The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nos ors oinr ommaroaDErt4
PARIS. TUIEDIT EVIMING.

The " five" late deputies have been reproached
for addressing their oonstituenciee only in a joint
manifesto, recapitulating their parliamentary la-
bours for the last six years, whereas many members
of the liberal party think they ought individually
to make a "profession of faith." The omission
complained of is to-day repaired, for his own part,
by K Jules Fevre, the moat important personage
of the "five." His address to the electors of the
fifth circumscription is in the following terms :
My dear fellow-citizens,—lt is net a profession of faith
which I address to you ; you do not ask for one, and I have
no need to question you about your sentiments. A strict
solidarity unites us in an ardent and profound love for
our dear country. We admire its industrial brilliancy, but
we rank above that, its generous instincts, and its dignity.
We would see our country powerful, respected, glorious, and
therefore free. We believe it capable of governing itself,
competent to be mistress of its own destinies, and to 'pond
its blood and treasure for itself. We claim for our country
the application of the eternal principles of right, justice, rod
individual independence, which in our eyes are more fruitful
►zed more saving than that factitious order which is estab-
lished by compression and silence. It is our common faith
in these ideas which unites, sustains, and aggrandises us. It
is that faith which has supported my friends and myself
during the last rig years. Our adversaries laughed at oar
isolation ; bat you were with us to contradict
them. Your hearts beat responsive to ours ; the
same spirit, the same sacred hopes filled and warmed
them. Proud to be your delegates, rewarded for your
efforts by your approbation, sure of your affectionate
encouragement, we found it cheap and easy to suffer official
contumely, convinced as we were that you in your secret
souls avenged us by your esteem. The work is now to be
continued; we must every one of us oonctir with calm and
virile energy in the accomplishment of a great duty. None
must remain neutraL Every opinion deserves respect
except that which commits suicide by abdication. To
abstain is to degrade oneself, to proclaim one's indifference
to the fate of the country. I have nothing of that kind to
fear from you. I have not forgotten your patriotic zeal
and courageous eelfdenial in difficult times. You
proved then the value of the understanding of your
rights and the resolution to make use of them. For
my own part, dear citizens, I cannot dissimulate the
patriotic joy and pride which I feel when I see the pacific
and legal movement which now agitates and vivifies France,
for I feel that it is due to you. Your example has awakened
men's minds from their slumber. You have shown the value
of action and speech. You did not despair ; and that will
be your praise in history ; for that, we, your elect, are
eternally grateful to you.

Juice FAcRE.

The Memorial de Deuc Sevres is prosecuted with
a view to its being suppressed for having published
an electoral address of Dr. Morin, which is alleged
to excite to hatred and contempt, dm
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Seven prelates, the Archbishops of Cambray,
Rennes, and Tours, and the Bishops of Metz,
Nantes, Orleans, and Chartres, have published a
long-winded reply to inquiries, which they say
have been addressed to them by their clergy and
several catholies, relative to the coming elections.
They are decidedly against abstention, and with
much circumlocution and many protests that they
are free from all party ties and prejudices, they
recommend their friends to vote for the temporal
' power.
The Bourse was agitated by a rumour not yet
confirmed of the dissolution of the Prussian
chamber. Rent. fell 30c. for cash and 25c. for
account ; and Mobilier, 22fr. 60c.
The Cologne Gazette announces that the duel be-
tween Count Wielopolski and Count Brunetti has
been postponed to June 1, by mutual arrangement.
The encounter is to take place on the Swiss terri-
tory. This affair which, having been so much
advertised beforehand, it is reasonable to hope may
prove harmless, arises out of Prince Napoleon's
speech in the Senate on Polish affairs. Count
Branicki, an intimate friend of the prince, is ready
to avenge with sword or pistol an answer to that
speech published by the Polish governorWielopolski.
It is the son of the latter who proposes to meet
Count Branicki.

Yesterday evening there was a ball at the Tuile-
ries, which had twice been put off in consequence of
the indisposition of the Empress ; it will doubtless
be the last of the season.

Madame Tacheron de Ligny, a great grand-
daughter of the famous French Admiral Jean Bart,
died in Paris a few days ago at a very advanced
age. She was in the enjoyment of a pension from
the Ministry of Marine, to which the Emperor has
latterly made many additions from his private
purse. This lady leaves a daughter (the wife of M.
Urban Demur, eon of a general of the first empire),
who is now the sole living representative of the
most famous sailor in the annals of French history,
the man who, in 1694, ran the English blockade
of Dunkirk, with a large fleet laden with grain, and
thus relieved a famine.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WIDMISDAY, MAT 27. 8 A.M.

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The celebrated vineyard of Closvougeot is about
to be offered for sale. It was derived to be national
property in the year 1793, and was sold by the government
of that day for 1,5132,000 k Several portions rd the estate
have sive been sold, and, nevertheless, it ia expected that
what remains will sell for doable what was paid for the
entire.

GREECE.

(ISOM ♦ COI

ATHENS, MAY 13.
The recent deplorable events wbich have aroused
the indignation of the Greek nation have led to a cone.
apondenoe between the President of the National Assembly
and the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs and the lite&
and French ministers in Athens. . . . .

In order to enable you to form an impartial judgment I
I give you the following statement of facts :
On the 7th January last a soldier bad struck a M.
Itoubran (French sanitary officer), at the Pirreim, end at
his own request three soldiers were arrested and imprisoned.
After being duly tried the two were found innocent and re-
leased ; the third, John Kounouodjie, was found guilty
and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. In answer to
I the communication of the Minister of Foreign Affairs de-
tailing the result of the trial, the French Minister demanded
a revision of the sentence, and afterwards transmitted •
letter from Monsieur Itoulman, stating that he had seen the
condemned soldier walking at large in the public streets of
Athens.

On inquiries being made, Colonel Bolzaria, Minister of
War, answered-Ist. That the sentence could not be
altered, as an appeal had not been made within the time
prescribed by law, viz., within 48 hours. god. That the
condemned soldier had never been released, and it wu
therefore inferred that M. Hembree bad mistaken one of the
co-accused soldiers for him ; and that orders had been given
for the above-mentioned soldier to.be sent to Fort Palamede
in Nauplia, and that the two other soldiers should also un-
dergo military arrest for two months. The French Minister,
in his letter dated the 3rd May, further complained of an
assault committed by a soldier on a servant of M. Sot:diem,
whilst wilting to force his way to the Hippodrome under
M. Soulies direction. In complaining of the above mutt
M. Bonnie demanded the confinement of the accused on
board one of the Greek men of war.

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The Minister of War complied with this request, although
witnesses were produced asserting that the accused had
been first assaulted while he was trying to procure a ticket
of admission. .

In the same way M. BourrCa complains of two non.
commissioned officers having assaulted a negro in M.
&alit?' service, and wounded him with their sabres, while
it was proved that the negro commenced the attack by
wounding one of the accused on the cheek with a knife.
These also, at M. Bourrie's request, were imprisoned on
board the brig of war Minerva.
The same evening some soldiers committed a rape on an
Austrian woman, named Anne Agelsberger, on leaving
M. Sonlie's Hippodrome, where she was engaged Is sa
actress. This odious act has justly excited the public in-
dignation, and the following day the Minister of Foreign
Affairs sent in his resignation, hoping that a new govern-
ment might be better able to suppress these criminal acts,
and prevent their repetition.
To the communication made by the British and French

Ministers replies were sent expression the sorrow of the mem-
bers of the government and the National Aseembly, and their
full determination to take prompt measure; in order to pre•
vent any repetition of such offences. Her Britannic Majesty's
Minister on the Bth May wrote again, alluding generally to
crimes committed during a lengthened space of time, which
can be no other than those cited by the French Minister in
his note.

Referring to the case of Anne Rgelaberger, it must not
be forgotten that her conduct was far from irreproach.
able, and th►t according to the medical certi.
ficates signed by Dr. Bastes, a Greek doctor
of repute, and Dr. IJbbey, of the Austrian legation.
her health was not seriously affected, and that eight or
ten days' rest would restore it completely. On the sth
May M. Bonnie addressed • letter to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, claiming an indemnity for M. Scene of
20,001 M., on the ground that a great number of his troupe,
frightened by the crimes Committed, bad left, which cu-
cumatauce occasions • serious loss to M. Seethe, who further
claimed • compensation of 3,000 f. for every day that the
payment of the above was delayed, reserving full rights to
claim damages for the assault on the above-mentoried negro,
and a separate indemnity for Anne Egeleberger. He also
requested that the moldier' found guilty of the
rape should be kept in close confinement until he had
received further instructions from the French government.
M. Deleyanni in reply stated, that all the soldiers coo.
dermal in that atrocious CT/TOO were arrested and would be
judged according to law, but the question of indemnity to
M. Scathe could not be entertained, because no contract
had been entered into with the municipality as to the length
of time M. Sadie should be allowed to continue his pee-
' forensic's, whilst had there been a contract, any claims for
violation of contract should be made before the competent
tribunals. It is quite true that X. Smile had received per.
mission from the municipal authorities to open a hippodrome,
but it is equally true they had full right to withdraw the
same as soon as they thought that public order might be
disturbed, without giving any pound of claim for an in.
demeity.
M. Soulie can surely have suffered no real loss by termi•
Bating his performances on the 3rd of May, as on his mei.
eel, and ever since, he bad advertised in the local mom
papers and otherwise his intention to leave Athens
for Constantinople on that day. From the above
statement of facts it will be easily seen that
the offenders in question have been duly punished,
yet these offences cannot be laid to the charge of the nation,
DOT prejudice public opinion as to the general state of
affairs in Greece. Such acts unfortunately happen DI
every country, even where civilisation has reached its sate,
not only in rdvolutionary times, like those through which
Greece has steered almost Kathleen during the last six
months, but in times of peace and good order.
An entire nation teapot be blamed for exceptional acts
which are unanimously condemned and rigorously punished.
I need scarcely allude to the Journal des Ohara, which
lately detailed two cases of rape, both committed by French
soldiers on beautiful lad innocent girls, accompanied by
acts of the greatest brutality. Is the entire French nation
to be condemned for those acts, or are we to admire the ler
on their account the civil administration of Frame The
Greeks, in their revolution of 11th-13th October, bad
only one object in view, viz., respect to the laws trampled
under foot by the overthrown dynasty, and the whole dvi•
limed world has praised their conduct ever since. urely
such isolated cases of crime which occur throughout the
world cannot change the public verdict of Europe in favour
of • country which aspires to rank amonpt civilised and
progressive nations.
There is no truth whatever in the report that it is in
contemplation to put • heavy export duty on currant'.
On the contrary, measures are being adopted for the purpose
of giving every possible encouragement to Grecian iodustry
and agriculture, and to tempt foreign capitalists to under-
take industrial works for the development of the hiteril
'ovie's of this country.
The ministry ism been since modified by M. Fordo"
being elected President of the Council, without jortfolio ;
Andrea Ch. Loadce, Intetior ; 1). N. Botzmis, War ; Coe.
stentine Plat* Justice ; D. Callifronas, Relive° sad
Public Instruction ; A. Commondouros, Fiume' ; N.
Caner* Marine ; Th. Delyannee, Foreign Affairs.

TeSOUTO6I

The Panama Railway Company prescut all offi-
cers of her Yejesty's skips which anchor off Coles or haws
with a fres ticket across the railway and back.
The Straits (Singapore) Times says that the islauJ
is more infested with tigers than ever, and that large nun•
hers of Minima woodcutters, who work is the jangle. ere
killed by those beasts. Although the island is only IS
miles square, and 100,000 persons live on it. it i, ec4
cleared of jungle. 100 dollars is paid for every tiger killed.
The tigers swim over to Singapore from the .111,da7 Prow
side, which is only a quarter of a mile distant.
Rotas CAT/WEIGH AND MEMBERS Or E,TLI"
LASHED Cavern (lILZLAnD).—This morning return Of"
lamed of the somber of Roman catholics in Ireland in ths
years 11131 and 1861; of the number of membeis of ths
established church la Ireland in the years 1834 sod 1'61;
and showing the proportionof Roman attholics to members
of the established church in 1834 ad 1861 respertivel!.
The number of Roman earlobes in Ireland in 1834 me
6,436,060; and in 1861, 4,505,265. The number of meta'r
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of the established church in Ireland in 1834 was
and in 1861, 691,872. The proportion of Roman cathaba
to members of the established church in 1831 ma Ike
Roman catholic. to 1315 members of the establi6B4
church ; sad in 1861, 100 Roman catholicto 15'33
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ben of the established church.
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From the report of the committee of management
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the order numbers 906 lodges in England sod Wsies. :":
54,000 members. Ira America and the colonics there an ,'"
lodges. with 2,900 members ; and the ircrease in the NV;
gate during the past year has been about 5,000 member.
The distress in Lancashire has, it is said, materially iii"d
several districts.

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