The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ova owx consamouNT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The bulletin of the Moniteur states that General
Forey, being sent for to Vichy to confer with the Em-
peror prior to his "approaching departure," stayed
twenty-four hours with hia Majesty. This looks
like a confirmation of the rumour which I noticed
yesterday, that General Furey was going out im-
mediately, although the Pays of Friday, as you
, were informed by telegraph, said that his departure
was postponed. The wording of the paragraph in
the Moniteur clearly implies that be has taken the
Emperor's final instructions.
Admiral Jurien de la GravAre left Paris last
evening for Cherbourg, and will embark almost
immediately for Vera Cruz direct, on board the
iron-plated frigate Normandie. He takes with
him a number of decorations and promotions for
officers and soldiers under General de Lorencez's
command.

The following bulletin was published at the
Palain Royal this morning :

Sunday, July 20, 8 a.m.

Her Imperial Highness the Princess Marie Clotbilde
Napoleon, after having slept tranquilly, has begun this
morning to feel the first symptoms of the milk fever. Her
Imperial Highness, nursing her child herself. is as well as
can possibly be. The young prince, who already takes the
breast without any difficulty, is perfectly stroog and healthy.
(Signed) CHAILLT (Honor 4).

This bulletin confirms the interesting news which
I gave yesterday, that the princess, repudiating
the almost universal custom of French ladies,
nurses her own child as nature intended.

The judgment of the Correctional Tribunal in
the secret society case frankly admits what was
stated by the counsel for the defence, that there is
no sufficient evidence to make out the offence
charged apart from the "reports" of the police.
In order fully to appreciate the import of this
frightful doctrine, it is essential to bear in mind
what appeared on the trial, that the reports of the
police in this case consist not of anything that
the witnesses had heard or seen themselves, but
of their version of statements made by in-
formers, whose names they refused to disclose.
The informer may sometimes be a necessary evil,
but it was hitherto thought that an accused party
had a right at least to " look at the villain—to see
his eyes—that when he mot another man like him
he might avoid him." But this it seems is what
the French government will not give simple people
a chance of doing. It has spies in its service too
precious to be exposed to infamy by showing their
faces in a court of justice ; it is not enough that
they should stab once in the dark—they must
continually wear the veil of government protection
that they may go on with their trade. The court
lays it down broadly that in criminal cases in
France there are no rules of evidence whatever.
The dutytof the judges being to ferret out the
truth, they
"indications,eyhave, bejupdgmumenpttio declarations,
says, a right to
rely upon
reports, indicative circumstances, and information
and revelations of all kinds ;" and their "intimate
persuasion," no matter how derived, is a sufficient
' ground for a conviction. Acting upon this doc-
trine, they despise those miserable canons which
fetter the investigations of English courts, such as
"the beet evidence should be given that the nature
of the case will admit," and " hearsay is not
evidence," dm They admit as evidence the sworn
testimony of a spy as to whet he heard said by
another spy, who not only does not come forward
to be sworn himself to what be saw and heard, but
whose very name is concealed, and whose absence is
not even pretended to be accounted for. These are
enormities fit only for the Inquisition, the Pope,
and the Neapolitan Bonbons, and which cannot
possibly last much longer in France. Victor Hugo,
Colonel Charms, Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, and

others were wise not to accept the amnesty. They
not► see what would have happened to them. As
soon as they had set foot in France a detachment of
spies would have been told off to dog their steps
wherever they went, and to take down the names
of everybody who came to see them. These gentry,
anxious for reward and promotion, naturally and
sometimes bond fide exaggerate the importance
of the facts which they pick up. After months
of labour and pay, they know that their
employers expect a result. A more striking in-
stance of the sort of result that may be obtained
could scarcely be adduced than the trial just con-
cluded. After six months' secret observation of the
spies eighty-four citizens are arrested on a charge
of conspiracy to overturn the government, thrown
into separate cells at Mazes prison, and kept in
solitary confinement for many weeks, without the
possibility of communicating with their friends ;
ultimately, thirty of these men are released, it
being found impracticable to frame any indictment
whatever against them. The prosecution is com-
pelled to abandon the original charge of conspiracy
against the remainder, and the fifty-four are, after
a scandalous delay, placed at the bar on the vague
accusation of belonging to a secret society. Six-
teen of the number are acquitted, so that of the
eighty-four men consigned to dungeons on the re-
ports of spies so many months ago it is judicially
admitted that there was nothing at all proved
against more than thirty-eight. These latter are
convicted upon hearsay evidence of the worst pos-
sible description—upon a spy's report of what
another spy said.
An extraordinary care of murder, committed by
a woman, has just been tried in Paris. The pri-
soner, a widow named Parisot, 54 years of age, is
described as a most horrible-looking creature—one
of those miserable wretches in the lowest strata of
the sex who haunt the purlieus of barracks, and
who are known by the unfortunately ignominious
term of "soldiers' women." She had for a regular
lover a pensioner with a wooden leg, and the weight
of 76 years to carry with it. His largesse to her—
all that his means allowed—was the sharing of his
daily rations. He does not appear to have known,
however, what turns out to have been a fact, that a
rival named Hertz was in the habit of enjoying
the lady's favours when he was away. One even-
ing Hertz was either indiscreet enough or unlucky
enough to knock at the door of the woman's lodg-
ings when she was in bed with the old man with
the wooden leg. She thereupon snatched from the
bedside a sword belonging to the pensioner, and,
without saying a word, attacked Hertz with it lus-
tily, inflicting upon hint thirteen wounds and cleav-
ing his skull. He died almost immediately, and
the surgeon who gave evidence said he should have
thought it impossible that a woman could have in-
flicted such wounds. The verdict of guilty being
qualified by extenuating circumstances, this virago
was sentenced to 20 years' hard labour.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.

The Princess Clothilde rejected the services of
the eminent accoucheure who were at hand, and
was assisted only by a midwife. It is said that
she means to nurse the child herself—a most
wholesome example to the fashionable world of
Paris. The birth took place in the Palais Royal,
and not, as had been expected, at St. Cloud.
Judgment was given this afternoon in the cane
of the secret society. Sixteen out of the 54 pri-
soners are acquitted ; one of this fortunate number
is M. Greppo, the ex-deputy. Four, namely, Vas-
sell, Miot (ex-deputy), Gaatinel, and Curd, are
found guilty, with the aggravating circumstance
that they were founders of the society, and are
sentenced to three years' imprisonment, 400 francs
fine, and five years' interdiction of civil rights. A
like punishment is pronounced, by default, against
Bachelet, the suspected agent provocateur, who is
out of the way. Three are awarded two years' im-
prisonment • and the remainder one year, six
months, and three months. They are all, as a
consequence of their conviction, liable at any time
during the remainder of their lives to be trans-
ported for life at the Emperor's pleasure.
The new Hotel de la Paix, which was opened
with great pomp and ceremony on the 15th, will be
obliged to change its name. A person named Mul-
ler, who has for twenty years been owner of a fur-
nished hotel, corner of the rue de la Paix, lately
commenced a suit against the Compagnie Immobi-
here, proprietors of the immense building on the
Boulevard des Capucines, to prevent it from giving
the Lame of " Hotel de la Pail " to its establishment,
that designation having been adopted by him for very
many years. The Tribunal of Commerce, before which
the suit was brought, ordered the Compagnie Immo-
biliere to affix to the name of its hotel such a &algae-
tion as would prevent all confusion or mistake as
to name, and m consequence the company decided
on calling the new building " Le Grand Hotel de
la Paix.' Muller, considering arch a title as au
aggravation of his position, as it implied that his
was the Little Hotel de la Paix, appealed, and the
case was decided yesterday by the Imperial Court.
The sentence declared that as Muller had for many
years held an establishment called the " Hotel de
lx Pair," at the corner of the Boulevard des Capu-
cines, no other hotel in the neighbourhood could
take the same name, or one with the word,
" Grand" before that appellation. It therefore
interdicted absolutely the Compagnie Immobiliere
to give to its hotel the name of " Grand Hotel de
la Paix," and condemned it to pay the costs.
The Bourse opened with a little more animation,
but soon became languid, and the closing prices
show very little change. Renters rose sc. both for
cash and account, closing at 68f. 35c. and 681. 40c.
Mobilier rose 2f. 50e., and the Italian loan 10c.
In railways the only marked change was a rise of
10f. in Lyons, caused by the improvement in the
last returns of the receipts.

A letter from Vichy of the 16th Bays :—" Napo-
lean 111. is going through the same aqueous regime as MM.
the ordinary bathers and water drinkers. His Majesty is
up early, and may be seen at the Grande-Grille taking his
two or three glasses with a familiar group of invalids from
all parte of the world, who, like himself, are here seeking
health. After imbibing this mineral tipple, which, by the
way, is very like soda water, the elected of the French
nation takes his bath about half-past 9, accompanied by
General Fleury and M. Mooquard in his walk to and from
this establishment. He dedicates only two or three hours
to work after breakfast, when the water drinking com•
memos again, and finally, after a walk or drive, the day is
closed at an early hour. The Emperor will remain 21 days
at Vichy, living in as much retirement as possible."
A letter from Munich of the 16th, in the A ugs-
burg Gazette, says :—" A family dinner was given yesterday
by the King and Queen on the Isle of Worth, in Lake Stern-
berg. The guests were the Emperor and Empress of
I Austria, the Queen of Naples, the Count and Countess of
Trani, and all the ducal family of Bavaria. On the previous
day King Maximilian paid a visit to his august guests at
Pasienhofee."

By accounts received from Stettin it appears that
• greet festival has been held there in honour of the pre-
-241000 of the governor of the province, the Crown Prince.
On Tuesday evening five steamboats. on board of one of
which washis royal highness, left for Frauendorf. The shore
of the river was lined with the populace, and • great display
of flags was made at several points. Refreshments were
partaken of at Frattendorf, when the chief burgomaster took
occasion to expreu to the Crown Prince, on his first visit to
the province, the wants and wishes of the people, and con-
cluded by proposing a cheer for the prince and the royal
house. Du Crown Prince replied in • long speech, in which
he expressed his intention to earnestly fulfil his duties as
governor of the province, and of not being merely • governor
by name.
Advice. from Cologne state that preparations
are being made in that city for the interview of the Km-
peror of the French with the Emperor of Russia and the
King of Prussia, The belief there is that the meeting will
take Otos some 4, between the sth and the 10111 of Sep-
tember.

ENGLISH OPINION UPON THE AMERICAN

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