The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-13 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER

(FROY OVII OWN CORRl•ssinoNthry
Frin,y !a,
A spe(ial train to Fontainehfraii.
the service of ministers, now does
Paris in one hour and twenty-fi„• -
first ministerial council is fixed f•.r t
a quarter past nine, and the mini•t, 1.,
fast with the Emperor aft.•r•, oh, 1,
minister in turn goes t:, 1;
frequently to transact bitsi .„ „
Majesty. The Minister of W:,r 1,
the General commanding the
the Emperor will arrive there•
remain there during the 26th, 27th.
There are not so many trophi.•; aud 1-11,1•.: •
the amateur plastic art of the 1:
years, and the reason is said to b.• th .
are kept so hard at work in pia, ti• 11,;!. . ,
manoeuvres and trying the new .
have no time for recreative pursuit:. r...
of the month of May and th.. MO, .

last week have made sad havoc tt ith t , •
laid out around the tents of the supei
M. Chesnelong, the deputy who
the tribune the day after the more
seizure of M. Napoleon Champigny.
for his country house. When h.• po,-Irr
came down from the tribune, few .4
colleagues were aware that he w.t.
but rather supposed that he h:•I
down in his speech. A 7,04 at hi,
is attributed by the Fig aro to " th.•
Tillancourt :" "M. Chesnelong is quite t 1... r
of the Bourbons: be has learned everytlar::,
forgotten everything."

The Assize Court of the Aisne lately tr:.,!
cal inet-maker named Bachelet, a man of 18 v
of ago, for the murder of a " Sorcerer." 73
prisoner, who had never been accused o' 1:7
crime before, and bore a very fair character,
under the impression that his victim, au
man of 67, named Cuvillier, had looked
him with an evil eye or, to its.
French expression, /ail emit jets le sort. Citri!!l•
he said, owed him a grudge because he bad roi•—•
to remove his furniture for him when ht. '.s
changing his lodgings, and in order to ,„as
himself he had trafficked with evil spirit. t.,
his, Bachelet's, body covered with vermin. Not v.:t
Bachelet himself, but all his household, s,
pestered with lice for a whole year, in 1
all the means tried to get rid of th.mi, Sill st
being out of patience, and knowing that !I
plague was owing to the machinationl
Cuvillier, he went to his house. meaning t•
punish him severely, but the beating be ;I •
caused his death. The prisoner said triiimphasl
that the proof that Cuvillier had sent tb••
his household was that the moment the lacali at.
out of Cuvillier's body the vermin all die.l, orn
those that were in dirty linen--a thing which I
had never known before. Several witne,,,,,whn
asked whether Cuvillier was really a sorce.r.
shook their heads, and said they believed so n:w
or less. The jury found a verdict of gtulty
with extenuating circumstances, and 111-
sentenced Bachelet to live years' imprisonment.
The Erenemehe publishes a letter datod Grad
Hotel, June 10, purporting to be written by il.••
Marquis of Hastings. but I can warily belie
the authorship, because his lordship is to .0.
that since his horse The Earl won the Great Peri.
Prize he considers himself "in some sort
representative of the English nation." Ta
object of the letter is to say that there can be in
truth in the story of a freers after the raees
twcen a Frenchman named Boulay and " Lwi
Chester," because there is no lord of that name 0
England. The letter bearing his lordship's sig-
nature takes the opportunity of saying as
while the writer desires to bear testimony
to the noble qualities, great courage. and Id
shown by Frenchmen in combats with sword ma
pistol, they are no match for the English 0
boxing or scuffling, and he is persuaded that if
match were to be made at fisticuffs. thirty a side, tit
Frenchmen, to nse the charming and poetical lan-
guage of Mdme. Selmeider, would get a most serest
licking." That may be all very true, lint in Oa
particular raw• of fisticuffs which called forth OS
letter the Englishman, not Lord Chester. got
the worst of it, and this is all the more to be et-
grefted because the Frenchman was the wive;
doer.
Two young American lions (male and female'.
which belonged to the unfortunate Emperor 3Giti-
milinn, were landed at Calais yesterday from Lao.
don. The story of these lions is that they wed
stolen after Maximilian's execution sad sent to
London to be sold. Victor Faninantiel bas bought
them for the Turin menagerie, and they :works, a:
through France under the core of one of his valeta.
The Bourse was tolerably firm. Een'e for
count rose 50., closing at 70fr. 55e. Italia r'o_
35e., and Mobilier 7fr. 50c. Credit Fonder
lfr. 2.10.

The Austrian Emperor, desirous of rearw:
rating the barristers who undertook the perilous data ).
defending his brother Maximilian, offered each of tlivi
gentlemen a large s® of money, which they Oft-14
refused. The Emperor has, therefore, sent to ea!'
magnificent service of plate of the value of KW 2'5.;
and to the priest who accompanied the captive to tit
place of execution, a jewelled cross of equal value.
Since 1860 there have been a groat many duel
in Italy, often for frivolous causes, and usually
with very slight injury to the parties engaged. Blit
encounter of unusual fierceness has just occurred at Ihnin
between a lieutenant of Benagliesi and an ex-Ovihsl6l6,
The duel wan to he " to the death," and returnee's' 01'
pistols. but apparently the combatants were pow wvl"
men, for they fired four shots each without any aloe. ,
being done. They then took to sabres, and the tisnow
dien received Seven wound., DOM of them ilangyroui
besragliere was wounded in four places, and tiro n,t.
wovndr, in the head, are said to be dangerou,
bad to be sespeadei. A lady is reported to have bean.
raw, of the qi arrel. Lately, at Milan, a retired ol°
of the army, who is row editor of a neirimper, bito4o".
whole regiment upon his hands by some afire,' KIWI(
upon its dicers. He be 1 • series of duels. in nen'll‘j
which he came off conqueror.