The Express. — 1866-05-21 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (TIMM 0111 OWN 0011.111117011MEICI.)  PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. A Florence letterof May.lB,tn the Dibets, speaking in precisely the tone of all the Italian letters,  which speak of war as inevitable, says : There are Italians who would not even be satisfied by the session of Venice. A senator, who has held high office, said yesterday, "It must not be given to us ; we must take it ; we must prove by deeds that we are good for some thing." A Vienna letter of May 14, in the Boersenhalle, Bays: We believe ourselves able to state with certainty that the cabinet of Vienna has never even confidentially sur  gested the possibility of Silesia being a suitable oompensation for Venetia. . . . It is positively confirmed that Austria and England are drawing closer together. The Auxerre speech seems to have materially shaken the resolution of the cabinet of St. James's to staxd altogether aloof from Continental eventualities.  The appeal of Tapponnier, the Swiss groom who, under the representation that he was a nobleman and a man of fortune, married a French heiress,  who supposed him to be Baron de Laney, was decided yesterday. The Imperial Court, in every point, adopted the judgment of the court below, and confirmed the sentence of four years' imprisonment prongunced against the defendant as a swindler.  The divorce suit between the false Baron de Laney and his wife, which was to have been pleaded at Geneva this week, is put off till May 29, in con , . sequence of an unexpected difficulty about the French advocates, MM. Hebert and Laya, who are retained on either side. Hitherto French and Swiss advocates have been practically allowed to plead at the bars of the respective courts of both countries without question. But recently a Geneva barrister, when presenting himself before the court of St. Julien, in Savoy, was told by the President that he could not be heard, because there  waa not perfect reciprocity between the two countries. It appears, in fact, that in Switzerland an application to the Council of  State is a formality necessary to be gone through. The French judge, therefore, said that he could not hear the Swiss advocate without the permission of the French Council of State. The Swiss government feels nettled at this, and alleges that the Swiss Council of State being easily accessible, and, in fact, nothing more than a municipal council, cannot be compared to the French Council of State, whose proceedings are solemn and dilatory. It is apprehended that by way of retaliation the Swiss Council of State will refuse permission to the French advocates to plead in the Tapponnier case. The Toulouse murder case, that of Asps, a Christian brother, called in religion Frere Lanni phe, who is accused of having killed a woinan and given her head to his pigs, in the hope of rendering proof of identity impossible, is yet going on. Mrs. Bigelow gave a grand soiree at the American Legation last night, in honour of Mr. Millard Fillmore, ex-president of the United States, and Mrs. Fillmore, who have recently arrived in Europe. Among the lions of Parisian society invited to meet them were the Duke de Persit,my and MM. Emile 011ivier, Michel Chevalier, Prevost Paradol, Henri Martin, and Gustave Dore. The Turkish ambassador and several other members of the corps diploinatique attended. The sparrow whose sad fate formed a prominent feature in my yesterday's letter was seen hanging on his gibbet at 1 o'clock this morning. But he is no longer there, and, according to the report of the concierge of the Bourse, he was cut down by the I very means which occurred to me as alone possible, namely, a funereal congregation of neighbouring sparrows who pecked the cord asunder. The event is the talk of the quarter.