The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The event of the day passed in. the Court of
Agana. You are aware that M. Cartier has brofiet,
an motion for libel against the Berotiction for copying
is paragraph from the Emancipation of Toulouse,
stating that the prefect had bought a property worth
dolt a million of francs at Sens. M. Cartier op
pealed in person. His cause was conducted by the
ex-minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Baroche, and M.
Duvergier. The court condemned MM. Vatripon
and Leguevel, editor and erant of the Rr.o/ution,
each to eighteen months of imprisonment andll,ooofr.
fine. Neither of the editors appearing, judgment
went by default. The name of the paper alone would
would account for a sentence of condemnation from a
Seine jury.
The more or less official disavowal of the Constitn-
inquiet in the l'atrie with respect to Dr. Veron's
foreshadowing of the message, and the latter's die.
respectful allusion to the influence of M. de Persigny
at the Elysee, have tended somewhat to lift quiet
people out of the state of alarm into which they were
thrown yesterday by the revolutionary designs
gravely attributed to*Louis Napoleon in the news-
paper, supposed with the more reason to represent
his views, as its great prediction has been realised.
Nothing exhibits more aptly the danger of a half-
confidence ; for let Dr. cron now say what he will
about the Presidents intention, he is sure to be be-
lieved, while the contradictions of the Patric, how-
ever official in aspect, are blown away as chaff.
There is little political news. The general cry
among the conservative league is "Netts attendruns
le message," and en attendant they throw as much
dirt as they can at the President. On one point
they seem at present very firm, and that is to oppose
a serried phalanx of opposition to the proposition for
abrogating the law of May 31. The h, bats of to-
day is very decisive on this point. It says the law
of May 31 is not like a law on sugar or drinks, but
a law ofpublic safety, and a whole political programme
in itseli. Whatever be its pretensions or language,
a government which throws away such a precious
guarantee, abandons the cause of order. The ma-
jority will not follow him. The day on which it made
such a sacrifice it would abdicate in the face of de-
magogy, and surrender up the country to socialism.
It would commit suicide, and prepare the ruin of
France. The ./iNwits knows the Assembly, and will
not offer it the affront of doubting its attitude and
vote. In a week the Assembly will meet.
The message of the President will no doubt be
presented as early as possible. Then will be the
moment for explaining the formation of the present
ministry and its policy. This is speaking out pretty
plainly. Now, if the majority should, when it comes
to the tug of war, turn faint-hearted, and run, leaving
that previous guarantee, the law of May 31, to be
disposed of at the good pleasure of Louis Napoleon
and demagogy ! In that case the great men of the
parliament will have less right than ever to sneer at
the littleness of those ministers who have undertaken
to carry out the new policy. It is indeed carrying
assurance to the verge of impudence, and remon-
strance to bulleying, to greet the new ministers with
a mingled shout of derision and rage, when the
leaders of the majority make it impossible to enroll
names of ,chit by refusing systematically either to
take the responsibility of office on themselves, or to
leave it to men like Billault, from whose moderate
liberality they shrink with horror.
M. de Cronseillies, late Minister of Public Instruc-
tion, is appointed Commander of the Legion of
Honour. M. Buffet, late Minister of Commerce, is
appointed chevalier of the same order.
M. lupin arrived in Paris yesterday.
A week ago you might have seen at the entrance
of the square of Marigny from the Champs Elyskes,
lifted on a pedestal above the heads of the curious
crowd, a colossal equestrian statue in bronze. The
black horse was pawing the air, his rider clad in
complete mail, brandishing a banner in his gaunt-
leted hand, had his face and body half-turned to the
rearward in violent action, as if cheering on his
followers to the charge. In the crowd below an
old woman, with a Ferrel of printed hills upon one
arms, was holding out a copy headed with a wood-
cut of the statue, and crying in a cracked voice
" Biographic de Guillaume-le-Conquerant, un sows."
An Englishman's car was naturally caught, and his
eye arrested. The great bronze statue was going
to be erected at Falaise, in Normandy, the birth-
place of the Conqueror. To-day we have in all the
papers a long account of this ceremony, together
with a neat speech of M. Guizot at the inauguration.
The ex-minister of Louis Philippe shines upon these
occasions; the truth is, that Guizot was built fur an
academician, a professor; and, had he stuck to that
sphere, he would never have exposed himself to the
failure that invariably attends the " gator " who ven-
tures "ultra erepidam." 'file gray old shattered
tower in which the cradle of the Norman bastard
was rocked eight centuries ago, still stands above
the busy queer old town, in a square of which, as M.
Guizot reminded his hearers, some centuries later
blazed the terrible auto-da-fe of Joan of Arc. M.
Guizot winds up with a graceful allusion to those
peaceful bonds which have replaced the fierce an-
tagonism between England and France, which dates
from the Norman Conquest. The submarine tele-
graph and the Crystal Palace come in for a share
of notice. But you meet read the whole speech to
eny those peculiar academic graces of M. Guizot's
urbane and formal style, reminding one, be it spoken
with all reverence, of the crisp curls of an abbe's wig.
The following is the last will and testament of the
Duchess d'Angouleme :
In the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
I submit myself in all things to the will of Providence;
I do not fear death, and, notwithstanding my little merit, I
trust entirely to the merry of God, at the same time be-
seeching Him fur time seal grace to receive the last sacra.
menu of the church wick the most fervent piety.
I die in the Roman catholic and apostolic religion, la
which I have lived as faithfully as it was possible for me to
do, and to which I owe all the consolations of my life.
Atter the example of my parents, I pardon with all my
soul, and without exception, all those who have injured or
offended me, sincerely praying to God to extend to them
his mercy, as well as to myself, and beseeching him to par-
don all my faults.
I thank all Frenchmen who have remained faithful to
my family and to myself, for the proofs of devotedness
which they have given us, and for the sufferings and afflic-
tions to which they have been subjected on our account.
I pray God to spread his blessings on France, which I
have always loved, in the midst of my most bitter afflictions.
I thank the Emperor of Austria for the asylum which he
has given in his states to my family and to myself. lof
grateful fur the proofs of interest and of friendship which I
have received from the imperial family, particularly under
the most painful circumstance,. lam also sensible of the
sentiments which a great number of his subjects, parties-
larly the inhabitants of Guritz, have manifested towards
me.
Having always considered my nephew Henri and my
niece Louise as my children, I give them my maternal ben,.
diction ; they have had the happiness of being brought up
in our holy religion. May they always remain faithful to
it—may they always be the worthy descendants of Saint
Louis! May my nephew devote his faculties to the accom-
plishment of the great duties which his position lappaasaeese on
him! May he never depart front the paths of malelation,
of lustier., and of truth !
I constitute my nephew Henri, Count de Chambord, my
universal legatee.
I wish my remains to be deposited at Goritz, in the tomb
of Franciscans, between my hush:and and his father. Ido
not wish any solemn service to be performed fur me, but
only masses for the repose of my soul."
The above will is followed by legacies to several
old servants, to the poor, and other souvenirs of
affection.
The funds continue to sink sensibly. To-day the
Fives closed at s'J.7a.i, with a fall of 40 centimes.
The Threes fell 23c., and closed at 53.40.