The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ova owa coausroaDirarr.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Bourse was as much pleased as surprised to
learn the news that Consols had risen in conse-
quence of a belief that the long suffering of the
English cabinet will be yet further prolonged, and
that Denmark has no assistance to hope for from
England. The telegraphic summary of the
English journals this morning brought the Bente
up from 65fr. 55c., the lowest point of the day, to
65fr. 80c., being a rise of 50. from Saturday.
Mobilier rose 15fr.

The interest of the conjectures on the situation
ventured upon by the French journals is entirely
merged in the expectation of the report of what
will take place in the British parliament to-night.
Admiral Dapouy, the maritime prefect of Cher-
bourg, lately paid a visit to the Kearsarge, which
is lying in the port for repairs, and requested
Captain Winslow to manoeuvre in his presence
the two famous guns which sunk the Ala-
bama. There is a report in Cherbourg that
a Confederate vessel will lie in wait for
the Kearsarge to have a fight with her when she
goes out of harbour, but this rumour probably
refers to the mysterious new Alabama, which we
are told is arming "somewhere."
The following correspondenoe between the cap-
tain of the Kearsarge and K Bonfils, the com-
mercial agent of the defunct Alabama, has been
published at Cherbourg :

To Mousieur Bosh* 0.9.53. Keusuge.
Cherbourg, June 21.

Sir,--Certain pilot kaki which L from feedlots of huma-
nity, allowed to save several prisoners when the Ala-
bama had goal down, took them into Cherbourg. These
officers and sailors are not the less subject to the laws of
war ; they are my prisoners. and I demand that they come
on board the Kssesarge to surrender as such. If they
should endeavour to free themselves from this obligation
under cover of the means which have been used for their
escape, they most expect to meet with no mercy another
time. Joffe A. Wine Low, Captein.

M. Bonfils replied as follows :
To C.wptsin John A. Winslow.

Sir,—l have received your letter of June 2L Your
demand is one which I have no power whatever to entertain,
sod should have bees addressed to the French government with
whom thews unfortunates have forted • refuge. I know
of se law of war to prevent • soldier from escaping from
the field of battle after a reverse, even although he bad
been made prisoner, and I do not see why a raw who
saves himself by swimming should be in • worse case. I
must therefore refuse to act u your go-between towards
certain individuals, whom you do not even name, but whom
you claim as prisoners. I °nook moreover, understand
how the authorities of the United States can pretend to
hold primers in the territory of the French empire.
I am, ke.., Boleras.

It is quite certain that according to French law
a prisoner of war who sets his foot upon French
soil, no matter under what circumstances, is free,
and that no foreign vessel of war can retain pri-
soners in a French port. In the case of the French
pilot boats, as in that of the Deerhound, it seems
that the Kearsarge lost her prisoners by a:scrupu-
lous respect for the laws of humanity which in the
present instance are difficult to reconcile with the
laws of war. The code of war says that you are
to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible
so long as he is in a condition to do you harm.
It is quite certain that if at the moment
when the crew of the Alabama were float-
ing helpless in the water, Captain Winslow
had bad present to his mind this dilemma—
either you must fire upon those drowning men or
the French pilot boats and the English pleasure
yacht will carry them off and enable them to Sian
a Confederate vessel, which] perchance nay sink
yon a fortnight hence, his stern duty would have
been to do his utmost to prevent those men who
were at his mercy from doing further harm to th 2
cause which he was bound to serve. lam not
competent to say what are the laws of war in such
a case. But I venture to say this, that if the laws
of war allow a neutral and inviolable vessel
to hang about a sea fight and assist one party in
case of a reverse, they ought. to be amended.
I would be sorry indeed to blame Capt. Winslow
for his humanity in suffering the Deerhound and
the pilot-boats to save the crew of the Alabama,
but if they were warranted in running away
with the rescued men, there is an evident cases ,1
°miaow in the international law on the subject. The
Kearsarge might have killed or made prisoners of
all the men who are now arming a vessel to fight
against her. A well-known legal maxim says that
"no one shall take advantage of his own wrong ;"
there ought to be, if there is not, another maxim
that nobody should suffer by doing right.
M. Durand Brager, the eminent marine painter.
was at Cherbourg during the fight, and intends to ,
make a picture of it.

"Thirteen men, sailors and stokers forming part
of the crew of the Alabama," says the Journal du
Havre, " arrived at Havre the day before yester-
day by the steamer Manche, firm Caen, for the
purpose of taking their passage by the first boat
going to Southampton. With the exception of one
or two who were wounded, they were all stout
active fellows."

At Lyons and Marseilles yesterday the ballotage,
i.e., the second ballot for those elections to the
councils-general which remained undecided for
want of an absolute majority, was, without a
single exception, in favour of the opposition can-
didates.

The Austrian government, on the application of
the Swiss Federal Council, has released Gement Morgan
Langiowier, who had hem omilmd primom in the for-
tress of Jorofetedt. Thii Weed government bag given an
einoranee that the genernl will not Man to Poised.