The Express. — 1864-12-28 (London, England)

PARIS. TVESDAI Emma.  The Petrie of this evening bas a paragraph stating that it is proposed to substitute a fixed salary for the monthly allowance paid to the Deputies during the sittings of the Chamber. This is followed immediately by a further statement, separated from the former by all the breadth of a well-drawn line, to the effect that the Chambers will meet between the 10th and 15th of February, and that, thanks to the diligence of the Minister of Finance, who will at once lay the budget before it, its clauses may thus be submitted to a more mature examination, and more searching dia. cussiou. These paragraphs have so evidently no connexion with each other that no one will suspect either the deputies of having been in the habit of spinning out their sessions for the love of the napoleons the Ist of each month entitled them to pocket, nor the government of offering them a bribe to despatch their business quickly and cut short tiresome opposition orators. There have been rumours of measures in a retrograde sense, one of which was a curtailment of the liberty of speech in the Legislative Body, but the Emperor's special organs have indignantly denied such intentions. If the measure now proposed be carried out it is evident that it must be received as proof that far from wishing to muzzle the guardians of public interests the Emperor is only desirous of securing their independence. M. Lachaud achieved yesterday another of his great forensic triumphs—his eloquence procured the acquittal, with flying colours, of au undoubted murderer. It was the case of a woman killing her husband. She was a good woman and he was a brute ; and she had the best possible case against him for a separation. But the sense of her wrongs led her to thirst for his blood, and she ' repeatedly threatened to take his life. One night when he clone home drunk she only consented to sleep with him ou a condition which Le attempted to break. She then got out o bed, and stabbed him to the heart with his own knife. The public prosecutor in vain offered to raluce the case to one of manslaughter. The President in vain told the jury that absolute impunity for wilful bloodsheddiug was abhorrent to the ideas of every civilised nation. The Paris jury saw only • " woman in distress," and were as unable, their oaths notwithstanding, to resist M. Lachaud's pleading in her favour as a Surrey audience to abstain from applauding T. P. Cooke in Biack-Eyed Susan. The prisoner, a goodlooking young woman, named Mauvoy, shook hands " convulsively," the report states, with M. Lachaud, and then walked triumphantly out of the duck amidst the congratulations of admiring friends. The lady patronesses of the fancy sale iu aid of the Polish refugees have issued a notice announcing the death at Montpellier of the Princess Czartoryska, widow of Prince Adam, and founder of that work of benevolence. The circular likewise states that notwithstanding this melancholy event the sale will take place at the Hotel Lambert, as originally intended.  The Bourse was quite brilliant. Rentes rose 25c, fur cash, and 20c. fur account, closing at 65fr. 55c. and 65fr. 35c. It was reported that M. Fould was deteriniued to screw the price up to Car. before the eud of the mouth. Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. The Western Railway rose 131 r., Northern lift., and other lines from 2f r. to Mr.