The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAWL FRIDLI Emma
The ministerial bill for building the universal
exhibition palace of 1867 in the Champs de Man
was, after all, only voted against by 26 deputies.
But about 30 others who, though not approving the
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project, shrank from recording their votes against
the government, abstained from voting. Among
the latter were MM. Pouyer, Quertier, and Clary,
who had made speeches against the bill. Their
argument was that the sum of 12,000,000 fr.
or 14,000,000 fr., which the building was esti-
mated to Goat, was either too much or too little.
Too much if, as there seems to be no doubt, it is
to be demolished the moment the exhibition is over,
and too little if, as they contended should be the
case, a grand and lasting monument were to be
built, worthy of France, which might be used per-
manently for future exhibitions. M. Rouher, who
really thought the bill in danger, and made one of
the best speeches he ever pronounced in its de-
fence, drew a dazzling picture of the progress
which France and the world might be expected
to make, and argued that, in the nature
of things, the universal exhibition palace could
never be permanent,because it would always be im-
possible to say what dimensions might be required
at a distance of five years. To build a permanent
palace was like making a bed for a giant before he
had come to his growth. The statistics, however,
of the English exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and
the Paris Exhibition of 1855 do not show any such
formidable progress as the Minister of State anti-
cipates. The fact is that in 1862 there were 200
fewer English exhibitors than in 1851.
The long accredited canard that the Elysife was
being prepared for Abd-el-Kader is now contra-
dicted. The following paragraph is going the
round of the newspapers :
Abd.el-gads is expected to arrive at Paris Is the course
of ant week. He will not, ea it bee been sail, reside at
the Flys& Such • piss has never bees seriously enter-
tained. The Emir will be iaatalled in • private hotel in
the Bus Lord Byre's, rented at 3.0 C Mr. per month, sad
furnished appropriately by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Altd-el-girder has a rather ounteeotis suite. lie is aocom-
p•nid by a Tartish istendent from Dems►cas, by • native
interpreter from the Coagulate of Boycott, and a French
interpreter from the Colonists of Jerusalem. This latter,
Charles Heoquart, is see of the Freoch Consul at
Damascus.
The Paris Freemasons propose to invite Abd-el-
Kader to a festival in Grand Lodge. The Emir
was some time since made a member of the craft at
Alexandria.
M. Bevan has arrived in France from his tour in
the east.
Although some of the clerical journals have con-
tradicted the report that the Pope's nuncio in
Mexico had left that capital, at the same time that
they denied that there was any rupture of the ne-
gotiations between Mexico and Bome, news comes
by the mail just in that Mgr. Meglea, with the
personnel of his embassy, did leave Mexico on
May 27, and that he had gone to Guatemala, in
Central America.
It is rumoured that Marshal O'Donnell, by way
of giving • practical proof of his liberalism, of
which, seeing his antecedents, he stands greatly in
need, intends to abolish slavery in the Spanish
colonies. Brazil would then be the only Christian
nation owning slaves, and even there the number
is very small.
Some of the Spanish papers say that the Emperor
and Empress propose this autumn to pay a visit
from Biarritz to the Queen of Spain at some point
not far from the frontier.
The Emperor has given Mdlle. Rosa Bouheur an
order for • portrait of
The rise at yesterday's Bourse was not main-
tained to-day, and the result of the settlement is
likely to be profitable only to the brokers. Rents
fell 10c. for cash and lc. for account, closing at
66fr. 65c. and 661 i. 60c. Mobilier fell 121 r. 50e.
Mexican rose j.

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