The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1862.

FRANCE.

On OWN

PARIS, BATUIDAT EVZIIING.
The Beurakwas very heavy. The Rents at one
time wis said* as 69.60 and 69.68, and although
firmer at the claw, left off with a fall of 10c. both
for cash and aceennt, the last prices being 69.70 '
and 69.75. Mollifier fell 2.50, and the Italian I
.Loss loc. In the Orleans Railway there were
great fluctuations, owing to doubts about
the terms of the contemplated new issue of I
shares ; the latest quotation was 12.50 lower than
Yesterday. In the other lines there was little
change. When it is said that the Bank returns are
favonritble, it mutt be understood as applicable to
the Bourse only, and not to trade. The accumnla-
tion obthe Money in the Bank coffers is no doubt
evidence of commercial inactivity, but the hope
which acted favourably on the Bourse yesterday
was that the mass of disposable capital must noes.
e
asily seek investment in the public funds or rail-
viayshares. On the other hand, there isa fear that
theisaatity of Rents upon which advances have
Wag made with a view to the conversion will for a
longtime hang over the market with a threatening
Attila& said, however, that arrangements
have beatmade, in pursuance of which the Bask
edikludill these Rodeo talgtheyshall be absorbed by

Letters from Rome nay that when, on Mara 10, '
the Marquis de Lavalotto went in state to the
Vatican to present his credentials to the Pope, he
had a private interview with his Holiness which
lasted an hour and a half, his attache waiting all
that time in the anteroom before they were intro-
dosed. At this audience M. de Lavatette, with all
that firmness combined with courtesy for which he
is distinguished, urged upon the Pope the necessity
of concessions ; among many other arguments for
putting an end to the state of things which vexes
the conscienoes of esthetics he prsosd upon his con-
sideration the prestige of his own apostolic virtues,
which made it easy for Pius D$ to do what
might, be difficult for his successor. What answer
the Pope made to this silvery pleading is not as yet
reconlecL Perhaps, thinking of the fable of the
fox and the crow, he held his peace, and refused to
let drop from hi; lips the prize that IL de Lava-
lette was watching to pick up. After the audience,
K di Lavalette went, pursuant to custom, to pay hia
&w in to the relics of Bt. Peter and St. Paul, whidi
are preserved in the Cathedral of the Vatican.
The Imperial Prince, being now six years old, is
to be emancipated from petticoat government.
Mgr., Landriot, Bishop of Rochelle, has been
selected for his tutor, and Mamba] Vaillouit will
exercise the higher, but lees definite. office of
Enamor. Both these appointments will probably
wetted in the Moititene of Monday.
M. Eugene Pelletan went to prison on Thursday,
in pursuance of the sentence against him for an
article in the Courrier du Disnandis. His library is
advertised for sale to Pay the fines and costs which
have fallen upon him, but it is said that the
students are getting up a subscription to save his
books from the hammer.
An express train from Petit to St. Petersburg
will run on and after April 1.
The thieves' rendezvous called the Lapin blew,
immortalised in Enema Sue's " Myeares de Paris,"
is now pulled .down, together with the entire
street, the Rue aux Fives, in which it stood. A
dry fact, which in its lugubrious reality far out-
strips the novelist's imagination, is that lb skele-
tons have been found in a hole at the foot of the
staircase in the house. This discovery must be,
particularly disagreeable to the landlord, who has
been in possession of the place for many years, and
has removed the grotesque museum, inoluding a
kakillial white rabitit, which had become famous, to
another tavern. I shall ever regret not having
seen the interior of the Lapin blanc. One
evening this winter, after I bad heard that the
besom of improvement was about to sweep it away,
I went to the Rue aux Fives for the purpose of
taking a first and last look. But when I got to the
door I found the people about so marvellously ill-
favoured that I was fairly afraid to go in. The
idea of becoming a skeleton in the house did not
indeed occur to me, but I thought it highly probable
that a man in the garb of a gentleman would be
marked, and perhaps mobbed. As a matter of
common prudence I resolved to postpone my visit
of curiosity to another occasion in broad daylight,
and when I next went, M. Hanstaann's destroyers
were on the roof, battering it down, and policemen
kept a gaping crowd at a distance.
• • •

. _
A /mite, named Batty Bernette, was tried yes-
terday for the murder of one of her lovers, M.
Ludovic de Berthier, a young man of 19, a relative
of the late marshal of that name. The distress-
ing facts were very short and simple. Being pressed
by his friends to break off the connexion, he called
one day just as she was dressed to go out to a
masked ball, and repeated what he bad before said
by letter, that he must give up seeing her. When
he said "I must go," she said, "Yon shall not
leave me," and as he went towards the door she
taught up a poniard and stabbed him. The blow
proved fatal, and although he went down stairs sod
out of the house he fell dead before he had walked

many yards in the street. The jury, after hear-
ing an eloquent speech firm M. Lachaud, acquitted
the girl of premeditation, but as they found her
guilty (without mentioning extenuating circum-
stances) on the count of "wilfully striking a blow
which caused death, although she did not intend to
kill," she was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment
and hard labour.

BELGIUM.

A Brussels letter in the Cologne Gccette says :

I have, unfortunately, bad sows to send. King Leopold
is ill, and although it is attempted to conceal the feat, I
am assured that his Moms in serious. This is the reason
for the Duke of Brabant's return from Southampton. You
are aware that the object of his journey to Spain is to ask
the head of the olden daughter of the Duke of Montpen-
slew for the Count de Deadly*. _ _

The Marseilles journals state that the Duke de
Brabant, eldest son of the King of the Belgiims,
has left that city for Alicant on board the Remus
steamer. Those journals add that be is about to
demand officially, for his brother the Duke de
Flaudrea, the hand of the eldest daughter of the
Duke de Moutpensier. The Madrid journals con-
tradict this report in very positive terms..