The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-26 00:00:00

FRANCE•

PARIS, FAIDAT Evmmto.
All the prisoners arrested on Feb. 6 have now been
set at liberty. The affair, which from the first, has
become small by degrees and beautifully lees, is now
technically known as that of the " foreign correspon-
dents," all hope of establishing a cue of conspiracy
having been abandoned. Most of the correspondents
recently liberated have been called upon to find bail,
but it is very unlikely that the law officers will en-
coenter the risk of defeat in a public prosecution.
Many of the culprits being literary men of ability
will perhaps some day_ turn their prison adventures
to good account. M. Hartmann,the German poet, does
not speak badly of Mazes. He found the gaolers polite
and obliging; they gave him u much stationery
as he wanted, and he bman an epic poem, which he
proposes to finish on the occasion of his next
im-
prisonmeat. He found the rations not bad, and no
difficulties were interposed against sending out to
bay anything. Upon the whole M. Hartmann' who
has been arrested upon a political charge in his own
country, says he wield rather pus three weeks in a
French than three hours in a German prison. Still
he thinks the cellular vet= execrable, and though
bearing no malice, does not scruple to affirm that
three weeks' imprisonment when one has committed
no offence is far too long.
Marshal Harvest, atter having been detained at
Marsan, by indisposition, on his way from Bayonne,
has arrived in Paris, and, according to the Patrie, in
spits of all that has been said to the contrary, he yet
purposes to proceed to Vienna, in pursuance of his
sovereign's orders.
General Reschid, Envoy Extraordinary of the Bey
of Tanis, has arrived in Paris.
I understand it to be decided upon that the long-
talked of universal exhibition will positively be
opened in 18M, in the Crystal Palace now building
in the Champs Elyskee.
IL Boyer, honorary President of the Court of Cas-
eation, died yesterday at Paris, in his 99th year.
A letter from Epinal (Vosges) states that for the
last four days the snow has fallen without intermis-
sion. Sledges were used in the streets instead of
wheel-carriages, and the town presents quite a Mus-
covite appearance.
The Commandeer Marques Lisboa, Envoy Extra-
teary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Em-
the Brazils, has had an audience of his
Westy the Emperor of the French, to present his
new letters of credence. He was conducted to and
from the Tuileries with the usual ceremonial.
On Mooday. last the Countess de Sohn', a lady
long resident in Paris, received an order from the
Minister of Police to gait France within five days,
and to appear personally at the Prefecture of Police
as soon as poestble, to receive her passport. This
order proceeded upon the assumption that the coun-
tess was a foreigner, and, as such, liable,
pursuant to a law of December 3, 1849, to be
expelled by the executive power without cause as-
signed. The lady, however, asserts that her husband
is a Frenchman, and if this fact were established it
would be beyond dispute that she, although a fo-
reigner by birth, has all the civil rights and privi-

leges of a Frenchwoman. On Wednesday, M. Her-
rye? made an application on her behalf to the civil
tribunal of tho Seine for a summons against the
minister of police, in order that her marriage with a
Frenchman might be judicially established. M.
Moignon, the imperial advocate, opposed the appli-
cation, upon the tread ground that the order for
expulsion was an "administrative act"—the cant
term for an arbitrary act—and could not be disputed.
M. Berryer said it that were the Cabe any citizen
whatever might be expelled the country upon the
pretext of his being a foreigner. He admitted that
the order of the minister of pollee was an administra-
tive act, so far as the motives for it were concerned
and into those he was aware he could not inquire,
but he contended that the court was the natural
judge of the nationality of all citizens, and when
ho should have I.,:ablished the nationality of the
Countess de Selma, the eider for her expulsion
must necessarily fall to the ground. 'lke imperial
advocate, interrupting, said the countess might sub-
mit the proofs of her marriage to the Minister ce
Police, and if he thought them insufficient he would
pay no attention to the judgment of the court. NI.
Herryer energetically 'Retested against the doctrine
that the Minister of Police was above the law. The
court, without adopting the arguments of the impe-
rial advocate, gave judgment against the applicant
upon technical grounes. The were of opinion that
her husband, as well as the Minister of Police, was
a necessary party to the proceedings, and as he hod
not been cited in due form, the application could not
be snstsidcd. It appeared from M. Bcrryer's state-
ment that the lady's husband was absent from Paris.
A trial of universal interest will be brought on in
a few days before the p:rmanent court-martial of
Paris. An individual baa been denounced by several
workmen of the Faubourg St. Antoine as the person
who shot the Archbishop of l'aris upon the barricades
in June, 1848. M. Nogeus Saint-Laurent is retained
for the defence.

The Council of State, presided over by the Em-
peror in person, sat yesterday for four hours at the
Tuileries. All the ministers were prevent. The de-
bate on all such oecadons is secret, but the subject
under discussion on this and several preceding days is
understood to be the budget.
The government papers now miss no opportunity
of discrediting the notion that France entertains
hostile designs towards England. All letters and
speeches of the peace party in England are carefully
translated and extensively circulated. Mr. J. D.
P 0.% les' letter to Lord Mount Edgecumbo appears at
length in the Movviteer to-day.
M. Leon Letebvre Duruth!, son of the ex-minister
of public works, the sole surviving member of the
scientific commission sent to South America hut
year, has returned to France. Ilis colleagues, MM.
Devine and Duret, died of yellow fever at Rio
Janeiro.

Typhus fever is now very prevalent. During the
rapid alternations of hard frost and cold thaw which
wn barb experienced within the last few days it has
greatly increased. There are as many as 500 cases in
the different hospitals. The type, however, is not of
a very severe character.
A pretended Greek prince, well known through-
out Europe, named Georges Mitakv, a native of
Smyrna, has been condemned at Wiesbaden to 20
years' bard labour in the public wotks for a fraud of
19,000 francs on the banking house of Huyn, at
Ems, and another of 2,000 francs on Mons. Berle, a
banker of Wiesbaden. He had previously been con-
victed of similar crimes at Paris, Zurich, Hamburg,
and Frankfort.

The fall at the Bourse to-day was attributed to
lower quotations from Vienna, g►ving rise to sur-
mises that the Emperor's wound was more serious
than has been hitherto supposed, and also to an ar-
ticle in the Dads callin4 attention to the tone of a
certain portion of the English press with regard to
Turkey.