The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EVIDDIG.

The Bourse is dull and hesitating. Rents fell
10c. and Mobilier 6fr. 25c. The Pays last night
spoke of a congress on Polish affairs as being pro.
bable ; but an optimist article by M. Paulin
Limayrac, in to-day's Constitutumnel, makes no
reference to that project.
An electoral pamphlet by M. Eughue Pelletan,
entitled " Aide toi et le del t'aidera," has just
been seized.

The opposition party in Strasburg have resolved
to propose K Odillon Barrot for their candidate,
as being a moderate liberal particularly fit to repre-
sent a district in which catholics and protestants
are in nearly equal numbers. K Odillon Barrot
is not in Paris at present, but it is hoped he will
accept the candidature.
Abb4 Mermillod, now the moat fashionable
preacher in Paris, and the man who absolves the
petits petites of the great ladies of the Faubourg St.
IGermain in the pretty confessional boxes of the
new cathedral of St. Clothilde, has gone to Orleans
to celebrate the 434th anniversary of the deliverance
of France from English domination by Joan of
Arc. He preaches on that subject in Orleans
cathedral this day, and will doubtless meet with
immense success.

The Imperial Prince has been permitted, by way
of memorial of the pleasure he derived from his
visit to the dog show, to give a gold medal to the
owner of the beet shepherd's dog in the exhibition.
The Empress went to the show yesterday afternoon,
and bestowed her attention principally upon the
pets—such as poodles, Italian greyhoun4 and
King Charles spaniels. Brune of these parlour
dogs are called griffons, bicAons, and carfins, names
for which, I think, there are no very exact English
translations.

The Journal Ar►ia)le says :—" The meadows are
at present of an exceptional beauty, and have not
for many years been so advanced at the same pe-
riod. The alternations of rain and sun have been
very favourable, and, if the temperature continues
in the same condition, hay-cutting may be com-
menced in the first fortnight of May, being more
than a month earlier than in preceding years."

THE CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITIHALL.—A sermon is
Announced to be preached to-morrow morning in Mk royal
chapel by the Rev. Professor Stanley. D.D., moon of Christ
Church, and chaplets to his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wale'. The service commence' at 11 o'clock, and a pee.
Sion of the chapel mid the galleries are free to the public,
which we believe is not very generally known. The sermon
of the accomplished professor is to be is aid of the foods of
the Clergy Orphan Corporation, which bas for its object to
clothe, maintain, and educate poor orphans of clergymen
of the Established Church in England and Wales, the boys
till they are 15, sod the girls till they are 16 years of age.
The lest year's income automated to 7.6631.45. lid., and the
expenditure to 9,105/. 3s. 7d , tbe deficiency having to be
met by the sale of fended property. We. therefore, wish
this useful society • good collection. There will be an
anthem on the occasion.
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Tax Cuuseu IN THE METNorous.—The Lord
Bishop of London yesterday instituted the Rev. Canon
Yelvill R D., to the rectory of Bases, S.W. ; patrons, the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. lire lordship at the lame
time boomed the Rev. Archibald Weir, M.A. to be locum-
bent of the perpetual curacy of Jesus Chapel, Forty-bill,
Enfield, N. ; patron, the vicar of Enfield. The bishop like-
wise licensed the following gentlemen to onrscivs :—The
Rev. Thomas Redhead Braufoot, M.A., to a curacy in the
pariah church of Kensington ; the Rev. John Henry Deeds-
day, K.C.L, to a curacy in the parish church of Heaton;
and the Rev. Claude Rembrandt Wilkie 5/army, K.C.L.,
to a Gamey is the church of St. Thomas, Woolwich.
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIIITY.—Active
preparatioos are now being made at Worcester for the re-
ception of the Royal Agricultural Society, which body holds
its country meeting in that city this year. The meeting
will take place in the week commencing July 30. The spot
chosen for the showyard is at Saltville% just outside the
suburbs of Worcester ; and a short branch railway has just
been constructed, running out of the West Midland sod
Midland line into the sbowyard. The erection of the cattle
sheds has also been commenced by Mr. Manning, the society's
contractor, the ground (about 30 acres) having beep previ-
ously levelled and drained. The presence of the Prime of
Wales is fully expected. At a meeting of the Worcester
town council held this week the mayor stated that, in a
convereatiou which be had last week with the Bishop of
Worcester, his lordship had told him that he had been in
communication with his royal highs's& on the subject, and
that he was not without hope that his royal highness would
be induced to visit Worcester on the 002SAise.
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE GOLONEIA—A
royal commission will at once issue for inquiry into the case
of the distinguished service colonels and of certain captains
and lieutenant-colonels of the Foot Guards. promoted be-
tween the 20th of June and the 6th of October, 1854. The
commission will consist of the folio wing members :—Lieut-
geeerol Right Hoe. J. Peel, M.P., chairman ; Right Hon.
K P. Bouverie, M.P., General Sir Alexander Wrielet
G.C.R, General Sir George Brown, G.C.8., Lieut. -
the Earl of Rosalyn, Major•Gtheral Sir Wm. Itreiett
LC.B., Royal Artillery; Major-General Sandham,
&withers ;Ma -General David Russell, CB.. and Major-
General Handel Rumley. Secretory, Mr. Thome Cave
Browne Cave, clerk in the War.ofller.
THE. LATE EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF GOLD
in Susan.—Stephen Willett and Silas Thomas, the two
men whom the jury at the sect singular inquest found
had discovered and concealed certain bars and pieces of
ancient gold, to the value of upwards of 5301., ploughed up
at Mountfield in January last, have both been taken into
custody on that account and are to have criminal proceed
logs taken against them. They were apprehended on
Thursday and taken before the Battle magistrates for
examination.
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Str Henry James has presented to the museum
of the Hartley Institution at itouthamptou a beautiful ape-
cimeu of the ledke jungle cock ; Richard Evans, Eaq- has
presented the Mead mat of the face of Oliver Cromwell,
which belonged to Sir Thomas Lawrence ; Lod Mr. J. H.
Phillips a specimen of the petrified bones which cover the
Island of Sombrero, is the Wag ladies.