The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-08 00:00:00

[STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL]

SLIPRBSS FROM PARIS.

THE PARIS DOO SHOW.

MOM OUR OWN

PARII, ficlo)A7
The dog show opened today. • long range of
wooden shads bas been erected for the purpose on
the quay of the Seine, at the bank of the Crystal
Palace. This locality is far ism agreeable as a
promenade than the Jardkid'Acoliniation, where a
similar exhibition was held two years ago, and it
must be far less healthy for Use dogs, who will, I
fear, suffer from the heat during the week that they
are to remain in rather close quarters in a place
where the scorching rays of the sun are uffieoted
from the stone parapets and pavements which fisak
the river. The object of the change of site was, I
believe, to bring the exhibition nearer to the centre
of Paris, it having been found in 1863 that dogs would
not attract the public so far. From what I saw to.
day I doubt whether proximity will greatly increase
the receipts. The attendance was by no mime peat.
As to the exhibition itself, I incline to think it dace
not bear out the expectation that it was to be an
1021110/1110 improvement upon its predecessor. With-
out having before me the catalogue of the last exhi-
bition my impression is that this one is not more
numerous, and certainly there are not so many very
beautiful specimens of different races as there were
before. The show consists of 1,148 individual
all numbered oonsecutively —an
arrangement very convenient for reviewing
them rapidly—and about twenty packs of
hounds, harriers, stag hounds, boar bounds,
beagles, the., all called in French by the
generic names of aims courant& Those packs—
with the exception of that of M. Edward Chap-
man, who I proem. to be an Englishman—all be-
long to French owners. It is a pretty sight for an
old sportsman to see them in their kennels, with
French huntsmen trotting them out and making
them answer to their names. Few people would
suppose that so much of the old sporting leaven yet
remained in France, notwithstanding the con-
stantly increasing property. I have
tarelled Over and over again through France, from
north to south and from motto west, and it was never
my look to see a pack of hounds in full cry, or
even to fall in with them out for exercise on a road.
But yet here are a score of packs concentrated in
Paris at one time, all belonging to men of large pro-
perty. The Count Ormond exhibits two very in-
teresting packs, one destined for hoar-hunting, as
is indicated by about three dozen wild boars' feet
attached by red ribbons to the croas-bars of their
kennel ; and another, a set of very pretty little
beagles, anoh as would do capitally foe bare-hunting
in Kent or Surrey. Some young hounds of the race
called Batard Normand, belonging to M. de Braise,
whichare used for hunting ohevrenil and stage are
well worth notice. The other dogs, as I have said,
nearly 1,200 in number, are divided into forty-one
classes. Bulldogs and shepherd dogs predominate.
There is a very meagre show, indeed, of grey-
hounds, and I was not greatly struck with either
the pointers or settee. The only pens which at.
tracted crowds of spectators were those of the pets,
where poodles, white as snowflakes, not much
bigger and about as shapeless, may be seen lying
upon rich relvet or silken cushions, redolent of the
ladies' boudoirs from which they come.
The Marquis de Lavalette has invented a new
mode of action against the foreign press over which
the imperial government pants to exercise direct
jurisdiction. A decree in the Moniteur interdicts
the circulation of the Europe, of Frankfort, in France
until further order, on the ground that in the
feuilleton of the number of May 4, 1865, entitled
"Pierre Patient," the writer "develops the
theory of and makes an apology for political as-
sassination." Considering, the decree goes on to say
that this article, published in a foreign journal:
" although it raises public indignation, escapes the
just severity of the penal laws," therefore the
prefect of police is ordered not to let it
into the country. I have not seen the
article in question, and therefore cannot say
whether it deserves the reprobation that the
Marquis de Lavalette inflicts upon it Assuming
that it does, there is a cleverness in this attempt
to enlist morality on the side of the warning system
and thus to hold it up to the envy of surrounding
nations. But the precedent will not serve very
often. It may be this time that many people
will honestly admire the minister who, running
with the stream of public indignation, proclaims that
France is too pure to behold within its territory the
iniquity of a newspaper which makes the foul mur-
der of Mr. Lincoln the occasion of a disquisi-
tion, excusing in any circumstances whatsoever
political assassination. But if the decree
of to-day is meant to be a step towards the
interdiction generally of foreign journals, which
hitherto have only been seized for particular peccant
numbers, the government will not be able to tall
back upon "public indignation" to support its
tyrannical acts. In the vast majority of cases
journals seized by the French police contain nothing
contrary to morality ; but only news which is prin-
cipally obnoxious here because of its truth, and
which is read with avidity in all free countries.
It appears from documents laid before the Corps
Legislatif, that although, according to the °Duren-
vention of Miramar, the French army in Mexico
was to have been reduced to 20,000 by January 1,
1865, the effective force inlithe country now, nearly
six months later, is 30,747. Three figures give the
measure of the value of the repeated official decla-
rations, beginning with the imperial speech at the
opening of the session, that Mexico was pacified,
and the French army coming home.
One of the most curious cases of extortion of a
signature by violence that was ever heard of
came before the Assize Court of the Deux Sevres
last week. On Christmas-day a man named
Clicrara. FIRTIVAL.—Five thousand choristers
Bennion, living at a village called St. Martin will meet on the Handal orchestra at the Crystal Palace
de Macon, having sent for a neighbour, named oa Wednesday suit, under the direction of Hr. C.
itzi
Allard, a grooer, who owed him a small account, rile
a.
s Oec e litanbta:. lhe choir will ososist of
seized him as noon as he got into the house, put a 3,500 child/ea. selectod from the various schools who have
pistol to his head, bound him with cords, and tioloilideg as and
andn r 030•• ThoZawilte
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threw him into a cellar, where he said he would kerne*, •che7egreteele mew voice.. The imams. or.
keep him until he signed a bill for 20,000 franc& chostrs has been dividedwiiittosLooo3 sesta.
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Allard resisted vehemently and said he would numbered tobs°l"l,;(6lsl7l„sairom=pisns with sigs.l2
rather die than be robbed in that manner. How- the great orchestra, with the exact prWtios of each Wi-
eser, after riming the night in the cellar and being siwitatuipsroperly Maid. Tboscle
tazassa=t,.tismilir.
nearly perished with cold, he consented to sign a the whole army anossitee to march co and be seated in
bill for 3,000 fr., which Bennion agreed to se_ lass tbaa:nrarme ol
et den boa& Thad preaesoestiLthe
rept, but when pen and ink was brought he made iessifisk, "es seos
ines ag:: gems eg the part masts hes he
out one for 2,000 fr. only. Benairm, wbo co* sempolu toe-part treble hammy, sod will be snag by
neither read nor write, had the emboss tie go io iw"RA:ustay 0gni":"0, .yam Bum= wriztrx.
the mayor of the villa" leaving his 'Ws 411 the —The &MA Mamma win be spina to the patine this
while bound in the cellar, to inquire vlbsibere mareaps. Dyke the the May 2 June, JIIII, and
the bill was in proper legal form. The miler „) 'reirarZifywmnsipakycis „au* uhouyas towa'ami•im. our be
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table behig laid es the laws Cr skirls et • pork, with a
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We. We should my, eke, that with them pictures by Yr.
Holmes Bast is exhibited a picture by Mr. Martinmas,
Gad " The let day In the old Ems." a west as remark-
able for its resin* method as say of the *team which it
moompanies. 8o that this little pDAry is hissorevstrest,
se far es poseible from the Academy, le quite the retreat
of the pointers of the sew mhos!, sad the Resort of sissy
of the dilettanti who admire their works sad believe is the
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