The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TOISDAY EvwPa.
The Bourse is again very firm, but, contrary to
what was the ease a abort time since, the Rents is
the favourite security, while railways are neglected.
The Threes rose NW for cash and 510 c. foraesount,

closing at 70fr. 45c. in each case. Mobilier was
without change. The Italian Loan rose 50c.
Most of the railways were from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 500.
lower, but Lyons rase Ur. 25c., and Western

2f.r. 50c.
The sudden transition to cold has done consider-

able injury to the fruit trees and vines in the
neighbourhool of Paris, which presented so fine
an appearance. Many persona attribute the change
in the weather to the lune rousse, or Easter moon ;
but that opinion must be erroneous, as the moon
does not commence until the 28th inst. The ac-
wants from various parts of France show that the
change is general. The wheat has its roots too
deep in the ground to be injured, and the promis-
ing accounts of the coming harvest still, therefore,

hold good.
A telegraphic despatch from Douai states that
Mires, having yesterday repeatedly interrupted M.
de Side, one of his counsel, the latter declined
acting any further for him. Mints does not want
to plead except against the previous examination of
his books, and is anew to have the general merits
of the case entered on. He said repeatedly that he
would rather have the maximum punishment of
five years' imprisonment confirmed than see it re• I
duced to three months' imprisonment without a re-
examination
of his books by competent accountants, I
which course, be avers, would prove his entire
innocence. When M. de Side threw up his brief, I
Nougier, M. Mires' other counsel, asked for an'
adjournment, to enable him to consider what he'
should do. The court at once granted this request,
saying that an adjournment was desirable in the
interests of Mires himself. We learn by telegraph
to-day that M. Nougier made a speech, which the
Procureur-General replied to. The arguments are
now over, and the court intimated that it will pro-
nounce judgment on Monday next.
The trial of a man bearing the singularly appro-
priate name of Glitebourse, who is accused of having
habitually forged Bank of France notes ever sines
1853, has been going on yesterday and to-day at
the Assize Court of Paris. The prisoner, it may
be remembered, was arrested a year ago, in cones-
queue° of suspicions raised in the mind of an
intimate friend of his, named Tenaille, a commissary
of police, by statements spontaneously made about
his (the prisoner's) knowledge of the way in which
notes were made. Tenaille went to stay with Gate-
bourse (or rather Giraud, for that is his real name),
at his country house in the Charente Infirieure, and
there, after passing several days as a guest, during
which he found out th►t be had implements for
forging bank notes in his possession, arrested him
on a charge of forgery. Giraud de Ghtebourse
kept a sumptuous household, and was visited by
the leading families in the department. It is
now alleged that his principal means of subsistence
for many years were derived from forgery. The
number of lOOfr. notes presented to the bank, and
supposed to be forged by him, was so alarming
that the bank last year impended for a long time
the issue of any more notes of that amount. The
" instruction" of this case has lasted an unusually
long time, the prisoner having been a twelvemonth
in custody. He is defended by M. Lachaud.
A great many old soldiers in the uniform of the
first empire were seen walking about the streets of
Paris, and excited public curiosity. They were
returning from the funeral of General Piat, the
veteran Bonapartist whose death I mentioned yes-
terday.