The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAWS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The Greek embassy having informed the Pays
that no attempt upon the life of King Otho has
been made, is now fain to say that the word
"made" (commis), which it used in giving the
account—which, as yet, rests upou its authority
alone—was a slip of the pen ; but it still professes
a belief in the accuracy of its correspondent's infor-
mation that on the occasion of the King's recent
public entry into Athens three sub-officers of the
Greek army were arrested, that their carbines were
found to be loaded, and that their intention was to
shoot at his Majesty.
If the Dappeuthal affair was, as it seems the
fashion to say, a very little one in the beginning,
it has now become infinitely less. All the papers
accept without question the new version of the
Monifeur, contradicting its own former admission,
that the French troops never crossed the frontier at
all. If that be so, cadet quteatio. I accepted the
Muniteur's facts, and only combated its arguments.
We have, however, as yet no contradiction from
Switzerland of the statement of the two Swiss com-
missioners who, after inquiries on the spot, reported
expressly that there had been "a violation of
territory."
A veteran writer of republican tendencies, M.
Paget Lupecin, has just fallen a victim to the
capricious administration of the harsh laws to

which the press is subject. He lately published a
pamphlet entitled " L'Ennemi ! L'Ennemi !" the
"enemy" alluded to being the clergy and the
catholic party, to whom alone be considered it to
be owing that the principles of 'B9, proclaimed at
the head of the constitution, were not yet com-
pletely developed. Three months ago he would
have been accepted by the government as a valuable
auxiliary against the Bishops of Orleans and
Poitiers. But, unfortunately for the writer, his work
appeared just at the time when a reaction set in at
Compiegne, and he is now foinid guilty of "'mattock
upon the catholic religion, and exciting citizens
to hatred and contempt of each other." It was
brought up against him that more than ten years
ago he was twice condemned for press offences in
the time of Louis Napoleon's presidency of the
Republic. The judges passed upon him the very
cruel sentence of two years' imprisonment and
4,000 fr. tine. The printer, not being an old offender,
got off with a month.

It is curious enough that the above judgment
should be published on the same day with the
Minister of Public Worship's severe jobation to the
Bishop of Nimes, which I am apt to think will
gall the clergy far more than M. Lupeciu'a book.
M. Roulaud treats Mgr. Plantier as a very
naughty boy indeed. lie publicly upbraids him
for brawling and bad manners, and begs him not
to pester the ministry with any more of his
political and religious letters, full of "violence and
insinuations." This letter is a warning which many
other bishops will not fail to lay to heart.
The Pays announces that the youthful Prince
Leopold of England is going to pay a visit to the
Emperor at Compiegne ; this seems very unlikely
news, the prince having gone to Cannes fur the
benefit of his health, and the weather in the north
of France being now inclement and disagreeable.
The news that Garibaldi had been elected grand
master of the Italian freemasons was contradicted
by an Italian journal, which asserted that M. La
Farina was chosen ; but now the Italic of Turin
publishes a communication rfroni the grand ledge
of Italy, stating that the choice of the craft has
fallen upon M. Nigra, the Italian ambassador in
Paris.

The Prcsse, referring to the recent somewhat
scandalous acquittal by a court-martial of the riotous
carabineera of Versailles, expresses an opinion
that troops when off duty should Hot be allowed
to carry arms, and that in caae of collisions with
citizens in the street they ought, in obedience to the
principle of " equality," to be tried by the civil
power.

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The Opinion Nationale, Presae, and Siege pub-
lish in four leading columns identical reports of the
Ratazzi banquet, which they represent as a highly
important demonstration.

PARIS, SATURDAY Evzstiro.
A grand farewell dinner was given this evening
to M. Rat/sal, by the Seek, Presse, and the Opi-
nion Nationale, at the Hotel du Louvre. The
party consisted of upwards of a hundred people.
The grand saloon in which they dined was bril-
liantly illuminated, and hung round with the
French and Italian flags intertwined. The moms" France," " " Magenta," " Solferiuo,"&c.,
were inscribed on scrolls painted on the frieze of
the magnificent room. The great majority of the