The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS,

Cram ous OWN

PARIS, THURSDAY EVININO.
All the news to-day is excessively warlike. It
announced that the Budget Committee of the
Corps Legialatif was to-day summoned to the
Tuileries, where it had a long conference with the
Emperor, in the presence of the Ministers of War

and Marine. M. Laffitte, the director of the Sar-
dinian railways, had a long interview with the
Emperor to-day, for the purpose, it is thought, of
discussing arrangements for transporting French
troops to Sardinia. There is a rumour that the
National Gaud of Paris is likely to be increased
from 30,000 to 150,000 men, in order that a

portion of the garrison duty may be confided to this
force, while the regular army is occupied in Italy.

The Boone was much discolcerted by a rumour to

which I alluded yesterday, that the Emperor is
shortly going to visit the army of Lyons, which was
reviewed by Marshal Castellano two days ago. It

is said that a third battalion of the thirties de Paris

is about to be formed. There is a report, which I

by no means guarantee, that the English squadron
at Malta has been ordered to the Adriatic.

The Bourse, after opening with much weakness

and scarcely any business doing, was seized with
something like a panic in the afternoon. The Rente
fell 300. both for cult and account, closing at 68fr.
and 67fr. 930. Mebilier fell 18fr. 75c. The rail-
ways were all from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. lower, but busi-
ness was quite insignificant.
The Paris Conference met to-day, pursuant to the
announcement already made, at the Ministry far
Foreign Affairs.
It is announced that M. Felix Solar, the new pre-
prietor of the Press*, is a candidate for the vacant
seat in the Gironde, where his rallying cry will be
" peace." The government candidate is Bum
David, who, though a staunch Napoleonist, got into
disgrace by starting on his own account on the last
occasion. From the fact of this election having been
ordered to take place with such unusual huts after
the death of the late member, M. Roquet, it is to be
inferred that the Emperor desires to provoke a
popular manifestation by universal suffrage through
the ballot box.
Some little time ago there was fl great discussion
in Judge Cresswell'e court as to ~e meaning of the
word " condonation; " and, if I remember right! j,
it wu decided, under particular circumstances, UAL
a husband was not conclusively bound by some hasty
expressions intimating forgiveness spoken in the
presence of the wife's relations, who were supposed
to have laid a sort of trap for him. But the Im-
perial Court of Paris, in a much litigated cue, has
just gone infinitely farther than this, and bas sanc-
tioned what I cannot bat think the monstrous doc-
trine that • man may legally have his wife for al
mistress. A rich farmer in the neighbourhood or
Reims married, in 1849, a very beautiful girl be-
longing to a good family in the neighbourhood. A
daughter was born of the marriage, and they lived
together for eight yeses. At the end of that period
differences arose ; the wife instituted • suit for
a separation on the ground of cruelty, which
was met by a cross suit charging the wife
with adultery. The wife', complaint was dismissed,
while the husband's was established, and a judicial
I separation was duly pronounced accordingly. The
wife, who had left the husband before the com-
mencement of the litigation between them, had
sought an asylum with her relations, with whom
she lived in a country-house not a quarter of an
hour's walk from the conjugal domicile. Shortly
after the judgment of separation, the husband and
wife assumed the lower character of lover and con-
cubine He promised, she says, to take her
back publicly at Martinmas, but when the
time came he broke his word; an allegation, not mate-
rial to the law of the case, is that the husband's object
in playing the Lothario to his wife was to prevent
her from lodging an appeal against the decree of
separation within the time allowed by law. Under
these circumstances the Court of Reims, on the snit
of the wife for a restitution of conjugal rights, de-
cided that the adultery was condoned by the re-
sumption of marital relations between the parties,
and ordered the husband to receive her back to his
home. An appeal against this decision was made
to the Imperial Court of Paris, and, after a long
argument, the judges declared themselves equally
divided in opinion. The consequence of thisportage
(u it is called) was that the case was set down foe
re-hearing before the same court with three addi-
tional judges called in. M. Devienne, the First
President of the Imperial Court, exercising an
option belonging to him in virtue of a law of 1808,
volunteered to preside at the re-hearing. The
judgment, which was prononnoed on Tuesday last,
draws a distinction between the "reconciliation"
mentioned in one article of the code which may bar
a prosecution for adultery and the " consent to take
back the wife" which, according to another article,
may abrogate a judicial separation pronounced by
reason of adultery. The court held that in the
latter case nothing less than an open and " public "
resumption of conjugal relations will work a con-
donation, and it reversed the judgment of the
Tribunal of Reims. This decision is the more extra-
ordinary because it is admitted on all hands that
the facts proved would, as in all reason they
ought, deprive the husband of the right given by
the Code Napoleon to repudiate the issue of his wife
born after the judicial separation.

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

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TURIN, APRIL 4.
Three days have elapsed since Count Cavonr
returned. It Is therefore time for me to relate all
that I know, or have. good ground for believing,
with respect to his vi to the Emperor of the
French. And first, let me confirm what I said to
you in my last letter, that the chief object of their
meeting was to discuss by, word of mouth the pro-
positions to be made by France at the future Con-
gress. Of these you have, so to speak, a programme
in the answer sent by Count Cavoar to Count Buol;
in that part of it, I mean, where be details the
chief wrongs of Piedmont and Italy at the hands of
Austria. France and Russia, lam assured, will not
hesitate to impart to the representatives of Austria
their opinion how much more profitable for
her it would be to abandon the Italian
provinces and receive compensation, than to main-
tain them by open force with constant disturbance in
Italy and danger to the peace of Europe. Austria
will not only reject this advice, but down to this
very moment thinks she can exclude the mere penal-
bility of the question being even mooted in a con-
gress in any shape whatever. Nay, it is one of the
conditions she lays down, that it shall not be dis-
cussed, before she will give her consent to the con-
vocation of a Congress. For all that, one thing is
certain, and this is that Francs and Russia will de-
mand the absolute cessation of Austria's right, the
pretended right, she has set up, to interfere in those
provinces of the Peninsula that were declared sove-
reign and independent by the treaty of Vienna. It
seems your diplomacy will not refuse its vote to a
proposition of this kind, and indeed were the case
otherwise it would appear to be in too mani-
feet • contradiction with Ralf, seeing that
Great Britain has uniformly upheld the doe-