The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SumoAy Evrvnics

The amendment proposing that Algeria should
send deputies to the Paris parliament, is but a
repetition of a motion which has been made. nearly
every year since the dissolution of the National
Assembly of 1848, in which it will be remembered
seats were given not only to Algeria, but to other
French colonies. The government answer is also
nearly the same i.e., that the colonists are too few
and the natives too little enlightened for it to be
practicable at present to govern them on the
same system as the mother country, but
that the subject is under anxilus consider-
ation, and that something or other will
be done shortly. The constitution of 1852 does
in fact promise an organic constitution for Algeria
which has never yet been promulgated. M. Emile
rollivier brought forward the well-known illustra-
tion of the remarkable ill-success of French coloni-
sation in Africa. It is calculated that since the
conquest, upwards of thirty years ago, France has
spent three milliards of francs in Algeria, and at
this moment in all the vast tracts of African soil
subject to her rule there are not 200,000 colonists.
The curse of the country is the military system and
the Arab "bureaux." As long as Algeria is
made a mere parade ground for training
troops there will never be any progress. As
to the immediate subject of the amendment
Ido not myself see that the presence in the cham-
ber of two or four Algerian representatives (nobody
thinks of a greater number) would make much
diatom* one way or the other. The concession
amid at any rate be a harmless one.
Theinstruction in the affair of the alleged plot is
completed, and the trial of the four Italians impli-
cated will probably come on in the early part of
February. Meanwhile the journals which origi-
Mind the shocking libel against Maraisi have never
had the grace to give credit to his denial, but, on
the contrary, they insinuate persistently that
the revelations to be made at the trial will prove
him a particeps crinsinis. The allegation, it will
be remembered, was that the conspiracy was
hatched at Lugano, from which place Massini sent
forth the assassins, furnishing them with bombe,
revolvers, money, and counsels. Now Bullier's
Correspotidencs publishes a letter from Lugano,
stating that Plaszini was allowed to stay there
solely from motives of compassion, he being in a
dreadful state of health, suffering from a disease
of the spinal marrow, and having • medical certifi-
cate that a sojourn at Lugano might be beneficial
to him. He was under surveillanoe during the
whole time of his stay there, sad it is certain that
he had no communication with Gram and his
companions.
Count de Flabaut, recently French ambassador in
Loodoe, has been selected by the Emperor for the
post, vacated by Admiral Hamelin's death, of Grand
Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. The count,
an old soldier of the empire, is now an old man,
his commission as general of division dates as far
back as 1813.
The Daily News is seised.

The Cairo races, established by the present
Ykeroy of Baps, were run for the dal ties se the fah
on the desert new the Ablowniels, defeat about three
alma from Almmdri► The Barba hems greatly die-
credited themselves. A ldosk wmm erected for the viceroy,
end • vase Aug for the Eoropeans ; a beret was pro-
vided ef 16 tebles, web 111 erovem, besides the private
table for his *been awl ►is gents, all at the viewers
axpenes. At the essolssios of the day a perm el 100.
was nu fee by the Bashi Bunk cavalry, who dashed off
le • ease clump, fonds( • eny pretty and sishwelni
speriscle Amman the vieeroy's gnats were Omsk Depu-
ted, Austrian Wester at spy; air Charles Mararthy,
Governor of Ceylon ; Come Bariatioski, Count Nobel,
sad mensal of the ComohoGameraL