The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, Burns? EVZNINO.
The Mottiteur announces that it has received
despatches from Puebla down to April 12, i.e., ten
days' later than those from General Foray which it
published on Friday. The official journal tells the
French public that " all was going on well," and
that is the whole account which it condescends to
give of the operations of those ten days. Whether
the Cathedral and the Place d'Armes were taken
or not, and what losses the French army had sus-
tained during that long period of fighting, are sub-
jects upon which the government thinks it desirable
to throw no light whatever.
K de Peraigny must be greatly pleased at the
quarrels among the opposition candidates for Paris.
The Cotsrrier du Din aisehe yesterday made a dead
set against M. Ravin and stigmatised him as afaux
frere on the ground of the old story, that in Decem-
ber, 1851, he was a candidate for the council-general
of Thorigny sur Vire (a place in Normandy where
he has property) with the assent of the government.
The Courrier invited a subscription for the purpose
of placarding in Paris K Ravin's address to the
electors of Thorigny sur Vire. To this attack M.
Ravin makes this morning what I think a very
good answer. He offers to spare the pockets of the
Courrier du Dimatiche's friends, and to supply them
at his own costa and charges with 55,000 copies of
the address in question. It appears that on the
very day of the election, and after he had been
held up by the prefect as a dangerous enemy of the
government, he published the address, stating that
I both the Minister of the Interior and the Emperor
had told him they would not be sorry to see him
elected. That fact is not denied, and the statement
of it, under the circumstances, was in no way dis-
honourejpe to Id. Ravin, or inconsistent with his
presen.osition of an opposition candidate.
The Sick to-day objects, as an infringement of
the principle of "equality in the eye of the law,"
that M. Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine, should
print electioneering addresses on behalf of govern-
ment candidates at the expense of the public. Let
(it says) the government candidates be puffed as
much as possible by the official journals—that is
part of an avowed system for which plausible
reasons may be given and of which no complaint is
made ; but it is hard that opposition candidates,
in their character of taxpayers, should be made to
pay for their opponents' canvassing.
In the case of an action for breach of contract,
brought by a Frenchman against a Russian rail-
way company, which has an office in Paris and
daily does business on the Bourse, the Imperial
Court, presided by K Devienne, has just laid
down the important doctrine "that a foreign
joint-stock company, not registered is France
pursuant to the new law of 1857, can neither sue
nor be sued in France." There had been conflicting
decisions on the point, the tribunal of commerce
having construed the law as the Court of Appeal
has now done, while the civil tribunk of First
Instance held that the foreign company might be
sued. The first advocate-general, M. Oscar de
Valle, in accordance with whose recommendation
the judgment on appeal was pronounced, admitted
that the state of the law for which he contended
was unjust, absurd, and contrary to the law of
nations. Nevertheless he held that the court was
absolutely bound by the text of the act of 1657, and
he could only hope that the present decision would
lead to an alteration of the law.
The Daily News is seised.

CAPTAINS SPEER AND GRANT JOINED BY
MIMICS ON THE WHITE NILE.

It will be a relief to the public anxiety respecting
the fate of Mr. Petherick, whom death had been announced ,
some time ago in a telegram from Alexandria, to hear the
good news that he is alive and well, having effected a June-
tion with Captains Spoke and Grant at Gondokoro, on the
White Nile, on the 23rd of February.
In reference to the great question of the sources of the
Nile Captain Spoke thus writes to Sir Roderick Murchison :
"I said I would do it, and I have done it. The Victim:a
Nyarria is the great reservoir of the sacred Bahr el Abiad
(White Nile). . . . I think I may safely say (he adds)
that I never felt so rejoiced at I did when Petherick deli-
Mei to me your letter, notifying that the Royal Geogra-
phical Society bad adjudicated to me their Foundries Medal
(for the discovery of the Lake Victoria Nyanza), the more
so as the kind expreesions in your letter reached me just as
my trials were over."
By the intelligence communicated to the Foreign-office
by Mi. Coiquhoun, her Britannic Majesty's consul at Alex-
andria, it appears that the Viceroy of Egypt was about to
send a steamer to Amman, to bring Spoke and party down
to Cairo, so that we may soon welccme them at home. It
further appears that Baker, the adventurous author of the
"Rifle and Hound," had gone to the soutk-west in search
of another great internal lake, or branch of the White
Nile, and will return in one year. Captain Spoke, writing
on the 30th of March from Khartum to Mr. Saunders at
Alexandria, says:
We left Petheriek, wife, and doctor all well at Gondo-
koro. Baker, who was the first Englishman we met with.
gave us assistance in boats, stores, and money."
As Captain Spoke was in anxiety as to the means of send-
ing back the negro porters and attendants, T. 3 in number, to
their native country, near Zanzibar, we are happy to my that
this wish has been anticipated by the last mail. Believing
that he would be so emberramed, Sir Roderick bfarchbos
, applied to his friend Admiral W. H. Hall, who, as one of the
directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Com-
pany, has liberally arranged with his aasociatee that these
poor and faithful people shall be eoeveyed gratis to Aden or
Bombay, whence they can be shipped direct for Zanzibar.
" This discovery of Spoke and Grant," writes Sir Roderick,
"by which the southernmost limit of the basin of the Nile
) is determined to be four degrees south of the equator, tithe
most remarkable geographical feat of our age, and is, indeed,
an achievement of which all our countrymen may well be
proud."

The Czaa states, on what it considers as good
authority, that the chief of the staff of the Russian army
has been to Berlin under a false name, with the view of
- opening military negotiations. This general, after a con-
s' knave of some hours, is said to have left for Posen, where
ft he was present at several military councils, and these/ rie-
turned to Warsaw. According to the Czas, the result d
2 these interviews was to be the immediate despatch at the
4 Prussian third corps to the Polish frontier.
2 OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL—The Royal Mail
1 steamship Asia arrived at Queenstown at 11 a.m. yederdey.
I She embarked the mails, passengers, and teMarraMa, and
1 proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 4 p.m. All well.
COTTON FROM BOMBAY.—The servals of
Bast Jodie cotton into Liverpool daring the past week
I have been enormous, and on Saturday last three more ships
I entered the Hersey from Bombay, viz.: the Jokiest, Sea
Horse, and Clara Wheeler. The Sea Horse briap 4.087
1 hole. of cotton. the 'blower 2,927 bales, and the Clara
g Wheeler 4,200 bales.
- THE WELLINGTON STATUE AT LIVERPOOL.—The
monument and statue erected at Liverpool by public sub.
• scriptioo, having been at bat completed, were houguratal
s on the afternoon of Saturday last, in the presume of some
4 30,000 or 40,000 persons. The monument is situated in the
I magnificent open place, one side of which is formed by the
principal facade ci tk. George'shall, and it will form a meat
interesting feature amongst the architectural attractions of
the town. The monument was designed by Mr. Levees. of
Edinburgh, and the statue by his brother, a pupil of Mr.
Adams, of London, both coating about 5,0001. About
2,000 volunteers, commanded by Colonel Sir J. Joan,
K.C.8.. were grouped in the vicieity of the monument,
which was formally handed overt to the Mayor by Ms. Jobs
Torr. the secretary of the Monument Committee, who ex-
plained the miens which had delayed its completion. Sk
William Brown, Bart, then delivered a brief address on the
career of the great duke ; and Mr. Councillor lupine& sad
Mr. T. Edwards Mom also addromed the company. When
the statue was useevereck a solute of 19 guns was fired, the
bands of the various votostoor pep streak up • martial sir,
and the vast =Mode gave line M.ny titsnie sheers.