The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-11 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

°ISOM OUR Owr

PARIS. THURSDAY EVICTING.

The Pays contains a contradiction of a conver-
sation alleged by the Gaeta(' to have taken place
between the Emperor and M. Oranier de Caasagnac.
In the first place, the deputy fur the Oers in said
to have reported that the Emperor had no inten-
tion to leave the future of his dynasty to chance.
This particular phrase, repeated by the Pays, is not
specifically denied, and I incline to believe it
authentic, and as meaning that the Em-
peror, commanding the army, and being in
posioaicn of the treasury, which pays the
army, will stand no such nonsense as a gen
rat election which should return any ..on-
side ruble number of deputies opposed to him. But
what the l'ays distinctly repudiates is the allega-
tion that the Emperor told M. de Cassagnac he
meant to abdicate in favour of his son on condi-
tion that be should during his son's minority bold
the reins of power as mgetit. Such an arrange-
ment would, indeed, as the Pays says, be the acme
of folly, and I entirely believe its denial that
anything of the kind has been thought of. The
Emperor regent for his son would only be some-
thing a little Worse than the empire, and the
dynasty would more than ever be exposed to ad-
verse chances.

The candidate unanimously adopted by the De-
mocratic Committee of Marseilles to succeed M.
Berryer in the Corps Legialatif is no other than—
dread nanie—M. Gainbetta ! In Paris his election
would be certain, and I have very little doubt of
his sut•cess in the South.

The Temps speaks, as news of the day, of minis-
terial changes on the tapir ; and revives a rumour
several days old that M. Rouher, who thinks him-
self a far superior manipulator to M. Pined, is
to resign the higher but empty dignity of Minister
of State to become Minister of the Interior and
" direct " the coming elections.
The president of the Court of Aix, in summing
up the case of the female poisoners of Marseilles,
said :

You have before you five women who seem to have been
good and honest persons for a long while, and who have
been brought to commit the worst of crimes. Two others,
their tempters, still more wicked. who worked upon their
ignorance and credulity, practised almost publicly the
trade of murderers. Their infernal treaty made three vic-
tims that we know of, and threatened two more, who nar-
rowly escaped. Who shall say that there are not many
more of whom we know nothing i_ _ _

Al. Errata, a wealthy Mexican resident in Paris,
is dead. Fur several years his daughters have
been prominent guests in the most fashionable
',ain't., and balls. He was the proprietor of a
claret vineyard scarcely second to that of the
Chateau Laffite—tbe Clos d'Estournel. lie leaves
a fortune estimated at 10 millions of francs
(400,0000.
Queen Isabella has purchased for 1,800,000 fr.
Count Basilewski's splendid mansion on the Boule-
vard du Roi de Rome, near the residence of M.
Emile de Girardin. Her Majesty has paid a
forfeit of 60,000 fr. to get rid of the two houses
which were taken fur her in the Champs Elysiles.
Although nobody supposes that between this
and Dec. 17, the day fixed for the Greek an-
swer to the Turkish ultimatum, the Eastern ques-
tion will set the world in dames, the Bourse
was very weak, and the closing prices of Rente
were as low as those produced by the first panic
when the news came that Turkey had sent, not
an ultimatum dictated by higher powers with a
peaceable intent, but a hostile fleet with instruc-
tions to make reprisals. Rente closed at 71ir. 23c.,
both for cash and account, with a fall of se.
and 7c.

Queen Isabella and her family, the morning
before last, visited the Expiatory Chapel to Louis XVI.
and Marie-Antoinette, and remained there for Divine ser-
vice.

' The Emperor of the French, attended by General
Lebceuf, Violist-Leduc, and several °facers of hie
household, two days back visited the Gallo-Roman ceme-
tery, recently discovered in the forest of CompPgue, near
Lacroix-Saint-Ones. Three ancient sepulchre were
opened in his Majesty's presence, and uumwrogigumed,ases of
different forms and colours in clay and Om
one of which, chalice-shaped, particularly attracted the
imperial attention. This burial-place, implored under the
direction of M. de Rouoy, ham already given nearly three
hundred earthen vases and thirty in glass to the
museum of the pekoe. The Emperor remained on the
spot about au hour and a half, and warmly congratulated
the intelligent archeologist who directs the researches.
TEO theatrical perfceniance flied for the evening, In the
theatre of the Chiteau, Mabee& postponed till to-morrow,
when the artists of the Vaudeville will play Nisi AGIN»
and the !wit Voyage. His Majesty will pen in review.
on Sunday, the garrison and National Guard of Cow
*Pm
Mao. Patti's hoarseness continues, and her
**died attendee,' still forbid any resumption of her pro.
hatiosal duties.
The New York Titus says that tie Facile Roll-
and wen be emoisted by seat July, sad Mei there will
Ikea be ewe esedeeeee railway fries New York to Men
Irraeetwo—lle line la the wag. Travellers will
be able I. leave >TwwMa or Limped eat leech Yoke-
hew A
rds limagbal at toast kis oodles lima by say
ether .

LONDON AMUSEbiI
(THIS IMINING.)

Diem Lagra.-.0 Derreiwai Ptvas;•." " Slag Oleela" " &sic'
- f V.
Earmaimpr.--"Ikor &Wog." "Pletre." "Easel Moir.
-4 Ode&
Ira sear reel your wile le Camberwshr.
"Ilawae% 0145."—t Visa.
Parisershi.--" The fecese." " Alfrr Dark." "Kamer Jease's
11/alNaa."—lshisek.
Otourso.—"/riser reed Crasher." "The Tam Peseengs,..
—t dank.

tea—" lastaseke laas." “ The eltsaagas, Stn."
thas:User."—f cfslack. Ten setisalsas sss __
Praasa.—" The Wake" amt.. "The /Wet st the Cloth of
Gilt" "Murky ►t Any Priss."—t o'clock.
Placa Watas's.—" Who Speaks Push"
Veto*.

Hocaosx.—" Blow fig Blow." "Lanett Dargis. M.D.. /4
°nada Doetraos."-4 o'clock.
llorctrr.—" The Clock:rookie's Het." "A Loving Cup...
"TM Rise sad Poll ei Richard M."— 7.30 o'clock.
Sosorv.—"The Sued." "Lead Begs aad Wider Rate
—7 o'clock.
Otaes.--" Good for Nothing." " Cyril' • Swore." —7 o'oloA,
Baru, Aociuniacute, Hoinosai. Avolo. &ors ta th
Aram. Ite.-7.30 o'clock.
BILITANNIA.—" The Back-Woodeman." "The Scarlet MIA'
" The Ballinagoe Boy."—Alb o'clock.
BTANDARb.—" The Woad Dacha." " Tbo Aare:Win kW:a."
—7 o'ckaSk.

Earns Tho ILosinb ," tho gamed Aftravrai.:
—ll6 oielodc.
LeTrriap-sau., PIOCADILLY.—]It. Amnia( Norton's Estortsin•
essat.-41 redo&

Caasimr Untersaus, be. JAars's HALL —8 o'clock. t' a park
Ware see art
ROYAL Pocrescartc
NiDigi Tossautes.

-The Electric Organ, *e.

THE IRISH RAILWAY QUESTION.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor of Dublin c.,n -
vened a meeting at the Mansion House of thst city*:
noblemen, gentlemen, end others, to consider the pre.
priety of urging on her Majesty's government the policrif
purchasing, without delay, the railways of Ireland apse
the terms submitted to them during the last ses,iou o'
parliament by a joint committee of peen and comotonAr,
and of having the Irish railway systems worked in finer,
for the public benefit, and at the lowest rate of char:.
for goods and passengers, sow fully to develop the tad,
and resources of Irelsiod. The Lord Mayor pres:,l.l.
Ilesolntions in furtherance of the objects of the mettle;
were agreed to.

Ii the Court of Queen's bench, Dublin, Ju 1; •
O'Brien granted a writ of habeas corpus to 'mug op o •
two soldiers detained in custo►y at Drogheda is cease:•
non with the election riot.

TUB CLAMBT.ii7WOYEN.—Last night
Emily Faithfull addressed an audience at.the Rammer-
square Rooms on this subject. The lady claimed for he 7
tea a fairer chance than they now possessed of earning a
litehbood ; proper legal rights; greater educations, al.
vantages ; and the suffrage. It was no: her wish the:
women should perform men's work. but that they shoal I
be (moo/sued to do that for which they were paysi.idiy
and mentally capable. At pre.ent they had not that fair
opt oitunity which wax their undoubted right. Out
u.e Ina millions of women in thu country, two and a halt
millions were unmarried; and it was absolutely essential
to the of society that. where the di.propsrtioa
bstse( u the ,ease was solsirge. the weakest should ha►a
the widest possible teld to obtain the mean, of euppsring
thentsele,..

CII.VRTERIIOI:SE.—For the last four years the
• of l'haitsrhotge have preferred a play to the con-
test ab.,L uscil to he g.ven before toe scw,ol brae
for the t hristmas Le. day:, and on 11'04111-.4 Ley evsaiu ;
the first of three chatuatic representatrons was givAri in
the gnat Lad once ocsupied by the ill-fated Moo, /
Norto!k. The pieces selected this year were Tom Tiv...d's
((mt.:, of fabolk un, .I.At.ow,d. and Charles LATIN:, is •
of Iyer. in slate of the smalluess or ta
stage the performance, went briskly. the boys .1 .•..;
considerable aptitude for comedy, and at the
curtain they were warmly greeted by their schoolrelloi..
TUE I'otdcg.—Yestcrdisy, tit the 31aryl-',
Vestry. Mr. Israel Abrahams gave notice that at .
meeting ho would bring forward the following m 4t: •:.
" That this vestry considers that u: the police have p:i• .1
themselves incapable oi properly protecting the by .a
property of the public while the rates for their •.:. • -:
Lave largely inervesed. no policeman should be evil .:=.+:
from the public service at any time for private •
theatres, or music-halls."
WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of 'L.,:
Sommers Gard, of Rougemont, Exeter, Esq.. derma:- i. > . •
died on the 16th December last, at Court Hall,
Devon, has just been proved, by Edward Gard, the
of deceased, and Leslie Alexander Outhwaite and
Snow, the executors. The personal property is scs
under PO,OOOl. The widow of the testator has a !sr
provision made for her, end liberal legacies are gives • •
many of deceased's relatives and serried.. The ex-.
are directed to pay to the trustees of each of the
following charities at Exeter 600!.: viz., the 1.. .:
and Dumb Institution, the Blind Institution. the :
School, and the Eye Infirmary. The testator was •!••
[Duly for many years M.P. for Exeter. The 11.`• .
probate of the will of the Rev. Sir Nicholas Chian
late of Flintiield, in the county of Cork, and of No.
Hyde-park-square, clerk, baronet, deceased. who ws•
one of the sufferers by the Abergele disaster. was neat:-!
at the London Itegietr,y, on the 7th inst. The Irish r'•
bate is dated the 22nd of October last, and it is gran:,
to deceased's daughter, Anna Elizabeth Frances Mar
retta Haldane Chinnery (the wife of the Rev. J. R. A. R.:-
dane Cbinnery). The personal in England sal
Ireland—but nearlthe whole is in land—is swom
under 120,000/. Alll the testator's real and prron.tl pr
petty is left to his said daughter for life, with a pole.: of
appointment among her children. If his daughter -:. • :1.1
not leave any ohlld who should live to take a .1/.
terest in his said property, the testator leave: all is p
personalty to be equally divided between the
Missionary Society. for Africa and the East. the Lon I,a
Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, sal
the Society for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge on
the Continent.
FATHER loNAnts.—(To the Editor of the Ex-
press.) Sir,—Will you kindly inform your readers that
Father Ignatius has discontinued preaching at St. Edmund's
Church, Lombard-street, and will finish his course n:
Advent sermons at Store-street Hall, Bedford-ssivarc.
W.C. Subject, Sunday evening, Dee. 13, "The door was
shut" (Matt. xst. 10).—I am, kc.,X EDWARD 0. S. B.
Sot:IEEE OF PAINTERS LN WATER COLOUR:.—
Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, attended t,y
Lord Alfred Paget and Lady Barrington, yesterday riv.:e I
the Winter Exhibition et Sketches and Studies at
Gallery of the Society of Fainters in Water Colsi.:c
East.
TUE TOBACCO CONTROVERSY.—It is clearly ir
no want of ventilation that this subject has not I.c 1
definitely settled. There are, moreover, a suiticicut a .sa-
ber of smokers in the world to afford moors for observe
tion. Since the controversy was opened by 1111 moms s er•
Wo,q it has been many times revived, and Hr. (
Henry Lewes's recent article has set it agoinet again. Too
E•press of the Ist inst. appears to have takena coital
sense and correct view of the subject. The ahsar.:.!
exaggerated statements of the Anti-Tobacco So .:::,
and other enemies of the weed lose all
form by proving a good deal too much. Ws
must set aside cases of excessive smoking. su I
those exceptional cases in which tobacco MI, a.
in any quantity. No doubt tobacco has a greet dell tJ
answer for, bemuse smoking, like other taste-s. an,i nora
than most, so readily runs into excess. Its worst et!....:s
are observed in persons below puberty, iu whom
dues a peculiar kind of sallowness, functional
bon, diminished appetite, and inaptitude for physo.s.
mental energy: to say nothing of the expense s:teed.:.;
it. It is Sable to induce a similar train ,
tome in those who contract a habit of sino;1•4;
a little, and but a little, in excess. We
told that among young soldiers, palpitation sai
deranged action of the heart are common enough out :14
use. A medical officer, noticing the frequent rt
oular tremors and unsteadiness of hand among sinol,,rs
kept some statistics in order to determine whether
was any great difference between these and too amt•
smokers as regards rile practice. He wa,,, hsurevs7:
unable to prove, statistically,. that the latter enj,•ye,l snn.
superiority of accurate shooting power. Tcc
obao anvil::
the poorer and labouring chases certainly appears to ""r`
considerable laminae in restraining the appetite., A lasi
can apparently also bear a larger amount of fatigue ,:.‘t;
given nine with • small amount of food and a pips than
theta/I/amount "without his booty." Of course he :0
hewever, only maintain this within certain hnuts. -tsar
all, the physiological effect of very moderate )n1
.L.le:
has not yet denial, and the mental ,tats,
favour of the weed itself, is inOspaßio of bow!. eeterow.
In wools. We have lately been told by a Fo.lich u"
Deist. M. Made de °lranian, in • vein of sober
mess, that the acts and polic7 of the Emperor 4re the o,l*
coineof hishabit of smio. " To smoke is to artists trio
awake," it is assorted. There is a tendency Among u-'l."
French critics to seek in • muses an esp:ans;
lion of some of the mess slslrass moral sad
problems of past aid yreseat tiles. The theory. °a
doubt, contains • certain automat a troth ; hut it
coming every day more Waldo and detpotio in I" I" h;
eation. The reason b, so deals. that St Five, deur. ,°
play of a writer;:p le me* meta mons:
Pe
euheeitiee with aboune and is affords su _
01"nr, emethligsals=dous syeettlotten
ash
tir
character. Babas tb• de"" "
of human mature sad Mama ectislll.
te-Bemmit Deohanel. and ethers hare solPIT:
Se.precom tate a ftemy, mast ors:•;;,"
pail may, or be_=tad by MOM Ran/
lad hilmeslis.