The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(raom 01311 ows CORRESFONDZNT.)

PARIS, THURSDAY EVWIING

There was a decided opinion at the Bourse to-
day that the German difficulty was looking better,
but immediately after the close of buaineas a panic
set in, which reduced the official rise in the Rente
of 35c. to Isc. only.
An Italian journal states that Prince Napoleon
is about to buy the grand domain of the Portici
Palace, built on the ruins of Herculaneum. This
will be a good exchange for the Raison Diomede
in Paris.
It is said that M. Perrin, although reappointed
manager of the Opera, is not intended to hold the
post long, but only till the opening of the new
building, which already rears its head high in
front of the Boulevard end of the Rue de la Paix.
It is, however, observed that if the Emperor's letter
proclaiming that the Opera should not be finished
before the Hospital of the Hotel Dieu is to be
acted upoin, M. Perrin's tenure of office may be of
some•considerable duration, for the first stone of
the new Hotel Dieu is not yet laid.

The Appeal Court of Doriai lately decided a case
relating to the personal status of an English subject.
In 1831 there lived at Dunkirk an F.ngliahman who
appears to have been in easy circumstances, named
John Collet. There were also living there at the
same time two English girls named Emma Trypho-
nia Jervis and Elizabeth Sophia Jervis, with whom
Collet had been acquainted in England. Why the
name of the latter sister should be intro-
duced into the report of the case does not
appear, and the reason surmised may very pos-
sibly not be the correct one. On February 6,
1831, John Collet married Emma Tryphonia Jervis
in London, she being then far gone with child ;
and, on the 3rd of April following, she was de.
livered of a girl at Dunkirk. On April 5 the girl's
• birth was duly registered according to French law
• before the proper civil officer, the father and
the acooucheur attesting. In the course of the
summer Mr. Collet removed from Dunkirk to
Calais, and at the latter place, on Nov. 1, 1831, he
presented for baptism at the English chapel two
children—one, the girl whose birth was regis-
tered at Dunkirk, and the other a boy.
named Henry Zechariah, whom he also described
as his child by his wife Emma Tryphonia Jervis.
This boy was brought up by Collet as his son until
' 1853, when he quarrelled with him, and made a
will declaring that he was no child of his. Collet
dying in 1863, and having left all his property by
will to collateral relatives, Henry Zechariah
brought an action requiring that he might be de-
clared a legitimate son, whose inheritance
could not, according to French law, be de-
feated by testament. But the appeal court
confirming the judgment of the court of first
instance, held that there was no evidence to show
where the plaintiff came from. The fact of the
birth of the girl alone having been registered at
Dunkirk was a cogent repudiation of the claims of
the plaintiff to be her twin brother, and the
declaration of the father at the time of the baptism
at Calais several months later could not have the
force of a civil act of birth.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

(REUTHR'S EIPRZEIS.).

PARIS, APRIL 19.

The following is the return of the Bank of
France for the week ending to-day, together with
the corresponding figures of the previous account :
April 19. April 12.
Fr. C. J r. e.
182,500,000 0 182,500.000 0

DISTITOR.
Capital of the Bank
Profits In addition to capital

7,044,776 2 7.044,776 2

_
kart. 8, law of Julie 9, 18.7.
Reserve of the Bank and its
branches
Reserve of landed property
Notes in circulation
Bank notes to order and receipts
payable at sight
Treasury account—current cre-
ditor 02,134,960 0 90.000,630 14
Current accounts, Paris 154,803,611 65 150,810,998 60
Ditto branch banks 26,995,807 0 20,004,209 0
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry intereets
Be-discounted the last six
months 2,074,992 92 2,074,992 92
Surplus of receipts not distri-

7,083,917 5 6,674,573 48

bitted
Sundriaa

9,206.752 n 10,038,5211 34

1,410,813.878 IG 1.407.722,914 73

April 19. April 12.
Fr. c Fr. e.

CRADITOR
Cash In hand and In branch
banks
Cominercial bills overdue
Commercial bills discounted,
not yet due 303,833,470 90 292352,510 67
Ditto branch banks 297,214.023 U 285,267,639 0
Advances on deposits of bullion 3,430.000 0 9,042,700 0
Ditto branch banks 11,730,700 0 11,396,300 0
Advances on French public Sc.

rarities
Ditto branch banks
Advances on railway shares

12,004,500 0 11,197,000 0
5,950,204 0 6,507,900 0

and debentures
Ditto branch banks
Advances on Credit Foncier

31,3813.N0 0 30,747.500 0
19,908,400 0 19,989,700 0

Bonds
Ditto branch banks
Advances to the State ,conven-
tion 10th June, 10.',7
Government stock reserve
Ditto disposable
Rentes immubillsees ,law 2nd

006.800 0 596,000 0
445,800 0 406,600 0

60.000,009 0 00,000,000 0
12,010,7,0 14 12,9,0,750 14
36,171,987 91 96,171,967 91

June, 1857'
Hotel and furniture of the bank &

100.000.000 0 100,000,000 0

landed property bnutehes
Expenses of management
Sundries

8,434,6'82 0 8,432,174 0
1,094,913 70 1,089,230
13,332,842 90 18,019,518 99

1,419.313,676 16 1,407,722,914 73
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France
(Signed) EAU LAND.

Tax Suez CANAL—The text of the firman signed
by the Sultan concerning the Suez maritime canal is as
follows :—" March 19, 18495.—Illustrious official, Ismail
Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, holding the rank of Grand Vizier
and decorated with the orders of the Osmanie and Medjidie
of the first class, in brilliants—The realisation of the great
work destined to give fresh facilities to commerce and na-
vigation by the cutting of a canal between the Mediter
ranean and the Red Sea, being one of the most import-
ant events of this age of science and progress, confer-
ences have taken place for some time past with the
company which asks permission to execute that work,
and they have just ended in • manner conformable,
for the present and the future, to the sacred rights
of the Porte, as well as to those of the Egyptian
Government. The contract, of which a translation of
the articles is annexed, has been drawn• up and signed
by the Egyptian Government conjointly with the
representative of the company ; it has been sub-
mitted to our imperial sanction, and after having read it
we have given to it our assent." (Here follows the con-
vention in extenso.) " The present firman emanating from
our imperial divan is issued with the effect of giving our
sovereign authorisation to the execution of the canal by
the said company on the conditions stipulated in this con-
tract, as well as to the regulation of all the accessories ac-
cording to that agreement and to the acts and conventions
inscribed and designated in it, and forming an integral
part thereof."
Wiltshire woke up one morning and found itself
famous. Two of its representatives, one for Caine and
the other for Salisbury, have occasioned more jokes and
indignation than all M.P.'s put together. They are both
Australians, and evidently entertain a most unfavourable
opinion of the working men in England, looking upon them
as little better than convicts. It has been jocosely circa-
'lated in Wilts that one represented Botany Bay and the
other Norfolk Island, in an Australian parliament, and
that when there is a redistribution of seats one will be
M.P. for Portland and the other for Dartmoor. They
may then, it is said, denounce one another's constituency
to their heart's content. They will never be suffered to
represent anylart of Wiltshire again.—Dorsetakire paper.