The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(nor 0, OWN

PAUL% MONDLY ETIMILKO.
Oho result has come by telegraph of the pmts_
cation at Mince of three electors of the Gard who
organised the " private" eh'ctor•d meeting which
was dissolved by the military, and at which AL
Sassier, one of the attendants, was wounded to
death. I have not yet Jules Fuvre's speech, but
it is plain from the evidence that the pollee had
orders to " put down the meeting " without caring
whether it was a'private one or not, and that Um
only; fact that constituted the publicity of the
noticing was that policemen in plain clothes fumed
limiq way into the private room in spite of the re..
montdrancee of the stewards, who said that nobody
had it right to come in without a letter of invite_
Lion. There is, however, a considerable consola-
tion -for the liberal party to be derived from the

judgment of the court. lt did lay down the la;
which the Pays iruiistod upon, that a largo nurahAr
of people necessarily made a public meeting. Rot
it believed the false witness of five
men against the testimony of about eighty
citisens that at the meeting in question
anybody who presented themselves got in without
being asked for letters of invitation. The judg-
ment is therefore in point of fact a valuable pre-
cedent, and one which wal probably be made
much use of in the three elections to come off in
September in the Var, Nievre, and Moselle. The
sentence, moreover, showed that the Nimoe court
was ashamed of its work. The two principal de-
fendants, M. Lacey-Onillon and M. Itehot, the
promoters of the meeting, were only condemned
to fines of rioOfr. each; and M. Breton, the owner
of the building let for the purposes of the meeting,
was acquitted.
M. Dufaure, owing to absence from Paris and
the unfortunate miscarriage of various letters and
telegrams which were sent to him, having delayed
for a long time to accept a requisition offered him
to stand for the vacant seat in tho Tar, Pt
Philis, the only known opposition candidate, for
several days said he would withdraw his preten-
sions if his illustrious friend and senior at the bar
came forward. M. Dufaure has now ac-
cepted, and I think his acceptance a mis-
fortune for the liberal party. As a
forensic orator he is in the very first rank
but he is an old man, with flute milieu notions,
and is not likely easily to adapt himself to the
necessities of the time. Moreover, he is a pe,o-
curante. He thinks he does honour to the depart-
ment by allowing his name to be put forward, and
is unlikely to take any efficient pains to stimulate
the liberal constituency to vote for him. He has,
moreover, no particular connection with the Vat,
where N. Philis is well known. I do not believe
that M. Philis, with all the good will in the
world, will be able to persuade the mass
of his friends to vote for M. Dufaure, and in
all probability the government candidate will le.
elected.

The Patrie says that the departure of the Em-
peror for the Chalons Camp will be again ad-
journed, and that the court will not leave Funtaine-
bleau for Biarritz till September 23.
Another most extraordinary paragraph in the
Patrie, which looks like a reference to the news in
the Gavial's (given in another column), and the
possible (I should say certain) failure of the
assumed mission of the Bourbons, states that
although most of the ministers and high state
functionaries have been invited to Fontaine-
bleau to meet the Count and Countess Girgenti.
and there is a talk of grand flea of various kinds,
it is also possible that they may leave Fontaine-

bleau to-morrow morning.
At the Bourne to-day the " options" were •1••-
dared at 70fr. 80e.—a figure altogether again:•.
the " bears. " The closing quotations of tl: •
Bente were 701 r. 80e. for cash, and 70fr. to 72;fr.
for account, being but Sc. low•err than Satuni ty.
Business generally was dull.

DI'EL LETWEEN Y. I4C-L DE CASSAGY.I:
AND N. LISS-MIR-IY.

This duel was fought on Sunday at Veeinet. C`A:'
St. Germain, between M. Paul de Cassagnac, of the I.
and M. Lissagaray, editor of a journal called the 4, ,
published in the (Mrs, which lays itself out to oppose
re-election of Y. Granter de Cautagnac for that d,.1, irt-
meat. The challenge came from M. Liasagaray, whs
two seconds to Paris to call M. Paul de Cassagnac out
account of an article in the fop of August 24. A dia.:lo-
tion between the seconds look place as to which
was the offended party, and which had the choirs
of arms. A compromise was effected in pursuance
of which the duel was fought with foils, the buttons
of which were taken off. 31. Lissagaray had said the
case was one which in his opinion could only end in the
death of one of the parties. It is but too probable that
these conditions of the encounter will have been realised
to his own extinction. After a quarterot an hour's belt-
ing conducted with great scharnoserit (that is, a hot desire
on both sides to du execution). 31. Paul de Cassagnac ran
M. Liseagaray through the lungs. The foil being ex-
tremely slim left scarcely any perceptible wound.
and the flesh closing on the orifice, only allowed a
few drops of blood to issue. But 31. Lissagaray fainted
away. The surgeons in attendance pronounced the wound
so serious that the duel must beat =end, and alai ~;sti H.
I-issagaray made some convulsive efforts to go on 1.,
carried off the ground. He now lies in Paris in ax ex-
tremely dangerous state. His adversary, M. Paul le
Cas..aguac, who has been brought up by his Leta t.,
the trade of duelling, and is such an accomplished se .
man that few men who never in their lives bad a
in their bands would stand before him if they L. ~
what a risk they ran, has lately refused to tight d
It is only fair in this case to rememt cr that he wa:
challenged party.