Works. The confiscation decree called forth spirited protests from
Montalembert and Dupin, the eminent lawyer and President of the late
Legislative Assembly. The former, together with Merode, Mortemart,
Moustier, Giraud, Andre Mathieu, Baudet, Desrobert, and Hallez Chapared,
refused to countenance a Government which could be guilty of such a
measure, and accordingly tendered their resignations as members of the
Consultative Commission. Dupin, also, resigned his post of
Procureur-General of the Court of Cassation, which high office he has
filled for twenty-two years.

The enormous property of the House of Orleans was divided into two main
portions: the hereditary domains, consisting of the estates settled in
1692 by Louis XIV., upon his brother, the revenues arising from which
amounted latterly to nearly $500,000 a year; and what may be called the
acquired property, consisting of possessions gradually purchased in a
long course of years out of the accumulated savings of a wealthy, and,
on the whole, prudent, succession of princes. It is this last species of
property alone which has been made the subject of absolute confiscation.
The decree reduces the Orleans princes to absolute poverty. The Comte de
Paris and the Duke de Chartres are at the present moment utterly
destitute of resources. The only property now remaining to the family,
is that derived from Madame Adelaide, the only sister of Louis Philippe.
This, not having belonged to Louis Philippe in 1830, does not fall
within the operation of the decree of confiscation which affects the
rest, and it is now all that remains to the family in France.

Louis Napoleon, it is intimated, will shortly make another step towards
monarchy, by forming a matrimonial alliance with a Swedish princess, and
by restoring titles in France. At present, there seems to be no check to
his advancement--a large majority of the people are evidently on his
side--the army is with him--Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and nearly
all the other monarchies have resolved to support him--and it is
probable that he will shortly assume the title and state of Emperor, as
well as the Imperial authority.

In Austria, the constitution of 1848 has at last been formally and
finally rescinded by an Imperial rescript. The reign of secret tribunals
is restored; the proceedings of the law courts are no longer to be
public. Along with the constitution of the revolutionary epoch, some few
privileges and securities