The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

TILE MAW4GE;GETILE FOIROROk.
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speich.tef Louis Napoleon to to en the
sirject of kii;marriage agrees very with the
suggestions you threw out on the subject.
At twelve o'clock yesterday, according to announce-
ment, the members of the Bureau of the Senate and
Corps Legislatif, the members of the Council 'orState,
and several individual members of the Senate and
Corp. Legislatif waited upon the Emperor at the
Tuileries, to receive this remarkable communication
relative to his marriage.
His Majesty addressed them in the following
speech :
" Gentlemen,—l yield to the wish so often mani-
fested by the country in coming to announce to you
m y marriagf.
" The union which I contract is not in accord
with the traditions of old policy p—that is its ad-
vantage. _ _ _

" Fiance, by her successive revolutions, has al-
ways roughly separated herself from the rest of Eu-
rope. Every sensible government ought to seek to
make her re-enter into the rank of the old monarchies,
but this result will be more surely attained by a
straightforward and candid policy, and by good faith'
in all transactions, than by royal alliances, which
create false security, and frequently substitute family
for national interests. Besides, examples of the
past have left in the minds of the people
superstitious beliefs ; they have not forgotten
that for seventy years past foreign princesses have
only ascended the steps of the throne to see their
race dispersed and proscribed by war or by revolu-
tion. One female alone appeared to bring happiness
and to live more than others in the remembrance of
the people, and that woman, the good and modest
wife of General Bonaparte, was not the issue of
royal blood.
"It must, nevertheless, be admitted that in 1810
the marriage of Napoleon L with Maria Louisa was
sat faction form
la great event ;
it WU a pledge for the old
thefut and a real
isatimal pride, since and illus-
trious house of Austria, who had so long made war
vaunt us, formed an alliance with the elected chief
of a new Empire. Under the last reign, on the con-
trary, had not the amour propre of the country to
suffer when the heir to the crown ;aught in vain for
several years an alliance with a sovereign house, and
at length obtained a princess, doubtless accomplished,
but only in a secondary rank, and of another reli-
gion ? When in face of old Europe, one is led by
the force of a new principle to the height of old
dynasties, it is not by seeking to introduce oneself at
any price into the family of Logs that one makes
oneself accepted. It is rather by remembering one's
origin, in preserving one's own character, and
in assuming frankly before Europe the position of
Zrru—a glorious title when it comes from the
e:i:ffrage of a great people.
" Thus, obliged to set aside precedents hitherto
followed, my marriage was no longer anything but a
private affair : the only thing that remained was the
choice of the poison. Bhewho is become the object
of my preference is of high birth. French by heart,
iby education, and by the remembrance of the blood
which her father shed for the cause of the Empire,
she has, as a Spaniard, the advantage of not having
lin France any family to whom she would wish to give
honours and dignities. Gifted with every quality of
mind, she will be the ornament of the throne, as In
'the day of danger she will become one of its most
courageous supports. A catholic and pious, she will
address to heaven the seine prayers as myself for the
happiness of France; gracious and good, she will,
I firmly hope, cause to revive, in the same position,
the virtues of the Empress Jo4phine.
" I come then, gentlemen, to say to France—l
have preferred a woman whom I love and respect to
one unknown, and whose alliance would have ad-
vantages mingled with sacrifices. Without testify-
ing disdain for any one, I yield to my penchant; but
not without ha flog first consulted my reason and
my convictions. In short, in placing independence,
qualities of heart, and family happiness above
dynastic prejudices and calculations of ambition, I
shall not be the lees strong, since I shall be more'

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“ Soon, in proceeding to Notre-Dame, I shall pre-
sent the i mprees to the people and to the army; the
confidence which they have in me assures me of their
sympathy in her I bay. chosen ; and you, gentle-
men, in learning to know her, you will be convinced
that on this occasion spin I have been inspired by
Providencia."

In lei than an hour after its delivery the speech'
was placarded in all parts of Paris. It will be ob-
served that it does not, after all, mention the name
of the future Empress.
Theheralds have been set to work to make out Mdlle.
Montijo's pedigree, and, not contented with the very
excellent materials of her father's recognised genealo-
gies& tree, they already claim for herroyal blood.
The Count de Odvodan, director of the
Caere, France, hen sent the followings munica-
tins to the government *ends :
The asaily with whisk the Onternee hums an @Blame b
on of the mot illestriwas b Boob. Oar fatare
helms to the boon of Guoilmraii...."mteme4si.dme=l
to the earful tress of the mod whisk
several hisbeirmsway was th-riiif royal • An the
lionehes et di loWy have played • distragnished pert in
Maley. Ws mO taste often Ono of the Dukes
of Mediae, of be Torrea. of sad of Oli-
moo, and timed the Oemole of Ifwatlje. el elm or Ten,
sod of VUlailodie, Ilentais de Ambles, de la Altars, be.,
of Spain. The Deshler de Tete, Countess de
ideseroda ben fhb fret breach. It is am the Int
time Ole taistily Ms lima mined to woad the trams
Ow is MN m Leras Ameba de iiiimrsa==
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Lag of Peetegal, Deo him IV. of B
The Oessie de Identile have the same armee the li=.
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their war relations, and bear the suite
asses. width b dr Oilmen. -
The Coisseffinlimuera says:—" It is announced that
the civil marriage at the Emperor will be celebrated
on Saturday next at the Tuileries. The religious
ceremony will take place on the following day. Great
are making at Notre Dame. The plans
jor gleri roles lions have been submitted to and ap-
proved of by his Majesty. The high altar will be
bras forward as far as the railing which encloses
the aoir, and all the portion of the church round it
will be brilliantly ornamented and lighted. A superb
canopy will be suspended over the high altar, before
which the prie Diets of their Majesties will be placed.
The seat of the archbishop will be placed to the left
of the altar. Two galleries hung with crimson vel-
vet will be erected at the sides of the choir for the
ladies of the court, and seats in the form of an am-
phitheatre will be erected for the great bodies of the
state and the high functionariee. There will be steps
arranged before the altar, on which the great officers
of the Imperial household will take their stations. A
porch will be erected along the front of the church,
so that carriages may set down under cover.
Mademoiselle de Montijo and her mother, the
Countess of Montijo, yesterday removed from the
apartment which they occupied in the Place Ven-
dome, and took up their residence at the El see.
Immense efforts are making to keep up the funds'
and to restore confidence. The natural reaction after
the heavy fall of Wednesday, has been stininlated by
large purchases of stock with public money. The
temporary upward movement has also been en-
couraged, according to the well-known Stock Ex-
change tactics, by the very parties who look forzrard
to profit by another fall before many days are over.
Rumours of a number of popular measures are in-
daidriously circulated. It is said to-day that the
army will immediately be reduced by 60,000 men,
and that the banished genera's will be recalled
without condition. Whatever degree of truth
there may be in these reports, you may take
it for granted that much will be done to
' give the ensuing week the air of a national jubilee.
From information that has reached me, I think it
more than probable that • reduction of the army
will be officially announced, but I may expense my
belief that any such announcement will be insincere.
Looking to the internal state of France alone, phy-
sioal force is more than ever necessary to maintain
the present government " He (Louis Napoleon)
must make war, or turn socialist," is an observation
' that I have beak repeated scores of times. It is
ereatial to beer in mind that the old saying, e park
is fiance," is as true as ever. The eight millions of
votes are continually referred to, as proving the con-
trary. The Bonapartist prints reiterate every day
that the distinguishing feature of the present govern-
ment is, that it is not metropolitan, but national
But the eight millions of votes resulted from the
subjugation ci Paris. So long IA the conqueror of

Dec 2 dudigiiiblids, military eup.reinacy in Paris,
there is nd inn sa reaction in any other part
of the,cionati7; But the population of Faris, is note-'
ittioualfit* tient of theidonqueroes yoke,4firb;
accident silih as IC requires no ex
,stretch of Imagination to conceive, they to
throw it off but for twenty-four hours, the succeeding
government might not indeed get eight dr
votes, but it would at once acquire substantial domi-
nation over all France. It is not, therefore, from any
reliance upon_the affection.of the French people, that
Louis Napoleon can Word to reduce his army. It is
very possible that the exiled generals may be re-
called. The measure would be popubir, and they are
at least se dangerous abroad as in France.
Sonic ministerial changes are very confidently
spoken of It is, I believe, quite decided that Mar-
obit St. Arnaud shall be succeeded in the ministry
of war by General Caurobert. This is a man
upon whom the Emperor has had his eye
for tome time, and he may be expected to
play. a large art in coming events. In con-
nexion with military changes I may observe
that General de Montreal, the new commander-
in-chief at Rome, was reoommended by Colonel
Fleury as a fitting instrument for the eventual exe-
cution of designs respecting the Pope, which it was
either not thought fitting to confide to Gen. Gemeau,
or which ho hesitated to execute. The nature of
Louis Napoleon's policy requires that his most confi-
dential agents should be frequently changed. It is
said that both ,M. de Morey and M. Rouher are
about to become Cabinet Ministers.

M. Baroche, President of the Council of State, gave
a grand dinner on Wednesday, at which were pro-
mkt Lord and Lady Cowley, the Minister of Den-
mark, Prince Ponmtowski, M. Rogier (the Minister
of Belgium), and Madame Rogier, the Minister of
Portugal, the Marquis de Valdegamas, and several
other persons of distinction. The ball which M.
Baroche wee to give to the Emperor is postponed
titan after Lent.

Notice is given in the Moniteur, that since the
20th instant, telegraphic despatches from private per-
sons may be sent by the electric telegraph to Mar-
seilles. The charge is 13fr. 32c. for every 20 words,
and one fourth more for every ten words additional.
The Swiss lines have now been united to those of
France, and private messages can be sent by them.
In anticipation of the establishment of the Trans-
atlantic packet station at Oherburg, a submarine
electric telegraph is about to be laul down to com-
municate between the dockyard, the forts, and the
breakwater.

The government has received accounts from Mar-
tinique and Guadeloupe to the 30th tilt. The yellow
fever continued to make ravages, but it had di-
minished in intensity. The accounts of the exports
of sugar from Martinique in 1832 show a consider-
able increase on 1851. As regards Guadeloupe, the
returns are less favourable on account of the long
drought that occurred in the last year. Despatches
have also been received from the penitentiary colony
of Guyana. They state that it is proceeding satis-
factorily.
The Minister of the Interior has addressed new
instructions to the prefeots of departments relative
to the registries of births, marriages, and deaths.
The minister requires that, with respect to births, in
'addition to the details heretofore given, an account
shall be kept of the number of double or triple births,
land of such children as are strangely or irregularly
formed. With respect to marriages, he requires
that, in order to ascertain the state of public instruc-
tion, the number of persons married or witnesses,
who may sign their names or use a cross, in acts
of marriage, shall be stated. As to deaths, he orders
that the deuce •of 1804, relative to the registra-
tion of dead children, shall be carried into execu-
tion; also that the causes of all deaths shall be
stated, uis done in England and Prussia. In cer-
tain large towns of France physicians have for some
time past been accustomed to give to the families of
decessed.persons a certificate stating the nature and
duration of the malady; and henceforth all physi-
cians will be expected to do the same. These oerti-
ticates,which are to give the technical as well as the
ordinary name of the malady, are to be preserved in
the offices of the mayors, and an abstract is to be
made of them at the end of the year, so as to form a
general return of the diseases which have occasioned
death in all parts of the country. This return will,
it is expected, prove exceedingly interesting and
useful. In addition to all this, the prefects are to
give a return of the number of passports they may
grant in the course of the year.
It is said to be the intention of the Emperor to
grant armorial bearings to all those senators, of whom
there are a good many, that are without any. The
grant will mention that the arms are to be painted
on the panels of the carriages of the person entitled
to them. This implies the possession of a carriage,
and is understood sea hint that the senators are ex-'
petted to conform to the prevailing. system which re-
quires all highly-paid functionaries to expend their
money freely. Many of the senators have shown a
disposition to evade this rule.
M. Bourgade, the mayor of Brissan (Herault), and
his son, M. Theophile Bourgade, mayor of Saint
Bengalis de Patois, have been suspended by the Pre-
fect for refusing to support a government candidate
for the council general. The electors of the district
have very nearly made themselves accomplices in the
oboes; for, in spite of intimidation, they gave 924
votes to M. Th. Bourgade against 1,040 polled by the
government candidate.
I believe the Emperor has wisely determined not
to remove the tombs of Voltaire and Rousseau from
the Pantheon. The priestly party has made immense
efforts to consummate this desecration, and the
Univers has devoted several articles to no other ob-
ject. But the Emperor knows that the whole literary
world of Paris would be indignant at such a stupid
act of intolerance, and begins to think he has done
enough for the priests already. A bon mot worth
repeating is attributed to M. Romieu, the director of
the Beaux Arts, on the occasion of his conveying the
Empuoes final resolution on this subject to the
Archbishop of Paris. The archbishop observed that
he could not reconcile himself to the idea of saying
mess over the ashes of such heretics as Rousseau and
Voltaire. " Monseigneur," said M. Romieu, "you
must admit that you could not do anything to annoy
them more." If this not unimportant matter be
thus finally settled, es I believe it to be, the decision
is creditable to France.
PARIS, BONDAY EVININO.
The Monsieur gives the following account of the
ceremony of yesterday :
To-day at noon the bureau of the Senate, the bureau of
the Carps Legislatif, and the members of the Council of
State as ambled at the Tuileries to receive a commuica-
tioa from the Emperor relative to his marriage.
Almost all the members of the Senate, among whom might
be remarked the Marshals, the Admirals, and the Arch-
=Para, CA the members of the bureau. The
of the Legislatif, a large number of whom
are new in Paris, desired to be present at this %s-
-• ng Milentnit y.
.t
a quarter put twelve the Senators members of the
Corps Legislatif, and Councillors of State quitted the
saloons where they had assembled, and proceeded to the
throne saloon. The Couneillon of State placed themselves
on either side of the throne, the Senators in front on the
right, and the Deputies in frost on the left.
At half-past twelve the Greed Master of the Ceremonies
announced the Emperor. His Majesty, in the mama of
• lieutenant-general, preceded by the greet At of his
accompanied by their imperial %/shalom Prince
Jerome and Prince Napoleon. and by his ssialMos, mused
the room. _ _ .

—The limperor, standing before the throne, having his
Imperial Highness Prince Jerome on his right, and his
Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon on his left, pronounced
the following speech, with a clear and accentuated voice,
bet with a visible emotion, which was shared by the whole
assembly.
[Here follows the speech, as given in another
column, but copiously interlarded with "Henan
tion," " Applause, " Unanimous Applause," "Viva
rEmpereur," " Vivo rlmperatrice," and "Long
continued applause."]
After the speech comes the following paragraph:
This speech, so loyal. so patriotic, several times Lone-
nipted by applause and cries of " Vive l'Empereur," Vive
l'lmperatrios,"jorodiond upon the assembly a deep ►impres-
sion, which all France will share.
This prediction is in substance a decree that all
France II to be deeply moved by the speed. It
would otherwise be out of place in the official part of
the ifoniteur where nothing but decrees or narra-
tions of past occurrences usually appear.
The important omission in the speech which I
jointed out yesterday is supplied by the official
urnal in the following terms :
The Emperor marries Mdlle. de Montijo, Coziness do
Teta,•
nw(Wiener of Count de Montijo, muft, and rands
..
Thus it appears that the young lady is not Doelisse
of Teba, as has been so generally represented.
It is officially announced that the marriage will be
Celebrated at Notre Bame on Sunday, Jan. 30.

Th ' onitear is silent on the subject of the civil
irr
the marriage eerembay, but this is fixed for
e y the 29th, at the Tuileries, and the Petrie
ariaotinbes that M. l'roplong, President of the Senate,
pa: Nest Presidentof the Court of Caseation, assisted
General d'llautpoul, Grand Referendary of the
Senate, will officiate as civil officer of the state on
the °Cession. MM. Viollet-Leduc and Luaus are
the architects employed to decorate Notre Dame.
Immediately after the delivery of the speech, the
Princes Jerome and Napoleon paid a visit to Mdlle.
Montijo, in the Place Vendome. The Emperor left
the Palace, and walked for some time up and down
the terrace in the gardens of the Tuileries, accom-
panied by the Duke of Basun° and General itognet,
and attended by two orderly officers.
Mdlle. Monlijo was not at the ball at the Tuileries last
night, and it is understood that neither she nor her
mother will appear in society until after the solemni-
zation of the marriage.
In anticipation of the marriage, an imperial insti-
tution, known as the Council au Contentieux" of
the crown, has been revived. The members are M.
Rouher, vice president of the Council of State; M.
Delangte, Senator and first president of the Impe-
rial Court of Paris; MM. Pascals and Pecourt,
judges of the Court of Cessation; M. Chain d'Est
Ange, the eminent counsel, and M. Noel, the empe-
ror's notary. Theirimmediate duty is to prepare the
marriage contract. I do not hear any confirmation
of a report that Prince Napoleon was to be married
to the Princess Wagrum on the day of the Empe-
ror's nuptials. Marriage engagements are, how-
ever,thefashion :and it is said that several personages
about the Court, and among them M. Pietn, theprefect
of police, Dr. Conneau, the Emperor's physician, and
M. Cherreau, are shortly about to follow their impe-
rial master's example. In consequence of the
exceedingly short notice, it has been found a matter
of some difficulty to produce a sufficiently splendid car-
riage to convey the imperial bridegroom and bride to
Notre Dame. I understand that the very gorgeous
equipage used at the coronation of Charles X. will be
furbished up for the occasion. That carriage
has been much admired, and I had always under-
stood that it was built expressly for Charles X. But
it is now said that upon scratching out the Bourbon
arms the imperial 'seutcheon has been found under-
neath, and that it was this identical carriage that
conveyed Napoleon I. to Notre Dame to be crowned
by Pins VII.
I mentioned that a sister of the Countess do Mon-
tijo, and consequently the aunt of the future empress,
had married M. de Lmeps. This was the eldest of
the family. The second daughter married General
Palafox, who distinguished himself at the defence
of Saragossa by a vigorous resistance to the French
army under the Duke of Montebello. The Countess
of Montijo was the third daughter. The fourth and
youngest is married to M. Cabarns, a merchant at
Bordeaux.

In the non-official part of the Moniteur there is the
following contradiction of the reported ministerial
changes:
It has been said among the public that differences of
opinion have been manifested in the ministry. These re-
ports are false, and a ministerial modification is in no way
in question.
I believe, nevertheless, that the first opportunity
will be taken to get rid of St. Arnaud. Notes of this
kind signify absolutely nothing. When the dis-
missal of Changarnier was in contemplation
the Moniker repeatedly stated that the
most perfect understanding prevailed between him
and the President of the Republic, and that
all the rumours of his resignation or dismissal were
false. It is a significant fact that the government
journals are now employed to write up the military
reputation of General Canrobert, the expected suc-
cessor of St. Arnaud. Both the journal de r.Empire
and the Conatitutionnel have devoted several columns
to this purpose.

ITALY.

THE POPE, AND THE CORONATION OF

ROME, lAN. 14.
To go, or not to go, that is the question, which
now agitates the council of his Holiness and the
Sacred College, and respecting which Pio Nono is of
an opinion directly opposed to that of the majority
of his cardinals. Naturally fond of homage and sipp
please, as was but too evident in the commencement
of his reign, and anxious to escape from the tram.
mels in which he is held by the Cardinal Secretary
of State, the Pope is resolved to visit France, and
perform the consecration required of him by the Em-
peror. This firm resolution has thrown the Sacred
College into the greatest consternation, and a con-
gregation of cardinals was held last week to con-
sider the matter, in which Cardinal Antonelli
announced to his eminent brethren that he had
opposed the Pope's determination to the ut-
most, but that he saw very well that it
would be in vain, and that his Holiness would
write to the Emperor, di proprio pugno, ex-
preening his willingness to undertake the journey, in
spite of the opposition of the whole Sacred College.
It is urged by their eminences that a Pope having
crowned the first sovereign of the Napoleonic dy-
nasty, the whole race is sufficiently consecrated,
without a Pope having to anoint each succeeding
emperor; and that were such a precedent to be arta-
blisled, no catholic potentate in Europe would be
satisfied without obtaining, in his own person, the
crowning work of the head of the church. The fact
is, that the Sacred College is thoroughly Austrian,
following the example of Cardinal Antonelli, whilst
the Pope is French in his tendencies, and obstinate
when his mind is once made up. Add to this, that
the French have the nine points of the law on their
side, by having Rome in their possession, and it
becomes more than probable that, despite of Aus-
trian and Russian influence, and the struggles of the
cardinals, Pio Nono will repair to Paris, and pour
the sacred oil on the head of Napoleon 111.