Glasgow Courier. — 1861-02-28 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE ARREST OF M. MIRES.  Tho Paris correspoudeot of the TinieB writes as follows on Thursday :---Neither the Syrian question, nor the fall of Gaeta, nor the American question, nor the Roman question, which is getting worse, nor even M. Lagueronniere's pamphlet, now occupies the attention of the public. Everything is forgotten in the great event of the day —the arrest and imprison. ment of M. Mires, and the consequences which itwill probably lead to. On Monday he was transferred to the prison of Mazes, afterhaviugbeen closely watched for some time previous by the agents of the police. The transfer to Mazas, and the commencement of proceedings which will follow, if not arrested by extraordinary agency, were hastened by the strong terms used by him since the first steps were taken against him, some weeks ago, and which I noticed at the time. Fmding that the protection on which he thought he could rely for a settlement A l'uniiable of these complicated transactions would not, or could not, stop investigation, he is said to have used the language of despair, to have bid his prosecutors, or, as he would term them, his persecutors defiance, and to have declared that, if driven to extremity, he would make disclosures of such a nature as to implicatepersons whose names are not yet known. It is said that these threats were communicatel in a letter, after the reception of which all further temporisation was, of course, morally impossible, and that letter was sent to the proper authority with a peremptory order for M. Mires's arrest and imprisonment, but, whether in writing or by word of mouth, it is certain that these menaces were repeatedly and publicly uttered. it v.-as. yesterday rumoured that-his arrest vas followed by that of several others said to be gravely implicated in the same transactions. The rumour, however, was unfounded. Domiciliary visits took place, and papers were seized. The Monierur announces to-day the sqdden death by apoplexy of the Viscount de Richemont, collector of taxes in Paris. It is reported, however, that he committed suicide, as he had been either threatened with or apprehended arrest. Besides his official employment, M. de Richemont was a member of the Committee of Superintendence of M. Mires's establishment, the Calm des Chemins de For. Five or six other persons  were expected to be arrested to-day. Nothing is spoken of, among high or low, but this catastrophe. It would be affectation to deny that the most pen. ful impression has been produced brit, and people's minds revert to the time of the Tests and Cubieres scandals. There may be exaggeration in what is said about these truisactions and the parties implicated in them; but it in affirmed on all hands that defalcations to a large amount have been discovered in the matter of tho Roman railways, and that these defalcations, in all or in part, arise from the large sums paid in gratuities to promote the enterprises in which M. Mires WAS engaged, or for obtaining important information necessary for their success. Sums varying from .03,000 to £20,000 are said to have been disbursed in this way. If M. Mires persists in this menace that he will not fall without bringing disgrace and ruin on many others, people expect some extraordinary disclosures. One or two persons are said to have managed adroitly enough to get out of these transactions since M. Mires's difficulties attracted public notice. It is remarked as strange that, though the public has talked of hardly anything for the last few days but this affair, not a single Paris paper has made the slightest allusion to it The papers are nearly as silent now as they were on the Turkish loan, beyond publishing the rectants in its support: