The Express. — 1867-08-15 (London, England)

OWN 0011ZEISPONDIXT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVICTING.  The result of the trial for the Fontainebleau murder is not yet known, but in all probability the case will be concluded this evening. A report of M. Lachaud's speech for the defence is in the legal journals to-day. He is beyond dispute the first prisoner's oouneel in the world, and all that mortal man could do he did for his client. But I do not think his speech worth translating, because the stubborn facts with which he had to deal enabled him to raise no issue of interest. He began by making an appeal to the feelings of the jury on the ground of the exemplary character of the prisoner's father, the Norman apothecary. He attended the poor for nothing, and helped them with money when in need. After his death the grateful peasantry of his district subscribed 1,400 fr. to put a monument over his grave, and on All Souls day crowds of people may be seen kneeling before that tomb as if it covered the remains of a saint. "God," he said " owed the prisoner's father a recompense for his virtues, and he had given it in not allowing him to live to see this trial." After this exordium, which, though touching, was irrelevant, M. Lachaud pleaded that as nobody saw the prisoner murder Madame Mertens the jury could not be certain that she did the deed. He did not venture to adopt any of the prisoner's theories. He did not insist upon the existence of a person named Williams, but said that admitting what the prisoner said about him to be untrue the falsehood did not prove the murder. He denied that there was any satisfactory proof either that the prisoner killed Madame Mertens, or even that she did not die a natural death. He also denied the forgeries, which, from certain observations he made while the evidence was being taken, I did not think he would do. He concluded by expressing an earnest hope that the jury, enlightened by Providence, would proclaim the innocence of his client. Prince Humbert arrived yesterday at the Chalons camp, accompanied by Generals Cugia and De Sonnaz. The Prince intends to pay another visit to Paris, and will take leave of the Emperor when his Majesty sets out from the camp for Salzburg. The Prince Imperial will remain in the camp while the Emperor and Empress are at Salzburg. PrinceNspoleon, travelling incognito, appeared at Toulouse on Monday evening. The next day, accompanied by the prefect, he visited the museum and some of the churches of the city, and in the evening he set out for Marseilles, on his way to his Prangins estate in Switzerland. Thus is explained the rather curious announcement a few days ago that Prince Napoleon was going to the Pyrenees, and thence " into the country." It was not intended to infer that the Pyrenees are not rural the expression was an awkward one, meaning that the Prince was going to his country house. The Princess Clothilde, with her children, was left at Eau: Bonnes. Sho will shortly follow the Prince to Prangins. It is still hoped that the great international dinner to be given to the Emperor by the exhibitors will take place. It was to have been on the 16th of August, but was put off on account of the the Emperor's going to Chalons and Strasbourg. It is given out that on his return to Paris his Majesty will receive the commissioners, and fix a day for the dinner. The audience, however, cannot be so early as the 20th, the day mentioned by the Patrie, as the Emperor will certainly not have returned from Salzburg by that time.  The action of Dautresme v. Carvalho is compromised, M. Carvelho having undertaken to bring out the plaintiff's opera, Cordlike, at the Th66tre Lyrique within two months. The decree has gone forth, and is registered in the Moniteur to-day, that the Universal Exhibition is to be closed on October 31 with the same inflexible punctuality which marked its opening on the day so announced—April 1, and the distribution of prizes on July 1. The building is to be pulled down and the material sold. All the gardens and annexes in the Champ de Mars are to