The Express. — 1859-12-09 (London, England)

PARIS, THVISLIAT ZYNNINO.  The Bourse hes been very firm indeed. The upward movement is more decided than ever. Notwithstanding large realisations of profits within the lut few days, the tendency to operate for the rise  overcomes every obstacle: At the openiog to-day the broken had their hands fall of orders, with no other limit than to " buy on the best terms possible." The Rents closed at the highest prices of the day70k. 300. for cash, and 70k. 40e. for anoint, with a rise of 80c. and 55e. Mohair rose 18fr. 75c. ; and Spanish Mobilier, Ifr. 25c. The rise in railways was more considerable than it has been for a very long while. Orleans roes 28fr. 25c.; Northern, 7fr. SOc.; Eastern, 7k. SOc.; Lyons, 18fr. ; Southern, 12k. 500.; and Western, 7fr. SOc. The Sardinian and Austrian railways were freely done at an advanoe of nearly 10fr.  The owwion of the duel to which I alluded yesterday, between the Marquis de Oalliffet and the Marquis de Lewiston, was that the latter, being in the stalls, was thought by the Marquis de Oalliffet to be staring rudely at his young bride through an opera•glass. A loud altercation in the Opera House, accompanied, as some say, by spitting in face and other gross insults, rendered a duel inevitable. The meeting took place yesterday, in a wood near ResiL The parties fought with swords, and both were wounded. The Marquis de Oalliffet was pierced through the right shoulder so severely as to be unable to continue the contest, which, however, the seconds had already determined should not proceed any farther. The wounds, though severe, were not considered dangerous. The Marquis de Lauriston is an elderly bean—the brother of the general of the BUM name.  In the list of diplomatic changes in to-day's Morriteur you will have observed the name of Baron de Meneval, who is superseded at Munich by the Marquis de Bonneville, the second French plenipotentiary at Zurich. The reason for Baron de Mkneval's retirement from the diplomatic career is stated to be by several journals that he finds it im, possible to console himself for the loss of his wife, who died eighteen months ago; he is about to take holy orders at Rome. An extraordinary case of a girl concealing her sex for many years has just been brought to light at Poitiers. Augustine alias Augustus Baudouin, a young person of 17, was known in the town and neighbourhood as a particularly smart active lad, and had frequently been in place in respectable houses as " odd boy." This individual was lately tried and convicted for a robbery. The prisoner lodged an appeal, but before it came on the prison authorities conceived some suspicions and ascertained her to be a female. On being asked what reason she had for wearing men's clothes, she said she had observed that men got their living easier than women, bat she refused to give any information as to her birth and parentage. She was removed over to the female wards of the prison, but her repugnance to show herself in woman's attire among her fellow prisoners was so great that she committed suicide by hanging herself to an iron bar with a pocket-handkerchief. She bad led a chaste life.  Sergeant Rattier, a member of the last National Amembly, has just died at Macon. A vacancy in the Senate has been occasioned by  the death, at the age of 82, of ht. Poinsot, member of the Institute, and one of the most eminent mathematicians in Europe. Hisucientifie works are well  known to the learned world.  Alfred Rothell, the historical painter, whose freeoes adorn the Balls des Empereurs in the Hotel de  Ville at Aix-la-Chapelle, dies! at Dusseldorf on Deember I, at the early age of forty-three. He had long been deranged. M. Champ(leury's Marocorade do & vie PoriMenne, which the Opinion Nationale wee lately "invited" to suppress from its feniaoton, will appear on December 16 as a book. M. de  has returned to Paris from Burgundy, and will appear on Saturday before the Judge of lustraction to be interrogated touching his last article in the Correspoodamt.  rrii SHPRESS'B ..4fAR_TMENTS AT THE  zUlcastßJ.'  A oorrespondeet of the Indefpendance Belie writes:  I had the good fortune to visit the other day the private &peril:Emirs of the Empress at the Tuileries. Workless had ban engaged on them for two years, daring the absence of their llamities. These suites of rooms, which run in • parallel line with the reception moms on the drawing room floor, assist of an care-chamber, • waiting room for the tidies of honour, • saloon of audience, a private room for bar illsjesty that is to say, the most retired and private rooms of the suits.  (111.1111 •  The &sprees, whoa) preference for the style of Louie