The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-24 00:00:00

'HIE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1853.

FRANCE.

(BE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)

PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.

Tho M.»iiteur announces that the Duke do Padoue,
M. Berger, M. P. MerimiT, and the Marquis de Lava-
let•e, are named senatars; M. de Matipas is named
Minister at Naples; M. Adolphe Barrot, Minister at
Brussels; M. Hausmann, Prefect of Seine; M. de
Nlentque, Prefect of Gironde; M. Chcvrcau, Prefect
of Loire Inferior.

A decree of the Qneen of Spain, dated June 21,
nstnes M. Pastor, Minister of Finance; M. Moyano,
Trade ; M. Calderon de la ;Duca, Foreign Aftitirs.

PARIS, TIII:IISIDAY EVENING.
Within the last twenty-four hours rumours have
circulated that the French Emperor has to some ex-
tent changed his mind with regard to the Eastern
question, and is more disposed to give way to
Russia than he was. It is reported that after his
last interview with Lord Cowley, he felt dissatisfied
with the explanations given by his excellency,
of the views of the English government,
and tore up the note propounding a cavis
belli which he had prepared to send to the
Moniteur. It is now, lam sorry to say, very gene-
rally believed that Russia will be allowed to invade
the Danubian provinces as a step to negotiation, and
thus gain a most important point, to the moral dis-
paragement and material injury of Turkey. The
high ground taken a few days ago, of abstaining
from all negotiation while a single Russian soldier
remained on the Turkish side of the Pruth, is, it
is said, abandoned, and it is faintly suggested
that, of course, Russia must be called upon
speedily to evacuate the provinces after the question
shall be settled. If this be so, Russia will have out-
witted, or rather—for her designs are patent—have
browbeaten all Europe, and will have gained ill she
wants for the present. It is, I believe, at allevents,
true that the French government has sent an envoy
to St. Petersburg to propose a congress, to as-
semble in any town to be named by the
Emperor of Russia for the purpose of finally
settling the religious privileges of the Chris-1
flan inhabitants of the Ottoman empire. The
rumours to which I have alluded receive some con-
firmation from the tone of the government journals
in commenting upon the Nesselrode note. The Con-
alitutiontiel, instead of resenting, as it threatened to
do yesterday, the insinuation that France was the
foss et orto of the difficulty, has an article by
Grapier de Cassagne,c, in which all allusion to that
subject is carefully avoided, and which in other re-
spects is, perhaps, the very mildest production that
ever issued from his usually truculent pen.
An absurd report that the Archbishop of Paris
and two ladies of the court had conspired to poison
the. Emperor, has been se extensively circulated as to
reach the Tuileries, where the ladies in question de-
fended themselves from the imputation, amidst min-
gled tears and laughter. A rumour that the
Archbishop of Paris and M. Berryer had been
arrested, has been traced to the circumstance that the
recent arrests include two persons named Larche-
veque and Berruyer.
When Marshal St. Arnaud returned from the

south of France restored to health by the treatment
of a homeopathic doctor of Montpelier, he called the
attention of the Emperor to the wonders of homeo-
pathy, and ko far succeeded in his advocacy of the
system that the provincial doctor was sent for to
Paris, and the draft of a decree was actually drawn out,
creating a homoeopathic chair in the College of Phy-
sicians in Paris which was to have been tilled by him.
It appears, however, that the whole faculty, with Dr.
Dubois at their head, waited upon the Emperor and
declared that they would never admit an homcoopa-
thist into their fraternity. In the face of their una-
nimous threat to resign their seats the Emperor gave
way, and the Montpelier professor has gone back to
hie country patients.
I understand that among the reasons which led to
the 'oppression of the Ministry of Police, a principal
ens was that M. de Maupes had of late proved him-
self to be more apt at invenptirol plots than in the
sed=rof them. The Hi rome plot was, itl
, found out by M. de ersigny. M. Latour
Damoulin the director of the press, whose fall has
followed lot of M. de /stoup's (one does not very
clearly see why), is regretted, and considerable appre-
henriess are enertained lest his successor M, Collet
Meggret should wield the vast power conferred upon
him with km judgment than his predecessor. On
this subject the Assemblei Nationale says:
We congratulated ourselves than in common with almost
all the journals, at seeing these delicate functions weeded
to a writer whose character and talents were a guarantee
Ihe the press of coneilistory sad moderate intentions. It is
Mixt us to prejudge the oonsequences to individuals of the
mama sanouseld in the MosQeer, bet whatever decision'
may be take* is this respect, we do not hesitate to "peat
whet we said fifteen moaths ago of K. Latour-Dawoulus.
By an imperial 'decree of the 17th Inst., rendered
ea the proposition of the Minister of Finance; the
general direction of direct tame has been rs-estab-
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meet; for money the Three per Cents. remain
emeasged, Bank of France shares advanced If.
I The following were the final quotations :—For cab:
Three per Cents., 76.69; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
101.20. For the account : Three per Cents. 76.76 ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 101.40 . Bank Stock,
2,670 f. Northern, 880 ; Orleans, 1,050 ; Paris and
Strasbourg, 891; Paris and Lyons, 892 ; Paris and
Rouen 1,006 ; Lyme to the Meat.. 725; Western,
700; hewn and Harm, 480; Borden= and Cette,
616.

PARIS, WIIINIMMAT EVIININO:

The decree for the regulation of the Imperial
family, contains amongst others the following pro
visions
Art.l. The Imps= exercises over all the members of
Ids family the rights of paternal power during their mil
tority, and always preserves with reaped to them a power
of surveillance and discipline.
Art. 3. The imperial family coesieta--1, of the legiti-
mate or adopted descendants of the Emperor; and 2, of
the others princes called eventually to the succession by
the Beaatue Consult= of the 7th November, 1862, of at&
wives end legitimate children.
Art. 4. The marriage of members of the Imperial family,
at whatever age they may be, shall be null of fall right and
without there being any need of judgment, wh it
may have been contracted without the formal consent of the
Emperor.
Art. 5. All children born of a union which shall mot have
been contracted in conformity with the preceding article,
shall be considered illegitimate.
Art. 6. The matrimonial conventions of members of the
imperial family shall be null, if not approved of by the Em-
peror ; without, in that case, the parties being entitled to
appeal to the enactments of the Code Napoleon.
Art. 7. If a member of the imperial family shall think
right to demand a separation, he shall address himself to
the Emperor, who shall pronounce alone without any form
of proceeding. The effects of this separation, uto the pro-
perty of the married couple, shall be regulated by the
family council.
Art. 25. The members of the imperial family, whatever
he their age, cannot, without order or permission of the
Emperor, quit the territory of the empire, nor go further
than 75 leagues from the town in which the imperial resi-
dence may be established.
Art 26. If a member of the imperial family shall commit
en act contrary to hie dignity or his duty, the Emperor
may inflict on him, for a determined period which cannot
exceed a year, the penalty of—les arras (confinement to his
own residence), or not being permitted to approtch him
(dol 'lament de an persons') or exile.
Art. 27. The Emperor may order the members of the
imperial family to remove from them the persons which
appear to him auspicious, even though such perms do not
form part of their houeehold.

The succeeding articles empower the Emperor to
establish a family council, consisting of a Prince of
the Imperial Family, of the Minister of State, the
Minister of Justice, the Presidents of the Senate, the
Legislative Body, and the Council of State, the First
'President of the Court of Caseation, and a Marshal
of France, or a General of Division named by the
Emperor ; and they give it jurisdiction in mat-
ters of guardianship, and in complaints made
against the Princes or Princesses of the imperial
family, in all eases except crimes or offences, which
are to be providtd for by a Senates Cmisultum ;
lalso in purely personal actions brought by the
Princes and Princesses of the Imperial Family, or
brought against them. The decisions of the Council
are, the decree enacts, to be definitive, but in cases
of complaint against members of the imperial family,
it can only declare the acts complained of reprehen-
sible, and refer them to the Emperor, who there-
upon will, in case he should not think right to use
indulgence, pronounce one of the penalties speci-
fied in article 26, " or even," says the decree, " ac-
cording to the gravity of the facts, inflict two years'
confinement (arrasforces) in the place he may de-
signate." The concluding article of the decree spe-
cities what articles in it shall be applicable to mem-
bers of the family of the Emperor who do not form
part of the imperial family.
The decree suppressing the ministry of police also
excites public curiosity to an extraordinary extent.
It is worded as follows :
C4nsidering that the calm end security which reign in
1 the country permit the suppression of the ministry of gene-
ral police, the institution of which was founded on excep-
tional circumstance•, we have decreed and do decree as
follows :

Art. 1. The ministry of rural police is suppressed.
Art. 2. The attributions of the ministry of general Relice
are again added to these of the minister of the interior.

It is said that the motives which led to the issue of
these decrees are not unconnected with each other.
M. de Maupas, as a "fichq"de consolation," is made a
senator, and the /rotates,. announces that he will
shortlybe appointed to a diplomatic post. lam told
he will probably. be sent to Naples. The nature of
his experience since the 2nd of December is doubtless
calculated to make him a favourite with the King of
the Two Sicilies.

M. de Persigny is now a greater man than ever.
He has got rid of his rival, and wields all his power
iu addition to that of Minister of the Interior, for it
must not be supposed that in consequence of the
nominal abolition of the Minister of Police there will
be less espionage going on than before.