The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-12 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EVCNING.

The following paragraph appears in the Pays :

It has been rumoured to-day, on the one hand, that
Juarez has fled and give, up Mexico to us, and on the
other, that General Lorenoez has received a cheek. We
have been unable to correct these two contradictory pieces
of news for the very sufficient reason that no serious
information can reasonably be expected from Mexico till
to-morrow or the day after, when the tianastlantic packet
Vera Cruz wiU arrive.

A telegram from Madrid, published by the
journals "under all reserve," speaks of a provisional
government of five notables having been appointed
Ito make an appeal to the people on the question
whether there shall be a , monarchy under the
protection of Europe.
I think it not doubtful that some important
news from Mexico has arrived, and from the way
in which the preliminaries are ushered forth here,
I feel convinced that Lorencez has met with fur-
ther reverses.

Reinforcements to the extent of 30,000 men are
talked :of in Bullier's Correspondence to-night, and
General Mirandol is appointed to command the
cavalry.
Nothing very remarkable has occurred to-day at
the trial of the 54 conspirstori. An advocate, M.
Duport, told the court that his conscience oom-
pelted him to throw up the brief which he held for
a prisoner named Joanne, since he found that his
client had no confidence in him, and he was much
leas disposed than he had been to speak for his
client. He therefore prayed the court to assign
this prisoner another counsel. The president
said that this application, although no doubt
justified, was very embarrassing to the court.
He called upon K Crimieux, as the
senior member of the council of discipline, to
recommend some young advocate, and K Dupont
would of course be happy to remain in court and
help his successor to a knowledge of the case. The
explanation of the unwillingness of counsel to de-
feud Joanne is that, by his own admission, he was
a spy, and bad enticed some of the prisoners to
his house with • view to take down their names
and get them arrested. One witnem fur the pd.
soners deposed that Sarget, a principal witness for
the prosecution, was • spy of that most odious
kind called an agent prorazatusr, and that he told
several people in a drinking shop that the Emperor
had bought a great many estates in Spain, that he
was putting by money in foreign countries for a
rainy day, and that, in consequence, there was no

coin to be found for commercial purposes. A guts.
tion arose Whether some chemical preparations,
bought by one of the prisoners at Miot's
pharmacy, were intended to sharpen tools,
or to make gunpowder. On this point K Boudet,
a member of the Academy of Sciences, was called
as a scientific witness, and he deposed that the
substances in question were more calculated to
blunt tools than to sharpen them. In cross-ex-
amination he said he bad made no experiments,
but that the assertion that the preparatious could
possibly be wanted for sharpening tools was absurd
a priori. _ _ _

M. Duleau, the old grenadier of La Vieille Garde
who, as already stated, has received the Cross of
the Legion of Honour, for giving evidence against
Victor Hugo in the matter of Cambronne'e not,
has written a letter to the Esprit Public, which fur-
ther illustrates the value of his testimony. He says
that when introduced by the prefect tothe Duke of
Magenta the latter shook hands with him, tapped
him on the stomach, and said, " Napoleon is still
there ;is he not, my brave fellow?' Duleau de-

poses that this condescension on the part of a mar.
shal of France quite upset him, and he shed tears.
Thereupon the marshal and the prefect, to add to
his confusion, both kissed him ; and then they
asked him what be had got to live upon. Duleau,
who, though moved, does not appear to have lost
his presence of mind at this solemn crisis, answered
modestly that he bad nothing at all, as the little
fortune he once possessed had been all spent in
bringing up his children. The marshal and the
prefect, still practical, then assured him that
henceforth he should never want for anything,
and asked which he would rather have for
his reward—a pension or a decoration 1 "Which.
ever you please, gentlemen," he responded,
quite overpowered, and so be left them. But when
outside the door he met his son, who seems to be a
young man of parts, and on his representation that
it would look better to say he should prefer the red
riband, he went back and said so. The high autho-
rities spoke in a manner qxiite calculated to soothe
the fortunate man's feelings at this anxious moment,
for they said " Very well, my good fellow ; make
yourself quite easy ; all will go well." It is plain,
therefore, that the barren riband claimed by the
shrewd son's advice is not intended to be a bar to
the more substantial benefits which the prudent
father very naturally looks for.
The Bourse is somewhat firmer, and has nearly
recovered from the fall of yesterday. Rants rose
sc. for cash and 100. for aooount, closing at
68fr. 25c. and 68fr. 45c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 500.,
and the Italian Loan lk. In railways there is
scarcely any change.

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An act of discourtesy on the part of the Royal
Academy (says the Atticrueuet) is to be gracefully redeemed
by the hospitality of • few individual 'artists and lovers el
Art. It is no secret, that when M. Lays was in Louden,
in May last, one of the forty proposed that he should be
invited to the Academy dinner, and that the Council re.
jetted this proposal. The reason anigned for this dieccar-
key was, the want of precedent for inviting a foreign artist
to a table at which scores of official and titular nobodies
every year sit down! What the Academy refused to
give M. Leys, a private committee propose to give M. Gal..
isit—a dinner, a welcome, sod a recognition. Lord Graz-
trills will take the chair, supported by MOMS. W. P. Frith,
W. K. Thackeray, Clarkson Stanfield, Frederick Taylor,
Thomas Baring, M.P., Baton Marochetti, Sir Edwin Land.
seer, Sir C. Eastlake, Louis Highs, S. Hart, Daniel Men-
lise, and other gentlemen. The dinner will be given on
Friday next, at Willis's Rooms.

The Independence Belge publishes two letters
from Matamoros, written by M. Houma; a well Imown
Belgian bract, whom the American civil war had forced to
fly for his life from Texas, where he had been travelling fee
scientific purposes. He states that before the surrender
of New Orleans not only did the planters burn their cotton,
soder, steam cotton-presses, and refineries, but some of
them horned even their slaves. They collected them all,
man, women, and child, in the buildings destined to the
flames, looked than in, and whilst the fire was doing its
work, they themselves kept watch outside armed with
rifle' to shoot down any desperate wretch who might
attempt to leap from the burning roof.

A letter from Alexandria of the 29th June, in the
Prop* of Lyons, mays :—" The rise of the Nils has com•
meowed, and the government, in view of the inundation, le
adopting preamitioriary measures. The heat is exterdwe
here. The works on the Isthmus of Suez are being nrpti
ma ;nest energetically. 'rime are upwards of 25,000 men
at peered employed io cutting the canal. The sews from
the Lebanon is sot satisfactory, as it is mid that the
Drums of the Hamm testify some intention of again ruing
whist the Christians."

The Berlin papers say that Prince William of
Baden, who commands the Prussian Artillery Regiment of
the Guard, has got long leave of absence in order to make
the campaign m llexko with the French army.

The Cape of Good Hope government have agreed
to pay half the mail subsidy for eaaveying the Cape made
to and from EN:Mod.

The Lords of the Admiralty have not exactly
made up their minds se to the nature of the armour with
which the sides of the Agincourt, Minotaur, Northumber-
land, and Prince Albert are to be protected. It WU
originally intended that the plates to be placed on those
ships should be 51 inches thick, on • teak backing of
9 inches, but the experiments of Monday have induced their
loalabige to pause, and they have requested the different
coat/actors to send in estimate* of the cost for reverting,
is the oath of the above.natned ships, to the old Warrior
plan of 41 Web*s iron and 18 Wins of task, if, on due
eensidensties, it should be decided wpm abandoning their
first intentions. —Army cad Nary Gazette.
ENGLISH CONSEDVATIVIS AND ITALIAN LIBERTY.—.L
i< sot strange that a country with prospects so brilliant
r these of Italy should fail to conciliate to its rising teeter
the 'apathy eta large polities' party in this country ; that
the tries, wbo in nothing if notprotsrtant, should look with
hardly diesabled ill•will on the lorious and soulrirriag
sperado, and be never weary of grumbling that all the
brepplasee rod all this glory have been wrongfully wrong
twat SO beetle of those who possessed the right Divine to
arks tick fellow-creatures miserable; that they should
MM is far their advantage to depreciate a movement
Win its own surpassing interest, is evidently in
dieestith of free thought and inveetwfion, if sot ea-
r* Si or
Anglicanism! la the lourcherkbed
hatred el the P. only felt whoa It serves as a
ter withholding rights sad privileges tress their
latholic fellow-chimes, and doss era the Bross corona
church become lovely is their eyes whoa waited is alliance
with the oppressors and eaderre of arialad t—rileot

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