The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mime nos own oosassioinnarr.)
PARIS, WiDNIBDAY EVINING.
The France corrects a whole batch of false news
of the Patric, but the latter journal has more false '
news to-night. At the head of its leading column
we find the following :
The notification of the proposition for the congress is an
accomplished fact. We announced this news yesterday,
and we must now wait for the official answers of the go-
' vernments of Prussia, Austria, and Italy. There is reason
to thin,/ that these answers will be received by Sunday or
Monday next.

The proof that this news is false I have before
me in the Moniteur du Soir, which contains the
following paragraph :
France, England, and Russia are anxiously occupied in
carrying oat the attempt they agreed to make together to
prevent a conflict. In order to give their proposition a I
character really useful, they have judged it necessary to
indicate at once the questions to be submitted to the 1
congress which they recommend to be held. The object
of the three cabinets is not to arrogate to themselves the
character of arbitrators in the differences on account of
=tAustria and Italy are in arms, but merely to offer a
basis for deliberation, and to dherst ilto discussion
to those points which, in the opinion of the three cabi-
nets, constitute causes of collision. The powers are at
this moment considering the terms of the note which they
intend to send to Vienna, Berlin, Frankfort, and Florence,
and there is reason to think that they will be very shortly
in a position to forward this important communication to
the governments for which it is destined.

So that instead of there being any ground for
the assertion of the Petrie that the " answers "of
Prussia, Austria, and Italy will be here by Sunday
or Monday, it appears from the above official in-
formation that no note is yet sent, and it is not
even quite certain that any will be sent. The three
powers desirous of offering advice are discussing
among themselves, and they intend, or rather
hope (elles comptent addresser) to address a
note to the quarrelsome parties quern primum.
According to the Arenir National, France
and England so greatly despaired of any
result from their intervention, that they would

have given up the idea had it not been for Russia,
who persisted in wishing to try. Out of a desire
not to disoblige the Czar, the other two powers de-
ferred to him, and left him the responsibility of
opening negotiations. This latter assertion, how-
ever, goes further than the intelligence above cited
from the Moniteur.

A memorable inauguration dinner was given yes-
terday in the Pompeian Villa (late Prince Napo-

leon'e), to the representatives of every newspaper, I
great and small, in Paris, and several pri-
vate Mends of M. Ber, the manager of
"La liaison Diomede." No less than 107 persons,
among whom were several ladies, sat down to table
in the Atrium. M. Desmarest, the batonnier, M.
Theophile Gautier, M. Berlioz, the composer, Dr.
Feydeau, the novelist, were among the com-
pany, in addition to several of the most
eminent chroniqueurs on the Paris Presse.
Ricord, M. Arsene Houasaye, and M. Ernest.
The bill of fare, besides the usual delicacies of
the season, included Lucullus soup, turkeys h
la Claudia, truffied Guinea fowls, roast peacocks,
Measalina salads, Supreme Agrippene, and Pieuvres
aux anchois. During the entertainment, which
was a wonderful success, an orchestra concealed
behind flowers in the gallery a rotative played soft
music. Four of the guests fell into the bath in
one of the outer rooms and got a terrible lucking.
Aspe, the monk, the Toulouse murderer, has
been convicted of assassinating his servant for the
sake of possessing himself of a little money which
she had saved. The body was found in the canal
without a head. The police made inquiries at every
house in Toulouse before Aspo was suspected. It
is believed that he gave the woman's head to his
pigs, who ate it. The jury, we learn by telegraph,
gave the prisoner the benefit of " extenuating cir-
cumstances," and consequently he is only sentenced
to imprisonment with hard labour for life.
The Bourse closed with very little change.