The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY EVITING.

It is rumoured that M. Rechberg , the Austrian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, who has just arrived
in Paris, is here for the purpose of treating on the
subject of a plan proposed for the settlement of the
Italian question. This news may possibly be of the
first importance.
The Miele makes the following observations upon
the curious fact that all the deputies—the Plichous,
Keller*, Flavignys, &c.—who have so bitterly as-
sailed the government upon the Roman question,
were men of its own special choice:
The electors blindly returned the men recommended by

the minister and supported by the prefect and the mayor,
and then these honest electors felt sure that all was right.
If you had asked nine•tenths of them the next day whether
their deputy was white or black, red or tricolour, they
would have been at a loss for an answer. They only knew
that they had elected the candidate of the minister, the
prefect, and the mayor—in short, the official candi-
date. What could they do more I And now we
see this strange phenomenon—the government candi-
dates ungratefully rend the hand which caressed and
advanced them ; and the very ministers who took so
much pains, wrote so many circulars, and gave so many

recommendations to get these men elected, are now hard
put to it to defend themselves against their attacks. There
are four of these men who have already made speeches,
and almost gained a reputation. Let no mention
their names, lest we should be open to the reproach
of hiding a candle under a bushel. MM. de Flaviguy, Ph-
chon, Kolb-Barnard, and Keller are the men who, regretting,
no doubt, that they have had no opportunity of defend-
ing the temporal government of the Pope with arms in their
hands, have, to show their courage, fought a parliamentary
battle of tbistellldardo in the Corps Legislatif. With all
the respect and courtesy due to speeches delivered in a
French parliament, we beg to give our candid opinion about
these gentlemen. At the time of the elections of 1852 and
1857 the government was on the best possible terms with
the clergy, and that for the very good reason that it
did everything that the clergy wanted. These were the
honeymoon days. The bishops held their pro-
vincial councils, the religious corporations had in
their hands the instruction of youtli, while our poor
communal schoolmasters were performing the humble duties
of bell.ringers, sweepers, beadles, &c. Vast associations
were organised under the pretest of charity, and when
the authorisation of the g cerement was not forthcoming,
it was very coolly dispensed with. Convents were built in all
directions, and propagandist institutions of the kind which
the trial of Canon Mallet has just made us aware of, grew
up till they numbered 30,000 initiated, andl3o houses. In
these houses young girls are concealed from their parents
and from the researches of justice. In these golden times
the press wu nearly mute. We did indeed run the risk of
raising a cry of alarm, but it was not listened to. The day
of reckoning, the quart d'Aeurr de Rabelais, has now
arrived.

id.Drouyn de L'huya was yesterday elected a
member of the Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences in the place of the late Horace Say.

PARIV ;liIINDAT EVENING.
The debates in the Corps atif yesterday
and to-day have been unexciting, and chiefly taken
up by protectionist groans, and unavailing speeches
by second-rate orators advocating the right of the
house to have a serious voice in the taxation of the
country. The most important incident for English
readers in the debate of yesterday was the following
declarrtion of M. Bsrocbe, in reply to very pressing
questions as to whether the prohibitory tariff would
be retained to the last hour fixed by the treaty of
commerce with England.
. . .

To-day the subject was again referred to, and M.
Baroche made the important declaration that if
the government should be persuaded that the ma-
jority of the French manufacturers thought it
advantageous to anticipate the date of October 1,
it would, feeling how serious a thing it was to
act against a solemn promise, consult the Corps
Lightlatif upon the question whether it was for
the interest of France that this promise should
not be kept. This declaration was received with
considerable applause by the protectionists, who
hope for a majority. M. Baroche added that
possibly no bill on the subject might be presented.
Unless the government felt that there was a press-
ing call to put an end to commercial uncertainty
by removing prohibitions at once it would let the
time fixed by the treaty run out. My own strong
impression, from a bearing of the debate, is that
the Corps Ldgislatif will be asked in a way not to
be refused to remove prohibitions within a mouth
instead of waiting till the autumn.
K Magna will reply on Monday on the finance
question.
The Bourse was firm, and there was rather more
business doing than there has been all the week.
The Rente rose 10c. closing, both for cash and
account, at 68.35. Mobilier rose 2.50. Railways
were from 1.25 to 2.50 higher. The Mires securi-
ties remain with scarcely any fluctuation.
The price of bread, which has been stationary in
Paris for many months, was raised to-day to 16
sous 4 centimes the 41b. loaf, being an advance
of 4c.

A funeral service for the victims of the late events
at Warsaw was performed at the Madeleine to-day,
and attended by almost all the Poles inParis. Among
the emigrants present were the venerable Prince
Adam Czartoryaki and his son Stanislaw, General
Dembinski, General Klapka, and Count Potocki.
The Abbi Deguerry, the our of the Madeleine.
preached a funeral sermon, in which he spoke of
the manifestation of Warsaw as a decisive moral
victory. The protest of 150,000 Polish citizens had
been so imposing that the Czar was forced to admit
the justice of their demands. " The Poles would
recover nationality, and in their struggle of right
against iniquity all truly French hearts were with
them."