The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

1 nom 01J1 OWN

PARIS, FRIDAY EVLKING.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police has had a field
day with the prow The editor of the paper called the
Revue Mumicipale was sentenced this morning to a
month's imprisonment and a fine of 100 fr. for an
article held to be political, whereas the journal in
question was not authorised to talk politics. The
Revue Municipale is, moreover, suppressed; I
am afraid there must be scandal about M.
Ilaussmann and the City funds. After this M.
Poulet-Malassis, the author or translator, and M.
Jouaust, the printer of tho pamphlet called
" L'Empereur Napoleon et le Roi Guillaume,"
which contained a letter mistakenly attributed to
the Emperor, were severally fined 500 fr. and
200 fr., a lenient sentence, in consideration of their
being the innocent victims of a hoax. The next
case called, and the conclusion of which I do not
yet know, was that of the Courrier du Dimanche
and M. Eugene Pelletan, prosecuted for an article 11
desiring for Fromm, in some respects, "Liberty as
is Austria."

Something must be out of order to-day in M.
Imhaus' bureau of guidauce for public opinion,
since neither the Pays nor the Pattie have any
" latest news." I hear that M. Imbaus met with
• rebuff the other day from the Consiitutionnel to
which he and his predecessors have been little
accustomed. He was instructed to furnish the

Constitute/mid with au article ready cut and dried,
which was expected to be signed by some man of
'draw, and inserted as a matter of course. Dr.
Verou, however, showing the " independence"
which he put In the foreground (together with
"devotion") when he lately assumed the direotiuu
of the paper, positively refused to be dictated to,
and so the matter stands for the present.
The Bourse was very calm. Rente roes 10c. for
cash and sc. fur account, closing at 67fr. 20e. in
each case. 3lobilier rose 3fr. 750. IJA railways
there was little change. The only security in which
there was much activity was the Italian Loan,
which rose 550., malicious rumours that no interest
would be paid having been contradicted.
Bellisr's Correspondeseesays, thu evening :

At Tombs all the ships of the squadron have been rw
pahred and inn ready to put to ewe at a inornent's notion.
The nee may be sail of Brest and Cherbourg, so that
if tweets should suddenly main France to assume an Wu-
posiog attitude, she will be read:.

The Emperor yestenlay honoured the Count and
Countess de Persigny with a visit at their oonntry
house at Chatuaraude.

When M. de Laprade delivered his last lecture at
the Lyons College,sthe ball was unusually crowded,
the report of the professor's dismissal having spread
rapidly through the town. The person most inter-
ested was the only one who did not know the news.
M. de Laprade walked down to the college with a
newspaper under his arm, which be had not
opened. It was only on the steps of the hall, on
going out, that be learned from a friend the un-
pleasant fact that his lampoon on the government
had oust him 6,000 fr. a year.
The mail-cart which runs between Baint-Germer
and Beauvais was attacked on the 17th by one or
more highwaymen, who ransacked the letter-bags
and murdered the driver. The horse came through
the streets of Beauvais with a loose rein, and
stopped of himself at the door of the post-office. A
porter, supposing the driver to be asleep, got into
the cart, and found him lying dead iu a pool of
blood. His brains were blown out by a charge of
shot, which must have been fired close to Lim, as it
made a round hole in the skull like one from a
bullet, and be had another wound in the back.
The letters found in the bags had been out open,
and, no doubt, whatever money they contained
was stolen. Au individual has been arrested on
suspicion of beihg concerned iu the murder.