The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS•

Moat OUR ows

PARIS. SOSDAT EVIINUNL
I mentioned the other day that five Mexican
journalists had been arrested, and were to be tried
by a French court martial, for having questioned
the legality of French martial law in the capital of
Maximilian's flourishing and orderly empire.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPSRA, COTS= GANDILY.—Their Among the news brought by the Florida yester-
goyei Highways gas Prises ma papoose of Wass day is that of their conviction and sentence to
honoured the perfortunees at the Royal Italian Opera with imprisonment and fines, varying from one month
their Prossuos you
Saturday *eosin- They °coupled the to two years, and from Mfr. to 2,000 fr. Captain
Qcww''' &we sod were cmwmPaidcg by hit Royal High- Levylier, of the 81st Regiment, who acted as judge-
nem the COMO PAM* of Denmark. The royal mite coo- advocate on the occasion, made a speech for the
sided of the Hon. Mrs. Coke. Major Teesdale, V.C., and
prosecution, in which occurs the following wonder-
Captain Lad
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge bad ful specimen of military eloquence
a dinner perry on &tug" immileg st Cambridge Cottle A soldier by profusion, and a magistrate only accidentally,
gsw. Thoirgwyouliakissassthoomst macososomas pas I have no rbotorkel talent, and COR only trait to simple
good sense to guide me through the arcane of the law.
and the Duke and Duchess &Chartres dined with the royal
But deeply sensible of the responsibility which weighs upon
duchess. There were present, in addition to the illnetrions
me, and of the grave interests with which lem charged, I
guests, the Prinoess Mary of Cambridge, their Berens High-
t:moos the Prime aid prime, Ed,,,,d of se.. Weimer. his shall ranain—like Marna in the Minter:lnm Marshes—calm,
Esoogemy the gide,. wader sad mid
ow. vs. a. amidst the poisonous lava vomited by the vile pamphleteers
woyor. the gal sad C do Gm, Lord and Lay now standing before you, sad which rise from too low a level
to
Foley, Lord Frederick Willett, and the attendants on the It is a singular coincidence that the same mail
Noah You directly
%%edematous de Paris and the Duke and Duchess de
which brings the above speech brings also the grand
Clasztrer.
His Excellency the French Ambassador enter- "statute" of the empire promulgated on April 10,
tamped his Fanallesey the Turkish Ambassador and Madams and vaunted as "highly liberal"—a " statute"
sod Wile. Musurus, Mari* 110101110000, of LileshnlY, the which, whatever deductions may have to be made
Marquis Balbi, the Marquis de Tawnier, the Earl of Ft, from the encomiums lavished upon it by the Con-
Germans, the Earl sod Countess of Fife and Lady AIMS
stitut{onnel, does, at any rate, profess to grant to
Duff, Baron and Barmen de Basle, General Sir Bithard
wad Hon. Lucy Airey and Miss Aire}, Major-General Cast. the "vile pamphleteers," so obnoxious to French
Mr. sod Miss Oswald, Mr. H. Mare,dinner on Se, militarythe right of " publishing their
turday last at the French Embassy at Albert-gate. opinions." There is a report that these rash jour-
The Earl and Countess of Cork were honoured millets will after all have been more frightened
by the eeeteet'Y of their Royal Higheeetee the peke sad than hurt, as Maximilian's amnesty on the occasion
Daehtal d'Aumale at dial's'. on Saturday evening, at their of the promulgation of the statute will extend to
residues in Graftonetreet. There MOM present to meet
the royal goads his Exotheney the Austrian A°` or them.and the Orontes' Appooyi. the Marquis sad Marchioness of The first cross of the ladies' order—that of Saint
Clawisards, the Earl and Coolness of Wilton, the Earl and Charles—has been given to Madame Hidalgo, the
Counter of Westmoreland, Hos. F. Calthorpe, Mr. Torn- mother of the Mexican minister in Paris, to whom
line, and Dr. QUM. the Empress Charlotte wrote a complimentary letter
Vuscouror Pahastaarow.—The noble Premier is announcing the distinguished honour.
recovering from his recent *even attack of gout. The The Cocntese de Montijo, mother of the Empress
Gibbet Council, on Saturday, however, wee, in oases- Eughnie, has arrived in Paris from Madrid.
quince of his weakness, held at Cambridge-house. It is
expected that is a day or two his lordship will be able to The Art Musical says that M. Etagier, the
ill hie place in the Rouse of Commons. manager of the Italian Opera, was admitted to an
\rho Cur and his family are living at the Villa audience with the Empress Regent last Sunday, and
Haligeoberg, near Darmstadt, where they will remain till that be solicited from her Majesty a renewal of the
the 20th, and expect to retch St. Petersburg on the 24th. annual subsidy of 100,000 fr., et which the Italian
The Morning Post expresses the desire that some theatre was some time since deprived. M. Bagier
"aerie' ladies "'la give the Social &Ws" Association the had the honour of her Majesty's acquaintance long
Wait of their opisioos on female lodination. "It is afoot .... is,
te be noted, at least, if sot regretted, that all the female "6....., .___'.'- ,whore he was the manager of a
advocacy in favour of the schwas of putties boys and girls tees'
re term of edwastional identity COW., so far as oar obese. Madrid letters, confirming the long standing im-
vatic. hes reached, from unmarried ladies, who ethoot , pression that a political convulsion if not a revolu-
have the mesas of Frowounoisff with such authority ow I Qom was at hand, say that the Narvaes cabinet is on
haw" edam*" as
the amnia 14" a—the matrons. A ' its last leas. The Spaniards showing
*Met showng
*Met addressing herself to this topic must either refer to -
the expottowess of her owo girlhood—set otwers I their opposition by means analogous to those used
°c am to she wawa., of osussoss, flatus., ssd frre
iend,. Iby the Italians towards Austria in 1858. They
The matron baths her case
dy refer/see to has ewe. 41 lament themselves from the bull fights where the
daughters. It is to be regrette thee, we submit dalsees- . ground is kept by that municipal guard which so-
thalr, that if the style et female wins."'" odeocialia by quired a sad celebrity in the night of April 10 by
' Mies Emily Davies he really desirable, married Lasso shooting down the people. Passive resistance is
mothers of blooming daughtem, shaeld wet the satire oars
af pied upon the unmarried lama; whose totems is the the order of the day. At the election for Swarms
armament clamoured for is at best bat remote and sow which took place the other day, out of 1.385 oleo-
linesst." tors only 48 went to the poll, and their votesp-
Farmers in the south of Ragland are now selling turned the government candidate, M. Mammal
the privilege to pther cutworm's, sad the leaks have la Simmers, to that Cortes upon whose frail support
wasequence risen in prioe. Nervosa relies.