The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Fla. 27.

It is stated that the King and Queen of Portugal
intend making a visit to Paris at the end of May,
passing through Madrid on their way.

OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA-

LIA:li MAIL.
GIBRALTAR, FZB. 26.

The Delta, from Southampton 20th hut., arrived
at 11 p.m. yesterday, and left at 7 n.m. to-day for
Alexandria.

BOMBAY MAIL.
SUEZ, FILL 2?.
The Madraa arrived at 8 a.m. to-day.
OUTWARD MAIL OF FEB. 12-18.
The Northam sailed on the 26th at midnight
for Bombay.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Pao][ OM ORE COIIII3PONDENT.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENINO.

The Emperor and Empress went yesterday to
the Jardin d'Acclimation, to see the fat oxen
destined to figure in the Gaut gras procession,
which are quartered there until the beginning of
Lent. Their Majesties talked for some time with
M. Flechelle, the butcher who has bought all the
&tux gras of this year, and asked several questions
about the price of meat and the state of the
butchers' trade in Paris.

Joseph Karam arrived at Algiers on Feb. 22.
He was treated as a very considerable personage ;
admitted at once to an audience with the Governor-
General, and provided with temporary apartments
in the Hotel de is R4gence.
Lemaire, the juvenile murderer, was found guilty
without extenuating circumstances, and is sen-
tenced to death. Ho made a long speech on his
own behalf, not to deny or extenuate his crime,
but to confess it in all its hideousness. He argued
with wonderful perverted talent that he was not
mad, and that the whole history of his life and the
premeditation with which he had committed one
murder and prepared to commit three others
showed that it would be impossible for the jury to
give him the benefit of extenuating circumstances.
He had, he said, a full consciousness of what
was right and wrong, and knew that what he
had done could not be justified. If all men
were like him the world could not go on. But
bad as he might be thought, he had a love of truth
and had shown it throughout. The fact was that
he was constitutionally lazy, but he loved sensual
enjoyment. He hated work, and had only energy to
do evil. It would be cruel of the jury to find exte-
nuating circumstances, because he would then be
sentenced to hard labour for life ; and rather than
undergo it he would starve himself to death. He
who had never liked work as a free man, would
certainly never work as a slave. If, therefore, the
jury found extenuating circumstances, it would be
tantamount to the revival of the torture as
against him. He had been in the full posses-
sion of his senses, deliberately determined to
revenge himself on his old father, and the
woman who had obtained an influence over him.
He had no spite against the two girls, but he had
intended to kill them because they were in his way
and would have prevented the execution of his
design to get possession of Madame Bainville's
money to have an orgie with. He had had his
revenge to a certain extent, and was sorry he had
not had it completely. He was prepared to abide
the consequences of what he had done. It was
now for the jury to avenge society. They could
only send him to the scaffold. He did not
wish to boast unduly. He knew that the
scaffold was a great touchstone of human
courage, and that men with firmer nerves
than his own had quailed at its foot. Still
the jury could bear him witness that he had not
blenched or shown any emotion during his long
trial, and he trusted he would be equally cool to
the end.

After this extraordinary speech, which excited
visible disgust in the audience, the prisoner's
counsel, M. Colin de Verdieros, essayed to plead
insanity as resulting from the want of sufficient
motive and even from the language used by his