The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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FARM, l'auzaDAy SYNIZIO.

It is thought that the despatches exchanged be-
tween Mr. Seward and the Marquis de Menthelon
on the Mexican question between the dates of Feb.
l and 10 will reach Paris by the 25th of this month,
and in time to be communicated to the Corps lel-
gialatif during the debate on the address.
The case of the student Deep, who in December
last stabbed a young man named Etienne in the
Eldorado singing-rooms, came on for trial yester-
day. The story was sad, simple, and in its leading
features far from unoommon. The prisoner, a
youth of good family in the south of France,
was sent to Feria to prepare for the
bar. During four years of presumed study he had
never qualified himself to pees so much ea a preli-
minary examination. One of the witnesses,
taking an extreme view of the idleness of the
Quarries Latin, said "M. Danga was just like all
other stndente—he did not study at all." He
picked up fora Warms, in a house of ill fame at
Veessilles, a girl named Delporte, wise seems to
have liked him well enough on oondition that he
should allow her to •like other people. He knew
that she frequented the prosecutor, Mimic's, and
going to the Eldorado to look for them he, with
great deliberation and fury,attempted to murder his
rival. M. Jules Fevre' retained by the family,
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defended the prisoner, and urged the excuses of
youth, blind passion, and the absence of parental
control. The jury, however, found the prisoner
guilty of an attempt So murder with premeditation,
and although they gave him the benefit of extenua-
ting circumstances, the sentence was ten years' im-
prisonment, with herd labour. Dings was also
condemned to pay 3,000 fr. damages to Etienne.
The Emperor had an unusually jolly carnival
frolics on Mardi Gras. He dined with General
Fleury, the Grand Venous, at his official residence
in the Louvre. The Princess Mathilde and the
Prince de Hohenzollern were invited to meet his
Majesty. After dinner there was a recep-
tion, attended by as many as 400 privileged
gueste. Geoffrey and Madlle. Pierson played
a comedistta in one act, entitled Apses Ic Bel; and
then—memorable event in Parisian annals—
Theresa, the popular singer of the cafe concerts,
was presented to the Emperor. She was dressed
in simple virgin white with a coral necklace. She
sang seven wogs, carefully molested from what may
be called the moderate section of her repertoire.
Those rollicking specimens of her style, "La
Femme h Barbe" and " La Dews. du Bceuf Gras,"
which delight her habitual audiences, were ex-
cluded from the programme as too 'lapls. The
"Sapeur," a standing favourite, the " Chemin du
Moulin," and "Trop prim' des Maisons," were
among the pieces sung. After her performance,
which was loudly applauded by the Kin-
pros, who, besides, twice addressed to her personal
congratulations, it is credibly reported that General
Fleury made her a speech, which would be enough
to make Theresa's fortune if she had not made one
already. He said, " Mademoiselle' you have
achieved no odium,' triumph ; the Emperor, at
hearing you, has laughed more in an hour than I
have ever seen him laugh in a whole year.'
The pretty story is told by the Gazette de France
that the Imperial Prince intends to buy out of his
pocket money (I ) all the 'materiel of the French
army of Rome, and make a present of it to the
Pope, his godfather. This would be a curious
variation on the air of non-intervention, and a still
more curious mode of executing the convention of
September 15.
The Bank of France having reduced its discount
the Bourse was better, although Consols come
with a fall of I, and it is supposed that the Bank
of England's discount remains as it was. Route
rose 10c. for cash and account, closing at fillfr.
93c., and 69fr. Mobilier rose 51r. Italian fell
15c. There was a marked upward improvement
:" French railways.