The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(IRON 001 OWN

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

At length the semi-official organ, the Pays, says
—" It appears to be certain that the Emperor
Napoleon will pay a visit to the Emperor of Russia
at Nice." The France goes so far as to say that the
Czar, on his return to St. Petersburg, will stay
with the Emperor Napoleon at Compiegne.
I am given to understand that the uncertainty
which has hung over the much talked of journey
to Nice is attributable entirely to negotiations
about the visit of the Czar to Compiegne, that
long negotiations on the subject have been
going on, and that at this moment the
one visit is dependent upon the other. According
to the present aspect of affairs, we may look for an
extraordinary demonstration of intimacy between
the Russian and French courts, but I think nothing
is yet absolutely settled. Unless the Czar promises
to come to Compiegne, and I believe he has not yet
promised, the Emperor Napoleon will probably
find an excuse for not going to see him at Nice.
The Europe of Frankfort throws doubts upon the
reported visit of Victor Emmanuel to Nice, and
thinks be will send Prince Humbert in his place.
The Constitntionne/ contains another semiofficial
article by M. Paulin Limayrac on the construction
of the convention. It is nothing but a repetition
of what we have read in the same columns a dozen
times before. The sum and substance of it is that
the convention " was conceived in good faith, and
will be executed in good faith." But this does not
touch the real question. The Italians say, and have
said all along, that they mean to obey the treaty in
the spirit and the letter. M. Paulin Limayrac's
argument on this, as on all former occa-
sions, assumes that the Pope will be able
and willing to take care of himself at the
end of two years. He pretends to believe that the
Pope will be " prudent " enough to accept the
guarantee provided for him behind his back. What
is to happen if the Pope should not be so prudent
the Conatitutionnel carefully abstains from saying,
and therefore all its phrases leave the matter just
where it was.

The King of Araucan'a (or4lie L), who has just
arrived in Paris from London, appeared yesterday
in the Court of Correctional Police to face a charge
of swindling which a lodging-house keeper, with a
heavy unpaid bill, has had the audacity to prefer
against his Majesty. In consequence of the absence
of the defendant's counsel, M. Jules Fevre, who is
now at Amsterdam, the case was put off for a
fortnight.
It was ruled yesterday by the civil tribunal of
the Seine that the onus lies upon the Mout de
Pi4t6 (pawnbroking establishment) to prove that
deterioration of an article pledged has not arisen
from want of proper care while it was in pawn.
The case which gave rise to this important deci-
sion was the pawning by a lady for 300 fr. of a
Cashmere shawl, which, on being redeemed at the end
of a year, turned out to be motheaten. The counsel for
the Mont de Pitit6 most strenuously contended that
damage from the moth was a contingency to which
the article in question was naturally liable, and
that the establishment was in no default. But the
court held that the Mont de Pidte„ which, knowing
the liability I of • shawl to be motheaten, bad
sprinkled it with camphor when it was taken in,
ought to have renewed the operation as often as
necessary, and it decreed the establishment to pay
600 fr. damages.
The Nourelliste, of Rouen, says that when the
Emperor of Russia was at Rombourg this year he
went into the gambling-rooms, and being tempted
to try his luck at roulette, told his aide-de-camp to
throw down a note of a hundred roubles upon the