The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Nord of this day has the following telegram
from Berlin. dated yesterday :
" Last night on returning on foot from the Royal
Theatre, the Prince of Prussia slipped and seriously
sprained his left foot." At noon to-day the follow-
ing bulletin wee issued t—" The swelling and pain
have diminished. Rio Royal Highness has passed a
tranquil night."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, &NDLT 1T771,44.

A report has been for some time current in Paris that
the hmlepessafasies Bilge was, some time since, pur-
chased by M. Fould, the French Minister of Stabs. I
have never hitherto alluded to this rumour,becanas I
habitually avoid mentioning, without good authority,
any assertion likely to crests a sensation, in thi ab •
sence of circumstances making it important to lacer-
tain whether the fact alleged be true or not. I have,
however, lately heard it positively asserted, in a
quarter which I think ought not to be discredited,
that M. Fould is, if not the sole proprietor, at least
one of the principal parties interested in the lade-
romisswe Belga Assuming for a moment that this
Is so, the following paragraph, in • Paris letter in
the number of that journal of Feb. 20, is carious.
T paragraph to which I allude is thus worded:
Sat la spite of all the symptoms whke are swanned by
British maceptibility, excited by some ill-tined (Wears-
two) military dantonstrattoue on this side of the Charnel,
It is net yet doebtsd at Pule that the bill will Married ;
and it It be nos that M. de Pinnigey has meekest ankle to
demand his passports., in ease the till should meet with a
check, it seems to be tome than sew •et to be feared that
diplomatic relations between Trance mg Ragland should be
Interrupted, and that the cordial narkeitanding which exists
between the two governments amid cease.

I would not wish to attribute any undue import-
ance to the above paragraph. Even assuming the
report to be true that M. Fonld exercises a predo •
signaling influence over the Independance Beige,
it would not follow that the particular pos-
tage cited was written with his approbation. And
even supposing that while it was taken for granted
in Paris that the bill would certainly pass, it was
thought expedient to colour the affair in the above
manner for the world, the French government
would in no way be committed by the statement,
and would, I can scarcely doubt, think twice before
it recalled M. de Persigny from London. At the
same time, as there is a great deal of reason to be-
lieve that the correspondence in the indipeedestee
does very often at least, if not always, express the
esoteric views of the French government, I cannot
but invite attention to the singular expression "ill-
- (ixtvapestire)," as applied to the bellicose
military addresses published in the Mueitsur. If
those addresses were disapproved of, they might
have been called improper,, injudicious, if it were
wished to use mild terms ; or stupid and inflamma-
tory, if harsher repudiation were thought desirable.;
but to: say that they were " ill-timed " bears the
interpretation that they merely let the cat out of
the beg too soon. I repeat that Ido not think the
French government means, and I would farther say,
that I believe it is not with all its legions able to
go to war with England. The above insinuation,
U—which I admit to be more than doubtful—to
have an official origin, expresses probably a feeling
rather than an intention. I would say the same of
the hint that Count de Persigny would withdraw
from London if the bill were not passed. All such
statements "sown broad cat" over Europe setve to
confirm what was stated in the British House of
Commons, that Lord Palmerston 's bill was brought
forward under foreign dictation, and that having
made sere of Lord Palmerston, it never
occurred to the French government to doubt that the
bill would pass. But now that the English people,
by the votes of their representatives in parliament
have, to the astonishment of the despotic govern-
.
ments of Europe, shown that they will preserve the old
independence of the nation, notonly in spite of foreign
governments, but even at the cost of the sacrifice of
a popular minister, I do not at all believe that the
French government will be so silly as to act up to
the suggestion of the IndApendance Beige, even If
that suggestion, when it was thought to be safe, did
emanate from the Minister of State.
M. Renee, the political director of the Coutitr-
Simnel, publishes an article on the recent vote of the
House of Commons, which is not of much import •
IWO!, because he evidently does not understand the
parliamentary importance of the adoption of Mr.
Milner Gibson 's amendment. He says :—" This
motion, as the mover himself observed, does not
Involve the rejection of the bill ; on the contrary, it
asiolowisdiee that tlie house is disposed to
remedy any defects which may be proved
to exist in the law of England regarding
conspiracy." The writer in the Conslittaionreei
. .

orerlookathat Mr. Milner Gibson said that the adop-
tion of his motion would not " necessarily" imply
the rejection of the bill; and when he intimates
that the house wee, " on the contrary," ready to pass
It, he ignone the fact that the amendment, as well
as the speeches of almost all those who spoke is
favour of it, implied that it remained to be shown by
evidence not before the house, that the existing law of
Ragland was insufficient The Cometawlionwei there-
fore thinks that Lord Palmerston had no enilleient
mace to retire. This supposition of the Constitie-
Gowns' is shown to be ill-founded by the positive
news from London of his lordship's resignation.
The article concludes by saying that the partisans
of the motion will probably see at het that "Lord
Palmerston had good reasons for reserving his
reply to the Preece government till after the law ,
WY voted." Is this a dark insinuation? It at
heat bean oat an weertion made in the house, that
there wee erenething very " mysterious " about the
esgetiatione.
M. Dapin, the Proeurear.General of the Coast sr
Gamation, has written the following letter to the
Oisatitsif Weisel :

Pula Feb. 20.
I bon mourns es year jeered le coalesilet a piece el
Wm sew, the yobilemies of Ake has WM me sues&
Maly. hapowilmer Ada he am lino hue
Yea a peer deal Ise mash mem et am pfelente tar
*I Vmil M Pods Ire M. Durk. silt. Is sisal M many
Wis." Those air barm my lee elk my Ins fir bur,
sad my deep reeved for her asimary, ask 1 bqs b..
lime tai menelos tor a mosmad. 111s1 M order this as ass
SW be ailed by It, 1 Adak it neesemey at once to glee the
and yedam rontruhresra to the delement.
Ileedve, Duns.
Lad tie English ILIA should ruppcee that the
Preeemerez..oeueral et the Court of Cesestiou lee
Aiwa tie high authority of his sanction to the
general proposition that, because a man has had the
ealdertune to loss an estimable wife whom he loved
basely, he should never marry again, it is necessary
to add in explanation that M. Dnpin is seventy-live
years of age ; and that, although he does sot refer
to It in his letter, is a circumstanoe which probably
wry greatly 'tree/time his other ramose for re-
mising • widower.

A young man of seventeen, a musician, named
Charles Lefay, residing at his father's boom at 40,
Boulevard de Strasbourg, appeared yesterday at the
bar of the tribunal of Correctional Polies, to sewer
a charge of an "insult against the poem of the