The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TECHBDAY EVILS_NG.
The Mowiteur announces that M. Chassepot,
the head controller of arms in the Paris Central

Artillery Depot, has been created a chevalier of
the Legion of Honour for " exceptional services."
Itis known that M. Chassepot is the inventor of the
breech-loading rifle adopted for general use in the
French army after experiments at the ChAlons
Camp, and of which 200,000 have been ordered to
be made forthwith. This honorary distinction is a
'counterpart to the " letters of nobility," which the
Berlin papers state have just been conferred upon
M. Dreyse, the inventor of the P:ussian " needle
gun," a gentleman, or I should rather say a
nobleman, much less known to the public than his
invention.

The Mn►ikur du Soir gives the names of the
killed and wounded by the accident on the Orleans
Railway at Saint Maixent, between Mort and
Poitiers. One of the killed was a priest, the curd
of Nanteuil. The number of the wounded is 19,
instead of eight, as at first stated, but they were
not dangerously hurt, and all of them were able to
walk to the nearest station. The cause of the car-
riage going over the embankment is not yet known.
The engine did not run off the rail.

In reference to a current rumour, the Pays has
the following :

...
The Epoea announces that the Queen of ffrain, now at
Zara= for sea bathing, intends to pay a visit to the Empress
Eugenie. Biari:tz and &rain are so near to each other
that a visit of nei3htww^ly feeling and affectionate
courtesy may be considered vet/ likely. But the Epoca
takes a probability for a settled determination. We are
enabled to state that nothing is decided on the subject.
I do not wonder that in the present terrible state

of Spain under the despotic, bloody, and bigotted
government of Narvaez, which cannot possibly last
long, the French government organs should depre-
..

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cato the supposition of any extraordinary cordiality
between the courts of Madrid and Paris.

The Marquis de Larochejaquelin's name consists
of a great many letters, which is no doubt one rea
son why it excites more attention whenever men-
tioned than does the title of Marquis, if only fol-

lowed by a monosyllabic cognomen. His an- ,
cestry are justly famous in the annals of
France. But I have never thought the
pamphlets, speeches, sayings, or doings of
the senator who now bears the old title worthy
of much newspaper space. Inasmuch, however, as
a quarrel between him and the SP.& is likely to be
noised abroad, I subjoin a short notice of it. The
marquis having accused a portion of the Paris press
of being purchased by Prussia, the Sit& contra-
dicted the assertion with disdain, and added that
the author of the pamphlet must be considered as
a calumniator if ho did not prove his words. The
marquis declining to assign reasons for his charge,
the Sieele says :
We will not allow our contradictor to assume so haughty
a tone with us. Our dignity and honour are dear to us,
and when he or his friends accuse a whole class of honour-
able citizens of selling their consciences or their pens to a
foreign government we will not allow those slanderers to
take refuge behind a simple negation, like a guerilla in
ambuscade behind a bush to fire on his enemies. The
qualification of calumniator remains attached to your
name, M. le Marquis, so long as you shall not have proved
your assertion clearly and directly. We know that there
do exist elastic consciences, with the tariff for which the
governments are acquainted ; we know also that there
are men ready to serve all regimes, but they are not to
be found in our ranks.
The Marquis de Moustier, whose arrival, ac-
cording to some journals, were expected this week,
has intimated that he cannot leave Constantinople
till the end of the month, he having some affairs
of importance to settle there. That of Candia is
surmised to be one, but it may well be that the
Emperor is not sorry to have only an interim Minister
of Foreign Affairs for a month, who will be able to
gain time on all delicate questions by saying he
awaits the return of the minister whose place he
is only keeping warm.
The Bourse was very firm. Route rose 10c. for
cash and 12tc. for account, closing at 70fr. Gc. in
. each case. Italian rose 65c., closing at 57fr. 25c.
Mobilier rose Ur., and Credit Foncier, 15fr.

The Nuovo Diritto, of Turin, believes itself able
to state that fifty-eight general offiiets of the Italian army
are going to be immediately placed on half Tay.
The United States navy, as at present organised,
mutates 2,048 of of all rank', there being one admiral
(Farragutl, one vice-admiral (Porter), and 27 rear-admirals.
Nearly all the officers are on the active list, the reserve
and retired lista being much smaller than the usual pro-
portion, ow:ng to the weeding out of the war.
An international competition of ale, beer, hops,
and all articles used in the preparation of malt liquors is
announced for the 10th to the 15th October at Dijon, in
the rooms of the Town-hall. Exhibitors are to send in the
various articles before the Bth of that month.

The centenary of the bu al of John Dalton, the
chemist, was celebrated by a dinner at Carlisle, on Wed-
nesday. Dalton was a native of Cumberland, hae.ng been
born at Baglerfield, near Cockennouth.
" With no small satisfaction," says the Leeds
Mercury, " the creditors of the Leeds Banking Company
will learn that another dividend upon the amount due to
them will shortly be declared. Two dividends, one of Ba.
and one of 45., bays already been paid, and on Wednesday
en application was made at the Vice-Chinceller's Court for
an order permitting the official liquidator to holism
25,0001. and to withdraw 34,000 i. hem the Bank of Paw-
-1 land, to enable him to pay a third dividend at 21. in the
pound. The application was granted, and the dividend is
to be paid on the 25th of the present month."