The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-19 00:00:00

EMPRESS FROM PARIS.

MAN OUR OWN

RABIS, ?MADLY EVIIDICL

The Emperor and Empress of Russia are not
travelling quite so fast as was expected ; instead
of sleeping at Lyons this evening they will not
get further than Mulhouse. I incline to think
that after all the Emperor Napoleon will not go
to Nice till after the Czar's departure. At all
events letters from Marseilles state that Admiral
Bonet Willaumez, commanding the squadron of
evolutions at Toulon, has received orders to
hold himself in readiness to escort the
Emperor to Nice "in the early part of
next month." Now, according to the latest news,
the Emperor of Russia does not propose to stay st
Nice longer than the 29th of this month. It would
follow, therefore, that the visit of ceremony which
Napoleon 111. thinks he owes to the Empty's' of
Russia will not even, to use the cautious language
of • semi-official journal yesterday, " coincide "
with the presence of her husband at Nice.
The Patric is not satisfied of the untruth of the
recent assertion of the Prase (which, however,
passed almost unnoticed as being incredible) that a
secret treaty exists, dated in July last, by which
Prussia guarantees to Austria the enjoyment of her
Italian possessions. At all events, the Paris
observes, it is a strange thing that while M. de
Bismarck's journal, the German Northern Gazette,
declares there is no such treaty, the New Free Press
of Vienna assumes its existence, and only ques-
tions the wisdom of having entered into it. The
Petrie thinks the question ought to be sifted to the
bottom.

The Paris Tribunal of Commerce has just pro-
nounced a judgment of gaat interest to the thea-
trical world. Before the revolution of 'B9 the
Thiatre Francais bad the privilege of drafting
from the provincial theatres any actor whom the
management might think worthy to be one
of the " comedians in ordinary to the King."
A summons from the theatre in the Rue Richelieu
sufficed to cancel any provincial engagement. The
celebrated Fleury, and many other artiste of
renown, made their debuts in Paris by virtue of
this regulation. Napoleon L by a decree, dated
from Moscow, revived the privilege, and it has
been repeatedly acted upon down to the present
time. But it is now judicially decided that the
decree of January 6, 1864, establishing what is
conventionally called the "Liberty of Theatres,"
has virtually repealed the Moscow decree,
and that the Thiatre Francais has no
longer any right to disturb engagements made
by actors with provincial managers. The cue
which gave rise to this important decision was au
action brought by the manager of the Marseilles
Theatre against M. Lamy, who had accepted an
engagement with the Thiiatre Francais to act in
the Gendre de M. Puirier. The court has sentenced
K Lamy to pay the sum of 3,000 imam as liqui
dated damages for the breach of his engagement
with the Marseilles Theatre, and lays doe 4 the
law that the old prerogative of the Tbatre
Francais is incompatible with the principles of
liberty in matters theatrical proclaimed by
Napoleon 111. in January, 1864.

M. Nonbel, the mayor of Agen, called a meeting
last week, at which it was resolved to erect a
monument to Jasmin, the patois poet.

A journal states that a 'distr. of Jules Gerard, the
lion-killer, who was living ar Nice, dropped down
dead in an apoplectic fit when she read the news of
her brother's death in a newspaper.
There are no signs of any upward reaction at the
Bourse. All descriptions of securities were de-
pressed to-day. Rents fell 10c., both for cash and
account, closing at 65f r. and 6.3 f r. 100. Mobilier
fell lOfr. Most of the railways were as much as
Mr. lower. Seville-Xerie continues to fall.

A Vienna journal mentions • fresh case of the
abduction of a young gir! who had been confided by her
mother to the convent of Doebling. The parent applied to
the director of police, but the authorities have not as yet
been able to obtain any traces of the child. The beads of
the convent reply that the superior of the establishment
had disposed of the young girl as she thought fit, as the
daughter bad not expressed any desire to see her mother
sfitin.

Baden letters mention that the King of the
Belgians wu a few days litck premot at a soiree given by
the Countess do Itehagne, of Paris. The Bing and QllOOO
of Present, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchene of Baden,
and the Primer of Hasse were also among the guests.
Some idea of the enormous amount of smoking
in the world m►y be formed from the facts that ofte of the
Brazilian mail•packete recently brought home 6,000,000
cigar., and that the American mall steamer which left
Southampton last week landed before her departure 2,000
balee of unmanufactured leaf tobacco. She bad brought ft
from New York, took it on to Brenton, and without landing
it there brought it to Southampton, from wheat. it was
out to London to be shipped for the 'Notional'.

The rupture of the submarine cable from Algeria
to Spain has been already mentioned. Advice@ from Car.
Hagen' state that it may workel for half a day when the
accident took place at some miles distance from the Spanish
coast. The loss caused by the rupture is estimated at nearly
1500,000 fr. The whole of the Mediterranean near the Gut
01 Gibraltar is said to be subject to such violent under
cornets, that there seem. to be great doubt as to the pomi.
bility of making electric cables strong enough to resist their
action.