The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-09 00:00:00

DECEMBER 9, 1862.

FROM PARIS.

PARIS, MONDAY EVINING.
The Opinion Nationale receives a warning to-
night, the text of which is very remarkable. The
grounds of the warning are stated to be that in
an article in the number of Dec. 7, headed "The

Martyr of the Clerical Party," the Opinion Na-
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tionate attributes, falsely, and in spite of "officious
warnings," all the acts of government to influences
which it calls clerical, and that in so doing it con-
tinues to distort the " liberal " intentions of the
Emperor's government.
M. Gneroult, after publishing this warning ac-
cording to law at the head of his front page.appends

the following note :
The Prance has within the last few days attacked the
Opinion Nationale with extzeme violence, and has talked,
in reference to um, of " mopeds, '93, and the scaffold." In

presence of the severities of which we are now the object
the Prance will excuse as for leaving its articles unanswered.
Between the articles of the France and the warn_

ing (a second warning, by the way, which makes it
the more serious) to the Opinion Nationale there is

no doubt the connexion which M. Oneroult sees.
I noticed on Saturday the curious mixture of res-

pectful alarm in the hostility of the France to the
Opinion Nationale. It was patent that the France,
knowing that the latter journal was protected by
the Prince Napoleon, felt uneasy leer the prince's

influence should bear it harmless. The yuenouille

party at the Tuileries has now gained a victory, but
not so complete a one as it would wish. The warn-
ing, upon the principle of the proverb, " L'hypo-
crisie est l'bommage que le vice rend it la vertu," is

obliged to profess " liberal " intentions, and to
ignore any such thing as "clerical influences." I
think M. de Persigny'e band may be seen iu this
wording.

The Moniteur, contradicting the statement of an
" evening journal," that IL E. Angiers's new play,

Le File de Giboyer, was first prohibited by the
censure and then authorised by the Emperor
personally, says that the "double assertion is desti-
tute of foundation, the piece never having been
prohibited, and his Majesty not having in any way
interfered about it." M. Gueroult, on behalf
of the Opinion Nationale, which is the
journal referred to, says he hopes to be able
to give some explanation of the mistake.
The Le File de Giboyer is the most piquant poli-
tical play that has appeared for many years. It is
a bitter satire upon the legitimist and clerical
party. M. L. Veuillot is unmistakably shown up
under the name of Deodat. The success of the
piece is immense.
The Temps mentions a report that with a view to
extinguish all rivalry with regard to the throne of
Greece, the three protecting powers have agreed to
recommend a Prussian prince. The royal family
of Prussia, it is observed, has the unique advan-
tage of being on equally good terms with France,
England, and Russia, and of having no special in-
. .....

tereats in the East. It seems that in 1832 France

suggested the election of a Prussian prince, but the
idea was not proceeded with. There are some
reasons for thinking, says the Temps, that the son
of Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, late Presi-
dent of the Council at Berlin, is the candidate
selected by the three powers.
I find no confirmation of the above news in any
other quarter; but I do observe in the govern-
ment prints an expression of an anxious desire
that universal suffrage in Greece should be

"guided" by a diplomatic agreement. lam
therefore inclined to think that the plan broached
by the Temps is the latest mameuvre of France ;
but I do not think any agreement on the subject
baa been come to. _ _

The France, so far from echoing the news of the
Tempe, says that as soon as Prince Alfred shall
have been elected and the English cabinet shall
have intimated his non-acceptance, another can-
didate will be brought forward whose name is "at
present secret between London and Athens."
The France gives news from Mexico by the Spa-
nish vessel Pinta, which left Havannah on Nov.
15. General Berthier, who it will be remembered
was at Puente Nationale on Nov. 1, had got as far
as a place called El-Encero, at a date which is not
stated. The France admits that his march was
going on " slowly," but says that the troops were
healthy and in good order, and that it was
" hoped" they would be in Jalapa towards
November Bor 10. There they were to halt six
days, to wait for reinforcements which left
Vera Cruz on Oct. 25 (sic) to join them. There
is an evident mistake about the time when these
reinforcements left. October 25 was the day when
General Berthier himself quitted Vera Cruz at the
head of the column, which, as already stated, was
only able to perform about three miles a day dur-
ing the week which it took to reach Puente Na-
tionale. The present letters go on to say that after
leaving Jalapa General Berthier's orders were to
proceed to Amozoc, a large town about six kilo-
metres from Puebla, where he would effect a junc-
tion with General Forey, expected there from Ori-
zaba early in December.
The following is a translation of the Emperor's
speech on Sunday, from the 3fcmiteur
M. le Prffet and Gentlemen of the Municipal Council,—
It was my desire to preside over the inauguration of this
new Boulevard, in order to have an opportunity of thanking
you for your untiring devotedness to the interests of this
great city. To transform the capital and increase its
grandeur is not merely to build more houses than are
pulled down, and to furnish employment to a number of
different trades ; s, in addition, to introduce everywhere
habits of order and the love of the beautiful.
These spacious streets, these architectural houses, these
public gardens, these monument& of art, refine taste while
they promote welfare. And those who reflect that as you
carry forward these vast works you equally develop public
assistance and multiply religious edifices and buildings
destined to education, will admit that you deserve infinite
praise for doing so much good, without compromising in
anywise the prosperous state of the finances of the City.
My constant anxiety, as you know, is to find a mama of
remedying the temporary slackness of employment, and to
make the labouring climes comfortable. The question of the
supply of food has lately much engaged my attention. The
recent discussion in the Council of State will have for one
of its consequences the introduction of some useful reforms
in the arrangements for the supply of bread. I have re-
solved to preserve, subject to some changes, the system of
compensation, and to establish either the (axe offictelle or
the !axe offieieuse according to local circums tames. I have
also to thank you for the assistance which you have always
lent to a work which owes its origin to the Empress, and
which, placing capital within the reach of honest and indus-
trious &Aiwa, belies the old proverb, that " only the rich
OW borrow." If, as I hope, this institution shall grow, it
will be consoling to think that a good character is in truth
property, with its advantages and guarantees.
The works of peace become more pleasing as they are as-
sociated with the glorious recollections of our history. Thus
it has been my wish that the new Boulevard which passes
through oos of the faubourge most iohabited by the indus-
trious classes should bear the name of Prince Eughe, that
enfant de Paris, who was orderly officer to General Hoch,
at the age of fourteen, who was one of the heroes of
the retreat from RAM* and who, rather than abandon
France and the Emperor, refused the crown of Italy, which
was offered to him by the Allied Sovereigns.
I cannot nay how much I have been touched by that
spontaneous movement of the population which gave the
name of my Mother to one of the neighbouring Boulevards,
but I cannot accept that designation. My family must not
monopolise the names to be inscribed on marble. That
dlstinetios belongs to all who have rendered services to the

angry. The new road which is now to replace the St.
Bodes Curl will thereiore ismostorth be called the
Richard beekeir Boulevard.

Although the name of Richard Lenoir is already borne by
a small skeet, I desire to reader more conspicuous the name
of a man who, from being a simple workman of the Fau-
bourg Rh Antoine, became one of the first manufacturers in
France ; who was decorated by the Emperor for the immense
progress which the cotton manufacture owed to him, and
who employed a fortune nobly won to sustain his workmen
in times of distress, and arm them when a foreign invasion
was to be repelled. Let us occupy ourselves then with all
that may ameliorate and improve the material, and raise the
meref, condition of the people. Let us keep constantly
before its eyes a noble end to be attained, and the example
of those who have conquered wealth by industry, esteem by
probity, and glory by courage.