The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(most 0011 OWN COREESPONDINT.)
PARTS, SUNDAY EVENING.

It is a trite remark here that " false news" was
never so abundant as it has been since imperial legis-
lation made the publication of any false news what-
ever a penal offence. The imperial judges, who, asa
general rule, so aggravate liberticide statutes by,
interpretation as to make them infinitely worse
than their framers intended, have laid it down that
neither the good faith of the writer nor the harm-
lessness of the paragraph is any defence to a prose-
cution for false news. The mere dry fact of pub-
lishing any piece of news, however unimportant,
which cannot be proved to be true, renders printer,
publisher, and writer liable to fine and imprison-
ment. Of course such an absurd law is not put in
force against the journals which habitually support
government, bet it is prized as a precious trap for
the independent press, which, unless it abstains
altogether from alluding to the current news of
the day, must sometimes of necessity adopt state-
ments which turn out to be mistaken. " In-
equality" in the administration of justice is the
" equity" in which imperial functionaries delight.
A great deal of false news is frequently pro-
pagated by the semi-official journals, and served
out to them directly from the ante-rooms of govern-
ment offices. Runners go every day to the bureau
of the director of the press, and are there furnished
with items of political and court gossip, much of
which proves to be untrue. It happens continually
that one minister sends a contradiction to the Pays
of something that another minister furnished to the
Petrie, and vice versa. There has been an
unusually abundant crop of apocryphal intelligence
within the last week. I have read in quick succes-
sion paragraphs affirming that Prince Napoleon
had refused an invitation to Biarritz ; that lie had
never been invited there at all ; that he was at
Biarritz some time ago ; that he had not been there
yet but would go shortly ; and finally
that he would certainly not go. With
regard to the Princess Maria Pia's marriage
, we have been told that she was coming to
France on her way to Lisbon, and would stay
three days with the imperial family ; that Victor
Emmanuel would escort her to France ; and that
Prince Napoleon would be present at her marriage
in Lisbon. It now appears that the marriage is to
be celebrated by procuration at Turin, and that the
Princess will go afterwards to Lisbon by sea direct
from Genoa. Only last night the Pays said, under
the bead of "latest news," that there was " no
foundation" for the statement made by certain
foreign journals that Prince Napoleon would ac-
company his wife the Princess Clothilde to Turin.
To-day the Petrie announces that the Prince and
Princess leave for Turiu on Tuesday next. By the
way, it is a common trick here when a rumour is to
be contradicted to saddle the invention of it upon a
foreign journal, even although the thing may have
gone the whole round of the French press before
the foreign journal took it.
The Pays says that Prince Napoleon's voyage to
Egypt is put off to the end of the month. The
Petrie, saying nothing about Egypt, tells us that
he will go from Turin to Corsica.
A few days ago the Pattie published the news
(which turns out to be true) that two first-rate men-
of-war, the Prince Jerome and the Fleurus, carry-
ing out troops to Mexico, were utterly disabled off
Gibraltar, the one by fire and the other by a col-
lision, and that the crews and troops had landed,
and were waiting for other ships to come out to
carry them on. The next day a communicated note
from the Minister of the Interior made light of the
affair, and asserted that no " serious damage"
had been sustained. The Moniteur now admits
that not only the Prince Jerome and the
Fleurus, but also the Charente transport,
which came into collision with t> latter, were
completely disabled, and that entire° ships must
be brought back to Toulon " as soon as they can be
put in a condition to be removl." In this case,
therefore, the Ministry of the'Uterior; with full
notice of the truth, and the best oriKrtnnities for
investigating it, deliberately compelled ire press to
mislead the public for twenty-fo9,t hours.
A lithograpbed correspondence, patronised by the
government, gave a harrowing aceodut& the extra-
ordinary ferocity of the bulls which werelaely sacri-
ficed for the diversion of their Majesties at Bayonne.
But a local journal complains that these bulls were
poor innocent "calves," which offered no resistance,
and that the spectacle was a pitiable butchery, show-
ing no sport, and quite unworthy of the bull-ring.
Qua eroirel
As to the rumour of a dissolution of the Corps
Legialatif, the journals carry on a see-saw of affir-
mations and contradictions. La France to-night
says what is doubtless true, that there is a division
upon the subject in the imperial councils (as, by
the way, there is just now upon almost every sub-
ject), and that nobody can know at present what
resolution will be taken, the matter being under
,Il "the high consideration of the Emperor."
M. Gueronit now admits fully, what yesterday

he only consented to hold as poesibie, that the
story told "positively" by the Opinion Nationale's
Roman correspondent about Cardinal Antonelli,
M. de Lev/lotto, and stolen despatches, was a
canard.

The Prase says that M. de Chasseloup Laubat,
the Minister of Marine, has gone to Biarritz to
consult with the Emperor about the Mexican
expedition, which it asserts is to be augmented
to the strength of 80,000 men. This is the highest
figure that has yet been mentioned.
The Phare de /a Loire reports that at a pro-
testant wedding, which took place the other day
at Nantes, a catholic priest came into the church
with his hat on. When asked to remove it he
refused, saying that he considered himself in the
street and not in the house of God. The sexton's
wife took off his hat, whereupon he abused her
grossly and was with difficulty put out of the
church. The name of this faithful son of Rome
ought to be made public.
The Daily News is seized.

ITALY.

(mom ova ows col

TURIN, Barr. 11.

The rumour of a ministerial crisis, which has long
been current, has gained strength every day. It is
now asserted—with what truth I cannot yet say—
that ministers will really retire, but not until they
have dissolved the Chamber, and thus left the King
eutirely free to choose other councillors and pro-
vide
for the elections. Many difficulties would be
avoided by this course. The new Chamber would
have before it ministers who would be the repairers
and not the authors of the late disasters, and the
various powers of the state could the better agree
upon the means of curing the national disorders,
new and old, and preparing a better future.
You will ask me, do I believe all this.
Is it possible that a ministry can abstain from pre-
. sooting itself to the Chamber to give an account of
its stewardship 1 My answer is, that ministerial
responsibility is a phrase, and nothing more. It is
almost always sovereigns and nations that pay the
penalty for the faults of ministers. It is very pro-
bable that the ministry wishestoget rid of a Chamber
in which it is well aware it would no longer have a
majority ; but it seems to me anything but pro-
bable that it would forego its chance of profiting by
a general election, and leave all the advan-
tage derivable from it to its successors. This
would be an excess of conscientiousness of which it
is incapable. It could only be brought to such
a course by pressure exercised upon it by the King,
should his Majesty repent of having put the reins of
state iuto such hands. Some people say that minis-
ters, or rather Rattazzi and Depretis, will retire, to
enable them rapidly to organise an opposition and
influence the elections, it being their belief that they
could succeed better in the latter design when out
of the ministry than when in it. That after opposing
Cavour and Ricasoli these men should be ready to
oppose any other ministers whatever may easily
be believed ; but it seems incredible that they
can again find proselytes after so many blunders,
and so many acts which have demonstrated that
with all their lip-liberalism they were far less liberal
than their predecessors.
As this change of ministry is much talked of, I
will mention the names of the principal persons
who are spoken of as likely to form the new cabinet.
They are, Massimo d'Azeglio, President and Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs ; Count Ponza di San Mar-
tino, Home-office ; La Marmora, War. Should this
rumour prove true we should have a ministry more
conservative than Rattazzi's, but which would not
lead the country either into civil war or into the
state of siege, and which would be much more
efficient in administration, without pursuing a
policy of idle promises and secret understandings
contrary to its public and solemn declarations.
The relations between the Italian and French
governments have for some days been rather cool.
Should it come to pass that Drouyn de Lhuys
enters the French cabinet, it would be a misfortune
for Italy.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, II A.M.

B. Z. IL D. 1.0. L
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30.11 45 43 6.L W. 1 1 b - 1
/1111ILDI6 ... 30.13 49 40 N. 4 3 b -
Loam - 1
8817101 - 1
A1DR00396 30.12 61 49 LE. 3 4 6, 0.62 3
P 012119811 30.13 69 56 S.W. 1 1 b - 1
GALWAT
VALZIITIA
grlecterowli 30.04 65 54 N.N.E. 3 4 8r 0.61 2
itutvBE6B 30.03 65 53 LN.E. 4 8 Itr 0.75 3
Ltvzsroos
Fussiumui 29.97 68 67 L 3 2 9r 0.261
PZ1C34303 -
PLY9OOIII 29.91 59 58 E. 3 S 126 1.87 1
Jilluort
Niesmotnit
P 011.2914411211 29.91 41 67 E. 2 6 30 0.62 1
DoVlst - - E.S.E. 3 1 b -
LONDON 29.98 69 57 IL 2 3 Or 0.08 -
Y6ast.irrn - 1
466860850411. 30.12 61 64 LS.E. 1 6 tit 0.80 1
081111.63 30.10 58 51 E.N.E.3 2 e - S
1121.104L1NT I 30.05 01 00 E. 2 1 b - 1
PROBAILLE.
TURODAT. WFDNEIDAY.

TORIIDA'
W.S.W. to N.N.W. and
to S.&, moderate to
fresh, one.
AA above.

W. to h-ltialC:Otocte-
rate.

8. W. to N.W. and N.E.,
light to fresh.
8.13. to S.W., moderate
to fresh.

N.R to S.E. and to W.
8.5. W., variable, mo-
griaerally tine.
As next above. 6.W.ENOLATD. As next above.
N.K to S., fresh to light, S.E. INGLLED. E.S.E. to KW., mode;
tine. ride, fine.
N.E. to R.E. flesh to L coma. As next above.
moderate, line.

The Indt'pendance mentions amongst the on (Zits
in Paris that M. de Lavaletta is to replace M. de Flabaut,
as French Ambassador is Loudon.

The " inventor " of the proposed substitute for
cotton writes :—" Every step already taken has been
substantiated ; the length, colour, and fineness of the new
material have been certified by Mr. Wrigley, of Southport.,
and yesterday the material was submitted to three of the
best judges in Manchester, who tested and approved the
other quality requisite—viz., strength. I send you, for
your private information, the names of these gentlemen."
A committee is now being formed in Manchester for the
purpose of complying with the inventor's conditions, save
one—viz., a guarantee of a certain sum of money. The
inventor now offers his secret without any stipulation as
to money. . . . . • .. .

The present Australian advices mention that a
movemeut was on foot to Idt:induce the cultivation of to-
bacco, for which the climate and soil are considered by
many persons to be eminently suitable. The Board of Agri-
culture in Victoria have offered a premium of 401. for the
best sample. The average annual value of tobacco and
cigars imported into the colony of Victoria during the last
five years has been 212,0001., and the hope is not only that
this quantity may be obtained of colonial growth, but also
a large surplus fur exportation.
MPATIIY WITH GARIBALDI. —A meeting of
working men was bold on Saturday night at the Dismission-
ball, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety, and, if approved, of arranging the preliminaries for
getting up a demonstration in London expressive of sympa-
thy with the cause which Garibaldi bad undertaken. After
considerable discussion, in the course of which very strong
opinions were expressed with respect to the conduct of the
Emperor Napoleon in the occupation of Rome by French
troopt, and of the Emperor of Austria with respect to the
Venetian provinces, a committee was appointed to take the
necessary steps for convening one or more public meetings
in the metropolis.
Lotto PALMERSTON AND HIS SMOKING CAP.—
During Lord Palmerstoo's stay in Nottingham last week, •
number at ladies connected with • bazaar held for the
benefit of the funds of St. Matthew's Church, Nottingham,
presented his lordship with a handsome smoking cap made
of scarlet and bins silk velvet, richly embroidered witli
in acknowledgment cf tbe receipt of which his lordship
wrote as follows :—" Lord Palmerston presents hi oomph.
meats to the ladies conducting the Nottingham Bazaar, and
while retursisS' them his thanks fee the beautiful cep which
they were so good ea to seed him, meioses • draft for his
ciontriiatioa to their bazaar." The eeelosure was • cheque
for 51.
When the Royal Mail steamer Seine, which has
Met reached home with the Wept India map, was •
the Wasters Islands about 20 miles &dant, a steall land
bird pitched in the rigging. It sever attempted to yd
away, and became so tame as to take food trots the hauls
of the premegem. It was ay* about the ship whim the
latter arrived at Beathempirm.