The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, K Emmet,.
newtons of yesterday wen not generally known
WI the publication of the Press. last night, in which
the Mewing merit =red
Omni Thereat Os Duke CAhnasan,
Grandee of Opals. sad KM. Rose de Rosie, de Ls Pierre,
and aellraemeesaet were arrested this • at their
rai Weldon son. Several other nasals, all bowing
berlve eigitimlet prom, are mentioned, bet as regards the
hen nose, we are not sentiently sure to be willing to
repent than. The arrests took pleas between six and
eaves **sleek. They were followed by oeuroless, of the re-
sult of which we are !vacant. If we are well infismied, no
expleutation was sives le the wean inenipeted by the com-
mheariss et edits efts smssuM the wears ssa
The in=s te cep of IPrPlinumat the Petrie,
male no the eateset. After the appear-
ance el the Preto the dillheest semeog perm were
caseload by the plies that no emseete yea the
arrests would be permitted. The essiseqeento is that
in what should be the ordinary channels of public
information no details whatever are to be found of an
event of so important and alarming a ohmmeter.
The Moniiewr is silent. So is the assatitanissusei
and the Debate. The two latter journals do not even
copy the paragraph in the P reale. The Union
copies it, and appends the following observation :
The news gives lby the Press* appears to us incomplete.
The matter in gumshoe, of which we should have refrained
hew speaking, does not relate to the legitimist party only.
For the rest it will, according to all appearance, be ex-
plained by the ministerial journals. We are ignorant of
the ceases of those meets, but we know some of the per-
sons arrested aufleiently well to be able to sty that all the
accusations will soot disappear, and, above all, to 'Era
that so far as they an concerned, there is no plot or conspi-
racy of any kind.
The only explanation which the government
thinks fit to lay before the public is contained in the
following sinister note in the Pays:
A certain number of secret agencies and political eon e-
-9ondenees had been for a length of time established in
Paris, wader the inspiration of the old parties, and from
these centres of defamation and marshy booed every day
by side-paths those odious libels which dishooour a part of
the foreign press, and which tended to mite the contempt of
Ramp', abused as to the government which France has
freely given itself. The government, which was aware
of these preceedingi, *mild not tolerate any longer such •
system of 'natl.= and abuse. Several persona
amongst those who directed or who afforded aliment to this
defamatory and anarchical correspondence were arrested on
Saturday night and their papers seised. The examination
of the documents *mad at their residences will dictate to
the government the measures of just severity which the
interest of the public peace imposes on It.
This note, although not signed " communique," is
evidently official, and it must be regarded as a sad
supplement indeed to the list of political pardons now
so ostentatiously cried in the streets as evidence of
the emperor's clemency, and the return to regular
government.
This note, in language scarcely susceptible of two
constructions, indicates an intention to mete out" se-
verity" to the prisoners without regard to the forms
of law. It does not allege any legal offence against