The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-12 00:00:00

IDEPR223B FROM PARIS.

(111011 oat OWN

PARIS, THURSDAY EVICNING,
The Agricultural Society of Nancy, the most im
portant of France, has presented a petition to the
Senate against the alienation of the State forests,
which it calls an " afflicting " and " dangerous "
measure. The petition refers to a letter to the
Emperor in which the reasons against the scheme
are briefly set forth, and concludes by the averment
that " it is assuredly to serve the sovereign and the
dynasty to do everything possible to prevent France
at some future day, while thinking with bitter re-
gret of her forests irrevocably lost, from mixing up
in her memory the epoch of such a national misfor-
tune with that of the reign of Napoleon III."
During the thunder-storm which visited Paris
yesterday afternoon the electric fluid killed one of
two men riding in a washerwoman's cart, Rue
Virginia, at Montmartre. A house, No. 2, Rue
de la Pompe, at Pansy, was struck, and seriously
damved. Another house has been injured in the
Rue Castiglione. It is probable that many more
accidents, yet unknown, must have occurred. I
was in the Fine Arts Exhibition, in the Champs
Elysies, at the time of the storm, and
observed from the almost simultaneity of
several flashes of lightning and claps of thunder
iu succession, that danger was close at band.
Hundreds of people were, like myself, kept pri-
rnere by the pelting rain in the inconvenient cor-
ridor which lams as an exit to, the Fixhibition.
The carriage accommodation in Paris is always Wk.
equal to an emergency. In the Champs Elysies,
when rain falls, you may wait for two boars with-
out finding a cab.
The Epoque says that, in order to be prepared
for all "eventualities," the French government bas
determined to reinforce its naval stations on the

American coast.
Baron Felix Bonnaire, the founder of the Revue
des Deux Mondea, and the publisher of most of the
early works of Madame George Band, has just died
in Paris.
The Tribunal of Commerce yesterday tried an
action against Messrs. Rothschild Brothers for the
sum of 691 r., which, it was alleged by M. Brady,
the plaintiff, they had wrongfully charged him as
oommisaion for changing 23 certifications of
Austrian bonds of the loan of 1861 against new
ones. M. Bredy's counsel contended that the house of
Rothschild were agents of the Austrian government
in this matter, awl that in depositing his old bonds
with them, to be exchanged pursuant to advertise-
ment, he could not be understood as authorising
them to deduct money for the operation. The
tribunal, however, held that the charge of 3fr. per
bond was a usual and reasonable one, and therefore
dismissed the suit with costs.
The Bonne left off with scarcely any change in
quotations. But a great battle is going on between
the Credit Mobilier and other powerful operators,
which is expected to have some very decided result
next week.

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The Confederate General Edwin G. Lee, writing
to a Nostend paper, says :—" Whether President Lincoln's
murder wss manned' in °seeds or sot is a matter of
which I am equally *Dorset and careless. Unlit,' this
statement to be tales ; I know it to be so, so far as it is-
wolves any imputation of lastigatico, complicity, or re-
motest eoesezios as the pert of myself or of say other Con.
federates. se far es my Imolai(' sxtoods. As the set of
of an Wieland. whose motives ars, as yet, undeclared and
unknown, it was a dating one, concerning the perpetrator
owe than any one else, sad not one may criticise it as kis
feriisco dilate. Bat as the set et • gocrernosest it woold be a
cowardice which I would seemly have believed that eyes
Itr. &lake weld bin ebargsd upon the Confederate autho-
rities. If he have any proofs, lot the world hare them and
judge Wines Boohoo governsusete."
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first appearance at New York after en atones of Z years.
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