The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-25 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(7141( OCM ow eintERIVIDENS.)
r,uns, TL-Y.4I)AT ETLCINO.

The Emperor had a great legal consultation yo -
terday. Y. Grandperret, the Procureur-Cleucral
of Paris ; X. Prefect of Police; and the
ministers Rooker, Baroche, and Patera, all law-
)(Fs, were with his Majesty from 10 o'clock till
5. It is very safe to guess that their delibera-
tions turned upon the acquittal of the provincial
journals, prosecuted for publishing lists of the
Baudin subscription by the tribunal of Clermont-
Ferrand, and tho probability of other acquittals
in the provinces. The French liturgy contains no
prayer to " endue the lords of the council with
grace, wisdom, and understanding." A Scotch
preacher would say that in the present crisis they
stand in " muctle need" of all these things.
A minor journal, called the Eclipse, proposed
to publish portraits of the advocates who pleaded
in the Baudin ca-e. This has been prohibited by
the censorship.
It is stated by the that the government
will consider as " practising manceuvres " the pub-
lication in the form of a pamphlet of the speeches
of AIM. Gainbetta, &c., which have already
appeared in the newspapers.
The following is the bulletin received from
Augers ille to-day :
. _ .

There is no appreciable improvement in 11. Berryer's
state. A very agitated night. (:neat weakness. !A little
sleep this moiling. after which he took some tour.di-
ment.

The eldest member of the Rochejequelin
family, Count Auguste, has just died, aged 80,
at his chateau of Riguy-Lase, Lucke et Loire.
In early life he was one of the emigrants
to St. Domingo. He afterwards took ser-
vice in the imperial army, notwithstanding the
traditional devotion of his race to the royalist cause.
He was severely wounded at Moskowo and taken
prisoner by the Russians, who, however, on the
recommendation of the Count de Provence,
treated him as a favoured guest. In 1814 he herd
a commission in the Royal Guards, and during the
100 days he took refuge in La Vendte, where he
was wounded in the Mathes skirmish, in which his
brother was killed. He fought in Spain in lsl 8.
and in 1821 he joined the Russian army in a cam-
paign against the Turks. In 1832 he was accused by
Louis Phillippe'sgoverrunent of fomenting troubles
in La Vendee and sentenced to death in his abence
by the Versailles court-martial. Subsequently he
appeared before the court and contrived to clear
himself. He never rallied to the Second Empire,
and looked upon his kinsman, the late Senator
Willi de la Rochejaquelin, as a black sheep.

Count de Chambord addri-Ksod a telegraphic
despatat a few days bark to the family of M. &wryer,
mling to be Wormed daily of the c2lehrated advocatdo
health by the same medium.
Verdi has edam:eel a letter to the It ilian
journals 'imposing that in order to do honour t. the
memo, y of Emoini, the Italian conipcoers oh laid jointly
pupate a Be,ltirm, to be performed (by Italian artistes)
on the atu.ivertary of his death, at the chine% of Stu
Petri nio, Pologra, which city he de4isuati-o the tra
musical country of the &roomed ; he further rmoroniondi
that, once performed, the score should bo sealed up and
deposited in the Conservatoire of Music there, never to be
used except on the recurrewee of the date on which tha
ilhatzious maestro expired,
Tux Axmvxmmax or lrxxxAN.t.--Coooril
flarilnldi has just addrened the following letter to the
Mutual Aid swety of Turin Volantec-o Caprera,
12th November.—My dear Mena*, —Thanks fur the reN4-
ketion et Modena, that glorious martyrdom, stained with
treason. It proves to the youth of Italy, wk.) were naked
and unalmid on that day, what they will bo capable of
doing when they defaced into the areuf to fight the
minks of Italy on equal te4m 4. May that day, ou which
I hop' to be with you, Conic qei hty' - For life, O. tlaau.
BALM."

ItoasgNl.—The fallowing is the text of the test -
mentery clause which establishes the lto shit Pri.%):--" I
desire that after my death and that of my wife, then
shall be founded at Faris, in perpetuity eadexclusively foe
Frenchmen, two prizes et 3,ooslfr. each, to be given an-
nually one to the author of a musical composition. reli-
gious or lyrical, the principal feature in which shall be
melody, so =oh neglected at prevent and the other to
the writer of words (prose or verse) to whiuh the music
is lobo appllod, and to which it mast bo perfectly sp.
propriate, in (Averring the laws of morality, not
always sufficiently respected. Those productions shill be
si.:Thittud. to the elamination of a spec:al coin nittes
*elected flora the Acuilcrry of Vine Arts of th, Insti-
tute, who shell decide wht4i of the enenzsetito-s -,11 dl
taxa merited the toward, to ho presented at a p,iblio
f6dliifff, after es execution of the moreeati, either at the
frithitnte or the Conservatoire. I have desired to leave
to Irani" who her so cordially received me, this testi-
mony of my gratitude and of my satiety far the improve-
ment of an art to which I have dervied ny Ilia--It.
licultar."