The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS•

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PARIS, TCILSDAY ETIOIIIIO.
There Is a hitch about the Neufchatel Conferences.
A Paris letter in the Nord of Brunel' lays :
la the Int Condense co the Neatistel gouda& the
bar ylealdeloddorise reeeded the resonertion by their.
d Permit et Me dada te the Paseipality of lierbiesti.
se neiting bra dee at hie **sty la dee ars
of the rehired ; gni dry she sessetial dot it via
on that for they brad their diehards& la the mewl ed.
ong, on Saturday, the remit of the tint sitting ore ems-
ousecated to Coast de Hetieldt, the Praire Warier,
who dedered that he mar came' tiered to raeirag the
rommanicatiose ad rrferned was, without entering Into ex-
*nation& This proceeding of the Pre mien plenipotentiary
empeived the other plemipotentkuies, se they had not ex-
pected such complete menu. The nest sitting of the Con-
fnence will not take place until otter the mind of the reply
of the cabinet of Berlin.

treats these revelations purely

and simply u conjectures, but on the hackneyed
and unreliable ground that the Plenipotentiaries
are bound to secrecy. It believes that the Con-
ference will be resumed this week, and will lead to

s favourable result.

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The Bourse has been much weaker to-day.
The Rente fell I3c. for cash and 20c. for account,

closing at 70fr. 80c., and 71fr. 15c. Mobilier fell
25fr. Most of the railways left off from
&fr. to 10fr. lower, but Southern rose 16ft. 25c.
Nothing has yet transpired as to the situation of the
Bank of France. The returns frees the branch
banks for making up the monthly accounts on
Thursday, will not be received till to-morrow.
One of the fifty-four liveried editors of the Petrie,
M. Pomade de la Roquette, Master of Requests in
the Council of State, has published, with a view to
the general elections, two articles in vindication of
the recent decision of the Court of Caseation in the
matter of the electoral bulletins. His arguments,
which are not undeserving of consideration, resolve
themselves in great measure into an attack upon
universal suffrage itself, which is the corner-stone of
the empire. He observes that the right to vote
with printed bulletins is a very modern innovation
in France, dating only from 1848. The decree of
1790, relative to the primary assemblies, not only did
not permit voting by printed bulletins, but de-
clared the elections void, in case of electors who could
not write having voted with ready written ballerina.
Such electors were required to proclaim their votes
aloud at the poll, and to have their bulletins written
by one of the clerks. The most free countries in the
world do not admit printed bulletins. Belgium
dose not; neither does New York, tho most im-
portant of the United States. In France, where the
vast majority of the constituency can neither read
nor write, it is obvious, ea M. Forcade admits, that
to abolish printed bulletins, and to require the illi-
terate voters to proclaim their candidates at the
polling-booths would be virtually to repeal the bal-
lot. But be justifies the judgment of the Court of
Caseation, on the ground of the " facilities for
manoeuvres and (rands," which the free distribution
of printed bulletins would afford. What, according
to the spirit of his article, the government pro-
imee particularly to dread is lest the elector
who cannot read should vote for somebody that he
did not intend to vote for. The prefects, however,
Ilistribated bulletins for government candidates by
bushels, and it is pretty plain that the great object
in the recent judicial contest has been to secure for
the government a monopoly of the " facilities" al-
luded to. At the same time I think it but fair to
repeat an observation I have made before, that the
led judgment of the Court of Caseation, containing
• dame not contained in the former one, to the effect
that candidates themselves may freely distribute
belleties, subject to the condition of depositing a
espy at the parried for the sake of identification, is
comparatively innocuous, and lams a very large
measure of liberty. I suppose, of course, that it will
be fairly acted upon, and that no fresh traps are to
be laid by the Procureer-Oeseral.
Yesterday at noon a great crowd was collected in
hest of the entrance to the Tuileries, opposite the
Pont Royal, in coneequence of the unexpected
appearance of a deputation, consisting of no Les
they 300 market women from the Hales, who
demanded an audisoce of the Emperor. His
)fojesty, being at the moment engaged with high
feseticeeries of state, the Orand Chamberlain re-
ceived the insporbutate ladies, and learned from
them that the projected arrangement of the stellein
the new market presents essay inconveniences, and
that they hoped the Emperor would order the plans
to be revised. The Chamberlain assured them that
his Majesty should be informed of the object of their
visit. It is reported that he gave them a letter to
the Prefect of l'olice, which they tore up indignantly
in a wine-shop.
M. Arthur Berryer has lodged an appeal 'phut
the sentence lately pronounced by the Cwsvotisnal
Tribunal of the urine.
The government is about to establish several
new journals in the provinces, whose mission will be
tostir up the constituency to vote for the govern-
ment candidates at the coming general election.
The Salve Poetic of Lyons mays that Cruvelli has
been engaged to play for two months in that city,
and that oho will shortly wake bar 3M appearance
Hare in the Prophet.