The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

'RING, OCTOBER. 30,

As eloquence adorned, splfsd for some
" Saviour of society" to suppress the Nvo-
lation ; his wee the only honousible name
which Ani President of the Repntile dared to
amoclate with the conspirators of the coup (feted in
the oonsultativa commission which was designed to
lend a colourable sanction to its acts. Bitterly has
this highvouled and generous man expiated his
reactionary excesses in the Assembly. Still more
bitterly has he repented a momentary unfaithful-
ness to the cause of liberty and justice, and a mo-
mentary complicity with dishonour. Nobly has he
redeemed one fatal fault, and avenged one sad
delinquency. But it is not in human nature that
he of all others should not be hateful to
the servile crew whom contact had for an instant
sullied his high and noble name. For, like Caro, he
is the champion of a defeated, not of a victorious
cause. And, like CAro, he appreciates the true
I dignity of life better than to acquire°e in the dead-
' ening tranquillity of despotism.
Those who oarefully examine the article which has
aroused the susceptibilities of the Imperial Censor-
ship, will find it difficult to avoid the conclusion that
as the recent demonstration against the rights of
Portugal was interpreted by the confidential inti-
mates of the Eamon to be an indirect attempt
up= the dignity of England, so the prosecution of an
article in which so eminent an orator and statesman
I u M. DE MONTLLENDERT eloquently expounds
I the true conditions of Constitutional Government
as they are exemplified in England, must be inter-
preted as an indirect explosion of hostility to our
Parliament and Prem. Unable to control opinion in
England, Imperialism strikes at English opinion as
it is professed by high-minded Liberals in France ;
and sympathy ,for England, admiration of English
liberties, is an unpardonable insult to Napoltionio
wisdom.

There is another, and a secondary point of view,
from which the prosecution of the " Correspondent'"
may be regarded. It is the organ of the liberal and
tolerant Catholics, and therefore particularly ob-
noxious to the furious bigots of the Univers. The
relations of the Empire with the extreme party in
the Church are no secret, and if the liberal journals
have been permitted to protest against the outrage
at Bolaeraa, it is perhaps advisable that M. ni Mown-
LIMBERT, whole regarded by the Univers almost as
a renegade, should be sacrilleed to square accounte.
But hi. DE hionrsLitmnitar avows himself " almost
" as warm a friend of England as of English insti-
," tutionst" and that alone, it now appears, is a
deadly sin under the Empire, though the Empire is
ear ally. If the heart of France still beats, M. DE
MONTALEYBIIT'S outspoken apology for liberty will
be honoured among his countrymen u a brave
action, and in England we shall certainly not
esteem his sympathy the less because it is tempered
with a jest discrimination. It is only to despotic
rulers that truth is poison—to a free people it is
the breath of life.

FkANC&
• PARIS, FRIDAY
The bile*" *pears in this morning's Moniteur:

" The Proitire ni-Imperial of the Tribunal of the
Seine caused to be seized this day the number of the
Correspondent containing the article of M. the
Count of Moutalembert, entitled, " A Debate on
India in the English Parliament." The editor of
the journal and the author of the article are accused:
1. Of an attack on the principle of universal suffrage,
and on the rights and authority which the Emperor
holds from the constitution ; 2. Of an attack upon
the respect due to the laws ; S. Of exciting to hatred
and contempt of the Emperor's government ; 4. Of
having endeavoured to disturb the public pesos by
exciting the citizens to mutual hatred or contempt;
crimes provided against and punished by the articles
1,4, and 7 of the decree of August 11, 1848, by 1
and 3 of the law of July 27, 1849."
Prince Jerome left the Palace of Mendon yester-
day to establish himself for the winter at the Palais
Royal. The Prince has quite recovered from his
late indisposition.

M. Valera de L Paniega, brother of the Duchess
de Malakoff, baa been appointed an attache of the
Spanish embassy at Paris.

A dwarf named Richebourg, who was only 231
I inches high, has just died is the Rue du Four St.
Germain, aged 90. He was, when young, in the
.arias of the Dashes, &Orleans, mother of Bing
Louis Philippe, with title of " butler," but he per-
formed none of the duties of the office. After the
Snit revolution broke out he was employed to con-
vey despatches abroad, and for that purpose was
dressed as a baby, the despatches being concealed in
his cap, and a nurse being made to carry him. For
the last twenty-five years he lived in the Rue du
Four, and during all that time never went out.
He had • great repugnance to strangers, and was
alarmed when be heard the voice of one ; but in his
own family he was very lively and cheerful in his
conversation. The Orleans family allowed him a
pension of 3,000 fr.
The Three per Cents. closed to-day at 73fr.
foe the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 96fr. 760. ; Orleans Railway
Shares, 1,345 fr.; Great Northern, 967 fr. 60o.; Stras-
burg, 711 fr. 26e.; Paris to Lyons and the Mediter-
ranean, 875 fr. ; Western of France, 610 fr. ; Bordeaux
and Cette,67ltr. 26e.; Lyons and Geneva, 822 fr. 600. ;
Bank of Cr6dit Mobiber, 910 fr. ; Austrian Rail-
ways, Mfr.; Roman Railw•yi,4l2fr. We. ; Rusiian
Railways, 611 fr. 36e.

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAILS.

We have received by special despatch via Mu-
tual*. our papers from Calcutta to the 22nd ult., and
from Hong Son to the 11th.

There are no later accounts by this mail of the
military movements in Central India than those
which we received by the Bombay mail, a. week ago,
the date of which from Bombay was September 24.
In like manner, nothing additional from the North-
Wert Provinces is to be reported.
With regard to operations in Owls, the following
is given by the Beivai liurkars :
A good mazy ommemata to and fro of the rebels la Obis,
and semi stveatages whisk of troops scomskaally gain (it
Is may obesicedly they a* termed b<oonslng to blows
with the anisay), me =nomad by Samna Aber a num-
ber of math* and desiaboey deasonmrationy a aseeage
dated the 13th hen. states that the Rajah Mann MO had
es go hiensall, wish 1,300 era sad Weems to
the eebels hem ealbspore, who were for
sews other plan. To pose over several rebel teross, are
described so appearfag aim in ow spot_ sad sew *
*ere in* by *sleet awns* a body at dila at
pre. sear noire* Gbant, therosabg the rysibid
road. Nawsbernaje le on that read, and abort-
Ingly s wing of hat Majesty's 23rd and her
guns from Locknow were
sealeddespatehed to strengthen
thsealed_ Oa the 9th the ateeses Tappet rebels
at Rani 12 base snathmest of Arra* wets
attsrbd by Colossi Webers in a peel** which they own-
Mai In three division, and dish* ter are boa*. Be
shelled the* oat of it at the aid of thin thee, wading a
handled. at who* doable* zany subsegasedly died, aid
Ming Mly on the spot. The raves stains* die loss tithe
rebels is 260. Oa the 10th bat., someding lo a *map
fro* lame, Colonel Hope end Colonel Let elated
their japeiba at Molk Gems, when the beads* winds pro-
eirrilage we previoaely adverted were said to be moving ea
Berchspore.

We have also received a Bombay Standard of
the 27th September, which, although three days
later than our previous intelligence, contains nothing
important but s despatch communicated by govern-
ment, which states that the rebels under Tantla
Toper, after their defeat b 7 General Michel, fled
to the north, in which direction they may be met by
Captain Mayne, who, with two huaclred sabres, wee
at Ameseghur, thirteen miles north of Boors. Oar
100 boa been trifling. General Miehel halted at
IBeora on the 16th. The rebels had not teemed the
Agra road, nor had they plundered Beam The
Nemeth force had not joined. The want of cavalry
enabled many to escape.