The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PAR,IR

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PARIB, WIEWIXDAY Emus°.
The Corps Loginlatif yesterday performed an
act of ;-idependenoe. It manfully rejected two
articles of a bill for remodelling the practice of the
Court of Cessation, which two articles the Council
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of State had peraisied in retaining notwithstanding
the objections of a committee of the house. The
debate was of a dry and technical nature. The
principal question was whether the notice given to
a respondent of the acceptance of an appeal by the
Chamber of Requests of the Supreme Court should
be forty-five days or two months. Hitherto
the delay hao been three months ; but
the government, with the laudable intent
of expediting business, proposed 45 days. The
Chamber, however, thought that period not long
enough in every possible case for the suitor, and,
acting up to its opinion, rejected the clause. The
conflict with the Council of State is interesting,
because it is the first instance of the Corps Legis-
latif having exercised its new power of rejecting a
single article of a bill without throwing out the
whole. It now remains to be seen what means of

conciliation the Council of State will resort to.
The Temps calls attention to the stalling fact
that K Soheurer, whose sentence to three months'
imprisonment was mentioned in this correspondence
on Saturday last, is by that slight judicial condem-
nation brought ipso facto within the law of public
safety, and may be transported for life at the Em-
peror's pleasure 1 When this horrible law was
upon the tapir the other day, in the Corps Legis-
latif, K Baroche, in his light and jaunty way,
affected to treat the matter as really not worth
talking about. The amnesty, be said, had substan-
tially abrogated the law, and in the few cases in
which it might yet be applicable, " the judges
knew perfectly well what would be the conse-
quences of their sentence." It was intended to in-
sinuate, for the sake of getting a momentary
triumph in the Corps Legislatif, that nobody
could hereafter be transported unless the judges
thought such a penalty was deserved. K Baroche
when he said this must have known better. Wnen
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the judges, io their conscience, find a man guilty of
an offence specified in the code they have no choice
but to pronounce a sentence. Their discretion is
circumscribed by the maximum and minimum
boundaries of the punishment legally prescribed
for the specified offence. With the collateral and
arbitrary consequences they have nothing whatever
to do, and K Baroche did grievous wrong to the
judicial bench by endeavouring to fix upon them
any share of responsibility for the application of
the odious imperial law of public safety.
At the Bourse, rumours of the Pope's death were
again current, but not believed. The Rente, how-
ever, nearly lost the ground it gained yesterday,
and fell 15c. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing
at 69fr. Bsc. in each case. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c.,
and the Italian Loan 30c. The Lyons Railway fell
3fr. 75c., but most of the other lines were lfr. or
2fr. higher.
M. Halivy left a very small fortune to his family,
but if one may credit the stories told of acts of mu-
nificence towards the widow and two daughters, by
rich Jews in Paris, they are already most hand-
somely provided for. It is asserted in Bullier's
Correspondence that M. Rodrigne, a stockbroker,
has made them a present of 80,000 fr., that M.
Rothschild has given a stock receipt for 10,000 fr.
a year, and K Pereire a house on the Boulevard
Malesherbe, worth 20,0001 r. a year. Here we
at once have an income of nearly 1,4001. a year con-
tributed by only three friends.