The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY EVZ/fINO.

The Pays revives (as latest news) the rumour of
a visit of the Sultan to Paris and London, and says
that he may be expected at the latter end of June.
It also says that the Princes Humbert and Amadeus,
sons of Victor Emmanuel, will pass some weeks in
France after their tour in Egypt and Syria. The
King of Italy himself will probably come to Paris
at the time of the accouchement of his daughter,
the Princess Clotbilde, but not sooner.

M. Pietri's new pamphlet is in the main a repeti-
tion of his speeches in the Senate against the tem-
poral power. He forcibly sums up his views in the
following sentence :—" The court of Rome never
has and never will listen to reason ; and, in pre-
sence of the tenacity which is dangerous alike to
the rights of Italy, the interests of France, and
the peace of Europe, to hope for a compromise is an
illusion, and to temporise is weakness." This criti-
cism upon the Emperor's vacillating policy is most
valuable as coming from an ex-prefect of police
and a man who was very lately and may still be
his confidential agent.
The new charitable institution annonnoed in
the ifoniteur,. under the patronage of the Empress,
is something very like what the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul would have been had the leaders
consented to act under government control, and is
doubtless intended as a rival to that society.

An amusing anecdote comes from Bordeaux of the
alarm of the prefectural authorities at the proposed
use of the word " liberty" in the theatre, and of the
laying aside of their fears after some hours' con-
sideration. It was announoed in the bills that at
the end of the third act of the Jetvess some occa-
sional verses composed by M. Minier, in memory
of Haltfvy, would be read by M. Puget. The
poem in question contained the following strophe :

A toi, qui fis chanter cette Odette si grande,
Dans un drams heroigna, Emit avec fierce,
Oa voit goo jams's la Frame as roarohaode
Quaod ii fact par du sang payer la Marti.
This last line was at once pounced upon as dan-
gerous by the Prefect's secretary-general, M.
Mercier. "What on earth," said he to the
author, "has the memory of Haldvy got to do with
liberty—cannot you strike out this passage 1" The
author refused to comply with the suggestion, and
insisted that his piece should be read as he had
written it or not at all. Thereupon K Mercier
wrote a formal letter, saying that the Prefect did
not object to the reading of the lines except as
regarded the four commencing with d toi, and
finishing with libertt. This decree was issued at
noon, but at 5 in the evening notice was sent to
the theatre that the prohibition was withdrawn.
K Lavertujon, one of the most eminent of pro-
vincial journalists, comments upon the above

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event, in the Gironde, as follows :
M. Puget may uow therefore affirm before the Bordeaux
people, who are delighted to bear such noble langeage, that
Frame proved formerly that she knew what liberty was
worth, and that she has not forgotten the price sbe paid
for it. But the hesitation of M. Secretary-General Mercier
is not the lees instractive. It is clear that there are among
our functionaries men who fancy that the best mesas of
acclimatising liberty in France in to proscribe all motion of
the name.
The Bordeaux functionary had probably in his
mini a precedent very much in point. When
William Tell was played at Naples, the Bourbon
police scratched out the word liberty, which fre-
quently occurred in the libretto, and in every ease
substituted the word " loyalty."

OUTWARD A11331.1C.A.N MAIL. Qusiagerowit,
APIIL 27.—The Ran Nail Steamship Maclennan
arrived here to-day at 7.. m. She embarked mon and pr-
n, with latest Wayne, and proceeded at 4 p.m.
for New York. All well.