The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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There has been a good deal said this last day or
two about the "Affairs Fabiani," owing to the
fact that the principles involved therein touch at
once the liberty of the press and of the subject.
M. Fabiani is a Corsican, resident in Bead& He
is at once au advocate, a member both of the
Council-General of Corsica and the Council Muni-
cipal of Hestia, and proprietor and chief editor of
the Observateur Cone, a journal notoriously
devoted to the imperial government. It appears
that the Procureur-General failed to present him-
self among the other functionaries during the
performance of the Te Deum on the 15th instant.
M. Fabiani remarked upon the fact in his journal,
adding that "the general surprise at his absence
was the greater, because while the service was
being performed he had been seen walking about
the town in his ordinary attire." For this state-
ment, which it pleased the Procureur-General
to regard as defamatory, and an outrage
against the majesty of the law in his person,
the writer was arrested by gendarmes, taken to
prison, confined there, and subsequently led several
times as a criminal by the gendarmes to and fro
between the prison and the Hotel de Ville. This
arbitrary act raised a storm of disapprobation in
Bastin.. M. Fabiani wrote a letter complaining of
it, which the Semaphore de Marseilles hesitated not
to publish. The Paris press took the matter up
fearlessly and generally, and the great delinquent
was set at liberty. Of course the affair is not
to end here. He has been summoned to appear
before the tribunal, and we shall not fail to learn
before long what is the view taken by Corsican
justice of this moat scandalous proceeding; whe-
ther the scales incline towards the defamed and out-
raged Procurenr-General, or the imprisoned and
infinitely more outraged advocate. It is hinted
that there is at the bottom of the case a Corsican
vengeance, connected in some way with M. Fabiani's
election to the Council-General.

This is the time for the meeting of those elec-
tive bodies, and several of their addressee to the
Emperor are before me. The principal feature in
them all is the late vote of money for country
roads. Of course they travel into other topics.
That of the Loire reminds Napoleon 111. that he
has added to the glory of French arms by "two
wars undertaken for just and sacred causes."
Good ! The second of these wars was undertaken
in order that Italy should be free from the Alps to
the Adriatic. If that cause be just and sacred,
why are French troops quartered upon Italians at
Rome, preventing the consummation of this great
good l
We have also two important political speeches by
presidents of the Councils-Generals : one by H.
de le Guerronniere, at Limoges; the other by hL de
Horny, at Clermont-Ferrand. IL de la Guerron-
nihre is somewhat unmeasured in his praise of the
Emperor's bestowal of liberty upon the country.
He says :
The Emperor asked himself, in the meditations of his
omnipotence, whether the hour was sot eome to perfect our
institutions, end on the 24th of November last he inscribed
in that memorable decree which will be one of the pendent
pages of his reign, the spontaneous and voluntary conotesion
of political liberty. . . . It must be admitted that both
&thane and abroad surprise was excited by this unforesess
initiative. For the first time, probably, a great reform de-
scended voluntarily from the throne to the people, instead
of rising as a demand, and sometimes as a menace, hem the
heed of public opinion up to the higher power which sub-
mitted to it.

Not to allude bore to other portions of this cer-
tainly remarkable speech, which will doubtless
reach you in its entirety, is it not slightly
hazardous in this land of democracy and equality
to harp thus upon liberties conferred by the
sovereign upon the people ? M. de Morny, you
will perceive, falls into the same laudations of the
initiative of the Emperor when he says, " For
my part, I rejoice sincerely to see my country en-
dowed by its sovereign with a new liberty, because
I consider that liberties accorded (octroyies) will
become better established among us than liberties
extorted."

The Bourse has exhibited more activity than for
some days past. The rise in Consols cannot fail
to affect this market, though in a less degree.
Rente rose 15c. for cash and 20c. for account,
leaving off at 68fr. 85c. and 68fr. 90c. respectively.
Mobilier in great favour, with a rise of 18fr. 7k.,
its closing prices being 763 fr. 75c. for cash, and
762 fr. 50c. for account. All railways in great
demand.

A St. Petersburg letter says :—" The Emperor,
who left Tesrekeetlelo on the evening of the lath, arrived
at Moscow on the following morning, and at Tools is the
evening. On the 20th, his Majesty received the priocipal
civil and military authorities, the marshals of the nobility,
and the commercial community. After having visited the
cathedral, inspected the corps of cadets, and reviewed the
troops in (anima at Tout, the Emperor left to continue
his jemmy to Odom."

"The Pontifical government allows," says the
Jowls& ds Havre, "its organ, the Ouervalore Romano, to
publish pretended letters from Ancona, anuouocing that
the port is blockaded by Austrian, Russian, and other
vessels of war ; that the Duke of Modena and the Grand
Duke of Tuscany are in Venetia at the head of 150,000
men, and that the Austrians have thrown bridges over the
Po for the purpose of entering Central Italy. Such publica-
tions only serve to throw discredit on the journals which
produce them."

Rossini ham juNt been decorated with the Order
of Merit, the highest distinction in the Italian kingdom.
Count Mira, the Italian ambsarndor, visited the grand
maestro two evenings back, sod presented to him the in-
signia of the Order, in the earns of King Victor Emmanuel.

An Italian correspondent says of the ex-Queen of
Naples (now at Rome) :—" The royal Bavarian will never
Um of playing the heroine. A good English riding habit
is not Amasimiaa dress enough for her. She shows about
Rome, too generally, in man's attire—a breach of feminine
delicacy only to be excused by extreme circumstances.
With her lord's privileged nether garments she affects
also manly swagger and bloater. She ' smokes like •
▪ end swears like a trooper,' as if that looked
pretty ar rounded graceful. Slut hector, her einem
is-law, and has pitched battles with the princes end
princesses of the house of Bourboe. The members of the
exiled family have constant bickering. among themselves ;
they peek it each other like chickens tied to the mine string
and dangling from the band of the bouiewife who is carry-
ing Veen to market—three trim emblems, as the poet said,
of partners in misfortune. High words sad angry mum
ere heard frees the Quirinal's windows. Plates are shied at
royal heady, end ey into the streets, to the great inandel
of the Swills guard at the palace gates. The Queen, though
robbed cif her toeptro, disdains to handle the distaff ; eh*
amiss her dread revolver at her Ode."