The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAPAS, SUNDAY SVID7IIO.
At a late hour this afternoon the Emperor
received a deputation from the Corps Legislatif,
who presented him the address just voted. His
Majesty's speech, in return, is not communicated
to the evening journals, but I understand that he
as good as promised not to dissolve the Chamber
before the end of its time, which, however, will
run out this year. No doubt, as far as the
Emperor's confidence is concerned, he could not
hope to get so complaisant a set of deputies as
the present one. The only question upon which
the hypothesis of a dissolution him been argued is
whether a Chamber elected under such circum-
stances as this was, sufficiently represents the
country after the reforms of November 24, 18130.
The town of Blaye, in the Gironde, is in a state
of great excitement in consequence of the disclosure
that a monk belonging to the school of the " Bre-
thren of Christian Doctrine" has absconded, and is
accused of infamous assaults on the boys. It is
thought that the school will be closed.
It is reported that the Pope has thought it expe-
dient to slat a brief ao all the bishop. ie Clariatan-
dom, ordering preachers rigorously to abstain from
politics in the pulpit. This exhortation will be
very seasonable in Fran.
A Warsaw letter of March 17, in Benin's Cor-
respondence, gives an account of a process of tor-
ture by the Russian government, so horrible, so
Irepugnant to every ides of civilisation in this cen-
tury, that, notwithstanding the names and minute
details given, I cannot bring myself to believe it
true. The statement is that M. Alex. Zamoyki,
whose arrest, in consequence of a clandestine press
having been found in his house, has been already
mentioned, was put to the question several nights
successively, between the hours of 10 and 1 in the
morning, before a special commission of five Rus-
sians. The ordinary Judges of Instruction, MM.
Skowrouski and Dombrouski, were not allowed to
sit on this occasion. During these midnight examin-
ations the special commissioners repeatedly bad
the priaonerstripped and beaten with rods, in order
to extract answers from him. The unfortunate
man's back has been literally skinned by the execu-
tioners. After all no discovery could be got from
the patient by this barbarous process, and General
Kryjanowaki, the Governor of Warsaw, under
whose orders this torture was performed, has given
it up in despair.
The Journal du Havre says that, according to
private letters front Acapulco, Mexico is preparing
to resist foreign intervention with great energy.
A lady of Guadalajara, Dona Ignacia Reisch, has
petitioned the government for leave to form a batta-
lion of women, to whom the honour is to be
accorded of marching in front of the first battle
given to the invaders.
M. Alvars, an attache to the Peruvian Legation
here, writes to the papers to give a positive denial
to the statement of some New York journals, that
there is an agitation among certain classes in Lima
in favour of the annexation of Peru to Spain.
PARIS, SATURDAY Erratum.
Several petty political prosecutions are reported
to-day. A student named Gierzinski, of Polish
birth, but a Frenchman by the naturalisation of
his father, was arrested on Feb. 27 among a group
of students, who, after giving an ovation to IL
Ernest Eclat', were crying " Down with the
Jesuits," "Ronan for ever," in the Place St.
Sulpice. He was accused of resisting the police in
the execution of their duty, and upon this point
the evidence was contradictory. His own state-
ment was that he was quietly going home, and merely
fell in with the group of students by accident.
However, upon the evidence of a policeman
that he had "raised his cane," the tribunal
of Correctional Police found him guilty of resisting
the public force, but sentenced him only to the mini-
mum punishment--Aix days' imprisonment.
M. Weever, the brother-in-law of Colonel
Oharras, whose arrest, as I mentioned a few days
ago, provoked the resignation of some municipal
functionaries in Alsace, where he is a well-known
and much-respected manufacturer, was tried yes-
terday in Paris on various charges—the principal
of which was " havinvicited to hatred and contempt
of the government" publicly
distributing a song
called the " Lion n Quartier Latin. " Yon
may have seen this song, which has been
published in London both in French and
in a verse translation. But the court ac-
quitted the accused upon this count. He was found
guilty, however, of circulating the said song with-
out the printer's name, and of having "carried on
intelligence with a view to excite hatred and con-
tempt, &c. The court only sentenced him to three
months' imprisonment and I,ooofrs. fine—a light
punishment if it is to be admitted that the safety
of the state required a prosecution. The evidence
against the prisoner was procured by opening his
letters at the post-office.
A student named Fermi, aged 21, the editor of
a small and little-known journal called the
Mourenient, has been sentenced to one month's
imprisonment and a fine of 300 f., for exciting to