The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TURBDAT Eviamw,

There is a wild, indignant outcry in the French
press against the government new press law. The
&I& says it is but too true that the main features
are those shadowed forth in the France and Libert4,
and that they have produced a " very bad impres-
sion " on the public mind. The fuller particulars
of the project, given in this morning's Debate, re-
main unoontradicted. The Temps says they are
confirmed in so many quarters that it is obliged to'
" believe the incredible."

The Aeenir National says that if the details
given in the Debate are correct, the mountain in
labour will have produced not a mouse, but a
mousetrap.
The Patrie, which seems to have some inkling of
the coming storm, does not venture to suggest
that the project so severely handled by its con-
temporaries is incorrectly reported, but merely
says that it will only come before the Council of
State after the bill on the right of public meeting
(another terrible deception, by the way), and it
insinuates that what the Debate gives are only
the resolutions of the Council of Ministers. There,
is, however, small hope indeed of any substantial
change by the Council of State. The Emperor is
playing a most dangerous game in having whetted
the appetite for liberty only to disappoint it.
M. Ponsard, the dramatic author, and a member
of the Acad4mie Francaise, is a candidate for the
seat in the Isbre vacant by the recent death of M.
Faugier.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WIDNIISDAT, YISICARY 10, a a.m.

so& W.
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NWM *l7 4 W.
Aberdeen .tr 40 W.B.W.
Leith lll.llB 46 B.W.
Ardneraa 18).31 41,j 8.
Greenemile 186.1 Q 47' W.&W.
Ceps aleer 130 46 W. 1
& 10.43 4 B.E.
= 10.34 && W.
Pensiam 110.54 L.
Ikea..—_ 1051 N.N.W.
Lad 85.47 48 KR. Z.
1 Iteelmket 11886 N.W.
Plymentb '30.62 Z.
Weymouth 450.54 W.N.W.
Partemonth 30.48 W.R.W.
L.,105 43 30.48 W.
lannonlit 30.46 B.W.
Ilaerberoecte 30.88 W.
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REMARKS.

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peratures generally have nut materially changed. log or Iwo
still prevalent.

The first dinner of the Cobden Club this year
will take place at Willis'■ Rooms, 26, King-street, St.
James's, on Saturday, the 2nd of March, Lord Houghton
in the chair.
The Rirolus Movistrarr.—The National Reform
Union held a great representative roosting in the Free Trade
Hall of th►t city, last evening, at which delegates from 126
towns were present ; Mr. Barley presided. Resolutions were
adopted condemning the government resolutions, and de-
clads( that no measure short of household suffrage with
a lodger franchise would be accepted as a settlement of
the reform question. The proceedings were of a most
enthusiastic nature. It was agreed that a guarantee fund
of 50,000/. ahonld be raised to meet the expenses of the
agitation, and as a proof of the earnestness of those pre-
sent it was announced at the close of the meeting that
nearly 11,000/. had already been subscribed. Meetings
were also held on Monday at Norwich, Nottingham, and
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at which strong and decided ex-
pressions of opinion against the proposals of the govern-
ment were pronounced.
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FOREIGN-OFFICE Fan. 1b.—The Queen his been
pleased to approve of M. Giuseppe Bleed as consul-general
at Melbourne, with jurisdiction over Victoria, South
Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand for his Majesty
the King of Italy. The Queen has also been pleased to
approve of Don Alejandro Carpintier se consul at Sierra
Leone for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. The Queen
he also bees pleased to approve of Mr. C. R. Hinson as
consul in Turk's Islands, to reside at Grand Turk, for the
Republic of Haiti.—Gazeffe.
COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Yeaterday a Court of
Aldermen was held, in their Council-chamber, at Guild-
hall ; the Lord Mayor presiding. Mr. Alderman Finnis,
pursuant to notice, moved—" That previously to the
justices applying to this court fur any further grant of
money from the chamber for the purposes of the Lunatic
Asylum, they be requested to consider the propriety, of
making a count rate." The motion was seconded by
Alderman Copeland, and after a long discussion and a
division, was carried. The other Mule's, transacted did
not call for notice.
ST. MA RTIN'S-HALL. —Thin great hall, re-deco-
rated and se-lighted, will be opened on Monday next,
Feb. 25, by Mr. F. Strange and tee Alhambra Comp..).
(Limited), for a abort series of promenade concerts, with
novel features. The orchestra will consist of 50 per-
formers, selected end conducted by M. Rividre, including
M. Levy, the celebrated cornet player ; and the programme
will include vocal music, comic and operatic, and gym-
nastic performances. A new band of braes iruitrumen•
Whits, called Levy and Dietin's Union, will be introduced
to the public at these concerts for the first time.
On Saturday last, Madame Stodare closed the
Theatre of Mystery at the Egyptien.hall, through the
expiration of her late husband's lease. Colonel Stodare
carried on an entertainment of magic in London fur a
greater period than any other conjuror yet in our memory,
and we trust his widow will have a prosperous season
wbe she may appear again before the public. Mr.
James Weaver, the late Colonel and Madame Stodaru's
indefatigable manager, thanked the audience for the pa-
tronage that had been bestowed on Madame Stodare since
lake had opened the Theatre of Mystery, and helmeted
that Madame Stodare would not be long in retirement, as
she intended paying a visit to some of the principal towns
in England, previous to her demirture fur abroad. The
programme closed with the celebrated basket trick,'
which Colonel Stodare made so
CALIFORNIAN CLlMATE.—Panuinatrwe are (says the
San Francisco Bulletin) in the midst of what is convention-
ally called " winter," with the roses blooming in the open
air, strawberries ripening as in summer, orange trees in
blossom where there are any orange trees at all, bouquets
of open air violets selling at a bit on the streets, second.
crop apples that have just ripened exhibited in market,
and grapes that have never suffered from contact with
sawdust still plump, plentiful, and cheap at all the fruit
I stands. Gardening to supply the city with early vege.
tables has actively commenced around the bay, and young
radishes and green peas can even now be bought at
luxurious prices. Winter! The word should be abolished
from our vocabulary as a superfluity.
GAME IN MISSIsSIFFI. —Before the war game
was seance in Marshall county, says the Hong, Springs
Itepornr, and it was seldom that deer were ever seen.
Now in the Tippah hills and in the Hatchie bottoms, the
hunters often kill one and sometimes two or three a day.
Heaver are now abundant in most of the creeks and rivers
in the country. On Chewalla and Coldwater creeks they
have dams that overflow from ten to twenty acres. Trap- ,
pers are quite sucteesful, and beaver skins and beaver 1
meat are nothing uncommon in the country. On some of
the large farms that were abandoned during the war and
have grown up in briar thickets, wolves are occasionally
seen. As for wild turkey, ducks, squirrels. rabbits, and
partridges, they are abuodant, and huntsmen have fine
sport in bagging therm—New York Sass.
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MARLBoRoUGH•STREET,REGENT•sTREST, W. —Throbundred
and thirteen patients were relieved at this dispensary
during the week ending February 16.
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