The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(71011 OM OWN 001111SPOIDENT.)
PARIS. WEDNESDAY EVENING.

A rather exciting scene occurred in the Corps
Legislatif this afternoon. When the vice-president,
M. Revell, announced that be had received from
the government a bill for granting a dotation of
50,000 fr. a year to General Montauban, created
Count de Palikao, for his services iu China, there
was a general murmur of disapprobation. A voice
cried out, " Let it stand over till next year." M.
Emile 011ivier expressed a hope that the Munittur
would not fail to record the impression of the house
upon this subject. The Marquis de Grammont
and Viscount de Kerveguen, both originally
government members, cheered M. 011ivier,
and exclaimed that the feeling he expressed
was general. MM. lielmoutel and Delamarre
feebly protested that the opposition to the bill was
not unanimous. The vice-president was constrained,
by the storm in the house, to utter the truism that,
although it is the Emperor's prerogative to confer
titles, the house was quite free to grant or refuse
the endowmeut of them. Count de Tromelin ob-
served that the bill must bo referred, in the first
instance, to a secret committee, and on the chair-
man's rejoinder that that was a matter of course,
be reproached him for not having said so at first.
This affair has made a great sensation at the
Tuileries, and I am told that unless the night shall
bring about a change of counsel, the Moniteur
to-morrow will announce that the Dotation Bill of
Count Palikao is withdrawn, and that the Emperor
will pay him the 2,0001. a year out of his private
purse.
There is a strong feeling in France against public
endowments of newly created titles of nobility,
unless in very exceptional cases, such as that of
the Duke of Malakoff, and I understand that even
in the bosom of the Council of State strong re-
marks were made against the bo,ooofr. grant to
the general with the Chinese title.
lam told that the Corps Legislatif, having a
wholesale dread of the coming elections, and a keen
appreciation of the unpopularity of the new salt
tax among the poor, will pluck up courage and
reject the bill. The Conatitationuel publishes an
article proving that the augmentation only amounts
to eightpence a head per year, but I do not think
that its calculations, even assuming them to be
correct, will remove the objections to the measure.
Salt is the only poor man's sauce, and he uses a
great deal more of it than the wealthier classes,
who have many other oondiments.
The Turin Gazette speaks of au attempt having
been made ►t Rome to assassinate M. Lavalette,
the French ambassador, as he was getting out of
his carriage at the door of the embassy. It is
said that three conspirators, a Belgian, a Ba-
varian, and a Neapolitan, were arrested, and that
poniards and revolvers were found upon them.
This affair is so little talked of in Paris that the
truth of it must be deemed very doubtful.
The panic at the Bourse continues. Unless a
speedy change should take place the conversion
will certainly be a disastrous failure. It is said
that the syndicate of bankers, which has con-
tracted with government to rig the market, is
divided fs its counsels, and frightened at the
immense responsibility which it has assumed.
A council of ministers has been held to-day to
consider what can be done. The Rents fell 70c.
for cash and 45c. for account, closing at 69fr. 60c.,
and 69fr. 65c. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell
lfr. 10fr., and 711 c., closing at 99fr. and 99fr. 750.;
Mobilier fell 121 r. 50c. ; and Credit Foncier, 10fr.
The Orleans Railway fell 6fr. 25c., and Lyons and
Southern sfr. each. In other lines little change.

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