POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The French Usurpation makes no halt. The Ministry of the coup of the 2d of December has been put aside ; and a Ministry suitable for the next steps, whatever they are to be, has been installed. De Morny and Fould have given place to Persigny and De Maupas : and the Orleans family is declared incapable of holding any property in France.
The ifoniteur of yesterday contained decrees of confistation to this effect
The members of the Orleans family, their husbands and consorts, and de- scendants, cannot possess any property (moveable or immoveable) in France. They are bound to sell within a year all that belongs to them in the terri- tory of the Republic ; in default, the sale will be made by the State. The dotation in favour of his children made by Louis Philippe on the 7th August 1830, (two days before he accepted the revolutionary crown,) of the reversionary interest in all the estates of the Orleans family, after his own life interest, [a dotation asserted to be illegal, as an alienation of crown property,] is cancelled ; and the following distribution is made of its value, about two hundred millions of franca: ten millions to societies of secours mutuels ; ten millions to the improvement of the lodgings for the working classes ; ten millions to the establishment of a erddit fancier; fiye. millions to a benefit fund for the poorer clergy. All the officers, sub-officers, and soldiers in active service will receive a donative according to their rank in the Legion of Honour—the Legionaries, 250 francs ; the Officers, 500 francs ; Commanders, 1000 francs ; Grand Officers, 2000 francs ; Grand Crosses, 3000 francs. A national palace will serve for an establishment for the educa- tion of orphans and families whose heads have obtained a military medal, which entitles them to a pension for life of 100 francs. The palace of Sa- veme will serve as an asylum to the widows of high functionaries, civil as well as military, who have died in the service of the state, and the state is charged with payment of their debts.
The debts of the civil list of the last reign are taken upon the State. The dowry of 300,000 francs to the Duchess of Orleans is maintained.
The President renounces all claims on account of the confiscation in 1814-15 of the property of the Bonaparte family.
The decrees respecting the Ministry, remodel its constitution as well as change its personnel. In respect of the personnel, De Moray, Minister of the Interior, is replaced by Persigny ; Achille Fould, the Finance Minis- ter, is replaced by.Bineau ; and Rouher,the Keeper of the Seals, gives place to Abbatucci.: Two new Ministries are created—a Ministry of eneral Police' to which De Maupas, the practical effecter of the coup d'etat of the 2d December is promoted ; and a Ministry of State, tib which M. Casablanca is appointed. The " attributions ' of the MiniA- tu of State are these-
" The relations of the Government with the Senate, the Legislative Body, and the Council of State ; the correspondence of the President with the dif- ferent Ministries ; the countersigning the decrees nominating Ministers, Pre- sidents of the Senate and the Legislative Body, the nomination of Senators, and concession of dotations, 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 execution of the powers conferred on him conformably to Ar- ticles 24, 28, 31,46, and 54 of the Constitution, and those concerning mat- ters which do not specially belong to any other Ministerial department ; the drawing up and care of the minutes of the Council of Ministers • the ex- clusive direction of the official part of the Moniteur ; the adminisixation_of the national palaces and manufactures." To the Ministry of Police are assigned these " 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 publications of all kinds ; the police of the prisons, and other places of confinement ; the personnel of the Prefect of Police of Paris and the departments, and the .agents of the general police of every kind ; the commercial, sanitary, and industrial police ; and the re- pression of mendicity and vagabondage. The Ministry of Police will cor- respond with the different constituted authorities for all which concerns the safety of the Republic."
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle wrote yesterday evening--"The confiscation of the great possessions of the Orleans family has created a most painful sensation here—a sensation of alarm as well as of sorrow and indignation. As far as I can judge of the state of public opinion-the feeling on this occasion is even more hostile to the measures of Louis Napoleon than on the occasion of the coup d'etat. The measure is put on the ground of right, although it will be remembered that Louis Philippe before accepting the Crown, stipulated for the settlement of these possessions on the junior branches of his family."
The Honiteur denies the statement in some of the journals, that the President has addressed any private communication of a political character to the Pope or any of the Sovereigns of Europe. It declares that nothing but official communications have passed between the Governments.
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