The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-25 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(TROY OUR OWN cor.nrshisbrs r.)
I'AItIB, WI.I.NI.'•:IAV ;I.;1
The Emperor, aecompanied Iy the l:Japr „
camp to Paris from Fontainebleau this in, t
premide at a ministerial council at the
At 3 o'clock his Majesty left by the EA.!. 111 It l
way for the Chalons Camp. The Einpr,
him off at the station, and then returned t.,
taincblogu.

Here is a paragraph in the wi,:,.h.
firming as it does much that w.• have Ii ard ~f
ma•nt activity of the prefects in souoiling
stituencies, strongly presaAn.s a ;n•u. ral , •
for this year :

We lately nnnoutieed that all graxtion. r. I
cial candidatures were ad jounced till aft.•r 11.. .1
councils of revimon. But we have How
that the prefects. will :•u• moody, ly corn, t I
. . .

put of July to ri.poit to gove:intient i• ,
fixling among the impulatiotoi in r•-•.; ii.l ,• t,
111111 on all :on, Whiting to ti .w t!

lure.

This h. wiihh I havi, bilk I oil,•
conflicts ly with :twilit,.
giviti Iy thi• /'Fr:, iu th.

whertiti it :z.5,...rt,•,1 that the ,

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the question of the eloclioo. •

last rix months,

If tint

in the authority which summons:ol :!:

Paris for the exprot pu!posi, of ^i c;;,

nveiorynscaub:ouust a
if
business of secondary importme essiy
the question of the general elect one of pri-
mary importance. It seems I. h.• phau that
the o9icial scribe of the
signs what is set down for him, g.it.
news after the Emperor pa...eied thnev4h
morning, and did not perceive, as eel-h,
it was not his business to do, that it ,
another paragraph already in type.
The Patrir, renewing rumours of
changes which have been for sone• tiar• cur,
says there was a great talk in the :
Corps Ligislutif to-day of the Duke .I.•
being sent as ambassador to St. P,1,1.,)„„.z.
Count NV:dew:sl6 to ltoine.

In the Senate yesterday M. Delanzl.•
a report on a petition relative to thy• oath t
by members of the Corps will. h
said was couched in terms so gr 0.,..
illegal that be thought it for thy• .li.zoity
Senate that the name of the petitioner ,11.01)1 •
be mentioned. He, therefore, while i.;

rejection of the petition by the
asked that the petitioner should be i
notoriety which would be a feather in t 0•....
the eyes of the factious and malevolent. M. :•
langle's proposition was unanimously :clop:-
the &nate.

M. Regniard, the manager (Atilt. Bedf,e II •
and the tuidwife Hely, charged with the eri!,
of procuring abortion, were both acquitted. The.:
was no direct evidence against then but t!
dying dedurution of the unfortincoe girl. M
RoseCaclou. Tit publ ie prosecutor ro!•-.:
that the words of a person, howeverdeprav, .
spoken with a conseiousness of approaeldiez d. •
must be taken to he true, but M. Lieh.ol.l.
defended Regniard, denied this ppposition.
instanced many cases of persons who inn! mid
durations on their dying beds which w. n•
doubtedly false. The midwife had a very
character from neighbours who hail known II,: •
fifteen years. The jury adopted the theory
counsel for the defence, and I do not think -
public differs from them.
It is stated that within the last three flup4 •
Duchess Sophia of Bavaria has lssat alums
Prince Ferdinand of Orleans, Duke of •
the second son of the Duke of Nemours. l!
rumoured not long ago that fl.. Do h.
about to be married to King Louis of P... .
M. Aurelien Scholl, a well-known joie!
the dronignac class, was married this r, •
a very young English lady, Miss Perkin,.

The Bourse was more Me iyant t
Rentes rose 33e. for cash, and 12!,(..
closing at 7 1 fr. 5c., and 71 fr. 17 !,e. I:
65e., closing at 55fr. 55e.; and Credit
Mobilier was without change.

The remains of an ancient Sjni,
have just been discovered at Cussaro I.
rounding wall was 2,000 metres in ciroio.
thickness. The researches made show th it Ili. • •
divided into several quarters. In one of them tin r
of a fine temple have been found.
Baron Kusserow, of the Prussian
Washington, has been recalled, in compliance with
Seward's request, for having fought a duel feu- u •
ago. Kueserow, however, is promoted to be fir•t •
tary of the Prussian Legation in London, i 1.1.!
Lothun, his second, takes him place tempintrily at l%
ington.

The present telegraph to India s-tart, from r
stantinople, and passes through Sivas, Ihwanveh, M
Bagdad, Bushire, and Kurrachee to baits-.
telegraph line will start from Odessa, and pls.+ al4nz'
shores of the Black Sea, then by the lower ra:.,,.+-
mowitains, and through Teheran, Bushire, au 16urrar
to Bombay. The new line will, therefore, observe ar.
easterly route than the present one. libtead of pi- :.:
through Asia Minor and Arabia, a, the eat .!'
-
line does, the new one will piss through ••
cassia, Georgia, and Persni, and ai T; o,
altogether. The imperfections of the previa line
partly from the want of control of Turkey over r.
Bedouin Arabs and the scanty population of parts of
Minor and Arabia. The new line will pats through ti
heart of Persia, touching at Teheran, the capital. awl
s.
Bushire, the chief southern entreis,t of this: kmfz.irsn.
new line will bo more muter the man I,,.rement ot -.L.' •
men, and its passing through Itu,da and rsi,, iu '•
of Turkey, will be a great improvement.
Vieuxtemps, the well-known v , btu d, Ire
lost his wife. She was an Austrian by bit Ili.
Edens, and originally came before the world 14 3 1' c.'.
and as 'tech obtained great favour in the princip,l .."
of Germany. She afterwanis went on the ,tag'
singer and performed with applause earl m: buts uv:, -
for a contralto voice; in 1845 she married Vnruit.rini,•
then retired into private life. The deceased lady
Na-
years of age.
ROYAL TREASURES FROM AIIYSSINI.t.—W.'
derstand that the spoils recently sent home nom
by Sir Robert Napier will almost immediately Is r:
bited to the public, by her Majesty's command..''
South Kensington Museum. The most important
almost worthy of the title of spolia opens. are tip. T
crown, and slippers of King Theodore. These all
beautiful specimens of filagree oniamentatiffli in •
very much resembling that which is known to
couc
seurs as Maltese work. The robe is maim,
with pieces of stamped silver, and both the robe
the crown have silver balls attached to them with
bark silver pendants. There is also amowg the twin'
another crown, but it is a very poor
crimson velvet, with a gilt ornament on the top, ee
gilt thread freize or spiked border round it ; and
not to be compared with the other crown as a work f.
There is also a second robe, apparently of Indian
manship, the warp being of gilt thread, the rest of
and embroidered with silk silver thread in patter°.
flowers. The ground is yellow, and the fashieu of
curious in the extreme ; it may have been, and
bebly was, the Queen's morning robe. There sie
three seals, one large gilt one, made many yeaos,vs.
Messrs. Strongitharm, of Waterloo-place and Pall.a,
with a jasper handle ; it has on it a monstrously
hon., and round it runs a legend in Arabic ehsreT,..,
"'Theodore, King of Abyssinia and Ethiopia : the
_lel
of Kings, Theodore." A second silver Seal, et gllc.l
size, has on it in Arabic, a similar inscription. The
884 largerin size, and also of silver, bears a Copetv.
scrii= in the centre ; the first words of ae'_v ft
~
44 Metropolites." •Round it runs as InsT o,
in Arabia, enclosing the sacred monograms
with the Greek letter P before it,—Dews.

TillllD EDITION.