The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIB, W ZDNIIIDAT EVINDtO.

The budget was finally voted yesterday. Ae fre-
quently happens, the members of the standing
majority who made opposition speeches shrank from
backing up their opinions by their votes. The
minority was only 7. The Moniker does not pub-
lish the division list, but I believe !Ist the two
recruits of "the five" were MM. Letnercier and

The Bourse has been better, in consequence of
reports from London that Mr. Adams has given
satisfactory explanations to Lord Russell. Rents
rose Mx

The PAare dela itaffiche of Cherbourg says that
seven ships of war, fully armed, are now in the har-
bour, viz. :—The Napoleon, the Impetueuse,the iron-
clad frigates Couronne, Normandie, and Solferino,
the corvette Forfeit, and the guardship Dauphin.
This assemblage of war vessels is connected by the
partisans of war with a design to send a French
fleet to the Swedish port of Carlskrona, which, it
is observed, is only four days' sail from Cherbourg.
The Opinion Nationale contends that France and
Sweden alone might, at very small cost of men and
money, emancipate Poland, restore Finland to
Swedish domination, and render Russia harmless
to Europe.
Some little time ago, on the occasion of a Polish
petition being presented to the Senate, the Marquis
de Boisoy raised the question whether the right of
petition belonged to foreigners. The point was
admitted by the reverent senators to be important,
and a committee was appointed to consider it. M.
de Royer, a late procureur-general, was nominated
reporter, and he yesterday presented his report to
the Senate. He is of opinion that the constitu-
tion contains no restriction, and the verdict of the
Senate will no doubt confirm his judgment. The
right of petition to the Senate being in reality
nothing worth, except (perhaps, in some rare in-
stances) as an instrument of publicity supplemental
to the pram, which, in its fettered state, cannot
always expose grievances, it is the cue of the go-
vernment journals to blow the trumpet in Zion,
and proclaim to all the world that the " precious
privilege" of addressing a petition to the Senate is
the polar star of civilisation, and the manifest proof
of the liberal character of French institutions.
The Charirari has a capital squib upon M. de
Persigny's childish interdiction of the use of the
word " independent " as applied to opposition
candidates. It describes the embarrassment of an
unpatronised aspirant for legislatorial honours, who,
in the bosom of his family, and assisted by
troops of relations and friends, is ransacking all
the dictionaries in the house in march of a lawful
adjective. Various epithets are suggested, and
rejected in turn as dangerous. At length a grey-
headed father-in-law makes a proposal which is
carried unanimously. His idea is that to the word
candidate should be added simply these four letters,
Lg.d. g. (sans periodic du gcnieernement). The
joke consists in this, that the letters s. g. d. g. are,
in pursuance of special acts of the legislature,
habitually need by advertisers of certain patented
articles, to warn the public that the government
does not warrant the quality of the wares.
A trial for murder, which will be a cause celebre,
is now going on before the Assize Court of La
Vendde. It appears from the indictment (borne
out in its main details by confessions of the
accused parties) that a lady of fortune, the wife of
a retired captain in the army, named 011ive, but
who was separated from him in consequence of her
disorderly life, compassed and imagined his death,
in order that she might have uncontrolled posses-
sion of hie property, and for several mouths
together made offers of money to various
persons to put him out of the way.
At length, after much negotiation about
the price, she agreed with a neighbour, named
G-eudrean, to pay him 13,000 fr. (5201.) to shoot
her husband. He did the deed and received the
money. One of her lovers, a young farmer, named
Ouillet,who had at first promised to do her bidding,
backed out of the business on the ground that
having come into some property, it was not worth
his while to run the risk. He, however, is in-
cluded in the indictment as having a guilty know-
ledge of the crime. M. Lachaud has gone special
into Brittany to defend the lady prisoner.

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se, lies.

I regret to &annum* the death of M. Leon de
Wailly, an ethinent author, and one of the best
translators of English works that ever existed.
His translations of Sterne and Scott are wonderful
conquests of the difficulties of a foreign language.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

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BERLIN, Ann, 211.

The horrors of the conscription are being re-
peated in Warsaw. Numbers are seized every day,
and as soon as a sufficiently large batch of recruits
has been collected, it is drafted off by railway to
St. Petersburg. 600 of the inhabitants have already
been exiled in this way. The object of this renewal
of the dreadful scenes of the 15th January appears
to be twofold—first, to strike terror into the hearts
of thepopulation; and secondly, to fill up vacancies
existing in the corps on the Amoor and in other
parte of Asiatic Russia, in consequence of many of
the soldiers belonging to those corps having been
sent to Poland. This savage measure gives a prac-
tical indication of the real policy of the Czar in
Poland, to dissimulate which was the object
of the amnesty. Since the ukase announcing
it was promulgated, the Czar, as if to
revenge himself on the Poles for the
duplicity which he was compelled to practise on the
Western Powers, has treated them with redoubled
rigour. Every day arrests are becoming more and
more frequent ; the citadel is full, and the only
instance in which the amnesty was carried into
effect was the liberation of eight peasants. These
severities are also in a great measure attributable
to the alarm with which the increasing success of
the insurrection is viewed by the government That
General Berg has asked for more troops is certain ;
but the Emperor has no more troops to give, those
still in European Russia being indispensable to keep
down the discontent there (which, according
to all accounts, is fast becoming almost
uncontrollable), and the army of the Cau-
casus being hard pressed by the Circassian,
and moreover consisting in great part of Poles.
A general levy is accordingly to take place in all
the European provinces but the Polish ones,
which Russia is constantly being compelled to treat
as Polish countries, in spite of her theory that they
were always Russian. The expedient is dangerous'
and of doubtful utility—dangerous, because it will
probably increase the discontent which is already
seething beneath thesurfaoe ; of doubtful utility,
because in so large an extent of country the process
of recruiting must be necessarily slow, and the
Polish question will probably be settled long before,
the peasants are converted into effective soldiers.
The insubordination of the soldiery has increased
to an extraordinary extent, their officers
being quite powerless to restrain them. The
atrocious vindictiveness with which they hacked
about the bodies of the wounded boys who lay
helplessly on the field after the unlucky affair of
Babice, near Warsaw, was so horrible, that it is
said the peasantry who witnessed the fight imme-
diately joined the rest of the insurgents, and
played the chief part in the brilliant action which
subsequently took place in the Forest of Kampinoe,l
resulting in the dispersion of the Imperial Human
of the Guard, with a loss of 300 killed and
wounded. It was while the troops were searching
for insurgents in this forest, on the 19th, that,
being disappointed in their search, they set fire to
the wood, burnt down several houses, and com-
pleted the day's achievements by flogging and
wounding Mrs. Bromireks, a much-respected old
lady residing at Lazy. To her complaints the
officer in command only answered, with a shrug of
the shoulders, " Que voulez-vous, Madame I Ce
sont des barbarea."
The district of Kalisz is now the chief seat of the

THE HOUSE OP COMMONS AND THE D1.1'.‘,11:
QUESTION.

The Select Committee of the Home of COllllO4,
appointed to control the arrangeeneets of the kitches 4,1
refreshment rooms in the department of the Bergeam..4.
Arms, have just agreed to a report respecting the
plaints which have been made as to the arrangements he
dining in the lower house. It seems that the 'hush%
keeper of the refreshment rooms is considered anythig
but a desirable poet. Prior to the appointment of the presu
keeper the situation bad been declined by several of the pre.
deal hotel•keepers and restaurateurs in London. The towns,
is oonfined to the duration of the simian, and no diesel c
wanted on Wednesdays, Saturdays, or Sundays, Bat tL
great trouble of the keeper is that members are tustb's
order their dinners a short time before they are relsirei
Se
they cannot tell when they may have the opporturity u
dining. At the end of an important speech or debate then
is at once a rush to the rooms; "and I consider;
says Mr. Steers, "that no reasonahle amount of eel
yenta will be able to supply the immediate seat
of members on such occasions." It is the numbs
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at once," continues the unfortunate keeper, "that make
the confusiou ; no notice, no intimation, but everything i
expected to be ready then and there, even though amine
has been doing in the room for an hour previously. Darie,
the ten yearn I have held my appointment, I have PM
once been short of supply, and many members daring lee
session were witnesses to my plentiful supply of mew*
for 150 or more, and ooly ten or twelve dining. Even thee
most unprofitable disappointments I ma meet, and do us
require them to be thought of ; but the oslv considerate"
which I hops to obtain is that members generally will e.
deavour to lessen that confusion which is only caused b
so many wishing to dine at one and the some time.'
Plate, linen, glass, china, candles, coals, kr., and all kit
utensil., arc., are provided, and an allowance of 3001. pe
annum is made to the keeper of the refreshment moos k
provide waiter and other servanta, end tom to wadi*
&a. The committee are of opinion that the cooking as
serving up dinners is not no good as it ought to be, and tic
the wines and spirits provided are not satisfactory. Up,
these pointa they have pealed the following resolutions
"It is the opinion of this committee that th
date of the kitchen and refreshment deputise
is unsatisfactory, and ought to be amende
That unless the committee should be of opinion, in re
mouth of July next, that the well founded causes of cm
plaint against the present mode of management have be
removed, it will be their duty to recommend that Se
present keeper of the refreshment rooms be supersede
That the present arrangement under which the wines se
spirits are provided by the manager of the kitchen be de
continued, and that three or mere cellars be provided, eat
of these cellars to be placed at the disposal of differe
wine-merchante to be named by the committee, who e
each be paid weekly for the wine consumed," 111
committee are strongly of opinion that the width
the rooms must be increased, sod a report and a plan of lk
Barry are included in the return. The coat of the alarp
ant suggested would to 4,650!. In an appendix, appeal%
paper put in by Lord R. Montagu, showing the prices curve
at the House of Commons and Ma of the London cinh,
These prime relate to upwards fifty articles, dishes, e
meals. We give the" table" at the various places. ii
the House of Commons, the Caritas, sad the Junior (Jude
Service it is 6d. ; at the United Service, Bd. ; at the Atha
mum, Reform, and Limon, Pd. ; and at the Commune,
Travellers', and Oxford and Cambridge, Is.