The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PRECAUTIONS IN BURIALS.—EXTRA.
ORDINARY STATEMENT.
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PAWS, WIDNIIIDAT
You will see in the official report of the debate
in the Corps Legislatif yesterday that there was a
scene of extraordinary violence between the
Minister of State and M. Glais Bizoin. M. Ronher,
tired out by M. Glais Bizoin's satire, exclaimed
suddenly, without any particular provocation,
" This is not political speaking ; it is a pasquinade."
Thereupon MM. Gamier Pages, Eugene Pelletsn,
Jules Simon, Picard, and other opposition members,
exclaimed in chorus that the conduct of the
Minister of State was insulting, abominable,
and intolerable, that he ought to be
called to order and made to retract his words.
Count Walewski, who had previously checked M.
Glais Bizoin several times, maintained a neutral
attitude in the chair so far as respected the call to
order against the Minister of State ; but he speedily
decided that the closing of the general dimension
on the address had been voted by a show of hands,
although few members had heard the question put.
M. J ules Fevre protested that the debate had been
violently put an end to, and the sitting broke up in
confusion.

There are rumours this afternoon that Count
Walewski does not appear to the Emperor to pos-
sess the requisite qualities for a president, and that
he may very likely be replaced.
A petition was discussed in the Senate yesterday
ogling for farther precautions against the possibi-
lity of people being buried alive on the supposition
that they were dead. The petitioner asked for the
adoption of a system prevalent in some parts of
Germany, the application of the test of electricity
and the deposit of the coffins for a certain time,
before the final interment, in raulte open to medi-
cal inspection. Viscount de la Gueronnihre, who
presented the report of a committee on the peti-
tion, said that the subject had been very
often considered, that the precautions pre-
scribed by the Code were quite sufficient, and
that the proper course on the petition would
be to pass to the order of the day, i.e.,
to reject it. Cardinal Donnet, the Archbishop of
Bordeaux, opposed this conclusion, and in a speech
which made a great sensation aidused many in-
stances within his own knowledge of people certi-
fied dead by authority who turned out to be alive.
He remembered a case when he was a young priest
of an old man who lived twelve hours after the legal
warrant for his burial was issued. In another case
at Bordeaux a young girl was certified to be dead.
He (M. Donnet) providentially came to the house
just as she was about to be screwed down. He
conceived doubts about her dissolution spoke to her
in a load voice, and had the inexpressible happi-
ness of hearing her answer. That woman, who
belonged to one of the most respectable fami-
lies at Bordeaux, was still alive, a wife and a
mother. He would mention another case yet more
striking. In 1826 a young priest preaching on
a hot day in a crowded church suddenly fell down
unconscious. He was taken home and laid out for
dead. A medical certifiesto of his death was given,
and preparations were made for his funeral. The
bishop of the cathedral in which he hal been
preaching came to the foot of his bed and said a
de profundis. The measure of his coffin
was taken, and he, alive all the time, heard
the orders given for his burial, and was not
able to protest against them. At length
the voice of a friend of his boyhood produced a
magical effect upon him, and he awoke. " That
priest," said Cardinal Donnet, " is new, at the dis-
tance of forty years, alive ; he is here among you
a member of this Senate, and he now supplicates
the government to frame better regulations so as
to prevent terrible and irreparable misfortunes."
(Great sensation.) Several other senators men-
tioned cases of suspended animation, and asserted
that the number of corpses found in coffins, which
had unquestionably moved after burial, led to the
conclusion that burial of living persons must be
far more frequent than was supposed. The Senate
was so struck with the arguments brought
forward that in spite of a speech by President
Royer, contending that the existing regulations
were as perfect as could be, it overruled the report
of the committee and voted that the petition
should be referred, as worthy of consideration,
to the Minister of the Interior.
M. Victor lingo being lately asked if he could
speak English, answered "Oh yes, and I can
write English verses," and as a specimen of his
talent in that line he improvised the following
distich : _

Pour chasm le spleen
J'cotral dans me inn
ou je bus du gin.
God Dave the Queen.
The Bourse was much agitated during the day.
Rente, after having been u low as 69fr. 10c. and
691 r. 20c., recovered for the close to 691 r. 30c. and
69fr. 35c., but still with a fall of 12ic. and 15c.
Italian fell 15c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c.

JIINIOR ATHENXITM. —A large and influential
meeting of the members of this club wea held on Tuesday
last, in their temporaryclub-liones, Bing-street, St James's.
at which were present. amongst other, Mr. James Hey-
wood, F. 8.5., Mr. George Godwin. F.R.S., Lord George
Gordon Lennox, M.P., Mr. li'Lagen, M.P., Pro-
fessor Soiling, Captain Chantey._ R.E., Mr. Otto
Goldschmidt, the Rev. E. Wilford. the Rev.
E. Hale, Mr. Wellwood Maxwell, M.A., Mr. E.
Matey, Mr. Aid" Mr. Oire Manning, Mr. T. Humber,
8.A., Mr. Barnard Woodward, M.A., F.S.A., and Mr. B.A.
Merl. On the motion of Mr. Heowood, seconded by
Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Mark Herrman, M.A., took the chair,
who called upon the secretary, Mr. George Wright, F.S.A.
to read the report, which wee unanimouslyadopted, anti
divers resolutions' were duly carried tending materially to
confirm the position of the club. The meeting was con-
cluded with a hearty expression of thanks to the chairman
for his services, and much kindly interest was evinced by
the member, generally for further extending the influence
ofthis already well.established club.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.--NALTOS, WIDNISDAY.—
Yesterday a severs snowstorm set io, accompanied by strong
winds from the north. Snow his fallen heavily on the
wolds and moors, and the aspect is more wintry then
bade hitherto been the case this meson. The wind on
Tuesday night got up to a gale, and about 3 o'clock
this morning one of the large grain warehouses on the
bank of the Dement was blown into the river. Tbe pre-
mises in question were occupied by Mr. Thomas Pear-
son, merchant, of Hitaord-hoese, Nortee, and were
the property of Earl ItUr, rilaam. Yesterday they mr-
peered all right, but it is supposed that the foundations
may have been affected by three flood in which the
river has been for the pad months. The building
was four stories high, and It has gone from the bees com-
pletely over. Most of it has gene into the river, end ems
a lighter, which urn ; the remainder is in tbe cameo-
;ter's yard, the boils a I:mongolian" misters of
broken beams, falls* masonry, and grain. Mr. Pearson es-
timaies that 1,000 quarters of wheat and oat. were in the
' building at the time of the sadden.. the whole al which
• are either among the ruins, or bare game into **river.
The top floor contained oats, all of which shot into the
water, and are floating on thew-farm of Use water far miles.
Had the accident occurred during the day several lives
would doubtless have been lost. Some of the damaged
grain will be recovered.

Ha BANCROIPTS ORATION AND THE DIPLO-
mArio OORPS AT WASHINGTON.

(From the New York thread of Feb. 17.)
From all that we hear it seems that the estraor-
diary attach made by Mr. Bancroft in his speech of the
12th inst. have excited mach indignation among the diplo-
mild§ at Washington. The Austrian minister appears to
have --tbe first to protest officially, and in the most
decided manna. It will be remembered that Mr. Ban-
mat is two Menet perigee of his delouse called the
Fatiperor Maximilian, brother of the Emperor of Autria.
" the Austrian adventuraa" We ere assured ,that on the
mains of the 12th the Austrian sainkter sought an in-
terview with the Secretary of State on this subject, and
expremed to hint, without reserve, the *gut
im-
peeaton produced upon him by this injurious epithet,
adding that he felt the insult the more as it had taken
plus in the midst of a solemnity to which he had been
expronly invited by the Presidents of both house., as
well as by Mr. Seward himself. It mems that the
Secretary of Stet*, instead of seeking to extenuate Mr.
Bancroft's exprasion, at once contested the Austrian
Miaieter's right to complain of it, and that because the
Oribinet of Vienna bad several times declared its intim.
tioa el remaining aloof from the Mexican affairs. The
Austrian Minister is mid to have deelined to swept a
theory by which the person of the Prises. as a member
et the imperial family of Austria, would not here been
separated from his political position, end declared that he
persisted In protesting against Mr. Bancroft's inmalag ex-
prudes. We are not yet aware whether the British
Minister has officially protested against the attacks
directed to the policy of his government. It is,
however, certain that he complains greatly of them,
and that he retracted his acceptation of a dinner
invita-
boa at the house of a member of Cuevas as scam as he
heard that this dinner was given in honour of Mr. Ban-
croft.

The story that M. Romero, the Mexican minister, was
refused *daisies to the Bennett eulogy, and west away
indignant, has this foundatioe. M. Romero preempted
himself at the main entrance to the hall shortly before
the exercises commenced, when be disowned that he
bad neglected to bring his letter of invitation. The door-
keeper, in obeying positive direstioes from the com-
miMee, could not admit him without the ticket, although
be know the Minister very well. Romero appealed to
&eater Foote,the chairman of the oommittee,wbo jest theca
approached the door with the President op his err. Senator
Foote could not attend to it thee, and passed co. Prosody
mindful of hie dignity, although not •in a pendia, M.
Romero departed, and the senator, mho sought him 'Me
the President was seated, could not Sad him. The 'barman
of the committee deeply regrets the seeming discourtesy to
the repressetative of republican Mexico.
Among the last on dits of the capital is one to the effect
that George ileac:oWe friends have been urging him for the
New York collectorship, but that be has declined in expec-
tation of becoming Secretary of State, should the eslimet be
reformed. Mr. Banceoft's chinos for the position are con.
'blend formidable.