The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-21 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM OUR OWN CORERRPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

The decoration on August 15, by the Emperor's
special command, of M. Paul de Cassagnac, a
young man of only 25, son of the notorious Granier
de Cassagnac, and now (by reason of his father's
virtual retirement) principal editor of the Pays,
gives to the alarmist manisfestoes of that journal
an importance which they would not otherwise
have. But for this I should not think the Bobadil
paragraphs of the Pays worth any atten-
tention. We are told, however, only this
very day that the Empress has sent her chamber-
lain, M. Corse-Brossac, to congratulate M. Paul
de Cassagnac on the honour conferred upon him.
Now, the Pays this evening, referring to current
rumours touching the interview between the Czar
and the King of Prussia at Sehwalbach, says
they " confirm the apprehensions which we
have unremittingly manifested while dwelling
upon the necessity for France resolutely to
make war." It treats that the Emperor
will, without loss of time, resort to those
" energetic" measures which alone can thwart
an offensive and defensive alliance evidently
made against France.
Now I ask the question, of what use is it for
the Constitutionnel and the Pafrii to speak of
war rumours as the malicious inventions of
foreign correspondents when an organ specially
patronised by the French Sovereign, and sup-
posed, with much show of reason, to be the organ
of personal policy different from that professed
by the present ministers, can talk in this way ?
The Duke de Persigny has telegraphed to the
Opinion Nationale that he never received any
letter whatever from the Emperor relative to the
transit of the Queen of England through Paris.
It has, I suppose, been taken for granted that he
was the " intimate friend" mentioned by the
Gauloie.

It has been stated by mistake that Dr. Nelaton
is the first medical man made a senator or peer.
Dr. Corvisart was a senator under the first em-
pire, and Dr. Prunelle, an eminent Lyon physician
and inspector-general of the Vichy Waters, was
called to the peerage by Louis Philippe. Dr. Connean,
the Emperor's household physician, has sat for
some years in the present Senate; but in his case
old private friendship, and not professional
standing, was the motive of the nomination.
The Evinement says the news circulated by
several journals of a fusion between the legitimists
and Orleanists, by the adoption by the Count de
Chambord of the eon of the Count de Paris, is
altogether false. No member of the Orleans
family has ever so much as paid a visit to the
Count de Chambord, except Queen Amelie, and
she went but once.

The Duke of Brunswick, who is litigious and
seldom fortunate in a court of law, has just lost a
snit. He was greatly taken with the " lift " which
last year raised people to the top of the Universal
Exhibition building, and employed the engineer,
Y. Edoux, to make a similar one on a reduced
scale to his house, the Hotel Beaujon. 12,000 fr.
was the price agreed upon, but the duke claimed
to make a reduction of 3,000 fr., because the work
was not done within the time stipulated. The
court found that the delay was attributable to the
duke's own neglect in not preparing the founda-
tions as he had agreed to do, and gave a verdict
against him, with costs.
It is stated that Talleyrand's memoirs, which it
was thought were coming out soon, will not
appear till 1870.
An accident at Suresnes, where a groat lock is
making on the river, has produced a sudden fall
of seven feet in the Seine at Paris, in consequence
of which the navigation is quite interrupted.

It is announced that Mrs. Lincoln crossed over
to France almost immediately after her arrival in
England, and that she intends to reside at Nice.

There were considerable fluctuations at the
Bourse. Bente was 70fr. 65c. at the highest, and
70fr. 43c. at the lowest, and closed with a rise of
10c. for cash, and a fall of 3c. for account, at
70fr. 53c., and 70fr. 474 e. Italian experienced a
severe reaction, and fell lfr. Mobilier and Credit
Foncier fell 2fr. 60c. each..

A letter from Warsaw says:—" Madame Lehar,
a French actress, and a great favourite with the public of
this city, has been ordered by the government to leave
the country with her husband, the elteproredestre at the
Eldorado theatre. The cause assigned for this summary
measure is that M. Lehar bad insulted the public.' It
appears that one night the lady was cheered rather more
loudly than usual, and that some Russians, who happened
to be in the theatre at the time, marked their disapproval
of the verdict of the Polish majority by loud hisses. This
roused the indignation of M. Leber, who, turning round
in his seat in the orchestra, exclaimed,: ' Cochons de
Busses !' The expavassion was not a choice one, but the
'public' could hardly be said to have been insulted,
teeing that the great majority of the audience were not
Russians, but Poles."
"M. Rochefort," says the Opinion Nationale,
"has found a printer for the thirteenth number of the
Lanterns; the daring man who undertakes the work is X.
Oaittet. However, he liar 'id carried Ilia boldness so far
as to reprint in Paris the twelfth number,"