The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-10 00:00:00

THE NEW FRENCH MINISTER OF THE
INTERIOR.

tProm yesterday's Momiteir.)

The new Minister of the Interior (General
Espinsase) has just addressed to the Prefects the
following circular :
" Monsieur le Prefet,—The confidence of the Em-
peror calls me to the Ministry of the Interior. This
coatldenoe creates for me a title that surely needs
with you no kind of explanations. But the public
will probably pre-occupy itself about the &occasion
of a military man to functions merely civiL Let us
assign its true meaning to a fact the significance of
which must neither be misrepresented nor explained
away.

" France, tranquil, prosperom, and glorious, under
a restorative and repairing government, has aban-
doned herself for six years to a confidence, which
was, perhaps, excessive, in the subsidenos of the
anarchical passions, which the energy of the
Sovereign and the solemn will of the country seemed
to have crushed into nothingness. The generosity
of the Emperor, multiplying pardons and amnesties,
itself afforded a pledge of this real, but incomplete,
return of calm and union.

" An execrable attempt has opened all our eyes,
and revealed to us the savage resentments, the cul-
pable hopse, that still brood in the breasts of the
revolutionary party.
" Of this party, Monsieur le Prtfet, we ought
neither to exaggerate nor underrate the strength•
Its odious attempt has just reawakened the:appre-
hensions of the country, and we are bound to give
the country the guarantees of misty which she de-
mands. There is no question either of discretionary
measures or of superfluous severities ; bat a no-
enmity exists for an attentive, incessant super-
vision, eager to prevent, prompt and firm

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to repress, always calm u it beseems strength
and right to be; and, in the last place, our
populations, who are justly alarmed, must be
given well to know that, now also, it is for the
good to feel reassured, and for the wicked alone to
tremble. This is the most important part of my
task, Monsieur le Prdfet, and hereby is explained
the choice which the Emperor has made of me.
France desires the maintenance of order, and of
respect for the institutions which she:has:consecrated
by her suffrages, as well as the energetic:repreasia
of the plots directed against the:Sovereign_she has
conferred on herself. She will have what she de.
mends.

" In order to attain this exalted object, I count on
your energetic and sustained co-operation, as you
may depend on my support. We have mutually, u
the guarantee thereof, my devotion to the Emperor.
and you".
" Accept, &c., " EsPnruel."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TIYINIDAT Mozxzse.

None of the French journals dare to offer any re.
marks on the appointment of the new Minister of
the Interior, nor on the retirement of M. Billault.
The dry fact, as stated in the Noniteur, is all that
they are allowed to announce. Who General Espi-
nesse is, and what are his antecedents, must not be
told to France except in official words. Even the
dates of his commissions must not be given lest in-
ferences should be drawn from them. To-morrow,
doubtless, the government prints will have leading
articles, consisting merely of a transposition of the
new minister's circular, and asserting roundly
that the new appointment commands the
confidence of the country. As to the circular, which
you will have copied from the Moniteur, it does not
suggest much remark. It is much less eloquent than
the nomination itself. Nevertheless, if there were
any room for addition to the bad effect produced by
the appointment, the circular has filled up the mea-
sure. For it plainly says that General &pinion is
not appointed to purely, civil functions although,
but because, he is a soldier. Any possible doubt
that the military officer is appointed to do what M.
Billault's conscience shrank from doing, are dis-
pelled by his own professions.
The judgment by default against Ledru Rollin as
an accomplice in the attempt of Pianori, has been
newly posted up all over Paris to-day ; and I oh.
serve that Count Walewski's despatch asserts his
guilt. It is proper to remind you that I was present
at Pianori'a trial, and,as I stated at the time,there was
not a scrap of credible evidence against Ledru
Rollin. One of the prisoners said that he maw with
Massini a tall stout man whose name he pronounced
Rodrone, but he admitted that this man, whoever
he might be, left the room before a word was said
about the project entertained.
The Bourse has again been heavy, owing to the
uneasy feeling created by the change in the Ministry
of the Interior. The Route fell 10c. for cash and
for account, closing at 89fr. 80c. and 89fr. 46e.
Mobilier Lull 10fr. The Western and Grand Central
Railways rose 2fr. or 3fr., but the other lines fell
from 2fr. 60c. to +Hr.

Baron de Sprengporten, a general in the service of
the Bing of Sweden, has arrived in Paris on a mis-
sion of congratulation to their Imperial Majesties.
He is accompanied by two of the King's aides-de-
camp, the Chamberlain Boy, a captain in the Light
Cavalry of the Guard, and M. Lagerheim, a lieu-
tenant of Dragoons.
A court-martial has been sitting for several days
at Marseilles for the trial of two commissariat offioers
accused of embezzlement in the Crimea. A telegram
now states that one of the prisoners, M. Royer, is
found guilty and sentenced to live years' imprison-
ment with hard labour. The other, named Molard,
is acquitted. Royer was a defaulter to a very large
amount

I have already mentioned the fact of the Emperor
having received at the Tuileries the detachment of
Lancers of the Guard which escorted the imperial
carriages to the Opera on the night of January 14.
The following details are now given. The troops=
introduced to the imperial apartments were
two oftlsers, one of them, the mareehal-dee-logic, re.
cently promoted, one sub-officer, a trumpeter, and
twenty-three privates. Five others, who are still
detained in the hospital by the wounds which they
received, could not join their comrades on this °m-
elon. The Emperor and Empress received the de-
tachment with the greatest kindness, and presented
to each a watch and chain, the former having en-
graven on the case the letter N., with a crown. The
watches of the officers were in gold, and the others
in sliver.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Fes. 8.
The Marquis de Pidal has been appointed ambas-
sador to Rome.
The civil governors of the Baleares, Guipuscos,
Biscay, and Palencia, have been suspended.

Cil=ia AND BULOARIANS.—Adsiose from
Adrianople Mate that serious disturbances had broken oat
in that city between the Cheeks and Balimrisms on the sub-
ject of the &unit of bireet-Hans. This bending had been
constructed at the joint of the two woes, cm the
condition that they celebrate their services In it
simultaneously, that is to ear, that after the Otesk *bathed
sang one mess of a pealen,the followlay TIM Ilhoeld to
mug by the Bulgarian choristets. Thin anditka was not
duly observed, and the Bulgarians, becomieg
went to the Greek bishop, and but for the intAishonwell
the Russian consul and of a body of policemen whom is
meat to the spot, some soh of violence would probably have
been committed. The affair is now in the hinds of the
judicial authorities.
The other day, as Chang and Eng, the Siamese
twins, were going to Charleston, the conductor of the can
made a tom Leman they did not each have a ticket. The
graffito= who had charge of them, said that they had
always been coaled on the ticket of a mingle passenger. The
conductor replied that they were two pawns, and
two muds ; they mast therefore pay two pampa. °.'74441
well," mid the gentlemea, " I wal give the ticket to Chang.
and you cm pet-ffing at the cars." This brought the con-
ductor to his storra, and be.had to " knock under."—New
York Alias.
A few dais agothe Ultramontane Augsburg Pod-
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