham, has received a qualified
pardon. He is to be at liberty to go to any part of
Franco that he may choose, but he will not be per-
mitted to leave the country.
According to the Neal'. i,te de Marseille a scene
of an oriental character occurred at the Hotel des
Empercurs, while Abil-el-finder was staying there.
One of his wives, unable to repress a feeling of
curiosity, came to the window to gaze at the crowd
collected in front of the Emir's residence. This in-
fraction of the laws of the seraglio was punished by
a decree of banishment from her lord's presence. She
was at once sent to Algeria.
The legitimist journal of Nantes, L'Esip'eai,ce do
Peulde, says, in reply to a recent article of M.
Granier de &pagan in the Conefitatioune/
This journal affirms that same eighty odd legitimists
only have responded to the Count de Chanslaird's
and reasoning from this @karat imperceptible numb, r, he
concludes that the legitimist party is dead and buried. We
reply to the writer in the Constilwitonnel, either you are ill
informed, or the truth, for you, is enveloped in a very
thick cloud. What, you say that in all Fiance little mare
than 80 legitimist magistrates have responded to the appeal
of the exile. Know, then, if you are ignorant of it, that
the department of the Loire Int4rieure alone has fure:shed
the number you mention. At different times since the
oath exacted by the new constitution, 17 me ethers of the
Council Umeral of one department have gen: in their re-
signations, and in support of what we advance we will not
only cite figures but names. They are MM. de Goulaine,
Ernest de la ltochette, du Feline de Thiman, Victor
de Cornulier, de Montaigu, de Coislin, de Grandville, de
la Guibourgiqe, de la liaye Joussclin, Berber, Ber-
nard des Champs-Neufs, Meriadec-Leennee, Alphonse
Galbaud du Fort, ArsZne de Go7on, Poulain, Hippolyts
de Cornulier LuciniZre, ,:e Regnon. The municipal
council of :Cantos contained five legitimists, MM. Delon,
Victor de Cornulier, de la Tour do Pin-Cliambli, de Saint-
Peru, de Goudelaine, and all five have resigned. What
would it be it we were to go into the country, and take an
exact account of the councillors of arrondissement, mayors,
and municipal councillors, who on account of their
reload of the oath have abandoned honourable functions,
which they owed to the esteem and confidence of their fel-
low-citizens ? And, if quitting the Loire Infiricure, we
were to appeal to La Vendt,e and the other departments of
the west, we should find the same results, and sLauld
arrive at a sum total so enormous that M. Grainer de Coa-
lmine would be eli.mayed at it.
(Signed) Estnuat.o lie La It,
The Semaphore of Marseilles gives the following
account of a desperate attack by pirates upon a
Prussian ship in the Straits of Gibraltar:
Captain Witt, commanding the Fru.sian brig Fora, 175
tons, who arrived yesterday in our port, with a cri wof
nine men, left Shields on November 2nd, with '3:io tons of
coal. On the 7th, being in the Straits of Oibra:tar, he
was boarded about half-past four o'cloik. in the afternoon
by a craft of ten men, nation unknown. The weather was
(sir. While boarding, these men tired upon his crew.
They at once ordered Captain Witt to make for the Mo.
roccu coast, but in consequence of the calm, it was t, and
impossible to obey this direction. These indieiduals, t: en,
attributing the non•execution of their orders to the un-
willingness of the helmsman, shot him dead, and threw his
body into the sea. The effect produced upon the
rest of the crew by this assassination MAY be
conceived. In their terror they retired b, low.
The captain and second mate alone remained
upon deck. The pirates then pillaged the ship torture the
eyes of these two men who were powerless to interfere with
them. They left the ship about half-past 9in the evening,
taking with them all the provisions, sails, and ship's storm,
that they could carry away. They went off in the dm thou
of Morocco. This audacious act of piracy, committed is
MI frequented by the shipping of the whole world, con-
cerns the commerce of all nations, and calls fur speedy and
exemplary reprisals.
The Journal do Mere of the 23d says:
The abundance of freight at Havre for the United States,
among other places, is such, notwithstanding the recent
departure of the Franklin, and the presence of the
Humboldt, outward bound, and in spite of the competition
of the English and American steamer., the sailing vioels
still go out full. Thus the packet belonging to the new
line, the Irene, 1,800 tons, sailed today for New Ywk,
with the largest cargo that has ever left the port of Havre
for the United States. It consists of 1,587 bales of varous
merchandise, and 4, 511 hampers of champagne. The
Irene, moreover, takes out as passengers 435 emigrants.
PARIS, MONDAT IiVENIN(i.
M. °collier, professor of mathematics, is expelled
from France. .

The Pope's Nuncio will present his credentials to
the Emperor at the Tuileries on Tuesday.
The &flatus Consulturn, voted on Thursday la%t in
accordance with M. Troplong's report, is to-day pro-
mulgated in the Moniteur, and has become the law
of Franco. . .

Count Caroli has arrived in Paris on a mission
from the Emperor of Austria.
The Moniteur says:
11. Jervis d'Atouguia. Minister of Foreign Affair 01 the
Queen of Portugal, in his reply to the notification of the
amnion of the Entperor of the French, has cap? s,ed the
lively satisfaction felt by her Majesty, and has announced
that new credentials will be immediately forwarded t the
minister of Portugal at Paris.
Louis Napoleon deals with the liberties of Franco
as the lion in the fable did with the carcass which he
summoned the beasts to see hint divide. The king
of the forest, after claiming all the portions but one,
for various assigned reasons, took possession of the
remaining share, upon the principle that no one would
dare to dispute it with him. So the Emperor of
the French, not content with the confiscation of
nearly every liberty, upon hollow pretexts, furnished
by his livened legislators, seizes upon the few that
remain without troubling himself to invent a legal
excuse. M. Geuiller, the well-known professor of
mathematic., and a man of the highest respecta-
bility, has received orders to quit Paris this day,
and to leave the French territory with all steed.
Why this decree of banishment has been i,,ued
nobody knows, except that M. Ccuillcr's political

winrion woo were. and probably still are,
r•
obin-an. Now, flu le is uot • word to be
fi:mil in any known French law, in the ocsa-
wiaori of January, 1m.51, or in fete corn
.j of the Troplong's and Baroche's this
romulgatsil to justify the executive in sending
& fitech citizen out of the country without trial. It
sa act of widisguisid arbitrary power, and in a
wry reduced to the led necessity of suffering
isek an act to puss unquestioned the lives and
IL• urties of the inbabltants arc as insecure ~ their
m. Ensile de Girarilin, in the Presse, saxes his
114a:stow to the following sine.? line of comment
troy the above oesurrence:—" We register this fact
• Lout n deetion ; who: reflections could we add.''
the Emperor. whose stay at Compiegne has been
,r maid from time to time, is now nut expected in
Ps, till to-mertow morning. 1 pmume he will
aer:alc arrive then, to keep his appointment with
to Popes nuncio.
jue Moroi/run contains a decree confirming the
Twent votes of the municipal council for the corne
pknon of the Rue Ricoh, and directing the various
works necessary in conaailuenee to be carried into

The l'rr sse, in its weekly commerci Al review, gives
s fAvouriblu account of the Christman trade of
It says:

,daing to compare the retail sales of Christmas, 18i2,
•• ': those of IKol. we bees made inquiries art two bows*,
, .4 which but the first clam, and tae other of secondary
fume. la the fir.t holm they told us that
mks had se doubled, and, to the second,
.• and that thty hrd soil nearly nee-third more
•oi last year. Another important fact to remark
o that the price. of articles nt 4:eery description
risen consideranly, and buyers cheerfully submit to
, siugmentatioo. The stuck in hand of almost all raw
e. tier's'. has dimini.hed, and those manakin:trim who se-
same.' unprovidid beer has to meet at the same time a
both io pelt.e, ai.d wag... There are many journeymen
%sellers, cabling maker., brans • worker., carpet makers,
• , &c., who nen, l'r a long time i arising 41. and Zif. a
4.,!,wh0 now gain 6f. and ;1.. mid ultra they !saes a master
tqlimol twenty other rc u. t a take them.