The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(710 Y 001 OWN

PARIS, TuvaaDLT VTI3IIIIO.

Yon will not have forgotten the affair of the Count
de Bondy, an ex-peer of France, and formerly
Prefect for the Yonne, who being a candidate
for the council-general of the Indre, instituted
a prosecution against several functionaries, charging
them with the commission of unheard-of electoral
franc* in order to ensure the election of the govern-
ment candidate. As I informed you in August last,
the cue came on for trial before the Correctional
Tribunal of Blanc. One hundred and eighty wit-
nous were in attendance, and M. Emile (Meier,
specially retained, had come down from Paris to
support the Count de Bondy's cue. In the hopes of
hushing the rattler up, the government had pro-
cured a decree from the Court of Caseation changing
the venue to Never,, on the ground that " the public
peace would be endangered if the cue were to be tried
in Blanc." The calculation was that Count de
Bondy would shrink from the expense of conveying
such an immense number of witnesses to a great
distance. This expectatioa has, however, been
disappointed. M. Emile Meier has gone to
Never, and unless some new device has been in-
vented to impede the course of justioe, the cue must
have been opened this very day, Deo. 16. The prin-
cipal defendants are M. Clovis (leadoff, the Mayor
of Blanc ; M. Pierre Daudet, a monk (known in
religion as Brother Gauthier), the headmaster of
• the Christian School of Blanc; M. Theophile
Demersemann, a foreman in a manufactory; M.
Desnoels, a captain in the fire brigade ; M.
Bejard, a government contractor; and M. Martin,
a police agent. I sent you in August last a long
account of the charges made against them. It will
melee now to say, that the Count de Bondy accuses
the Mayor (amongst other things) of having violated
the lawful liberty of the electors by bribee,threats,and

promisee, of having violated the secrecy of the ballot
by opening voting bulletins which were delivered
to him closed, and of having thrown bulletins into
the ballot box on behalf of the electors who were
not present. The captain of the fire brigade is
accused of having brought his company to the poll
with drawn swords, of having made them vote, and
forced many other electors to vote wi,h open bai-
l/tins, and with having made use of a variety of
fraudulent manceuvres. The polio. agent, Martin,
is accused of like mancewrree, and, moreover, of

having grossly insulted the Count de Bondy. Demme-
@mann and Bejard are charged with hav-
ing threatened to discharge their workman
unless they voted for the government candidate, and
with-having opened their bulletins and pinned them
to their electoral/cards. Brother Gauthier, against
whom the charge most heavily presses, is accused of
having not only violated the liberty of the electors
and the secresy of the vote, but with haring
snatched the Count de Bondy's bulletins from the
hands of his supporters and torn them up, and with
having by bribery, violence, threats, promises, and
fraudulent mancenvres of all kinds, prevented elec-
tors from voting for the Count de Bondy. He is
especially charged with having written to all the
fathers who had children at his school, threatening
to send their children away unless they came to his
house at a given hour, to proceed to the poll and
vote for the government candidate. I believe
there is no law to prevent a report of •
trial of this kind from appearing in the French
papers. If the whole truth should come oat it will
be very curious, but I doubt much whether it will
not be suppressed by the machinery of private
warnings. .

The loam bee been better to-day, Is
of a report that the Council of the
was likely to reduce its di•ooant to 2:}37a0
not, however, I believe, likely that this neeeteet,
be adapted fir the present. The eats, a=
, states that the interest on T
'tglalbt to be reduced; and should this trio,

ZIVERNXIL BOROUGH BAN
MRBTING.

rOtIIaYILD

yesterday (Thursday) the adjourned meeting of
the abersMdera et the Liverpool Borough Bank woe held (%
the beak, in Wattle...greet The liquidators were all preirct,
as well se the manager sad legal adviser of the bank ; the
chair bail occupied by JOSHUL DIXON, ER.
With re armee to three proposal. Mattes to an ezpore
the affairs of the bank by en aeoceentant, the Chiltern ea.
plained that the liquidators could not do anything of thebled
without an order fromthe Master of the Rolla; Thia Mr.
Bromley Moore denied, and cited the case of the Weston
Bank of Scotland ; to which it was replied that the law es It
that back did not apply to an linglish tank like theirs ; sag
in answer to Mr. Moores wallop that there was no penalty
the chairman said that even if there waa no penalty, bi
thought they would be guilty of a miedemeanor in acting
against the clause of the ace of parliameat.
Mr. BIUMLAY Monica then energetically denounced the
oceelsot it the directors in not attending the meeting sag
giving imionnation, which would have enabled them to pit
the toddle on the tight horse. Individually, they might be
blameless ; but there was blame somewhere, for there had
been • allies of losses ever since 1847, and then a tout* eg
their capital had gone.
Mr. Dries (the chairman) with great warmth reptidineg
the hminAation that he was in any way a delinquent dimetot.
which led Mr. Moore to say that h• in no way alluded to lb.
MOM; and in answer to a remark that he had best a
diroctor coos himmtf Mr. Moore explained that that vas
only fora abort times UM; his name only appeared on one
reVand be Mel declined to act after that.
Pnitar BAVILBOXI salted who were meant by a
III:Zin ems et Mr. Moon's letters to the liquidators—. ce.
ent directors," but so sneerer was returned to the qua%
Mr. MOM saying that he could POD WI if an investigstiot
of the books or granted to Wm.
After some more dist:maim of a varied and desultory chop
ratter, the proosedlitp dosed with a vote of thanks to Se