Daily Alta California, Volume 12, Number 223, 12 August 1860 — OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE [ARTICLE]

OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE

Van, Jo*.., IMO. The Bones of Charles X. aad Louis Philippe. It is said that the Emperor has been ia direct communication with the Count de I'hatnburd, the grandson of Charles the Tenth,) the but living representative of the elder branch of the Bourbons, aod also with the family of Louis Philippe, and that arrsngemonts are now nearly completed for bringing to France, for burial among the Kings and Queens at St. Denis, the remains of i harles the Tenth and of Louis Philippe. This is looked upon v a proof of the strength which Napoleon considers his dynasty to possets, and it it certainly due to the memory of Louis Philippe — who sent his son to St. Helena to bring back the dust of tbe great Napoleon, in order tha*. in accordance with bis wishes, he might be " buried on th* banks of th* Seine, among the people whom h* loved so well" — that the remains of the unfortunate Cituaa King ,'hould be ako permitted to repot* upon th* soil ot France. Another change which, it is said, Napoleon intends shortly to make, is th* complete abolition of tbe annoying passport system throughout th* whol* jf the French territory. Liberty of the Press. The fond dreams ot the restoration of the liberty of the press, in which liberal editors and statesmen have been indulging, particularly since tha 16th of August last, when a full and free pardon was granted to all political prisoners and exiles, seem not to be dettined to an immediate realisation. A few days since, M. Provost Paradol, a writer of considerable celebrity, and a well known liberal. was tried before the Police Court on the charge ot "exciting hatred and contempt agaiutt the Government.' This offence consisted iv the authorship of a brochure entitled " The Ancient Parties," iv which the Government charged an attempt vu made to unite the monarchical and republican par lies against the present imperial dynasty. It is curious to we what toe Government considers an attack upon itself, so I give yon a few extracts from the pamphlet which were selected bj the prosecution as particularly obnoxious. The indictment states that tne author, repudiating tor the parties which be wishes to reunite, the qualification of " ancient parties," signalizes, "as tha most ancient of all parties, the alliance, old as the world, of demagoguism and despotism, the iniquitous lust of power, making a compact with the blind inslinet of equality," adding that ' this party is the one which founded the vast tyranny of the Csa-an, and the acclamations of the populace of Home, and it at it still bat on its hands the blood ot Cato." The prosecation charges that the author intends, by this, to designate the Government of France a* renewing the despotism of the Ca.**ars, and particularly, as he further declares, that " in vain Christianity and philosophy have made war against this venerable enemy of human dignity : it still reignj and still infests the earth, and that the newest of all parties, and th* one most worthy the sympathy of generous souls, is th* one which resembles that tbe lrast." Another particularly obnoxious passag* is that " despotism is the alloy,'' and thai " liberty n toe pure gold." These are the principal clauses cited, and tbe act of accusation sums up Ly declaring thai the writer endeavors " to represent France as reduced to a condition entirely passive, as having become the plajthing of a superior will, whether in regard to iv political interests in war, or its industrial and commercial interests in peace. that it pictures with bitterness, the inferiority in which the Constitution of the Kmpire keeps France in regard to other ualions, although worthy of an equal liberty, and tbat it represents the Government as absorbed by exterior affairs and careless of France. Such are the charges against M. Paradol, being fotinl guilty of which, he was sentenced Ie one month's imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 francs : the publisher was al-u sentenced to a fine of :s,uOO francs, and the unfortunate printer to a fine of 600 francs. Besides this, it was ordered that the copies of the work which had been seized should be destroyed. These only amounted to about >0, and tbe Miiur* was not mad* till over a thousand copies bad been disposed of. A fit* days sine* tbe I'uurner de fur-it and the (tpinivne Matiumtfe each received a warning (the latter for th* second time, on account of the publication of a speech recently mad* on the Sicilian insurrection by Victor Hugo in the Island of Jersey, and which was charged to be of a "revolutionary tendency. " I should rather think it was. So, sees* the " freedom of the Press " ia France. Constitution for Naples. Tea will learn by thi.« mail the fact that th* King of Naples has promised a liberal constitution, with a Vice Royalty fur Sicily. That a liberal ministry is to be formed, and that already the Italian tri-color has been raided in place of the flag of the Two Sicilies. Probably oa the strength of this, the King will expect the intervention of France and England to restore him what of hia territory id l->at, an I tn guarantee what remains. It is impossible to predict what will be the result France has doubtless counselled this act of the King's, and may have given a promise to aid him if he performed it. It mill never jmi^t'y the people. With them tbe time for compromise has pasted. They have no faith in the ott-brcken proini.-e* of their ISourbon tyrants, and beside that they are now imbued with a desire for Italian nationality and unity. God grant that the great powers may refuse to lend their assistance to young Uoiuba, and that Garibaldi may be allowed to work out the freedom and nationality of Italy. Fourth of July, ke We arc going to hay* a grand Fourth of July celebration out in the country. Tents to be " rected. and a dinner served up, and tbe " usual toasts " given, and speeches made. There are now, in addition to tbe thousand permanent resident I*,1 *, at least a thousand more temporary snjourrjeri in Par?, and a grand time is anticipated. After tbat all Amencan-dom will start for Switzerland, Baden, and the other summer resorts of Europe. Heenan, the great, returns Is America in tbe Y'lnderbilt, which sails on the 4th of July. He forfeits the £50 which be put up on the projected fight with tbe " .Staiey Bridge Infant," and abandons the prospect of winning the original sham pion's belt," for the more solid recompense of some thirty thousand dollars, which has been raised tor him in the I'nited States. It is sincerely to be hoped that we have heard the last of tb* " great international contest." Californians are thick in Paris. Hon. E. W. McKinstry, of Napa; Hon. Mr. Pacheco, of San Luis Obispo ; K. il. Carpentier, Esq.: John li. (ioolwin, Esq.; C. L. Wilson, E..| : and Mr. Comttock, of San Francisco, may he Men every day. after dinner, discussing their coffee beneath tbe tiowering orange trees, in the court-yard of the Hotel de Louvre. fc- U. B.