The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, To TADAT EVENINO.
The ramours which have been current fur the last
few days, that M. Duple was likely to succeed M.
de Royer u Procurcur-General to the Court of Casea-
tion, were not generally believed. It NM thought
impossible that this eminent man, after having re-
rosined for six years in private life, should now, at
the age of seventy-five, accept the very office which
he resigned on January 23, 1852, the day after the
confiscation of the property of the Orleans family,
on the ground, as he stated in his letter to Louis
Napoleon of that date, that he could not have the
courage to raise his voice as the principal organ of the
law in the Supreme Court of the country if decrees
having the force of law were to be acted upon,
which were in open defiance of all those principles
which it was his daily duty to uphold. In that
letter he told the (then) President of the Republic
that the confiscation was " a breach of civil and
private right, of natural equity, and of all those
Christian notions of what was just and unjust,"
which be had cherished during his fifty years' career
as a lawyer and a magistrate. Nevertheless, the
confiscation decree remaining unrepealed, Louis
Philippe's intimate personal friend and executor is
now gazetted to his old poet. A suspicion of • hat
was brewing must have crossed, the minds of some
of the old friends of the Orleans family,
who were present the other day at the
funeral service for the late lamented Duane of
Nemours, as it is mentioned in the Belgian journals
that M. Dupin was treated with marked coolness
lon that occasion. However strange the appoint-
' went must appear to the lovers of consistency, it is
to be observed that political people in France have
short memories, and it can scarcely be denied that
the adhesion of so important a personage as M.
Dupin to the Imperial government is a great fact.
M. lupine salary u Procurcur-General is 40,000 fr.,
and as he will, se smatter of course, be immediately
elevated to the dignity of senator, with its emolu-
ments of 30,600 fr., he will add 70,000 fr. a year to
' his income—bat this to a man of his great
age and handsome fortune cannot be the leading
consideration. The Mo•itsvr contains another legal
appointment of great importance. M. Valise, the
Procureur-General of the Imperial Court of Paris, is
' appointed President of one of the Chambers of the
Court of Cessation, in the room of the late M. La-
plague Barris, and is succeeded by M. Chaix d'Fst
Ange, one of the most illustrious advocates at the
French bar. In accepting this office, M. Chaix
d'Est Ange makes an immense pecuniary sacrifice.
Besides having perhaps the largest and most lucra-
tive amount of court business of any man in his pro-
fession, he was counsel to the city of Paris, and the
average of his fees altogether could not have been
less than from 200,000 fr. to 300,000 fr. a-year. It
is to be presumed that he hu made money enough,
and seeks rank and comparative repose, for his
salary w ill, I believe,be not morethan 20,000 fr. a year,
and he must give up all his private pretties. The
present government has never had in its service two
law officers of the crown of such high personal dis-
tinction as M. Depict and M. Chaix &Eat Ange.
Hitherto the procurcors have been taken from a
class of lawyers (unknown in England) who are
bred to the magistracy exclusively, and who have
nothing like the weight in public estimation which
the leaders of the bar have.
The Bourse has been • good deal better. The
Itente rose 20c. for cash and 16c. for 'meant, chains
at 66fr. 65e. and 6 fr. Mobilier rose 10fr. ; Orleans
rose 15fr.; Lyons, 10fr. ; Western and Northern,
7fr. 50c. each; and the other lines from 2fr. 60c. to
tifr. The bullion in the Bank of France is now re-
ported to amount to 200 millions.
The Bank of Algeria has reduced its discount from
seven to mix per cent.
The Emperor and Empress instead of going to the
Opera last night, as was expected, went to the
Theatre Francais, to see the first performance of a
new comedy in three acts, in verse, by M. Camille
Doucet, called Fruit Drjetlis.