The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(TROY OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THUILSDAT EVENING!

The Liberti, with much apropos, republishes the
famous letter of M. Fould to the Emperor, dated
Tarbes, September 29, 1861, which was publicly
and officially approved of by the Emperor at a
privy council held at the Tuileries, on November
12, 1861. In that letter M. Fould called for an
entire change of system. He recorded as a lament-
able fact that between 1851 and 1866 the public debt
had been increased by nearly three milliards, and he
especially condemned a then recent loan of 132
milliards by trentenary obligations. For the
" system " which, on M. Fould's representation,
the Emperor said he would renounce thenceforth,
M. Magne, who had for several years been Finance
Minister, was in a high degree responsible. M.
Fould is dead, his economical system was never
observed, not even under his own administration ;
money--much money—is now wanting, a largo
loan is to be certainly raised, and M. Magne,
after seven years' disgrace, conies in again.
Strange as it may appear, it is positively stated
that when, on Nov. 12, the Moniteur published the
sati.sfeeit to Italy, which has been so much remarked,
it did not know of Menabrea'scircular, dated Nov. 9.
The relations between France and Italy are now said
to be as bad again as they were when the Marquis de
Moustier sent his scolding despatch to Florence. It
is noticed that the evening Moniteur yesterday
spoke of satisfaction with Italy "if " the court
of Florence should " persevere " in its good con-
duct, and talked of withdrawing the French army
only when order should be " entirely" restored.
The Preue says to-night that armaments "con-
tinue " at Toulon.

It is reported from Florence that General
Menabrea, unable to face parliament, is about
to dissolve it.

The arrests which I alluded to yesterday as 18
in number are said by the Druit to be only 8.
The prisoners, all now in Masao, are accused of
belonging to a secret society. Dr. Accollas, who
was released, was arrested again while walking on
the Boulevards with his wife. The accused were
all present at the Peace Congress of Geneva, and
are "suspected " on that account.
There is scarcely any change at the Bourse,
which continues dull.

THE PROSECLITION OF GARIBALIDL—A Paris
letter in the Inrkpendaure Be* says :—" My informant
in Florence again tells me that the ministry has still the
intention to try Garibaldi, or rather to commence a prose-
cution. The ministers and jurisconsults, whose opinion
the former have taken, think that the government has no
need to demand the authorisation of the Chamber, as Ga-
ribaldi, not having taken the oaths since the last election,
cannot be considered as forming part of the assembly.
The preliminary proceedings will probably be commenced,
in order to keep Garibaldi in prison until the agitation is
appeased. But that he will be prosecuted is scarcely to
be imagined. The King will prevent such a step, and 31.
Rattaszi will exercise all his influence on Victor Emmanuel
to have the prosecution abandoned. If a trial should take
place, not Garibaldi, but M. Rattatzi, would be con-
demned." A Florence letter on the same subject
says :—" The ministry has just summoned to Flo-
rence the principal judicial authorities of Perugia and
Ancona. A consultation with them has been held as to
whether Garibaldi should be prosecuted. This is a singu-
lar Ws eta the part of M. Gualterio a trial of Gari-
baldi would be the stirring up of that inflammable matter
which has almost set Italy in flames. Has this fact been
forgotten already A prosecution, besides, could not be
carried on without the necessity for calling as witnesses
M. Rattan:3, other high functionaries, and perhaps the
king himself. Moreover, with Garibaldi would have to be
included his principal confederates, who are all deputies or
influential persons, and who might exclaim, 'We have
for accomplices all the nation.' I therefore believe that
all idea of a prosecution will be abandoned. Garibaldi
will be kept • prisoner some days longer as a measure of
precaution, and will then be set at liberty. The Opinion
publishes an article in that sense, which is evidently in-
tended to test the state of public feeling. This journal is
generally used for such purposes."
THE LATE M.ADARIE DE FLAHAULT.—We have to
announce the death of a lady who has for nearly 60 years
borne a very prominent part in the highest society of
Europe. Miss Mercer Epl hinstone, daughter of Admiral
Lord Keith, who for a large period of the war with France
commanded in the Mediterranean, was born in 1788, and
the few of her contemporaries who still survive will re.
member her as the friend and confidante of the Princess
Charlotte of Wales. Nothing would have seemed more im-
probable than that the daughter of a British Admiral who
had passed the whole of hie distinguished career in active
service against the French should have allied herself
with a French officer equally distinguished in the
service of France, and who had attained the high honour
of being attached as aide-de-camp to the person of the
Emperor Napoleon during the Moscow and Waterloo cam-
paigns. Compelled to leave. France, however, upon the
restoration of the Bourbons M. de Flahault, who had been
educated in England, took refuge in this country, and in
1817 he married the lady who died on Tuesday last, in
Paris. at his official residence as Chancellor of the Legion
of Honour. As Madame de Flahault, she was anibaaaa-
dress of France under the Orleans dynasty at BOWS and at
Vienna. and for a short time filled the same position in
England while M. de Flahault most appropriately repre-
sented the Second Empire at the court of St. James'a.
Madame de Flahault has left two daughters, the Dowager
Marchioness of Lansdowne and Mdlle. de Flahault. Lady
Lansdowne succeeds to the Barony of Edirne, which, with
that of Keith, Madame de Flahault held in her own right.

THE IRISH CHURCH. —The Freeman's Journal
of yesterday contains the seventh report of its special
churl& oosomiestoners. It refers (says our contetupornry

in a summary of its contents' to.th; dioceses of Cork,
Cloyne, and Rosa, and deals principally with the new atti-
tude which the catholies have assumed since a portion of
their fetters have been struck off. It shows that even in
what was the great southern fortress of protestants—Ban-
don—the catholic* are now in a majority of three to one.
It shows as the result of the analysis of the important
dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, that every
protestant • family in that vast district costs
the public nearly 8/. a year for their spiritual instruction.
It shows that, on an average, about 201. ..year is paid for
church requisites" for each of the benefices in these dio-
cese. It show. that, on an average of the last six year.,
4,0001. a year has been paid by the public for the supply of
fuel, bread, and wine, and other church necessities for the
protestants of the district. It shows that in the largest
and most wealthy of the three dioceses, the cost per
family, for every family in 47 out of the 80 benefices,
amounts to no less a sum than 1311.95. 11 id. per family.
RECENT OFFICIAL REPORTS ON THE SICK IN
COUNTY Wolumorata.—The Poor-law Board is under-
stood to be in possession of a considerable amount of re-
cent information concerning the actual state of the county
workhouse infirmaries, gathered by an officer of their own,
Dr. Edward Smith, in the course of a series of inquiries
which he has been instructed to make on this subject
during the last nine months. If we are correctly informed,
these reports, which include six selected houses in each
oonntry district, disclose a state of things which, if less
vividly painted sad less freely commented on than have
been Clifton and Bedminster, Cheltenham, Golcar, and
Preston, by ourselves, and Farnham by our contemporary
are, in matters of fact, not less condemnatory. It is in-
tended to move for the production of these papers at an
early date in the House of Commons. No doubt they will
be at once produced.—British Medical Journal.

A CANADIAN JIIIVIIM.A.a.—The Hamilton (C. W.)
Times says that at the Stratford Assizes a few days since,
an important case was on trial, which occupied the atten-
tion of the court with the hearing of the prosecution until
evening. The jury was then dismissed, with the lanai
cautions, until the following morning, when the defence
was to have been proceeded with ; but on the jury being
recalled, one of the number was found to be absent.
Diligent inquiry was made for the delinquent, and it was
finally ascertained at the hotel where he had sojourned
that he had taken hie departure in the morning for home,
to be present at an agricultural fair, leaving word that his
mind was already satisfied conoerning the ease in question,
and that he should return in the evening after the evidence
for the defence had been received, in time to join the re-
mainder of the jury in rendering a verdict. The delinquent
on the next day made his appearance in court, when his
lordship, Judge Draper, pronouncing the conduct of the
juryman the most Mipant contempt of court that had
ever come wider his observation, imposed upon him a fine
of 100 dole.