The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(moo OVA OWN COLIMPONDIXT.)
PARIS, WF.DNINDAY 111f-YINO.
I have before me the report of M. l)evinck, the
reporter charged by the committee of the Corps Le-
gislatif to draw up the report on the bill on the Bank
of France—M. Mimi, the reporter originally
named, having declined the office, on the ground that
he was one of a minority of two in the committee.
M. I)ewinck regrets much that the Council of State
should have rejected an amendment by which the
privileges of the Bank, instead of being granted ab-
solutely up to the year 1897, were to be subjected to
revision in 1877. It is also a subject of regret with the
committee that the Bank should not be placed under
Innso &Ways to discount bills at ninety days date.
With regard to the first point—that of a revision
ti the statutes at the end of twenty years from the
paosst time—the report says that the majority of
Mission has not changed its opinion. It
costumes to be firmly convinced that tho govern-
ment is wrong not to have taken the measure of
precaution, but, nevertheless, being of opinion that
the measure as it stands contains considerable ame-
liorations in th ,ncession of the Bank privilege,
the committee rem, •he adoption of the bill.
It is oonsidered very doom.. er the Corps
Legislatif will be induced to the bill this
swim.
The Previa mays it has reason to kpow that the
controversy in the Neufchatel Conferepee between
Prussia and Switzerland as to the mode in which
the renunciation of the Xing of Prwwi,;s original de-
mend of a million of francs *to be effected has
been resolved in fr. Ad latter power, and that
instead of the fact being mutate, by an additional
act, article ft at the draft treaty will be simply struck
oat. _ .

The i.-urt will stay at the Tuileries rather longer
than was expected, and, according to present ar-
rangements, will not go to St. Cloud before Sunday
or Monday.
There has been a downward reaction at the Bourse
today. The Itente fell Ioe. for cseih, and 2.5 c. for
account, cloning at 69k. 30c. and G9fr. blobilier
fell 10fr. The railways were quoted from 3fr. to
10fr. lower, with but little businow doing. News
arrived at the Bonnie that the general meeting of
the shareholders of the Austrian Railway was held
at Vienna at nine o'clock this morning. It is an-
nounced that the dividend is fixed at 301 r., and that
2,000,000 fr. had been placed in the reserve. This
intelligence caused some speculative business in the
Austrian lines, but they ultimately fell from Bfr.
to 10fr.

M. David, the present member of the Corps
Legislatif for Libourne, in the department of the
Gironde, has written a letter to the Siiele, express-
ing his astonishment that while he in occupied in
Paris with his legislative duties, M. Armin should
have announced himself to the electors as a candi-
date, supported " by the Emperor," before the time
has come for the issue of any official list of govern-
ment candidates. M. David says be does not know
whether M. Arman be really the government can-
didate or no, but at all events it is his (M. David's)
intention to offer himself again to the electors, and
at the proper moment he will ask the Weir to pub-
lish his address.

The Independmat dr rOrest, a Legitimist journal,
replying to a taunt of the Sleek, challenging it to
support its theory in favour of abstention, declines to
bring forward any arguments on the ground that
it was ordered by the authorities, several weeks ago,
to abstain from all di+cussion relative to the elec-
tions.

Forty-four individuals were placed at the bar of
the Correctional Tribunal of the Seine to-day, on a
charge of belonging to a secret society called the
Francs Juges. One of them is accused, in addition,
of having struck a magistrate on the bench. The
trial is expected to last several days, bat, as usual in
like eases, the proceedings will not be made public.
Yesterday, at the Porte St. Martin Theatre,
an individual advanced to the front of the centre
boxes while the curtain was down between the acts,
and, cutting a string which held together a large
packet of papers, sent them floating over the pit.
At first it was thought that he was an advertising
agent; bat on inspecting the papers it was found
that they accused the government of deceiving the
nation, and pretended that it would be easy to fix
the price of bread at three sous and of meat at seven.
The papers were written in a female hand. The
man disappeared before any attempt was made to
arrest him.
A letter from Damascus stab's that Abdul-Kader
has been authorised to reside for some time in the
neighbourhood of Tiberias, and that he ocompies
himself there with farming. The troubles between
Akil-Aga and the Kurd's were the occasion of this
change of residence of the Emir.