The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

ADDRESS OF THE SENATE TO THE

EMPEROR.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVEC:Na.

At the public sitting of the Senate to-day, M.
Troplong in the chair, the following " project " of
an address to the Emperor, which has been drawn
up by the committee selected for that purpose, was
read :

Sire,—When your Majesty, by your decree of November
N,was pleased to enlarge the sphere of your communications
with the great bodies of the state, as also those of the state
with the country, the Senate, as the guardian of the funda-
mental pact, at once understood that the constitution re-
mained intact, and that it was merely about to be animated
by a more energetic movement. We congratulate you, sire,
on the august confirmation which your Majesty has given
to our interpretation. France neither loves excessive
liberty nor excessive power; and for this reason it clings
with confidence to the constitution of IBS2, the prudent
limits of which at once prevent power from becoming
absolute and liberty from going astray. Your Majesty, the
author of this constitution, whose root is in the national
voice, is also its mainstay, and it is not in your hands that
it will deviate from its essential principles. But it is not a
deviation from the constitution to open a door to reforms
which are inherent in durable institutions, and only repug-
nant to constitutions behind which there is nothing solid.
We hail these reforms with gratitude, and we shall know
how to associate ourselves with them with that independ-
ence which is in our hearts and wishes, and with that mo-
deration which is the duty of the Senate.
The exposition of the home and foreign situation of the
country has proved to us, by undeniable documents, your
Majesty's constant solicitude for the prosperity and gran-
deur of the empire.

At home order is united with security, and every man
feels that he is living with that reasonable degree of
liberty which France cannot do without. Our finances do
not appear likely to be deranged by the abandonment of 90
millions of receipt., sacrificedto the relief of articlesof general
consumption ; for your government does not find it neces-
sary to fill up this voluntary void, either by resorting to
new taxes, which are generally viewed with small favour,
or to public credit, which is alw►ys anxious to be spared.
Although the manufacturing interest, momentarily alarmed
by the treaty of commerce, may be husbanding its strength
during the period of transition, it is only that it may find io
the stimulus of competition that courage which ensures Inc-
ome. Meanwhile public works continue to be actively carried on
without fear of those shocks which over-enterprise alone
can produce. Capital is abundant and desires only to cir-
culate. It is impatient to see foreign affairs in a settled
condition, in order that it may invite material interest, to
embark in the career of public and private wealth. This
career is now one of the necessary ways of national activity.
France does not shrink front confessing this, sloe, in enter-
ing upon this career, she does not mean in the least degree
to abridge her worship of the glories of mind and courage,
or to weaken that moral patrimony which is exalted by
civilisation.

For these reasons the Senate has cheerfully adhered to
the measure by which your Majesty has consolidated in
the hands of the Minister of State the various services
appertaining to letters and the fine arts. Encouragements
to works of intelligence honour • reign, and fecundate the
genius of an epoch. Centralised under the eyes of the
Emperor, these encouragements will be given with greater
symmetry, continuity, and success
It is also with • lively satisfaction that the Senate has
NOD the efficacious solicitude of your government to pro-
mote religious and literary instruction, to ameliorate the
condition of the clergy, end to augment the number of
parishes and vicarages in the provinces.
The development of moral sentimental. the best auxiliary
for the laborious activity of • people. It is in this view
that the wishes of the Senate support the laudable efforts
of your Majesty's administration to second the communes
of the Empire, and more especially the rural communes, in the
construction and reparation of their churches, presbyteries,
and schools. At the same time that agricultural enterprise
is extended under the protecting hand of the Emperor, it is
indispensable that the morality of the population should be
sustained in a parallel movement of progress.
After your Majesty's journey ta Algeria, you determined
on • new organisation of the government of that colony.
We congratulate you on seeing an illustrious marshal, our
oolleegue, called by your confidence to realise the hopes at-
taching to the system of decentralisation which you have
resolved to try. May this system, in which the military
element is intended to strengthen and not to efface the civil
element, favour more and more those conditions which
are essential to the confidence of colonists and the safety of
capital. It is certainty in the institutions of the colony
which will above all things produce this result—and this
certainty is in the spirit of our constitution and the ides of
the Emperor.

Abroad, sire, your Majesty, by the frankness of the coin•
munications of your government, has enlightened the
public conscience and confirmed the confidence of the
country in the greatness of France and in the maintenance
at peace. The alarms which were some time ago excited
by the sunouncement of a " fatal epoch" (meaning war in
the spring) have vanished. The diplomatic correspondence
throws a striking light upon the good understanding of
France with foreign nations, the weight of her consideration,
and the value of her moderate and conciliatory policy.
In Syria you have placed the sword of France between
the Christian populations and Mussultnan fanaticism. The
mainacres of our Christian brethren have been stayed by the
sight of your flag.

But more—the French army, faithful to your appeal,
has been into the extreme East to raise up the Cross, which
was laid low by Asiatic superstition. As missionaries of
religion and avengers of French interests, our soldiers,
united with these of Great Britain, have opened a way for
ideas, trade, sod civilisation in the capital of the Celestial
Empire. That was • splendid day when in the restored
church a " Ts Deuce resounded for the Lord, and a
"Domino Salvum" for the Emperor.
If we now cast our eyes towards the Italian peninsula,
we are struck, like your Majesty, with the events of which
it has been the theatre since last session. Two interests
of the first order, which the Emperor would have wished
to conciliate, are in conflict, and Italian liberty is in hos-
tility with the court of Rome. To prevent and star this
ooefiict, your government has attempted everything which
political ability and loyalty could suggest. To some you
have pointed out the course dictated by the law of nations,
to others that by facts. In one place you have severed
yourself from unjust aggressions ; in another you have
been grieved by impolitic resistance. Everywhere you have
been moved by noble misfortunes and unhappy ruins.
Finally, all just means have been used, and you have only
stopped at the use of force. For it is not by
armed interventions that thoughts of conciliation are
to be realised. Your Majesty has not forgotten, more.
over, that, in other times, the fault of France has been to
pretend to rule Italy after having freed her ; and you have
wished to disentangle French policy from that which
would have embarrassed it, not thinking that because it
has seemed right to intervene in favour of Italy op-
pressed by the foreigner, it would be proper to in-
tervene to constrain the will of enfranchised Italy.
This system of non-intervention, the best for preventing
plural conflagrations, will clue. the field of our secular
rivalries with Austria ; and if, despite sinister predictions,
a European war does not break out in the spring, it is
because your Majesty, maintaining a wise attitude, has
resisted the impulses of ardent passions, as you have
refused to yield to reactionary demands. And this
pros will be a benefit as precious for Italy as for
us ; for Italy will not be appreciated by the world which
watches her if die does not prove that she bas no wish to
agitate Europe by her liberty after having so long troubled
it by her misfortunes. Let her remember, above all, that
catholicism has confided to her the head of the church, the
representative of the greatest moral force of humanity. The
religious interests of France demand that she shall not forget
this; the friendly souvenirs of Magenta and Solferino
lead us to hope that she will keep it in mind. But our
firmest hope is in the tutelary and indefatigable hand of
your Majesty. Your aim affection for a holy cause, which
you do not confound with those of intrigues which
borrow its mask, is incessantly manifested in the defence
and the maintenance of the temporal power of the Bove.
reign Pastier ; and the Senate does not hesitate
to give its entire adhesion to all the acts of your
loyal, moderate, persevering policy. For the future we
shall continue to place our confidence in the monarch who
covers the papacy with the French flag, who has assisted
it i• its trials, and bas constituted himself for Rowse and
the Pontifical throne the most vigilant and faithful sentinel.
Sire, in the midst of the questions which seem to force

themselves upon Europe, France is perhaps the country in
which there is the least to do, because of all that she has
done. However, a nation like ours cannot remain inactive;
labour and progress are its destiny ; and it is from your
Majesty the most beneficial impulses will proceed. What.
I ever may be the part reserved for the Senate in the national
movement, your Majesty may rely upon its seal, its de-
votion, and its love for the public interests and truth.

The Bourse has been duller than ever, and with-
out any marked feature. The Rente fell 15c. for
cash, and sc. for account, closing at 68fr. sc. and
68fr. 10c. Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. The Caisse
Mires rose sfr., closing at 95fr.
Several journals in the elaveholding states of
America lately spoke in a triumphant tone of the
arrival in France of a deputation from South Caro.
line for the purpose of cultivating an alliance with
Napoleon 111., and the New York Times, in a recent
article headed "How the Deputation was Re-
ceived," recorded with great glee that it had met
with a snubbing at the Tuileries. But it now ap-
pears that the whole story of the deputation was
a fable. Colonel Falkner, the American minister
here, never having heard of the facts alleged by the
transatlantic papers, called on M. Tbouvenel a day
or two since to inquire whether there was any
truth in them, and he received from the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs the most posi-
tive assurances that no delegate from South
Carolina, or from any other secessionist state baa
ever been received either by the Emperor or by
himself. One only citizen of a slave state, has
lately had an audience of the Emperor, namely,
General Stevenson, of Tennessee (a state, by the
way, which has not left the Union), and he solicited
this audience merely in his character of chairman
of the Pacific Railway Company. Colonel Falkner
knows of no delegates from South Carolina having
arrived in Paris, and he wishes this statement to
be made public.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEENS BENCH.
at Nisi !'rims at Guililliall.—(Be(ore the Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.)
v. 14.42 AND ANRYTHCIL—ACTION ON , A I'uLICY Or
INsrItANCL.
• trod was resumed at the sitting of the court to-day.
...a...Minimal evidence having been given in support of
oise,
rum, the plaintiff, was recalled to give evidence as
min allowed to him by Mr. (homey, the landlord of
..use at Tottenham, for its rebuilding. He was ermi-
ned at Willie 14.0,411 as to the relations which sub-
: between him mid Ellen Ilibbons. He said-- In
be-
r. I,<O, Ellen Gibbons kft me foe three weeks, anal
as inmate of the Magdalen ward at St. Bartholii-
,•. Hospital. Whilst she mei there I went to see bee, and
eilmyirelf as her uncle. People sornetimesdid not want
public to know exactly what they were. Idu out
the nurse riving she did not believe me, and that
..4 bee master from Tottenham. I did not ask the
••••• to speak to her ahem, nor offer her half-a-crown to
~lowed to speak to lilen Gibbons alone. I might have
r, her half•a•erown for her attention to Ellen. Five or
seeks before List Christmas, Ellen was at the Free
dal I 4rav's.iondane, but I rti not know whether she
a similar wanL I did not know her complaint. She
t to St. Harthokenew's Hospital with my knowledge.
..11•4 know that she was placed in the Magdalen ward.
• did not t. II use what was the niatter with her. She
,44.1 before all the doctors that she had the complailt
s mitt she hail. I did Dot bear her my so, but a woman
the hospital toll me. There was a .panel between me
I my wife, but it was not on that matter.
14-via:pined—l hail not the least knowledge that she
°I got anything of the kiwi the matter with her. I was
err much surprised to hear it.
This Iran the for the plaintiff.
Mr. Plow. a4l.lrease.l the jury 4on the part of the defend-
ada. and said that the Sun Fire Insurance fusee did not
Any Dunn... or limited slew of their own in.
rest n.vist this comparatively trifling claim, for
',taborer the nisulta of the trial they must
• Loge pecuniary losers -but because they felt that they
...l it to their own shareholders, and insurers as well as
• the public at large to offer the most determined
•.litance lap frauilideut claims, while ,they met honest and
• .n 4 tide claims handsomely awl immediately. He thought
• under the eineumstaneen the jury would say that
vivre perfectly justified in subjecting the MOO to the
:,....t rigorous investii,iation, sod in calling before them
verY person who could throw any light upon it. The de.
mutant. J.jts teal to pay the plaintiff's claim on the ground
first that it was fraudulent, as he bad crag-
.:ato.l .w enhanced the damage sustained by the
awl a...mad'''. that it was a wilful and not
fire. The lesroal counsel then contended that
..i,...; to Om whole circumstances connected with the lire.
..I the pliintifra own narrative and cooduct. the fire was
-asol Lv the plaintiff tor the purpose of radioing off a (rattail.
-at cL,im en the ofbee sod putting money into his pocket
.r t,..1.1 which never custard He then commented on
inge e..1311et ion between Ellen Gibbons and the
which he said threw much light upon a large
:..rf of the evalence, and observed that it was a remark •
fact that the plaintiff, who bail been insolvent on three
•• 'orate °erasion*. 10 ion* of which did he produce any
ar give up any property fur his creditors, should
I.4•fore Orr become possessed of property worth between
see 1101 :Oaf. It was quite clout th.it Ellen Gibbons was
under the entire inducer* of the plaintiff, and that ber
was tainted with perjury, nod could not be
.:..I epos. The learned counsel then adverted
• the renders of the plaintiff both before and
r the he, ad said the coroner', jury who investigated
matter strived at a verdict to the effect that the fire
so fir eireunotances of great suspicion, and that it
hare lawn estinguished, but that Pizey, the occupier
the premises, refused to allo
.w such moms as were at
-I to le need for that purpose
[The trial was proceeding when our report left.]

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
.1110.miatli Ati ICAnw, 54, an !alien, was indicted for
.lemeaarair is having wilfully and felonimaly attempted
• .0101 ii self.deetructson.
*Alert coalmad the pmneeutinn.
rireumetan w under which thin charge was preferred
imam the primmer will be fresh in the recollectica
.4 the pular. Oa the sth of February while her Ma.
jolty was 1.0 her way to open the -Parliament, the
Misslwho had a paper in his bead, rushed oat
• crowd towards the royal wernair, at the
me Saw eselainuag. "Me petition—sae justice.' Mr.
bask an iasporeor of police, wins wee es duty near the
sob. of her Majesty, seined the primmer, nod it was
els enes Mist he bad ialieted a wood in his throat. The
Mile with which b. had seared the injury was knocked eat
if his hand, awl be was taken to the hospital, where it
is found that the wound was of a very superficial cha-
rier, and is • few 'lt, .1 the prisoner perfectly recovered.
It appeared that the prisoner wan meter the impression
that he mu entitled to some redeem at the hands of the
UCwlat for wrongs that he had sustaieed in India, and
ssmailked a similar set on a previous ocamion in li of Lauda
The primer he hie &foam merely desired that on* of
the foaled upon him when he was takes into custody
he read, and this done. It cossisted of a very Ism
sisteenest of injuriee he repreeeeted he had soatained is
ladle, sal that he fool come to Maenad to obtain redress.
The Iteooler inquire! whether there was any groats! for
:raw that the need of the prisoner was in any way
fir. Travers, the surmson of Chsaingerene Hospital, under
whose ore the prinotier hal been, stated that he saw moth*
a he conduct to induce him to form such an opinion.
The Recorder having summed up, the jury, after a short
deliberation, returned a ven!ict of Hot °Ralf.
The primmer was therefore ordered to be dacharged.

THE POUCH COURTS.
(THD3 DAY.)

snuTHwARIL
trnuommuay APPLICATION. -11AIIIIIAGI OP A TOCTO

AND A CHNINTIAN. - -
A mid female enteral the court in a very excited
'Mts. sad salted out before the could get her breath that
she wanted his wordhip'a sak. open an important subject.
agistrate—What is it you weal? You seem in a very
excited stath
Applicast—l am a mother of a large family, your worship,
sod one of my daughters has for some tiros kept company
with a hard-ereeking young man. whose Pinot' ere le the
JeLthh petemeios. bet they dotal stick to their faith.
Mostrate—Well, what hare I to do with that
Applicaat—l dm% know that you have much, but I want
rose meleamme in this way. Yesterday they were married
at At. Jelta's Church. Waterloo-road, and as soon so the
ceremony was perfoettied the young man's father rushed
Mtn the church end called out to the clergymea, "This is
aa illegal marriage. My son is • Jew. sad meet be
mama' amortinig to the Jewish law.* The cosmologies
of that was, the elerunian refused to give them • me.
Mmistrate—Well, what do you vast with tea I. the
I,4Der?
tpplicsatr— I want von to compel the eliagyinan to give
r. e are daughter's ,rt Okla.', of marTiAge, to it was duly per omit, and the hooks signed before the (ether of the
!• mg man rushed in to forbid it. He said it warn illegal.
Magistrate—Were they married by hems.?
%opticant—No, a,r, by loons, which were regularly read
cc vie consecutive Sunolaya.
A ariatrate -I cannot compel the clergyman to give yea
ertificate.
%indicant—But they say its an illegal marriage—that •
.1•• ..Ano.4 marry a Chnatian.
Vsinstrato—hare all memoir. A Jew ran marry •
linatian or Turk, if he pleases. If the cere-oony was per-
limed is the manner you me, it's • legal marriage.
‘Pplicsat—Then get the certilicate, mil make the
Mem give it nu.. l)o help roe, sir. (Laughter.)
Itrgistrate—l cannot do MOM this I have. You meet go.
APpliesot theta rushed out of court, and joined her
rum Weide.
MA It LROROUGFI.STREET.
'5l'.TrN.; THY. 11:141.401T.NA AT TNII XT. lassie ?RIM&
a violent-tempered woman. living at
ethimart, mow the stare door of the St. James's Theatre,
14., chard with IMIN.WIIIg the ladies aid gentlemen ma-
Mild with the the.dr,
_Nlipsel George Selvertnei, (' division, said that on the
n`wees overtime about 5 • i'clock, the prisoner was in Angel-
lasidag a gr...,t diaturbonee and swearing fearfully.
ems mw him approaching she went indoors, sad
'l'm the widow pelted all the performers who have to
ti awe the roo to stage door of the theatre. She
Mes behaved is wont indecent meaner before several
Pitiess. the inwona at the theatre, mid be was la
MS of the theatre, and two of the ladies cemaseted with
• theatre came to him and complehted of the primmer's
eidn..i Ile heard her make use of the most dingerhilllf "'a-
rise.. It was not only last sight bat on the previous Mater-
E.' "mai she hail emptied the contents of • wealt-
hiest Imes over one of the musicians belonging to the
1"1.„ 1.- while passing through the court.
Praetor, whom waded in the dock afforded a pretty
i I• I
"'WM el the sort of woman the LOggistrate had le
With, Ime lard lOs., or • month.

%env Essentgres Wollloll.—Darin; the week
":mix 0.6, 23 the wisdom hers beet is follows 1-0 a
Terrier, aw•e l Saterday, dam MU; eel Mow de! eel To ...4r fre cresiftee s.treeo69 ;ea the three stet-
dent; asr• wireoojos to the public fd.), 27111 ens fleet: eresit,: (ere4neerbte), 3N.; toW, 11,381. From
oPeung of the mama, 1,d8t1,010.