The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNICBDAY ERRING.
/ and Pays have both received

instructions to anticipate the failure of the pro-
posal for a congress ; and they argue, in almost
identical terms, that Europe alone will be disgraced
and injured by the refusal of the Emperor's mag-
nanimous and disinterested offer ; and that, in any
event, France will have gained a moral triumph,
and may fold her arms with a sense of conscious
superiority. They lay themselves out to rebut the
inference which the public generally inclines to
draw from the imperial speech, that in default of
a congress there must be war. The Emperor does
not say, they are ordered to observe, that if
you do not come into a congress, "I will make
war;" but that if you reject the panacea
which his infinite wisdom has provided for
you, your calamity will be on your own
head ; "the war which he does not wish but
foresees" will be constantly hanging over you, and
he will have relieved his soul from all responsibility
for it. The aim of these aeticles is to serve the
immediate purpose of mitigating the alarm of the
Bourse. If they are, in a larger sense, well founded,
they tend to confirm the views of those who from
the first interpreted the speech as pacific upon the
assumption that the proposal for a congress was
not serious, but only an expedient and a jack
olanthorn diversion. It will not do, however, to
trust to this construction. All the powers of Eu-
rope will now more than ever keep their hands on
the hilt of the sword, and augment those argu-
ments which the speech so unctuously desires to see
diminished.

In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif yesterday,
the only incident worthy of remark was that Vice-
President Schneider, who was in the chair, in the
absence of the Duke de Morny, gave a proof of
presidential impartiality, in response to the conci-
liatory professions of M. 011ivier on the part of the
opposition. M. Marie objected to the confirmation of
the election of Baron de Bussiete for the Bas-Rhin,
on the ground that there was a serious question whe-
ther he was not disqualified as a paid public func-
tionary, since he was a director of the Mint. M.
Granier de Cassagnac roughly exclaimed that M.
Marie had no right to change the order of
the day, and that the case, being on the
paper, must be gone on with. But the
chairman said that it was a matter of good
faith. He could not deny what M. Marie said,
that only uncontested elections were understood to
be on the order of the day, and therefore be was
of opinion that tbis case mast be adjourned, and
the chamber so decided.

The chamber has got on much faster than was
expected with the unopposed elections, and, instead
of the debates on the contested ones being delayed
till November 24 as was expected, it is very likely
that some serious discussion may begin to-morrow,
and perhaps even to-day. It is understood that
the government is prepared in some half down
very gross cases to sacrifice their candi-
dates. K Ourd, of Bordeaux, will surely
go to the wall. The Temps ventures to say
that government will be " neutral" as to all the
elections, but I think this is goings little too far.
The chamber has, however, shown itself already so
complacent that it may well be trusted to a great
extent. A variety of illegal acts have already been
passed over as peccadiloes, "regrettable" if you will,
but not worthy to influence the result of an elec-
tion. The law says that the poll is to be opened
at 8 o'clock in the morning ; in many cases the
mayors opened it at 5, in order to steal a march
upon the opposition electors, and form the bureau
exclusively of government partisans. The law
says that the ballot-box must have two
keys, and be kept scrupulously closed. A
case was proved in which there was but one key,
and the mayor kept the box wide open. In these

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