The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WICDNIADAY EVWNO.

The France states that at a meeting of the
opposition deputies, held yesterday at M. Marie's,
it was resolved to concentrate all their efforts upon
the Mexican question in the debate upon the
address.

Lord Cowley, who had postponed to the last
moment his return to Paris from England, was
prevented by the tempestuous weather from
arriving in time for the New Year's receptions.

The successor of the late M. Thuillier on the
bench of government speakers in the Corps Legis-
latif is likely to be M. Duvergier, who for many
years has held a high place in the Council of State.
When at the bar he was thought by many good
judges to be the very best lawyer in France. He
could never be got to give, as too many French
lawyers do, an advocate's opinion. Without re-
ference to the wishes of the party consulting him
his signature was never to be got to any but his
judicial opinion upon the case stated, and his severe
practice in this respect gave to his opinions almost
the force of law in the courts. He is far from
being so fluent a man as N. Thuillier, but he will
be very much listened to.
The Moniteur du Soir repeats emphatically that
political considerations have nothing whatever to
do with the " denunciation " of the extradition
treaty and that it is a question of pure jurispru-
dence. The Moniteur lays down the proposition
that the legislation of all nations on the subject of
extradition has a tendency to uniformity as upon
many other points, and it then says that the
Emperor's government having, after twenty years'
experience, found the existing treaty useless,
merely wishes to have a treaty applicable to
"common crimes " only, which may work. As to
the principle it alleges that both governments are
agreed. I continue to be of opinion that if the
French government has not found the treaty prac-
tical, the reason is that it did not take the reason-
able and not very great trouble of sending proper
evidence to England. I think this position
unassailable that an English police magistrate
ought not to deliver up to a foreign power any per-
son accused of a crime upon less evidence than he
would require to commit a man for trial in England.
I am greatly mistaken if parliament can be brought
to sanction any other doctrine.
While we have been enjoying here since New
Year's-day the temperature of a fine first week in
April, the Madrid journals announce that the
Mancanares, the little stream which runs through
that city, is now frozen over, and that skaters are
seen disporting on it in unusual numbers.
At the Bourse the Rente, though closing 10c.
lower than the highest quotations of the day,
realised a rise of 10c. for cash and lc. for account,
the latest quotations being 68fr. 50c. and 681 r. 5211 c.
Alobilier fell Bfr. 75c., and all the dependent secu-
rities of that great company were lower, owing to
a rumour that, in consequence of the disfavour
which has long bung over its operations and the
systematic delay in the publication of its accounts,
the government thinks of appointing a committee
to inquire whether its last dividend of 2fifr. is a
bond fide one.

Some eubecribera to the last Ottoman loan have
commenced an action for the return of their sub-
scriptions on the ground that the guarantees given
do not bear out the promises of the programme.