Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-21
FOREIG N.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT

IAklS, JANuARYZO 1907.
Since the date Of my last the Government o.
France has undergone various changes. Ministers
have retired new Ministers have been nominated
Ministries have been abolished, old Ministries modi-
fed and new Ministries instituted The Ministries
and Ministers as they exist to-day (January Goth,
1882 appear by the Moaitsv of this morning to
be as follows:
ABATUccI, Keeper of the Seals Minister Of Justice
DE PERsIGNy, Minister of the Interior of Agriculture,
and Commerce
BINEAu, Minister Of the Finances.
Gen. DE ST. ARSAUD, Minister of War.
Ducos Minister of the Marine
TURGoT, Minister of Foreign Affairs
FoRrouL Minister of Public Instruction and Of Worship
LEPEBvRE DURUFLE, Minister of Public Works
DE MAUPAs Minister of the Police.
DE CAsABIANcA, Minister of State.
The Ministries are now ten in number, instead
of nine, heretofore That of Agriculture and Com
merce is suppressed as separate institution, and its
functions added to those of the Minister of the Ine-
rior. The Ministries of the Police and of State are
new creations. The functions of the former are
sufficiently indicated by the title ITSELF those Of the
Minister Of State are thus enumerated in the de-
cree of the 22d instant announcing the new office
He has charge the relations of the with
the Senate, the Legislative Corps and the Council of
State of the correspondence of the President with the
various ministerial departments He will countersgn the
Presidential DEGREES nominating Minister'S President Of
mating Senator'S and fixing the salaries that may be
corded to them; DEGREES nominating members of the
Council Of State DEGREES rendered by the President in
execution of the powers belonging him by virtue of
tcles "a 2S 81 AS, 81 of the constitutions and all
DEGREES concerning matters which do not specially belong
to some of the Ministries The Minister Of State will
draw up and keep the minutes of the proceedings the
Council Of Minister'S he win have the exclusive drscon
OF the official part of the Moaer and, finally, he will
have the administration of the national palaces Of the
national manufactures"
The decree of the same date appointing the Min
lister of Police is in the following form:
/" Louis NAPOLEON, President ofhe Republic, DEGREES:
Article 1st NJ DE MAUpAs Project of Police of the
Seine is nominated Minister of the General Police.
''Article ID Our Minister of State is charged with
the execution Of the present decree.
Done at the Palace Of the Tuleries the 22d of
January 1852. LOUIS NAPOLEON. n
BY the President
'sThe Minister of State, X. DE CAsABIANcA"
This is the first instance in which the Prince
President has adopted the royal style of sour in
official documents
Do you not think that decree declaring that
henceforth the President of the Republic shall be
known and addressed in all official documents and
elsewhere by the and style of Emperor Of the
French" would find its proper and natural place
after the following, which actually appears in the
lMoniteur of yesterday, bearing date the oath of
January, 1852?
1.-THE decree OF the PROVISIONAL Government dated the
Goth of February, 184s concerning ancient titles of
bility, is repealed"
The decree of the Goth February, 1S48, thus re-
pealed, is in these words:
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT considering that equality
is one of the great principles of the French Republic
and that it ought consequently receive its immediate
application DEGREES:
A the old titles of nobility are abolished and the
styles of address which attached to them forbid
den They cannot be publicly assumed nor figure in any
public act whatever.
1.-The members of the Provisional Government:
Dupont (de rEure,) Lamartne, Louis Blanc
GARNER Pages, Arago, Albert, (workingman,
Cremieux, Marrast, Flocon, Marie, Ledrr
Rolin."
The following note has been communicated BY
Government to the Moniteur, and is published this
| morning 1t is hoped thereby to put stop to tn,
severe criticisms which have been in active circula
ton during the last week touching the recent strin
gent measures taken with regard to those known o.
supposed to be irreconcilably hostile to the Prince
Louis Napoleon. 1t is also intended to quiet publ,
apprehensions with regard to the future:
1 "PARIs JANUARY 25.-It is not possible for the Gov
eminent to contradict all the stories which i'll win is per
petually circulating The rigorous measures which
necessity has imposed have naturally made impression
upon public opinion which daily supposes that Govern
win find itself obliged to resort to still others and
sl The state Of the country is far from
justfying such apprehensions Without abating in the
slightest the rmness which is necessary against the
mics of order the Government will not henceforth have
need to resort to exceptional measures and the normal
of the political bodies whose organization is rapidly adj
vancing will suffice to consolidate the work of the ID OF
December"
The measures alluded to more particularly are
those Of which | have already spoken, banishing
from France the distinguished men of all the hostile
parties whose presence dsquieted the Prince Louis
! Napoleon, and sending to Cayenne and Africa the
most obnoxious or more humble offenders. To the
above measures has, since my last, been added ano-
Their directed against the Princes of the house Of
Orleans, which has excited general and deep indg-
nation, expressed not publicly and in the papers,
but in the saloons and in individual conversations
The DEGREES against the Orleans family are two
both bearing date the 22d instant The first ordains
as follows:
The members Of the family Of Orleans their husbands
wives, and descendants shall not be allowed to possess
any personal real property in France They shall be
obliged to sell defnvey all the property belonging to
them throughout the territory Of the Republic"
The period within which this sale must be made
is fixed at one year from the date Of the decree for
all property Of which they have now the undisputed
right of control as to all other property within one
year from the date at which titles shall become
fixed in them.
The considerations predatory to this decree
state among other things that "atpresent more than
ever high political considerations imperiously dictate
diminution Of the influence which the possession Of
nearly three hundred millions of real property in
France gives to the Orleans family"
But the second decree touching the Orleans IA
mily-the decree which, however in conformity with