The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

ibEPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAB.IB, MONI)AY &MIMI.

K Blanc, a journeyman printer, comes forward
as a working men's candidate for the let circum-
scription of Paris, and has issued a remarkable
address. His main battle-cry is the repeal of the
penal laws against strikes, the injustice of which
is really shocking. The proposition that sellers of
labour have not as good a right as the buyers to
affect the price of it by coalition is wholly irra-
tional. M. Blanc demands the creation of syndical
chambers of working men, to be elected by uni-
versal suffrage, and argues that such an institution
would be a complement of the courts of preid'hommes.
Apart from these special points, K Blanc echoes
the requisitions of the liberal candidates generally.
He is for the repeal of the law of public safety,
for free public and private meetings, for liberty of
the press, " the sole means of enlightening and
consulting the country ;" gratuitous and obligatory
instruction, serious and efficacious control of the
finances, and a diminution of taxation, which
weighs heavily on the labouring classes. As to fo-
reign affairs, his opinion is as follows :
I applauded the war for Italian independence, and deeply
felt the deception of Villafranca. I blame the occupation of
Rome, and deplore the war in Mexico, and other wars in
distant °mu:Arica, wars in which we dissipate our mourns,
and are prodigal of our blood, while a neighbouring people
(our brethren) is struggling for independence and dying for
liberty. _ _

This address shows that M. Blanc, although a
"working man," is quite as familiar with the ques-
tions of the day as professional politicians, and
that he can express his opinions in as good French
as a university professor.
M. Gueroult says, in the Opinion Nationale, that
M. Blanc has long been employed in the printing.
office of that journal. Although not opposed in
principle to the candidature of working men, M.
Gueroult blames M. Blanc for stsnding at the last
moment, because his move is calculated to divide
the liberal party. At the same time he bears
public testimony that M. Blanc possesses his
affection and esteem.

There was a scheme afoot for producing a work-
ing man's candidature in every one of the nine cir-
cumscriptions in Paris, but the idea was not sue-
ceasfuL It is now too late for any new candidates
to come forward, the law requiring the oath to be
registered a certain number of days before the elec-
tion. Several electoral meetings (" tolerated " by
the government) were held yesterday. At a large
meeting at Menilmontant, crowded by the working
class, it was resolved that M. Blanc's candidature
should not be supported, because it was produced
too late ; that M. Havin did not poesess the confi-
dence of the meeting ; and that every effort should
be made to return IL Ferdinand de Lasteyrie.
Nothing was said one way or the other
about M. Thies. It was universally admitted that

MM. Jules Favre, 011ivier, and Picard ought to be
returned. The majority were in favour of MM.
Jules Simon and Eugene Pelletan ; but it was
resolved to prefer M. Cantagrel to M. Darimon,
and there was a great deal of opposition to M.
Gneroult. M Darimon has, somewhat tardily,
issued his address (profusion de foi) to the elestors
of Paris. I extract from it the following passage :

Large budgets are an unmistakeable eign of the axial
and political decline of • nation. With • large debt, a
large army, a large navy, a large police, and large mesoopo.
lies, it is impossible that • people can be truly free.
Liberty implies that with the development of institutions
of credit there will be • progressive reduction in the rate of
interest, and, as • consequence, a redaction of the public
debt. It implies peace, and consequently the restitution to
agriculture and manufactures of that brilliant youth,
the spring flowers of the country which war pre-
maturely destroys. It implies the freedom of the
seas, relieved from all thine barbarous impediments
which necessitate the employment of force ; it implies
that seas should but join the nations they divide.
It implies that government should interfere as little as
possible in the affairs of citizens ; that citizens should
write, speak, and meet together, and elect their own magis-
trates, government having no other part to play than that
of watching over the public safety. It implies, moreover,
the destruction of those monstrous monopolies which
deliver over to the state or to powerful financial companies
whole branches of industry, and by crushing small manu-
facturers under their weight, revive in soother form that
detested regime which it was the object of the revolution
to destroy for ever.
The Bourse is firm with a rise of 10c. in the
Bente.