The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FIIDAT Evans.

In the Senate this afternoon, Count de Persia' ny
rose to reply to the violent personal attacks made
on him yesterday by the Papal champion, M. Seger
d'Aguessean. The report, down to post time,
merely gives the introductory of his speech, and
contains nothing salient. He began by saying that,
as a minister, he should feel it easy to defend bis
conduct, but the constitution did not give him a
right to address the Senate in that character. He
respected the constitution, and was silent. He bad,
however, been insulted as a senator, and that in an
assembly every member of which habitually set
an example of moderation and respect towards his
colleagues. He would not reply to personalities by
personalities ; but, since he had been compared
to an unfortunate minister (Prinoe Polignao), be
would reply that we live under a government born
of universal suffrage—a government which owed
everything to the national will, and could neither
be lost nor saved by any minister whatever.
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„
(Applause on several benches.) What be desired,
in common with the Emperor, with the oountry,
and with that patriotic assembly, was a strong
government, to maintain order and tranquillity,
which were the bases of public prosperity. He
was also for a prudently progressive and liberal
government, such as that which had issued the
decrees of Nov. 24, and proposed the senates con-
sultum recently voted. Such was the imperial
government as he understood it, and to that govern-
ment he had devoted his life as a faithful servant of
the Emperor, his son, and his dynasty. (Applause.)
The Bourse was steady to-day, without a very
large business doing. The Route rose 25c. for cash,
and 20c. for account, closing at 70fr. 35c. and
70fr. 500. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways were
from 2fr. 50c. to Ur. higher.
You may remember the indignant denials of the
Moniteur and other French journals of the sack of
the Emperor of China's summer palace by the
French army. The original statements of the
English correspondents ou that subject were, how-
ever, completely borne out, and from time to time
paragraphs have appeared in the departmental
' papers about the large fortunes brought home by
I private soldiers of the Chinese expedition.
Further evidence, if any were wanting, k afforded
by a curious paragraph in the Moniker de Edretir.
An officer of rank, whose name is not mentioned,
but which I lately saw in the advertising oolumas
of the Paris newspapers, has announced the sale by
auction of "a curious Chinese and Japanese
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from the summer palace of Yuen-Ming-Yuen, the
property of a superior officer who belonged to the
Chinese expedition." The officer in question, who
probably fancied that the scandal of the affair had
entirely blown over, has made a miscalculation,
The Moniteur de r Arm& states that the Emperor,
considering " a speculation of this nature dis-
graoeful to the character of the officer and
injurious to the dignity of the army," has
ordered him to be removed from active service.
The moral of this is, that French officers with
plunder from China must sell it privately or keep it
for their own use.

♦ Marseilles letter of the 19th states that the
municipal council was surprised on that day by the
announcement that M. Oufroy, the mayor, had sent
his resignation to the Emperor. The cause is not
exactly known, but the general supposition is that
the mayor has had a dispute with a de Maupas,
the senatorial prefect.
Some of the journals of the south of France give
the following as the epitaph of Father Lacordaire,
composed by himself, and inscribed on the tomb-
stone at the foot of the stall which he occupied in
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