The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PAIiIS.

(MY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARTS, SMOLT EVENING.
The France slightly amends its news of last night
concerning the negotiations on the Greek question. '
Instead of representing the three powers—France,
England, and Russia—as all but agreed on the sub-
ject, it now says that the cabinets of Paris and St.
Petersburg are "in the way of coming to an agree-
ment," and that " there is reason to hope that
England, which put forward Prince Alfred's candi-
dature principally for the purpose of ejecting the
Duko do Leuehtenberg, will be brought to adhere
to those principles which alone can ensure a good
understanding between the three great powers."
Thu .Iloaitear observes, in its bulletin, that the
Coburg Gazette denies that Prince Alfred is a candi-
date for the throne of Greece, and represents his
presumptive heirship to the dukedom of Saxe
Coburg Gotha as a conclusive reason for his re-
foing.
M. Martin Vreto, the editor of the &mains
Unirerseik, himself a Greek, was, and indeed still
is, a warm partisan of the Duke de Leuchteuberg ;
but he now admits his candidature to be " nothing
more than an historical souvenir." He thinks the
Greeks, in choosing Prince Alfred, are making
the same mistake as the horse in the fable
who asked the man to ride him. M. Vreto's opi-
nion is that it will yet be found necessary to fall
back upon tho Duke de Leuchteuborg. He thinks
it essential that the new king should be of the
Greek religion, which the duke is ; "a catholic or
a protestant would always be looked upon as a
foreigner; and a renegade would never be re-
spaded." A republic he regards as impossible.
The Phare de la Loire has received a warning for
associating itself with the Sicte in au attack upon
the constitution. There is a rumour that this
journal contains some details of the Boulevard
, Prince Eugbne plot, but I have not boon able to
sue it. .

The Sernaine Universe/is states that when Baron g
Gros took his final instructions from the Emperor,
on his nomination to the Loudon embassy, he car- g
ried away the impression that, notwithstanding
many subjects of irritation between France and
England, it is still an essential part of his Majesty's
policy to maintain the English alliance.
It appears from the Dfoniteur that the inquiry
which has resulted. in the dismissal of the gaoler
and principal matron of Hazebrouck gaol, was or-
dered by the Emperor himself, on the very day that
the report of the trial of Rosalie Gardiu appeared in
the newspapers. Despotic government is enti-
tled to the benefit of whatever argument
can be derived from such an instance of
its good and speedy working. It is re-
markable that the imperial procureur of the
assize court of the Nord did all he could to screen
the prison authorities, and warmly defended every
step that had been taken with regard to the unfor-
tunate Rosalie, whose innocence, though it was
proved as clear as day, he to ,the last refused to
admit. Constrained as he was by the judgineut
of the Court of Cessation to ask for a verdict of
acquittal, this functionary thought it so shocking
to reflect upon the sagacity or humanity of any
member of his own magisterial cloth, that he would
only submit to take the verdict as one of " not
proven."
I am glad to hear that the Couucil of State is
preparing a bill for the better security of personal
liberty, founded in great measure upon a report of
M. hal: d'Est Aug°, who recently visited England
for the express purpose of studying the English
system. No reform is more loudly called for than
one on this subject. I shall, however, be agreeably
surprised if the measure now iu contemplation goes
anything like as far as it ought to do.
The house of Ardouin and Co., which had under-
taken to make the new boulevard in the lino of the
Rue Lemartine, has been unable to realise the
required capital, 25,000,000 fr. It announces that
the subscribers (to the amount of 8 millions) will
' have their money returned to them with interest.
In abandoning the contract the house makes the
very large sacrifice of one million, the caution
moneydeposited with the city, and about 500,000 fr.
in expenses incurred.
Several landlords in Paris have recently assumed
a right to prohibit their tenants from using gas not
only in the upstairs rooms, but even in the shops
on the giound floor. The Court of Cassatiou has
I just decided that the custom of lighting by gas
r having become almost universal, every landlord
, must be taken to have consented to its use in the
&biome of any express stipulation to the contrary.