The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-27 00:00:00

41_867.

• ' EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

11/1011 0171 OWN 00111101P01DINT.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Epoque, personated by M. Terme, the
manager, and M. Arnould, a writer on its staff,
was tried by theCorrectionalTribunal yesterday for
a libel on that section of the Paris police service
known as sergents-de-ville. The gravamen of the
libel was contained in the following words :
Out of four thousand sergents-cle-ville who occupy the
streets of Paris in military fashion, three thousand four
hundred and ninety-nine habitually treat peaceable and
too submissive citizens with unjustifiable harshness and
brutality. Fifteen arrests out of twenty are made for
most frivolous canoes, and are gener►lly accompanied with
bad language and unnecessary violence. The countenance
given by authority to this conduct is such that the ma-
jority of the public, so far from complaining of tbe arro-
gance of the police, is fain to thank them for not doing
worse.

Reports of libel cases are prohibited by Napo-
leonic law ; but it is to be inferred from the
nominal sentence pronounced by the court that it
saw nothing very frightfully at variance with the

truth in the paragraphs incriminated. Instead o
a long period of imprisonment which might have
been awarded the court only sentenced M. Terme
to a fine of 81., and M. Arnould to a fine of 241.
There was exaggeration in the censure of the
sergents-de-ville by the Epoque. They are not
badly conducted men,not gratuitously uncivil, and
highly useful and courageous instruments for the
maintenance of order; but they are too much im-
bued with the coup d'itet spirit of 1852. Every
individual policeman looks upon himself ass par
taker of the Emperor's prerogative, and unanswer-
able to the law.

The Bourse was greatly agitated. The Bente,
however, after a slight decline, became very firm,
and closed at 69fr. 300. for cash, and 69fr. 20c. for
account, with a rise of 30c. and 174 c. Italian rose
25c., closing at 48fr. 85c. The unfortunate Credit
Mobilier alone was fearfully depressed ; it was done
at one moment at Mfr., and closed at 177 fr. 70c.,
with a fall of 12fr. 50c. The solidarity of the
Credit Mobilier and the Empire is so great that
the most lugubrious inferences are drawn from the
hopeless condition of the gigantic engine of national
prosperity whose solidity was the theme of official
journals a few years ago.

THE FENIANS AT MANCHESTER.

RE-EXAMINATION.—(THE DAY.)
(sr TILSORAPR.)
(710 X OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT)
MANCHESTER, 1.30 P.Y.
_ _

On being brought up this morning, the Fenian
prisoners were still in handcuffs. It now appears that
the precaution of placing the men in irons wee not
taken on account of any possible insufficiency of the
force at command for their safe keeping, but to pre-
vent the possibility of a scene occurring in court
the prisoners, all told, are nearly 50 in number, and the
space between the dock and the bench being very limited,
there would be no means at hand, it is contended, of pre-
venting or checking any sudden impulse of vengeance.
The prisoners were again brought to the court under
a strong military guard, which was loudly cheered
in the streets. The Fenian sympathisers are few, or they
forbear to express their feelings openly.