The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nON OUR OWN CONSZSPONDZNT.)
PARIS, THUNMAN EVENING.

The Bank of France has raised its discount from
4to 5 per cent. Although this measure was ex-
pected, and was a main cause of the weakness of
the Bourse for the last few days, the final deter-
mination of the directors at their meeting to-day
was awaited with great anxiety. When the result
became known it produced little effect upon the
market. The Rente, which had fallen from 70fr.
to 69fr. 85c., did not, however, recover, but left
off at that quotation, with a fall of 15c. The Presse
stated erroneously on Tuesday that the bullion in
the Bank had increased since the last returns.
The fact is, there has been a further diminution of
12 millions, and the falling off would have been 16
but for the purchase of 4 millions of gold. At
present there is supposed to be but 256 millions of
bullion against a circulation of 800.
I hear that Mgr. Darboy, the new Archbishop or
Paris, is to be immediately created a senator.
Some Brittany peasants lately laid some heavy
stone across a line of the Western Railway, near
Rennes, with the intention of upsetting a train.
Fortunately the engine swept away the obstacles
with some damage to itself, but without any injury
to the passengers. The Courrier de Bretagne
attributes this crime to the effect produced on the
minds of ignorant rustics by a recent sermon of the
Archbishop of Rennes, who described railways as
lan invention of Satan, and lamented their intro-
duction into Brittany. This journal says particu-
larly that the number and weight of the stones
prove that several persons must have concurred in
the fanatical work, and it distinctly charges that a
whole village has been stimulated to commit murder
by the misdirected piety of the archbishop.
I In consequence of typhus fever having broken
out in the military school of St. Cyr, the Minister
of War decided on sending the pupils home for a
certain time. Accordingly the young men left im-
mediately. Some cases are still treated in the in-
firmary of the establishment. There have been,
we regret to say, several deaths to deplore.
! The mildness of the weather continues to be ex-
traordinary for the season of the year. The ther-
mometer yesterday, at three in the afternoon,
marked 6; above zero Centigrade (44 Fahr.).
The Minister of Public Works has opened credits
for repairing the damage done by the late heavy
gales in the ports of Calais and Boulogne. Serious
injury was done at the former place along the
whole length of the jetty, whilst at Boulogne all
the borders of the jetty, composed of stonework,
were washed away, so that in case of non•repairs
the whole construction would be exposed to serious
damage in future heavy gales.
The Daily News is seized.

SATURDAY. PUS
N.L to N.W., fresh to SCOTLAND. Northerly.
tight. moderat
Northerly, variable, lIIILARD.. N. to W.

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N. to K. moderato.

wane snow.
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to light.
N.N.K to E..C., mo. X. COUPE
dente.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before the Nader of the Bah)

PAUSE V. TA.R181.1..

This cam was opened yesterday, and judgment was now
gives. It was a suit instituted by a son against his father,
to esfoece the specific performance of an agreement which
the bill alleged to have been entered into by the father, to
wafer to the son eleven shares in the Agra Banking Coin.
piny, for 50:11. The bill alleged that 1051.., part of the par.
chase money, had been paid at the time of the contract,
which was stated to have been entered into on let Deeember,
1,47, and that the rend netted been paid afterwards in differeat
suns as the father required it. The father had had an sa.
tick of paralysis which had so impaired his memory that he
was wholly unable to remember anything about the alleged
osneaction, the evidence in support of which consisted of
the son's own testimony, and some memoranda and accounts
which it was contended on behalf of the defendant were
sot suificient to connect the payments with the promised
tipsier of the shares, the payments having been treated by
the father as loans to him, and the son's own amount books
making no mention of any purchase.
Mr. Selwyn and Mr. Tripp were for the plaintiff; Mr.
saggallay and Mr. De Gas for the defendant.
The Mister of the Rolls said that one of the document.
tad on it an endorsement by the father, clearly treating the
un as entitled to the shares, so that the question was who
tier the transaction was • gift or a pinches., and if the
Winer. whether the gift bad been perfected. There was
gonad for holding that there was what was equivalent to •
Seclaistiou of trust. But in truth there was no reason for
Mebting the son's account of the transaction. It was
Stile true, as had been argued, that in general • plaintiff
er claimant could not establish a demand by his own nnsup-
Tamed testimony. Bet where there were, in addition to his
setiomey, surrounding circumstances which accorded with it,
tie case was different ; and it could not be held, as had been
signed, that where the connecting link between some
cf these circumstances was only supplied by the claimant's
earn evidence, the claim must fail. So to decide would be
to refuse altogether to give effect to the claimant's own
testimony. In this case there were circumstances in ac-
cordance with the plaintiff's statement, and on the whole
his we seemed to be made out. There most be a decree
for specific performance, but it was not a PM for giving
mats against the defendant.