The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-19 00:00:00

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increased stringency of the Passport System we shall
have occasion to speak ere long ; already mercantile
men begin to complain loudly of the embarrassment
it occasions. But the petty plague to which we
ham been directing attention will probably mite
still mare extensive irritation. While the French
F. 31 PERM'S troops are helping ours to bombard Can-
ton because Europeans are debarred free admission
into the city, he is making little Cantons of all his
own Channel-coast watering places. The ridiculous

light, too, in which the projected sureeillascec7f
school-boys and school-girls, doting mammas, and
nursery governesses, places the French Government
may not be without its inconveniences. It is less dan-
gerous for a Monarch to be feared or hated than to
be laughed at. But when both sentiments are com-
bined the result mast be worst of all. When one
does not exactly know whether to be angry with, or
to laugh at a teasing intermeddler, the temptation
to kick him out of the way is irresistible.

*PRESS FROM PARIS.

(rstox ors owx coalisromixt.)
PARIS, TurmanAT 2,114=0.
The "Public Safety" Bill came on for discussion
in the Corps Legislatif to-day. M. Emile 011ivier, the
member for Paris, opened the debate in an admirable
speech, of which, owing to the impediments placed
in the way of reporting, I am only able to send you
the following very imperfect sketch, which is,
however, accurate as far as it goes :
In rising to ask—l will rather my to implore—you to
reject the proposed law, I am not acting in the spirit of
party,lint simply as an honest man. I desire not to serve
the Omani minden of a day, but the eternal
parks kr what Is just and right. I propose
to attack no one, I wish only to render the
horsey due to the only legitimate sovereign in the
world, to use an expreadon of Mir beau,—Right. I am cot
speaking to those out of doors. I speak to you, members of
this house, and I add, remembering an eloquent expression
used In my bureau, that I do not address you without hope.
My first objection to this law is that it is based upon a false
pretence. The attempt on the Emperor's life was frustrated
by Providence, and lam grateful for the mercy. The fate
of nations can no more be influenced by the assassin than it
can by the executioner. Bat this crime' as you have
been told by everybody, was conceived in • foreign
country, committed by foreigners, and inspired by the
resentment of foreigners—it was not a French crime.
The second reproach that I make to the law is
that it violates all the principles that cdvilleed nations
are agreed to consider as of the memos of sound
penal legislation. In the first place, the bill violates the
principle of the separation of powers. Montesquieu tells
as that the judicial power should always be separated from
the executive power, for otherwise "the judge might be-
come an oppressor." This bill leaves the fortune and
liberty of citizens at the mercy of three agents of the exe-
cutive. Second, bagasse this new tribunal all those forms
which even the most hasty JuMies cannot dispense with will
disappear. No examination of the accused, no confronta-
tion with the witnesses, no defence, no discussion, no
publicity. The Minister of the Interior will be at
ones the accuser, the defender, and the judge.
Third, every penal law ought clearly to define the offence.
A law that hula in this particular Is no law. Instead of
being a guarantee, it becomes • standing menace and • con-
venient means of oppression. All peoples have, in all time,
preferred • precise law, however severe, to the mildest pos-
sible law that is uncertain. Every clause in this bill is
vague, and susceptible of the most extravagant interpreta-
tions. It punishes those who " excite publicly in any way
whatever ;" those who practise manoeuvres, or keep up fa-
telligenoe abroad; and exiles those against whom there are
any "grave facie." Fourth, a leading principle of law is
that no one can be punished a second limo for an offence that
he has expiated. This principle is violated by subjecting
to transportation those who were condemned in
1848, 1849, and 1831, and who have undergone their sen-
tences. Fifth, it does more, for it operates against persons
retro-actively. It will be attempted to deny this position,
because It is said that new "grave facts" must be established
against them. But you will not be entrapped by this
quibble. What is meant by a "grave fact f" It mans
nothing certain, but simply something which, 'wording to
circumstances, may be deemed to be such by those in power.
(The hon. member hare cited a striking maws from
Portal's, condemning retroactive laws, and • report
of the debate in the Convention showing that that
body, in the very worst times, bad refused to vote
a law of that character.) No law (he continued) had ever
been proposed which violated BO many fundamental prin-
ciples. It had produced such a panic in the country, thee
the reporter had felt the necessity of reassuring the public
mind. They were told the law was only meant to attack
red republican socialists and enemies of order. But who
could be sure that he might not be obnoxious to its provi-
sions t When Denton established the revolutionary tribunal,
he thought he was clearly comprised in the exception ; but
shortly afterwards his own head fell on the scaffold. There
were already laws of ample severity against members of secret
societies. The truth was that the present law was only
found insufficient against those who did not conspire, bat
who were said to live in a state of "culpable expectation."
The word suspects was repudiated, bat this totally new
word "expectant" was equally terrible. These " ex-
pectants," who were to be transported, lived by their la-
bour, and transportation to many of them would be tents.
mount to a sentence to misery and death. (Here Y. 0111-
vier enumerated • number of trivial offences which would
bring citizens into the category of persona liable to be
transported without trial.) Politics should always be sub-
ordinate to morality. " You have governed this country for.
nine years. You are at peace with all the world. Yon
have an Immense army, an able police, an enor-
mous budget, strategetical roads through your capi-
tal, and fortresses at all convenient pleas." No
liberty exists. The greatest of all—that of the prese—
ts annihilated; and yet you come to ask for laws of "public
safety." Do you not fear that the country may say, " I
have sacrificed to you my liberty, my franchisee, my tra-
ditions, the conquests of my blood—all that has made me
glorious among nations—for the sake of a little tranquillity;
and you now ask for more. Where will you stop r
The Courtier du Harre contains a letter from
Bourges, which says :—" Numerous arrests have
just taken place in the Cher and the Yonne. The
majority, of the persons taken are men who have
been already pardoned for political offences, and
who go about spreading reports hostile to the im-
perial government.

- The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 70 fr. 20c.
for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 95fr. 25c.; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,415 fr. ; Great Northern, 976 fr. 23c. ; Strasburg,
710 fr. ; Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean,
863 fr.; Western of France, 895 fr. ; Bordean and
Cette, 562 fr. 50c.; Great Central of France, 647 fr.
50c. • Lyons and Genera, 712 fr. 500. ; Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 901 fr. 26e.; Austrian Railways,
780 ft. 75e.; Rusian Railways, 506 fr. 25c.

•
Cocas Arrammatta.-Pnam, Feb. 18.-Cult Prices.-
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. (not reimbursable for 10 years),
93f. ; Three per Cents., 70f. Wo. 70f. 70f. Sc. 100. ;
BLit of Franco, 3,100 f. ; ditto (8251. paid), 3,100 f. Crddtt
Ender, Obligations of 600 f., Foar per Cents., 425 f.; ditto
Tenths, Four per Cents, 92E 600 • ditto, Tenths, Three
Der Cents, 80f. ; Cadit Mobilim, 906 f. 9071. 60c. 9051. 900 f.
9071. 60c. 9021. 60c. 900 f. 905 t. 902 f. 50c. 9001 ' • Discount
Bank, 6751.; Piedmont's, Five per Cent., 901. 89f. 76c.;
ditto, Three per Cents., 631. 76c.; Austrian Five per Cents.,
901; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cants., 991; Roman.,
89 , Bparuah Three per Cents., Interior Debt, '
37} 38. En-
din London, En-
dings on at sight, paper, 2.51. 121 c. • money, 26f.
10c. ; three months, paper, 241. 971 c.; money, 241. 95c.

Letters from Berlin state that M. Metzner, of the
post-offlce, has left for London to negotiate a new panel
convention with England. lie will subsequently visit Paris,
and terminate the negotiations with France, which are in •
fair way of settlement.

The Emperor of Russia having ordered an inves-
tigation to be made into the situation of schoolmasters
throughout the other parts of the empire, and having ascer-
tained that they were very badly off, has jag ordered that their
salaries shall be increased, and that other measures for im-
proving their condition shall be adopted.
_ _

- A letter from Rome, of the 12th, says :—" Ano-
ther prince of the church, Cardinal Louis Oazesli, died yes-
terday, after a very short illness. The deceased was at the
head of the Order of Deacons. His death tends to confirm
an idea which is generally entertained here, and from which
the cardinals the: wares are not exempt, that those high
dignitaries generally die off by Uncle. When Cardinal Dar-
rell felt himself indisposed, soon after the deaths of hie col-
leagues Spinola and Fieschl, be immediately remarked that
be should complete the fatal trio, and this idea never left
him."

A number of French police agents have been
already sent to London, to hunt out, and keep up a sur-
veil:ewe on the refagess. Sorely French elaborates ought
to feel grateful to our government, who, it is reported, wu
kind enough to send a platen to Paris under whose y aid-
ince and oar* they arrived at their destination.—Paris cor-
'sapodilla of the Timm (sewed edition).
A Naw Pnornwer OP CHLOROFORY.—The
Medical. reports • cue of a young man of twenty-two, who
had both his lags fearfully scalded by accidentally slipping
into a cauldron of boiling water. He was immediately laid
upon • bed, and to prevent syncope an exciting potion was
administered, and cod-liver oil applied to his legs; be was
also bled twice, but the pain in his legs did not subside. A
liniment of landsman and cod-Myer oil wee then applied, but
without effect, the pain continuing se intense as ever. Bet
chloroform being substituted for laudanum, immisdhite Wirt
ensued, and was maintained by continuing the mune proses.
tuna recovery.

EYSOITTION" OF REBELS BY SIB H Off ROSE.

(From the Bombay Telegraph and Cburier of January 23.)
On the Mhow and Indore aide the rebels are being
summarily disposed of, as the subjoined letter will chew .
" Sir Robert Hamilton is now at Sehore, and evidently in-
tends proceeding up the country with' Sir Hugh Roos. A
Brigade, composed of portions of ll.M.'s 14th, the 3rd
European', Artillery, &0., remain at Indore under the com-
mand of the gallant Brigadier Steuart, and will not leave
until the arrival of fresh instructions from Bombay. This, I
believe, is owing to the unsatisfactory conduct of the Barber.
Several of the mutineers have been executed; end
the 14th shoot them down from the trees exactly
as they would do a lot of pea-fowl. The road from Indore
to Sehore is very quiet, and a single traveller might travel
up without any apprehension of being molested. Major-
Oenerel Sir Hugh Rom, who, by the bye, is a hardy, salve,
and venerable officer, and seems determined, notwithstand-
ing the sixteen medals he already wears, to earn • wreath of
laurels in the present expedition, is now at Sehore on his
way to &mot, where he intends attacking two or three
forts, at present in the pooreenon of the insurgents. He
has with him a portion of the 14th Dragoons, Horse and
Foot Artillery, the 3rd Europeans, the 24th N. 1., and
some Cavalry of the Hydrabad Contingent. The
only thing that delays his leaving is the trial of
the mutineers who composed the Bhopal Contingent which
was disarmed the other day by Major Mayne, the officer now
employed in organising a body of Irregular Cavalry. One
hundred and forty-nine of the rebel Sepoys were tried by
court-martial during the day, and sentwoed to be shot.
Ac-
cordingly, about five, the troop' in the camp marched out to
a plain about two miles away, and after being drawn up in
square, Brigadier Steuart read the proceedings of the court,
and the sentence. The prisoners were then marched up,
by the 14th agoons, and a little after
guardeddark
cannot account for the delay) the 3rd
Europeans, 160 in number, fired at them. Prior to this, we
could distinctly hear the wretched &goys moaning and call-
ing on "Allah," &a. One or two did not happen to receive
the shot at that, and took to their keels. However, the 14th
very won overtook and finished them. Captain Wood, our
excellent deputy-adjutant-general, recommended that their
clothes should be put on fire, in order to prove whether or not
life was extinct. While this was doing, it was most awfully
impressive to hear the Dragoon',as they probed with their
avenging blades the hearts of the traitors in whom life
still existed. "Remember Cawnpore, you brutes." Captain
Rose's horse was unfortunately shot by some mistake.
While writing this I have heard firing in the direction of the
ground where the mutineers are encamped, guarded by the
3rd Europeans and 24th regiment Native Infantry. The
general immediately ordered the Dragoons to turn out in
pursuit. Several were shot down in the attempt to free
themselves, but many have escaped ; so the 14th will have a
fine night's work. There are Wween two and three hun-
dred of them, and the general, I believe, will await their
trial and execution before he leaves."