The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1851.

. ose :
question which will be decided oar way or the other
to November next Suppll! rejected,
it will then
be ineontestible that M. J .ouis Napoleon will be con-
stitutionally ineligible ',O be re-elected, and M. 1.140.1
ryer's letter reiterstes his intention not only to re-
spect the eenat)'.ution, but to cause it to be respected.
In three mo'.iths hence, therefore, men of the most
patient ce.nvictions may reasonably think that if the I
legitire:ist party are to exercise any influence ;upon
the solemn act which the nation will pertorm in
nay, 1852, there will remain little time enough for
them to make up their minds to some decided course
of ti.
Berryerltlat be the practical
ndsmsfrie eanmdstnoicnrg to this
osstheir
anspeifriatlheofnsautsipoennfseordwurihonseg
alarlmussioanndtorenmaiine mn oinna e
titsetivas,
solemn decision they are to wait was an extraneous
' body, of which they, form no part? To give force
and value to an election by an immense population
• like that of France, it should be the result of the most
•; wit
hadte lt y exhaletgenitdimedatmeefarinesalf frmaoadaindg a
visesorsuanfdthjuedllmeeapnlat
I can lay before them. And yet it is only nine months
I hence—whether on the day, or the day before, or the
I day after the election, does not clearly appear—that
I the large and influential party of which M. Berryer
is the leader, propose to examine the " real wants of
i the country, the state of parties, and the attitude and ,
intentions of influential men!" And it is very re-
markable, that among the three things to be exa-1
i mined when the elections take place, the result of
I the ballot-box is not one. Verily, the men of " im- I
patient convictions" may take heart, for this mani-
festo will well bear the construction that the deci-
sion to observe legality is limited to the nine months,
after which, if the attitude of "influential men" will
permit, caps may be thrown up for Henry V., Mount-
toy, and St. Denis!
l'he Pattie says, in allusion to the rumours of s
• Presidential tour in the provinces:
We cannot say where the Messager has obtained tha ,
information authorising it to give a sort of official pro-1
i gramme, but from the intelligence which we have received,
and which we have every reason to believe correct, the
President never had any intention to go to Lunkville. All
to the excursion to the south, which according to the stabs.
' meat of the Messager, was to include Bordeaux and the two
Charente', we think we can affirm that the l'resident, not-
withstanding his great desire to comply, towards the end et
the recess, with the wishes of the populations of that pot
' of France, has not as yet come to any determination on the
subject. We consider it unnecessary to add, that nu notion
on the subject has been transmitted to the prefects of these
departments.
In the execution of the treaty of the sth of No-
vember last between France and Sardinia, some
difficulties had arisen with respect to the produc-
tion of the certificates of origin, by which, according
is the treaty, all French wines imported into the
Sardinian states were to be accompanied. Upon the
representations of the minister of the republic at the
court of Turin it has been decided, that, so far as re-
spects all cargoes of liquids arriving by sea, the Sar-
dinian customs will no longer require the Nlayor's
certificate of origin. The certificate of a Sardinian
consular agent residing in :France, or an export
attestation from the French custom house agents
will be sufficient.
The municipal council of Cambray have subscribed I
two millions of francs for shares in the railway front
Itheims to Douai.
The contents of a luggage train which arrived
yesterday at the terminus of the Orleans railway, are
destined to mark an epoch in the history of the
French navy, and to afford the inhabitants of this
inland city a spectacle of exciting novelty. Forty ,
ship carpenters, from the dock-yard of NI. Baudet,
ship-builder, at I'aimbauf, were the escort of 1,288
pieces of oak, ready fashioned, for the construction of
a 1,000-ton frigate, which is forthwith to be built
and stationed on the Seine, at Ncuilly. It is to be a
model ship, for the use of the naval school recently
established there, and is intended to exhibit every
modern improvement. The masts and rigging,peer-
ing above the green woods of Neuilly, and visible
through the openings in the Ms de Boulogne, will
form an entirely new feature in the landscape scenery
of the environs of Paris.
The Direet,". r'"

of Museums has given nc-
tice that five additional galleries, completing the
Exhibition of Ancient Masters, will be open to the
public on Sunday, August 17th.
M. l'arisis, Bishop of Langres, is appointed to the
see of Arms, vacant by the death of Cardinal de la
Tour d'Auvergne-Lauragais.
To-day the feast of the Assumption is observed as
a close holiday. Most of the shops are shut, and
there is no Bourse.

THE TRIAL AT LYONS.

SEVENTH DAY.-AUGUST 12.

The trial of the accused in this MSC was continued on
Tuesday before the Court Martial at Lyons.
The reading of the interrogatories of the accused by the
examining magistrates was commenced. It appeared from
them that several of the prisoners had protested against ,
being tried by court martial, on the ground that they did
not belong to the departments comprised in the state of
siege. In the interrogatory of Daillant was a statement
that an objection had been made in a club at Bedarrides to
pay over to Gent a sum of 25fr., which had been raised for
the democratic cause, his character and that of his family
not standing high. On this,
Gent remarked that he and his brother had formally de-
manded the erasure of the statement in question on the
ground that it was insulting.
Daillant's advocate, and subsequently Daillant himself,
mid that he bad not intended to insult Gent—that he had
only repeated an observation that had been made, but that
he now retracted it. .

The reading of the interrogatories was continued. Amongst
them was one of an actress of the Theatre Frangais, named
)Tara Lopez, living at No. 92, ltue Richelieu. Before the
revolution of February, she had, she said, known Etienne
Arago, and it was he who had introduced Gent to her. In
the morning of the 2 ith of February, 180, Arago
called on her, and told her that the insurgents were
about to attack the Chateau d'Eau. She was then
living in the Rue do Chartres, close to the place. She
immediately hail all her mattresses brought down to
receive the wounded, and she rendered the wounded
all the assistance in her power. This was talked of
in the newspapers. Four or five months after she had
made the acquaintance of Gent, intimate relations were
established between them. They began in consequence of
Gent having gene to her after he had his arm broken in a
duel. Alter Gent had left Paris, she had continued in cor-
respondence with him ; but she denied that, as charged, she
had been employed by him, or other political chiefs, to carry
important letters from place to place. She, however, admitted
having seen him at Lyons, where she had gone to get
some money due to her, in order to remit I,ooof. to one
of the refugees in London, with whom she had been in-
imate. She denied that she had ever said that letters
had been entrusted to her which, if seized, would cause
heads to fall. She knew, sh- said, that she was of a
frivolous character, and on that account she would have re-
fused to learn any political secrets of her friends, lest, un-
wittingly, she should compromise them. Gent, in his letters
to her, trequently spoke of a " Charles," and asked, " Does
Charles take care of you ? " and so on. The " Charles"
referred to was M. Charles Blanc, formerly Directeur des
Beaux Arts; during two years she had been accustomed to
see that person very often. She repeated that no political
man had ever employed her to carry letters or documents
to any one.
The interrogatories of other persons were afterwards read,
as were also papers connected with previous cues. The con-
tents of all were of no general interest, the facts referred to
having been detailed at length in the indictment. The in-
terrogatories of the Montagnard representatives who at-
tended the socialist conclave at Chalons, were also read,
after some slight opposition from some of the advocates. It
appeared from them, that most of these representatives
stated that they had gone to Chalons on private business,
or to see friends, and that though they had met Gent there,
and had talked with him on political affairs, las had not
made known to them that he had formed a vast political
organisation in the southern departments.
This completed the reading of all the documents, and the
President announced that on the next day Gent would be
interrogated. The court then adjourned.

ITALY.
PIEDMON"T.

The Piedniontese Gazette of Aug. 12th is autho-
rised to declare that the newspaper accounts of the
interviews between his Sardinian Majesty and the
King of Saxony are entirely destitute of foundation.

BOLOGNA, Arorsr 6.
Two companies of Austrian troops are occupying
the Villa Aldini, situated on the highest hill in our
.neighbourhood. It is said by some people that they
are going to convert it into a hospital for conva-
lescents, but others, with more probability, think their
intention is to make a fort commanding the town.
This villa, of great architectural beauty, was pur-
chased by a joint stock company solely to save it
from destruction, and the care of it was confined to
the municipality. It need not be added that none
of the owners have been consulted as to its new'
destinatice.

VENICE, Avocre 4.
Two halls it'. the magnificent Palace of the Doges,
painted in :row by Hayes, are to be appropriated
to the ase of the members of 'Change. The mer-
chants will meet there from two till four, and will
fix an ample supply of newspapers and commer-
es', information of all kinds.