The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom OUR OWN COI

PARIS, SUNDAT ECIMUIG..

The Courtier du Dimanche appears to-day with-
out giving any explanation for the delay iu its pub-
lication. There is no article by Count d'Hausson-
ville. A paragraph signed by the secretary, in the
name of the proprietors and staff of the paper,
says :

We can but register in silence the double blow which is
struck at us. But when our chief editor, B. (Janeiro, is
expelled from France, which be had made his second coun-
try, we think we break no law, and that we but fulfil ■
duty, in giving him • public assurance of our sympathy,
esteem, and regret. Whether far or near, we can never
forget the services which he has rendered, nor cease to think
of the services which his independent and courageous pen
may yet render to the liberal cause. It is these services
which had naturalised him amongst us.

I cannot help remarking as curious a little slip of
the pen in the " latest news" of the Pattie, a
government paper, which is to the full as " insult-
ing to imperial institutions" as the article for
which the Courrier du Dinaaache was warned, and
its editor sentenced to expulsion from France. The
gravamen of M. Clanesco's offence was that he
questioned whether universal suffrage, when guided
in a particular direction by a strong hand, al-
ways and infallibly represented the sound opi-
nions and true interests of a country. This
reasoning was construed by M. de Persigny
as an attack upon the " basis of the French
government," whose power, wrongfully seized at
first, has beyond doubt no other legal sanction than
that derived from universal suffrage very consider-
ably manipulated. But now the Patrie is so indis-
creet as to write :—"M. Liborio Romano, who directed
the elections at Naples, has got himself named in
six colleges ; but this circumstance has not pro-
duced a good effect, for this personage does not
inspire much sympathy in Italy." So here we have
it admitted that the man who "directs". an elec•
tion succeeds in his object with as much certainty
as the man who directs a cotillon, and that his
being returned is quite consistent with his not being
liked.

The only news in the Courrier du Dimanthe is
one which I think very doubtful. It is informed
by a correspondent that Francis IL has established
a subterranean communication between Gaeta and
Rome, and that it is through this tunnel that all
the intelligence spread through Europe from Rome
has been sent.

The Pattie professes to know that Garibaldi,
in his last interview with Victor Emmanuel, de-
dared that he gave up all idea of any attack upon
Austria in Hungary, directly or indirectly, and
that his only wish was to fight under the orders
of the Kiug whenever the right moment should
arrive.

Viscount Rambourgt, member of the Corps
Legialatif, has been sentenced by the Court of
Troyes to twenty days' imprisonment for a libel
upon the mayor on the occasion of the municipal
elections.

The part of the plunder of the Emperor of
China's Summer Palace which was reserved for
Napoleon 111. arrived in Paris yesterday, packed
in thirty-three large oases. We may expect to see
some of the curiosities in the Louvre very soon.

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