The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS•

(nos oua ows coaararoxncNT•)
PARIS, FRIDAY BPI:XING.
The Paris journals announce that the Duke of
Magenta will shortly leave for Austria. I pre-
sume this must be a misprint, and that Algeria

is meant.
I cannot think there is any truth in the news
given by the Indipendance Beige that the govern-
ment, while shrinking from any violent measure
against the Academie Francaise, intends to punish
the systematic choice by that body of new mem-
bers from the ranks of the opposition by sharing
its privileges with the other four academies
of the Institute. If, the paragraph in question
states " public sittings and set speeches
ou the reception by new members" were permitted
to all five academies alike, the prestige of the Ace-
ddmie Francais° would be greatly diminished. This
very miserable reasoning is, 1 am pretty sure,
based on a mistake. I never heard of any law to
prevent the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of
Fine Arts, ac., from asking their friends to hear
speeches. The only thing: is that as the members
are not generally orators or distinguished authors,
people would not care to go to hear them. The
'French Academy has not greatly added to its repu-
tation of late years. Everybody feels that its new
members, chosen from political motives, have small
literary claims. The plan suggested by the Inde-
pendence, if in any way practicable, would, by
forcing a contrast between the mediocrities of the
Acaddinie Francais° and philosophers, sevens, and
artists who are not orators at all, only serve to in-
crease instead of to diminish the consideration of
the " Forty."
M. Thiers has been indisposed for the last three
weeks. His malady, says the Gazette de Pnce, is
a zone (a species of heart affection), `bay
t, thank
God, it does not alarm either his friends or his
physician."
M. Samson, the veteran actor of the Francais,
gave a dinner and a ball yesterday to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of his wedding day. M. and
Madame Samson opened the dance with a minuet
de la cour in the old traditional French style, and
the company followed with a gavotte.
M. Emile Angier read a new play to the com-
mittee of the Theltre Francais this afternoon,
which is described as d'une hardiesse inouie.
The Vaudeville Company has gone to Compibgne
to-day to play M. V. Sardou's new piece, the
Famille Benoiton, before the court.
Prim* Witold Czartoryski, the eldest son of
Prince Adam, who died in Paris in 1862, has just
died at Algiers from consumption. He was 45
years old.
The Bourse was dulL One cannot be surprised
that such a decisive measure as the reduction in
the army, announced yesterday, should have had
so little effect. The small temporary rise of yes-
terday was followed by a fall in the Rents of sc.
to-day, the latest quotation, both for cash and ao-
count, being 681 r. 35c.; Mobilier fell 3fr. 750.

PRIVY COUNCIL.—Her Majesty will hold a Privy
Council on Monday afternoon at Windsor Castle.
THE PRINCE OF WALLS AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has presented
100 i. to the funds of the Norfolk Cattle Plague Assurance
Amooietion. Sir H. Strawy has subscribed a similar
sum. The ',societies has now received subscriptions
to the amount of about 10001.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
town yesterday afternoon oa a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle.
His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness de Cetto have arrived at their residence in Hill-
street, Berkeleysquare, from the Continent.
The Countess of Warwick gave birth to a son
on Thursday, at the family residence, in the Stable-yard,
St. James's. The countess and infant son are progressing
favourably.
Lady Ward is expected to arrive in town to-day
from flinsley Hall, near Dudley.
Sir Charles Wood is said to be going on well, but
great quiet will be necessary to him for some time longer.
By the death of Admiral Sir Horatio Thomas
Austin, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys
Decree, K.C.8., Commeuder-in-Chief of the Channel fleet,
becomes a vice-admiral, end vacates the command of the
fleet.
The Gardeners' Chronic/4; is delighted to find that
the prospects of the Interuatiooal Horticultural Exhibition
and Congress are so bright. Nearly 3,0001. have already
been subscribed, and upwards of 3,8001. guaranteed.
Dr. Livingstone's new volume, written in conjunc-
tion with Charles Livingstone, entitled "The Zambesi and
its Tribute:jos," has bees issued by Mr. Murray. Die dedi-
cated to Lord Palmeratos, "as a tribute justly due to
the great statesman who has ever had at heart the
amelioration of the African race; and as a token of ad-
miration of the beneficial effects of that policy which he
has so long laboured to establish on the West Coast of
Africa; sad which, in improving that region, has most
forcibly shown the need of some similar system on the
opposite side of the Continent." The object of the work
is to give an account of tracts of country previously unex-
plored, with their river systems, natural productions end
capabilities ; and to bring before ell interested in the cause
of humanity, the misery entailed by the slave trade in its
inland phases; "a subject," says Dr. Livingstone, "on
which I and my companions are the first who have had any
opportunity of forming a judgment."
The Economist is of opinion that the quantity
of cotton we shall receive from the States during the next
twelve menthe will be by no means large ; that the mop of
1866-7 cannot exceed and will perhaps not reach one half
of the amount usual before the war ; but that from that
period we must expect a rapid and continuous annual
increase of supply. There will be time enough
for both India and Egypt to reap vast profits
on the cotton they may send us forward next
year, and time enough else for them gradually, after
Th
that date, to reduce their production within each moderate
and normal limits as the demand for their special qualities ai.t.oe U f
.3,nei.td
ieee.S.hitapiteedflweemt,
g Platecitic now con.
'ball show to be needed. "We have no ides of middling MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC MEMORANDA. It is
Rookhof the.RoithyalpLogl,
Orleans Glliog below &L, or fair Egyptian below 91, or said that the muacenagwemetant cost, even
fair Surat below 51, for an indefinite period ; and a very •
ItOt:lLd.t
length
of 16 camels in the procession. An ceche.-
considerable time must elapse, we apprehend, before they teal trial will be held by the Musical Sorsiety of London
even approach these prices. But that the prices of to-day on Wednesday next. IC
.felTnieempar.°lfida
are warr inted by anything epraeipyLothtfyee, dx.respelocdzers: le.sovlttareld.to.
d i act es
pt ht
Wilsone very
temporary
the otio:s from a sacred oratorio,
otanhbaevlieimeelmeeei"-t ni41,2171,1/4 fd3°Pithirdiciomwrs,"bytheioree."Jirith n Stainer, were performed
England for Palestine. Capt. Wilson is to land at Bey. the I4olllthtleber ea.Shtoerldtohneiado.grTeteatre, at Oxford,
of doctor of Lee
rout, and to go by way of Damascus, Bantam, Kedes, to L' Al ritaine bee been produced a. t
.Bologna, under the
hle direction of II Cavaliers Mariam, with great success,
Tell Hum on the Lake of Galilee. Thence be will pro- a-e-T pat journal assures us. Signora Falai was the
cocoa, by way of Cana, to Behan, and by Zarin to Nabalas
sod Sebastiyeh. He will then visit Sawa, the ancient heroine. The same contemporary speaks in fair terms of
id:. In
tombs at Tibaels, Beitin, and Jerusalem. At each of the Marchetti, which has ler ftliej..ennit,Tellteost. There in
above spots will make such explorations as he may be a monument 4° thumb: toi
the new Romeo and Juliet by the yout.g. composer, Signor
t
find feasible and desirable. Bohemia, where he was rn, son es excellent Creme
and music director, in February, 176 L Madame Kistori is
The contracts for the locomotive requirements about tot gout Amerioa. under engagements to 1150
of the East ladle Railway Company are said to have been I represen. feu
angvertyhehrge it.oriarip.a.m.newShe will
given out as follows :-30 to the Armando Engine Cosa- I Clay r Death bast' among the
piny (limited). Bristol ; 20 to Cross end Co., St. Helen's,
dramatic celebritiee of Paris. A quarter of a century
Leaceshire ; 20 to James Morison and Co., Newcutle-on- I ago Jenny Vertpre (in reality Madame Carnarmehe), one
Tyne ; and the remainder to Messrs. Kessler of Carlsruhe. 'of the most piquant and popular .of the Boulevard
at a very low price. The associated French tenders of
Messrs. Schneider and Co., of I,e Creasot, and J. F. Coil ' nwrPtneee v"ie •
theatres (who that ever
lied UM it will foreshetehebur
just Chan M
d.ed eta-at
riomhis ti tbe
the peendenym
Nosy. Duveyner. n me. under
aid Co., of Paris, were eonampiently unsucesedal. lof Melesville. a librettist in request, to whom we owe the
FORZION-OPTICIL, Nov. 14.—The Qum has been text of Cberublni's Ali Baba, of Herold's Lamps, of Adam's
Pleased to approve of M. Gustav Behiieciff as consul atCepe Chald, of IL Aubeee Concert a/a Cour. end who is said
Town for his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Queen has alone, or in collaboration with Scribe and others, to have
also been pleased to approve of M. P. H. Paul Auschitaky written sloths& than 340 Meow for the theatre, is also gone,
as mud at Akyab for his Majesty the King of the I aged 78. M
tissadame Wart
sed, a Parisian pianist of a °Main
Belgkea. —Ginate. celebrity. is d.—stgaein.