The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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PARIS, SATVILDAT EVEIRIIO

The Bourse opened with • disposition to rise,
but t 1 movement was checked by the heaviness
of ti,e Italian loan and a slight fall in Conaola
The Emperor of Austria's speech, pronounced some
days since at Verona, but which only attracted
notice at Vienna on Jan. 8, • now commented upon
as warlike, and intended as a reply to Victor
Ninnianuers prophecies that the Italian MUM will
make a inure this year. The Bente cloned at 58.40
far cash, and 68.i2) for account, being • fall of 20e.
and bc. M sbilier fell 5.25 ; and the Italia& loan,
55c. The °ilea= railway fell 7.50 ; Northern,
1.50 ; Ssiuthern, 6.75 ; Lyons, 3.75.
The Pays says that the two questions with Swit-
eerlaild, those of Dappes Valley and Villa Grand,
which it was hoped were settled, are still open, but
that, thanks to the conciliatory toue of 5L Thouveners
last note, there can he little doubt that the Swiss
govermueut will shortly make all the concession*

required.
ileuerd Turr has arrived in Paris to consult the
best French physicians, his health having long been
is a precarious state. They call his disease !
and promise him a complete cure after a
short period of repose.
A } r.gich marquis, whose name the reporters of
the legal journals bate been kind enough to sup-
press, Out who is said to belong to one of the best
&mho. in France, figured this week as a defendant
in an action brought by • matrimonial agent for
fees.. The disclosures made show that fortune-
hunters in Paris set about their business in a
much more direct way than English or even
Irish i.eople have any notion of. This mar-
quis, whose arms hang up in the Crusades
gallery at Versailles, but whose means of subsistence
are impalpable, passed two whole years in ne4otia-
bOn elth an eminent matrimonial broker, who,
after iutroducing him to various families without
success, got tired of his client, and handed him over
to a lady occupying a more obscure place in the
ranks of the same profeesion lie made the transfer
on the avowed ground that the marquis's was "
diflicua case," just as a physician in large practice
might .end a troublesome patient to a hospital for
incurables. The plaintiff—who, by the way, calls
brawl:. a counter—took the marquis in hand, and
very soon gut him engaged to • young lady who
suited his book in every respect, but from some un-
explained cause the match was broken off. Nothing
dauut..-d, however, the marquis called upon the
vier. n, grus, and urged her to try again, bringing
with lion this time his brother, a count, who was also
in want of a rich wife. A written contract wasdrawn
up by which the marquis sad the count respectively
ouveLanteil that if Madame should succeed in
marrying them to semen having fortunes of
300,1k0f. each (the good round sum of 12,0001.
sterling', a commission of 50,017101. should be paid.
The names of young ladies oil two different families.
were specifically mentioned la the document as sub-
jects to be operated upon. Strange as it may
appear, the hungry and oft rejected marquis was
actually married to one of the girls scheduled in
that nefarious contract. After the marriage he
refused to pay the wages of iniquity, and the only
contest before the court was, whether the marriage
was the direct result of the plaintiff's exertions, or
whether it bad not been brought about by other
meats. It was held upon the evidence that al-
though the first introduction was effected by the
plaintiff, yet that the marriage resulted from other
and subsequent agency, ant therefore she was not
entitled to the 30,11001. ; but the court awarded her
6001. and costs.
It is only after a long contest that the French
gouda here sanctioned these matrimonial bro.
kerne% which used to be most properly objected
to, on grounds of public policy. In almost every
saes such contracts are frauds upon unsuspecting
women, out of whose fortunes the price of a bad
husband is paid.

THE RIVAL AMERICAN WAR VESSIIII
IN SOUTHAMPTON WATS&

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r, JAS. 12.

Captain Pegrim, the commander of the Con-
demn, war noun, Neliville, lying ia the docks here, lA,
Le Lease yesterday. to men Neer.. Widen sod Names
OW Pen, It N., the bistiediry eperiatemleat at theme,.
proterdwr mid an allele net le IL Federal war deem!
TIMMS. and needed eapeele Omen, her _irk
et She Jaw which nubble belligerent ship. bee leaving I
meneni Arta et no sad the same time. Hem Na
Tamenen Ls tea in Southampton Water the new of
bst Maintja ship Dawatleas, bias just below the Hided
elemer, be hem etteegthened, in order to ..ions, If seer
sisy, deist letersalleed law with reprd to the rive&
womb Living the peat Her kabetee skip Warrior,
whin woe lying Oeheree, led stem tip yeetieday, for
He perm it ie believed, ef menus see a pention
eimmelui ellectually Use pew bum andiarepne Water
to the Orient, Leigh wkith the Amnia gips meet
gem It is nenewed Out maw lue Leen nee ea
bred the Tawarers. Dallis pep bee her offend to is-
dose seamee to ship en lewd the Nashville. If .he could
got It Lure serf ef km Muni tied ebe would gat net of
the British Chained Woe the Federal ship eel& leave
lienthmaptec. The Nashville has ned sesugh ea bend he
am bee wow the Albans, end se dm lightened she weld
steam about nice'. as hoer, ee that it would he Impmeible
he the Tmeatees, which le a Rea slower wed. be
mien be. She'd such, however, hegira to b the ems
Omens Pemba Ls dented that row the be 1111.6011,
be wend nu the Nash v die right ins the Teenerlia ei
the see ef elakieg both ships and of bell crews perielbig.
The name autiosity eats as to the Delmer eceleg been
Ills vim a peenteger eldp, wee sot built for Seines, eel is
melding She sa dreg as the Tanerces ; bet, envie-
imeading this soak is the Leers dairies ediancter and sIID
of her ellen sod crew that It Is Inaly believed the Semler
will seek miscount with theTeememe, and that her aped
Is awe that she weal& beim neening moth due., es

aleggekle the Federal aide soloesk a beiLbee•hand owidisalop
beardiog ter. The ocienaisalionof thsNeetivilleasd Tomos.
Captains l'egnm arid CIMV•111. we. owe shipmates. Lieet.
Jour, the knit lieuteasat d the Veda& vessel, I well
barnis io lionthuoptorn be barn* boss an officer cm board
the Visited States soIIiOCWIR Verbose, which lay morns
time iu Woolomplea Water • kw years alma and whisk was
book by the Sepookeiets Is Norfolk navy-yard at the
bookies out of the Amebae arnsillorn
Two of the kern pikes bakeibig to this part bays bets
eseitged reepeatively far the Nashville sad Temarcea—
Dory er being the pilot of the former sad Nicholls of tie
latter. Both pilots may have to take their respective
Alpe out with the atom& seasey, through an intricate
naingatiau, in stormy or few weallisr. The dock leathern.
tise haoe refloat to penult the ).deal ocisind hers to and
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(PM r ttviliat dote the do* at light to watch the
gerremente of the Nashville. It sppeers that this is ewer
wary. un ace- unt of threats haring best held oat to bans
the Nashville fo the docks. No boat fa allowed to aster the
dock nos after dark without Wag challenged at the dock
bra

'llse laternational hi. relative to the interval that met
asps@ between belligereet ships lassie' a neutral port
applies to the weakest ship foilswiog the strongest, so won
so net rrrse, so that if the ?waren for any popes yen

to leave Southampton Water the Nashriile would not I
U permitted to hen Imenty-four keen afterwards.
Several of the came of the Tuscarora were on there
yosterday. Lest Snalley. the ifideral dowel, Captain Brit.
tea. .ittianhy the shed theCoofederate Captain Teem
Holyrissed Aura, in this ten, lintimiug to tie Teliend
Wm, of Ohio Orb:awned tube Molnar Seetthrompeem)
preaching the gospel of ream The Southampton Meyer
mid Ceependien wise prat in of isompliment
the preseimm ad ems wen* at that very time
seers which weld tom eneemilled them to declare loth the
Foie& bishop end the Penn sand ..besot ISIONSOL
sob are DORA 01 tbeelsgsbr isseinegnitim mused by the
meleopy strife is the Una
As When of luedi ma lee Ann the Nashville, for the
yreenes, it is bonen, of peeneelly eosin that no been
of the neutrality bus holm ennanted in /tries ant that
ship at this port. It is Aid ermiellemtly mid that Ea gm is
the Cenlerisan ship lenees theebin he the nein the
.101•61111 wail pt. on mai urn tea the /inmate in the
Clumen as as hreireld the noreselty it tiring the /nee 96
Um? and If the Thementines *hie* then as he as
*eft abut the thibrilhr Wien the hineinnaill bents
disapea •• Omar.