The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

ROUMANIA AND THE JEWS.

PARIS, MAT 7.
The Epojuc of to-day asserts that the guarantee-
ing Rimers have simultaneously presented a note
to the Roumanian government, demanding that an
indemnity should be paid to the Jews.
The same paper also states that an order has
been issued directing two frigates to proceed to
Tunis.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The debate in the Senate on the press bill excites
no interest whatever in the country. Most of the
journals refuse to afford the great space required for
the official report, and allege as an excuse that the
arguments of the senators are not worth repeating.
It is enough to know that they have orders to pass
the bill.

The Prince Imperial's first communion is fixed
for to-morrow at 9 o'clock. The Empress's
absence from the ministerial council to-day is ex-
plained by the fact that she was with her son, who
was receiving his latest preparations from the Abbd
Dequerry. No invitations are issued for the cere-
mony of to-morrow. Monseigneur Tiremarch, bishop
of Adras in partibus, formerly curd of Ham, will
administer the communion.

To-morrow the French Academy meets to elect
two members to fill the chairs left vacant by the
deaths of MM. Flourens and Ponaard. The suc-
cessor of M. Flourens will probably be M. Claude
Bernard, a distinguished physiologist and a mem-
ber of the Academy of Sciences. His rival, M.
Camille Vousset, an historian of some merit, and
who will doubtless become an academican one of
these days, is thought to have no chance now. For
M. Ponsard's chair the candidates are M. Th6o-
- Gautier and M. Autran. The qualifications
of the former are patent. Those of M. Autran
require more seeking, but as he is said to possess
good academical principles and a good cook he may
very likely succeed.
M. Bourzat, one of the members of the National
Assembly who was banished after the coup orttat,
has just died at Brussels, aged 68. He was one
of those who, like Victor Hugo, declined to avail
himself of the amnesty, and return to France. M.
Bourzat, at the time of his election to the Consti-
tuent Assembly, was bdtounier of the Order of
Advocates' at Brives-la-Gaillarde, and a member of
the Council-General of the Correze. He used fre-
quently to speak in the two assemblies to which
he successively belonged, and his speeches showed
a great deal of erudition and good sense. But
before the 2nd of December put an end to
political caricatures, he was a frequent subject
for the ( 'horirari on account of the rustic
simplicity of his dress, and the wooden shoes which
he had been accustomed to wear on wet days in the
country, and which he sometimes sported when he
mounted the tribune. In Brussels he maintained
himself by giving lessons, and he leaves in very
narrow circumstances a widow and two children,
for whom a subscription has been opened in
Paris.

A Boulogne letter in the Probe, of Arras, gives
the following sad news ;

Two English students, who for some time have been in
mates of M. Bodard's school, went to bathe in the sea,
under the care of a man named Leblond, who is in the
service of the maitre baignewr, Bougier. Leblond, instead
of looking tact the lads as it was his duty to have done,
went to sleep for a few minutes. When he awoke he did
not see them, and being alarmed called for help, but did
not himself go into the water after them. The dead body
of one, Mr. Mordan, has been found, that of his comrade,
Mr. Little, is yet is seek.

Mdlle. Patti's marriage has been announced so
often that people would not believe the positive
announcement of the Figaro two days ago that
she is now the Marquise de Caux. There seems,
however, to be no doubt of the fact, and it is
stated that her husband, who is one of the
Emperor's equerries, has obtained a three weeks'
con9E to enjoy his honeymoon. Why, however,
the marriage should be up to this time " civil "
only, and the religious ceremonial postponed till
after the fulfilment of Mdlle. Patti's engagements, is
a tough mystery. The reason certainly does not
commend itself to ordinary apprehensions.
The Bourse was very heavy. Rente fell 20e. for
cash and 12ic. for account, closing at 69fr. 30c. in
each case. Italian fell 30c. ; Mobilier, sfr. ; and
Credit Foncier, 3fr. 75c. The political situation
has not apparently changed since yesterday, but a
little more anxiety is felt about the German parlia-
ment,

M. de Moltke has arrived at the entrenched
camp which Prussian now constructing at the confluence
of the Sarre and the Moselle, near Troves, for the purpose
of studying the operations there. The intention of the
Minister of War of King William is to transform the
camp into • fortress of the first order, and to mike it
suitable to replace the Luxemburg. M. de Moltke does
not confine his defensive measures to these works ; he has
ordered to be oommenoed, and to be earried on with the
utmost activity, the fortifications of Sarrebruck, on the
Sarre, above Sarrelonic Finally, Prussia will connect
the entrenched tamp at Troyes with the network of the
European limas of railway, in such • way as to put the
cities of Cologne and Coblenta within • few minutes of
Troves.
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land, at • ranting presided over by the Earl of Dalhousie,
have adopted an address sympathising with her Majesty in
consequence of the attempt made en the life of the Duke
of Edinburgh, expreseing the horror and indignation whisk
the Preemeenne of Scotland felt at the atrocious and
cowardly attack made on his royal highway and co
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