The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The announcement that • fleet has left Toulon
to bring back a division from Civits Vecchia must
not be understood as meaning that France is about
to evacuate the Roman Stated.. The Presse taunt-
ingly says that although M. Nigra professes to be
satisfied, and has telegraphed to hia government
that he looks upon the return of this division as
the symptom of a speedy evacuation, he may rest
assured that a sufficient effective force to protect
the Pope will remain as long as thought necessary.
This confirms what I noticed yesterday as an in-
ference from the blue-book.

In a group of deputies assembled in the con-
versation-room of the Corps Logi'latif to-day it
was said that Baron David has received a positive
promise that he shall be the President of the
Corps Legislatif after the general elections. This
is the only post which he thinks worthy of his
ambition, and it is said he lately refused the port-
folio of Minister of the Interior. Baron Jerome
David, though little known in Europe among the
" men of the time" has cogent claims upon the
Bonaparte family, which the Emperor recognises.
Of his parentage nothing is said in any Lirre d'Or.
His history begins with the fact that he was born
at Rome in 1823, and that his godfather and
godmother were King Jerome Bonaparte and
Queen Catherine of Wurtemberg. He has some
talent as a debater.

The Marquis de Moustier gives a grand dinner
to-day to Lord Lyons at the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs. The in/Upend/owe yesterday announced
that a number of generals and admirals who knew
the first Lord Lyons in the Crimea were to be
asked : but the gathering alluded to must
be meant for another time. I have seen
the invitation list for this evening, and the
twenty-four names it contains are all diplomatic or
civil, not military. There are the Turkish, Swiss,
American, Danish, Belgian, and Dutch Ministers,
several attachts of different legations, including
the lion. Julian Fane and Captain Hore, R.N.,
some consuls, and M. Duruy and M. de Forcade
La Roquette. The Marquis de Monatier is a pri-
vate friend of Lord Lyons, whose acquaintance he
had an opportunity of making at Constantinople.
The Emperor has a grand military dinner at St.
Cloud to-day, and it is said a council of war will
be held in the evening.
Queen Christina purposes to pass some time this
winter at the house she hat built in the Champs
Elysks. She is expected at Paris from Aranjuez
in a few days.
A duel was fought yesterday between M. Vermo-
rel, editor of the Gurricr Fr«nrai.,, and a well-
known journalist, M. Anatole de Laforge. The
latter received a slight wound.
The Bourse, supported by the " discount " sys-
tem, rumours of a conference, and the belief that
the loan is postponed, was very firm. Rente rose
30c. for cash and 121 c. for the account ; and Italian
33c.

The correspondent of the Post at Rome writes :
" The London Garibaldian, Mr. John &holey, who was
erroneously taken by the Correspondaner de Rome for
GaribiildPs Englishman,' has, I hear, undergone Amputa-
tion of the arm in hospital. Another British subject, Mr.
Laroque, a Canadian, lies very badly wounded at the Ben-
fratelli Hospital. He is quite a young man, and enlisted
in Belgium for the Papal Zouaves. He waa at the attack
on Mentana, where be was shot from above apparently, as
the ball carried away one of his lower jaws, and passed
out through his shoulder. Mr. and Mrs. Batley, friends
of his family, are taking care of him, until his father, who
has been telegraphed for, can arrive."