The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

I bear that M. Thouvenel is about to issue a
diplomatic circular divulging to a certain extent,
and explaining the result of, the meeting of Baden-
Baden.

There is much contradictory news about the two
vessels carrying arms for Garibaldi which were cap-
tured by the Neapolitans. While it is re-asserted by
some telegrams that the Sardinian ambassador has
protested on the ground of their having papers for
Malta, the Opinion Nationale professes to know
that they were sailing under the American flag
with perfectly regular papers, and that they have
already been released in pursuance of the demand
of the American Consul. At all events it is quite
certain that Colonel Medici, about whom, in con-
noon with this affair ,there was much anxiety,
bag safely landed at Palermo, in spite of the
Neapolitan cruisers, with a force of 3,000 men.
Although the weather continues to be very bad
the Bourse was firmer to-day. On the strength of
a report that flour was offered this day at a further
decline of lfr. the sack, the Rente rose 15c. for
cash and 25c. for account, closing at %fr. 70c.
and 68fr. 7k. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. There was
little change in the principal railways. Orleans
rose 3fr. 25c. ; Western, 2fr. 500. ; and Southern,
lfr. 25c. In consequence of the Corps Legislatif
having declined to sanction the government
project to help the Graissessac and Beziors Railway
out of its difficulties, that line is considered to be
in a desperate condition, and the shares have
fallen 30fr. since yesterday.
In consequence of the great influx of visitors to
the cattle show, which was to have closed to-
morrow, the Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce has decided that it shall be kept open till
Monday evening, and that Sunday shall be a gratis
day. The jury appointed to examine the reaping
machines has pronounced a very decided opinion in
favour of this invention for economising manual
labour. The Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce and M. Fould, Minister of State, were pre-
sent at the trial of these machines, on Tuesday, at
the Vincennes farm, and added their testimony to
that of a host of agriculturists and labourers, who
saw what the machines could do, that their work
was most efficacious and practical. The approba-
tion of this jury, composed of very eminent men,
with General Allard for president, is likely
to remove a great deal of prejudice, which
in France, as elsewhere, exists against the
application of machinery to agriculture. Two se•
parate matches were made, the one for French
reaping machines and the other for foreign ones ;
and it was provided that the two best of each sort
should afterwards contend for the grand prize. The
three prizes for French machines were awarded to
K ?glazier, K Legendre, and K Roberta ; those
for foreign machines as follows :-Ist prize, an
American machine on Wood's system, exhibited and
improved by K Peltier, of Paris ; 2nd prize, an
American machine on Allen's system, exhibited and
improved by MK Burgess and Hey, of London ;
3rd prize, a machine belonging to MM. Brugham
and Richerton (I am obliged to adopt the French
spelling of these names), of Berwick. The grand
prize was given to K Peltier for his specimen of
Wood's machine.

On Tuesday a soldier of the 12th Chapattis,
while being tried before a court-martial at Lyons
on a charge of wilfully destroying his bed-clothes,
struck a sergeant who gave evidence against him a
severe blow in the face. The court at once pro-
ceeded to try the man for the serious crime com-
mitted in their presence, and unanimously con-
demned him to death. It is not, however, at all
probable that the capital sentence will be carried
• into effect.

Prince Jerome is so ill that his death is expected
from one moment to another.

The French journals have been ordered not to
publish the last manifesto of the Spanish Pretender,
Don Juan de Bourbon.