The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PAUIS, ICXDAT Eveataa.l
To-day's Moniteur contains a long review of, with
copious extracts from, Mr. Cobden recent pamphlet,
and also the correspondence with Gen. Brotherton
on the apprehensions of French invasion. The'
writer maintains that the views taken by Mr. Cobden
are .t.uhstantially correct, and joins him in adjuring
the ministers of religion and ad who value the peace
of the world to combat the warlike propensities of
the English people, and to preach goodwill, peace,
and charity.
The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience to
their Serene Highnesses the Princes Frederick and
Christian of Schleswig Holstein.
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The telegraph is iiow established between Calais
and Boulogne.
His Majesty has consented. on the application of
the archbishop, to become godfather to the great bell
of Bordeaux, and has requested the mayor to repro-
sent him in the ceremony.
The Poetmaster•General has given notice that the
mail packet boat for Italy, which usually leaves on
the 29th of each mouth, will this month be de-
spatched on the 27th. Consequently, all letters for
the Italian States must reach Paris not later than
the 2-ith instant.

While the streets of Paris are crowded with holi-
day folk, looking at the Bred Gras and the
masquers of the Carnival, the few people in the way
of hearing political news arc under the influence of
excitement of a very different kind. This morning,
at about six o'clock, a number of arrests were ef-
fected under circumstances close resembling the ar-
rest of the generals that preceded the coup detat.
Bodies of police, supported by a military force,
knocked simultaneously at the doors of a consider-
able numbeiof persons of;the highest respectability,
and took them from their beds to a prison. How
many have been arrested I know not, and I am un-
able to state the precise cause. It is reported that a
legitimist conspiracy has been discovered, aided by
correspondents of foreign journals. Some people say
that the legitimists and Orleanists are equally im-
plicated, and that the conspiracy may be called a
fusionist one. The names of the persons arrested
that have reached me are M. Tanski, a Polish re-
fugee, but a naturalised Frenchman, one of the
editors of the Journal des Debuts ; M. Pages Dupont,
a well-known writer in the Union ; M. Carpelez, a
correspondent of the Gazette d'Augsbourg ; the Duke
of liovigo, formerly editor of the suppressed journal
the Corsaire, M. Simon, a correspondent of the Tri-
bune of Liege, and of the Parlamente of Turin, and
M. Meyer, said to be a writer in the Petrie. But I
have also heard in many quarters of a far more im-
portant arrest than any of the above, that of General
de St. Priest, an eminent member of the late national
assembly, a man of high family and character, and
one known to be in the confidence of the Count de
Chambord. The report that he is arrested is so
widely spread that I should not hesitate to affirm
the fact were it not that the other names
cited to me are all those of journalists, and
I therefore conceive it probable that the demon-
stration may be one against newspaper correspondents
only. I have heard special reasons for the arrests
alleged with regard to all the persons I have men-
tioned, General de St. Priest only excepted. M.
Tanski, of the Debate, is in the habit of sending poli-
tical information abroad. He is known to be on
terms of exceeding intimacy with M. Collet-Maygret,
the Secretary of the Prefect of Police. I sin informed
that of late they have rarely missed passing their
evenings together. The inference drawn from this
circumstance is either that M. Tanski has betrayed
the confidence of the Secretary of Police, or that he
has been arrested for form's sake, and will soon ex-
perience tie benefit of the peculiar protection under
which he has been acting. Either of these
'apparitions may be very unjust towards M. Tanski ;
but I state the impression prevailing in political
circles. M. Pagda-Dupont, of the Union is suspected
of having sent information to the Casette de Cologne,
as is also the Duke de Eovigo. I think there must
be a mi,teke in the supposition that the M.:Meyer
arrested is the well known Bonapartist' writer in
the Petrie. I have not met with any one who knows
M. Simon,said to be a correspondent of a Belgian and
an Italian journal. The affair is eagerly canvassed,
and the French correspondents of foreign journals
are naturally in a state of great apprehension.
The Emperor, accompanied by the Empress, came
from St. Cloud to the Tuileries yesterday, to preside
at another council of ministers. The ministerial dif-
ferences seem to have been patched up for the pre-
sent, for when the council broke up the following
note was sent to the Moniteue:

la spite of repeated contradictions, rumours of a minis-
terial modification an again circulated. These reports,
which there is nothing to authorise, are entirely without
fouadatioa.

The peculiar wording of this note is to those ac-
customed to the phraseology of the Moniteur a con-
firmation of the truth of the reports in circulation.
The rumours, as may easily be conceived, were un-
authorised, and as Mid. Foull and Persigoy consent
to pull together a little longer, they are now with-
out foundation.
1 am informed that Cardinal Donnet, the Arch-
bishop of Bordeaux, will supersede M. de Rayneval
as ambassador at Rome.
M. His de Butenval, the newly appointed French
minister to the court of Brussels, is not expected to
go to his post till towards the end of the month. The
reason stated for this delay is that the Duke de Bas-
sin°, who has not yet presented his letters of recall
to King Leopold, cannot leave his duties as Grand
Chamberlain for several days to come.
Twelve new carriages have been ordered for the
Imperial Coronation.
In the list of the amnesty published on Friday
are to be found many names of men dead more than
a year ago.
On Friday the Emperor and Empress came from
St. Cloud on horseback, to inspect the improvements
going on in the Bois de Boulogne. The Bois being I
now the property of the city, it was the duty of
M. Berger, the Prefect of the Seine, to receive their
Majesties, but being ill, he sent his son, M. Amedee
Berger, in his stead. The Emperor, accompanied by
M. Be r, jun., and M. Hittorff, the contractor for
the works, minutely inspected the sites of the pro-
tled improvements, and explained the plan to the
Ttuilling of Naples has testified his sympathy for
M. de Mumps', the Minister of Police, by sending
him the grand cordon of the Order of St. Constantine.

PARIS, 111.701 DAY ETIXIXO.

After a further examination of the amnesty list, I
am still unable to discover more than a very few
names of the slightest notoriety. In the whole list
of the department of the Seine, which includes Paris,
M. Vida, late a captain in the 9th Hussars, and M.
Bizet, a barrister, are the only two persons at all re-
markable. Among the 4,312 are three members of
the Constituent Assembly of 1848, M. Antonin, of the
Benches du Rhone, who was interne (forced to reside
in a place indicated by the authorities) ; M. Paget-
Ogler, and Mule, of the Haute Garonne, the former
transported to Algeria, the second interne; and seven
editors of the departmental journals—M. Oustry,
principal editor of the A veyron Republican, trans-
to Algeria; M. Desolme, journalist at Phi-
exiled; M. Noakes, journalist at Condom
Peers), transported to Algeria; M. Amouroux, jour-
nalist at Chateauroux, first exiled, then interv:i : M.
Viochot, ex -journalist at Dijon, inlerni ; M. Du-
portal, ex -journalist at Toulouse, transported to
Algeria; and M. Jolibois, ex-)journalist at Colmar, I
interne. The names of the individuals am-
nestied are divided among 68 departments.
The 17 departments of Aisne Calvados, Charente,
Charente Inferieure, Corsica, Cotes-du-Novel, Finis-
tere,llle-et-Vilaine, Loire-Inferieure, Lozere Manche,
Moselle, Ouvre, Pas do Calais, Hautes-Pyrenees:
Seine Inferieure and Vienne do not figure in the list.
In each of the seven departments of the Centel,
Loire, Mayenne, I ndre and Meuse, Haut Rhin, Somme
and La Vendee, but one name appears; in the Bore
and Loin, Correze, Morbibau and Tarn and Garonne
there are three ; in the Ardennes Sluice, and Loire,
and Bu Rhin four ; and in the Meurthe and Haute
Sims two only.
The procession of the Beeuf-Gras, which until last
year has been prohibited within the walls of Paris
since 1848, is to be celebrated with all due splendour
during the present carnival. To-morrow, Sunday,
the cortege will start from the Abattoir-du-Roule, at
10 o'clock, and paesthrough the Faubourg St. Honors,
Place de la Madeleine, Boulevard des Capueines,Piue
Neuve des Petits Champs, Marche St. Honore, Rue de
Rivoli, Place du Louvre, Pont Neuf, and after going
through various streets in the Faubourg St. Germain,
will return over the Pont do la Concorde, to the '

Champs Elysies, and thence to the Abattoir.
On Touiday the osealcade will start at the
same hour from the Abattoir, and pass through
the Rue de l'Arcade, the Rue de la Ma-
deleine,. the Faubourg St. Honote, the Rue saint
Honore, the Place VeuclUme, Rue Csatiglione, Rue
de Rieoli, stopping at the Tuileries, Palate Royal,
Place des Victowes, Pointe St. Biotech., Rue Ram-
buteau, Rue St. Martin, Boulevard St. Denis Fan-
' burgh St. Denis, Faubourg Montmartre, and 'Mehra
by the Rue St. Loeser, and Rue de la Pepiniere to
the Abattoir. On both days the processions will
j stop at the different embassies and the hotels of the
different ministers in i.s mute. The three heroes of
the fete—Pere Tom, Shelby, and St. Clare—hare
been purchased by M. Bellamy, the Emperor's
butcher, of the Marche St. Honore.

The proceedings of a court-martial, held in Paris
on Thursday last, present some remarkable features.
Sergeant-Major Bonnetaux, of the 6th Light In-
!ratan., was tried upon several charges, accusing him
of robbing the regiment of munitions of war, detain-
ing the soldiers' p iy, and various other crimes. The
counsel fur the defence boldly declared that the real
offence of the sergeant-major was, that on the 2nd of
December, 1851, he voted against the President of
the Republic. It appeared that prior to that time
he had borne an excellent character in the army dur-
ing nine years' service. Since the 2nd of December
he has been put on the defaulters book
by his colonel, for alleged breaches of dis-
cipline, no less than 99 times. On the trial it was
proved, and admitted by the prisoner, that from 150
to 200 cartridges remaining in his possession from a
quantity served out for ball practice had been re-
moved by him from the barracks to the house of one
of his friends. In explanation of the removal he
said that, there being an irregularity in these cart-
ridges remaining unemployed, he had takes them
away until after a barrack inspection, about to be
made by the colonel, intending to bring them back
afterwards. The respectability of the sergeant-
major and his family connexions made it in the
highest degree improbable that he had taken the
cartridges to sell. But his vote on Dec. 2, and the
supposed socialist opinions of the person in whose
house he had deposited the ammunition, led to the
suspicion that the abstracted stores were intended
for insurrectional purposes. The court-martial, by a
majority of 5 to 2, pronounced him guilty of stealing
munitions of war, but unanimously acquitted him of
all the other charges. He was, however, by a mino-
rity " de f of 3 against 4, only sentenced to a
year's imprisonment, a punishment manifestly inade-
quate to the grave offence with which he was charged.
The difference of opinion in the court-martial with re•
gs rd to the principal count, the ci rcu instances of the case,
and the fact that the court unanimously disbelieved a
mass of evidence tendered by soldiers, who supposed
that any accusations against a comrade in disgrace
would be favourably listened to, tend to confirm the
argument of the counsel for the defence, that the
negative vote of Dec. 2 was the real origin of the
prisoner's misfortunes.
In execution of the decrees of the 22nd January,
1852, imposing on the Orleans family the obligation
of selling all their real propeity within a year, the
forests of Bourbon-Laney and Bruadon, in the de-
partment of the Saone-et•Loire, were sold a few days
ago. The former fetched 900,000 f., which, it is said,
is about its real value; the latter 2,800,000 f., which
is much under the estimated value.
Accounts have been received of the arrival of the
steam frigate the Labrador, which conveyed Abd-el-
Bader and his suite to Turkey, at Mondania, a port
in the Sea of Marmora, where the ex-Emir was to
land, and proceed to Browns.
The Tribunal of Commerce yesterday decided a
question of some importance to the holders of rail-
way shares. A tradesman named Brocquet, of Clicy-
la-Oarenne, was on the 15th June, 1851, robbed of
three shares, Nos. 18,438, 18,437, and 18,438, in the
Strasbourg and Bile Railway ; and, as the robbery
was clearly proved, and as, moreover, no application
had since been made for the dividends on the
shares, he demanded that the company should give
him three duplicate shares, and pay the dividends be-
come due since June, 1851. The company opposed
the demand, but the tribunal granted it.