The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FlOll 0011 011111

PARIS, FRIDAY Evaauxo.

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M. Emile 011ivier will not take bis name off
the list of advocates of the Paris bar, and is deter-
mined to throw upon the council of the order what
he calls the "odium "of disbarring him. I have
no doubt that this will be done on Tuesday next,
the word "disbarring" not being in this instance
to be understood in any disgraceful sense, but
merely as a consequence of M. Emile 011ivier
having accepted a paid agency from the Pacha of
Egypt, which, according to the well-known rules
of the Paris bar (far more strict than those of the
provincial courts), is incompatible with the
position of a member of the order. M. E.
011ivier is summoned to appear before the Council
on Tuesday, but as a journal announces that he has
gone to Zurich, I presume that he will not appear,
and means to let judgment go by default. His
friends say that be will at once inscribe himself on
the roll of some provincial bar (probably Versailles)
where etiquette is not rigorous, and then he may
plead in the Paris courts just as before. The only
detriment to him will be that he cannot be elected
a member of the council of the order, s dignity
analogous to that of Q.C., which all barristers of
eminence aspire to, and one which M. 011ivier was
very nearly attaining prematurely some years ago,
when be was shamefully suspended by the Correc-
tional Tribunal for an outspoken word in a political
case.
K E. de Girardin, who goes in breast high for
°Meier, affirms, in the Prase, that the true cause of
his unpopularity now with the opposition deputies
is that the members of the " old parties"—Berryer,
Thiers, Gamier Pages, Marie, rite., who would
never have been elected but for 011ivier's example
in taking the oath and showing practically the way
in which a constitutional opposition was possible—
have now no longer need of him, and, according to
the old proverb, having got up, kick the ladder
from under them.
Some of the journals state that M. Odillon-Barrot.
another prominent member of the " old parties,"
will present himself as a candidate for the Aisne, in
the place of M. Jeoffroy de Villeneuve, deceased.
It was recorders in this correspondence about a
year ago that the rather famous spendthrift, the
Duke de Gramont Caderousse, who after getting
through a very large proportion of his property at
an early age, bad been treated as a prodigus, and
saddled with a judicial receiver of his income, had
applied to a court of law to be relieved from the
infliction, on the ground that he had reformed his
ways and become steady. The Court of First
Instance acceded to his application, but the judg-
ment was overruled by the Court of Appeal, which
thought the proof of reformation insufficient.
On Wednesday the duke's counsel renewed the
application, urging, as evidence of his reform, that
during the last year he had incurred no new debts,
and bad paid off something which be owed to the
Credit Foncier. An edifying correspondence was
read between the duke and his grandmother,
Madame Panlze D'lvoy De La Poype, in which
the old lady, with many expreeaiens of tenderness,
tells the duke she is sure he is not able to tske
care of himself, while he responds, in choice re-
spectful terms, that he is 30 years old, that he
chafes under the fetters which repress
the energy of his race, and that he
thinks it high time that he was respectably
married and settled. M. Anon, counsel for
the family, insinuated that the paying off the
debt to the Credit Foncier was probably done by
the aid of some interested chum who wanted to see
the duke master of his money ; and in regard to
his virtuous projects of matriessey, he was indis-