The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom orra OWN coistasroximur.)

PARIS, SUNDAY EVINING,

4 decree in this dars Moniteur destroys the inde-
pendence of the College of France, placing the ad-
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ministration of the college, which his hitherto been
in the hands of its own professors, directly under
the direction of the Minister of Public Instruction.

We read in the Moniker :—" The Emperor left
the camp of Chalons at two o'clock yesterday after-
noon, and: arrived at the Palace of St. Cloud at
half-past seven. His Majesty is in the enjoyment
of perfect health. He was accompanied by all the
aides-de-camp and orderly officers who have been on
duty near his Majesty during his stay in the camp,
as well as by Dr. Larrey, one of the surgeons in
ordinary. The Count de Chasseloup Laubat, a
director of the Western Railways, had the honour of
accompanying the Emperor from the terminus of
the Strasbourg Railway to that of St. Cloud. Mar-
shal VelUant, Grand Marshal of the Palace, received
his Majesty on his alighting from his carriage."
The Presse says in its weekly commercial re-
view :

The movement of affairs continues to be satisfactory In
most brindles of industry, but trade is a good deal hampered
by the St amity of ready money. Illanuttirere who, have
delivered goodsat there months' credit find that they mu
warmly get a cash payment on account, and aro forced to
take bills, which it in very difficult to get discounted. Those
who ate the most hostile to the Borves and speculation, ere
now obliged to adroit that the tightness which so much
checks the development of business is duo to groat measure
to the depreciation of the Rents and railway shares.
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are few tradeonen who ore not holder. of
Rents or shares, which they bought at high prices, and could
not realise without great toss. A I :.0 would free a great
deal of wet-up capital, and would nocciwarily react favour-
ably upon trade. At the beginning of September, when the
Bourse was bettor, tho good effects upon trade were vary
perceptible. The facilities of coot muni.vition offered_ by
the railways enabled the provincial tradeamen to keep thole
stocks low and renew them frequently. They this emiso-
mimed their capital and were enabled to invitee in thellesisesd
In rsilways, reckoning that they could convert their's:arid=
into cash whenever they pleased. But the tall at the Bourse
has crippled their resources, and many of them, rather then
realise a loos, prefer to restrict their business and wait for
bills coming due. Tho commencement of cold, wet weather
has produced the usual effect upon the side of winter goods,
which has been active during the week. Large orders for
articles do Tanis are received daily, end especially from
Spain. Very large orders for jewellery come from the Isle
Bourbon, but we repel to notice that the agents buy only
the very chelpeet kind of goods which being sold In the
island at an enormous profit, hurt the reputation of the Paris
manufacturer& Flour is now as cheap as in the beet years,
sad Is so abundant in all the market' that aalee, even at the
present low quotations, are not wilily effected.

The sister of Verger, the priest who murdered the
Archbishop of Paris, appeared yesterday, by counsel,
before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, to answer an
application made by a Brazilian named Peres d'Oli-
veira for an order upon her to deliver into his cus-
tody an illegitimate child of which he is the father.
It appeared that M. d'Oliveira, after having lived
for some time with MdUe. Verger, and having had
two children by her, had made up his mind to make
her his wife. The engagement was broken off in
consequence of the dreadful affair of the church of
St. Etienne-du-Moat, M. d'Oliveira's feeling being
that, although affection and duty combined
had reconciled him to an alliance with • per-
son below himself in point of station and for-
tune, he could not possibly become a member
of the family of a convicted murderer. A
quarrel subsequently ensued. M. d'Oliveira's counsel
contended that he, hating " recognised" the child
as his in the forms prescribed by the French code,
had the full rights of a father over it. The coevt, how-
ever, decided that the custody of an illegitimate
child belongsprinio facie to the mother, and that there
were no exceptional reasons in the present case for
departing from the rule. M. d'Oliveira's application

was therefore dismissed, and he was decreed to pay
to Mademoiselle Verger SOfr. a month for the main-
tenance of the infant.

A man bearing the ominous name of Carpenticr,
the managing director and principal concoctor of the
" General Society of Algerian Cmdit," was yester-
day convicted of swindling, and sentenced to two
years' imprisonment. An accomplice, named Lam
Inert de Roissy, was sentenced to four months'
imprisonment. It appeared that they were both
men of straw, and while starting the General So-
ciety of Credit for Algeria without any capital what-
ever, had contrived in a most ingenious way to
obtain credit for themselves. Numerous victims of
their frauds gave evidence. Amongst the witnesses
was a Muffle. Roberts, a girl who could scarcely
read and write, and who, nevertheless, had amused
the considerable sum of 60,000 fr. by gambling at
the Bourse. Some surprise was expressed by the
court at the fact of a person in her humble condition
having so much money. She naively explained that
having saved a little and received a present from a
respectable friend, she had augmented her capital by
buying and selling at the Bourse, geig l-mcriably
upon the principle of buying securities when they
were cheap and selling them when they were deer-
How many old heads would be glad to learn
Ikladlle. Roberta's secret! It came to pus that as
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she had one day realised a large sale of Credit
Mobilier shires, and was cowing away from the
Bourse with 60,000 fr., her whole fortune, in her

pocket, she fell in with Carpentier and de Roissy,
who so vaunted the merits of Algerian credit, that
they extracted from her the whole of her treasure.
This seems to have been the greatest haul they ever
made, for immediately afterwards they left a very
poor lodging, and lived luxuriously in a handsomely
furnished house. I'oor Mademoiselle Roberts will
never see a fraction of her 60,000 fr.