The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE PRUSSIAN TROOPS.

BERLIN, JAN. 4.

The Merewre de Somalse of this day states that the
permanent committee of the Wurtemberg chamber, in
reference to the demand made by certain deputies, is
unanimously itself in favour of a protest against the
passage of Prussian troops. The committee, more-
over, required a communication on the present state
of the negotiations on the subject.
The Assembly of the Bourgeois have just pre-
sented a petition to the King of Wurtemburg, pray-
ing him to avoid the dangers that threaten the
material interests of the country.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OW

I DENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVRNINO.

Although many of the Paris journals continue to
announce that the Conference met on Saturday, I
repeat that the fact is not so. lam also informed
that the expected meeting yesterday did not take
place, although it will very likely be stated
confidently that it did. There is reason
to think that the firmness of England and
Austria has surprised as much as it has annoyed the
Russian and French governments. The Nord,
accounting for the repeated postponement of a'
second meeting of the plenipotentiaries, says
that instructions arc waited for from several
quarters on the subject of fixing a day for
the evacuation of the Principalities and the
Black Scs. Our plenipotentiaries will not,
I firmly believe, budge an inch from the position
they have taken up, which is not to evacuate upon
the strength of a mere paper tracing of the new
Bessarabian frontier, but to wait till the metes
and bounds are actually laid out and agniell upon
by all parties.
The body of the Archbishop of Paris was em-
balmed yesterday.
Some of the Paris journals, and in particular the
Unirers, the clerical organ, seem to imply that
Verger is insane. No doubt any man cow-
-1 mitting so heinous a crime can scarcely be con-
sidered in a healthy state of intellect, but all
the answers given by the assassin in the course
of the preliminary interrogatory evince a singularly
cool, clear, and determined mind. In the whole of
his conduct prior to this last terrible act there are
strong proofs of a perverse and ill-regulated dispo-
sition, but none whatever of his being a man inca-
pable of sane reflection, and irresponsible for his
conduct.

The preparations for the lying in state will cer-
tainly not be completed till late to-night, but it is
thought that all will be ready for the admission of
the public to-morrow. The ehapelle ardente is con-
structed in one of the four large rooms on the
ground-floor of the palace. The body will be exposed
on a dais of black velvet, supported by silvered
columns. The face will be visible. On either side
of the chapel will be an altar, at which priests will
officiate during the whole time of the lying
in state. All the rooms of the ground-
floor are bung with black, and escutcheons
with the arms of the deceased are placed at intervals.
The motto" Ms* autem Sarum eat diarnas" is
thought to be peculiarly applicable to the late
respected metropolitan. As at present arranged
the public will be admitted to-morrow from 10 to 4.
The assassin was again interrogated this morning
in the Mazes prison by M. Treilhard, the Judge of'
Instruction. He gave his answers with the same
coolness as before, and avowed his intention to kill
the Archbishop. The examination was concluded
to-day, and the prisoner was fully committed
for trial at the Assize Court of the Seine.
There can bo no doubt that the terrible event throws
immense additional power into the hands of the
Emperor. The high and influential post of Arch-
bishop of Paris, will, of course, be given to some one
selected with a view to the political influence that
be will exercise over the clergy, and through
them upon their flocks. There is a rumour, which
I think no means incredible, that the Emperor's re-
lative, the Abbk Lucien Bonaparte, who has only
just entered holy orders, will be the new arch-
bishop.
The Bourse exhibited extraordinary firmness to-
day. The Bente rose 43e. for cash, and 25c. for
account, closing at Mr. 20c. and 67fr. 41c. The
Mobilier rase 23h. The Orleans Railway rose SOfr.;
Southern, 28fr.; Mediterranean, 22fr. 50e. ; North-
ern, 20fr.; Eastern, 16h. ; Lyons, 12fr. ; Grand
Central, 12fr. 50c. ; St. Ranbert, 20fr. ; and other
lines from sfr. to lofr. The rise was mainly attri-
buted to a confident report that the Neufchatel
affair is settled.

PARIS, SVIIDAT Emirs°.
A elockmaker of Chewy (Aisne) has been sen-
tenced to three years' imprisonment for using insult-
ing expressions towards the Emperor and Empress,
and also for having said that the man who in 1848
shot she then Archbishop of Paris (M.Affre) deserved
the cross of the Legion of Honour.
The Conference did not meet yesterday, although
the Constitutionsel announces that it did. This
evening's Pays attributes the delay entirely to the
time required for drawing up the protocol of the
first meeting, and refers to what pained during the
last Conferences as a proof of the probability of this
explanation.
You are aware that the important Ilplleilan of the
right to distribute electoral banstins, or whim
tialcets, with an official arditiorisaCion, is again abed
to CMS bedaredie Court on9ratig*. urn the appal
of the Pingsrear-deargal of I.qeme spinet a decode&
of the sormt hi that locality : and that u the period
of the guru] Ikeda' draws near, the practical ap-
plication at the legal principle which is involved
herein becomes a matter at the utmost concern to
that party Ii France which isreluctant to shaft that
the system, se it exists why the
edjoiato, h whin better then " a
=shirr, and a snare.' Eatinent
litsitta:Nrrit —livilimsteti:igaketLtzPrbeabek=
of voting tweelnawihsi with the ism of a can-
didaiai =li of the electors most la leVetetraferithin
the the laws relating to e
the about and selling of trains sad
wars
Sed OR Iterebt, who was
ef thrConneil of Ministers fader the re.
when the law of July 27,1849, yea proposed
the govimient and adopted, has new written a
hitter in wlllik he declares himself of the same opi-
aka I and Me authority as an interpreter of the
meaning at his own law cannot very well be denied.
I extract suns postage. of his letter :
I need sot ruthed yeti der what elressumen the law
et Jalyttl, 111111, werareprel tsnledsd to the honk.
Par Ow pair wen mom by a seem at pa" who,
Isilbs then ray le dr mod Mad Akar , ether dig do
elualeyara la IN thatedith after ml breadth to him
beam of the meet argeraanethrseler, Nth irrdy begeseos
is earth order tat are to seed rink b, no pse prism
were et we* earn the itherthethe et dr
wthethirl hod ihre stmt the theeo te New Wady
theipahred to third to ear nadthhirai, thin&
rethdred
to Mosey
dre to rood oath It wee them, and •th odor
pat rem Ode w, thet the grairrort issokel k
place that ileripedllny teethe air the pales war
tier width sired with raliesona le the tourthfire
sad 11114dehre; ear wady to marls brg=
operas or thookellith to be ellehriltan dr
no by of hay fif, Wad I ana, rid my weeds
whore] then sad ogre wtth this albustlint, bad no
=2* se sfter intration, this doe sr I have
just
Newardnebse, If we otholdor
items the tree sarderr of this
law berg dad ly WO *eel Fig Nil mad'
by the deuththeasse saelM—a ft eras iskethired, by the
explanation art ether! In the mane nt the debate, I Alan
perhaps he paired he not having formes, that out of a
oreerthe ter swaldisig the trade of hawker and pedlars

might be Bedewed afterwards a remedy eiceimt th---;.7".'''t.'
cila.
Lion of electoral tickets on the day of on election.
However, as with regard to the eireularis, • oerious
did exist, that at a time when elections billowed mg ti
almost daily, end were, so to speak matinee', it ,t;-
have been but too easy, under the pret,.t 74
electioneering, to disseminate and hawk shout gutmete
writing., thereby eluding nr evading our law, it ti
provided isgeinst by the law of July 16, IMO, whe4 te
restrieting the electoral franchise to the twenty clip e..
coding the election, and in requiring the addreg....ehe
signed by the candidates, and previously &pelted MB to
authorities, effected a reamneWe adjustment hetet, the
rights of the candidate. and our law with regard to pug.,
and hawker.. But, as you have shown nmarlueldg,:.
this law was only made for the circulars benefit, • -'
the electioneering statements of their political eentimeturi
and a voting ticket or a list of candidate's ie quite austhet.
thing; the former is the act and deed of the candidate, the
latter of the elector; and if the law requires the candidate's
signature, that is because the law PIMA that he skald leery
extend responsibility
.of his act, which is but just. Bu to
extend the requirement to the party who draws em ith
electoral list, or remits a voting ticket to his fellow eke,
would bo to shift thisiti;in of signing f
rev ree the cash:
date to the elector, cm • the latter to el the way ie
which he voted, and .M 063261280 to a rtnttnettlity wbidi
could not be made to harmonise with that liberty shot the
Law guarantees to him. All your disesteem on the tout i.
deceive. In the law of 1850 the logelaturc hod not m me,
bompletion the electoral ticket -that t,‘ evident; and the
Irealstore did not pay Mention to it at ling. become they
ease la it no danger to swift ; moreover, become in 1850 a
WA net entered late gar =go conception that so Motu 0,
ft, law to protest Ibilimple Mining of a voting ticket, u
aim iimeteral Nats spied be poseible implication of the het
isimt nab he pain sad kawkern.
1 All With obliged to the court of Lyere
BM lerdwigalliMl alto tp•otion to a higher plan, u a eau
ccubitsbad tau Tint bort, wiling eido the die-esem
at the bum Ms bind most logically that the rug.
be de yaw et as electoral lint to a brother dome
hes aist ad ill the election itself, that it 1 tes
aims num or isaddis the electoral right; that the
nun taileirsace et die suthoritirs in ouch an act wall
Mb the frisks ef elestis, and that it would in feet le
satiecting the stadia. la ewe of its most cascatial mate
the authority of the prefect. This namable, eta
appears tO me to be la strict keeping with truth mg
with the spirit of the skeletal law, will cut any knot tial
may exist a• to the tem. dr constitution is
any police law. would maintain
=air:
gieuture of no = '''-serried audacity to Pk* e
pitch losootiozp=llla 11111116InCe of the prefect' is tie
electoral o illimitT To attribute to them mt, I,
idea w be the sees an to accuse them of modnees, shee
we cossider the time end the circumstance,under which

the law was proposed.
You have said with resew and truth that the fact of ekes
tics Is not an isolated and mere private act. One dots ad
go ad obtain the vote of the elector at his dwelling, Who
has not to bring it to the mayor or the niegiWate,
does the taxes to the collector's. No, it is an act dew h
common and in public. The electors have • right dud
we
indeed bound to concert together, to dear up any deeds
by consulting each other. It is for this purposedks
causes than to meet, and makes them veto in convoy,
Now, the most natural act in these consultation between
elector and elector, which the law has not merely permitted
but deemed necewary, to the supplying to each other the as
change of the electoral tickets and lists, provided this he dose
in loyalty and good faith. I may add that for the monk*
election, for those in which the elector lots to decide from
amongst a very large number of candidates, these prelimi-
nary consultations nexpecting names and lists are not merely
usefW but indispensable, for without them such elections
would be blind, foolish, and often quite impossible.

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