The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PION mu OWN

YARDS, THUZSDAY Evninto.

A pamphlet of a semi-official character will be
published by Dentu on Monday, with the title,
"Ne touchez pas au Pape." It is reported that
this pamphlet will explain the views of the French
government with regard to Rome, and explain the
way in which the eldest son of the church recon-
ciles his recognition of the kingdom of Italy with
his respect for the Holy See.
The affair of the prosecution of the Duke de
Broglie is so delicate that even a first-class govern-
ment hack like M. Grendguillot cannot speak of it
without making mistakes. An article of his in
this morning's Cunstitutionnel is the subject of the
following "communicated note " to the evening
papers :
The Consiautionnel announced this morning that the
. . .

administration had proposed to the Duke de Broglie to
renounce the publication of his work entitled " Vuea our le
gouvernement de la France,' in order to prevent it from
being seized. That journal has committed an involuntary
error ; the work in question was deposited without the
authot's name at the Ministry of the interior, conformably
to the law of Oct. 21, 1814. Subsequently • seizure WWI
effected, and the judicial authorities have commenced their
instruction. There is, therefore, in this affair nothing but
what is perfectly regular and legal.

The Duke de Broglie, as a Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour, has demurred to the jurisdiction
of the ordinary courts of law, and demands to
be tried by the High Court of Justice. It is
believed that the privilege which he claims must
be granted, in pursuance of a senates conseiltem of
June 12, 1858.
The trial of M. Mires is again postponed for a
week. When the case was called on to-day M.
Marie (in the absence of M. Mathieu) stated that
it had been found impossible to prepare the defence,
although not a minute had been lost, and that it
was absolutely necessary to ask for further time.
M. Mires complained that, although his request
had been so far granted that be had been conduc-
ts] under escort to his counting-bbuse, be had not
been allowed to confer with his secretary and
clerks, except in the presence of police agents, and
he could not work to any good purpose under those
circumstances.

Advocate Imperial Senart said it was quite time
to take down M. MirW pretensions, and to remind
him that he was but an ordinary prisoner. He
could not expect to have a code made fur
his especial convenient*. Nevertheless, he had
been treated with exceptional favour. Since he
complained so warmly of the presence of the police,
laud been agreed that they should go out when-
ever there was an advocate present, whose gown
would be a guarantee.

M. Marie said that as an advocate he would
never consent to play the part of a policeman.
How did he know that the polioe, who were in the
adjoining room, might not be listening at the
keyhole ? He and his friends had retired imme-
diately.
The President (who appeared therefore not to
agree with thu imperial advocate) said—Maitre
Marie, the court entirely agrees with you, and
the imperial advocate will see that the defence
has all that freedom which is inseparable from good
justice.
Marshal Niel, it is said, will be sent to Turin,
en mission extraordinaire, to compliment Victor
Emmanuel on his recognition by France as King
of Italy.
The alarming news on the state of the Sultan's
health, which I mentioned yesterday, is considered
quite true. His illness is said to be • complication
of • cancer in the stomach and • disease of the
spinal marrow. Politicians are speculating on the
probable consequences of his death. His eldest son,
only 17, has already I:r...vtu put in possession of a
harem, in which it is said he takes as great delight as
his father did before him. But in Turkey the suc-
cession devolves nut upon the sou, but upon the
brother of the reigning monarch. The present
heir apparent, Azis Effendi, is in excellent health,
and although very much looked after and restrained
in his intercourse with the outer world, has found
means, if report may be believed, to study the
actual condition of his country and Europe.
M. Plichou, the ultra-catholic deputy—one of
the few opposition candidates who has succeeded in
getting into a council-general—has instituted a
prosecution for libel against M. Destigny, the edi-
tor of the Memorial de Lill-, for describing him as
one of the most violent enemies of the Emperor's
government, and questioning the sincerity of his
oath of allegiance.
An officer of the 50th Regiment, while practising
in the shooting gallery of the Chateau de Flours at
Marseilles, had the misfortune to kill one of the
attendants. He has just been tried by a court
martial, and acquitted, the court being of opinion
that he was not guilty of culpable negligence. Some
observations made at the trial about the ab-
sence of precaution in the management of these
shooting galleries deserve the attention of the
authorities in Paris. I have often wondered that
accidents do not happen at blab;lle and the Chateau
des Fleurs, whore young men, fresh from the dinner
table, and ladies of the demimonde brandish loaded
pistols about in the midst of • crowd in • way
which, to those who know anythingabout fire-arms,
is terrific. The ball is not bigger than a pea ; the
charge of powder so light as to produce no recoil ;
and the fragile plaster image to be broken is only
about ten paces off : under these circumstances
many people have no consciousness that they are
wielding deadly weapons, and that a nervous mo-
tion of a finger may deal death to the spectators