The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PA.RIS

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PARIS, TUESDAY EVINIXO.

M. Beavay's election for the Gard, which bad
been twice quashed, was (on the third occasion)
validated yesterday, about 40 members, led by M.
Eugene Pelletan, voting against it. Yon may re-
member that the original ground for quashing the
almost unanimous election of the constituency was
that M. Bravay, a parvenu, who has been patron-
ised by the Pacha of Egypt, and made an immense
fortune in Egypt, had promised to make
a canal, and spent vast sums of money
in treating. At the first election he was, although
not the ostensible government candidate, patronised
by the prefect of the Gard. On the last two occa-
sions the prefect was ordered to oppose him, but
his popularity broke down all opposition. There is
no doubt, in point of fact, that a personal objection
to Lim, founded upon rumours about the nature
of the services rendered to the Pacha of Egypt,
which aided the acquisition of his large fortune,
were at the bottom of the extraordinary opposition
which his return met with in the chamber.
But he has challenged inquiry, and publicly offered
not to prosecute for libel anybody who will put in
specific terms the nature of the charge against him.
This challenge has never been taken up, and when
Pelletan admitted that be did not oppose the
election on personal grounds, he seemed to me to
give up Lis case. It would be quite against the
nature of universal suffrage to go on cancelling an
election against the unanimous wish of &constituency
on account of malpractice. at a former election.
This time, at any rate, the electors of the Gard
were forewarned. I therefore find no fault with
the majority which allowed M. Bravay to take
his seat. MM. 011ivier and Darimon pusillani-
mously abstained from voting on the question.
It is asserted that M. de Morny's political
testament comprises these three reforms as urgent.
1. Ministeas sustaining their own measures before
the Chambers ; 2. The right of asking questions
of ministers restored to the deputies ; and 3. The
renunciation of the system of official candidatures.
There is no doubt about the intention of the
Duke de Persigny to go to Rome. His presence at
Mdlle. Valentine H►ueemann's marriage after the
premature announcement of his departure led to
some question of the news. But both he and the
Duchess de Persigny are on the point of setting
out for the Holy City ; and the Prune, which,
under M. Emile de Girardin's direction, is often
the most indiscreet of journals (using the word "in-
discreet " in the French sense), says that his object
is to judge for himself of "the state of thingsand of
public opinion at Rome." Now that the Duke de
Morny is gone, the Duke de Persigny is beyond
question the most considerable of all the men of
1851. It "I be a curious thing if Mr. Kinglake's
"Fialin otherwise Persigny" shall be destined to
make a report to the Emperor decisive of the ques-
tion of the temporal power.
Two vacint seats for the councils-general have

been carried by opposition candidates, and that by
large majorities. At Rochefort M. Paul Beth-
monk the brilliant young deputy for the Charente
Infdrieure, who has just made his dant in the
Corps I4gislatif, was returned by a majority of
1,220.
In the Sarthe M. JuignoS, the independent candi-
date, obtained 2,894 votes against 1,214 given to
Metivier, government candidate. A local
journal, La Chronique de l'Ouest remarks upon the
latter election :

If. Jeigni's candidature most bane bad very deep roots
in the district to succeed agalest the homage efforts mad*
by the administration in favour of its protlpi. This else-
tion is beyond oontmdictice the most splendid enema yet
achieved by Indepordeat opinion. Decidedly aide
candidatures are going to the wall.
The students' journal of the Faubourg St. Ger-
main, the Rive Gauche, which got on the black list
for publishing the first part of the " Propoa de
Labienus," was seized yesterday for an article
headed "Le Dynasties de La Pelisse." The respon-
sible editor, M. Guiliot, M. Closer Louguet, the
writer of the article, and H. Laird, the printer,
are all to be prosecuted. Short work will be made
with the Rive Gauche this time ; its suppression is
certain.

The Gazette de Ombra says that the curd of
Than-Saint Martin lately made use of the follow-
ing language in the pulpit :
No pence is allowed to touch the Papacy with impunity.
Look at Napoleon I. He caused the Pope to be wafted
at Valenoe ; but shortly afterwards he was is his tern
exiled is • foreign land, and the Pope »tamed to his
States. Those who persecute Pins IX. m►y well end in the
came way.
Dissatisfied with some articles in the same
Gazette, the curd said on another occasion :
We have among us certain irreligious persona, she are is
the habit of reading detestable jaersals, such as the petty
paper called the Gazette de Casabrai. The editor of this
pernicious sheet can seareely write Free& ; he confines
himself to the reproduction of subversive article. which
he borrows from the worst journals in Paris.
The articles in question were taken, it appears,
from the Conetitutiostiel and the Pattie, which go-
vernment prints are therefore denounced frogs the
pulpit as the " detestable " journals.
March 21, according to the almanack, is the first
day of spring, but this year it was ushered in by
severe winter weather. At 6 o'clock this morning
Che►alier's thermometer marked 6 8-10 deg. below
zero. It has been extremely cold all day, with a
clear sky and one of those March suns which is
"full of agues." The English mail due last even-
ing came in several hours bthindhand. This even-
ing there are no symptoms of any mitigation in the
exceptional severity of the weather. There is thick
ice in the gutters.
At the Ponytails sale a head of Apollo, a mere
fragment of a statue in Parian marble from the
Justiniani gallery, was knocked down at 45,000 fr.
The two busts of Julius Caesar and Nero in Orien-
tal red porphyry fetched 20,000 fr.
The Daily News is seized.
Prince Murat and his son embarked the day
before yesterday at Marseilles on board the Mersey
packet for Algiers. •

The ftureral of K Metbien (de la Drama), for
member of the Chamber of Deputies, sad well
kerne as weather prophet of Me roan, took pine es 8s-
Surday last at Senses (Drawn). The whole popelann of
Use lowa asessepseisd lie damned I. Ike pew& The work-
IWO seepsoded timer lamer. Five fainl eratioes vets &-
limed is the asiona.