The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-25 00:00:00

iiite."The ooei* of gendarmerie is composed of-11. the integtion to levy an income and property tax, or I
26 legions for the service of the departments and to impose a stamp-duty on the transfer of Rentes ;as
Algiers; 2. The colonial gendarmerie; 3. Two bat- the eole object of these denials is to prevent
talons of gendarmerie mobile; 4. The republican securities front falling at' the Bourse. For
guard of Paris; 5. The Algerian voltigeurs; 6. Two the same reason it seeks to evade the necessity
companies of veterans ; 7. The battalion of wpm's- which must come sooner or later of rasing a
pompiers of Paris. loan. The project, however, which I announced-
The number of persons arrested in the Basses to you of raising a loan of eight millions sterling
Alpes is 850. is not abandoned on this account; it is simply
The national guard of Pointy has been dissolved. postponed as a last resource, because the
Several French insurgents have retreated, with- government hopes to see the ltentes rise daily in
out disarming. to the territory of Piedmont. Troops consequence of the immense number of votes in
I have been scut by the Sardinian government to cc- favour of the President, and the terms of a loan
copy some posts on the frontier. Thirty-seven in- consequently become easier. In the meantime it is
rsurgents reached Villa Franca, and laid down their reverted that the Ministers of Finance and, Public
' arms after having crossed the frontier. They were 11 orks are in treaty with a company that offers to
committed to the lazaretto until the decision of the undertake the whole line of railway from Paris to
government was known. The extradition of all Marseilles, with the condition of paying 210 millions
j who have committed deeds of blood and pillage will of francs.
be demanded by the French government. I hear, as a report, that the following changes are
The Uoircrs states that the letters reported to soon to take place among high functionaries
have been written by the Pope to M. de Montalem- Berger, prefect of the Seine, is to be made a senator,
bert and the nuncio, relating to the events of Dec. and to be replaced at the Hotel de Ville by M. do
2, are apocryphal. Maupas, prefect of police. M. St. Georges, the di.
The same paper sends the sum of 13/.,collected from rector of the Imprinierie Nationale, is to succeed M.
carious zealots, to the Roman Catholic primate of de Maupris, and to be replaced by M. Iloilay, editor
Ireland, president of the Catholic Association, to be of the Constitationne/.
employed in combating the active propaganda of M. Leballeur de Villiers, one of the London French
proteaantism. refugees, and nn editor of the Proserit, has been ar-
A member of the municipal council exclaimed on rested in Brittany and brought to Paris. Ho had
Monday at the Hotel de Ville, " Twenty years of come to France by way of Jersey with a false passport.
prosperity and calm, and Paris will be the most At the Bourse, after considerable fluctuations, the
splendid city in the world." The Prefect of the Seine Five per Cents. till 50e., closing at 10011. 85c.; the
has ordered that the construction of the new Houle- Three per Cents. fell 10e., and closed at 651 r. 50c.
card Mazas shall be immediately proceeded with. Most of the railways rose from 2fr. to Gfr.
This boulevard was declared to be of public utility
by a decree of July 9th, 1850. But only about three-
quarters of a mile.has yet been finished, mid there
remains nearly a mile to be done. The Bou'evard
Mazes will go in a straight line from the columns nt
the liarrWre du Trone to the Pont d'Austerlitz. It
will form a magnificent street, shaded on each side
by a double row of trees, and will unite the quays of
the Seine with all the leading thoroughfares of the
metropolis. The handsome station of the Lyons
Railway will be a striking object on this boulevard,
and will become more accessible than it now is. De-
signs arc under consideration for two columns at the
comers of the Itue do Lyons, to be surmounted by
allegorical statues representing the cities of Lyons
and Marseilles. Other works in connection with the
new boulevard are also to be rapidly completed. The
new street, the Rue Cardinal Lemoinuc, is to be car-
ried out as far as the Rue St. Victor. The Rue de
Poissy will be widened and extended to the Quat de
la Tournelle, and the Rue St. Victor will be
widened as far as the end of the Rue Cardinal Le-
moinne. It is moreover seriously intended to carry
into effect the scheme ventilated by Dr. Wron, some
months since, of pulling down the walls of Paris, and
extending the barriers to the line of the fortifi-
cations.
c
Millie. Marten, the daughter of the general com-
tlimaisndiiiinogriliinn;ltioieofneLfothliteheatan:ymoral
fls'aarisiestvdnes married.
aides-de-camp at
the church of St. Germain L'Auxerrois.

(FROM AN OCCASIONAL COUISESPONDENT.)
PARIS, DEC. 21.
The newspapers of to-day ttPe chequered with
.6 returns." The substance of them will have been
sent you by telegraph. Louis Napoleon is
md— nay, he is Petal itself. The republic is ex-
tinetand the republicans hang their heads in despair.
" All hope is lost." The tri-colored flag clings to
its staff, drooping with shame. The whole metropo-
lis is clothed withsadncss. Louis Napoleon hides his
head. He was out on Sunday, but strongly
.guarded,
and locked up in a close carriage like a criminal. Ile
dare not look Paris in the face. Instead of the " re-
turns" being welcomed last night by the ringing of
bells and the tiring of guns, they were received like
so many bulletins of death. Never was silence more
profound or more significative.
Messieurs Sallandrouzc, Gausson, Plon, Charriere,
Vittoz, Heider, Delicourt, and other tradesmen, may
address the usurper as " prince"—as, indeed, they
have done already—and congratulate him (in the
name of shawls, carpets, brass-ware, chocolate,
needles, sausages, and bronze) that his usurpation
has been successful; but this is a trick as old and
obvious as shoplifting.
It is no more than justice, however, to say that
though France, much more than England, is a
" nation of shopkeepers," there arc hundreds of
this class who have a detestation of Louis Napoleon
as hearty as any republican's in the land. These arc
the men who fought so bravely, as citizens and as
National Guard, in the revolution of 1148 ; and who,
when hat revolution was en felt itecompli, encou-
raged the new government to enact those just and
liberal laws which have just now been trampled in
the dust.
A word as to the (wrier.. I have again and
again visited their most populous quarters, and regret
:hat I have no words to describe their sorrow. For

When the news of the 2nd I teeember arrived in
Rome, General Gemenu demanded a Te how from
the Pope, which was not, however, at once acceded
to, and has not hitherto been solemnized.
The Moselle, charged to transport to Noultahiva
the condemned conspirators of Lyons, Gent, Odde
and Longomazino, sailed on the 20th inst. She was
preceded by the Artemisa and Phoque, which
weighed anchor some days previous for the Mar-
quesas Islands.
The Pattie says It appears that the news of
the events of 2nd December has produced on the pri-
soners of Belle Isle and Doullens a degree of discou-
ragement which it is impossible to describe. At first
they would not believe it, and it was not until they
had read it several times in the Monitor; that they
could be convinced of the truth. It appears that the
most resigned among them are MM. Guinard and
ltaspail, who have manitisted a formal intention, if
set at liberty, to renounce for ever all connection
with politics."
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The great sum of votes in favour of Louis Napo-
leon goes on swelling, and has, according to the
official report, reached already the enormous figure of
3,500,000, out of 6,a00,000. Singularly enough
nearly all the retnrns that have been made give the
affirmative votes as nine-tenths of the whole.
The following is the return fur Paris as pub-
lished to-day at the Hotel de Ville:
In-ere-M. Vent rt. Go. • ntes. Yee. Na.
PUl'l6 291,795 216,003 213,672 11'2,961 30,601
sc. tux .. 38,267 31,729 31,504 26,615 4,Bt'
St. Leafs 63,967 46,808 48,139 37,495 10,935

Total.. 394069 297,230 293,b15 114%091 95,51
Yea. No.
Indre
}Lute N ivnne
Aisne , I3,US9 .. 5,81.5
_

In the number of departments whose votes arc as
yet imperfectly known 27 of the most important give
2,060,000 affirmative and 107,000 negative votes, or
a little mute than v per cent. Among these depart
meats are the following :

Yes. No.
Allier Gi,Ues) .. I,2tA)
Charente
Ch. r

ludre-et.Luirc; 78,000 .. 4,300
Laudcs
Marne-et-Lain 97,000 .. 5,000
Meurthe 91,000 .. 5.000
Meuse 49,000 .. 2,200
Nierre
Nord
Oise 94,000 .. 4,000

I'as-de-CAI:I6

Puy 114,000 .. 2,uoq
Deux Suvres

1,341100 47,000
If we add to the proceeding results the partial re-
sult of the Bas-Ithin, we get :
Yrs. No.
103,993 .. 9,4•i7
Total
the negative votes being about 31 percent.
The government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatch from the sub-prefect of Tonnerre:

The elections have terminated in my arrondissement. Out
of the S 2 communes of which it is composed 32 have voted
unanimously, and 22 have only given one negative vote each.
People worn down with age and sufferings, and old soldiers
of the empire, who have not fur many years left their
houses, had themselves carried to the place of voting in the
midst of repeated cries of "Vise Napoleon! Vise le.Saveur
de la France !" I shall not attempt to describe the enthw
'bun of the people around me ; the following Sores will
speak more eloquently:—Number of voters, 13,873—1ie5,
13,178; No, 433; lost votes, 33. Comparison of the votes
on the 10th December, 1848-11,667; majority in la il,
1,811. To•morrow you will receive the general list and re-
capitulation of the vote: by communes.
Some few small communes have voted against
Louis Napoleon; but the only considerable town,
whose negative votes are in a majority, is Mulhouse.
I called your attention yesterday to a decree in
the Monitelie re-establishing the military divisions
which had been before suppressed. The true mean-
ing of this is to provide commands and to furnish
with increase 'if pay the numerous military-
suitors by whom the Elysk is besieged. The
Moniteur is filled with promotions having the same
object, which have the aim of the fulfilment of the
bargain by which the services of the fumy have
been bought. Nothing ran equal the gross greed
with which such favours ore begged but the shame-
less ex poet facto bribery with which they are
bestowed.
General Eynard, military commander of the
Allier, is signalising himself by a strict of inhuman
decrees, which surpass, if possible, in wickedness,
the deeds of Haynau. lie has published, at the foot
! of a long list of persons whom he accuses of having
joined the insurrection, the following barbarous
edict :

. .
the most part they are sober, industrious, honest,
intelligent men, ready to make any sacrifice in the
cause of liberty. They did not fight the other day at
the barricades, bemuse they knew that with such odds
against them, such a course would only be offering
an invitation to the most frightful butchery. Their
only demonstration was pacific. They joined in one
overwhelming chorus of rice la 11,publapte, rice In
Cuasillodiot, when the army of Louis Napoleon
marched up the Boulevards ; but, beyond this, they
preserved a wise passiveness. Yesterday I visited
several of_their assucinfious Fralerarlics. I heard
no word of revenge there, and saw nothing which
indicated any more criminal feeling than resignation.
They felt insulted, indeed, by having their favourite
syMbhl taken from them, but looked upon the act as
far too paltry to make a noise about. By the
way, I observed that the fated triangle had not only
been obliterated from the sign hoards, but that it
had been carefully scraped from the coffee-cups ?
What act of petty tyranny will he visited upon the
()terriers next no one can tell. If these associations
(which, by the way, only differ from other public
coffir-houses in that equal co-partners arc substi-
tuted for waiters) should be dissolved, secret societies
will increase ltevond precedent. The ourriers must
have their public places of resort, and these places
must be conducted on their own principle, or else
they will be compelled, in self-defence, to organise
some kind of a substitute. There is no army
large enough to prevent this. It is important
to observe, in this connexion, that there are
not a few soldiers of the line among the habilm's of
these institutions. I was accustomed to sec from ten
to twenty of them at an association in the Rue
du Faubourg St. Denis, all last summer; some of
whom were officers, and all of whom were ardent
reformers.

Anarchists, no-property men, worshippers of the
red flag—men opposed to law, order, and family—
I saw none of. The race was never very numerous,
and is now about extinct. This fact cannot, under
present circumstances, be stated too often or too
strongly. What the English understand by socialism,
I have as little sympathy with as any one; and the
idea of the state tampering with trade, and under-
taking to "organise labour," seems to me, as to you,
like foolishness itself. The French, too, are coming
round to this opinion. The cause of labour was
never more injured than by the national workshops.
The workman was wounded in the house of his
friends. All that the mechanics of Franco ask now
is to be let alone. They wish neither charter nor
privilege. Their one demand is for free trade and
fair play. Their associations (of which there are
over a hundred in Paris) are at worst but little cor-
porations of stockholders. The wages and profits,
instead of being equal, as at first, are graduated ac-
cording to the labour and skill of the ope-
ratives. Their rules arc simple, and their
morals severe. Politics arc left as a thing apart.
The chief government they trouble themselves about
is self-government. The responsible managers arc
respected throughout Paris for their integrity. Their
competition with the old system is conducted in a
manner above reproach. They are respected, above
all, in their immediate neighbourhood. I know this
from personal inspection and inquiry, and record it
as an act of simple justice.
In the political world, the members of these asso-
ciations are all liberals. It is safe to say that not
one of them voted for Louis Napoleon ; and it is
probable that many of them had the good sense not
to vote at all. During all these troubles, they have
kept at work, and set an example of that moderation
and good sense which alone can save France from
the abyss towards which she now totters.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.

A letter from Rome, of the 13th, in the Pays,
says:—.4 We are informed that Louis Napoleon has
written an autograph letter to the general in com-
mand of the French troops at Rome, enjoining him
to preserve order in that city, and more especially to
protect the person and government of the Pope."

Art. 1. All the delinquents above designated shall be
searched atter with care, urresttd, and conducted to Mou-
lins. _ _

PIEDMONT.
The Piedniontese Gazette publishes the new regu-
lations established by royal decree, concerning the
i stitutions of secondary instruction. Every royal
college, in which philosophy is taught, is under the
control of a council composed of professors, who fix
the plan of study and programmes for the year,
watch over the discipline of the school, &c. A cer-
tain number of inspectors is also named, who visit
these schools, and report on the state of the dormito-
ries, the food, and general comforts afforded to the
pupils. as also on the instruction given in the classes,
and the conduct of the professors. Spiritual direc-
tors are also appointed for the religious instruction
of the pupils.
The Opinions publishes the following, dated Nice,
17th:

Art. 2. Every person who shall afford an asylum to them,
or lead them succour, shall be arrested and prosecuted as
accomplice.' of the insurrection.
Att. 3. The officers of judicial police and their auailia-
ries, and the is,tents of the public force of the deparuntut of
the Alien, are held respousiffie for the execution of the
pri sent decree. Geueral EYNAHU.
Moulins, Dec. 18, 1831. _

Another edict closes the shops of three chemists
and apothecaries, and deprives their families of the
means of subsistence because the said chemists are'
denounced as insurgents. The object of this decree
is to punish the families of the insurgents: but the
plea assigned is care for the public health, which re
quires that chemists should attend to their own
shops; as it the assistants of such men were not as
capable of selling drugs as their chiefs.
j Little reliance is to be placed upin the contradic-
tions of the government papers to reports concerning

A great number of armed French insurgents have re-
tired on our territory. The report of the deplorable sirs,
perpetrated during the last insurrection in the Var,
alarmed the population of our districts, situate along the
frot.ticn.. They demanded and obtained troops to protect
th..m iiTaiust attack. A detachment of tha Lith regiment
of infantry, after leaning a few men at St. Martin du Vat,