The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THOWIDAY EVEFING.

The most striking news of the day (besides the
stirring reports of Garibaldi's progress, which you
will have by telegraph) is the fact of the Count
(L'Aquila, the brother of the King of Naples,
writing a long exculpatory letter to the Opinion
Nationale on the instant of his arrival in Paris.
The Opinion treats the royal dkndidate for publicity
just like an ordinary correspondent, and, finding
his letter toe long to be conveniently published at
length, merely gives an analysis of it. The object
of the Count d'Aquila's explanations is to protest
against the double imputation that he has con-
spired against the liberties of his country, and that
he contemplates supplanting his royal nephew by
getting himself named regent.
The Bourse was buoyant. The decree in the
Moniteur, suspending the sliding scale and faci-
litating the import of grain, has already produced
a fall of 2fr. in the corn market, and the weather
to-day is more promising. The Rents rose 25c. for
cash and 20c. for account, closing at 68fr. 20c. and
68fr. 15c. Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. The Lyons and
Eastern Railways rose 3fr. 75c. each ; in the other
lines there was little change. M. Jutean, the report
of whose death made a sensation at the Bourse on
Monday, writes to the papers to say that he is alive
and well.

An opposition candidate has been returned to the
Corps Legislatif, for a district of the department
of the Meuse, by au immunise majority. The go-
vernment candidate was M. Saivahre, the mayor of
Bar-le-Duc. His successful opponent is M. Millon,
• member of the Council-General. It is a re-
markable fact that the Echo de !'Est, the sole local
journal, being under the influence of the Prefect,
refused to publish M. Millou's address to the elec-
tors, and in the hope of depriving him of the
benefits of publicity, evaded mentioning his name,
when on the eve of the election he was nominated
secretary of the Council-General, saying merely,
" the secretary is the same as last year." Notwith-
standing these manceuvres, however, and all the
pressure of various kinds which the authorities
can always exercise, the electors determined not
to be dictated to, and they have achieved
a signal triumph which will doubtless be a
precedent for similar self-assertion among other
constituencies. M. Millon polled 19,243 votes,
against 7,440 given to the government candidate.
With the exception of Count Migeon, the peculiar
circumstances of whose case will be freshly remem-
bered, M. Millon is, if I mistake not, the only
opposition deputy ever returned for an agricul-
tural district since the establishment of the
empire.

Count de Persigny has arrived at the Hotel des
Trois Empereurs from London, on his way, as it
is supposed, to St. Etienne, to take the chair at
the Council-General.
It is with sincere sorrow that I have to announce
the sudden death, from an accident, of M. Decampe,
the eminent painter. While hunting at Fontaine-
bleau yesterday with the imperial staghounds, his
horse ran away, and his head struck against the
branch of a tree with such violence that his skull
was fractured. He was picked up senseless, and
died in two hours.

A serious robbery was perpetrated in Notre
Dame last night, several vases of great value,
some of which were given by the present Emperor,
having been taken away.
The tribunal of Clermont has given judgment in
favour of the Bishop of Moulins, in the great case
of the Marquis de Villette's will, which it may be
remembered was attacked on the ground that
the bishop was in reality a secret trustee for the
Count de Chambord. There will doubtless be an
appeal.
The Emperor and Empress left for Savoy and
Nice this morning.

The Countess de Saint-Marsault, wife of the pre-
fect of the Seine and thee, and one of the PrinomeClothilde's
ladies of honour, has just expired at Paris, after much suf-
fering, from the effect of burns which she received last
winter while endeavouring to save a lady whose dress had
caught fire at a ball given by the prefect.

Majeroni, the Italian actor who played in
Perim with Madame Rietori, has just died at Turin, at the
age of 65. He wu the son of a colonel of Engineers who
directed the construction of the fort of Malghera at Veaioe
under the filet empire, and himself entered the French
service and rose to the rank of captain in the 4th Light
Infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Dresden. After
the peace he left the army and became actor, dramatic
writer, and manager.

A writer in the Pays gives the following ac-
counts of the different aorta of wine preferred by great
parsonages :—Frederick the Great, Tokay ; Napoleon 1.,
Qtambertin; Peter the Great, Madeira; Cardinal Richelieu,
Ramage ; Marshal le Richelieu, Medoo ; Ruben*, Marsala;
Rabelais, old Chablais ; Marshal de Saxe, Champagne ;
Cromwell, Malvoisie ; Jean Bart, Beaune; Talleyrand,
ChAteau-Margau ; Humboldt, Sauterne ; &bac, Vouvray ;
Grothe, Johannisberg ; Byron, Port ; Charles V., Alicante ;
Francois 1., Sherry ; and Henry IV., Sures&

A letter from Messina says :—" By twos and
threes our convalescent volunteers now return from the
hospitals, and the days of their returning are days of re.
joking for their friends, who seem to go out of their senses
with delight I maw the arrival of one who belonged to the
Genoese Camsbineers. His comrades fairly made a rush at
him ; they hugged him, they killed him, they stroked his
head, they patted and played with his hands; in short, they
nearly knocked him over with caresses after he bad just
been able to get up from his wounds. The good feeling and
sympathy diffused amongst all the volunteers are hide.
scribable. The rivalry between the different corps which is
found in all armies appears here to have uo existence. They
feel themselves to be, and they really are, all on an equal
footing. They consider themselves as members of the
same military family, all united by • common love and

to their 'l;tber,' Garibaldi."

"The commercial advicee from Russia," says the
Times, "state that the locusts and the rains have eartaialy
done mischief to the crops, and that the yield will came-
quently not be so large as was at one time promised. Still,
it is added, the harvest will be the most abundant they
have had for many years, north and south. From the fact
that almost all kinds of Russian produce are in great do-
omed, and are realising unusually high prices, the ex-
change at St. Petersburg, which a abort time back was at
350., has advanced to 36d."
Win AFRICAN Mrstut—The steamer Ethiope
sails from Liverpool to-day (Friday), with the mails for
Madeira and Nast Cast of Africa. Letters will be re-
ceived at the Liverpool pcettece till 1.15 p.m., and tet the
Larlievitip, with • kW fee of 64., mu 2 p.m.

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