The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-01 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(IRON OAS OWN OODAMISPONDINT.)
PAELM, Wansasosr
A morning palter, alluding to the itventua:...
of the Spanish insurrection, and the possible 5,.,
don of the Duke de Montpensier, says the
has neither influence nor prestige ; and
here seem to think that his elevation wotilri
to is rupture with France.
Since the abolition of imprisonment for
France, it was imagined that the thrivin::l,
of Jews and other usurer. would be .1.,-'
These calculations were formed, however, w.
duly estimating the ingenuity and daring
class of unscrupulous trailers. They stir,
means of lending money at most exorb:t.m•. .
of interest, and of assuring the return
amount borrowed. This i,, according -•.
Figaro, one of those mi.ans: • •A young gen•
of good family wants ru,,ticy. •
the usurer, arc 10,000 fr. ; giv.• MO your
note at ninety days, and by way of geara• •
me have a forged bill of exelian4f., wli, '
keep by rue. The greater number of
for cash are revolted at these t. 7- •
resolutely refuse assent to them; but •:
others who fall into the snare. Now, :f •
missory note be clisbonoured when it fa'.
lender brings the forged bill into 1,14_
his bands soon becomes a source
profit. A young man bad forged tle• -•_-•
a banker, an old friend of his family. r _
acceptance fails to be taken up.
note is protested, whereupon the
treats an extension of time, his faintly
of town en myar. But the t,urer is .7.
and goes straight to the haulier with th••
feit bill, who immediately deteetv the 1,72
his name, and looking at the ender+•nu••n'
nisei the signature of the young
question. After some moments of plinf
asitnent and suppressed rage, he or•l.•rs
to pay the bill, saying that it is hi..
right. The usurer rubs his hands, and p
money with infinite nstisfaction at t h.-
dexterity of the trick.
The following curious statistics ire br.-
lished in the 1're4.0., the corr.s:tn.•,s of %,
guaranteed by that journal. It seems
sic ely of f;f•a and religious ceretuoni...,
of Notre Dame is visited on an avert :-
by 1,300 persons, about 1.000 b..itiz - .
Two hundred ascend the tower+, :in i
inspect the ert,sor ; the rest witmler .
terior without any fixed purp:•s•• • - .
superficially the objects they • •
preference shown by visitors to !E.. • • • -
plained by the richness of its e.sit,.
the historical recollections which th.-y-
-the mind. This highly interest:lle 2111...'1!!:
is. indeed. incomparable iu its w •
amongst other precious relies• the 'r
of Napoleon 1.. the ostens•dr, sue!..: c.
gold plate, studded with glitt...rinz z•
by Louis XVIII.. on whi,h i.
consecrated wafer : a seal of t:':
bells, wife of Philippe Augq.tii,
;an ornament worn by the
saying mass) which belotnre.l t 1' •
and which he wore at the o,•ronati-'t:
Napoleon. Besides these are •
plies and gold ornament worn by M -
on the day when he was assassinate•.f
of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont the m.e•:
Affre, killed on the 24th June. 1" lam, at •
cedes; of the Faubourg St. Antoine : A:1
meat of the vertebral column 0
relate, with the ball which caused hi.
of the 200 visitors who ascent the tow, 7.
provided with glasses' of greater or less t•
hold in their hands a plan of rat•is..t::
suit the famous description of the ,:ty by
Hugo. entitled Paris, ,1 eel is., • tr::•
WO visitors to the freacr, then• are -sec n -
women than men, the largest part beim-, f - •
English men and women form the great
then come the Germans. and afar
French and Spaniards. Next to N,•trr I'.
church which attracts the gnwh•st
visitors is the Madeleine, and here
English outnumber• the foreigners from
countries.

The Bourse to-day w•as very firm. :u. .
with an important rise in all str•uritieN.

THE WEsr AFlitcAN —l.tvElzroot.
The West f'ea't of Airica royal mail steamer
With the LLIMA't) mails, has arrived here. Hero
Benin, Sept. 2 Fermutdo I`o, -.29 .
August 2.9 lilt Cal.tbar. Atig.lcAt .27
Sept. MottriAia, Sept. 12 Bonny, S .1•!
Sept. 4 ; AeCrl, Sept. 6.. Cape e t. 7.,•. •
Caro Palmas, Sept. 9 Sierra I. !•• - •
Bathurst, Sept. 17; Teneriffe. Sept. .

Sept. 24. Tito l'alabar brutg, ;:t) •
2. WS'. in ',welt), and .;,i p.e,-ett,ters.
are novt•rnl Si atii4h gentlemen who h.t.t I een
ate It•turttittg to Slain from Fernando I''.
new", of iinpor:attee.
. •

"Amid thr gram politirt►l profligacy t t
around her" urthr Timer, "it wal ditticu!t •
pure. and Isabofla has shown henelt rn nritty •••
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crafty ami unscrupulous sovereign. Her donne,::.
been sullied by misbehaviour. imuvr.thty
been pardoned, not su indecency ; and the Q,40,
had the wisdom to hide her offences belen,l

oorttm. The scandal Aho has givea 11.14 be.tti tt:•
even to the t easy-tempered potpie itt hot ,i
audit will havo been noticed thAt even withal t!to
thlyx the presenen of one person At the otttot

a political question."
The Courier ifti This-Rhin givel ittr:lwr
of Count Wslewski's death :." ex.'ellett..y L. 1
a telegram in the afternoon from Clint., retxt
infnts at the Hotel Ville de Pans for lite flintily
Ito was travelling with the eouut.vs, hie dan-;!,t..
a n•lative ; the mother of the couutes, lri
them at the One stakes coming from !
the suite was composed of three
two wrvants. The iwirty arrived at Straat..
a quarter past 5; a carriage took them to thc lict • -
eoUllterP, who it in a weak state of health. wits e‘l•
her rotnn. The count himself gave all the oral,
aided her to get upstairs. He was in perfect he a,
conversed with the people about him. Nothing
that be. was in the slightest degree fatigued. or that
was anything unusual affooting hint. When
for
marked the first room he made the countosi at Jos,.
asked her how Abe felt ; then going into the neat ‘:
meat he suddenly oiled his daughter, exclaiming
glass of water ! a doctor ! quick and (al kisad.

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