The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY MVIDaNG.

There can, I think, be no doubt that the ten-
dency of the debates in the Senate, as far as they
have gone, is to consolidate the alliance between
the government and the liberal or old repub-
lican party. The Emperor must see more clearly
every day what is already plain to such counsellors
as M. Pietri, that it is only by conciliating this
party that he can render his dynasty really popular.
It is not enough to be master of the ballot-box by
virtue of police organisation. The government
feels the want of independent supporters among
the intelligent classes, prepared to do battle for it
as the representative of their own opinions, and able
to give a reason for the faith that is in them. In
all probability, one of the Emperor's motives for
abolishing that article of his constitution which
made the debates in the Senate secret was to appeal
to the public against the hostility of his own
creatures. Ten years is too long a period for a
courtier's gratitude to last when he has no more
favours to expect. It is now manifest that a very
large proportion of the Orleanists and legitimists
who were made senators in 1852 simply as a
reward for their agility in rallying to the coup
d'ilat are bigoted opponents of civil and religions
liberty, and partisans of the reactionary maw
throughout Europe. Such of them particularly as
have strong ultramontane feelings are boiling over
with rage at the thought that the Emperor, of
whom they hoped to make a tool, now shows
himself intractable, and is inclined to shake off
their yoke altogether. The violent way in which
a pack of these men baited the Emperor's cousin
for an hour together, on account of his liberal
opinions, makes it the easiest thing iu the world
for the imperial government to hold them up to
popular odium, and in spite of the official modera-
tion of the measured phrases of MM. Baroche and
Billault, I have no doubt that this will be effectually
done through the liberal press, which those rauk apos-
tates Laroebejaqueliu and Segur d'Aguesseau would
put down. M. Pietri's speech was truly remarkable.l
This old imperial prefect of police, who from his
official experience must know more than most men
what is the practical working of the constitution of
1852, recommends unconditionally the abolition of
warnings, the entire freedom of the press, the re-
pal of all those exceptional acts called laws of
" public safety," and, above all, freedom of elec-
tion. He does not object to the government desig-
nating its candidates, but is for sweeping away that
vast and curiously organised system of pressure
which makes universal suffrage a mockery, and
only serves in his opihiou to "separate the Emperor
from France." Such opinions from such a man
are pregnant signs of the times. M. Pietri
is a pare Buonapartist, a man like the
Emperor himself, of Corsican blood ; he is
an old and tried servant of Napoleon HI., and
since he left office has been frequently employed
by him on confidential missions of a highly respon-
sible character. It was M. Pietri who managed
the practical details of the annexation of Savoy
and Nioe ; and he has frequently taken soundings
for government information in various parts of
Italy. It is not too much, therefore, to suppose,
when we see him come forward under present
circumstances, with a written speech, advocating

radical reforms, that he must be a precursor of
important practical measures. You will observe,
by the way, that the rumour of an amendment to
the address being to be made by M. Pietri, and
seconded by Prince Napoleon, was in effect correct,
though not literally so. They have proposed no
amendment, but they lead an opposition.
' Cardinal Mathieu flattered himself that the
prince would not speak at all, but his wish was
father to the thought. The prince's great speech
is to come. That of Saturday, which provoked
I such a tremendous row, was only a hors d'oeuvre.
He gave notice that on the discussion of the para-
graph relative to Rome he will very plainly tell the
clergy what he thinks of them.
By the way, it is an historical fact recorded in
M. Thiers' great work that the cry, "A bag les
pretres !" was really uttered by the people during
the triumphant march of Napoleon 1. from Gre-
noble to Lyons on his return from Elba. But
then, as the Siiele justly observes, the people did
not mean, as is insinuated by the devotees of order,
to call for the blood of the priests, but merely to
say—no more tithes, no more mortmain property,
no more state religion. Although Prince Napoleon
ultimately said that he had not been correctly
heard, and that he had quoted the expression,
"A has les traitres !" there is no doubt that he would
join in the cry of "A bail les priltres!" at the present
day as applicable to that priestly government
which is the beau ideal of the senators who hooted
him.

At the opening of the Senate this afternoon,
K President Troplong, who, like a worthy peda-
gogue, always does his best to make the senators
good boys, read them the following lecture, which
it is to be hoped they will profit by more than they
did by the one pronounced on Saturday :
At the last sitting, I addressed a few words to the Senate
which, notwithstanding the iscidenta of the day before
yesterday-end perhaps all the more on account of those
incidenta—are, I bops, yet present in your recollections.
What is the principal cane of those regrettable ebullitions?
It is the interruptions which irritate monikers, throw them
off their line of argument, and oust the object of discus-
sion into the shade. Now, interruptions are expressly pro-
hibited by the standing orders, which say that no senator
is to speak until he has obtained permission from the pre-
sident. To interrupt is to break the rules and to trouble
order ; the Senate, therefore, will approve my conduct when
I declare that whoever presumes to interrupt will be liable
to the utmost severity of those rules which the president
has the power to enforce. We live under a rigime which
requires order as well as liberty, and it is inconceivable that
when the motto of the empire is conciliation, pacification,
and the organisation of the revolution, an assembly such as
ours should not refrain from excesses calculated to revive
the memory of anarchical times, equally detested by us aIL
(Applause.)
The Marquis de Larochejaquelin then rose, and,
promising to be very moderate, proceeded to reply
to some observations of K Baroche and Prince
Napoleon, but said nothing remarkable down to
the moment at which the report before me closes.

The Bourse has been weak. The excitement on
political subjects in the Senate occasions some un-
easiness, and diverts attention from the conversion.
The Rents, after being as low as 69fr. 75c. and
69fr. 90c., closed at about the average prices of the
Iday, 70fr. sc. for cash, and 701 r. 15c. for account,
being a fall of 10c. and 20c. Mobilier fell 6fr.,
and the Italian Loan 40c. The Orleans Railway
fell Mr. and Northern 3fr. 76c. There was little
change in the other lines.

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SUMMATION.
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of an Inch Siten • sal 'sale deg., above Sf deg., fanning
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b, blue sky : e. clouds (detached) • f, fog ; 4 hail ; 1.
lightning; m, misty (hat,); o. overcast (dull) : r, rain ;
I. thunder. 8., ram-fall, or snow, or hall, since last report, lu
Inches and decimals. it.-Beit.listurlouce it to 9). L—Calm.

The Emperor Napoleon, accompanied by the
Moister of State and 3L. de Nieuwerksrqns, last week
visited the palace of St. Germain en Laye, to decide on the
system to be adopted for the complete restoration of that
edifice. Workmen are already engaged in preparing a part
of the palace for the reception of the Uallo•Roman Mu-
seum, sod a number of 0109411C3 and other antiquities have
already arrived.

The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha on his African
loamy is accompanied by the duchess antlby Prince Edward
of Leiniugen and Prince Hermann of Hobanlobe. The suite
consists of an side-de camp, Major von Reuter, sod his wife,
of the duke's physician, Dr. Hassenstein, Kretechmann the
painter, Gerstacker the traveller, an interpreter, and some
20 Chasseurs and attendants. At Suez the duke is to find
an English vessel of war which has been placed at his dis-
posal The duchess will await his return from the interior
at Mamma on the Red Sea. The applications to airtoinpany
him on this journey have been extremely numerous, and
several have been from persons desirous to attend him in
the capacity of beaters at the lion and elephant hunting
parties !
The Duchess of Parma arrived three days back
at Munich, where she intends to remain for a few days.
The Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany has also arrived in
the Bavarian capital, and taken up his residence at the
palace of Prince Luitpold.
M. Ernest Reuau commenced his lectures on the
Hebrew language and literature on Saturday at the College
de France, Paris. A considerable crowd was present, and
his words were at first drowned by cries of a hostile cha-
ncier ; but silence was soon restored, and the lecturer was
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listened to with great interest, and towards the end was
frequently applauded. A number of students Afterwards
proceeded to M. Reiniu's residence, with the intention of
giving him an ovation, but he had not then returned.
A considerable emotion has been just caused at
Lyons by what is supposed to be an act of Vandalism,
committed in the Park of the Tate d'Or, the keepers of
11 which, on Sunday morning, found no less than 150 of the
gee birds—swans, foreign ducks, and other curious species
—writhing on the ground in the agonies of death, appa-
rently from the effects of poison. and 130 of them have
since died. Chemists hove been appointed to 011116116) the
bodies to endeavour to ascertain the cause of this catas-
trophe, which entails a serious loss on the establishment.
The Journal de Roubaix draws a melancholy Or
tare of the position of the operatives in that town. It says
that there is no business doing, the few buyen who visit
the town aerie' prices which the manufacturers cannot
accept. The manufacturers, expecting an improvement,
had op to the present time retained in their service a great
number of operatives, whom they are now forced to dis
charge, no amelior►tion of the crisis having taken place. A
letter from Tourooing says that there is no improvement la
the <rade of that town. The wages of the writes Lye
again been reduced. The demand for woollen rap, par-
ticularly carpets, is diminishing every day.

MUSIC.