The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(now ors OWN colazeroxmarr.)
. _ PARIS, WIDNINDAY EVINFLNO.

The Appeal Court pronounced judgment this
morning in the affair of the Appel des Treize. In
accordance with universal expectation, the decision
of the court below is confirmed. The court has
exercised considerable ingenuity in so wording its
judgment as to expose the smallest surface possible
to the revision of the Court of Caseation, before
which supreme tribunal the case will of course be
carried. The proposition of the Procureur-
General, that all electoral committees, if Con-
sisting of more than twenty persons, were illegal
unless authorised by the government, is not
adopted by the court to the full extent. It con-
siders as coram non judice the question whether an
electoral committee which confines itself to the
elections of its own department is or is not lawful.
But it holds it to be established as a matter of fact in
this particular case that the thirteen defendants were
members of a committee which sought to influence
the elections throughout France, and it declares
(and a fearful doctrine it is in a constitutional
point of view) that au association with such
an object is unlawful. It cuts short the
famous difficulty that thirteen could not possibly
form a society of twenty, by declaring that there
is plenty of evidence to show that the defendants
had associates enough to make up the illegal
number, and that the prosecution is not bound
to specify the names of the remaining culprits or
to include them in the prosecution, if known. It
declares bold 4 "that these principles," so far
from infringing the rights of the electors and the
laws of the country, are, on the contrary, the
maintenance and the application of them. As
to the motion of M. Sensed, that the names of the
persons whose names were mentioned by the
judgment of the Lower Court as having been
members of the association condemned as illegal,
might be struck out of the record, the court held
that it was not necessary to decide whether their
intervention was receivable, since the grounds upon
which the court founded its judgment showed that
they had no interest and no object to gain of which
legal notice could be taken.

The committee of the Longchamps racecourse have
resolved to give a new prize, consisting of a work
of art, value 10,000 fr., to be run for at the great
annual meeting in June next.

M. Marie is still very ill. Hie attack was of a
paralytic nature. He has been removed to the
country, and it is doubtful whether be will be able
to take his seat in the Corps Legislatif this session.
The bulletin of M. Moognard's health, dated
Dec. 7, is thus worded :

The patient hes pasied• tolerably good aight, notwith-
steadies the agitation in the day ; his pawsl state is Noah
the setae.

The upward movement at the Bourse has made
a great stride to-day. Route rose bk. for cash,
and 35c. for account, closing at 66fr. lbc. and
66fr. 25c. Mobilier rose 1&r. Several of the
railways were from 51r. to 7fr. higher. The Bourse
has not seen such a brilliant day as this for many
months. The bullion continues to increase in the
Bank of France cellars, and it is expected that the
discount will be lowered to 5 per cent.

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The theatrical riots at Madrid are not yet at an
sod. A disturbance broke out at the Moratin Theatre Let
week, when the public aid the actors almost came to blows.
The house be been closed by the authorities.