The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

mom ova owls croaassrowmurr.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVERDICI.
The Emperor left the Tuileries for the ChAlorui
camp at noon this day, and was expected to arrive
there at sin the evening. He was accompanied by
General Fleury, his grand ecuyer, Generals de
Failly, Ldbceuf, and Pajol, MM. Stoffel, de Las-
salle, and Caataigne, his orderly officers, M. Reim-
beaux, the ecuyer, and M. Pietri, his private
secretary.

The Moniteur reproduces an article of the St.
Petersburg Journal explaining the " step taken"
(which, by the way, the semi-official French press
affirmed as long as theycould never was taken)bythe
French charge d'affaires at Berlin on the Schleswig
question. The Russian organ thinks it quite natu-
ral that the cabinet of the Tuileries should have
sent instructions to M. Lefevre de Behaine for his
government in " diplomatic conversations ;" and
also that the use he made of these instructions in
communicating them officially, or at least, allowing
the purport of them to be known, is to be regretted.
This reproduction by the Monitear is clearly an in-
direotoensure upon M. Lefevre de Behaine, and tends
to confirm the rumour that he is to be sacrificed.

The government, without giving any reason, has
refused to authorise the meeting this year of the
Co-operative International Congress, for whose
objects it last year professed the greatest sym-
pathy. M. Horn, the well-known economist, now
a rifelacteur of the Avenir National, who sent in the
application, assumes that the refusal can only be
based upon a repugnance to his name, and he has
resigned his official connexion with the committee
of the Congress, in the hope that some other pre-
sident may find more favour in the eyes of
authority.
An assault case, interesting to the theatrical
world, came before the Correctional Court yester-
day. M. Dautresme, a young gentleman brought
up at the Polytechnic School, and who served for
a short time in the army, left the service to follow
the more congenial pursuit of a musical composer.
He offered to the Thatre Lyrique an opera called
Cordillac, which (for reasons, as will presently be
seen, irrespective of its merits) was accepted by
Carvalho, the manager. There being a great
delay in bringing the opera out, M. Dautresme
sent a challenge to M. Carvalho, and when the
latter refused to fight, saying he had offered the
ckailenger no affront, and that the only difference
befiereen them was a matter of business to be
settled, if necessary, in a court of law, M.
Dautresme had recourse to the provocation for
which the Caaaagnac family have set s precedent
of spitting in his face. M. Carvalho then endea-
voured to strike him, but was prevented by by-
standers, in spite of whose interference, however,
M. Dautresme succeeded in following up his spit-
ting by poking his umbrella into Carvalho's eye
and hurting him considerably. The only defence
to the charge was that M. Dautresme had
procured a loan for M. Carvalho of 50,000 fr.
that the interest had never been paid,
and that under those circumstances he naturally

felt provoked at his opera being continually put off
M, Carvalho's counsel said he did his best to got it
played, but that it was essentially bad, and his
principal singers would not take the parts assigned
to them. M. Dautresme was sentenced to six
§itoriths' imprisonment for the assault. The story
redounds neither to the credit of the opera of Car-
' difttic nor to the catering for the public of the
Th&tre Lyrique. •
The Bourse barely maintained the rise of yester-
day. Rents left off 21c. higher for cash and bc. for
account, closing at 69fr. 474 c. and 69fr. 42Ac.
Comptoir d'Escompte fell 2fr. 50c. ; Italian fell
10c• and Credit Mobilier 2fr. 50c.