The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

N 18, 1860.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(This Oil OWN CORILESPONDENT4
PARIS. TI MM EVENING.
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Lord Cowley returned to Park this morning. I
state the foot now from my own knowledge. The
French and Belgian journals last week were not
content with announcing his return prematurely, on
the strength of a telegram falsely stating that he
had left London for Paris, but they gave particular.
of his interview with the Emperor, and noticed his
discreet taciturnity at the last Tuileries ball.

News has arrived, and will of come reach you by
telegraph, that the Piedmontese ministry has re-
signed, and that Cavour resumes the post of Prime
Minister. There was a rumour on the Bourse that
Rattaari's resignation was owing to a difference be-
tween the courts of Turin and Paris. I think it,
however, much more reasonable to regard the re-
iteration of Cavour as a symptom of agreement.
M. Thonvenel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, hei
arrived at Messina, whence he has telegraphed to
Paris that he will be here on Friday evening.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Emperor paid a
farewell visit to the Prince of Orange, at the Hotel
Bristol. The unusual sight of the imperial carriage
with outriders, at the door of an hotel, attracted a
considerable crowd in the Place Vendome. The
Prince of Orange leaves Paris this evening to return
to Holland.

The Bourse was very doll, although the news
that the admission fee will be abolished was still
believed. The Rents, after &totaling be-
tween 69fr. 20c. and 681 r. 95c. closed at the latter
price, for account, with a fall of be. The last cub
price was 69fr., the same u yesterday. Mobilier
left off without change. Railways were about
2fr. 60c. higher.
The Chamber of Commerce and the Tribunal of
Commerce of Bordeaux have voted addresses of
thanks to the Emperor for his commercial letter,
and propose to send deputations to Paris to present
them.

The weekly commercial review of the Presse re-
presents the state of trade u being without change
since last week. It repeats that the new year's sales
in the retail shops were not satisfactory, and states
that they were below the average of the last five
years. Cereals are very firm ; and, although buyers
are as yet indisposed to pay higher prices, a riee is
confidently expected. The Bercy wine market, in
which such extraordinary activity prevailed during
the latter months ;of the year, has been very calm
since Jan. 1; and, although the arrivals per railway
have considerably diminished, demands have fallen
off in greater proportion, and there is now a glut of
merchandise. Nevertheless, prices keep up. The
rise in wine and spirits during the past year is
immense. Good old Bordeaux, which in January,
1859, were selling for 450 fr. the barrel, now fetches
1,000 fr.; and Languedoc spirit (34. 6d.) have risen
from 711 r. to 130 fr. Armagnac brandies were noted
on December 31, at 150 fr. against only 60fr. a year
mg°.

M. Girard, the leader of the orchestra of the
Opera, fell from his seat last night during the repre•
sentation of the Huguenots, and died in the course
of the night from the effects of the rupture of an
aneurism.

The Court of Caseation yesterday rendered a
highly important judgment, and one especially in-
teresting to all English ladies who, having been set
free from matrimonial bonds by Mr. Justice Cress-
well, may be desirous of taking a French husband.
A lady, whose name the delicacy of French law re-
porters veils under an initial—Madame B—,
was born in the English colony of Antigua on
June 2, 1819. In 1841 she married a Dutchman at
the Hague. Three children were born of the mar-
riage. In consequence of a quarrel with her hus-
band the lady left his house several years since, and
with her children came to live in Paris. By the
law of Holland a divorce a vincula may be pro-
nounced against either of the spouses who, without
justifiable cause, may have lived away from the
conjugal domicile for the space of five years.
In January, 1858, Madame B husband caused her
to be served in Paris with a writ, requiring her to
return to her home. She declined to comply with
the requisition, and thereupon the Court of Oho
Hague, at the husband's suit, made a decree for a
divorce. Madame B— wt, thereafter, according
to the laws of her husband's country, a free woman,
and, being a protestant, she had no religious scruples
in the way of a second marriage. In the spring of
last year she engaged herself to a Frenchman, and
the banns were published at the mains of the 10th
Arrondissement. The mayor refused to celebrate
marriage, alleging that divorce a vincula not being
recognised by the existing code, a Frenchman could
not be married in France to a woman whose first
husband was alive. The refusal of the mayor
was upheld by the Tribunal of the First
Instance, and (on appeal) by the Imperial Court of
Paris. Both these court, held that the clause of the
French code, prohibiting divorce, was a law of pub-
lic policy, from the positive injunctions of which
the personal capacity (le statist personnel) of the
foreign woman was insufficient to relieve the French-
man who might wish to contrast marriage with her.
Madame B—, who all this while remains un-
married, appealed to the Court of Caseation, and in
court M. Procurear•Qeneral Dapin, in a speech of
marvellous lucidity (he is 78 years old), reviewed
the whole law on the subject, and submitted that
the courts below had miscarried. He came to the
conclusion that although no Frenchman can divorce
his wife, a Frenchman may marry in France a
foreign woman legally divorced aooording to the
laws of her own country. The Court of Cessation,
adopting M. Dupla'. arguments, reversed the judg-
ment of the Imperial Court, so that Madame B—
may now take the husband of her choice.

MANUFACTURE oF ANTIQUITIES.—The Academy
of Sciences of Munich has just seat one of hi members, M.
de Heftier, on a special mission to Rheizzabern and the
neighbouring Wailes, in order to Inquire into a singular
branch of trade which bee sprung up there of late years—
viz., a wholesale manufacture of counterfeit vases, eta :tilt
and other articles, being perfect imitations of Undo known to
be of Roman origin, sad found in the dietrice. The small
town of Rbeinzabere, near Spires, is known to be one of the
moat ancient in Germany ; it is mentioned In the Itinerary
of Antoninus and the Tbeodosian map, and has for centuries
enjoyed the reputation of possessing a soil rich in
every description of Roman relics. Baena Rhenium
states that in his time "arcs of baked clay, containing the
ashes of Roman patricians; also Sarcophagi, engraved
gra:4one stones, and red vases merle by potters," would fre-
quietly be dug up at Rheiezabern. In the last century,
acbcrifilx likewise mentioned the fact of many antiquities
being fnind about that place, and his own museum contained
several ; some very interesting collections have also been
made by private persons at Spires, Rents, and Landau. M.
Schweighreuser had some of those articles lithographed some
tears ago, and the library at Strasburg also powwow some
Roman pottery found at Rbeinzabern. Not many weeks ago
M. Mellinger, a notary, Lurid a lot of very cartons ones,
still in his possession. Many of these antiquities having
naturally changed hand. at profitable prices, the idea sown
suggested itself that it would be a good speculation to manu-
facture some, and accordingly Germany was soon inundated
with a vast quantity of pottery said to be of Roman origin,
and very well amented too; but this mey abundance soon
titled ruspiclon, and M. de Hefner le now engaged In ex.
poring the impowure. After a minute invegairsam, be hse
arrived at tbs conviction that the wystrrioue manufactory is
not at Rbeiczabern, but at Mentz, which plea b strongly
ag=ed of having produced an su'ique ivory casket, so
y imitstert as to hays been parchand at a k%h price
tor the BAUM limenza.