The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

IrION OUR OWI COI

PARIS, SONDLT EVINING.

The four independent members for Paris—MM.
Emile 011ivier, Jules Favre, Picard, and Darimou
—and Dr. Henon, the member for Lyons, intend to
move the following important amendments to the
address of the Corps Legislatif—
To paragraph 1 :

but, in order that the right of control, now re.
stored to the country within the restricted limits of the
recent decree, may produce its fruits, it is necessary to re.
peal the Law of Public Safety ►nd all other exceptional
laws ; to free the frees from the tmnamels of arbitrary
power, to revive municipal franchisee, and to restore to
universal suffrage its natural force by securing fairness in
the conduct of elections, and by a scrupulous respect for

To paragraph 11 :
We regret that notwithstanding unanimous protests fre.
quently repeated the budget continues to be voted by min.
Wriest The vote of the budget by chapters and articles is
the only means of assuring a real and efficacious control of
the public finances.
To paragraph 12:

The cities of Paris and Lyons see with uneasiness the
extravagant expenditure in public works of a municipal
administration which is subjected to no control. They
never so deeply regretted as now the aliveness of an elective
municipal council, and the forgetfulness of that great prin.
ciple of our public law which gives the tax payer the right
of nominating those who vote, and dispose of the taxes.
To paragraph 17 :
We have seen with pain Algeria once more placed under
the military Monte, and deprived, like our other colonies,
of representative institutions and the right of sending
deputies to the Corps Legislatif.
To paragraph 24 :

The time has Dome for the application of the wire prin-
ciples of non-intervention to Rome, and for leaving Italy
mistress of her destinies by the immediate withdrawal of
our troops.

M. Jules Fevre will support the first and last of
the above amendments when the debate on the
address comes on.

The debate in the Senate was continued by M.
Billault, who, as the representative of the govern-
ment, made an elaborate defence of the Emperor's
Italian policy, which was in the main &paraphrase
of the Guerronnikre pamphlet. He was much
pressed by M. Larochejaquelin and M. Segur
d'Aguesseau and the Cardinals, to say whether
Prince Napoleon's speech was to be regarded as
official. To these interpellations he answered
vaguely that the Emperor was only bound by the
speeches of those councillors who, like him-
self, were officially delegated to represent
his policy in the debate, but when the
home question was put by M. Segur d'Agues-
seen, " Will you withdraw from Rome 1" M.
Billault replied, "I won't answer." "That is an
answer," said K Segur d'Aguesseau—and the
general impression undoubtedly is that the army
will leave the Pope to his fate before long. The
great anxiety of the government orators appears
to be to show that the Emperor acted zealously
and honestly towards the Pope, and the loss of the
temporal power, if he is to lose it, will be entirely
his own fault.

An amendment in favour of the temporal power
has been proposed in the Senate by five members,
among whom is the Duke of Padua, who it will be
remembered was for a short time after the Orsini
affair Minister of the Interior.

The usual Sunday reception at the Tuileries does
not take place this evening, owing to the death of
General Tacher de la Pagerie.

PARIS. SATURDAY EVINUcO.

The speech of Prince Napoleon in the Senate is a
great historical event. That a cousin of the Em-
peror, the next heir but one to the crown, the con-
fidential negotiator, as he reminded the senators, of
the difficult peace of Villafranca, should speak at
length in a public assembly, amidst cheers and
cries of " Oh, oh" from various sides of the house,
upon so momentous a question as the temporal
power of the Pope, is one of the most remarkable
facts of this latter section of the nineteenth century
in which we live. Without echoing the glozing
phraseology of M. Paulin Limayrae, in the Patrie,
who calls the Prince's speech a "magnificent impro-
visation which lasted four Lours," I may say, in the
language of truth and sobriety, that it was a sen-
sible and eloquent speech. As to " improvisation,"
a point of no importance except to a French cour-
tier, I doubt whether a man, albeit a prince, who
never before had an opportunity of speaking at any
length in public can all at once stand forth a full
fledged parliamentary orator. But whether the
speech was partly read, partly learned by heart, or
even partly stammered (and I beg pardon for this
latter supposition), its value is not the less.
Although in the main the Prince Napoleon seconded
Pietri's declaration, that the temporal power
was at an end, and although all his arguments had
that tendency, he proposed in words a compromise
as regards Rome which I do not suppose he seri-
ously thinks will ever be adopted.
The Press and Opinion Nationale, although they
greatly praise the main part of the speech of his
imperial highness, protest against his suggested
compromise ; and it must be confessed that if he
means the Pope to occupy one side of the Tiber as
a sovereign, the solution is not compatible with
the constitution of the kingdom of Italy. The
whole temporal power must go. As you will give
a report of Prince Napoleon's speech, I call especial
attention to the passage in which he answered the
attacks of the Legitimists upon the English alliance.
Five members of the Corps Legulatif, MM.
Monier de la Sizeranne, Geotfrov de Villeneuve,
Guyard Delalain, Larrabure, and O'Quin, have
proposed the following paragraph by way of
amendment to a part of the address :

Faithful to the secular sod national policy which in larl
restored his states to the Holy Father, you, sire, reinforce!
your army of Rome when the independence and security of
the So% ()reign Pontiff were in peril. The Corps Legislatif
thanks you in the name of France. We are confident that
the Empemr, the head of the first of catholic nations, sill
preserve the temporal sovereignty of the Holy riee--the
essential guarantee of its spiritual independence and also
of the peace of Europe.
There is not the remotest chance of this amend-
ment being carried, or even of its rallying a decent
minority. The catholic faith, however much it
may be vaunted to serve a turn, is not, if the truth
must be spoken, very lively in the bosoms of
houourable members ; and iu this country of the
moutons de Panurge, Prince Napoleon will assuredly
be looked to as the bellwether by the vast majority
of the deputies,who, it must always be remembered,
were elected, on the nowinatiou of the government,
at a period when nobody would have dared to hint
the necessity of a "secure ballot-box with a double
lock." (Vide Report on the election of M. Dabeaux
for the Ands.)
At the Bourse there was scarcely any fluctuation.
The Ratite closed for the account at yesterdns
price, 68.15 ; and at 68.10, with a fall of 10e., for
cash. Mobilier rose Of. The Orleans and Southern
Railways rose of. each, and Lyons 2.50. Eastern
fell 3.75 ; Northern, 2.50 ; and Western wai
without change. The various Mires securities re-
main without material variation.