The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAT, 5.30 P.M.
The debate of yesterday, which ended in the grant-
ing of an autliorisrtion to prosecute thirteen represen-
tires, involved a point upon which the speakers en
both sideespent all their logic. The question was
whether it was right to allow the prosecution of a
member of the Assembly without bringing before the
committee to which the matter is referred, or the As-
sombly itself, the proofs of the charges brought
against the accused. An instance was given
on the one hand, la the matter of M. Louis
Blanc, which memo unanswerable, but at which
the majority did not stop. Daring the exist-
ence of the Constituent Assembly an authorisation
was demanded to prosecute the above-named gentle-
men, and it was refused, because the proofs in Bur port
of the charge were not given. The argument of M.
de Kerderel, on the other hand, was, that the question
was not a political one., but one of justice, where
guilt or innocence must be left to be decided by trial.
It was according to the system then, said M.
Emmanuel Atago, that General Courtais was pro-
secuted and tried, after having been fur maths
in prison, and yet he was acquitted. The result of
the authorization being granted would be to deprive
the Chamber of a number of its members blindly and
on the mere word of the precut-rue-general.
M. Emmanuel Are.go charitably informed the
majority that when their turn came to be pro•ecuted,
if the same means were pursued as on the present oz-
mien, be should not change his opinions, but vote
against the authorisation as he did now.
MM. Gambon and Brives obtained to be allowed to
give themselves up, and were spared the luxury of
gendarmes and mouchards usual when arrests are
made by the police.
The trial of the persons implicated in the insurrec-
tion of Marseilles in June, 1848, commenced on the 25th
ult., before the Court of Assize at Valence (Drome).
The accused are 146 in number, among whom the
principal ones are Rivard, Perrin, and Mercier, cap-
tains in the national guard of Marseilles; Merl-,
lieutenant, and Carbaisse, sergeant, in the same (_tree.
The last named is accused of having fired at General
Meynard St. Martin, who was present at the trial.
The indictment is very long, and the reading of the
document was not finished in the first sitting. It is
supposed that the proceedings will last a fortnight.
Great indignation has been caused in Paris at the
barbarous conduct of the Austrian General, Havasu,
at Czorna. It is probably known that he burnt that
town as an example, and to make all Hungariaus
rally round the Austrian flag. It would seem as if
Haynau wanted to force reprisals on the part of
Gorgey, who has not allowed any executions, though
he hoe many Austrian prisoners of note in his pos-
session.

Horror at Austrian cruelties is succeeded by mirth
at an odd official blunder of an English solicitor, who,
in reference to the debts of the late Bishop Lus-
c3mbe, informs the public that al creditors in the
kingdom of France must make application, &c., in
the usual form. The public are persuaded that France
is a republic, a fact of which the London solicitor
is evidently in doubt.
There is no later news from Rome; but there is no
fear that the Romans will follow the course p inted
out by the correspondent of a contemporary, and that
the Eternal City will fall by treason.