The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-23 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FFOM OUR OWN CCRRESPORDIRT.)
PARIS, WYDNIBDAT :NG.

This eveaine's Monitcui• contains, at the head
its weekly political bulletin, the following paw
graph :
The publics good sense has done jnstioe ape the ram
of war, and alarming reports imagined sod propagasi
for speculative purpoaes. A Letter feeling has teems
more and more apparent, and while the French gorse
went neglects nothing to discourage warlike aspire.
and consolidate general peace, other cabinets she acie
stand that their duty is to use their influence in lamas•
woe of ideas of moderation and equity.

The oracular tone of these words is doubt:di
not very reassuring with reference to anyttmg
but the immediate future. They may, howe‘tnti
pretty safely taken as confirmatory of the genei
impression that there is no fear of war till a.4.d
harvest.

In the Senate yesterday a report was made up
a very extraordinary petition indeed, presented h
a M. Leroy, residing at Batignolles, and set:mg
forth that in the year 1867 he had an audience
with the Emperor at Compiegne to eil'aut
to him an invention for which he Is
obtained a patent, and for which patent
he has been offered 250,000 fr. On that occanon,
according to the petitioner, he left sith the
Emperor at his request drawings illustrative of ha
invention, and he has never been able to get they
back. In consequence of the loss of the dras
he cannot sell his patent (the object of which al
petition doe* not disclose), and he asks the Seam
to award him 50,000 fr. damages for the injury h
has sustained by having confided his proper)*
the Emperor. The reporter on the petition a
that every possible search and inquiry has
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made at oom pibgne, but that the papers in cl
tion are not to be found. He speaks iu •
terms of the " indecent and reprehensible "
duct of a man who, having had the honour of
audience of the Emperor, comes forward to tons '
make money by it, and proposes to reject the Pea'
tion in the moat decided way possible, asneib
by the " previous question." This was Tea
MM. con.
The fashionable organ the Gazette des Dawns
is responsible for the publication of the fdloang
fragment of a letter from the Empress (date azt
given) protesting against the flattery with 1,141
she has been beslavered on account of her rag w
a provincial cholera hospital two years ago
I dislike the for that has been made about my YAM
to dmins. Them was no courage or merit in that cs'
nothing bats simple duty of my poultice, which los
very hem to have fulfilled. Doles talk to ale,
fen, el benison ; I sand nobody, and, indeed, it is Onfr
that mono than one poor patient must have bees lass'
eninseed by the preparations made in the wards for
reingstion. Lel us reserve high sounding mud' f"
great things, seek as, for example, the sublime der
of the nun, who are not content with visiting the met
f
so hoar, as I did, but remain with them YU they reams
or die.
If this letter fa authentic, it is worthy to
placed on a level with Canute's rebuke to
courtiers. It is a most dignified renunciation
.'
the ridiculous title of "First Sister of charity
France," which the parasitical press forced u"

her lfajesty.
The Bourse opened with much buoyancy,
Rests roes to 40fr. 400., but subsequently
predoninatat, ana the dosing quotations
OM. 254.1ce digit, and Bflr. Stac. for amount,
s fail of LK end 12io. Italian fell 460. ; bid
end Ceedit remiss way without change.