The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-30 00:00:00

FRENCH EximarioN OF 181./.

The Mon/leur contains a decree, dated Saturday,
enacting that the Universal Exhibition of Agriculture.
Manufactures, and Fine Arts, which is to commence at
Paris on the let May, 1555, shall be under the direction and
surveillance of a commission, which shall be presided over
by " our well beloved cousin, the Prince Napoleon,
and the following shall be members of the Com-
mission : M. B troche, President of the Council of State ; M.
Elie de Beaumont, Senator, Member of the Institute ; M.
Billault, President of the Legidative Body ; M. 'Bangui,
Member of the Institute, Director of the Superior School
of Commerce; M. Eugene Delacroix, artist, Member of the
Departmental Municipal Commission cf the Seine; M. Jean
WIN', Manufacturer ; M. Arles Dufour, Member of the
Chamber of Commerce of Lyons; M. Dumas, Senator,
Member of the Institute; Baron Charles Dupin, Senator,
Member of the Institute ; M. Henriguel-Dapont, Member
of the Institute; Count de Gasparin, Member of the Insti-
tute; M. Orkeren, Councillor of State, Director-General
of Customs, and of Indirect Taxes ; M. Heurtier, Coun-
cillor of State, Director-General of Agriculture and Com-
merce ; M. Ingres, Member of the Institute ; M. Legentil,
President of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris; M. Le-
play, Chief Engineer of Mines : Count de Lesser.% Director
of Consulates and of Commercial Affairs in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs; M. Merimee, Senator, Member of the In-
stitute ; M. Michel Chevalier, Councillor of State, Member
of the Institute; M. blimerel, Senator; General Morin,
Director of the Conservatoire Imperial des Arts et
Metiers; Count de Morey, Deputy of the Legis
lative Body, Member of the Superior Council of Commerce,
Agriculture, and Manufactures; de la Moskoive,
Senator; Duke de Mouchy, Senator, Member of the Supe•
rior Council of Commerce, Agriculture, and Manufactures;
Marquis de Pastoret, Sulator, Member of the Institute ;
M. Emile Pereire, President of the Council of Administra-
tion of the Southern Railway ; General Poncelet, Member
of the Institute; M. A.gnault, Member of the Institute,
Director of the Imperial Manufactory of Sevres; M. Sallan.
drouze, manufacturer, Deputy of the Legislative 'lady ;
M. de Saulcy, Member of the Institute, and Keeper of the
Museum of Artillery ; M. Schneider, Vice-President
of the L• gislative B3dy, Member of the Superior Council
of Commerce, Agri:vinare, and Manufactures ; Baron
Achille ; M. Seydoux, Deputy of the Legisla-
tive Body; M. Simart, Member of the Institute ; M.
Troplong, President of the Senate, First President of the
Court of Caseation, Member of the Institute; Marsha;
Count Vaillant, Grand Marshal of the Niels, Senator,
Member of the Institute ; IC Visconti, Member of the In.
stitute, architect to the Emperor. The decree enacts that
the commission shall be divided into two sections—one o►
Fine Arts, and the other of Agriculture and Manufactures ;
that the section of Fine Arts shall consist of M. Baroche,
IC Eugene Delacroix, M. Henriquel-Dupont, M. Ingres,
M. bletimee, Count de Moray, Prince de la Muskowa,
Duke do Mouchy, Marquis de Pastoret, M. de Smiley,
M. Simart, and M. Visconti; and that the section
of Agriculture and Commerce shall be composed

of M. Elie de Beaumont, M. Billault, M. Michel
Chevalier, M. Jean Dollfus, M. Arles Dufour, M. Dumas,
Baron Charles Dupin, Count de Gasparin, M. Grslterin, M.
Heurtier, M. Legentil, M. Leplay, Count de Le‘sepe, M.
Mimerel, General Morin, M. Emile Nreire, General Pon-
celet, M. Regnault, M. Sallandrouse, M. Schneider. M.
Sdlliere, M. Seydoux, M. Troplong, Marshal Count Vail
loot. The decree further enacts that, in case of the absence
of Prince Napoleon, the commission, in' general assembly,
shall be presided over by the Minister of State or by the
Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works ;
and, in their absence, by a vice-president, who shall be
nominated by ballot in the first sitting; that the
section of Fine Arts shall be prisided over by the
Minister of State ; that of Agriculture and Manu-
factures by the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce,
and Public Works ; and that each section shall
choose a vies-president. The decree concludes by appoint-
ing M. Ales-Dufour, Secretary-General of the Commission;
M. Adolphe Thibaudeau, Assistant Secretary-General ; M•
de Mercey, Chief of the section of Fine Arts is the Ministry
of State, Secretary of the section of Fine Arts; M. Audi-
ganne, Chief of the bureau of Manufactures, and M.
Chemin-Dupontes, Chief of the bureau of Navigation in
Foreign Commerce, Secretaries of the section of Agricul-
ture and Manufactures. By a separate decree Lord Cowley,
the British ambassador at Paris, is appointed a member of
the commission, and in explanation of the appointment the
following remark is made in another column : " It will be
remembered that at the Uui I Exhibition of London
M. Drouyn de Lhuys, at that time ambassador at London,
was nominated by the Queen member of the commission
presided over by H.B.H. Prince Albert."

GERMANY.

BADEN.

The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 23rd says:
The government has been informed that the Archbishop
of Friburg has ordered the cures of his diocese to explain
to their parishioners, for three consecutive Sundays, the
differences which have arisen between the Episcopacy and
the temporal power. The government has no intention to
oppose those explanations being given in a calm and tem-
perate manner; but if the priests should profane the
churches, and excite their hearers against the government
and the authorities, either by distorting the truth or by
false statements, the punishment which they merit hill un.
doubtedly fall on them.

MURDEROUS ATTACK BY BURGLARS.—On Safnr-
evening last a daring burglary was committed at the house
occupied by Mr. Richard Thomas, a butcher, at Penco 'se,
near Penryn, Cornwall, accompanied by treatment of a
most brutal nature towards the uneffending residents. Mr.
Thomas being Irons home, the only persons on the premises
were his wife and daughter. Between eight and nine
o'clock on the above-named evening, while Mrs. Thomas
was sitting alone in the kitchin, the heard the front door
open, and sinsultaneousiy three men, having masks over
their faces and sacks over their clothes, walked into the
kitchen and surrounded her. The foremost of the villains
told her not to be alarmed, as they only wanted money, and
would not hurt her if she delivered up the keys. Mrs.
Thomas hesitated to comply with the request, when one of
them threw a handful of pepper in her eyes, and then
bound her, a third giving her several kicks, and telling her
that if she stirred hand or foot, or made the slightest noise,
they would return to her and murder her. Miss Thomas,
who was in an adjoining room, en hearing the voices began
to scream for help, whereupon one of the burglars rushed
into the room, and, having felled the young lady with a
tremendous blow on the head, he knelt upon her, and,
drawing forth a large knife, wounded her severely, at the
same time threatening that he would have her life it she did
not keep quiet. Two of the men then kept guard over Mrs.
Thomas and her daughter, while the third proceeded up-
stairs, and, having obtained the keys, he took from an
escritoire a bag containing between 500/. and 600/. Ile
then CMe downstairs., and, giving a shrill whistle as he
pissed through the room whete his two companions were
stationed, got clear off with his accomplices. Mr. Thomas
and her daughter can hardly as yet be considered out of
danger.—Local paper.
The South Wales Railway was opened on Wednes-
day from llerefurd to Haverfordwest.