The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WinllO4OAT EVWXQ.

The Cologne Gazette, received to-day, contains a
column and a half in blank. There must be some-
thing in the German edition which the editor knew
would have occasioned a seizure at the French fron-
tier, and therefore a special edition was prepared
for French readers.

Count de Boltz, whose approaching departure for
Berlin, which I announced yesterday, was delayed, is
to leave this evening. He has doubtless conferred
with M. Benedetti, who has just arrived here from
Corsica.

M. Rouher's holiday trip to Carlsbad is deferred.
By the way, a story good in another sense than
being funny is current about M. Rouher. On the
breaking up of the Corps Legislatif a deputy con-
gratulated him upon the repose he was about to
enjoy after a laborious session. "Oh !" said M.
Rouher, " I never feel so much disposed to work
as during the vacation." "Then," said the deputy,
soddenly becoming ironical instead of complimen-
tary, "you will perhaps find time to attend a little
to the finance department." The fact is that M.
Ronher's many duties as Minister of State are quite
inconsistent with proper attention to the finances,
which require the exclusive energies of the ablest
statesman that can be found. The only reason for
the extraordinary prolongation of the provisional
arrangement which gives M. Rouher two port-
folios must be that the Emperor does not know
where to find another man able and willing to make
the management of the budget subservient to his
mysterious and constantly fluctuating foreign
policy.
The vote in the House of Lords on Lord Cairns
amendment, provokes the following observations
from the Siècle :
The effect will be to erase from the lists many citizens
who expected to find themselves voters. Will the English
aristocracy be gainer% by this change ? Certainly not.
It will augment the discontent of the working classes and
alienate the affections of a people yet attached from
routine to its old institutions but which will at length be
weary of injustice and the niggardly paring down of its
*Ma.

At the Bourse Rente opened briskly and rose to
69fr. 20c., and 69fr. ;ire. ; but the highest quota-
tions of the day were not sustained and business
was decidedly heavy after the " options " were
declared. The latest quotations were 69fr. for
cash and 68fr. 92ie. for account, with a fall of
10c. and Thc.; Italian fell 20c.; and Credit Foncior
and Mobilier, sfr. each.

NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—A meeting of the
executive wee held on Tuesday night in the Council-
chamber, Gladstone-buildings, Manchester ; Mr. R. I).
Rusden, the treasurer, occupying the chair. After the
adoption of the minutes, and the transaction of the
routine business of the company, a spirited conversation
took place respecting the proceedings in reference to the
Reform Bill in the House of Lords on the previous night.
A strong feeling was expressed that the government bad
shown a gross breach of faith by the course which it had
pursued in raising the N. copyhold qualitimtion to 10/.,
and in altering the qualification for the lodger franchise
from 10/. to IN., in opposition to the recent decision
of the House of Commons. It was felt by the committee
that the bill, as passed by the Common. was already
limited enough, without being mutilated, aid made more
restrictive, by any action of the peers. On the termination
of the conversation, the following resolution was proposed,
seconded, and carried:—" This committee regrets to learn
that the House of Lords, in committee lut night, pained
resolutions calculated to restrict the franchise proposed in
the government Reform Bill, which is already limited and
unjust in ire provisions ; and this committee would urge
upon the House of Commons to reject the said so-called
amendments, and any others which may be proposed,
designed to render the bill more narrow and partial than
at BRITISH
BRITISH ARCH.EOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.—Lt• P-
LOW, WEDNEsDAY.—Our report of the proceedings of this
body broke off yesterday at a point where the excur-
sionists, having visited Bitterley Church and Middleton
Chapel, ascended 'lltterstone Cleehill, after which they
repaired to the residence of Sir C. H. Rouse Boughton,
the president, at Downton-ball, where they were moat hos-
pitably entertained by Sir Charles. This beautiful man-
sion is most picturesquely situated in one of the most
lovely spots of Sabres. The party, having assembled at
four o'clock, sat down to a most mnuiptuous dijeiluer, under
the presidency of their hospitable host, and after due
justice had been done to the viands, a number of toasts
were drunk and speeches delivered. At the evening meet-
ing, Mr. R. Kyrke Yemen, F.S.A., read a paper on Lud-
low Church. Mr. T. Wright, M.A.. F.S.A., made some
remarks upon early churchwardens' accounts, the mate-
rials for which he had obtained from corporation records.
Church property, he said, was evidently at one time under
the control of guilds, and this might account for the
books being mixed up with the corporation records.
The entries, which he produced, extended back to 1540.
A abort discwsion followed, in the course of which the
Rev. Sir F. A. G. Ousley expressed a hope that further
search would he made in their records for entries relating
to organs, organ building, and organ playing. This morn-
ing Mr. Wright conducted the archaeologists over the
castle, and two hours were occupied in examining and
describing the different portions of this very interesting
edifice. Afterwards the party adjourned to the beautiful
restored church—the finest parish church in England—
when Mr. Hills, the treasurer, explained its structure.
The mayor afterwards entertained the party ; but as
the morning's work had not been half gut through when
the train left, we most reserve our report till to-morrow.
COPYRIGHT WITH AMERICA.—A weekly paper of
this city is reviving the agitation for an international copy-
right law which was so active last year, but which, like
many previous attempts to secure that simple measure of
justice, was quieted in Congress. Thirty years ago Henry
Clay put the rights of the else as clearly as it is possible
to put them. " A British merchant," he said, " trans-
mits to the United Statea a bale of merchandise, end the
moment it comes within the jurisdiction of our laws they
throw around it effectual security. But if the work
of a British author is brought to the United States,
it may be appropriated by any resident here,
and republished without any compensation whatever
being made to the author." That is wetly how the
matter stands, and we are at a lOU to comprehend how
there can be any dispute about the justice of the proposed
law. The squabbles which have broken out with such
violence of late between rival American publishers and be-
tween American publishers and foreign authors, are cer-
tainly reason enough for pronouncing it expedient. The
good, honest custom of plying a man for the use of his
property, whether he be a fellow-countryman ora foreigner,
is happily coming more and more into vogue, and we ought
by all means to enforce it by legislative action, both for
the sake of the national honour and as • just measure of
protection to those who practise and to those who profit by
it.—thew York Tribune, July 20.
SAN PAULO (BRAZILIAN) RAILWAY.—The fol-
lowing directors' report was read at the meeting held
to-day :—" The directors regret that at the present
meeting, which is merely convened to satisfy the
requirements of the company's articles of association, it
will be impossible to lay before the proprietors a state-
ment of the accounts for the past half-year, as those
accounts must henceforth be agreed with the Imperial
Brazilian government before they can be finally passed on
the books of the company ; it will be necessary therefore
to adjourn the meeting to some future period, which et
present cannot be precisely determined. The board avail
themselves of the present opportunity to assure the pro-
prietors that the prospects of the company are highly en-
couraging, and that the traffic, which to the present time
has been very satisfactory, is, according to &deices recently
received, likely to increase rapidly. The directors have
also to state that the works remaining to be executed in
connexion with Messrs. Sharpe's contract, and the re-
quirements of the government inspector, Senr. Sobregy,
are being promptly carried out, and the whole will, no
doubt, be completed in the course of the present year.
Annexed is • report from Mr. Brunlees, the company's
engineer-in-chief, to which the shareholders are referred
for further information on the various points connected
with his department."
A correspondent writes that the passengers of
the little steamer Flora City, on Lake Ontario, were hor-
rified the other day at the appearance of • huge serpent
which raised its monstrous bead in the front of the ves-
sel's bow, and projected its jaws toward the promenade
deck. The serpent was about fifty feet long, and followed
the steamer as a shark follows • slave ship.—Rochester
Union. _ _

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OXVITAI PALACZ.-ONE SHILLING DAY. -WED-
NISDAT, JOLT 31.—Adnliiii0211 CM payment, 8,283 ; ditto
by moos tickets, 2,998: total viiiton, 11,281.