The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TIIZEIDAT EVIIIING:

A weekly journal of great pretensions, called the
Memorial Diplomatique, which was founded fbr
the support of Austrian interests by the Chevalier
Debraux, an Aube councillor and well-known poli-
tical writer, was extinguished in Paris when the
Italian war broke out, as being too manifestly the
organ of an alien enemy. The same chevalier,
who is a great believer in diplomacy, has now been
permitted to resuscitate his journal, and his pro-
gramme is—" The triple alliance of Austria, France,
and Great Britain can alone put a stop to the oscil-
lations which periodically disturb Europe." The
Temps asks the question "whether the sympathies
of the French government are betrayed by these
tendencies of a journal which could not have
reappeared without a new authorisation ?"
The first number of the Memorial Diplomatique
contains nothing more important than a version
with variations of the now nearly worn-out story
of an armistice as the solution of the Polish
question.
The Patrie announces that in consequence of
the disorders at Athena an additional ship of war
has been ordered to the Pineus to protect French
interests. It, however, contradicts the truth of a
rumour which it represents to have been current
that the French minister had spoken of the pos-
sibility of an Anglo-French occupation of Greece.
It is indeed fervently to be hoped, whatever a
French minister may have said, that no such
scheme is on the topic.
K Thiers has addressed to the electors of Va-
lenciennes the following reply to their invitation
to come forward as a candidate for that circum-
scription :

Gentlemen,--I thank you for the honour you have done
me in proposing the candidateehip of Valenciennes. The
moment for deciding having arrived, I declare to you that,
in spite of my repugnance to return to public life, I accept
that candidateship in the spirit at once prudent and liberal
which hailed you to offer it. I rely on you, gentlemen, to
secure its triumph by your example and you efforts, and I
beg you to accept in advance the expression of my sincere
gratitude. A. Twins.
The above candidature as well as one in the
south of France are without prejudice to M. niers'
more important attempt to be elected in Paris.
There is no doubt that if elected in more places
than one he will elect to sit for Paris.

M. Dufaure, who has hung back for a long
time, is now announced as a candidate in the Cha-
rente Infdrieure.

The France deeply regrets that the correspon-
dence relative to M. Ernest Baroche should have
been made public, and refuses to reproduce it. This
journal thinks the high position of M. Baroche,
sen., a reason for secrecy. I agree in this instance
with M. de Persigny, and think that publicity was
due to the public.
The Bourse was heavy in the middle of the day,
but ultimately recovered to yesterday's prices,which
are not sensibly different from those of last week.
The razzias among the English Sunday papers,
which were altogether abandoned when M. Fould
came into office a year and a half ago, and only
fitfully resumed when M. Thouvenel's dismissal
marked a halt in the liberal course of the French
government, are now again, becoming the general
rule. This week I miss from the tables of the
reading-rooms the Spectator, Saturday Renew, I,llh
don Review, Examiner, Press, and Economist. A
confiscation so extensively interfering with the pro-
perty and recreation of the English people who spend
their money in France can only be attributed to the
high reasons of state which in M. de Persigny's
mind make it desirable that the poison of English
opinion upon the elections should be kept out of the
way of the electors as much as possible. On this sub-
ject I will be impertinent enough to ask a question.
To all complaints about administrative pressure
upon the elections the constant answer of the go-
vernment organs, both in the press and in the
deliberative assemblies, is that with universal suf-
frage the utmost influence that any government
can use is but as a drop in the bucket, and that
admitting, for the sake of argument, that every
kind of fraud, oppression, and corruption is exer-
cised, the result of the genuine will of eight mil-

lions of electors comes out of the ballot-boz pure
and undefiled as spring water from the rock. Well,
if that be so, how can the remarks of a few English
papers, which not one elector in a hundred thou-
sand reads, do any harm I "I would ask that of
their honours."
The Daily News is seized.