The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-24 00:00:00

DECEMBER 24, 185&

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(now ova OWX

PARIB. THUIRIDLY EVZ2IIIIO.
The Pintos appears determined to be wrong about
IL de Montalembert's appeal. I need not repeat

sty own observations, showing how important and
"substantial " the appeal was, because those obser-
vations are completely borne out by the whole course
of the discussion, and by the judgment of the court.
But in answer to the following passage in the Times'
leading article of yesterday, " We cannot see how
this determined martyr amid hope to improve his
position by any decision at which the Court of
Appeal could arrive," I beg to quote the following
from the Dl eats :

The most important point to be noticed Is that of the two
articles 1 and 3, of the law of July 27, 1849, eltuded to by
the judges of the Firm Inetiase, Art. 3 is the only one alluded
to in the new judgment. Now, Art. 1 being the only
one by virtue of which N. de Nontalembert was brought
within the purview of the law ef February 27, 1888, rela-
tive to measures of public witty, it follows that Y. de
If ootalembert b relieved from thh omsequeoco. norther,
the court Maces the icapriatemoot from six months to
three. finch ere the seseutial diffeemeoes which we observe
between the judgment In the BM Instance and that just
rendered. The remit shows that K. do Illontalenthert's
appeal wee not, as her been pretended, without any serious
°bled or real Interest for him, sines the effect of the judg-
ment of t►e Court of Appeal la to diatheses him from all
the most serious oonmquesose of the judgment of the court
below.

The Debats farther notices a secondary point
which did not occur to me, via., that the new judg-
ment does not contain the offensive expression that
M. de Moatalembert was a writer wanting in "
self-
respect." You may have remarked that the judg-
merit on appeal annuls the Imre judgment alto-
gether, and reproduces Bach parte only as the
higher court approves of.
send yea some interesting extracts from an
article by M. Gueroult in this evening's Press..
Sir F. B. Head will please to observe that the
article is written in France, and not in England :

That portion of the bourgeoisie which bed formerly the
habits end =minim of penned Hi finding litre:lre abstain
front Wag pest la panes, does the mos, Banos has sass
• siagaler silmetlem, witkih, is our opinion, is neither good
for the government aer for the bourgeoisie itself ; and It is
meet assandly mot favourable to those aspirations for the
progress of polluted liberty which are sow uppermost in all
minds. The greramist sea bows waft to gain by that
continual protest span it wait seembehma the rauseels-
don by considernhie dam easd MINIVIIMS UMW of their
wonted faunas apes pehie pinks. Thg so-cragration of
ita awn direct agent. is net ememgh. It soy, indeed, Wet
in this way, bat it wag that mall, that teat
which would arise fret the volumiery rid inde-
pendent adhesion of the enlightened olmens. It may be
possible to sdminlater and govern under those oundidons but
to prepare the future, to recruit and twin op pablio 111M—
the movement of opinion languishes; Wee become semi
and poor ; or if, perchance, any grand Well le started, dreg
is no public opinion to brat it. each idles are neither ac-
cepted nor understood, oar carried forward by the pie of
public favour. Good things may be done, but they are d.bs
fearfully—without animenon—without enthusiasm. Evers-
thing deposes en the hilative of pryer, and this
itself bee me Wager the mown of the tomer of e=
which to seek mewed as—that torrent which ft my New
times be desirable to regulate, but which It moist bathe
interest of anybody to dry up. Has government ale
all that It could so named this situation P. We may be per-
witted to ask the question without newsrantag it; or, rather,
why Amid we set? for this rilltalle Weld molt We
pleinly Iks ea maws.. It is Mae** ye that be anis-
~ll pier ander a legally diearedenary rifigl4, in
(sly pgs.llll. the debits of the Corps Lagielatit to be raga
thetwasht er an Meld raga; the gergrauoant has pot go
esiagahlre wpm 111 end way mealeisratio• of thartght,
Ake, in the keg estr bra pgathund ea rameraproted Whet ;
fb fiord nunolt--11 lose new weft but dhow drained
hp prevent the easeptrage et krasegisesil egyeekka. and It 111111
Mow tee emilwadistems t k bred the tweltalso contesera of

minket—sew ft Me not bear So yoke at Oldake stall; end
If It wished to conanit It would be at s loss is boor, bow.
Does sot this wondrous mmakeity bight to leak suppledous
Vfill It sot et With s thought that the outoprken voles at
an boned adversary Is a bitter eoessellor the the Imam..
lets whiner, of so official advocate pleeffeg with no oppo •
.at before him P • • • If tbs goverment had any
adversaries,' it would. have setae parttime; if it only bed
assudse, It would have sees Moeda. If we emelt appar-
els).* only, everybody in the samtty I. of one wind, not
°sly se to the prindpis, but sa to every act of lb. govern-
amt. let Is It possible that ids metro= unesdenfty
be bellowed to be genuine I'

Y. de Beeffort, the manger of the Vaudeville
Theatre, has resigned, and is succeeded by M.
Litrine, member of the Committee of Dramatic
Authors.
The Bourse was firm at the beginning, bet closed
rather weak. The Rube fill do. for ouh and
second, closing at 73fr. 300. and 731 r. 400. Mo.
biller fell l!fr.. 60c. Railways Namely varied. It
was repented that the new Industrial Bank had been
authorised, with a capital of 60 millions of francs
and 40 millions to be immediately issued.

A letter from Lisbon says that an opposition
deputy, M. Barros, having morel in the chamber for
all the dominants relative to the Charles-Georges
_ _ _

question, the govern toes t had declared that there were
some which it was not expedient to publish. In cos.
esquence of this, the opposition press has been fall
of invective against the government for being, as it
says, wanting is patriotism and energy. The
municipality of Lisbon has resigned, in conse-
quence of some misunderstanding with the ministers
about an alleged impossibility of raising funds
eufticient for the public works which are to be
undertakes. They had in a *ldea to the king

r complained that the minister; had net only nei:
lected their temmastaswees, bat had not treated
them with proper regret.

MONTALIMBART.
The Pais correspondent of the Times, in hie letter
etiled Wednesday maim thus manna the view we have
taw of M. de Montslembert's appeal, end been witness to
Ile 110CC411111 .

—"lt is certain that the result of M. de Idontelemberes ap-
peal, as tranemitted to you lest night by telegrach, Is con-
sidered without, I believe, a disseutient voice, as a triumph
for the plaintiff and a decided check for the government. It
seemed to be feted that nothing but mistakes should be com-
mitted throughout the whole of this effete. The prosecution
of the Corresponding was a blunder; the judgment of the
police court a blender; the lacy Implied in the announce-
ment of the pardon a blunder; end the consequence of the
repeated Monday Is the judgment of the Cour Impfriale,
which annuls one part and revises the other, of the previous
decision. It is certain that that portion of the radio who
have taken an interest In the nonsedings attribute no Knell
importance to then coochnica. It wee, perhaps, too tough
to expect that the court would oomplately reveres the sun-
NON of the police tribunal, end when the judges left the
court lest night to deliberate, few indeed expected that may
considerable modification would be made. The object of K.
de Montalembert in appealing, in spite of the angraatal
act of grace, bee thus been amply attained. Of the few
counts originally standing In the Indianan two only
rennin—first, that of exciting to hatred end con-
tempt of the goversment ; end, second, of endea-
vouring to weaken the respect doe to the laws. The third
charge—that of attacking the principle of univalent
suffrage, se well as the rights end authority which the heed
of the state derives from the constitution—wee set nide by

the court. This setting aside of the third cherge is the most
Important of the whole, as it Is that kr which Y. de Yenta-
lembert would be liable, as • mown of public safety, to be
transported to Algeria, or beelsbri hue the country without
any form of trial. The appeal has teed him form that
Ilaidlity, and he may naer tit uteri, as ter as the law ma
protect him, of not bag NM the mita Beta in the cam-
paraded, raiser water al delmika the Cour Lapides
dicenishell the eameity et the peaks semi ; iastead ot
months, the impriemmeet Is 'Ely thr tires, while It hoe let
the automat d aria* MONO the Nina Ali this, however,
fades into ladomillmem vete mereed with the relief
which his awed hos seemed Is him, sad with which there
is little d he Is more grstl&d than with en Ironically
warded lot of peas."