The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SIINDALY BVININO.

The Kiag of Sardinia was expected in Paris to-
day, but it seems that his visit has been postponed
till the beginning of next month, when, it is said, he
will come accompanied by the Chevalier Massimo
d'Ar.eglio. Count Cavour, the President of the Coun-
cil, will join the King later. His Majesty will pro-
aped from Paris to Lando.), as at 41rst intended.
Madame Bosquet, the mother of the gallant Ge-
neral of that name, has received at Pan a telegraphic
despatch from the. Prefect of the Basset Pyrfickes, in
the following terms
I am requested to tell Madame Bosquet that her son is
doing will, and that he hopes to be able to write to her by
the nest mail with his wounded arm. This good news,
dated Sept. 11, is sent by Marshal Pelissier.

A letter from Berlin of Sept. 14 says that M.
de Hutafeld was instructed by telegraph to oongra-
tulate Napoleon 111. on his maps from the last
attempt at assassination, and we learn to-day that
the Prussian Ambassador was the first to offer his

congratulations on the subject. This announcement
is of course meant to intimate that Prussia is en-
titled to credit as a particularly friendly power. Bat
the same letter mentions that the Emperor of Russia,
choosing the King of Prussia for • confidant, told
him, in a telegraphic despatch, announcing the fall
of Sebastopol, that " Ramie would never make peace
after a disaster."

M. Erdan (the writer in the Pr ease), M. Coulon-
Pineau (the publisher, of the Rue Monsieur le Prince),
and M. Maulde (the printer), were yesterday tried
and convicted by the Tribunal of Correctional Police,
for the offence of having, in a work called " La France
Mystique," written by Erdan, and printed and pub-
lished respectively by the other two defendants, " in-
sulted and turned into derision the catholic religion,
such religion being one of the forms of worship
recognised in France." The court, however, " having
regard," as it is stated in the judgment, " to the
peculiar position of the defendants, and to the regret
expressed by them," passed but a very light sentence.
M. Erdan is condemned to eight days' imprisonment,
and a Sue of 100 fr.; the publisher is fined 100 fr.; and
the printer, 40fr. The copies of the work inculpated,
" already seized, or which may hereafter be seized,"
are ordered to be destroyed. "La France Mystique"
has had a considerable circulation in France, and has
been reviewed in England.
A letter from Florence gives very terrible accounts
of the ravages of the cholera. No less than 11,000
persons have, it is stated, been carried off in the month
of August. The population of the city, which is on
an average 100,000, is now reduced to 80,000 by
death and flight. The Grand Duke, it must be said
to his credit, has set a noble example. Although his
family has left, he remains himself, and, clad in the
black veil of the Fraternity of Mercy, he sometimes
assists in the burial of the dead. It is positively
affirmed in this letter that ten persons were lately
buried alive. The horrible fact was brought to light
in this way :—An Italian warehouse-keeper in Peitz -
viol° (a faubourg of Florence) was buried for dead in
the Trespiano cemetery, with many other supposed
corpses in a common grave. He awoke to a sense of
consciousness, and so thin was the covering of sandy
earth above him that he made his way out to the
surface. Still weak, he lived for three days on roots
in the forest which surrounds the grave yard. At
last he recovered strength sufficient to reach his house,
where he startled his family, who were in mourning
for him. He assured them that he distinctly felt the
bodies of numerous people interred with him moving
about. The grave was consequently opened, and it
was found that many (ten in number, as I have said)
had stirred, and several of them had bitten their
fingers in agony, and otherwise injured themselves.
They were all dead when the investigation was made
The utmost excitement prevailed on the subjec
among the population.
The International Statistical Congress held its last
meeting for the session of 1855 yesterday. A Ger-
man delegate, M. P. Heuriche, presented to the
Congress a work published by himself in 1851, on
the advantages of a common language and a common
monetary system, to be used by agreement between
several States. A discussion followed, in the course
of whioh Chevalier Debranz (Austria) proposed that
by way of setting a practical example of the advan-
tages of the system, the Congress itself should resolve
to use but one language. He farther moved that
this language should be that which diplomacy had
adopted, on account of its clearness and precision—
the French. This motion, supported by some mem-
bers, was opposed by M. Varentrapp (Frankfort)
and M. Teixeira de Vasconcellos (Portugal), on the
ground that such a resolution would, in effect,
make the Congress a French or Belgian, instead
of an international one, since many members who
might speak usefully would be compelled to be silent
if they were not at liberty to use the tongue most
familiar to them ; and also on the ground that the
present Congress had no right to bind the next on
such a subject. It was further suggested that the
resolution would in all likelihood be supererogatory,
it tieing probable that the next Congress would vote
that its debates should be carried on in the French
language, as those of the present had been. Finally,
it was resolved that the question should be left to the
Committee to be appointed to prepare next year's
Congress. Business being concluded, Baron de
Czosrnig (Austria) proposed a vote of thanks to the
Emperor for his gracious reception of the Congress.
M. Rouher, the Minister of Commerce, in acknow-
ledging the compliment, stated that the Emperor had
followed the proceedings of the Congress with the
utmost interest, and announced that his Majesty
would be happy to receive the members at the Tuil-
leries on Monday. Thanks were voted to Baron
Dupin and all the members of ;the bureau. It was

afterwards resolved that a French committee of orga-
nisation should be appointed to determine (as the
Belgian committee did in 1853) in what country and
at what time the next (the third) International Con-
gress should be held. The President then declared
the session closed.

In the evening the members of the Congress dined

together at Doules restaurant, in the Palsis Rojal.
Baran Charles Dupin, •ioe-president of the Congress,
proposed the Emperor's health ; and M. Roaher

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gave as a tout, " Science." Both their
speeches were remarkable on this account,
that they contained an energetic protest against a
notion which they admit exists, that liberty has been

extinguished in France. Baron Dupin said that •
foreigner had said to him just before sitting down to
table, that he and his friends were told when they
were coming to France, that they would not be free
to express their opinions. This supposition, they
must all have observed, had been refuted by the ur-
banity with which their president, M. Rouber, had
listened to the observations of every member who
had addressed him. The French government, he
added, only prohibited the most fatal of all
liberties, the liberty of anarchy. M. Roaer fol-
lowed this line of argument, and said that the
"liberty of bad passions" had been banished from
France by the nonage and energy of its sovereign,
bat that liberty in its entirety did not the leas exist.
I cannot tell whether you will think this explana-
tion altogether satisfactory. If it be so, it seems to
me that IP, ferney old and torpootod treatises" the