The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY VINING.
The Corps Legislatif will shortly be occupied
with a scrutiny into the elections of government
candidates for the Marne and the Gard, against
which protestahavebeen presented. The return of M.
Doguet for the Marne was only by the immuring
cast majority of 16, and well-founded hopes are
entertained that the election may be set aside. It
is alleged by the protestanta that at Fiorent four
women voted for their husbands, that in other
places absent voters were personated, that in one
place the legal balloting urn secured by two pad-
locks was replaced by the mayor's wife's workbox,
and in another by a soup tureen. All theme things
were matters of course in the early days of the
empire when nobody dared question them ; but
they will not easily bear the light now when
M. Darimon, one of the " five," is chosen by
the majority a secretary of the chamber. Ido not
know the grounds of the protest against M. Fabre,
who is the deputy elect for the Gard. This
gentleman was transported in 1862 for his demo-
cratic opinions, which it is presumable he must
now have changed since he is a judge of the
Appeal Court of Nimes, and a government candi-
date of 1864 for the Corps Legislatif.

My impression that the "yellow book" was
exceptionally uninteresting, is confirmed by the
Gazette de France which says :
We are greatly Lappointel. We had hoped to lied
soresthisg else than Drouyn de Lhay's despatches,
whioh everybody knows already. We had hoped to on
the answers of the diplomatists at foreign courts to whom
they were addressed. It is the Ant time that this publics.
Lion—never very abundantly stocked with laforrostion—bas
been restricted within such extremely narrow bounds. We
are retrograding instead of progressing towards that speedy
publicity which prevails in England. . . . What
would have been interesting to know was the language Is
which ths Tuna mink:ten replied to M. Dronyn de Lhuys,
sad what the latter raid to their theory of snoozing Items
by " mad mises.".Exceting despatches exist, we are Mid,
on this subject, but If they an not made peddle it is as if
they were not. As to Poland and the United Mates not a
word is said about thorn. We are not allowed le reed ma
IL Drava de Lhure despatehes frasersteg Poland and
America. _ _

The Opinion Nationale says of the Archbishop
of Paris's mandement
As we hate hypocrisy we will not Any that we agree
with 11p. Darboy's doctriale ; bat we essoot rogue to
give the eminent prelate credit for his patriotic and liberal
sentiments, and particularly for that elevated Legume so
moist* with audios and dignity, which other bishops,
docile disciples of IL Louie Venillot, have too long ceased
to use.

The Temps thinks the archbishop does pot
speak out plain enough. His language, it says, "is
uncertain and vacillating, and too much resembles
the articles of the journal (La France), which
he favoured with the earliest copy of his
manifesto." The true sentiments of the "inspired
pilot" of Rome are to be found not in the Arch-
bishop of Paris's mandate, but in his letter to the
Emperor Maximilian, which shows in unmistake-
able language in what way he would have humanity
"double the stormy cape of the future."
The Constitettioand is authorised to contradict a
statement in the Inclipenciance that the Empress of
Mexico had written a letter to the Empress Eu-
genie, complaining of the hostility of the Mexican
clergy.

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