The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-24 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yaterday.
The contains the following important
decrees :--
" There is established a 2:iiniter of State, with the fol-
lowing attributions :
" The relations of the Government with the Senate, the
Legislative body, and the Council of Stare;
" The correspondence of the President with the different
Ministries ;
" The countersigning the decrees nominating Ministers,
Presidents of the Senate and the Legislative body, the no-
mination of senators, and concession of dotation which may
be made to them, and the nomination of the members of the
Council of State;
" The countersigning the decrees of the President in exe-
cution of the powers conferred on him conformably to Arti-
cles 24, 2:3,
31, 46, and 54 of the Constitution, and those con-
cerning matters which do not specially belong to any other
Ministerial department ;
" The drawing up and care of the minutes of the Council
of Ministers;
" The exclusive direction of the official part of the 2fo-

niteur ;
The administrat:on of the national palaces and menu.
factui es.
" Given at the Tuileries, this '22d Jan., 1852.

" LOUR NAPOLEON."
LOUIS NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de-
creei :
"M. de Casablanca, ex-Minister of Finance, is named
Minist*r of State.
Given at the Tuileries, this 22d Jan., 1852.
" Lours NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) " 1. Di CASABLANCA,
" Minister of State."
Louts
NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de-
crees
Art. 1. There is created a Ministry under the title of
Ministry of the General police.
Art. 2, The Minister of Police shall have the following
attributions :
"The execution of the laws relative to the general police,
and to the safety and internal tranquillity of the Republic;
the surveillance of the journals, of theatrical pieces, and pub-
lications of all kinds; the police of the prisons, and other
places of confinement; the personnel of the Prefects of Police
of Paris and the departments, and the agents of the general
police of every kind; the commercial, sanitary, and indus-
trial police; and the repression of mendicity and vaga-
bondage.
"Art. 3. The Ministry of Police will correspond with the
different constituted authorities for all which concerns the
safety of the Republic.
Art. 4. An ulterior decree will regulate the central or-
ganization and the active services of the new Ministry.
Art. 5. The Ministers will be charged, each as far as
concerns him, with the execution of the present decree.
" Given at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 22d January
1852. " Louis NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) "X. DE CASABLANCA."
LOUIS NeroLtes, President of the Republic,
decrees :

Art. 1. M. de ISlaupas Prefect of Police of the Seine,
is named Minister of the General
"Art. 2. Our Minister of State id charged with the exe-
cution of the present decree.
" Gwen at the Palace of the Tuileries, this '22cl January,
" LOUIS NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) " X. DB CASABIANCA."
LOUIS Aroulori, President of the Republic, de-
crees :

"M. Abbatucci, honorary councillor of the Court of
Caseation, is named Keeper of the Seals and Minister of
Justice, in the room of DI. Rouher, whose resignation is
accepted.

" 3riven at the Palace of the Tuileries, this 22d January,
1852. " Loots NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) "1. DE CASABIANCA."
Louis NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de-
crees :

Fialin de Persigny, ex-Minister Plenipotentiary, is
named Minister of the Interior, in the room of M. de hlorny,
whose,i resignation is accepted.
" Given at the Tuileries, this 22d January, 1852.
" Louis NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) ' "X. DE CASABLANCA."
Louis NAPOLEON, President of the Republic, de-
crees :

" M. Bineau, ex-Minister, is named A linist?r of Finance,
in the room of Al. Fould, whose resignationis accepted.
" Given at the Tuileries, this 22d January, 1852.
"Louis NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) "X. DE CASABIANCA."
The PRESIDENT of the Republic,
" Considering that all the, Governments which have suc-
ceeded each other have judged it indispensable to oblige the
family which ceased to reign to sell the real and personal
property which it possessed in France;, that in this manner,
on the 12th January, 1816, Louis constrained the
members of the family of the Emperor Napoleon to sell their
personal property within a delay of six months, and that on
the 10th April, 1832, Louis Philippe acted in the same
manner with regard to the princes of the elder branch of the
Bourbons ;
" Considering that such measures are for the interests of
order and the public; that now more than ever high poli-
tical considerations imperiously command the diminution of
the influence which the possession of nearly three hundred
millions of property in France gives to the Orleans family ;
" Decrees :
" Art. 1. The members of the Orleans family, their hus-
bands, wives, and descendants, cannot possess any real or
personal property in France; they shall be bound to sell, in
a definitive manner, all the property which belongs to them
throughout the whole extent of the territory of the Republic.
" Art. 2. This sale shall be effected within the delay, for
free property, of one year from the date of the promulgation
of the present decree, and for property liable to liquidation
or dispute from the date at which the property shall have
become irrevocably their own.
"Art. 3. In the event of the sale not having been effected
within the above prescribed delays, the Administration of
Domains shall proceed therewith, in the forms prescribed
by the law of the 10th April, 1832.
" The proceeds of the sale shall be handed over to the
proprietors or to those having a right thereto.
" Given at the Palace of the 'Tuileries, the 22d January.
" LOUIS NAPOLXON.
" X. DE CAtIBIANC.#I,
" Minister of State."

(Countersigned)

The PRESIPENT of the Republic,
" Considering that, without encroaching on the right of
person of the Princes of the Orleans family,
property in the
the President of the Republic would not justify the confi-
dence of the French people, if he permitted properties which
ought to belong to the nation to be abstracted from the do-
mains of the State;
‘, Considering that, according to the ancient public law of
France, maintained by the decree of the 21st September,
1790, and by the law cf the Bth November, 1814, all the
property which belonged to the Princes on their accession to
the throne was of full right, and at the very instant united to
the domain of the Crown ;
" That thus the decree of the 21st September, 1790, and
the law of the Bth November, 1814, enact: 'The private
property of the prince who comes to the throne, and that
which he possessed during h'
IS reign, on whatever title it
may be, are of full right and at the very instant united to the
domain of the nstion, and the effect of this union is perpetual
and irrevocable ;'
"That the consecration of this principle ascends to very
distant times of the moparchy ; that amongst others may be
cited the exaroPle of Henry IY. ; that prince having wished
by letters patent of the 16th April, 1590, to prevent the
union of his
properties with the domain of the Crown, the
Parliament of Paris refused to enregister those letters patent
by a judgment of the 15th July, 1591, and Henry IV.,
sequently applauding this firmness, issued in the month of
sub-
July, 1607, a decree revoking his first letters patent ;
"Considering that this fundamental rule of the monarchy
was applied under the reign of Louis XVIII. and Charles
X., and reproduced in the law of the 15th January, 1825 ;
e That no legislative act had revoked it on the 9th August,
1830, when Louis Philippe accepted the Crown ; that thus
by the fact of that acceptation all the property which be
possessed at that period became the indisputable property of
the State ;
" Considering that the general donation, subject to a life
interest, consented to by Louis Philippe for the advantage of
'
his children, to the exclusion of his eldest son, on the 7th
August, 1830, the very day on which the throne was offered
him, and before his acceptation which took place on the 9th
of the same month, had only for its object to prevent the
union to the domain of the State of the large estates pos-
sessed by the prince called to the throne ;
"That at a later period, when it became known this act
excited public disapprobation
( souleva la conscience publique) ;
"That, if the annulling of it- was not pronounced, it was
because there did not exist,
as under the ancient monarchy,
an authority competent to repress the violation of the prin-
ciples of public law, the protection of which was formerly'
confided to the Parliaments;
in reserving the life theinterest "That, nerest of property com-
prised in the donation, 14011i8 Philippe deprived himself of
nothing, and wished only to assure to his family a patrimony
become that of the State;
.' That the donation itself, not less than the exclusion of
the eldest son, in the expectation of the accession to the
throne of that son, was On the
pan of the King Louis Philippe,
the most formal recognition of that fundamental rule, since
it required so many precautions to elude it;
" That it would be vain
in of the to allege that the union to the
public doma properties of the prince could only result
accetation only
from the accep
too tation of the crown by him, and that as such
consented on the 7thh place on the 9th August, the donation
effect; of the same month should produce its
" Considering that at the latter date Louis Philippe was no
longer a priv
ranch ate bee
' —soh since the two Chambers declared him
King of the F , under the sole condition of taking an
" That, in consequence of his acceptation, he was King on
the 7th August, since
Chambers,on that day the national will was ma-
nifested by the twoand that the fraud on the law
of public order does
no
texist less when it is concerted in
i
view of a certan fact which is immediately about to be
realised;
" Considering, that the property comprised in the donation
of the 7th August being irrevocably incorporated in the do-
Art.mainof the State,
could inotrre
be
detached by the clauses of
22 of the law of the 2d March, 1832 ;
" That it would be contrary to all principles ascribing a
retroactive effect to that law, to cause it to render valid an
act radically nun, according to the legislation existing at the
time at which the act was consummated ;
" That, besides that law dictated by private interest, under
the influence of political events, cannot prevail against the
permanent rights of the State, and the immutable rules of
public law;
" Considering, besides, that the rights of the State thus
claimed, there still remains to the Orleans family more than
one hundred millions, with which they can support their
rank abroad
" considering also that it is right to continue the annual
allowance of 300,000 f inscribed in the budget for the dowry
of the Duchess of 0c •
leans,
" Decrees—
" Art. 1. The realn
andpersonal property which is the ob-
ject of the donatio
me 6 the 7th August, 1830, by the
Philippeis
King Louis d p
on
restored to the domain of the State.
-- '
" Art. 2. The State remains charged with the payment of
the debts of the Civil List of the last reign.
" Art. 3. The dowry of 300,000 f. awarded to the Duchess
d'Orleans is maintained.
"Art. 4. property returning
The to the State in virtue of
Art. 1 obeli be partly
sold ( venclus en partie) by the Ad-
ministration des Dornaines, and the proceeds shall be divided
as follows:
" Art. 5.. 'fen millions are allowed
July, 1850.
cours Mitt
"Art. 6uela authorised by the law of the 15th . .
"Art. 8. Ten millions shall be employed in ameliorating
the dwellings of workmen in ' the great manufaet uring towns.
"Art. 7. Ten millions shall be devoted to the establish-
ment of institutions for
er) in making loans on mortgage (institu-
tions de credit foue• • the departments which may de-
mand that measure oil su belitting to the conditions m-
oidend negenary,