The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRIDAY Evurnta.

The Pays—which invented the famous 750,000
Neapolitan signatures to a petition calling for
Murat to reign at Naples—is now fain to an-
nounce that "the Emperor has written a letter
to Prince Murat blaming the publication of
his manifesto." The Petrie, with more par-
ticularity, says that the Emperor, faithful to
the policy which he has constantly pursued
with regard to Italy—a policy exclusive of all
family ambition, and of all ideas of conquest—has
written a letter to Prince Murat expressive of
these noble sentiments, and consequently disap-
proving the manifesto.

It is nimoured that Prince Napoleon, after es-
corting the Princess Clothilde as far as Genoa,
where he will be met by Victor Emmanuel, means
to make a rapid excursion to Syria.
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The Minister of Public lnstruction has issued a
decree against the use in public schools of an ultra-
montane publication called the Almanach Rlustre
du Rosier de Marie.

It is said that K Ganesco has received permis-
sion to return to France.

The Bourse is again firmer. The Rente rose 15e.
for cash and 100. for account, closing in each came
at 67fr. 75c., the highest price of the day. Mo-
biller rose 3fr. 75c. The Eastern Railway rose
llfr. 25c., and the other lines were from lfr. 25c.
to 2fr. 50c. higher. The Roman railways were
much inquired for, and rose 7fr. 50c. The Caisse
Miris rose lfr. 245 c.

The Tribunal of Commerce yesterday dissolved
the company of the Caisse Mire, and appointed
official administrators to wind up its affairs. On
the part of Count de Oerminy it was stated that,
by instructions of the Minister of Finance, he was
obliged to resign his post. An advocate who ap-
peared for M. Mires said that, though that gentle-
man maintained the protest he had made against
all that had been done with regard to his company
since his arrest, he had no objection to offer to the
present application, and acknowledged that Count
do Gorminy had rendered immense services to the
company. The tribunal declared the company of
the Caisse-Gindrale des Chemins de Fer dissolved,
and appointed MM. Bordiaux and Richardiere to
wind up its affairs.
The first volume of M. Gamier Pages' long-ex-
pected " History of the Revolution of 1848 "is
published to-day at Pagnerre's.
The Opinion Nationale is not satisfied as to the
identity of the person who represented herself to
be Sophia Bluth, and signed a statutory declaration
before Mr. Venn, the English notary. It observes
that the testimony of this Sophia Bluth was much
wanted to explain what had become of a child
supposed to have been born in the house of the
Canon Mallet at Douai, and that it is very odd that
she should have disappeared just at the moment
when she was wanted to depose in a court of jus-
tice. Certainly, if it be the object of Sophia Bluth
to explain satisfactorily the charges made against
Canon Mallet and several French and Belgian con-
vents, of having concealed her from her parents,
the publication of • letter, dated Oakley-square,
London, representing that she is now in England
of her own free will and consent, is not sufficient.
The public would like to know what she is doing,
and when she was last in a religious house.
A curious libel case, which excites extraordinary
interest among the Russian aristocracy in Paris,
was called on this morning in the First Civil
Chamber, but the bearing was postponed for a
fortnight. The parties aro Prince Peter Dol-
goroukow, a Rusaiau nobleman long resident in
the capital, the heirs of the late Marshal Prime
Worontsow, aide-de-camp to the Emperor of
Russia, and the Courrier ds Dimasche. It appears
from the pleadings that about • year ago Prince
Peter Dolgoroukow published in Paris a book en-
titled " La Veriti sum la Russie," which drew a
most degrading picture of Russian society. All
classes and ranks, from the highest to the lowest--
civilians, soldiers, nobles, bourgeois, and serfs—were
branded as venal, abject, and corrupt. The author
did not confine himself to generalities, but cited
many instances in which the names of very high
personages were mixed up with startling revela-
tions and scandalous anecdotes. The conclusion
of his work was that the empire of Peter the
Great was in • state of social decomposition,
that it bad already descended to the level of a
second-rate power, and that nothing but the most
vigorous and radical remedies could save it from
going to pieces.
Shortly after the publication of " Ls Verite sur
la Russie," there appeared a review of it in the
Cowrie,. du Dirnandie, signed Michousky. The
reviewer seemed quite disposed to adopt the accu-
sations of the work against Russian society gene-
rally, and as if to give greater weight to them, he
pointed out that the author was a Muscovite boyard,
and a descendant of the popular patriot, Jauob
Dolgoronkow. But before proceeding to analyse
the book, M. Michousky referred to certain anterior
publications hostile to Russia, and more particu-
larly to that of M. de Custine, as being untrust-
worthy, and then wrote the following passage,
which contains the substance of the libel com-
plained of :

Some little time since we were on the point of reviewing
a work which on the face of it was highly interesting (it
was a gen,rologic biography of the aristocratic families of a
for ign country), w:ien we were shown a letter addressed
by the author to a prince whose pe Hires was to figure in
the collection. This letter asked plumply and plainly for
• douceur of 50,000 roubles, in consideration of which sum
the writer undertook to destroy donne:mote in his possession
which, as he alleged, threw serious doubts upon the lineage
of the person to whom he was writing. The noble prince.
indignant at what we should call in France a shameful
eAnntal/P, had several thousand copies of the letter litho-
graphed and distributed for general information, and one of
these ropes having Mien into our hands iodated us to
take no further notice of a work which we could only re-
gard as an infamous libel. Of aurae we have no ■ppre.
hensioss of this kind with regard to "L Verdi: sues Ia
Rorie."

Notwithstanding the saving clause at the con-
clusion, the paragraph in the Courr;er dtt Dimmiehe
was ladutecl at Prince Dolgoroukow himself—at
least so he maintains by his action. During the
last years of his residence in Russia, he published
a collection of genealogies, in four volumes, wherein,
among the persona whose pretensions to ancient
lineage were in his opinion inadmissible, he men-
tioned Marshal Prince Michael Worontsow, who
claimed to be descended from the family of the
boyards Woroutsow, whereas in fact that family
was extinct in 1576, and the nobility of Prince
Michel Woronstow, who had nothing in common
with them but the name, originated so lately as the
eighteenth century. Prince Dolgoroukow says that
be was frequently solicited by Prince M. Woront-
sow to alter this statement, and the latter promised
to furnish documents proving the correctness of his
pretensions. The promised papers, however, were
never forthcoming, and when the fourth volume
was in the press the author wrote to the marshal
to express his regret that in the absence of them it
was impossible for him to make the rectification
desired. Now it is alleged by the representatives