The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

FRANCE

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•PARIS, MONDAY ETINDIG.
The amino at to-day, acceding to expectation.
It Is conlinsd that the Last regular sitting will be
held on Weiniday. All the plenipotentiaries have
now revolved telegrepkie 'alienation that the treaty
of Mani ID les less ntiled.
Alta tie inhume of the ratifications, Count
Orloff intimai to pay a abort Ant to Naples, to use
his moo, who wee dangerously winded in the Crimea,
and is now staying in Italy for his health.
There are MIMS of a very serious nature with
regard to the present relations of Austria with the
It Desna to be certain that so far from having
enunessed the evacuation of the Principe/friss, as
woe reported in several joarnals a few days ante, she
is framing exam= for continuing to occupy them for
an indefinite time. Now if Amnia should maintain
hoe troops in the Principalities (without the express
sonsat of Turkey) far one hour longer than the
nessenry time for marching them off, after the con-
deism of pease, she would be guilty of a flagrant
blush of the treaty under which the original occupa-
tion took place. Cis France and England suffer nob
an Weak? Whatever may be done when It comes to
the point, the French government, as far as word
goes, is assuming, I believe, a decided atti-
tude against the Austrian pretensions. Mean-
while the news arrives by telegraph from
two different points of the oempaas that an Austrian
army is taking up a position along the frontier line
of Parma next to Piedmont, and that the Xing of
*Jardine is marching an army of observation to form
a line on the other side of the use frontier opposite
the Atietrians. This attitude of Piedmont and Austria,
after all that we have recently heard of radical die-
agnenents between them on the Italian Testicle,
leaks very anima.

PARIS, TonIDAT Eva:lmmo.
The rays repeats the new, of yesterday, that the
Congress will hold its last sitting to-morrow (Wed-
nesday), with the slight variation, "enters prevented
by unforeseen circumstances.' Lord Clarendon will,
it says, leave for London on Saturday instead of
Friday. MIL de Beal and de Manteufiel, it is still
positively stated, will quit Paris on Thursday. They
are making their farewell visits to-day. The Pays
confirms, in the following paragraph, the substance
of the saws which I transmitted yesterday •.—" The
somadary plenipotentiaries who remain in Paris may
yet had meetings if required by circumstances, even
before tie sitting in which the ratifications will
be but the sittin
as g of tomorrow
must, be regarded the official con-
cludes of the congress of Paris. The day on which
theradleations will he szoltanged is yet uncertain.
It Nest asessuarily aped it the arrival of the
Otimema ratilleation, bee we meat that there is
way reuse to believe that this Sweaty will be
esesoglidied bdws ths end of the meth."
Now hes base rushed in Parts this evening that
Prim Gmegory Ghilta,the hospodar el Moldavia, has
mat hie resignidee be the Bohan.
The iseree creel with some flatness, but there
wee a fhweerable medics in the after part of the
day. Tr. Rama ultimately rose 160. for cash, and
Sao. for assent, closing at '73.30 and 73.90. Credit
Mobilise rams 16f. The Grand Central Railway rose
in esesequeos of a report that it he applied for a
ormesedes of a line of railway horn Puy de Dome to
Ihreallhs. This would be a very important under-
=The distance between Paris and Marseilles
be considerably shortened. Notwithstanding
the repeated assertion that the Emperor would not
for some time to come sanction any new enterprise
likely to absorb much capital, this rumour was so
muh credited that the Lyons and Mediterranean
line was depressed in consequence of it. Railways
were generally in better demand, the Austrian and
!Uranium lime included.

At tha Court of Assiu of the Seine to-day, Bau-
mann, the anent who killed his mistress, the Cum-
tees Canmont Worse, in the court-yard of her hones
in the Champs Elyse, wan tried for the murder. M.
Oscar de Vallee, advocate-general, appeared for the
grlion. The prisoner was defended by M.
eiell:, an ex judge, who resigned his judicial fano-
tines in 1830. The court was crowded with sputa-
we—principally ladies. The murdered lady wee
connected with many of the great families of the
Faubourg St. Germain, and the audience was to a
great extent composed of her relations, friends, or
acquaintances. Nothing remarkable, beyond the
original report of the suastrophe, was elldted at the
trial. The sus and substance of the case is
nothing mare than this, that the countess was an
eccentric person who was in the habit of scolding her
servants', and that Baumann,losing him temper, turned
upon her and took her life. Hs said in answer to
interrogatories that he did not mean to kill her; but
there was some evidence that, finding her nearly dead,
he had said he felt that he was committed, and had
deliberately finished her. Nothing transpired to con-
firm a story told by the Indellesdamte Beige, that this
Baumann wu the same man who had formerly made
a murderous attack upon a German countess at Me-
nials. Amon the witnesses called was the widow of
Mental Gerard, who deposed that although the de-
ceased liked to be well served and wee rather severe
with servants, she was in the main kind to them, and
frequently gave them presents. At the moment of
sluing my letter I learn that Baumann has been
sentenced to hard labour for life, from which the we
misery inference is that he has been found
.guilty,
"with extenuating circumstance;" otherwise the
gentians must have been death.

The story of the fatal duel between French racers
at Grenoble, in which it was pretended that both
combatants were killed, is a hoax. The Corsitast-
truss: admits that it was imposed upon by a letter
bearing the Grenoble postmark.
The Union du Var says :—"lt is said to be in
contemplation to establish a camp of 25,000 men in
the Plaine de Graeae, near Grimand. The ground
has been examined by General Fleury, aidede-oamp
to the Emperor, accompanied by an intendant of the
army. The general, who was charged to examine
all the points of the coast between the Iles ellyeres
and Antibes, decided, it is said, without hesitation
for Cevalain. The projected camp will be formed
by troops belonging to the army of the East. There
is else a question of establishing a hospital in the
Ile du Levant, one of the Hydras. We believe that
the site of the camp could not be better chosen ; the
Roman armies used to make long halts there on
their way from Italy to Spain."