The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WZONENDAT EVEIINO.

In the Passe, M. Peyrat remarks upon the great
importance of the debates in the Senate as evidence
of the good effects of the decree of Nov. 24.
"Because within the last ten years public spirit has
been paralysed and eclipsed it was thought to be
dead. But three days of free discussion, a few
words resolutely pronounced, have sufficed to re-
vive it" After warmly praising Prince Napoleon's
speech, with the exception of "two or three un-
fortunate, or, at least, ill-timed phrases" (alluding
to his attacks upon the men of 1848), the article
expresses the opinion that the government must
already feel itself immeasurably stronger in con-
sequence of its having dispelled the "atmos-
phere of darkness" with which it was surrounded.
M. Peyrat continues :
A government which relies upon the people and main-
tains and respects liberty is rarely abandoned in a crisis.
The English government is most certainly a string one, and
yet there is no government in the world compelled to
reckon so much with free writing and free speech. Conti-
nental Europe was for ten years under the yoke of Napo-
leon—free England alone maintained the struggle ; a pal-
pable proof that freedom of discussion is so cause
of weakness. The silence of the Chambers and
the journals is in many ways hurtful to autho-
rity. By suppressing or impeding freedom of
discussion the government shrouds itself in dark-
ness ;if its agents are guilty of abuses, the government is
held responsible, though it may very likely be ignorant of
them. Free discussion renders abuses for the most part
impossible ; it enlightens the government when it is de-
esived, and at all event, prevents it from wilfully shutting
its eyes.

The Bourse continues to be remarkably stagnant
K Dupin's not that certain financial pirates were
let loose with " letters of marque" to prey upon
the public has made speculators very shy of vari-
ous securities which but lately were in high
favour. The last settlement is considered to have
been highly artificial, it being now known that
many Rentes, taken up, as it was supposed, for
money, were bought by "capitalists" without a
penny, who borrowed at a rats of interest impos-
sible to be honestly accounted for. These myste-
rious transactions are stigmatised as reports Rualz—

a name borrowed from the celebrated manufacturer
of false plate. The Rente closed at yesterday's
price, 68fr., for account, and at 68fr. 5c., with a
rime of 10c., for cash. Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. In
railways there was not much change.
M. Marie Martin, whose name was familiar to
the English public some time ago in consequence
of a violent pamphlet which ho wrote about Irish
grievances, has retired from the Conatitutionnel, his
conscience as a Roman catholic not permitting
him to write in a journal which supports the doc-
trines of the Guerrouniere pamphlet.

The inauguration of M. Vela's statue of Manila,
which it was at one time thought would be post-
poned till a later period, is now definitively fixed
to take place on the Piazza Maria Theresa at Turin
on March 22, the anniversary of the insurrection of
Milan and Venice in 1848. A great many Parisians
are going to Turin for the occasion.

Prince Czartoryski, whoee family liekl such an
position in the Polish emigration, dined at the
Tuileries on Monday, and it it said that there has been a
meeting of Hungarian and Polish notabilities at the Palais
ltoyaL
It is reported at Paris that M. Wagner, discou-
raged at not being able to conduct the orchestra for him-
self, at the first representation of the Tanithanser, wishes
to withdraw the work.

The Anti de la Religion publirthes a, letter from
Rome, which says :—" Pius IX. appease to consider every-
thind at au end. ' Your noble devotedness,' said his
holiness lately to some volunteers, 'is now useless, for all
is finished. I have already said the same to several bishops
of France, and to that of Rennes in particular.' "
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The nuirid journals describe the opening of an
iron bridge acmes the river Aragon, on the Pan-melons and
Saragossa Railway, and state it to he the moat remarkable
work of the kind ever constructed in Spain. It has been
completed with much rapidity under the control of M. de
Salamanca and Mr. Kennard.

A history of the revolution in Europe in 1848
will soon oppear. It is from the pen of X. Gamier Pees,
former 111..y0r of Paris, former member of the provisional
government ; arid, curiously enough, the publisher of the
work, IL Pavony, was slim a member of the same govern-
ment. The work will consist of four parts—the Reedit.
Lion of DWI in Europe ; the Fell of the Monarchy ; the
24th of February, Ifttfl ; and the provisional government,
comprised in eight volumes.

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ROYA L GU/GRAPHICAL Err.—At the meeting
ou Nor:ov the 11th inst., at Burlington House, the follow.
ing rape's will he read :-1. Account of Excursions made in
less°, J.ipan, 'uy Consul Pemberton Hodgson. 2. Travels
in Siam. by Sir It. If. Schomburgk, Corr. F.It.G.S., com-
municated by Sir It. I. Murchison.