The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-07 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

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LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

The steamer Niagara, from Boston, 26th t and
Halifax, morning of the2Bth, has arrived. She brings
96 pumengers and 73,169 dollars.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs, both in the
Senate and House of Representatives, had made
reports in favour of the proposition to place 30
millions of dollars at the president's disposal for the
aquisition of Cuba. Impressions prevail at Washing-
ton that the appropriation would be made. It was
rumoured that the Spanish minister had threatened
to demand his passport if the bill was passed.

The additional loan of ten millions of dollars had
been allotted at an average of 1 and 2 per ant.
Nothing had been done in Congress on the tariff
question.

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The Berns Centenary had been celebrated with
much enthusiasm at New York, Boston, and else-
where.

California dates to the sth January had reached
New Orleans. The amount of the gold
shipped for a fortnight was 1,200,000 dollars
for New York, and 468,000 dollars for Europe.
Business at San Francisco was stagnant,
and money scarce. New York stock market
closed firm at about former rates. New
York Central Shares, 841; Erie, 14) ; Illinois
Central Bonds, 89 to 91. Money market unchanged.
Sterling exchange steady ; 1094 for bankers' bills.
Cotton steady ; had been active, but closed quiet at
121 for middling upland. Flour quiet. Wheat and
corn firmer. Beef unchanged. Pork quiet. Spirits
of turpentine firmer. Sales at 491 to ao. Tobacco
steady. Freights quiet and uncharged.

LATEST VIA lIALTFAX.—Nsw YORK, JAN. 27.
The Bremen steamer from New York has arrived.
Cotton dull but unchanged. Dealers awaiting
later European advice.. Flour buoyant and dearer.
Corn dell. Provisions generally dearer, except
beef, which is quiet.
WABBINOTON, JAN. 27.—The Senate his killed
the Traffic Railroad Bill.

Raw Ontsetts, lAN. 26.—Sales of cotton to-
day 12,000 bake, and about the same quantity
middling, at 110. Market firm for better qualities.
Receipts at thin port in three days, 37,000 bales;
the southern ports, 122,000 bales.

It is stated that the construction of the telegraph
between Coneareinople and the Penian Gulf, so long pro-
mired by the Turkish Gosrrnmoot, is making progrees, and
that ohs ruction from Constantinople to Bagdad (the prin-
cipal part of the work) will be completed in a few months.
Already a certain porti .n is in operation. If the submarine
cable through the l'orrian Gulf, from Kurrschee to Busao-
rah, wore in a state of preparation, wo might thus hope for
a new and indet oudent communie +lion with India.

A number of moveable houses are now being
midi) in Paris for exportation to Coobin-Chlna, where Ad-
miral Rigault do °mainly is founding a city.

Upwards of 25,000 copies of the pamphlet " Na-
poleon 111. and Italy" have been cold in Paris, and another
edition Is to be palls& d.
A LION AT LAROR ON BOARD Snir.—The
Hima-
-Itya, screw troop ',hip, Coutmati ler John &womb*, arrived
at Spitheed yesterday morning from the Mediterranean. She
left Mala on the 21th ultimo. and Tangiere on the 30th.
havng proceed,' thither to snip a number of pr.; ate t her
Meje.ty the queen of Great Britain from the Emperor 01
Morocco. Thor.. prevents consist of one lion, one lopard,
one hotel., one antelope, ten Arab horeee, and mix ostriches
toiretle.r with eeverg caws of valuable shawls. rate, and
curionitiee. An alarming incident occurred on the liimalaye'e
p ...age home. On the hid in-tent, owing to 10100
cnroltww-
neea on the part of his keeper (a Moor), the lion,
a fine full grown animal, buret through hie cage
door and greedily cleared the noun deck of
human icing.. As may be imagined, the utmost
coast roe ion was tweiviimetif ow Do vd the ship, and the pit.-
wag. re acid crew took the speedieet incooerve for they safety,
the latter taking refuge in the rigging of the vend. The
king of the Soma (and pro kw. of the ship Men) condeseended
In hie short prminbaldicia to "small" tee buffalo. who was
tied up in an adjoining well, and the latter showed fight by
neftiog a 'erten, butt at his majesty, who minted the
attack by flooring his opyr neat with etc stroke of the paw.
The lien, it is raid, hal canopied of the deck f r roma tree,
until a lope wee thrown over hi. heed and hinted tint. The
animal atruegli d to free himeelf, but his legs were sseured,
and be wee hauled bwk to hie dee. But for the energy and
courage thus drudged some micebief might have oceurted;
as it was, the lion was nit &MUNI until he had reached some
hoary blows nn the head with a rearlingepike.
Toe AMMITCAN MAILS.—On Saturday the British
and North Anv rit an Melt etestrer Africa sailed from Liver-
pool for New 'reek with a I.rge cargo, 60 0118110JI ers, :sad
the shoal

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY BYIKINO.

An unusual amount of business has been done to-
day at the cafes on the Boulevard', where, since the
crisis, an irregular Bourse has been half tolerated in
the evening and on Sundays. The rise in
the Bente is variously quoted at from 1 to
I per cent. It mast, however, be borne in
mind that the "Little Bourse" is not by any

means so important as it was some time ago
before the police made a determined attempt to put
a atop to it altogether. Few of the principal mem-
bers of the couliese attend it; there is but small so-
eurity for the accuracy of the quotations, and they
are often no guide whatever to the feeling of the
Boone on the next day. The Press* explains the
rise of yesterday in this way :—"People became
alive all at once to the fact that the English cabinet
is by no means opposed to a revision of the treaties of
1815, and many purchases were made in the belief
that diplomatic negotiations would be resorted to be-
fore a rupture between France and Austria." Another
reason for the rise given by the Press. is very droll
indeed. It says, upon what data I have no idea
whatever, that the present price of the Rents, 68fr.,
is not a war price, but merely an expectative quota-
tion, but that anything below 67fr. would be a war
price, and therefore capitalists are ready to buy
whenever the Rente approaches the latter figure,
because they do not believe it would go much lower,
even if war with Austria were declared. A more
complete confession than this (albeit too sanguine)
view of the extent of the monetary catastrophe occa-
sioned by the speech of Jan. 1 could not be. However,
the leading featu'e of public opinion to-day is en
impression that the speech to•saoerow will be pacific.
Some go so far as to say that he will announce the
opening of a conference on the Italian question. I
utterly disbelieve this myself; but there is a disposi-
tion to back the Emperor's luck, and to think that
he will devise means to withdraw, without palpable
disgrace, from an untenable situation. He is said to
be terribly disappointed with the result of the de-
bate on the address. The firm speeches of Lord
Derby and Mr. Disraeli, showing that all the rhetoric
of the pamphlet tending to prove that England
could not help giving at least a moral support to a
war by France and Sardinia was thrown away, have,
it is supposed, discouraged him ; but Lord Palmer-
ston's defection is the " most unkindest cut of ell."

He, too, talks about the faith of treaties. .Et to
Brute' Was it for this that he played at billiards
at Compidgne? We shall all see to-morrow what
turn events will take. Meanwhile I hear that a
letter from Marseilles annoances a momentary sup_
pression of military preparations. All the recent
news of only a few hours' earlier date was to the
contrary.

The Gautte de Lyon announces that General

Renault's division, recalled from Africa, is expected
at Lyons in about a week, and that a part of it will
be quartered in the camp of Sathonay. You will
remember that the Nord wu seized one day last
week on account of its containing this important
news. The recall of an entire division all at once,
is, I believe, an event without precedent, and one
which certainly cannot be explained by any of the
rules which govern the rotation of home and foreign
service in the army. General Renault's presence
at Lyons is a palpable war symptom.
I called your attention some time since to the
fact that upwards of sixty war transports were
ordered to be ready at Toulon by March 1. I now
hear that live divi-ions of infantry are under march-
big orders, to be at that pert by the same day.
The theatrical performance at the Tuileries last
night was a professional and not an amateur one.
M. Bressant and Mdlle. Fissile, of the Theatre
Francais, were the principal actors.
The Prince and Princess Napoleon attended the
usual mass in the Tuileries Chapel this morning.
PARIS, SATEIIDLY EVENING.
The Bourse was strongly acted upon by the idea
that the speech will be a surprise in a pacific sense.
Notwithstanding the news of the Piedmont's* loan
the Rente rose 95 for cash and 90 for account,
closing at 87.85 and 67.75. Mobilier rose 32.60
A large business was done in railways at higher
prices. Orleans rose 30; Southern, 25 ; Lyons,
12.50 ; and the other lines about 10.
The utmost activity continues to prevail in all the
maritime ports. The council of the Admiralty has
lately held several extraordinary sittings at the
Ministry of Marine.
There is a talk of a grand dinner and ball to be
given to the Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clo-
tilde, at the Hotel de Ville. A municipal ftte of
the kind is almost a matter of course. The only
question is, when will it be ?
A truly extraordinary case, involving a point of
great social importance in the law of husband and
wife, has just been decided at Angers. In 1813 a
M. L— was duly married by the proper civil
officer to a Miss N—. It appears that the parties,
who were then both above 19, did notgo through the
marriage ceremony with the intention of living to-
gether immediately as man and wife, but merely for
the purpose of placing the husband in the category
of married men, and so giving him a better chance,
according to the regulations of the time, to escape
from military service. They did not go to church on
leaving the Mairie, but there can be no doubt the lady
contemplated a religious unction to the marriage as
soon as circumstances might allow it to be made a

marriage in deeds. well as in law. Her intentions
or expectations on this subject were, however, it must
be observed, utterly immaterial according to the
Code Napoleon, which sees in marriage a
civil contract only. M. and Madame L— were
therefore man and wife to all intents and purposes—
except indeed in the forum of their own intention
end conscience, but those are of no account in law.
For reasons not explained the marriage was never
consummated, the emits never lived together, and
for a period of 45 years the lady has remained a
virgin wife. The husband had some fortune of his
own, and moreover for many years gained a good
income as factor to a man of property. The wife up
to 1849 lived entirely upon her own resources, lead-
ing a life of honest poverty as a village schoolmis-
tress. At that period some negotiations took place
between the husband and wife on the subject of her
maintenance, and in consideration of her renouncing
all claim to community of goods, he allowed her a
very small antuity. As years roiled on the hue-
band's circumstances improved—the wife, on the
contrary, became infirm in her old age—she became
linable to work for her Hein, her pension was
insufficient for her maintenance, and she con-
tracted some unavoidable debts. In this state
of things, after having submitted for nearly'
half a century to the melancholy position in
which she was 1.-ft as a wife without a husband,
she resolved to institute a suit for the restitution of
conjugal rights. The husband, after some hesita-
tion, consented to receive her into his house, but he
refused to celebrate a religious marriage, which she
insisted upon as a condition precedent to cohabita-
tion. Thereupon she brought a second action, de-
manding a separation el niensa et there, and proper
alimony, on the ground of what in Doctors-com-
mons language would be called &arias, or, according
to Article 214 of the Code Napoleon, "a grave in-
sult "—the insult consisting in asking her to live
with him without being married in church. The
Tribunal of First Instance of Mayenue, before
whom the cause originally came, dismissed the wife's
suit, as being founded upon a misprisen of the
French law of civil marriage. But, on appeal, the
Imperial Court of Angers held that the husband, in
offering to receive his wife into his house upon •
condition incompatible with her dignity and con-
science as a Christian woman, he plated her in adi-

emrnabstweenressaining in the abandoned state in
which she had too long been lift, or accepting a Po.
sition which in her eyes was worse still—thst he
had thereby inflicted upon her the "grave insult"
contemplated by the code and that she was entitled
to the separation prayed for. I do not think that
this judgment can stand in the Court of Caseation.
The case is one of theee hard ones which " make bad
law." It is impossible not to feel for the Wrongs of
the wife. The circumstance of her being now an

old woman can make no difference. It tint shock
ev, conscience to see a husband insist upon his
le marital rights acquired before the civil officer,
when the wife always contemplated a religions mar.
riage before the union could be considered complete.
I am not aware that 'this question has ever before
arisen. I cannot but consider it a great imperfection
in the Code Napoleon that it renders it Rossible for
a man to place a woman in such a position. The
English law, which recognises either a civil or a reli-
gious marriage, according to the wishes of both par-
ties, as final and complete, is surely much better.
The set of jewels presented by the city of Mar-
seilles to the Princess Clotilda is stated by the jour-
&eh of that place to be composed of brilliants, and
the value 60,000 fr.
M. Emile de Girardin has addressed a letter to the
journals, stating that he had received a telegraphic
dispatch from Algiers inquiring whether there was
soy truth in an announcement that the Algerian
railways had been conceded to him and M. Mires.
"My reply to such absurdity," says the writer, " is
is the fact that I am member of the Superior Council
of Algeria and form part of the commission on Alge-
rian railways. I could not, therefore, obtain any each
esscassion."