The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-05 00:00:00

We under.tand that the dividend proposed to be
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Icompany will be at the rate of a per cent. per
annum, carrying over a balance of 90,000 L or
93,0001.

FRANCE.

PARIS. FILIDAT ETININO.

The Mot.iteur was looked for this morning with
greedy anxiety by thousands of familio, to ascer-
tain if their relatives were included in the Empe-
ror's promised political amnesty. Never probably
have so many copies of the government journal been
published in a single day. Pardons are decreed to no
teas than 4,312 persons (condamnes) by name, exclu-
sive of the generals and the representatife du peuple,
who were proscribed or sentenced to durance, in con-
sequence of the events of December, 1851, and the
exiles aro to be forthwith restored to freedom.

The terms of the decree of amnesty are unexcep-
tionahle. No conditions are made, and the word
"pardon" is not used. 'rho decree directs that the
measures of general safety taken by the commission
of revision of the lit military division, and by the
mixed commissions in the departments, are to " cease
to have their effect" with respect to the persons
whose names follow. You will remember that on the
day after the marriage the Monilear announced that
3,000 persons, whose names would shortly be pub-
lished, were to receive pardons, and that there would
then remain but about 1,200 political exiles or trans-
ports yet suffering on account of the events of De-
cember. The amnesty now decreed is, therefore,
more extensive than that promised, and many people
that I have seen understand it to include the 1,200,
whom it was not at first intended to pardon. The
figures naturally point to that supposition. It is,
however, scarcely possible that this can be so. The
announcement of Monday last appeared to refer ex-
clusively to persons who had been either banished or
transported. Now, on looking through the list of
the 4,312 name* in the Menden, I observe that
very many of them have never been out of France,
but are under sentence of internment, or sur-
veillance only. But a conclusive proof that the
amnesty cannot be a general one is that scarcely a
single name well known in Paris can be found in the
list. Political men have been hunting up and down
the columns of the Moniteur in vain. They do not
find the names of their friends who they know to be
in exile. The list is divided into departments, and
gives the names of the persons belonging to each,
with the description of the punishment to which
they had been condemned, whether trans-
portation' expulsion from France, inlernement,
or surveillance. I have heard several people say
that they do not find in the list any names known
to them in the departments with which they are best
acquainted. The greater part of the four thousand
appear to be labourers, mechanics, or small trades-
men. The only name of any note pointed out to me
is that of M. Huguenin, the ex-representative. I
believe there is nopther ex-representative in the list.
However, the amnesty, such ai it is, is the one that
has been the subject of so much difftlience of
opinion among the members of the cabinet.
The Persigny party in the ministry, as I
anticipated yesterday, seems to have been com-
pletely triumphant. It is remarkable that even the
comparatively trifling punishment of surveillance is
remitted, and this does away with objections made
to the announcement of last Monday that measures
- from

would be taken to prevent danger . the persons
pardoned, an announcement which was thought to
imply that they would all be subjected to surveillance.
A number of men and women employed by the
prefect of police are selling the Mositeur in the
streets, and proclaiming the amnesty of" 4,312 poli-
tical eosJainne4 on the occasion of the Emperor's
marriage."
The most positive orders have, says the Petrie,
been given by the government to set the persons who
have been amnestied immediately at liberty.
It is reported that the Emperor intends to settle a
pension of 400,000 f. a year upon the Countess de
Monti o, and an annuity of 600,000 E upon the Ea.
proms for her toilette.
Ma committee of accounts of the Senate have
molded the Senate's budget, and sent it direct to the
minister of finance, without its having been subjected
Se any kind of control. As I observed at the time
tee constitution was published, the minister of
finance will have nothing to do but to find the money
the Senate may think fit to ask for.
In the midst of the excitement of the wedding.g
fors it was entirely forgotten that on Sunday fish I
elections were going on in different departments to
ifilalus no less than eight vacancies in the Corps
g tif. Intelligence has now been received front
six departments that the government candidates
have been successful, and of course the sass
result will have occurred in the other two.
do far I can learn nothing like a serious opposition
has been attempted anywhere. The republican
party resolved from the first to stand aloof. A fin
thousand votes appear to have been recorded in three
er four places by leocistimists, but the government
majorities are everywhere enormous. Not the
least interest in tee result of the elections is felt
in Paris. and people do not so much as care to inquire
the names of the eight additional gentlemen Who
will be neat to the metropolis to wear embroidered
liVerille, to receive feta a day, and to vote as they
are told. In case you should be more curious
than the Parisians the new legislators are
Colonel Ririe, Basses Alper; M. Varela d'Ainville,
Gard; M. Auguste Rolle, Eure-et-Loir ; M. de Cor-
heron, Oise; M. de Cohort:, Bas Rhin ; and M. Ls
Harivel,
The Emperor, in the name and at the special in-
tercession, it is stated, of the Empress, has liberated
a great number of minor offenders, who were con-
demned to less than six months' imprisonment as*
for venial crimes.
The police have made a number of arrests of pub
sous having in their possession lithographed an&
Wares representing the Empress eientklng a
he ex- tative Bertholon, of the liatinlablo
has • leave to return immediately to Fromm
Mors than 300,000 persons have visited Notre
Dame within the last three days.
It is asserted more confidently than ever that the
Imperial Coronation will take place in the month of
April. The Bishop of Versailles ham left Paris for
Bones on a secret mission ; it is believed to have
reference to a request on the part of the Emperor
that the Pope will be present on the august occasion.
The bust of the Empress by Count Nieuwerkerks
is attracting crowds of spectators; it is considered to
be a striking likeness, and a magnificent copy in
broom was exhibited at the late ball given by the
Minister of the Interior.
The municipality of Amiens, imitating the example
of the Emperor, has voted the sum of 2,000 francs to
be expended in dowries for three happy couples, to
be asketed by the authorities.
The statement copied from the French paper Le
Droit in many of the London journals, respecting a
young English milord who was alleged to have been
swindled at the Casino by a supposed duke, count,
and marchioness, is substantially accurate, with the
exception that the victim is not a member of the
British nobility, but a Mr. belonging to a
highly respectable and wealthy English family.
The losses on the Bourse during the month of
January have been enormous beyond precedent, and
the recent settlement, notwithstanding copious ad-
ventitious aid, is not yet adjusted, and will be a
work of some difficulty.
The Rentes to-day partially recovered from the
great depression of yesterday; the Three per Cents.
regaining more than half of that day's loss, and the
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 30c. The last price ofl
the former was called 79f. 25c., and of the latter,
104 f. 05c., both for the account. Bank Stock rose
five francs during the day, but closed without the
improvement being sustained. Railway shares were
little dealt in, and rates are nominally as last re-

ported.
Alarming rumours have circulated about the
public health in Paris. The Union Medicate declares
that in the last six months there have been but 12
cues of choleric affections in the hospitals, and, ex-
cepting one cue, not one had been serious ; that
the Asiatic cholera does not exist in Paris, but, on
the contrary, it was going away from the centre of
Europe, and that everything gives reason to suppose
that the Russian and Polish epidemic will extinguish
itself in its own focus.
PARIS, TIIIIIIIDAT
Several English residents desirous of being pre-
sented at the court of the Tuileries, have lately re-