The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-02 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, Tonna: Immo.
The news width I gave you a few days ago upon
good grounds, that if the government should think
it safe, after the municipal elections, some con-
siderable extension of existing liberties would be

granted, is ventilated this evening by the Temps,
which, in an article observing that the last organic
liberal measure dates so far back as the letter of
November 12, 1861, alludes to rumours of some-
thing new about to be done ; and, while pretending
Ito be in doubt as to what the character of the
coming reform will be, "bananas so many
elementary franchises are still wanting," concludes
, by a hint that a partial emancipation of the press
is at hand. The Temps has got bold of the right
end of the story ; it is in that direction that the
Emperor means to take his next step in his slow
progress towards the "crowning of the edifice."
Abd-el-Kader gave s return dinner to M. Emile
de Girardin yesterday. M. M. Pereir*, IL de
Lesseps, and M. Urbain were among the company
invited to meet him. The dinner was served d
Partake. _ . .

The Emir is going to have a look at England
before starting for the Chalons camp. The latest
report is that be has gone to London to-day.
The Mayor of Le Mans, who was not elected to
the municipal council at the first ballot, has found
favour with the constituency by his letter to the
prefect announcing his determination to resign the
mayoralty if his fellow-citiseas showed by their
votes that they had not confidence in him. He
alone of the municipal list was returned at the
final poll of Sunday. All the other councillors
belong to the opposition. It is a most remarkable
sign of the times that a man accustomed to and
desirous of distinction should cease to look to the
central government, to whose patronage he owes
the rank he has hitherto held, and throws himself
upon the people.
It is a curious fact that Vichy, the town which
owes so much of itaprosperity to imperial patronage,
has entirely thrown out the whole of the old
municipal council. It is expected that the mayor,
IL Leroy, will resign.
The annual meeting of the bar for the election of
the council of the order took place to-day. Rumours
were afloat that the young advocates meant to dis-
place some of the old bands ; but the result is that
none but old members of the council have been

elected to-day. Two mate only ',main for • second
ballot. IL Mail, the counsel now pleading (on
appeal) the Goose of the too new Duke de Mont-
morency, and on that account unpopular with the
junior bar, was just squeezed out. He may, how-
ever, possibly oome in next week.
The Juge de Paix of Fontainebleau has decided
that it is unlawful to set traps in • garden to catch
your neighbours cats which are in the habit of
trespassing, and has awarded 15fr. damages for
fifteen cats immolated. The law of this
ease is questioned by some of the pipers
which recommend the defeated party to appeal
to the Court of Caseation. It is admitted that
wild ode may be lawfully snared, and how is a
trap to distinguish between • wild oat proper and
that quasi wild cat which strays from its master's
premises t That • house eat is private property
and a domestic animal is assumed ; but the ques-
tion is whether it does not forfeit that character
by leaving the house or doom. There is no doubt
a difficulty in the came, because although you may
impound stray bullocks, which also ought to keep
within their owners' bounds, it is not lawful to
kill them. The cat case, however, care to mind
the affair of the bees related by Quintillian. A
Roman landowner brought an action against a
neighbour for destroying his bees. Plea, the bees
infested my garden and stung my wife and children.
Replication, you should have brought your action
upon each sting, but you had no right to kill the
bee. I must refer to Quintillian for the judgment,
if the cause went so far.
The settlement at the Bourse was effected to-day
with little apparent difficulty, and the last quota-
tion of the Rents is the same as that of yesterday.
The disposition of speculators is still to sell, and
many sales for the next account were made to-
day. Mobilier closed without change. Mexican
rose I, closing at 443 j.
A letter in the Union Bourguignonne says :
The Emperor is said to ha still occupied with t►e
Algerian question. Ells treatise, it is 'Armed completely
recut, will he giros to the public. His Majesty is said to
be of oplaina that rascal remedies mask he Naiad suitable
to the situation to be applied:—lit, to the lestitetioa of
the oneness mew& the Arabs; Sol, to the sepratioa
to be established between the Arabs sad the celestite ;
3rd, to the liberty of eisamaeteo is its Liget& erase ; 4th,
to a reduction el the easy al ocecipatice to 4!S,000 men
%stead of 75,000 ; sth, to stbseting to the edam, a pod
at the Swim and German emigration sew rase to Hank
kinds&