The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

laplat7 per hour.

auSX.k. ,
A 111.18812. 31 3
?I
18.
WAS 38 21101.821 3193
13.38%181 3B 71
282.1311,418 42 92

treed dr dinsninalan d "psi," Sr abrra Ivrea com-
potes NI per am. di, 7 pr own slims and ether metals,
and 4 per sari ar mans sad war dalehs. Pans ab-
' agersads of aniodisd of dr balls at do lime branch-
tog eel dam It ; ant of NO hos at reinhandine, 20
log holigbi ?ark and 13 are sun from that city. In
OK liras mum In Frew 4,975 kilometre§ of
sdkinv, MOM kilometres of Imperial highways, 47,090 kilo.
mhos ef departments] sad etrategical roads, 67,949 kilo.
MINS slather rods, 8,818 kilometres of navigable Hors,
and itithhllometree of canals. Now there existed about the
ISM of nods sad towels before the origin of railroads,
se Obi 4,975 kil. of milway repnxet the ineresie Is the
mem emorounication during the 'sat 20 years or these-
llnt owing to the great rapidity and other advantages
limed to railroads, this increafte comoponde to more than
Gmbh the circulation and Oak of the other roads. Nat
dem there seem to be any limit to the traffic co
tap-
wsys; for, in 18.54, the number of we 14 per
east. more than in 18.53, and that year ski an teener of
9 per out, over 1862 ; and although the malts of 1566 and
1866 are sot yet published, enough of there is bows to
enable us to couclude with certainty that there was a far-
ther advance in those year.. OD those lines when there me
but two clime. of vehicle*, the pceportion of the AM-
clads tickets to the total is from 13 to 14 per cent., of the
wound-clam 86 to 87 per cent. Where there are these
clams of vehicle* the pre portions are first-clam, 10 per asst.,
2nd, 24 per cent. ; 3rd. 66 per rent. Thos number of tickets
delivered at Pais is 24 per cent. of there delivered an the
whole line. The groin produce of the railways of France In
1856 was 281 million. t frame, representing about one-
seventh of the whole budget of France. The value of rail •
way Awes and bond* now in circulation is 4 milliards of
hew, or 160,005.0004 The amount of dividends paid to
shaseloilders in 1866 was 120,000,000 fr., of which, either by
direct or by indirect ematioe, 33,046,176 fr. have gone to the
state, and a sell grunter amount of profit will accrue to the
latter in future, owing to the new law imposing a tax on the
treader of shares.

LEGAL STATUS OP AN RNOLIBILIMN IN
TIAN=

With reference to a ease , that of Parkinson v.
Bedeac," which has lately came before the ahril tribunal at
Paris, the plata/MN solicitor, Mr. Margery, addreiew to
011141111111i1 ilessaver the following glom' statement of the
e4t4IS, taw 7

Ch7ealfaci !kiss are given by the law of Franco for the
arrant of a foreigner, when the creditor is a Frenchman, and
gray u unfortenate Eoglishinen Las been incarcerated
• upon overdue bills of exchange (often obtained from him
frrudulently) indorsed toe Frenchman. A., however, in the
majonty of ruse the party is not a hoof fie holder for
valuable coneldeestion, but merely a man of atm. who lends
Wname for the o 'maim (technically called • prite-riora),
the debtor generally =creeds In obtaining his liberation on
'hoeing to the court the real nature of the transaction,
end getting the arrest declared illegal. This, however,
requiem some time to effect, in, if be succeeds la the Tribunal
de Consomme, the nominal creditor appeals to the Cuor
Impiriele, and month. elapse before • final judgment ean be
obtained. In the meantime, the unfortunate debtor must
Yemeni la pieaa, unless he can deposit the amount claimed
In the des Consignation., or give bail; end ea tba
surety N net only answerable, as in England, for the ap-
pearance of the debtor, but also for the peyment of the debt
and come he cradgment is given against him, and he le
unable S. meet the demand, it is gluiest impouible for a
funks', le Sad • eabstantial parson willing to undertake
respondbility. la England. no dlstinction is made as to
liability to wen Uterus a British subject and a foreigner,
*A neither one be wonted on mesas proem (that is, before
judgment), mama the creditor can prove to the satisfaction 01
a judge that the debtor intend, to keys the conaory. Art. 11,
tit. 1., liv. 1, of the Code Napoleon rya:—. L'etranger joules
en France des memos droite civil. pm cum qui sing on anent
accordis aux Franceia par lee tnites de la nation k lequelle
vet Fri...neer sppartiendra.' It in not, however, mute-
cleat that certain rights are accorded to Frenchmen by the
law, of • foreign country for the mahjects of that country to
enjoy the saloll privtleges in Preece, the reciprocity must be
expreaely stipulated for by treaty (me Region'. note on till.
article in his ' Code Civil Explique"). Now no treaty exists
which puts Frenchmen in England and Englishmen In
France upon en equality se to arrest fur debt, the former
enjoying in England the same privilege in that respect as •
British subject, purely and simply by the law of the land.
It strikes me, however, that if the cue were brought offi-
cially to the notice of the French government, they would
admit the equity of the claim of British eubjects to enjoy in
France the muse privileges as the low of England accords to
Frenchmen in that country, and the milli .1 alliance which
now extols between the two nation., the high sense of juts-
tire of the Emperor of the Freech, nod the well-known zeal
of our ambit...odor at Paris, seem to render the pruent mm
meat peculiarly favourable for obtaluing the desired object."