The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

'ROY Ova OWN COIRWIEONDINT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
It appears that M. Vanin, the judge who is to try
the three Italians for the conspiracy to assassinate
the Emperor, misunderstood them when he supposed
that they declined to select counsel for their defence.
The Conalitutionnel says this morning that the pri-
soners desired to retain MM. Desmarets, 3laillud,
and Floquet—the names which I originally men-
tinned to you—and this statement is partly confirmed
by the Droit, which says that when M. Ris Met, tke
counsel officially assigned to Tibuldi, went tosee hint
in prison yesterday, Tibaldi told him that a friend
had undertaken to choose an advocate fur him, and
that he understood M. I)esmarcts had been
fixed upon. Upon this M. Rivulet recom-
mended Tibaldi to write to the Procurear-
General, and immediately withdrew. It is not
surprising that the judge should have misun-
derstood the prisoners, seeing that they can none of
them speak French. M. Desmarets is a very able
and courageous advocate, who will make a real
defence and not a sham one, such as has been some-
times presented by counsel named ez officio.
An Italian gentleman, named Guiterrs, was
arrested yesterday at the Bourse, for having been
overheard to say that the plot was got up by the
police.

M. Lafragna, the Mexican envoy extraordinary,
has returned to Paris from Madrid. It is stated
that the conference for the settlement of the differ-
ence between Spain and Mexico will be held in
Paris.

I am assured that the Emperor will certainly go
to Manchester.

Some efforts were made at the opening of the
Bourse to get up the Rente for the moment of the
"options" (reponse des primes), but the attempt
failed. Most of the premiums were lost, and them

was a great quantity Of stock to bs sold. The Itente
for account declined to 66fr. 55c., but during the
last half-hour it recovered to 66fr. 80c., closing with
a rise of 15c. For cash it fell 5c., closing at 66fr. 65e.
Mobilier rose 10fr. The railways were firm this
morning, but gave way afterwards in consequence at
a falling off in the weekly receipts. They were
ultimately quoted with a fall of from .ifr. to 7fr. 50c.

The French papers report that in the night of
July 27, another new comet was discovered by M.
Dien of the Paris Observatory. This is the second
which has been found by the same gentleman within
a month.

A singular agitation relating to a very homely
matter is now going on in some quarters of Paris.
A memorial is in course of signature praying for the
total abolition of door knockers and the substitution
of bells in their place. It is alleged with much
plausibility as an argument for this reform, that a
lodger who arrives late wakes up all the inhabitants
of the house by thundering with a heavy knocker,
except the porter, whose duty it is to open the door,
and he being accustomed to the noise sleeps through
it. A bell then, it is said, which should be hung
close to his bedside, would be more effective, and
would not disturb the neighbourhood. The other
side, for there are two parties to this question,
pretend, however, that custom would dull
the ear of the porter to the sound of
the bell as well as to that of the knocker, and that
the impatient abut-out lodger would be reduced to
make night hideous by kicking and screaming until
he had made an amount of noise which, to be
sufficient to rouse the concierge, must necessarily
startle the inmates of the house as much as a
knocker. The point, therefore, appears to be very
knotty.
?,l. Thiers has returned to Paris from his excursion
to Belgium and Germany.
The Municipal Council of Dieppe has just votedan
address to the Emperor, praying him to disembark
at that port on his return from Osborne.