The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1851.

stabs quo. It is not so easy to say what are the real
motives for the course taken by M. Berryer and his
followers. That they have any settled plan for the
speedy restoration of Henry V. is not credible. It is
scarcely less difficult to believe that they havo made
.soy such intimate alliance with the Elisie as they
siM charged with having dune by the republicans.
They can • have only faint hopes—if. seriously, they
can have any--!-of carrying the revision. They are
men of trio much determination and perseverance to
be‘aupprised to have abandoned their darling object
of nn ultimate restoration and they must feel what
M. Berryer so forcibly expressed, that Louis Napo-
leon, if once installed President by an unconstitutional
election, would be a dictator. I believe that with re-
gard to 1f452, their own minds are entirely in a
state of suspense, that they really meant what they
said in the Rue de Itivoli,—that their policy might he
summed up in the word " wait." They could afford
to make advances to the Elysie in the composition
of the Committee of Permanence, well knowing that I
there was no danger of any coup (Taut during the I
prorogation. They undertake a campaign in the
departments in favour of revision, apparently to serve
the Elysi:e, and they hope in return to have the in-
terest of government in the coming elections, so as
to swell the numbers of legitimists in the next As-
- sembly by the aid of Bonapartist votes. In the
meanwhile they think to increase their influence by
obtaining places for their friends. They are nut sorry
that it should be supposed by the Elyse that they
would be resigned to a re-election, but they know
that it will be at any time in their power to turn
round and insist upon legality, a principle which
they have not in words abandoned. In short, not
seeing their way clear to any abiding city, their
policy is confined to the best mode of picking up
what crumbs they can by the way-side.
The sic& to-day promises speedily, with entire
disinterestedness, to designate a democratic candidate
for the presidency. The use of the word " disinterest-
' tdness" leads to the inference that it will not be Gen.
Cavaignac. It was merely by inadvertence that the
Sicete did nut publish the Mountain manifesto on the
same day with the other democratic journals.
The tire at the church of the Invalides yesterday
destroyed fifteen flags and iujured many others.
The old soldiers, who rejoiced in the si"ht of these
trophies, many of which they had helped to conquer,
were deeply affected at their loss. The full solemni-
ties of religious service could not be performed. An
altar was hastily arranged in the vaults, and lighted
by four modest candles only, where Dc PiVitudie
was sung in the midst of smoke, and with water up
to the ankles of the mourners. The scene was deeply
affecting, the more so that the young Due the
l'raslin was present. General Tihurce Sebastiani,
Marshals Jerome Bonaparte, Excelmans, and Reille.
The Minister of War,: and most of the general
officers in Paris were among the mourners. It was
only decided. after much discussion, that the military
honours should not be postponed.
The Publ.(' publishes a letter signed A. Voirol,
giving an account of an interview at the Elyse, on
the sth inst., between the President of the Republic
and General Voirol, who commanded at Strasbourg,
in 1.36, and took energetic measures to put down
the attempt of Louis Napoleon to overthrow the
government. The writer says: " The Prince gave
the general the kindest reception. and, taking his
hand. said General, your conduct at Strasbourg
was that of a man of honour. You acted with gene-
rosity whilst in the rigorous exercise of your duty.
I have nut forgotten the visits which you paid to me
in prison on the day when you came to announce to
me that I was free: "

The Five per Wits. clowd at 95.00, with a fall of
10e., and the Three per Cents. at 57.25, being the
price of yesterday.

THE TRIAL AT LYONS.

SMTII DAY.-Atu. 11

The Court reasu;nbit4imSi;;ll6i. Some of the
advocates of the accused having prementol themselves with-
out their robi.s, were refused admission by the gendarmerie;
but the president gave positive orlon not only that they
should be admitted, but that no refusal of the ►ike kind
shall be made again.
Gent complaint d that several of the journals, in publish-
ing the documents of the ease, kept back all that were fa-
vourable to the accused ; he also complained that he had
bmw erroneously charged with having dissipated a fortune
of 30,00 Mr. . . .

The President said that the newspapers ought certainly
to print the favourable as well as the unfavourable do-
cuments.

The reading of the paprrn relative to Lotutomazino, lion-
vier, and Saute w.is eonelu•led. 'Plum couceruing Paul

Maistre were neat read. Amongst th,Nli woo a circular
setting forth in violent terms the "tyranny and oppression
of the government and the monarchial parties," but ex-
horting the people to remain calm until the day of ven-
geance should arrive. In the papers respecting the ac-
cused Dein, which urre next read, was a letter from hint
to M. Bovsset, representative of the people, compli-
menting him on his eloquent speeches, and other ex-
ertions on behalf of the democratic cause ; also a
thpositioll of the captain of gendarmerie of Macon
describing the arrival of several Montagnard repre-
sentatives in that town, and their having had meet-
ing with some of the leading demagogues; another of an
hotel weepet of the same town, to the effect that Gent, the
Montagnard representatives, and some of the demagogues
had dined mad held deliberations in his house ; another, of
the commissary of police of Macon, giving an account of a
growl red republican and socialist conclave held in Novem-
ber. Them were likewise read several pipers which were
seized in the house of Win ; amongst them were some
songs, in wretched verse, but most violent language, exciting
the people to rise in insurrection to avenge the injured Its.
mans ; and a letter :rum M. Iloysset, recommending certain
persons to the socialist chiefs as candidates iu the election
for the department of the SaAne-et-Loire.
The papers relative to Malleval, retitbon, Imbert (de-
ceased).
Merle Cheeassus, Salabelle, and Chatpentier were
next read. 'f hey showed the part which each of the accused
had in the plot, but there was nothing of striking novelty in
them ; neither did they give rise to any observations of the
slightest importance by the accused or their advocates.
the court then adjourned. It woo thought that in the
course of the next sitting the reading of the documeate
would be concluded.
It beagle known in the course of the day that M. La-
grange, Procureur of the Republic, hail caused to be set at
liberty two relatives a the ac vied, who hail been arrested
a few days before, for having insulted him in the exercise
lof his functions. A complaint having, however, been laid
against them, they will have to be tried; but the Procureur
has recommended the substitute charged with the prosecu-
tion to display great moderation.