The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-15 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PAR Tilt&lslOAY tan 7
The trial of the Duke of Ho,igo and the "Eve fnoreign
correspondents" is still going ou with closed doors.
Even M. Berryer, the head of the bar, as botoolder
of the order of advccates, has been refused admission.
I hear that a deputation of the bar waited upon M.
Gonidec, the presiding judge, to protest against their
exclusion from court. M. Gonidec answered drily,
and no doubt very truly, that he had nothing to do
Iwith it. The public prosecutor has pressed the case
against NI. Planhol, Paris correspondent of the Ulmer-
cutoff Be/ye, with inure severity than against an
of the rest. The means adopted by the French
police to secure the conviction of M. Planhol are dis-
graceful in the extreme. It appears that his letters
were regularly opened at the post-office. One being
found crotched in strong language admirably adapted
to furnish materials fur a prosecution, M. de Nlaupas
detained it. Such a measure, although repugnant
to modern civilisation, and justifiable, if at all, only
upon the plea of urgent necessity, is perhaps not un-
paralled, but what follows will, I believe, excite
astonishment even as the work of the police minister
of the coup (Mat. The police made a copy of the
letter seised, and forwarded the copy to its
destination, but as it occurred to them that
the Olmercuteur Brlye might perhaps not insert a
letter in an unknown handwriting, they added a
postcrint to the effect that M. I'hanhol, having
sprained his right wrist, had asked a triend to write
the letter for him. This stratagem succeeded ad-
mirably. The letter was published, and the publio
prosecutor, apparently unconscious of his shame,
triumphantly held up in court the original letter,
obtained by violating the sanctity of the post-otlice,
pinned to the Obscrrateor Brlge, in which its inser-
tbm was ensured by a forgery. M. Dutiture, M.
Planhol's counsel, denounced those proceedings
in vehement language, and did not hesitate to say
that the police-officer, however high his standing,
who had thus outraged the law of France, as well as
the laws of civilised society, ought to stand as a pri-
soner at the bar to answer for the offence. M.
Gonidec, however, with all the authority belonging
to a judge of Correctional l'oliee, told M. Demure
that the proceeding, being adopted for state reasons,
was perfectly justifiable. All the prisoners
conducted themselves with entire firmness
and independence. The Duke of Rovigo denied the
authorship of some ribald verses imputed to him con-
cerning the Empress, saving that it was not his
habit to insult a woman, but he did not deny having,
in private conversation, which it seems was caught
up by a spy, called the Emperor " lirosbec" and
" Boustrapa. This latter appellation, by the way, is
simply a compound of :he !list syllables of the three
great battles in which Napoleon 111. has gained his
military renown—namely, Boulogne, Strasbourg, and
Paris. It is thought that sentence wili be passed on
the prisoners to-ni :ht.
The arrests are going on, not only in Paris but in
several of the southern departments. It is said that
in the provinces a great many republican proclama-
tions and seditious writings have been sand. In
Paris the latest arrests have been chiefly among the
working classes. Many of these are at4eibuted to a
demonstration made this week in the Faubourg St.
Germain at the funeral of a man named Leber, who
was followed to the grave by about 1,500 operatives.
A great many men were arrested at Pussy
1 immediately after this oecurrence. Gaillad, the
supposedauthorof the Marseilles infernal machine,has
left Malta fur England,not havingaufficient confidence
' that the authorities in the Mediterranean island
might not deliver him up. It is reported that ho
been fated by the French refugees in London, and
this adds to the uneasiness felt by the government.
The Emperor has recovered from his indispositi.m.
Yesterday he took a carriage airing with the Empress
as far as St. Cloud. Orders have been given to prepare
the Palace of Fontainebleau immediately for the re-
ception of their majesties, the Emperor having sud-
denly determined to pass a few days there before
going to reside at St. Cloud.
' The transactions at the Bourse to-day in the public
securities were on a limited scale, with a downward
; tendency in prices, although at the conclusion of
I business there was a slight improvement on yester-
day's quotations, the Three per Cents. and the Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. for cash having risen sc. and
25c.'; for the account, the Three per Cents. declined 15e.,
'
1 and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 20c. Bank Stock
I again advanced sf. Closing prices : Cash, Three per
I Cents., 80f. 45e ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
I 103 f. 25e. For the end of the month, Three per Cents.,
80f. 35c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 15c. ;
Bank Stock, 2,745 f.

The railway share market participated in the
general dulness of business, with the exception of
Paris and Rouen shares, which advanced 161.
Latest quotations received by telegraph :—Frank-
fort Austrian Five per Cents., 08; ditto, 1852,
961; Lombardo-Venetian, 93; Bank shares, 1,550;
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 441; Russian Three-and-
a-Half per Cents., 931 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. (Baring), 1031 ; Four per Cents. (Hope), 93;
Stieglitz, 921; Polish 5009. Bonds, 921 ; Spanish
Three per Cents. Inter. Debt, 44; One per Cent.,
2 15-16; Dutch Four per Cents., 961; ditto Two-
and-a-Half per Cents.. 641 ; Sardinian Five per
Cents. (Rothschild), 991; Hamburg, 931 ; Tuscany,
Five per Cents., 1850, 1021; ditto, 1851, 1001;
United Six per Cents., 1171; exchange on London,
short, 119;.—Berlin: Prussian Four per Cent. New
Loan, 991; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1031;
Bank shares, 109; ; Rhenish Railway shares, 911;
exchange on London, 3 menthe, 6.22