The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(7110.11 OCR OWN

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

I am informed that Count de Persigny has been
suddenly ordered to go to London. The explana-
tion of his journey given to the public will proba-
bly be, that he hes gone to see his wife, who is in
England. But the impression conveyed to me is,
that he has a mission to treat on American affairs,
the aspect of which is greatly modified by the
latest news from New York.

It is worthy of remark that the Pistrie, which
hitherto has been very hostile to the North, says'
this evening :—" The taking of New Orleans is
calculated to precipitate the march of events, and
hasten the fall of the Southern Confederation ; "
and again, "A new situation is coming, which
will require to be deliberately examined."
The Duke of Brabant passed through Paris yes-
terday on his way from Spain to Brussels, whither
he is called by the illness of his father. His royal
highness breakfasted with the Emperor at the
Tuileries, and remained with his Majesty two
hours.

A Toulon letter states that the Asmodde frigate
is ordered to Civita Vecchia to bring back 1,100
soldiers of the army of occupation of Rome who are
entitled to their discharge. The men assigned to
replace them were sent to Rome some time since. I
am almost afraid that this news is the only founda-
tion for the statement telegraphed here from a
London journal of this morning that two regiments
have been recalled from Rome.

The " five members " have presented an amend-
ment to the budget, proposing to reduce the secret
service money from 2,000,000 fr. to 600,000 fr. In
an explanatory note they say that they found
their motion not only on a consideration of the pre-
sent state of the public finances, but also upon this
reason—that the government—still maintaining the
law of 1851 relative to secret societies and the
surveillance of the high police, the law of 1852
interdicting certain categories of citizens from
residing in or near Paris or Lyons, and most of
the articles of the laws of public safety of 1858—
cannot possibly require so much money as 2,000,000
for secret service.

The Bourse opened with the same hesitation
which characterised the end of last week ; but in
the course of the day an improved feeling was
manifested, which was maintained to the claw.
Rente rose 10c. both for cash and account, closing
at 70fr. 60c., and 70fr. 80c. Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c.,
and the Italian Loan 15c. The Orleans Railway
rose sfr. ; Lyons, 6fr. 50c. ; Southern, 71r. 50c. ;
and Northern, 2f r. 50c. Eastern fell 2fr. 500., and
in Western there was no change. Caiase Mirbs is
firm, with little alteration.
The affair of the printers tried Vac, other day
for a strike is a strong illustration of the gratuitous
cruelty of the French law with respect to pre-
ventive detention. Of the seven men accused,
three were acquitted, and the remaining four were
sentenced to the almost nominal punishment of
ten days' imprisonment. The presiding judge ad-
mitted that all the seven were most honourable re-
presentatives of the respectable class of journeymen
printers. But these seven men were treated before
trial just as if they had been presumably guilty of
the most heinous crime. They were arrested,
marched through the streets in the custody of
armed men, confined in the station-house (violon),
carried in the convicts' van to Maim prison, and
there detained in custody for upwards of forty
days, to the terror and impoverishment of their
families, deprived all that while of their society
and succour, and fearful lest a worse thing should
happen to them. It is high time that a reform,
based upon the English system, the working of
which it is rumoured that Procureur-General Chain
d'Eat Ange was studying the other day in London,
should be introduced into French practice. Trivial
offences, more particularly those of which there is
a large class in France, which are merely male
prohibita, and do not affect moral character,
should certainly be bailable on easy terms.
The third and fourth volumes of Victor Hugo's

" Miscirables," the issue of which has been delayed
two or three days in consequence of the extra-
ordinary demand for the impression, will he
published to-morrow. The titles of these two
parts of the work are " Cosette " and " Marius."
The Arai de la Religion, a journal which from
its title might be expected to be scrupulous on the
wore of veracity, tells the following story, which,