The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(raom OV3 OWN CONZIBEOMANT.)

PABMI. TOBSDAY Evmaa.

The French papers took the will for the deed
when they announced that the Emperor went to
shoot at Rambouillet yesterday. The bad weather
—and it was very showery—is now stated as a
reason why he did not go, and the further post-
ponement of the journey to Biarritz is attributed
to a determination to have a battue at Rambouilleb
first, whenever the weather shall be good enough.
The Patrie, which has all along been a prominent
advocate of what it calls the " claims " on France
of the Mexican bondholders, has a paragraph
calculated to make their months water. It says :
The latest intelligence from Mexico furnishes fresh
arguments in favour of the position which we have
always maintained on behalf of the holders of the Mexican
loan. But argument on the subject is likely to be no
longer necessary, for if we may credit the information we
receive, the cause which we have defended is very
nearly gained. We are assured that an inquiry set on
foot by government as to the best means of ameliorating
the position of the numerous owners of Mexican securities
is nearly terminated, and that a measure is about to be
taken which will entirely reconcile the interests of the
French treasury with thaw of the little capitalists in
question.

A very wonderful measure indeed this must be !
Tho proposition to be solved is this : Mexico not
being able to pay, and France not being liable to
pay, how to get France to find the money wanted
without robbing the French taxpayer for the bene-
fit of unlucky speculators.
General Castelnau, a director in the office of the
Minister at War, and one of the Emperor's aides-
de-camp, is going to Mexico—of course, seeing the
position he holds, on a mission of importance. He
is the bearer of an autograph letter from Napoleon
HI. to the Emperor Maximilian. The general
leaves Paris this evening and will embark at St.
Nazairo to-morrow in the mail packet for Vera
Cruz.

The foundation for the consolatory announce-
ment which the Patric offers to the Mexican bond-
holders is merely this—that M. de Germiny, the
president of the conunission on Mexican finance,
has gone to Tarbes to see M. Fould. If he does
not get a satisfactory answer from the Finance
Minister, he intends to go to Biarritz and plead
the cause of the Mexican bondholders before the
Emperor, who, it is now said, will positively leave
St. Cloud for Biarritz on the prolonged date of Sa-
turday next. Should he not succeed, M. Germiny
threatens to resign. This state of things is very

far indeed from the assertion of the Petrie that
the question is as good as settled. The Prune, a
semi-governmental organ, thinks "no solution
has either been made or is even in preparation, and
that nothing can be decided before the arrival of
Maaimilian's answer to the communications made
to him through the Empress Charlotte."
An election for a deputy to the Corps Legislatif
for Savoy has just terminated with the following
result :—M. Berard, the government candidate,
15,389 ; M. Brunier, opposition candidate, 0,030.
The France characterises this election in a depart-
ment which has only been French within the
last two years as a " new adoption by
Savoy of France as its mother country." This
observation in an instance of indiscreet
zeal. Silence would have done the government
more service. The majority is little more than
two to one, and it is really wonderful that in the
face of the French organisation for working the
b_llot-box, nearly one-third of the electors of Savoy
—where oppositionmust bedeemed akin to disaffec-
tion and treason—should have polled for the un-
official candidate.
The Bourse was weak. The recent rise seems to
have been too precipitate. Rente fell 20c. for cash,
and 7ic. for account, closing at 70fr. 20c. and
70fr. 25c. Mobilier fell 10fr., and Credit Foncier
7fr. 50t. The heaviest depreciation was in Italian,
which fell lfr. 20c., closing at 571 r. 60c.

Biarritz seems very full just now. Among the
visitor at present there the Erenewsent mentions the fol-
lowing:—The Russian General Dimbolt, Duchess de Cas-
tro Tormno, Baroness de Montesquieu, Baroness de Ger-
main, Duke Teacher de IA Pagerie, Professor Tardieu, ex-
President of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, General
Fleury, Count de Santiago, M. Cheanelong, Deputy, the
Duke de Zaragoza, Count d'Espeleta, Marchioness de
Sainte-Claire, the Duchesses de Medina-Cosll and de
Medina-Torres, Mme. de Mercier de Lostende, wife of the
French Ambassador at Madrid ; the wife of Marshal
Serrano, Count de la Farrows, Countess Borellt, Duke de
&otos, Count de &nose, Baroness Pollens, Mme. du
Petit•Thouars, Mme. de Brignao, Count Waste:llkt, Baron
de Laeoste, and Baron fiewooskerka.

"The conversation-rooms at Baden," says the
Garet& des Strangers." were on Thursday evening the scene
of considerable excitement caused by the freaks of a party
of fashionable young men in a state of semi•ebriety, who
had filled their pockets with fulminating balls, and were
scattering them about in various directions. So much con-
fusion warn created by the explosions, shrieks of the ladies,
and altercations amongst the gentlemen, that the reams
were closed at 11 o'clock, instead of the usual boar of
midnight." . _

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A Paris letter says :—" A piece is going to be
put on the stage here called Peruses, is London. The
plot might well be laid in Leicester-square, where eon-
spiraton would not be wanting ; but I suppose it will con-
sist of an English lady who loves gin, a =Bard who speaks
bad French, and some very interesting Gallic Famous.
Eatery is to be an important feature in the play, and
amongst other things we are to see Cremona° Gardens and
the Thames Tunnel, painted by a oalebrated English artist,
whose skill will be tasked to knock anything living eat of
the latter subject. Miss Mai/ Harris, daughter of Mr.
Harris, of Covent Garden, is announced to play the part
of Eurydice. I suppose that Orpheus will descend into
the Thames Tunnel in the absence of Mr. and Mr. Haar*
and seek for His Mary in those desolate regimes, and
findly look behind him and lose ber."
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According to the °inmate di Napoli, a brigand
chief named Pace, who haunts the term di Wore, has
very exclusive ideas about the profession he carries on
with such distinguished success. He brooks no rivals,
and not only denounces any other " gentlemen of the
highway" who may practice in his district as " impos-
tors," bat *easily arrests and gives them up to the police.
He lately sent four of these competitors to the nearest
post of gendarmes, requesting them to be esverely punished.