The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EV1211210.

The dissatisfaction of the French inhabitants of
Algeria with the scheme for reforming the colony
developed in the Emperor's recent letter to the
Duke of Malakoff has found expression in a peti-
tion to the Senate, bearing the formidable number
of 80,000 signatures. A debate on this petition
will take place shortly. The Emperor Las senq
M. de Forcade La Roquette, the senator (who wad
for a short time Finance Minister), to Algeria ou a
special mission.
The Moniteur does not correct the very seriouii
mistake it made yesterday in representing that the
Congress of Washington had entertained a proposi-
tion for selling black prisoners. It was in the con-
genial congress of Richmond that this barbarous
motion was made.

The Faubourg St. Germain had a grand field
day yesterday on the occasion of Prince Albert de
Broglie's reception at the Academy. It is long since
so many carriages with armorial bearings on the
panels were seen around the doors of the Institute.
The new academician is an undoubted Grand
Seigneur of the first class as heir to his father,
and he has besides high literary lineage, being
grandson of Madame de StaeL His election fur-
nishes the first instance of a father and son sitting
together in the arm chairs of the envied " forty."
As to his personal claims to the much sought
distinction which he has attained, les ingehantes
langues, which never wag more freely than
apropos of an academical election, do say that the
authors who voted for him as nobleman, a catholic,
and an Orleaniat, were not uninfluenced by the con-
sideration that he wields an influential pen as a
reviewer iu the Revue des Deux Mendes. Prince
Albert de Broglie's speech was, according to the
invariable rules of the academy, a eulogy of his
immediate predecessor. He gave an interesting
history of the career of Father Lacordaire, who
never appeared in the academy since he made his
inauguration speech two years ago. M. St. Marc
Girardin replied to Prince Albers de Broglie.
A judgment of the correctional tribunal of Niort,
reported at length in the Droit of Feb. 27, oontains
hideous details, impossible to be reproduced in any
English print, of the seduction by a French priest
of a girl of 17, whose parents, too confident in the
catholic religion, watched over her carefully out.
side the church, but alas ! not within its walls.
The name of this priest is Gauthier. He is the
vicar of a village called Champdeniers, near
Poitiers. His victim is named Bose Danty. By
a long series of fiendish manoeuvres he corrupted
her mind in the confessional. And when he at
length succeeded in obtaining possession of her,
soul and body, he for months together polluted the
very altar itself with his foul amours. There being
no doubt that the girl was a consenting party, the
prosecution was not able to charge the miscreant
with a higher offence than indecency in a public
place, and he received the inadequate sentence of
one year's imprisonment.

Tus BIUSILIAN Divrictnmv.—lt transpired yes-
terday that the Foreign-office has fixed the amount
it claims from the Brazilian government, on ac-
count of the wreck of the barque Prince of Wales,
at 3,200/. The amount for which reprisals were
made at Rio de Janeiro was, it is stated in the
correspondence laid before Parliament, 6,15251. 19a.
There is consequently a reduction of one half the
amount for which payment was required by the
British ultimatum.

A new scientific periodical has appeared in Paris,
which is to give a weekly summary of scientific facto from
all parte of the world, a report of the meetings of the
Academy of S6llllOlll at Paris, and articles ot special sub-
jects. It is entitled Les Morides, and resembles in its
general plan the weekly Como', well known to scientific
students, whose late editor, the Abbe 'feign*, appears to
have transferred hie acme and services to the new journal.

A correspondent from Prussia announces that
Ydlle Loom, whom favour at Berlin in great, has been en-
gaged b 7 Mr. Oyu for the coming avaikat.

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A few days since a fine sailing ship, called the
Sebastian Cabot, bound from Callao to Hamburg, grounded
neer the Needle', and was obliged to be towed to tioothainp.
too to be examined. She was laden with 2,1100 tons of
Peruvian guano, worth 121. a too, or 30,0001. Daring the
voyage home, the commander jumped overboard in a fit of
despondency, and was drowna