The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, Sulimy Eviango.

The Moniteur says in its bulletin that the Pope
is better, and that he "wee to officiate in public"
yesterday, on the amnion of the feast of St. Peter
and St. Paul ; the telegraph has not, however, yet
brought the news that this anticipation of the
Moniteur has been realised.
The Skit says :

Several journals attach importance to the answer made
by M. de Rechberg to the very clear explanations of M.
Thouveoel. But the Austrian despatch is in reality nothing
more than what in diplomatic language is called a protest.
Them coat of documents in no way impede the march of
events, and never prevent their authors from bowing to
amompliehed facts. When the majority of the great powers
shall have snooessi►ely recognised the kingdom of Italy,
we think it unlikely that Austria w➢ll repeat the motto
of Rion, the haughtygeneral of the Jesuits, /Monist min%
ego non. M. de Rechberg exclaims, "If an armed inter-
vention is not authorised by France, and if, in consequence,
the ally solution that oonld be definitive in our eyes is yet
to be retarded, we will wait for a more opportune moment."
We do not consider the threat conveyed by these words as
Anything more than a vain fanfaronade. When the oppor-
tune moment desired by Austria shall come she will and all
Europe stopping the way. •
I notice, however, that the government journals
affect to construe M. Thouvenel's despatch pretty
nearly as M. de Rechberg does. The Pays says
to-night :
The temporal power of the Pepe is not called in ques-
tion. Defended as it is, materially by the arms of France,
and protected by the catholic powers, whose aid is assured
to the Holy See, the temporal authority cannot possibly
be in danger from any quarter whatever. M. ThouvenePs
declaration, the terms of which are carefully noted by H.
de Rechberg, leave no doubt on this subject.

Now this a manifest false representation on the
part of the Pays of M. Thouvenel's words, because
all Europe has been doubting for the last three or
four days what their exact meaning is. The French
minister says nothing about the temporal power,
but merely talks of the Emperor's respect for the
independence and dignity of the Holy See, and his
determination to adhere to no arrangement incom-
patible with the " object for which the French
troops went to Rome." This language is not clear,
but purposely ambiguous, as has been universally
observed. Nevertheless, it might be that the Pays
and Patrie (which speaks in a like tone) were
authorised to indicate the hidden meaning of the
Thouvenal despatch. I do not, however, believe
they are. I think they merely play the poor part
of a drag upon the wheel, the direction of which
they very well know. Their mission is to keep the
country clergy quiet.
TheTernps gives a very bard hit to M. P. Limayrac,
who ban been indulging in some observations in
the Patrie about the dignity and usefulness of •
government press. "Yes," says M. Natter, the
editor of the Temps, "there has always been a
government press in France, and it might be
added that there is one in England. Bat here is
the grand difference—when Sir Robert Peel aban-
doned the cause of protection the protectionist
journals abandoned him ; but when the French
government decreed commercial reform the COW
stitutionnel, which was protectionist, turned round
at once and became the advocate of free trade."

M. Normand, a juge de paix of 016ron, in the
department of the Ch►rente Infdrieure, having
committed the offence of being elected a member of
the council-general by 1,392 votes, against 1,323
given to the government candidate, was at owe
dismissed from his office. The Moniteur of June
27 contains the appointment of his successor. Vice
universal suffrage !
lam sorry to find, by a letter signed " Francis
Leman," in the Daily News of Saturday, that a
paragraph in my letter of Wednesday last, noticing
the death of an English lady of his name in Paris,
is considered as referring to his mother, " who is
alive and well in London." All I know is that I
saw, in the authentic lista of deaths published by
the Mairie, that of " Mrs. Lemann,widow, Rue de
Tivoli," and as I have for years heard her spoken
of as a member of the great biscuit-baking fam:ly,
very rich, and much addicted to hospitality, I
thought the fact of her decease of sufficient interest
to be publicly mentioned.

PARIS, BANVIDAT EVINING.

Although the affairs of M. Mires are so multi-
tudinous and complicated that M. de Germiny and
sixaccountanta passed a wholeweekin examining his
books before they were able to commence the liqui-
' dation with which they were charged, one broad
state of facts is established by the evidence of wit-
nesses examined yesterday and to-day with suf-
ficient clearness to be intelligible to an ordinary sp.
prehension, It is proved, and indeed admitted,
that in 1857 and 1858 railway shares anildiversother
securities to an enormous amount were deposited
with the Caine Gdndrale des Chemins de Fen, of
which Mires and Solar were the managing directors,
as securities for moneys advanced, or in some in-
stances for safe custody merely. That almost all
of these shares and securities were sold as
soon as deposited, no advice of the sale
being given to the owners, who on the coutairy
were led to suppose, by quarterly accounts regu-
larly sent in to them, that the shares still awed
in the Bank to their credit. That in April, 1859,
when all these securities had suffered great clip'e.
ciation, Mires reent circulars to the &lush"
stating that in the apprehension of a heavy fall,
which would be the result of the Italian war, he
had taken upon himself to realise their seal'
ties, and would be happy to receive their orders to
buy them back at a lower price on some fora
occasion. The clerks, who sat up two nights to
write these circulars, protested against their work,
and said that the course taken seemed to theta
neither right nor legal ; but Mires reassured them,
by stating that be bad counsel's opinion in boa
of what lie was doing, and that all thew Wa"
rities deposited with him were " just like bank-
notes." The circulars were accompanied by flat'
tions sale notes to the clients, re resenting that
their securities which had in fact been dispool
long ago at high prices, had only just then been rsid
at the depreciated quotations of the day. To .rr•c'
one instance among many others, Colonel Dainwr,'
retired officer, deposed that he received in Nab
1859, • fictitious sale note of Credit Mobil°
shares as having produced 101,000 f., wbia
afterwards discovered had been sold long It•i'e
for 220,000 f. The prosecution alleges that tee",
transactions are not only manifestly dishous`43'''
fraudulent, but that they constitute a legal odds/.
M. Mires replies that the public prosecutor dos% I.'
understand banking, and that seems the main t,4
to be tried. It appears that Mires and Solar qtY.
andthreatened to split upon each other 104
before Mires' arrest in December last.
Two catholic journals of Brittany, the Eeru'"',„"'‘
du Peupk of Nantes, and the Journal de
prosecuted for having published au "
and illegal" report of a debate in the Senate,.,
have been expecting to see cases of this kind. o•
Paris journals have frequently during this
laid themselves open to prosecution by
the guise of a commentary, an abridgment 4 t"
debates, thereby thwarting the Napoleonic 0:
which is, to forbid any report raisonne su,!
people will read, and to pay a deceptive how.,
the theory of publicity by loading the AP...
with overwhelming literal reports, for which
private journal can find room. This ayatein
striking illustration of the proverb, "Thllece
killeth, but the spirit givoth life." Neve"7,l
less the Parisisk journals, having in geu;,,,"'
received the decree of November 24 wsth".
favour which it indeed deserves, and made 04
few and cautious parliamentary comments iu
systematically hostile spirit, have not boon nodou4