The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(IRON OUR ORR CORRESPINDENT.)
PARIS, TURADAT EVIDORIG.

The I'afri. this evening denies that it has ever
ratted upon the Italian question. It still pro-
fesees—and this cosfessien of faith is worth
noting—to be in favour of the unity o: Italy. The
affair of Rome, which constitutes the greatest
subject of difference between itself and ita adver-
saries, "is only a question of time." "We would
unravel the knot which our adversaries would
cut. Italy has not hitherto bad reason to complain
of her moderation ; time has served her very well
up to this point, and we are persuaded that time
will be her firmest auxiliary for the future." This
language accords with that of the Italian journals,
which still argue with robust faith that Napoleon
111. and Victor Emmanuel have a common object,
oily the latter must take the initiative, and the
former must continue to have his hand forced.
Let us hope that this may be so; but the game is
becoming very tedious.
The only journal which condescends to notice
the assertion of the PaZri; which I noticed yc--
tenlay, as to all the catholic powers having ad-
mitted the inaccuracy of Baron Ricasoli's accusa-
tion of the Roman government,is the Temps. After
inquiring by what authority the Peri so often
disavowed, now usurps the fnuctions of the
Moolitcur, this journal remarks that its present
assertion, eximessiug an opinion on the acts of the
internal administration of the Roman states, is in
conflict with an embrangleit parawaph in
the Colistiteti ^I, which says that the
French government has no voc..tion to
mix itself up with any such matters. The Condi-
httimwel affects to contradict a statement in an
English journal that General de Guyon has orders
to prevent bands of brigands being sent from the
Roman states to Southern Italy,and pretends that,
far from interfering with such an act of " internal
administration," the general will "cause the neu-
trality of the Holy See to be respected, by barring
the frontier against the passage of any armed
band." TLe Temps justly remarks that this form
of contradiction is most unfortunate. In fact, it
plainly admits the very thing which it purports to
deny, and only offers a homage of hollow weals t
the Roman government, which will not be allowed to
send troops out o; the country any more than troopr
of the King of Italy will be allowcl to come into
it. The manifesto is indeed substantially addressed
altogether against Rome, because no general of
Victor Emmanuel dreams of forcing any line de-
fended by the French flag, and it is only by acci-
dent if here and thore,on an ill defended boundary,
a few Piedmonteso soldiers have come scrap.

The Pays denies that any note has been sent by
Earl Rummell to promise Baron Ricasoli the support
of England in case of a difference with France. This
denial is, however, weakened by the special plea
that " besides, England has at this moment no offi-
cial representative at Turin, but only a simple
agent."

The Bourse is duller than ever, and prices have
a downward tendeucy. The Bente fell 10c. both
for cash and account, closing at (Mfr. 90c. and
68fr. 05c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c. In railways
there was little amine.
A few months ago one Bergeron, a provincial
Lovelace of seventy-two, and a rich landholder
in the department of the Charente, was convicted
of infanticide, and (hard labour never being in-
flicted on criminals of his age) sentenced to impri-
sonment for life. At the same time Henrietta''
Bureau, his servant and mistress, the mother of
the murdered child, was condemned to twenty
years' imprisonment with hard labour as au
accomplice in the crime. By the merest so-
cident the registrar who drew up the judgment
against Bergeron left out a paragraph, and the
emission making nonsense of a material part, the
Court of Cessation quashed the sentence as far as
he was concerned, and ordered a new trial. The
girl, who did not appeal within the time allowed,
is undergoing her sentence. The new trial took
place on September b, before the Assize Court of
the Gironde, and the jury, under the influence of
an eloquent speech from M. Lachaud, of the Paris
bar, found the prisoner not guilty, and he was at
once discharged. The evidence was precisely the
same as on the former occasion and but for the
clerical error above alluded o. no second jury
would ever have had an opportu•uity of considering
it. The servant girl, Henrietta, who was brought
from prison to give evidence, persisted, while ad-
mitting her own guilt, in her original story that
her master stabbed the infant ten times. The
reports published in Paris are not full enough
to enable the reader to form an opinion upon the
merits of this extraordinary case. Oue ingenious
argument of M. Lachaud's is worth noticing. In
answer to the reproach of the public prosecutor
against his client, that he had had many bastard
children whom he had sent to the Foundling Hos-
pital, M. Lachaud retorted that, since he was so
familiar with the road to that hospital, it was un-
likely that he should rerort to murder in his old

The Moniker publishes another notice for per-
sons intending to send productions to the Univer-
sal Exhibition iu Londoi. It informs artists (archi-
tects!, painters, sculptors, and engravers) that bul-
letins of inscription, to be filled up by them, may
be had at the Pallas d'lndustrie, and that all do
mends for admission into the section of the Beaux
Arts must be sent in to the Imperial Com-
mission before the lst of October next. The
notice adds that the applications made by artiste
before the printed bulletins were issued, not being
in the form prescribed, must be repeated in a more
correct manner. The English commissioners have I
decided that the exhibition of everything connected
with education should be all arranged together. It
was at first thought that, by the original arrange-
ments, French publishers would not be able to take
part as a body in the exbibitiou, and they peti-
tioned on the subject. The question has
now been solved in their favour, as they
will be able to exhibit works connected
with national education. The notice con-
chides by expressing regret that this decision bad
nut been come to sooner, as from the limited space
allotted for the production of manufactures, for
which the exhibition was specially organised, the
French will not be able to send as many works as
they would desire.

The Gloire sailed from Toulon three evenings
back, to make experiments at sea with& new ciumou. The
cannon was placed on board in s triple envelope,
which was sealed up, and after the experiments it was to
be covered in the same way, sad sealed up until • report
shall have been seat in giving an amount of the experiments
and the value of the gun.

Th. Towlemisais says experiments made
with the loccesdiery abets have succeeded completely. The
Dromaiaire, which was set cm ire with them, has hese
burning from end to end for two days, sad now presoak
the appearance of an immense floating forma. Sect Med
a number of perms. armed with apses Imposed a great
bomber of fish of all kind+, which Uhl Wavered by the
tight of the fire, came to the mina within a mated, die.
tune of the burning ship, and became victims to this sew
mode of fishing by torchlight.