The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. WIEDSINIDAT EVIGKING:

The Pays, a journal quite as much semi-official
as the Constitutionnel, says it is perfectly true, as
Lord Palmerston stated, that France refused to
resort to active measures on behalf of Denmark.
But the French organ says the " illustrious lord"
ought to have explained himself more fully, be-
cause his assertion, so laconically made, is " more
than equivocal." In order to be perspicuous and
not unjust, he ought to have said frankly and
positively that France had never, from the
very beginning of the quarrel, given anyone
a right to presume that she was disposed for an
armed intervention. Her opinion was formed and
avowed fin the very beginning. Europe was
warned that France would act in conformity with
the principles upon which the imperial policy is
founded ; and Europe must now admit that this
loyal and intelligible line of conduct has been un-
swervingly followed during the whole coarse of
a lamentable war and during the useless delibera-
tions of the Conference. England, on the con-
trary, placed herself from the very beginning of
the contest in a position which was onesided,
and, strange to say, aggressive towards bath
parties. England threatened them both in
turn, always with hauteur and sometimes with
violence. England flattered herself that she would
save Denmark, and at the same time frighten Ger-
many. And she thought she could appease
and conciliate Germany by threatening Dan-
mark. England thought to excite passions,
to embitter resentments, and to encourage
obstinate pretensions. She now reaps what she
has sown ; at Copenhagen she finds mis-
trust and vexation ; at Berlin, Frankfort, and
Vienna, hatred, and perhaps contempt. She has the
grief and the shame to find that henceforth her pro-
mises will be valued at the same price as her
threats. We are now drawing a picture in cold
blood ; we are merely enumerating as disinterested
observers the consequences of English policy. It
is not for us to inquire whether England bad or not
an interest in taking part in the Dano-German
quarrel. "The truth is that France bad no into-
rest in interfering and never meant to do so. She
has been from the beginning sincere and con-
ciliatory, and has given neither of the powers en-
gaged in the conflict any ground either for hope or
fear."

The Bourse was weaker to-day. Rente fell 10c.
Mobilier, after having fallen, recovered to within a
trifle of yesterday's quotations.
A swindler of the first water, named Jean Bean,
bas just been tried by the Assize Court of
Calvados. He was a native of Montpellier, and
began life as he seems likely to end it, with
nothing. But he boasts that in the course of his
chequered career no lees a sum than 300 millions
of francs has passed through his hands. He has
tried a vast variety of trades and adventures, from
that of colorist of religions images, which he
practised at Toulouse, to that of contractor for
provisions to the Baltic fleet, which position be
occupied in Hamburg in 1852. He seems to have
had a wonderful talent for getting people to trust
him with money, but not the art of turning it to
good account or putting any by. He has
failed several times and been twice sentenced
to imprisonment for swindling and abuse
of oonfidence. His latest exploit was to
start a grand joint-stock butcher's shop
at Cremel-sous-Bayeux, in Normandy. The
prices at which he advertised that be would sell
the best meat frightened all the butchers in France,
about a year and a half ago. He succeeded in
getting his enterprise puffed by a leading article in
the Conditntionnel. After a very short career the

butcher's shop was shut up, and it then turned out
that the enormous profits which tempted share-
holders were made to appear by means of for-
geries and false entries. Beau failed for
a million and a half of francs, and the
court was crowded with his victims. His wiiemid
another woman, who were included in the fidict-
ment, were acquitted, but he was found guilty of
fraudulent bankruptcy, and was sentenced to ten
years' hard labour. He maintained the greatest
coolness throughout the trial, which lasted several
days, and on leaving the dock exhibited the ruling
passion for scheming strong in his fall, by saying
that he had drawn up a plan which he intended to
submit to government for colonising the! penal
settlement of Cayenne.