The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SCIDAT Evaxnco.
The following communication has been sent to
the Patric by the Prussian embassy :
The Morning Post publishes the text of a despatch, said
to have been addressed on Jane 15 by M. de Bismark to
Count de Colts, and also that of a letter from Baron de
Warthog to the Pruesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, oon-
cording oertain negotiations between the three northern
courts. This correspondence is altogether faise. Count
de Colts, in pmtionlar, never received the despatch alleged
to bays been addressed to him.

Baron de Benet, on his return from the London
Confsrence, where he represented the Germanic
Confederation, has made a halt in Paris. He
breakfasted with the Emperor at Fontainebleau
yesterday, and in the evening dined with M.
Drouyn de Lhuys at the Foreign-office. He will
probably leave for Germany to-morrow morning.
The Pays is instructed to contradict the state-
ment that the Emperor has already pronounced his
award in the affair of the Isthmus of Suez. M.
Thouvenel'e report, which he placed in his Majesty's
hands on June 25, contains valuable suggestions
for the Emperor, but must not for the present, at
least, be taken as conveying his final decision. His
Majesty is now studying the subject with BL
Drouyn de Limps.
Colonel Boyer, private secretary to General
Bazaine, wrote a letter, on May 14, to the
Estafette of Mexico, complaining that a French
lady, the wife of an officer in the army, being at
the church of San Joed, in Mexico, with • bonnet

on, according to French custom, was rudely told
by the officiating vicar, named Pascual Robles,
either to take off her bonnet or leave the church.
The colonel, whose letter shows the bad feeling
which exists between the Mexican clew and the
army of occupation, characterises the above fact
as "painfully significant," and speaks of the
priests who countenance it as a " faction." Sub-
sequently the Archbishop of Mexico was con-
strained by General Bazaine to censure the vicar
of San Jolla.
In the famous case of the will of the rich Portu-
guese ornithologist, and author of "The Theory of
Resemblances," Commander da Gams Machado,
the appeal court yesterday confirmed the decree of
the court below on the main point, that relating to
the sanity of the testator. The reasons for sup-
porting the testamentary papers are thus stated in
the judgment of the superior court :

Considering that the Commander da Gam• Machado,
after some superficial study, bed brought himself to believe
that be was the creator of • philosophical system, and that
he was the equal of the greatest geniuses in the
world, and whereas he printed • strange book in which
are to be forted • string of paradoxes very ill set forth, and
many incoherent propositions: But eonsidering that an ill-
organised mind and even grave errors do not 000stitute that
absence of reason which creates legal disabilities, and in
particular, the disability to make • will : Considering that
if all the facts of the cause establish that the commander
Was misled by • little learning, and that his vanity demised
him altogether as to his own merit' as a writer end • philo-
sopher, he nevertheless as to other thing 4 was always
in full possession of has reason, •ad that daring the
whole course of • long life he managed his property
with as much prudence as generosity ; that he always
passed for an accomplished man of the world, and
that although his scieotific pretensions were 111-
founded, they exercised no apparent influence upon his
habits of life: Considering, therefore, that under the cir-
cumstances it is impossible to deny that the commander was
in possession of that sanity of mind which is required by
Art. 901 of the Code Napoleon, for the validity of testa.
mastery instruments confirms," ko.

On some of the subordinate questions the decree
appealed from is varied, and in particular as re-
gards certain legacies of large amount left to the
testator's housekeeper, Elizabeth Perrot, some of
which the court inclines to think were obtained
by undue influence over a sick old man, and it has
ordered an inquiry upon the subject.

How A WOVNDgD OFFICER WAR BROUGHT On.
—All day Saturday, a wounded officer of a New Hampshire
regiment lay some twenty yards is front of General If suntan's
works, unable to crawl in, sod the rebel sharpshooters wonld
suffer none to go out for him. He had fallen the da before in
the morning assault, and the lines u finally established left
him midway between friend sad enemy. Ooe man had been
severely wounded in attempting to reach him. Hard breed
WAS ship d oat to him I r abundance, but a dozen canteens
were thrown before one lodged within his grasp. Finally,
night setting in, opens a chance to get him off. A slog is
started from the main works, men work with zeal and
well-directed meads. but noiselessly. as though they were
the original managing directors of "Oft in the Stilly
Night." Three hours of mash work and the wounded
mail is reached, is pulled into the trench, is carried
triumphantly back its tacklog mores and then is re-
ceived behind *over with great diem. The cheers
cause a volley, but the volley is twsolow, sad the man
avod.—Aloserioss papa-.