The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TIIZIDAY ZUNI:NO.

The rerun of the elections for the three vacant
circumscriptions shows no appreciable difference in
the state of party feeling in Paris since the time
when Cavaignac, Carnot, and Goadchanx, were re-
turned. The numbers for the government candi-
dates are, am nearly as possible, the same as they
were last time—in the third circumscription they
are 159, and in the fifth, 348 more, while in the
sixth they are 298 lees. The government party on
this, as on the former occasion, was united and well
organised. No mesas were left untried to bring
every elector that the government could influence
to the poll, and it may be taken for granted that at
the second election, which must take place on Sunday
week, it will be impossible to add materially to the
numbers of M. Bck's supporters. The falling off
in the number of votes given to the opposition can-
didates is obviously accounted for without sup-
posing, as the Pays doen to-night, that any conver-
sions have been made to the government. I have
already mentioned that a great many opposition
electors have been struck off the lists, and did not
think it prudent to take the necessary steps to have
their names restored. The independent newspapers,
the Debate, the Bieck, and the Press*, which in
June last, using that liberty which the Emperor
described u too great, published some stirring
articles in favour of the opposition candidates, have
this time been reduced to silence. Some
allowance must be made for a fact of
this kind. But the principal cause of the
difference between the two states of polls undoubtedly
is that a considerable body of the anti-government
party has on this occasion deliberately abstained
from voting, for various reasons. M. Gradehaux
strongly counselled abstention, and it is said that
M. Carnet was far from being positively against it.
The reason which operated on the minds of the
majority of the abstentioniata was that the people
ought not to accept an electoral contest upon sack
unfair conditions as those which the government
tendered. But it cannot be denied that very many
were influenced by feelings of personal jealousy. It
is known that the opposition list of three candidates
—MM. Jules Fevre, Lionville, and Picard—was in
fact settled by three men only—MM. Emile
011ivier, Henon,!andDarimon, who excluded M. Cure
from their conclave on account of his having dined
with the Emperor. It is not wonderful that many
men who think themselves entitled to be leaders of
their party should feel that their own particular
views had not been sufficiently consulted in this
arrangement. Disagreements of this Dart were
almost inevitable, because no preliminary electoral
meetings are allowed, and it is impossible to take the
sense if the constituency in any fair and complete
manner. The only thing to be done, unless the people
would throw away their votes, is to adopt the first
list of candidates that seems likely to unite a
majority, without considering whether it is the best
that could be devised. It is really wonderful, con-
sidering all the difficulties and dangers besetting the
path of the opposition electors, that they should
have, without the possibility of personal communi-
cation with each other, agreed to the extent they
have done upon a course which has produced a very
formidable opposition. The return of Jules Fevre
by a majority of 1,200 votes is an immense fact.
M. Picard's friends feel certain that he will be
elected at the second trial, because all those who ab-
stained, from a belief that success was impartible,
will come forward now that they see they have only
to stretch out their arms to gain the victory. The
abstentions, it will be seen, were most numerous in
the third circumscription, where the government
candidate, General Perrot, has succeeded. His op-
ponent, M. Lionville, a respectable barrister, was
not known in politics, and did not command the
general confidence of the constituency of Cavaignac.

The Opinion of Nimes, of the 24th, says that
there has been a good deal of talk in the town about
a political arrest. The person arrested was imme-
diately sent off to Algeria. It is scarcely worth
mentioning an isolated fact of this kind u a piece
of news, because these arrests are, and long have
been, of daily occurrence throughout Francs, and the
public in Paris very seldom hear of them. It is as
well, however, to note now and then the terms in
which the local journals are permitted to record such

At the Bourse the Rent* in. 35c. for cash and
16c. for account, dosing at 69fr. 60c. and 69fr. 45c.
Mobilier fell 16fr., and the heaviness of this security
checked the buoyant tendency of the market. Rail-
ways were from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr. higher.

ITALY.

ROlll4, APRIL 24.

Four priests have been arrested and thrown into
the prisons of the Holy Offioe, on account of the
affair of Velletri.

PIEDMONT.
TURIN, APRIL 2d.
The Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies continued
to-day the discussion of the Conspiracy Bill. Art.
2, relative to the apology for political assassination,
has been adopted by a large majority.

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