The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EVIMIDIO.

The recall of General de Goyon from Rome
seems to be accepted as an accomplished fact. The
Pays, with wonderful enthusiasm for the doctrine
that " whatever is is right," declares that the event
is of no consequence, and that, even if the French
garrison was removed, nothing would be changed
in the situation !

It is very positively said to-day in official circles
that the French and English ministers at Washing-
ton have received identical instructions to attempt
a "moral intervention," exclusive of any idea of a
forcible intervention, in the hope of putting an end
1 to the civil war.

The Independence Beige was seised to-day. It is

rumoured—l know not with what truth—that the
cause of its confiscation is that it contains the story
of a coolness between the Empress and the Queen of
Holland. Let me explain, once for all, that I take
no delight in the repetition of cancans of this kind.
I would never start any such thing, as you well
know, without the most cogent grounds ; but when
the French government prohibits the circulation
in France of a particular number of a foreign
journal on account of a specific statement, it not
only lends an importance to that statement which
it might not otherwise have had, but, in the
opinion of the public, stamps it as true. Ido not
mean to deny that, in point of practice, false news
may sometimes bs a cause of seizure, as well as
true news that is disagreeable. But inasmuch as
the government almost daily contradicts false news
(or news which it esteems as such), either through
the Moniker or by "communicated notes" to the
journals, people are quite justified in believ-
ing that any printed statement which extra-
ordinary pains are taken to conceal must
be true. To counteract this damaging in-
ference the government has only to proceed
a little more decidedly in the path which it has
already followed with great benefit. According to
the present police instructions, very few foreign

journals are liable to seizure at all, and the in-
stances of molestation of these few are rare in
practice. I firmly believe that the government will
soon be brought to see that, in these days of rapid
communication, it can serve no good purpose what-
ever to attempt to prohibit the reading in France
of newspapers which anybody may see in England,
Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
The Emperor, at five yesterday evening, visited
the Campana Museum, which is this day opened to I
the public. A funny illustration of the present sys-
tem, which imputes all acts of authority to the
popular will, is to be found in the Pays, which
takes the trouble to say that the designation of
"The Napoleon 111. Museum," which I told you
some days since the Emperor had decided upon, is
the spontaneous result of the "public voice."
Just in the same way the public voice was assumed
to have cried "Napoleon UL" when it pleased the
present incarnation of the house of Napoleon to
assume that the son of Napoleon I. had actually
reigned in France.
The Union states that, in consequence of the
result of the Mires trial, M Pinard, the Procureur-
General at Douai, has "earnestly solicited" his
removal from that court, and that he will probably
be sent to Riom. This paragraph is suggestive of
the wide difference that exists between the theory
and practice of the execution of the office of
"public minister" in French courts of justice-
The theory is magnificent. He is not a " public
prosecutor," not an official advocate bound to ob-
tain a conviction if possible, but a "magistrate,"
sitting on the same bench with the judges, and
supposed to speak only in the interest of the law.
In practice, however, he is too often a young
judge looking for promotion, and wbo feels
th^.t in criminal cases his business is to
hunt down his quarry. In the present instance,
M. Pinard feels the acquittal of Mires as a per-
sonal defeat which must shake his credit before the
judges who pronounced it, and he cannot bear to
look them in the face.
At the Bourse there was scarcely any change.
°aim Mires remains the same as yesterday.
An interesting work on emigration has just been
published by M. Legoyt, chef de division of the
Statistical Office. Pursuant to the favourite French
system of treating every matter ab coo, the author,
in an introductory chapter, sketches the history of
all European migrations from the remotest times
down to the present day, pointing out the causes
and consequences, according to the beat authorities,
of all such migrations. He then describes in much
detail the emigration movement in every country
in Europe within the last twenty years, giving his
opinion, in each instance, as to the postal and

local calms of the displacement of population, and
also as to its effects,whether economical, social, poli-
tical, moral, or religious. M. Legoyt accompanies
the emigrant from his birthplace to the oountry of
his destination, warns him of the rocks, shoals,
and pitfalls that he may meet with on his journey,
and gives much valuable information touching the
chances, whether favourable or unfavourable,
which await him at the end of it. The work
concludes with an analysis of the legislation of
most of the countries of Europe with regard to
emigration, and an index of all the principal books,
state papers, and documents which bear upon the
, subject.