The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUENDAT

The Duke de Persigny made a clever debating
society speech in the Senate yesterday, the excuse
for which was the Senatiu Cononltem now pending
before that august body. But, as M. Rouland said
in answer to him, Quid de CO7llOO I—a
question which might be pertinently put to M,
Rouland himself, and also to Baron Dupin, who
were the only other speakers on the occasion.

They all steered very wide of the mark, and we
must wait for M. Rouher, who is doubtless speak-
ing to-day, before we can know what all the fuss
is really about. As to the Duke de Persigny,
he did not in any way expound the purport of or
explain the necessity for the Seams Come/tem,
and he said not a word about the obnoxious amend-
ment, which alone makes it of any serious import-
ance. The senators have found by experience that
the constitution which dubs them the " illus-
trations" of the country, and a " prepon-
derating power," and in pompous terms
confers upon them the right to stop any bill
which is contrary to the constitution or morality
or the great principles of 'B9, in fact gives them
nothing to do worthy of their dignity. Of
course a bill proposed by the Emperor, approved
by the Council of State, and voted by the
CorpaLegislatif is not likely to be unconstitutional,
&c., and therefore the senators, although burst-
ing with eloquent ideas, are always stopped by M.
Troplong, who reminds them that they cannot speak
upon the merits, and have nothing to do but to regis-
ter the law. The petitions on which they let off a great
deal of steam in the shape of long speeches,
reported verbatim in the Meniteur, are for the
most part frivolous and very often ridiculous.
The senators do not like their subordinate posi-
tion, and there would be very little harm in the
Sematua Conaultum, if, as proposed by government,
it was confined to letting them say their say upon
every bill brought before them and sending it
down to the lower house fora second reading, to
see whether the light thrown by their arguments
would change the views both of the Emperor and
the Corps Legialatif. But the senate's claim
to suspend any bill for a whole year is out-
rageous, and quite contrary to the spirit of all
existing institutions. Whether M. Rouher means
to defend this conceit of M. Troplong, we shall
probably know to-morrow. Meanwhile the Duke de
Persigny confined himself to an harangue against the
principle of ministerial responsibility to the people's
house—a principle studiously eliminated from the
imperial constitution, which he helped to found,
and which he fears tho Emperor's reforms have
a tendency to revive. As usual, when ho treats
of constitutional questions, the Duke of Persigny
sought examples far back in ancient history. He
talked of the Greeks, Romans, Venetians, Cartha-
ginians, Athenians, and Florentines, and, in the
course of time, got down to the English and Ame-
ricans. He thinks the love of eloquence a fatal
thing in a state, and he said that it was a ministerial
speech which prevented the Sunnite' from marching
upon Rome after the victory of Candium, and led
to their destruction as a nation. But for ministe-
rial speeches England would be said to have
broken up the American republic a few years ago ;
and if the American ministers had been liable to
reply to interpellations in Congress, the Northern
armies would have been paralysed, and would
never have subdued the South. He argued from
the example of America, where ministers never
appear in Congress, that ministerial responsibility
is not necessary to free parliamentary government,
but he forgot to say that the President of the
United States is really and practically responsible
to the people, while the responsibility of the Em-
peror inscribed in the constitution is a fiction.
A strike among the employes of the Universal
Exhibition, which lasted for a few hours, is said
to be entirely at an end.
At the Bourse the was no activity, but Rents
rose lbc., closing at 70fr. fm. and 70fr. Italian
fell tic.

THE STRIKE OF THE PARIS BRONZE WORKERS.
We read in the A roar National of yesterday The
following is the text of the address voted in London on
the 7th March, 1867, by the Trades Council To all the
English Trade Societies.—Fellow Workmen,—The present
is delivered for the purpose of certifying that after a com-
plete investigation of all the facts and circumstances con-
nected with the strike of the Paris bronze workers we
have unanimously accorded the necessary letter to the
delegates, in order that they may present their claim for
moral and material support to all the trade societies of
England. We trust that this support will be widely
accorded to them, especially as under analogous circum-
stances the French workmen identified themselves
with the interests of the English workmen.—Yours,
obediently, G. OIX;ER, Secretary to the Trades Council.'
The present credentials were granted to the delegates
in accordance with the following motion:—' Consider-
' log that the proposal made to support the workers in
bronze is in accordance with the general views of the
council ; that the question of wages can only be settled by
the mutual assistance of all workmen ; that if only the
special interest of the English workmen were involved
they ought still to support the Paris bronze workers, the
council unanimously decides that the present occasion
should be eagerly seized for the purpose of proving that
the English workmen understand and practise solidareti.'"
Commenting on the above, the Arena* National
says:—" Those who are acquainted with the orga-
nization of the trades societies of England can
scarcely over-estimate the importanoe of this
document. It is to the trades council, indeed, act-
ing as a supreme court, that every special case of strike is
referred for ultimate decision by those interested, and only
when it has recognised the justice and the opportuneness
of the claim does it deliver credentials, which ensure to the
claimants the support of all the trade societies. It is
then that, furnished with the approval of the trades
council, the delegates of the society on strike can present
themselves before the executive council of each trade
society certain of obtaining a favourable welcome
and the execution of the pact of moral and material
soliclariti. The delegates of the bronze workers have
followed this course, and, as we have seen, the most im-
portant point the credentials have been obtained. Every
meeting they meet the executive council, and the results
obtained leave no doubt of what they will obtain, espe-
cially as the present case is one of those which the Eng-
lish call ' lockout' -that is to say, the closing of the
workshops by the masters ; and never under any circum-
stances have they abandoned the men thus treated."
A letter from Pesth states that the magnates of
Hungary intend to convert the traditional present of the
kingdom to the Sovereign, on the occasion of his corona-
tion, into a gift which will be of utility to the empire ; it
is to consist of three iron-cased ships, to be called the
Hungary, Francis Joseph, and Elizabeth.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 12.—A PPOINSMINTB.
Lieutenants (additional, for disposal) E. W. J. Hennah to
the Bristol, G. Usborne to the Zealous, the Hon. Edward
H. D. Browne to the Zealous. G. A. G. Grey to the Nar-
cissus ; B. A. Johnson, to the Narcissus ; Surgeon lL D.
Pritchard to the Dauntless ; Assistant-Surgeon G. E.
Farr to Hasler Hospital ; Midshipmen S. J. B. Wilcox
W. H. Mahon to the V Ingo se supernumeraries.

THE FENIAN INSURRECTION.

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CORK, MONDAY.
Five persons have been arrested in Killmallock,
three of whom are known to have been engaged in
the attack on the police barrack on Wednesday
morning. One of the prisoners, a quarry man
named Holmes, brought with him to the attack a
quantity of blasting powder, with which it was in-
tended to burst in the doors of the building.
Another of the men is a blacksmith, named Rior-
dan, who took a conspicuous part in the affair,
keeping up himself a constant tire on the barracks
from a tion on the bridge. He returned to his
forge after the pursuit of the Fenian was over,and
was at work at his trade when captured. The third
prisoner known to have been concerned in the
attack is a man named Fox, who was arrested in
the hotel in Killmallock, where several guns and
pistols, believed to have been thrown away by the
Fenian in their retreat, have been discovered and
seized by the police. The proprietor of the hotel
was arrested on Tuesday before the outbreak.
A man named Walsh, supposed to be a Fenian
leader, was captured with a companion by a troop
of the 4th Dragoons returning from hospital on
Saturday. He had some cartridges in his posses-
sion, and a note book, in which there were some
incomprehensible notes. His companion was armed
with a loaded revolver. He is nut the Walsh who
was second in command of the Fenian at Killmal-
lock, for the latter was wounded in the attack, but
the prisoner is uninjured. Three men employed on
the Great Southern and Western Railway were
arrested yesterday at Knocklong, on suspicion of
an intention to tear up the track of the railway
in that neighbourhood on Tuesday night, by which
the train from Cork to Dublin was upset on the
rails. Three arrests have been made in the town
of Tipperary. Two of the prisoners were well-
dressed persons of military aspect, against whom
there is no positive evidence, but who do not give
satisfactory accounts of themselves.;
It has been reported here that a considerable
number of surreptitious burials have taken place
in the neighbourhood of Killmallock, as well as in
other places in Limerick and Tipperary, during the
last few days. It is supposed that the persons
thus secretly interred had been wounded in the
various encounters with the police, and had been
borne off by their comrades to their own homes,
where they died. In Killmallock alone thirty
persons were prayed for on Sunylay, an extra-
ordinarily large number for a small country town ;
and this fact tends to confirm the foregoing report.
One of the men mortally wounded in the attack
on the police barrack, who has been identified as
Daniel Blake, of Bruree, stated before his death
that he had been compelled by the Fenian to join
them on the pain of being shot, and that he con-
sented with a blunderbus at his head. The clergy-
man by whom last mass was celebrated on Sun-
day, condemned in the strongest terms the
unwise and unhappy language which has had
already such fatal results • but the reverend gentle-
man is reported to have spoken in very ill-advised,
indeed exciting, terms of the death of Dr. Cleary,
who was accidentally shot by the police during the
affray. The troops in Limerick and Tipperary are
greatly harassed by the continual expeditions
they are obliged to undertake in pursuit of Fenian,
who are almost invariably not to be found when
the locality in which they were reported to be has
been reached. On Saturday a large force was des-
patched out of Charleville on receipt of the intelli-
gence that a Fenian force had been seen on Mount
Russell preparing to attack the town. So great
was the alarm caused in Charleville by the report
that the tradespeople closed their shops, and only
reopened them when the military returned, weary
and disappointed, from their wild-goose chase.
Troops were sent from Tipperary to Grantstown on
Saturday night in pursuit of another Fenian band;
but in this instance also the authorities seem to
have been the victims of a false alarm.

A gentleman who arrived in Tipperary yesterday
has communicated a novel piece of intelligence. Ho
states that near Ballyhurat he came up with a body
of Fenian who had a small field piece M a cart ;
they were marching in good order in the direction
of Templemore.

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Several changes have been made in the dispo-
aition of the troops in the south. The detach-
ments of the 12th Lancers in the West of Kerry
have been withdrawn, and part sent to Castle-
townroche. 200 of the 62nd Foot have been
moved from Mallow to Buttevant. A company of
the 71st was brought from Mallow to Cork yester-
day, to strengthen the garrison, which had been
reduced by the despatch of 100 men of the 60th
Rifles to Macroom, where the Fenians were said to
meditate a descent on the castle—the residence of
Colonel White Hedges—in which the arms of the
West Cork Artillery (Militia) are kept.
The district around Midleton is perfectly tran-
quil. About twenty young men are missing from
this town and neighbourhood. The greater part of
the insurgents have quietly returned to their homes
since Wednesday. ,Six arrests have Leen made in
this district.

Seven young men, marching two deep, were met
yesterday on the road near Passage by a police
patrol, and were arrested. A quantity of per us-
lion-caps was found in their possession.
Thiscity waslastnightaspeaceableasusual. Aforco
of mounted constabulary and Lancers was thrown
out on the Blarney-road after nightfall, a report
having reached the authorities that WO Fenian
were to assemble in that locality ; but the expedi-
tion proved as fruitless as all its numerous prede-
cessors in this neighbourhood.

SWITZERLAND AND THE PARIS EXHI
The Journal de GesOre of the 10th states that it was
recently proposed in the Swiss Federal Council that a sum
of s,ooofrs. should be voted for the purpose of enabling a
certain number of Geneva workmen GO visit the Paris Ex-
hibition. The motion was rejected with scarcely a dis-
sentient voice ; and a proposal that the sum should be re.
duced to I,ooofrs. shared the same fate. The Joffrnol de
Cratere says no one will believe that this decision arose
from any indifference to local interests. "It was evi-
dently a question of principle, discussed with respect to •
particular case," it adds ; " now, however advantageous it
might be for a large number of our good workmen to visit
the Paris Exhibition, the Grand Council felt that
it was not fur the State to provide the means ;
that it could not be generous towards one of our
industries without being equally so towards all the others.
It felt ton that it would be a return to old comics to
establish itself as the protector of art and industry, by
giving to either an artificial and momentary life. 1t e re-
peat it, and we cannot do so too often--it is a primipla
which is involved here ; private industry ought it-elf to
provide for its own wants, and the part taken by the
State should have a tendency to decrease snore and more
lin such matters. It is not egotism that we seek to pro-
claim, but the neutrality of that which is the defender of
the rights of all. It is evident that if there are persons
interested in examining by special men (independent of
the professors and other competent persons sent as dele-
gates of Switzerland to the Exhibition) the processes or
the discoveries of any istrtieular industry, they will not
revive the assistance of anybody in order to attain this
object."

THE 2. IRST LORD OF THE Ato
Right Ron. If. Corry has issued the following address to
the electors of the county of Tyrone : —" The Queen has
been graciously pleased to appoint me First Lord of the
Admiralty, and my seat in the Hone of COMILIOMI as one
of your representatives has, therefore, become recant. In
again soliciting your suffrages, I have the fal4 at eon fiat nco
that my renewed acceptance of office, as a member of
• government which is about to propose % reform Fill com-
bining an extension of the franchise cdculated to effect
a lasting settlement of the question with the just lid fair
representation of all classes, will not be considered by you
to disqualify me for the trust you have so long reposed in
me. As my duties at the Admiralty require my immediate
attention, I venture, at the request of numerous friends
from all perk of the county, to request that you will ex-
cuse me from attending at Omagh on the day of the elec-
tion. I feel certain yon will not attribute my absence to
buy want of respect."