The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

DEATH OF BERANGER.

(BY eVNY•ItIHP. AND lIRITINIt TRI.POILAPH.)

PARIS,FatuAy Moanixo.

Arranger's death is announced.

The Emperor hos decided that the funeral ex-
penses shall be defrayed out of the civil list. Only
those who are specially invited will be allowed to
follow the deceased poet's remains to the grave.

(FROM OUR OWN CORIESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURMDAY EVANINO.

The Courrier de Patio says:—" We believe that
nothing is yet decided u to a visit of the Queen of
England to France at the beginning of the autumn"
The Empress is going to the Porte St. Martin
this evening to see the " Chevaliers du Brouillard,"
a French version of " Jack Sheppard."
By the death of the Marquis de Belmont, one of
the Emperor's Chamberlains, a vacancy occurs in
the Corps legislatif for the second circumscription
of the department of the Basses Pyreams.
The Bourse opened with the name flatness that
has characterised the last few days ; but, on the news
arriving that the Bank of England had lowered its
discount, there was a brisk upward movement,
which, however, was not fully sustained to the close.
The Bente rose 23c. for cash, and 15e, for account,
closing at 06fr. 90c. and 66fr. 9Se., after having been
quoted at 07fr. The railway settlement went off
very well. It was not possible to invest money in
carrying over accounts, the operations of speculators
for a further fall sufficing for all the wants of buyers
who desire to hold on. The Northern and Lyons
lines rose 12fr. 50e. each, and most of the others
were quoted I fr. or 2fr. higher.
The statue of Dr. Bichat, the last work of David
(d'Angers) was inaugurated this afternoon in the
Grand Court of the Ecole de Medicine. Bichat, who
died upwards of fifty years ago, at the early age of
32, was the most celebrated medical reformer in
France. His " Recherches our is Vie et la Mort"
has a European reputation. In 1845, a medical con-
gress, composed of delegates from all parts of France,
sat for many days at the Hotel-de-Ville, and at the
end of their discussions they resolved, out of grati-
tude to the memory of Bichat, to present the Faculty
of Medicine of Paris with his statue, and also to
give him a solemn public funeral. Bichat, who died
at a period when the wars of Napoleon absorbed
public attention, was interred privately in an ob-
scure corner of the cemetery at Clamart, celebrated
by Jules Janin's description in the Anc snort as the
burial-place of criminals. When the body was
exhumed it was found that the head was wanting.
Now Biehat's head was one of the largest ever
known, taking rank with Cuvicr'a, Napoleon's, and
two or three others commonly cited as exceptional.
The Congress was in consternation at the loss, bat
upon inquiry being made it was found that Dr.
Roux, an eminent medical professor, had cut off his
friend's head without ceremony, and kept it by him
in a glass case in his study. M. ]tour consented
to give up his keepsake to the Medical Congress,
and the head, once morejoiued on to the body, was
interred with great pomp at Mont farness, where a
splendid monument has been since erected to Biehat's
memory. The ceremony of to-day way presided
over by M. Rouland, the Minister of Public Instruc-
tion, supported by Dr. Serres, the president of the
Medical Congress, Baron Paul Dubois, Baron Larrey,
and the elite of the profession,

The preparations for the annual Rte of August
15 are already commencing. It is said that among
other novelties there will be a gigantic model is
wood on the heights of Trocadero, of the monument
to the Emperor which it is proposed to erect there.
A monument which, as has been already stated, will
elevate Napoleon 111. to an altitude exceeding by
many feet the level upon which his uncle stands in
the Place Vendome. . .

The heat yesterday was exceedingly oppressive in
Para. At six o'clock i❑ the morning, M. Cleve'
tier's thermometer marked 20 1-10th Centigrade
(GS} Fahrenheit); at noon, 32 4-10ths Cent. (90}
F.) ; and at two o'clock, 33 6-10ths C. (92i F.)
A comiderable quantity of fine new wheat received
from Blidah and Bona in Algeria was yesterday
offered for sale in the corn market of Paris.