The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-26 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROX OGS OWN

PARIS, WEDNESDAY lemmas.

There is already evidence that the great legal
consultation at Compiegne which I mentioned
yesterday has resulted, not in the wise resolution
to drop the Baudin prosecutions, but in a determi-
nation to terrify the judges all over the country
by the various means which the administration
commands, and to prevent them if possible from
following the example of the Tribunal of Cler-
mont-Ferrand. M. Pinard's journal, the Eteraard,
has been set on to insult the Auvergne judges
in terms which would have certainly drawn
down a prosecution upon any non-privi-
leged paper. "It is the first time for
the last seventeen years," says the Men-
dard, " that a court of law has been found
assosiating itself with political passions and quali-
fying itself to receive the compromising compli-
ments of hostile parties."
The Procureur-General of Riom, in order to get
the Clermont judgment reversed with the greater
theatrical effect, has fixed the hearing of his appeal
for December 2. The ground taken by the Cler-
mont tribunal is, however, so solid that the appeal
court when called upon to overrule it must feel the
government a hard taskmaster. The dictionary
defines " manceuvres" :—" A combined move-
ment of troops ; and (figuratively) intrigues."
Now, the judges stigmatised by the Eteadard as
demagogues simply laid it down that the fact of
publishing a list of subscriptions to build a monu-
ment to Baudin, by a Clermont journal which had
no connexion whatever with the people who were
at the Montmartre cemetery on Nov. 2, or with
the Paris papers, could not, in any same of the
word, be a " mancenvre."

A long string of fresh Gaudin proeecutions will
occupy the Paris Correctional Court on Friday. The
Temps is to be defended by the grave M. Dufaure,
who will not be so violeut as M. Gatnbetta, but
far more terrible for such of the judges as are
troubled with a conscience.

A country judge of high rank, M. segsndy, first
president of the Appeal Court of Montpellier,
made a sharp speech at the opening of the courts
after the long vacation against M. De'tingle's law,
which forces judges to retire at a certain age. For
this breach of discipline he has been severely ro-
priummled by the Minister of Justice, and, more-
over, the matter was brought before the last
Council of Ministers, and the presumptuous judge
has been called upon for explanations of his
conduct.

The Ministerial Council which was to have met
at Compiignn to-day has been postponed, on ac-
count, it is understood, of the Emperor being
somewhat fatigued by the duties of hospitality,
and doing the honours of Compi4no forest in
changeable weather.
M. Casenave, who lately made a speech at a
public meeting in the Pii-aux-Cleres, has been
summoned before M. de Gonet, the judge of in-
struction, to answer • charge of exciting citizens
to hatred of each other. This is the first prosecu-
tion since the new Public Meeting Act. In this
case the defendant contests the accuracy of the
report of the policeman on which the indietnient is
grounded. _ _

The Mon iteur announces that the Prince and
Princess of Prussia will probably prolong their
stay at Windsor till December 15. This is a round-
about way of saying that the news published in
Paris two days ego that they were expected at
Compiigno was not true.
It is said that Queen Christina, who now takes
the title of Duchess d'Aranjuer, is included in the
third series of invitations to Compi4ne.
Don Carlos. calling himself Duke of Madrid,
es atfeadastg his accession to the title of Charles
VII., has gone to shoot at one of the oountry
homes of the Duke de la Itoehefoueauld.
♦ otter in the Gass* eh Praire, with no other

date than " the Spanish frontier, says that CI.
Marquis de Villa-Pam. a staunch " Isabellist;
brother of Count de' Zaldivar, brother-is-law of
the Marquis do Novaliches, and san-ia.4„
the Duchess of (}or, has committed suicide.
The following is the last bulletin frost Aetna..
villa:

Y. Berryer has paired a bad night, bat irn Oahl Na
morning. Be continues to take • little broth.
_ _

In the anticipation of his approaching so. w
Berryrr is said to have expressed a wish not to b.
buried in Paris, in order not to be the ()mono' of
any political manifestation. I doubt the troth w
this news. At all events, the scruple is uses.
oessary. M. Berryer's popularity is not
sort to agitate Um manes on the occimion of b 4
funeral.

THIRD EDITION.

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