The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAR,M, Fawaylinlmo.

The following paragraph in the Journal de Rouen,
may, perhaps, be thought to throw some light
upon the mysterious "Latest News" of the Pays,
which I commented on yesterday :
It is now affirmed that the Marquis de Lavalette has
oblides& from the Immix a renewal of his leave of
ahem for two months. It is said, besides, that the
meg& will not return to Rome, even provisionally ; on
the entrary, the arrival of Madame de Lavalette at Paris
egiseted. The supposition is, that during the next
tweaseths events may assume a form sufficiently definite
I. regulate that difficult situation.
"It is said," says the Conatitutionne2, "that a
bill is to be shortly presented to the Legislative
Body, the object of which will be to completely
identify, from the Ist October next, the two Three
per Cent. funds, the interest of which would be
henoeforth paid simultaneously every three months.
By the same bill the Legislative Body will be
asked to confer on the government the necessary
means and powers to complete the conversion into
Three per Cents. of the Four and Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., which, in consequence of the abstention
of the holders, or from legal obstacles, have not
been comprised in the voluntary conversion. The
teak that the government had imposed on itself is
thus approaching its end. Everyone will under-
stand the importance of removing the antagonism
between two rival funds which, in the judgment of all
economists and financiers, was a serious obstacle to
the good constitution of the French public debt."
The majority of the Court of Caseation over-
ruling the judgment of its civil chamber has taken
the view of the law which I contended yester-
day was the right one, and has irrevocably decided
that the marriage of Mdlle. Zo6 Herbin with the
discharged convict must stand good. Common
sense, therefore, prevails in this case against subtle
refinements which have lately taken wonderful
possession of many enlightened minds in France.
Perpetual copyright, and the right of the heir to
protect his remotest ancestor's memory, are, how-
ever, in a fair way to become the standing law of
France, and yet they are principles infinitely more
absurd and mischievous than the doctrine now
happily overruled by the Supreme Court. There
will be very few instances of people marrying a
convict by mistake, but every volume of history
contains innumerable libels upon the ancestors of
living persons, and perpetual copyright, while
doing no good to authors, would be a perpetual
incubus upon literary enterprise.
The Bourse to-day gave way considerably. Heide
fell 10c. for cash and 23c. for account, closing at
70fr. 35c. in each case. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c.,
and thi Italian Loan 25c. The Orleans Railway
fell sfr., and the other lines about 2fr. 500. Caisse
Mires fell 25fr., closing at 100 fr.--a great falling
off this from the 170 fr. of Tuesday last.

A letter from Marvejols (Loik:e) mentions an
incident as having taken place in that neighbour-
hood, in which a young nobleman, belonging to a
wealthy family residing in that part of the
country, is gravely implicated. The 10th Regiment
of Artillery, being on its march from Toulouse
to Besancon, the Count de —, who was ac-
quainted with the officers, from having made
with them the campaign of Italy, went oat to
meet it, and was invited by the colonel to dinner
at Canourgue, where the regiment halted. Im-
mediately after the repast, the count took his
leave, under the pretence of being obliged to go
by the diligence which plies between Rodez and
Montpellier ; but had hardly left when it was dis-
covered that the bag, containing the funds of the
regiment, had disappeared. Suspicion fell on the
late guest, and he was followed to the diligence,
which was just about to start. He was requested
to alight, and, being charged with the theft, acknow-
ledged himself to be the author of it. The colonel
thought it his duty to call in the assistance of the
local gendarmes, and the count was placed at the
disposal of the procureur. The count alluded to
in this paragraph is said to be the nephew of a
duke living in Paris, and who was sent for by tele-
graph in consequence of the distressing circum-
stances above narrated.
The Figaro-Progranum says :
Five days before the Ent representation of the To/m-
-ewing M. Fournim received a letter, purporting to come
from Baron de Itoduchdd. which requested to hare a bar
for the first repnesatatiss. M. Fournier replied the* he
would plies one at Ids disposal. Amu afterwards pre-
sented himself at the theatre of the Porto Saint Martin
with another lettes.sigund like the Sat, and begged to hare
the ticket. It wee delivered to him, and he paid the price
of it. On Tuestisy, X. Yeeriest reesivel a htt frees IL