The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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PARIS, S•ITIDAT Eva ins.
M. firauirr de Omegas., the favourite govern-
meat writer, and the em whose ass in the
service has risen to such a pitch that be now only
takes up his political pen upon very grand occasions,
has an article in the Consist:attuned which throws
additional light upon the refugee question. and at
the same time gives confirmation to the moat sinister
rumours which have been current concerning the
• repressire measures" now in preparation for
Prance. M. de Cassegnac lays it down that " who-
ever defames the Empire encourages the assassination
of the Emperor." It follows from this text that
when certain regiments are ordered to expeller a de-
sire to invade Etigland in order to break up the
den of afillnins" established there, allusion is Dot
moo to unederen or their accomplices, whom the
laglish are most ready and desirous to bring to jus-
tice, but to constructive assessins—Orleanista, legi-
timists, republicans, all, in short, who "cherish hopes
isammetent with the duration of the Empire."
The ostensible object of the article is to reproach
the Dlbets, not for anything that it has said, but for
its silence. Various passages are cited from articles
if that journal written on the occasion of Fieschi's
attack upon Louis Philippe in 183 b, and it is then
sompleined that the DOLits has not now exhibited
is much indignation as it did then. Pursuing the
logic indleatrd by the passage above quoted, the
Chmehturiennel says :—" If there were no political
party interested in the death of the Emperor, it is
very evident that the idea of killing him would
never occur to any one. There is no effect without
a muse, and these who risk their heads have their
mamas for it, good, bad, or indifferent. The Journal
des Igbais is the organ of a party, and in that cha-
meter it contributes to that vitiation of the
moral atmosphere which corrupts ides and
suggests mimeo." After this denunciation it
magnanimously says that it will not
suggest
what measures of public safety ought to betff
o,
Means, the " State has Councils," which will take
order is the matter. lam desirous, as far as pos-
sible, to follow the example set by • leading article
of the Daily News the other day, of speaking with-
out heat or passion, but I should fail in my duty if
I were to hesitate to say, that this article has pro-
dated • feeling of disgust among alleles's, of society
in Paris, without distinction of party. Many warm
friends of the Empire have told in. that they an
appalled by the state of feeling on the part of the
government which it discloses. It reminds them of
the proclamations of Parmelee Tinville. It 000jeres
up to remembrance all the most ominous and time-
d's-honoured phraseology of the worst times of
French tiistorv. Suspects, and even soupcossestis
iretre suspects, ticks (lukewarm people), the very
expression is applied to the editors of the Debats
by M. crania de Cassagnar, proces des lendanee,
&c., are now likely to be revived.
In the time of the first empire an editor appointed
by government was, I believe, forced upon the four-
' ma des Debois, but the idea of making that journal
responsible for something it had not said was re-
served for the present erne. What aggravates the
indignation of all journalists and literary men at
M. de Caringnao's truculent attack upon the Di bats
is the notoriety in Paris that the suppression of that
journal is very probable, and that it has in the mean-
while been privately warned in such a peremptory
way that it has not for the last fortnight ventured
to offer as original remarks whatever. The Debate
cannot defend itself, if it could it might say that
warmth cannot be exhibited to order, and that men
af independent minds shrink from mingling their
voices with a chorus of flatterers.
With respect to the " repressive measures," I
sow learn, from what I consider to be • good
source, that the notion of applying the system of
* warnings" to individuate has really been ahem-
loned by the Council of State. The bill which has
been finally approved of by that body, and which
- will be presented to the Corps Legislatif on Mon-
day, proposes, as I understand, that every indivi-
dual who was arrested in June, 1848, or December,
1631, may be compelled to reside in • given place,
or transported without trial. There was a great
struggle in the Council on the question whether
these two classes of suspects should not be divided
into separate eateleorin ; but it was ultimately
agreed, in accordance with the views of the
genenment, that MM. Thieve, Rcomant, sad
ethers, are to be placed on precisely the same
=Jr as any insurgent of the barricades. With
to all other citizens, thee are to be liable to
b. dealt with in &similar way ;.but only after trial
and conviction for a new offence to be now created.
which offence, however it may be denominated, will
be in substance that of being disaffected. We are
about to see times when servants will denounce their
mattes, debtors their creditors, and men of all
dames their personal enemies.
The rssirers appears to think, and probably has
grounds for doing so, that the recently expressed de-
termination of the government to put a stop to dis-
cussion on religious subjects, applies less to itself
than to journals which, like the Debots and
have attempted to defend protestant communities.
It makes • merit of not now examining the cha-
racter of the discussion, and says," it is not from
prudence that we abstain, bet from a disinclination
to profit by a position which is unfavourable to oar
adversaries."

The Bourse was without any marked feature.
The market was flat and the oscillations wens in-
considerable. The Bente closed with a rise of be.
for cash at Gri.Bo, and at the same price, baug that
of yesterday, for account. Mobilier scarcely varied.
The railway, were a trine better.
The Princes Albert and Frederick Charles of
Prussia arrived in Paris today, and Prince Adalbert
Is expected to-morrow.
It is said that M. Drouyn de Lhays has lately
dined with the Emperor.

NAPLES. lax. 26.
On Saturday last, at half-put 2 p.m., the great
singer Lablacbe died hen. The intelligence will
not be new to you. as it was telegraphed to Peril',
St. Petersburg, and Algiers, and hopes are enter-
tained that his yea, who is serving in the French
army there, will arrive in time for the funeral cm-
-I.OIIICII, which will take place to-day. There
will be • large attendance of ell the musical
talent of Naples on the occasion, the mem-
ban of the Royal Musical College, and of
the musical corps of S. Carlo. After the cere-
mony the body, which has been embalmed, will be
met off to Paris, when it will be buried in the
almily vault, in a place reserved for Lablache, by the
side of his wife. There are many interesting de-
tails connected with the last days of his life. On
the evening before his death he received u usual,
and many friends were meant; he enjoyed his
game of "mope," a Neapolitan game of mid., and
requested • friend to play a piece on the piano whilst
be hummed the tune. Nothing, indeed, seemed to
indicate the immediate approach of death, though he
bad long been in a feeble state. He leaves behind
him. say his friends, 600,000 d., and in his house
ia Paris he possessed presents amounting to the
value of 60.000 d.
Five per Cents., 1131 ; exchange, 370.

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