The Express. — 1867-02-27 (London, England)

ORE COIIII3PONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENINO.  The Emperor and Empress went yesterday to the Jardin d'Acclimation, to see the fat oxen destined to figure in the Gaut gras procession, which are quartered there until the beginning of Lent. Their Majesties talked for some time with M. Flechelle, the butcher who has bought all the &tux gras of this year, and asked several questions about the price of meat and the state of the butchers' trade in Paris.  Joseph Karam arrived at Algiers on Feb. 22. He was treated as a very considerable personage ; admitted at once to an audience with the GovernorGeneral, and provided with temporary apartments in the Hotel de is R4gence. Lemaire, the juvenile murderer, was found guilty without extenuating circumstances, and is sentenced to death. Ho made a long speech on his own behalf, not to deny or extenuate his crime, but to confess it in all its hideousness. He argued with wonderful perverted talent that he was not mad, and that the whole history of his life and the premeditation with which he had committed one murder and prepared to commit three others showed that it would be impossible for the jury to give him the benefit of extenuating circumstances. He had, he said, a full consciousness of what was right and wrong, and knew that what he had done could not be justified. If all men were like him the world could not go on. But bad as he might be thought, he had a love of truth and had shown it throughout. The fact was that he was constitutionally lazy, but he loved sensual enjoyment. He hated work, and had only energy to do evil. It would be cruel of the jury to find extenuating circumstances, because he would then be sentenced to hard labour for life ; and rather than undergo it he would starve himself to death. He who had never liked work as a free man, would certainly never work as a slave. If, therefore, the jury found extenuating circumstances, it would be tantamount to the revival of the torture as against him. He had been in the full possession of his senses, deliberately determined to revenge himself on his old father, and the woman who had obtained an influence over him. He had no spite against the two girls, but he had intended to kill them because they were in his way and would have prevented the execution of his design to get possession of Madame Bainville's money to have an orgie with. He had had his revenge to a certain extent, and was sorry he had not had it completely. He was prepared to abide the consequences of what he had done. It was now for the jury to avenge society. They could only send him to the scaffold. He did not wish to boast unduly. He knew that the scaffold was a great touchstone of human courage, and that men with firmer nerves than his own had quailed at its foot. Still the jury could bear him witness that he had not blenched or shown any emotion during his long trial, and he trusted he would be equally cool to the end.  After this extraordinary speech, which excited visible disgust in the audience, the prisoner's counsel, M. Colin de Verdieros, essayed to plead insanity as resulting from the want of sufficient motive and even from the language used by his