The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

Vo.iiri GIN NENV S.
(Tll* DAY.)
laworßED ATTACK ON Ito to
A.* haler Aroin Bogue of August '25, in Cie
sus..:
• Am,fs «nt.inr) in Porno. The polic Lave diinoveml
ll.z. pi hitt rof tie two proclamations u the Pepils
Homan ( kb." AL:vices nooivcd this ovuni ;:ein Aden
Pimlico, and Naples nay that a fro.', at tota;ain.l
'lrmo is in rninert. It is PRA that (I ni is at ito
wills a ctn. idetabis force of (laribeldians; that Oanzio,
C~atilaton-in-law, is recruiting volunteers in (haus
and pni4xsou to march; and that Menotti =Waage' a
among limn a point of the pontifical coast. In the pre-
'tut 'tato of the public mind in Italy, sad after the re-
/Kali-4 i.cetiogit men= of war, everything is possible.

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Closing Prioas :—Gold, 144 g. Sterling enokange
on London. 109. 6-20 United States Bonds, 1852,
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OUR PARIS LETTER.

(nom ova wont oosaaepoinnorr.)
PARIS, WEDVIIIIPA I' EVENING.

M. Cue bevel Ciarigny, an old and tried servant
of the present government, and who is yet above
all things dynastic, writes in the Freese that it is
impossible for any sincere friend of the Empire to
read without pain the report of the trial at Nimes
of M. Lacy-Ouillon and others for holding an
electoral meeting. It was a " lamentable spec-
tacle " to see a commissary of police denying
through thick and thin the testimony of scores of
respectable vritnetthes, and fancying he was thereby
serving the Emperor. The Freese takes it to be in-
contestably established that nobody was voluntarily
admitted to the meeting at Nimes who had not
received a personal invitation, and that if the
meeting had ultimately a public character, it was
only because certain persons without tickets
entered the room in the wake of the police, who,
by their own admission, "pushed and elbowed"
their way in. Even assuming that when the
police got in they saw evidence sufficient to ground
a prosecution for an illegal meeting:why did they
not retire and make their report to the proper
authorities It was wholly unnecessary to send
for the military. The shocking result was that
ten citizens were knocked down by the butt end of
muskets, and one received a bayonet wound
which may yet prove mortal. The Slams judges
were evidently greatly embarrassed by the case so
injudiciously forced upon them by the administra-
tion. They could find no corpus delicti, and were
driven to judge a phantom. They ignored most
of the arguments for the prosecution, but grounded
the conviction upon the novel distinction that a
private meeting can only be held in the actual
domicile of the person who calls it, and not in a
locality hired for the purpose. This doctrine is
quite contrary to the authorised affirmation of M.
Vuitry, who, in the character of Minister
presiding at the Council of State, said in the
Corps Li•gislatif on August 1, 1563, that every
citizen would always have a right to assemble as
ninny electors as he pleased, •' either in his own
house or in any private locality." Whatever may
be the strict law that a court of appeal may lay
down, the Freese holds it lamentable that the
uuthorit ies should have put the law in motion at
such a time as this to restrict electoral liberty,
and it exclaims :—•• The empire has nothing to
fear from open enemies, but may God pmserve it
from some of its prefects."
A prosecution has been conimence.l in the same
department of the Gard against M. de Larry. an
opposition candidate. for holding. an eleetoral
meting by special invitation in his own private
house in Alais, where he has for years lived with
his family. In this case the judges cannot avail
themselves of the NiMi`4 prooslent, and mu,t
find sonic other pretext fur a conviction.

M. Fitstoureau, the Fillet t of the Indre et L.,ire,
who has just obtained o .11 kt :I Zrl 111 the
I•'igare of Paris, and several provinetd journals. for
a libel in stating that he, when prefect of the Var,
in December, 1551, had shot a rebel without trial.
and finding that he was not killed the first time.
brought him out and shot him again two days later.
now writes a long letter to M. Eugene Polletan, the
deputy, for publication in the Tribune, plea/ling
au alibi, and also that at the time mentioned the
department was in a state of siege, and that
General Levaillant concentrated all civil and
military powers in his own hands. I as-
sume M. Pastourcau's assertion that the
statement. is false •e so far as he is
concerned," to be strictly true. But it would
have been far better for all parties, himself included,
if he had given these full explanations at first.
instead of instituting prosecutions which prove
nothing. The prefect now places General Levail-
lant in an awkward position, because the fact
stated is too notorious to be denied. M. Pastou-
reau does deny it, but only says it was a gross
calumny to impute it to him ; and, moreover, that
the historical work of M. Tenot on the coup
adopting. in regard to this incident, the contem-
porary statement of un eye-witness, M.
merely said that the man was twice shot by the
" authorities." Authority at that time was not
anonymous, and now that M. Tenot's work has
stimulated inquiry into the his-tory of the coup
(raid, it ran hardly fail to be found out what
" authority" was responsible fur a fact which M.
Pastoureau not only repudiates but stigmatises as
disgraceful.
The legal journals announce that a prosecution
has been commenced against M. Paul de Cassag-
nac, and of course the seconds on both sides, on
account of the duel at Vesinet. M. Paul de Cas-
sagnac has alreadylbeen condemned both for duel-
ling and private libels, but the practice hitherto
has been for the Emperor to pardon bins. He has
never yet been in prison.

The Bourse closed with much firmness under the
influence of M. Magne's toast to peace at Porigneux.
Bente rose 10c. for cash and for account,
closing at 70fr. 80e. and 70fr. 8.50. Mobilier rose
Mr. In other securities there was no notable
change.

The Loheiigria of Richard Wagner is to be per-
formed at Baden on Saturday next, and already for the
last fortnight every place has been retained, many by tele-
graph from Pula. MM. Porrin, Pasdoloup, and G. Ifeial
are among those who have so secured stalls.
_ .

The Neapolitan journals announce the arrival of
Mdme. Riatori in that city.
An announcement arrives front Berne that nego-
tiation., will to opened neat month at London to conclude
a postal treaty between Switzerland and (heat Britain.
M. Grimier di, Vamagnae. deputy, and member
of the Couutildienend of the tiers, has laid before the
Procureur-linprial of Aueh a complaint against M. Lis-
seganiy, editor, and M. Barbi, getout of the :troth' of
Awl, for defamation.