The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-30 00:00:00

IMPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRIDAY EVECNO.

The Gironde of Bordeaux, which, under the
direction of K Lavertujon—who was within an
ace of being elected a deputy for that city last
year—is constantly getting into trouble with the
authorities, has now, after two warnings, been sus-
pended for two months. The decree of suspen-
sion, signed by K Boudet, the Minister of the
Interior, sets forth the gravamen of the offence
charged with greater precision than such docu-
ments are wont to do, and enables the public to
form a judgment upon the merits of the penalty.
It states that the Gironde of July 26, in an
article signed A. Lavertujon, "by accusing
the project of a congress as being nothing
less than a programme of a general war artfully
disguised in the utopia of universal peso° ; and in
adding that these disguises deceive no one, and that
it would be better frankly to tell the truth and
hoist the real flag, misrepresents and insults the
policy of the Emperor."
In countries where warnings and suspensions are
things unknown to the press, it would not at all
surprise me to find some people agreeing with the
Gironde of Bordeaux as to the bearing of the
famous congress scheme. But in France it is
something next to high treason, for the congress
continues to be spoken of as an infallible nostrum,
the be all and end all of the Emperor's policy,
the sufficient expiation for all apparent short-
comings, and the bright promise of an infallible
future. The Pays of this very evening is instructed
to defend the French government against the
charge of inaction and indifference in the following
fine phrase :—" France has thrown out to the
world an idea which will make its way ; that of a
congress. The seed of peace, liberty, progress,
and civilisation is in the furrow ; it is only neces-
sary to wait for harvest time."

France is, indeed, the country of ideas. For a
long while it was a standing boast that the empire
made war for an " idea," and now an " idea,"
though it has not fructified, is made to stand for a
policy of peace.
The following notice appears in the Pays :

The Opinion Nationale is; put together oat of a pre-
tended journey of Mr. Slidell to Vichy the moat fantastic of
romances. The fact is that Mr. Slidell has been all the
while in Pula. and lass no thoughts of leaving it.
The council of the Order of Advocates has resolved
to attend in a body in full °odium at the trial of
MM.Carnot, Gander Pegtie, Dreo, Floquet, A°. , which
begins on Friday next. The reason for this step is
that the council considers the dignity of the
' bar affected by the domiciliary visits made at
the houses of several barristers accused of attending
illegal electoral meetings. No explanation has yet
been offered of the very great arithmetical difficulty
which prima facie awaits the prosecution—i. e.,
how to make out that thirteen people can be guilty
of forming a society of more than twenty.
The news given by the Moniteur du Soir, that
the Mexican General Dublado has adhered to the
intervention, comes now for the seventeenth time.

Prince Couza is said to have postponed his jour-
ney to France in consequence of an illness.
The Bourse is without any important change.
One large purchase induoed some firmness at the
close, but the market has very little buoyancy.
" It is reported as certain," says the inde,peot-
dams, "that the Moniteur of the 15th August will
announce the creation of titles of nobility decided
on by the Emperor in favour of his moet devoted
and most eminent servants. These decrees will
only regularise the use of the titles which are
borne by some of the personages honoured by his
Majesty." I believe this news to be true. Several
titles have lately been created " under the rose."
"The evacuation of Mexico by the French
troops," says a Toulon letter, "is not only
decided on in principle but will commence
almost immediately. The large steam-transport
Jura will leave Toulon on the sth of August,
taking on board sufficient fuel to be able to pro-
ceed to Vera Cruz with as few delays as possible.
She will bring home 1,100 men and an enormous
quantity of war material ; and as eight or ten
vessels will be employed on the same errand, it
is thought that the whole will be terminated by
the end of the year."

M. and Mine: Ratazzi are M present at Dieppe
for sea bathing.

A Hoax..—An Ostend letter, in the Prkurseur
of Antwerp, sere :—" There is no truth in the statement
made of the arrival at Ostend of two Confederate weasels
named the Butterfly and Paul Jones. The whole affair
is simply a hoes."