The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1851.

PARIS, SUNDAE EVENING.
The department of the Ardeche, whose disturb-
ances have long been a subject of comment in the
and a source of uneasiness to the government,
puss,
last been deprived of the privileges of civil
government, and subjected to the rigours of martial
law.
The address, in which M. Leon Fucher justifies
to the President this severe measure, appears in
the ..I.feniteiir of to-day, and is as follows:
Paris, Sept. 12, 1851.
Monsieurle President,—l have the honour to call your
attention to the state of the department of the Ardethe,
and to the measures expedient to take for the re-
establishment of order in this part of the territory,
and for the maintenance of the authority of the laws. Se-
veral points of this department, and in particular the ar-
rondissement of LargentOre, have been the the theatre of
seditious demonstratious. Secret societies, notwithstanding

NAPLES.
The Bilancia of Turin of the 9th announces from
Naples that sentence of death has been pronounced
upon 46 prisoners of state, including 10 deputies,
2 ex-ministers, 1 ambassador, and 2 priests. It is
hoped the King will commute these sentences.

the vigilante of the government, develope themselves
rapidly there. Powder and arms are manufac-
tured and distributed clandestinely. The configuration
Of the soil, intersected with ravines and torrents, makes the
Ardeehe the asylum of fugitives from justice who escape
from the neighbouring departments which are in a state
of siege ; and the disposition to disturb order thus increases,
from the certainty of impunity. The agitation in that
country is evidently carried on with the view of preparing it
for insurrection. On recent occasions, and in particular
at Laurac and Vinezac, the troops of the line :and the gen-
darmerie have been attacked by mobs, and have found
themselves obliged to make use of their arms. The anar-
chists have not even shrunk from a crime as cowardly r
hateful—an assassination of an agent of the public bees
has been attempted. This state of things appears to be pert
of a system of organised intimidation and peruser
commotion in the Ardeche. Against such elements of
anarchy the ordinary means of suppression can no longer
suffice. The time has arrived for invoking the employment
of the exceptional means authorised by Art. 106 of
the constitution, and the law of August 9, 1849.
I have long hesitated, Monsieur le President, be-
fore proposing this measure to you ; it has pained me
Ito recognise that, owing to the weakness of good citizens
and the audacity of bail, an exceptional mode of govern-
' meat should have become necessary in yet another depart-
ment. But the energy of the defence must equal the
hardihood of the aggression. The Prefect of the Ardeche
formally requests a decree placing that department
under the empire of the state of siege ; I think, with
that magistrate, and with the majority. of the council-ge-
neral of the Ardeche, that the case of imminent peril for
internal security, contemplated by Art 1 of the law of Aug.
9, 1819, has now arisen.
In consequence I have the honour to submit for year
sanction a decree placing the department of the Ardlehe Ia
astute of siege.
The subjection of a fresh department of France to
the arbitrary severities of martial law is too impor-
tant a fact not to rouse thoroughly public attention,
and promote a searching inquiry into the facts which
haveinduced the government to withdraw from so
large a fraction of the community the benefits of a
civil administration of the existing laws. Now the
head and front of the offence of the inhabitants of
the Ardeche seems to have been a collision with a
small , rty of gendarmes, in the commune of Vinezac.
Every y knows that in the south of France the
people are strongly attached to their traditional
and local festivities, which are frequently of an an-
tiquity coeval with the introduction of Christianity
into those parts. Now the government of Louis
Napoleon, and particularly the administration of M.
Leon Faucher, choose to frown upon these festive
anniversaries, and stimulate the prefects to suppress
as much as possible their celebration. The only pro-
tection which the inhabitants enjoy against
this interference of the central authorities
with their old usages lies in the indepen-
dent bearing of their mayors. But the
prefects have the right of suspending for three
months mayors who fall under their displea-
sure; and such, becoming henceforth marked men,
are pretty sure of being soon after dismissed by a
decree of the President. Now the mayor of Vinezac,
declining to be bullied and brow-beaten by the pre-
fect of the Ardeche, saw no good reason why the
annual votive fair of the commune should not take
place. The country people met, and indulged in that
singular medley of devotion and merrymaking which
constitutes the character of a southern fete. They pros-
trated themsel res before theirsaint born e in procession ;
they danced, they tippled,and they sang. Now among
their songs were some of a democratic burthen,
highly unpleasing to the cars of gendarmes. Eight
of these functionaries thaught fit to break into a
tavern where several hundreds were at the height
of their festive excitement, and attempt to
silence and disperse the revellers. They were well
beaten and repulsed for their pains. The prefect
has suspended the mayor of Vinezac, who was
shortly after, as the rule is, dismissed by the execu-
tive power. Such is the leading crime of the Ar-
deche. As to the allegations of the minister about ,1
the growth of secret societies, and the clandestine
manufacture of powder and arms, there is not a de-
partment iu trance which is not liable to
the same charge. Naive, indeed, is the confession
that the inhabitants fly front the neighbouring
departments, subjected toa state of siege, to take refuge
in a region exempt from that curse. But if this be
a reason for extending the state of siege to the place
of refuge, M. Leon Faucher would be equally justified
in extending martial law to the whole of F ranee.
The Committee of Permanence will hold a sitting
to-morrow morning, before the ceremony of inaugu-
rating the new markets, in order to hear the ex-
planations of NI. Leon Faucher relative to the sub-
jection of the department of the Ardeche to a state of
beige.
The number of councillors-general is 2,827. Of
these, 1,749 have voted in favour of the revision of
the constitution, 673 against, 405 abstained or were
absent.

Notwithstanding the rumours of ministerial modi-
fications, in consequence of a disagreement in the
cabinet on the law of May, the present ministry is
not likely at present to undergo any essential
change. 'General Bandon indeed is expected to re-
sign the portfolio of war, and General Schramm, his
predecessor, is designated by report as his successor ;
but this alteration has no political meaning whatever.
It is reported that an act of impeachment will be
brought forward at the re-opening of the Assembly
against the members of the Mountain implicated in
the French-German plot.
The report of M. Herryer's projected journey to
Frohsdorf is contradicted in well-informed quarters.
This legitimist chief will not, for the present, quit
his estate at Angerville.
The intention of instituting a judicial inquiry into
the affair of M. Carr., judge of the Court of Appeal,
has been dropped. Thus the scandalous insinuations
of the l'otrie against that legal functionary, merely
because he was appointed by M. Cremieux, fall to
the ground.
Great sensation has been excited in the Parisian
public by the discovery of four tickets of the lottery
of gold ingots stamped with the same number, in the
possession of a tobacco seller. When you remember
that there are seven millions of tickets issued at one
franc, the possible amount of similar fraud will ap-
pear starthng.
The Paine attempts to allay the popular excite-
ment existing on this subject, but its explanations
are by no means satisfactory. The prefect of police
has published a warning, proclaiming illegal all
traffic in these tickets after the 31st of August, when
the sale closed.
The inauguration of the statue of Joan of Arc, the
work of Louis Philippe's daughter, the Princess
Marie, has taken place at Orleans, without any cere-
mony or speech, but the inhabitants appeared deeply
interested in the event.
The government have definitively refused to au-
thorise the national fetes projected by Messrs.
Horeau, Ruggieri, and Co.

&Arno; the Duke of Parma, at the palace Litta Nfo- I The duchy of Holstein to contribute te the expenses of the
aiguani. The Pope is to be represented by the Prince : strttesictextdtionteto ttleasebalof of popdtt,teont.. The manning
Altiei • andjthe Kings of Wurtemberg and Bavaria are o Art. 3. When in the state ucothunreselem`
expected. The Emperor is to return to Vienna on matters are under con-
tultation which concern the whole monarchy, then has the
the sth of October. minister for Holstein a place and a vote equal to that of the
Danish minister.
Att. 4. The duchy of Schleswig has, tinder the limitations
mentioned in Art. 3, its particular Hitt, and its own
terial subordinate administration for local affairs—such as;
1. Civil and criminal legislation. 2. Judicial courts, mid a
pollen. 3. Communal affairs. 4. ; and 4. 'the in-
come and expenditure of the partivul.ir interests of the

duchy.
Art. 5, The duchy of Schleswig has a common militia,
church, and school system with the kingdom of Ihnmark ;
for all common objects Schleswig and Denmark have a
common administration and legislation.
Art. 6. Danish and German nationalities to enjoy Cie
same rights and privileges in the derby ..f Schleswig. A
change in the Danish and Gonna,. school and pulpit lan-
guage can only be brought about by it united Di. t.
Art. 7. With respect to the following institutions in which
the duchies of Schleswig and Doi are equally inte-
rested, it should be decided : 1. half of the income of the
Eider canal should belong to holstein. 2. Tim forced par-
ticipation in common in certain fire insurances should be
discontinucu. 3. As lime as Schleswig students enjoy at
the university they will pay towards its support an annual
contribution, according to the wale of their population.
4. The Eider ritual will Is• under the common customs ad-
ministration of Schleswig and the kingdom of Denmark.
Art. S. Changes in the above articles, the relations be-
tween the several parts of the monarchy being kept up, can
only be effected by the unanimous consent of all the legis-
lative bodies.
Art. 9. The duchy of Lauenherg continues to belong to
the Band. The provisions of the Ist article are applicable
to this duchy.
The Homburg Narehricht remarks that these ar-
ticles go clearly to sunder the duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein, and to incorporate Schleswig, so to
speak, with Denmark.