The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

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PARIS, MONDAY Evc+D7o•

The Prefect of the Seine and Oise has made
public, by order of M. de Persigny, a correspond-
ence with M. Ernest Baroche, the son of the Pre-
sident of the Council of State, who, strange to say,
is now an opposition candidate for Versailles
against General Mellinet, recommended by the
government. M. E. Baroche asserts that for six
whole months he was led to believe that his can-
didature would be supported by the government,
and that " the care of his honour" makes it an
imperative duty in him not to withdraw at the last
moment, lest by so doing he should give counte-
nance to "malevolent reports" concerning him.
M. do Persigny replies that the utmost favour the
government was disposed to show to M.E. Baroche,
and that in consideration of the eminent services of
his father, was to remain neutral. But even this de-
gree of favour was subjected to the expresscondition
that M. Baroche, jun., should give a public and
satisfactory explanation of the " painful circum-
stances" which led to the resignation of the post he
formerly held in the ministry of commerce. "Un-
fortunately the attitude in which M. E. Baroche
persists compels the government to consult its
duty alone." It therefore recommends against him
General Mellinet, who is a man " without fear and
without reproach." It having come to the ears of
M. de Persigny that M. de Baroche had distributed
among the electors copies of the letter in which he
talked about his " honour," the Minister of the
Interior, after laying the correspondence before M.
Baroche, senior, "as an act of deference towards
a colleague whose painful situation inspires me
with the most profound sympathy," ordered the
prefect to publish the correspondence, and to
oppose M. E. Baroche " openly."

_ .
M. Prevost Paradol is an independent candi-
date for the sixth circumscription of Paris under
circumstances which materially diminish the chanoe
of M. Gueroult. M. Vavin, who polled 9,000
votes in 1857, retiree in M. Paradol's favour.
K Odillon Barrot was at one time thought of for
this constituency, but as he is thought to stand
well at Strasburg M. Vavin asks all his friends to
vote for K Prevost Paradol.

M. Marie, the member of the provisional
government, is a candidate in the Bouchee du

Rhone).

M. Havin's is as yet the only electoral address
placarded in Paris by any member of the list of
nine patronised by the three journals. He declares
himself an advocate for "liberty, and all liberties."
He is also for " Equality before the law ; primary
instruction, gratuitous and obligatory ; complete
separation of the temporal and spiritual power ; a
real control of the budget—it is not enough to say
that the public wealth is continually increasing,
the expenses should not exceed the receipts."
The four ex-deputies will publish a manifesto,
either separately or together, within a day or two.
The papers say that a "very grave affa;r " is to
come before the oorrectionalpolice on May 21, no
less than an accusation against five individuals of
Laving, "with a view to trouble the public peace
and excite to hatred and contempt of the Empe-
ror's government, practis,d manoeuvres abroad."
This jargon, being interpreted, means simply that
the police are prosecuting five French citizens for
writing political letters to foreign journals.
M. de Montgomery, the owner of is Toucques,
the filly which gained the French Derby at Chan-
tilly yesterday, is said to have won 16,0001. in beta,
he having steadily backed his mare when the odds
were 40 to 1 against her.

The Prussian Mimiteur announces the return to
his summer residence near Potsdam, from Weislsden, of
Prince Frederick Charles, who was said to be in Russia.
frame proceedings of the prince, who was suspected of
liberalism, had called forth an order from the King for him
to leave Berlin for a time.

The Polish Amazon, Madlle. Pustowjtoff, has
instructed an advocate of Breslau to bring an action against
the editor of the Municipal Journal of Brieg, who had
spoken of her as the mistress of Langiewier.
The International Commission at Paris charged
to examine the reforms to be introduced into the postal
relations between France and Europe ham appointed a sub-
commission, to prepare and accelerate the proceedings,
composed of M. Kern, Swiss minister, as president; M.
Metzner for Prussia, Mr. Korean for the United States, Mr.
F. Hill for England, and M. Mania for Francs.
The Second Chamber of the Grand Duchy of
Hesse-Darmstadt resolved, in a recent sitting, by 36 votes
to 5, to request the government to revise the law on the
MOIL
The steamer North Star, from New York to
Aspinwall, was nearly lost on her passage. She had a
thousand names on board. Besides passengers baggage
and a large freight of merchandise, her decks were loaded
with a cargo of lumber. She met with bad weather, and
being overloaded she nearly foundered. One of her engines
gave out, and she was barely able to put into Havannah.—
Panama paper.
A SAD AFFAIR. —The Levant Herald of May 6
contains the report of a disastrous fire which occurred at
the home of Dr. Galati, a Greek physician at Para, on
Sunday, May 3. The fire was first perceived by Dr. Galati
himself, and he instantly gave the alarm, which enabled his
mother-in-law and two brothers-in-law to escape. The native
servants escaped by the roof, without assisting the others,
but before Dr. Galati himself, his wife, an English nursery-
governess, and two eider,-in-law, who all slept on the third
floor, could do so the flames had reached the lobby and pre-
vented egress to the roof In this emergency the nursery-
governess caught up the child that slept with her, and,
wrappieg a counterpane round it and herself, she jumped
out of the window into the crowd which had by this time
gathered in the paved court below. An lonian attempted
to catth her, but his arm was broke, by the shock, and the
poor girl and her burden fell with nearly the full momen •
turn of their weight upon the flags. Her arm and skull were
both fractured, and the child was killed on the spot. In the
meantime, Dr. Galati endeavoured to induce his wife to
swaps with a wood child—an infant three mouths old—
by being lowered out of the window by means of a rope of
bed-sheets. She, however, appears to have induced him
to precede her by this means of ample, bat he had hardly
got clear of the window-sill, when, either she proving un-
able to bear the weight, or he to hold on—his hands, face,
and feet having been already greatly bunt—he fell head
foremost to the ground. The child was killed instantly,
and the skull and both arms of Dr. Galati himself terribly
fractured. Seeing this from the window, and driven by
the flames—which were now visible behind her even to the
crowd below—Mrs. Galati threw herself into the court,
and, falling without break of any kind on the doom,
was, like bee children, killed on the spot. The charred re-
mains of the two sisters-in-law were afterwards found in
the ruins.
Slit TAMES OUTRAN AS A HUNTISH.—The
esosadancy which Outram gained over the Bhesls was in
no small measure attributable to the reputation which he
gained among them as a mighty bunter. H. has himself
noted down some curious circumstances relating to their
superstitious. "They have a belief," be wrote, "that
those who slat a tiger maintain power over that animal in
the next worldy ; but that those who are slain by a tiger are
rendered hereafter subservient to the animal. On one soca-
sloe, when Condo Bewilder was mortally wounded, he
implored me to beaten and kill the tiger whilst he was yet
alive, saying that as be had marked the animal down, and
left *coots to watch him, its death would be attributable to
him, and be might then die in paths. I succeeded in slaying
the mooster: anti hastened to assure Ganda) of the fact.
He was just dying when r went to !line but had RIM left
to understand and express his satinfactioo, immedieslr
after which he expired. . . . On ell OnCildol2/1 of dart.
ger the Easels displayed astonishing presence of mind ad
pluck ; and almost invariably when, in tracking a tiger,
they suddenly came upon the animal, they caused him to
slink off, from the bold front they maintained. Whether
the Shall became singly opposed to a tiger, or several were
together, he thought of turning or running, bat
caused the brute to walk off instead by literally staring him
out of countenance. Often in critical moments, when bunt-
ing us foot, has • tiger been turned from me by my faithful
Bbeds ; and on ass erosion, when a panther bad got me
down, they killed him with their swords, when rolling me
on the ground, with my head in his mouth."—CornAiU Ms-
easier foe May.