The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-13 00:00:00

accredited in order to secure the entree to all their
gaieties exactly as they would in London court the
lady patronesses of ALIIACI'd. They turn up their
miss at eyerythiag plebe*. _They tramisit- hpni9
falne 69d distigtid accouhei of all popular clove-
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founded news-aids regard to France, have recently spoken
of a pretended smash isadilly Colonel Fleury at a banquet.
We have several tbssiecalstiened our readers against reports
pf *igniters, with which theffireigu press is dail fed, and
•we ere in • pudica 4* the puma we vs to this
alteration the same denial whidt we have alre y gibes be
eau news of the Mau kind hsesesuitly circulated by me-
hudenes.
We kilo* too little about the process of co ncoicie
othese semi-ofiloial contradictions to be able to
Of their value in any given instance. This m
however, is known generally, that consistently with
reoeilidofficial mamma, it to quite passible that a
thing may be very true, and yet veaatio be con.
tradicted. The famous affair of nac's dis-
avowed article was a pregnant example o this.
It has been rumoured that, a projected match be-
tween the Emperor and a princess_ of the house of
Hohenzollern has been broken off by the King of
Prussia. I hear that this match is, however, yet
upon the tapir, the court of the Tuileries professing
the greatest indifference to Prussian interference in
the matter, and a determination to carry the thing
through against all opposers.
I am assured that it has been, and perhaps still is,
in contemplation to make Prince Napoleon Bona-
parte, Generalissimo of the Armies of Algeria. It is
true he has never been a soldier, _ but then every
Bonaparte is born to command. However, Marshal
St. Arnaud threatens to resign if this appointment
should be insisted upon.
The Minister of Police has ordered that no indi-
vidual under sentence of surveillance shall without a
special authorisation from him reside in either of the
following localities where there are royal residences:
The town and arrondissement of Fontainbleau, the
town and arrondissement of Compiegne. and the
town and arrondissement of Pan. It is to be inferred
from the mention of the latter place that the Em-
peror contemplates a visit to the old chateau of
Henry IV.
You will remember that shortly before the Em-
peror's election the Monastir took every body by
surprise, by conspicuously publishing three red re-
publican proclamations, which till then the police
had need every effort to repress. One of these was
signed by (amongst others) Victor Hugo. Ano-
ther was understood to be the composition of
Ledru Rollin. But the third signed " the revo-
lutionary committee," which openly recommended a
general massacre of all the adherents of the present
government,was indignantly disavowed by ail shades
of republican in Farm. The authorship of this san-
guinary document has now been discovered, and it is
satisfactory to know that he is a person of no con-
sideration, and one, who there is reason to believe,
has no followers. Me is aM. Seigneuret, an insur-
gent of June, 1848, who then took refuge in Jersey,
where he has ever since resided. The proclamation
was a constant subject of conversation among the
Jersey refugees, who suspected it to be a fabrication
of the police, and expressed the utmost anxiety to
trace out its source, in order to relieve the republican
party from the suspicion of harbouring designs which
they desired energetically to repudiate. In the
course of these conversations Seigneuret at length
admitted that he alone was responsible for the pro-
duction. He had signed it in the name of a sup-
posed revolutionary committed, of which he was the
incarnation, and had printed it himself at a private
press.
The imperial decree regulates the uniform to be
worn by those general officers lately on the retired
list who now, by a recent regulation, form a staff re-
serve, eligible for active service. A distinction is
made between the uniform of such general officers as
are senators, and those of such as are not senators.
The Courrier du Havre states that orders hays
been sent front Cherbourg to all the ports not to send
any more sailors to that division for the manning of '
the fleet, a sufficient number for the moment having
already arrived.
The consulting railway commission is now defini-
tively constituted. It will have to give an opinion
on all sutjecta relating to railways, and to classify
the various lines to be conceded into lit, 2nd, and
3rd classes, according to their importance. The com-
mission has at present to examine a considerable
number of applications sent in for concessions,
amounting in all to not less than 70.
General Lawcastine, commander-in-chief of the
national guard, quitted on Sunday the apartment
which he occupied in the Palais Royal; but the
guard of honour of the general staff of the national
guard still remains there. The report that the gene-
ral staff was to occupy the hotel Galifet, in the Rue
de Chenille, is contradicted. The Marshal Prince
Jerome will not take possession of the Paige Royal
until the repairs in progress shall be terminated,
which will not be for two or three months.
The Steele has the following on the causes of the
depression at the Bourse :
We will now say a word on the fall which certain organs
of the press have recorded and which they have sought to
explain. We admit the financial causes which they assign
for it. The obligation under which the speculators lie of
furnishing a guarantee to the Agent de Change; the abun•
dance of securities on the market, an abundance which the
government has considered it its duty to limit, are, we can-
not deny, very important remits But let us be candid.
Doubtless if the necefaities for the guarantees were di-
minished, the number of speculatorswould increase, and
speculation would !gain acquire activity. But from this
very fact, that it is in part released from financial feodality,
the Bourne has become if not more wise at least more sincere
in its movements. For the last two months the Bourse is
like the nation. It has not seen with pleasure the govern-
ment strengthen itself beyond measure ; it hoped to see
a more enlarged political system. It has been mistaken.
Very explicit relations, and a Sena:us Consultum not very
favourable to the liberties of the country, have shown in
the government an idea of preponderance, which Is not very
agreeable to every one. In addition to these financial
motives, the fall of the last two months has had this power-
ful cause. A Senates Consultum elevating the legislative
power and giving liberty, bringing us back for instance to
that which we enjoyed under Louis Philippe, would imme-
diately have converted this fall into a serious rise, which
would only have stopped when it attained proper limits. If
the Frame are indifferent to the bad humour of foreign
pewee% they tarn much of their attention to what is passing
at heats, sad they do so the more as the number of journals
has, whether properly or improperly, considerably dimi-
nished, calls lbw which exist an regarded as putting a
damper ea their ideas. Uneasiness is more readily excited
la the Amp, of putties and undisputed liberty. This an-
emias= has needed on the Bourse. The journals which
have smitten on the subject have not dared to say it, but we
do so, Sealing certain that we are thus rendering an essen-
tial samba to the government, to commerce, and to the
natio&
The Minister of Public Worship has appointed a
commission, composed of M. Godelle, Councillor of
State (section of finances); M. de Mericourt, Inspeo-
tor-General of Finances; M. Orgier, Referendary of
the Court of Accounts; M. Thiac, notary; and M.
Roy, Inspector of Finances, to arrange the division
of 3e credit allowed for settling with the creditors
of=eDupwah, ex-Bishop of Algiers.
de Il•anee corrects a statement made
is use of the journals, that Count Itscusset Boot-
ies, who, at the head of a band of adventurers, he.
defeated a Mexican general, and declared the pro-
vine. of Sonora independent, is descended from an
ancestor who was a natural son of a prinee of the
house of Bourbon, and that, after having been per-
mitted to assume the name of Bourbon, one of the
descendants had been induced, by the offer of •
large sum of money from the reigning family et
France, to drop that title, which he did, and con.
vetted it into Boulbon. The title of Boulbon, says
the Gazette, is taken from the village of Boulbos,
near Arles, which, in the 16th century, was the pro-
perty of the family of Raouseet, one of the most
noble and ancient in the country.
The sale of modern pictures which had belonged
to King Louis Philippe took place
_yesterday, M. do
Bonnefons de Lavialle being the auctioneer, and in
general brought good prices. There were in all 68
pictures to be sold, some of which were dreadfully
mutilated by the swords and bayonets of the insur-
gents in 1848. The following were some prime
given :—" Sea-view with figures," by Poitevin,
1,310 fr.; " An Episode of 1830," by Leon Ceigniet,
1,200 k. This was a small roughly done picture,
crowded with figures, every one of which was full of
life and expression. The head and bust of a young
woman," by the same artist, something in the style
of Greiner, 1,105 fr.; " Scene of the Carnival at Paris,"
by 13oilly, a very clever composition, 1,410 k. ; and
the great picture of the sale, " A Neapolitan woman
bewailing her cottage overturned by an earthquake,"
by tho late Leopold Robert, brought 16,050 k.