The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-22 00:00:00

(Stamped, id. Additional)

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• PARTS, Sarnariar
Turgot, the ambanador to Switzerland, who
Las been for *CMG time 'agent from his poet; is to
return to Bone about May Ist. The Pays says
that the 'realty df don:warm with Switzerland will
be signed'-withia a few days attar the return of 'the:
ambassador ; but the Peirie, though very prebably
meaning Use same thing, speaks very diferently ;
for it says that the negotiations for the treaty will
be " commenced " when M. Turgot arrives et
Berne.

The Bourse Mill continues firm, although Consols
have lost the rise of yesterday. The Bente rem
ba. for cash and 1.00. fee amount, dosing at 66.30 '
in each cam Mobilier rose 3.75. Railways were
fiat in 00mparistai with the Bente. Orleans and
Lyons rose 250 each, but the other lines were 4
shade lower. The Bank of Prance shares, which-
yesterday and the day before had recovered the fall
et 50f. produeed by the report of the Marseilles
failures, again fell to the extent of 451. Raman
to be certain, notwithstanding son that
that
Mama. Baltarai,, and another Marseilles house of
orinderable standicititZt=rent
Paeure. tilisk
et 140 seams have IS that pelt her
AFrirs7l foam the Grew of the Imperial trireme,
lately launched at Asnieres.
A Paris letter in the Intlependowe says :
It is repented that the loan which the Italian government
must of neon* soon sentanctwill perhaps be aupted
ie Frame. It le even said that Hues ite Restudiedotiahad
Shred se take it at 65, but that the Smninian government
was not disposed to accept leas than 70. M. de Rottinchild
did not somosal that be should be willing to offew touch
mom advantageous conditions, if the new government wars
reeopiest by the ether Powers of Europe. Is that are he
would tehe the loss, it is mid, at te.
The Gmette v 4 Frame, echoing acme legitimist
journals of the south, tries to make a great splash
about an anti-Baglish manifestation at the Bor-
deaux Theatre, where Ilalevy's opera of Charles T. I.
being performed, the popular air, "Jesuits en
France e resume," is alleged, and very
likely with truth, to have been received with
frantic applause. The fact is about as important
as might be the news that the line "Confound
their politics" in "God save the Q 11092" had been
with three cheers at Hull. One of the
Brasted
local paper's pretends that M. de Mentique, the
prefect, took a oonspicuom part in the manifest*.
tion. If he did so, which I do not believe, he is
likely to be reprimanded, for whatever may be his
ulterior intentions, it is certainly not the Emperor's
wish to weenie a hostile attitude to England at the
present moment.
The Passer Zeitung states that a duel was fought
the other day on the Belgian frontier between a
Garibaklian officer and a Premiss gentlemau, the
coos belli being the merits of Garibaldi as a captain.
The wager of battle terminated with some slight
scratches on either side.

At the assize court of %urges, on April 17, the
Abbd Grelat, a priest who has been the curd of
several large Varishes in the department of the
Cher, was convicted of a rape, besides a great many
indecent assaults. He got the benefit of "attenu-
ating circumstances," and was therefore only sen-
tenced to "fifteen years' imprisonment with hard
laboir." During the trial this holy man held in
his band a crucifix on which he kept his eyes con-
stantly fixed.
On April 16 the Court of Correctional Police at
Aix was crowded to suffocation, in the expecta-
tion that Father Archange, the late head of the
order of Capuchin monks in France, would surren-
der to take his trial for an outrage on public de-
cency, committed in a first-class carriage of the
Marseilles Railway. Father Archange was reputed
tAbcre yfilhumati,
faithful in Languedoc and Provence. Four or five
years ago he achieved a celebrated auto da ft in the
market-place of Granae, where, among other
" bad books" he burned Thiers' " History
of the French Revolution," and M. Merirnde's
"Columba." At Marseilles be was regarded as a
saint, and (I know not why) as a martyr. A few
years ago he resigned his functions as bead of the
order of Capuchins, in order to devote himself ex-
clusively to preaching. When the present charge
was brought against him he fled to England. He,
however, came back to Aix, meaning, as it is
reported, to take his trial • but I am told that the
order of Capuchins interfered, and told him that his
attempt to "brave it out" would not answer. The
French courts, in cases of misdemeanour, as distin-
guished from crimes, are indulgent to au extent of
which English lawyers have no idea. A traveller may
be notoriously in the precincts of the court, and
may elect to "make default " without running the
slightest risk of being taken into custody. A con-
damnation by default goes for nothing whenever
it pleases the defendant to ask for a new trial, and
his contempt of court is only visited upon him by
very trilling costs. In the present case the Father
Archange was sentenced, by default, to two mouths'
imprisonment. A lady included in the indictment,
and to whom as she also made default, it must be
presumed that no violence was done by the holy
father, was sentenced only to pay a fiue of I.oof.