The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-22 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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PARIS, FRIDAT Enema.
The unusual circumstance of an opposition in-
tcrpellation being admitted to discussion occurred
in the Corps Legitlatif to-day, four bureaux out of
nine—a sufficient number—decided that Baron de
Janse's interpellations about some serious deroga-
tion of duty imputed to the justice of the peace
at Londeac shall be heard.

M. Thies is speaking to-day in support of Baron
de Jane's amendment for a mitigation of the
absurd regulations against unofficial " reports "
of the debates. I shall be surprised if some
change is not made. The present system is too
ridiculous to be maintained. Neither M. Pinard's
brass nor M. Rouher's ingenuity can defend it.
M. Schneider, the President of the Corps Legis-
LW, continues so ill that the ball at his official
residence, which was fixed for to-morrow, is ad-
journed.
Although the Bourse is in a state of sublime
serenity several papers speak with uneasiness of
the attitude of Russia on the confines of Bulgaria.
The Presse says :—" The Russian Courier, more
frank than its St. Petersburg contemporaries,
confesses that an alliance between Prussia and
Russia is an accomplished fact ;' and it proudly
adds—' French papers must make up their
minds to this.'" The Prase says that for its own
part its mind has been long made up, and that the
assertion of the Russian organ is no news.

The papers state, and truly,. that the Emperor
went to Versailles yesterday for some shooting.
But they do not state what I happen to know from
a private source that he took the opportunity of
witnessing on the reviewing ground of Satory some
experiments with a new and very secret "engine of
war," which is expected, like the Chassepot
but on a greater scale, to " do wonders."
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde were
at the Italian Opera last night to see .Rigoletto.
It has been remarked not only that the Prince and
Princess have attended no Court ball this
season, but that they have been careful to
show themselves on Tuileries' ball nights
at some public theatre. The fact--the very
curious fact—could not be disputed by Mons.
Gmotuniqui himself. The true reason will pro
balily not be fully known till the memoirs of the
court of the second empire come to be published.
An action has just been tried before the civil
tribunal of the Seine, in which the plaintiff, a
young man of high family, the Viscount de
Gentaut Biron, at this moment a non-commissioned
officer serving with the French army in Cochin-
China, demanded that certain bills of ex-
change, to the amount of 30,000 fr., signed
by him to the order of Mademoiselle Keller, an
actress of the Palais Royal Theatre, should be
delivered up to be cancelled as being null and void,
because given for an immoral consideration. The
Court held that the alleged cause of nullity was
thoroughly proved, and made a decree against
Mademoiselle Keller and her indorsees, whom it
adjudged to be men of straw and accomplices, with
costs.

The Bourse Was extremely animated. There was
what the French money articles call an explosion de
haunt. Everything went up, Rente rose 25c. for
cash and 324 c. for account, closing at 61*. 40c. and
69fr. boc. In Italian there was the wonderful rise
of lfr. 60c., the latest quotation being 46fr. 20c. ;
Credit Fonder rose 22fr. 50c. ; Mobilier, 3fr. 76c.;
and Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. Wc.