The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

THE IMPEHOIL"B NEW PAMPHLET.
(non ova owe coaassrosterrr.)
PARA MONDAT Zvairnio.
The Emperor's new pamphlet, heralded last
week by the Dibeis, and announced positively by
the Prune yeiterday as to appear to-day, is still
postponed, although the " latest proofs" from the
imperial printing-office are said to have been cor-
rected at the Tuileries. "Very soon" is the
strongest phrase now ventured upon for the corn-
ing out. The title is to be, " The claims of the
Napoleonic dynasty." It appears to be thought
expedient at the present conjuncture to publish
on the highest authority a catalogue raisonni of
the manifestations of universal suffrage which nen-
tioned the empire, and to accompany the collecti,m
by some general reflections on the present political
situation. The Patric, however, says that the
pamphlet will consist principally of documents,
and that " contrary to several versions" it will
have no other present interest than that necessarily
attaching to a recapitulation of the glorious progress
of the truly national dynasty of the Napoleons.
It is impossible to make anything whatever of
such a puff preliminary as this.
This is the twelfth birthday of the Prince
Imperial. It is observed on the occasion that he
is the first heir-apparent to the throne who for
nearly a century has lived to be so old in that cha-
racter. Louis XVl.'s son died in the Temple, at
the age of nine. Napoleon's son, the " King of
Rome " was exiled at the age of 3. The Duke of
Bordeaux was scarcely 10 when the revolution of
July broke out. The Count de Paris was still
younger when Louis Philippe fled from Paris in
1848.

In consequence of the riots at Toulouse the go.
vernment journals have been instructed to publish
what they call "good news" from various path of
the country, as to the way in which the levy
of the Mobile National Guard is working.
It is very certain that few localities are
strong enough to risk a manifestation against
the authorities, and therefore the task is easy to
show that almost everywhere, quod trat demon-
strandum, the young men summoned to the
National Guard are registered without difficulty.
The " euthusiaam " which the govenunent prints
throw into the bargain must be taken only on their
authority and is more than doubtful. At Mon-
tauban, a southern town in the Tarn and Garonne,
not very far from Toulouse, it is admitted
that the " habitual workers of disorder" at-
tempted to mislead the young men—but the
prompt and energetic intervention of authority
at once put down the agitation. At Vitri:, in the
Ille-et-Vilaine, M. de la Borderie, a councillor-
general, has publicly refused to take his seat at the
Board of Registration of the National Guard, on
the ground that it is unjust by • retroactive law to
force men into military service who were exempted
when they drew lots, in turn, some time ago.
The anise court of Mort sat on Sunday to go on
with the great poisoning case. Dr. Malapert, aged
69, a professor at the Medical School of Poictiers,
deposed to several unsuccessful experiment, upon
the evacuations and intestines of the deceased, but
ultimately he made one which unmiatalceably re-
vealed the existence of poisoning by arsenic. M.
Proms, a chemist of Parthenay, concurred in
this opinion. A dying declaration of M.
Tezier, the deceased, was read, in which
he said that his sister-in-law, while she was with
him had prepared everything he ate and drank
and had administered his medicines, and that it
was always after what she gave him that he vomited.
Nevertheless, he did not believe that she wished to
kill him, and did not see what interest she had to
do so. The curd of Beaulieu, M. Saugen, deposed
that the deceased told him he believed that if he
bad been poisoned at all Dr. Ganne had done it,
and that he had accused his relatives in order to
cover his own mistakes. He also said Dr. Ganne 's
purges had ruined his stomach, and he believed the
doctor had tried experiments upon him.
The trial was adjourned at an early hour, in con-
sequence of M. Lachaud's statement that his client,
Madame Teaser, was in a state of utter exhaustion.
The Bourse was extremely firm. The Rent, was
quoted to-day ex div., and the last prices, 69fr. 15c.
and 69fr. 7ic., represent a rise of 20c. both for
cash and account. Italian rose more than a franc,
in consequence of the declaration of the Italian
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jectedmo-bilier rose Mr., and Credit Froncier, Bfr. 7ipc.

A DAY AT VESTP7ITTS.

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NAPLES, liLtacti 6.
Fifty miles from shore Vesuvius looks like a
lighthouses, until seen through the glees, when irregular
bagmen of dunes become visible. Twenty-five miles
nearer it is sees in all its glory crowned with leaping flame
and smoke, while about mid-way from the summit
lava encirelse it lire • girdle of fire. To north
country eyes the seountala Deems to have • great
bonfire on the top and a chain of coke ovens
round it. Se muck for the sea view. Ones at
Naples you may drive to the foot of the meltable and
the. proceed on hornebsck. At first the mad is steep and
duly, and fall of stones and cinders. Then comes a
tolerable bit of highway over the old lava, which is like
some broad black torrent of thick mud suddenly petrified.
After an ascent of about an hoar and three quarters yon
sae dismount and look down on the real lava. Last week
sane adventurous, spirits took advantage of •lull to go partly
dawn, and their report le that the lava boils gently over the
top of the crater and burrowing among the old lava makes a
tunnel for itself till it comes out as were it at the
foot of the eons. There it separates into numbers of little
Ammo sheet 3 fuse deep and 2 feel wide. These have so
Hide fares in thmn that they change their direction every
day, turning whew: any obelmale comes in their way.
Sensiabilng down into the bed el the broad tor-
mat of old lava, and walking along the blood
seise of • stream cooled sinew yesterday, we
came ekes Is the burning stream. It was flowing
slowly an, • bream of clear red fire and the colour of live
male. One el our party took a waildagweiek and dined
it, triaging away • piece into which we Mack • sou. The
beat was terrible. A sort of white steam, without mois-
ture, or smoke, or Meeks, parching our bees, while the
heal under pound mimed to burn oar boob. We set and
webbed this for as hoer. sad sew • new stream break out,
wide* had found its way under the lava for about six fest.
It lowed bey slowly, "beim about three list in tea
asiabes, and where it cooled it stood in thick leathery
black folds like the sornmslicas of an elderly elephant's

hide. • _
'V. lingered until .tier sundown, a single light foecy
do•A bolting myeloid/wily towards the dory cone—a cloud
Hie sad rodeeties; Se dodoes of the burning lan
Wow • a IWO of &Wag seise widely while converting
til
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sad bowed Its Sus ; a wild picture of
destrueliem, of danger, sad of dendatica, reselling images
sf met, sad of the silks &sieved by Ire from
Naives ; a degasseing same of man's hadeases and of
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log of gratitude foe the insides we had vitaisid—wen
ma' bat hoprelisas of Yemiviro.