The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-28 00:00:00

0011,KIIRCIAL INTELUCI*NcE.

New Your, ILLY 15, Emorma.—Blocka better. New
York Centrals, 132 j ; Me, 21 ; 1111601 g. Money un-
changed. Eichunge on London, 1 . Cotton steady.
Wee to-day, 1,300 bake. Middling U d, 11 jc. Wheat
and ecru tending downwards. Rios and sugar firm.
New Gamine., MAT 15.--CAntes odes to-day, 6,000
bales and upwards ; pricee irregular. Bake in three days,
19,000 bales. Freights, to 7-16.
LATENT BY TELEGRAPH, VIA HALIFAX.
New YORE, MAT 17, Evemea.—The Chicago convention
has not yet nominated any candidate.
Tim Japanese embassy were received by the President to-
day. The reception was magnificent.
Cottoo market firm. Middling Upland 11 c. Breadstuffs
active, but heavy receipt. caused qualities to &dine &lightly
in the price. Provisious steady. &oaks lower.
New ORLRANR, MAT 16.—Balsa to-day 7,000 bales.
Receipts, 16,000 bales below lint year. Prime firm. Mid-
dling, lltc. to lAc.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAT Ewa's°.
This, being Ascension•day, is a general holiday,
and the Petrie, Prase, and Opinion Nationale do
not appear. There is nothing in the Pays. Tele-
grams from the Neapolitan government announce
further decisive victories over Garibaldi, but there
is no authentic news from Sicily.
The Courtier de Paris (which, after all, has not
taken the name of the Globe—out of delicacy, I am
told, towards your London contemporary of that
name) relives the oft-repeated rumour of the
French army being about to quit Rome. The Em-
peror, it says, is at length thoroughly tired out by
Cardinal Antonelli's obstinacy.
MM. James Spence, John Biddulph, and Palmer
Budd gave evidence yesterday before the Superior
Council of Commerce.

The government journals tell the following
I "touching" anecdote of the review of Friday
An incident occurred which produced a deep impression
upon the public. After the Emperor had left the ground,
and while the troops were dispersing to their quarters, the
Empress remained for some time upon the race-coarse. The
Imperial Prince walked a few paces before her. The crowd,
which had hitherto been kept back, was sow allowed to ap-
proach ; the people pressed closely around the Empress, and
showed her Majesty the most profound respect. All eyes
were fixed upon the young prints, whose manifold graces
charmed all beholders. Among the crowd, and very near
to her Majesty, was • poor family, consisting of a father,
mother, and child of about the same age as his imperial
highness. The prince, after having frequently turned his
eyes towards his unknown comrade, at length abandoned
himself to an affectionate impulse, rushed up to the child,
sod embraced bin,. The charming simplicity of the act so
moved the parents that the honest folks melted into tears ;
sad all the spectators of the scene being profoundly touched
by this proof of the sentiments instilled into the mind of
the youthful prince by his august parents, saluted her Ma-
jesty and his imperial highness with the lirdiest acclama-
tions. _ . _

PARIS, SATURDAY &IMO.

The Criminal Chamber cf tie) Court of Cs-nation
has quashed the judgment of the Imperial Court
in the nee of " the heirs of Bishop Rousseau e.
the Bishop of Orleans," which ruled that no prose-
cution lies for a libel upon the memory of a dead
person unless in cases where the libel is prompted
by malice towards the living. Hereafter no man
can safely write history without advertising for the
heirs and next of kin of the personages of whom
be proposes to treat, and matisfyinghinuself whether
they are litigiously disposed people or not. The
doctrine is not qualified by any statute of limita-
tions, and the truth of the libel is no justification.
Any statement reflecting upon the honour of any
I dead person, whether he died 50 years ado (as in
Bishop Rousseau's case), or 500, is punishable by
line and imprisonment, according to the law laid
down by M. Dapin and the Court of Caseation. It
would be a penal offence in France to impugn the
loyalty of Jack Cade, the courage of Sir John
Falstaff, the liberality of Henry VII., or the
humanity of bloody Queen Mary. Nay, the heirs
of Cain or Judea Iscariot may, if they happen to
be French citizens and can prove their pedigree,
bring all publishers of the Bible to the bar of the
Correctional Police.
The decision after all fails to settle the law.
M. Dtlaugle's demonstration has merely created a
barren precedent which no court is bound to follow.
A single caseation chamber is not a court of the
last resort, and as the case is now uncontested no
machinery exists for bringing it before the con-
clusive jurisdiction of the three chambers united.

French journals can only speak with fear and
trembling of • judicial decision. Under all dis-
advantages, however, the Dibats ventures to my of
the judgment, which I take upon myself to con-
demn in the most severe terms :

The ;Uhl* ought to know what ix permitted and what is
forbkiden. Should there still exist nay descendant, I do
not way of the judges of Louis XVI. but of the judges of
Ogles, Anne l)ubourg, or Joan of Arc, if I utter my in-
dignation agaiast them, if I employ those harsh and con-
tumelious expressions which the indignation of the historian
my sem to authorise, the deiceodents of those whom I
juke with such severity may prosecute me criminally, on
the eels condition of proving my intention to injure. It is
very .main that I do not really incur any great danger in
the peessat day by giving free utterance to my indignation,
and even declaiming against deeds of violence so remote ,•
but it is of great importance that some limit should be fixed
to the esesequesees of the jurisprudence of the Supreme
Oen&

At the Bourse the Rents opened heavily at
about yesterday's quotations, but it became firmer
afterwards. No great amount of business was done,
but the clueing prices were the highest of the day,
89.30 and 89.25, being a rise of 10 and 15. Mobilier
left off without change. Railways were from 1.25
to 3.76 higher.