The Express. — 1860-11-12 (London, England)

PARIS. SATURDAY EV121111,0.  There is after all, it appears, to be a hunting season at Compiegne. It is now said to be settled that the Emperor, accompanied by the Imperial Prince, will go there on November 20, and remain till December 1. The Empress is not expected to be of the party, as she intends to escort the remains of her sister, the Duchess of Alba, to Spain, for final interment.  A long voyage of Prince Napoleon is again talked of, and the rumour now assumes what is called " consistency ;" but, instead of going all round the world, he is only to take • trip to America. As on the occasion of his trip to the Arctic Sea, he will be accompanied by several men of letters, professors, and artists.  The speeches at the Lord Mayor's dinner, as reported by telegraph, fully oome up to what was expected of them, and although their pacific tendency has been to a great extent discounted at the Bourse, there was a further great rise to-day upon the strength of them. People continue to think that there will be no more fighting at Gaeta. Francis 11., who has now scarcely an army, cannot but yield to the strong recommendations made by all the Powers not to prolong a hopeless contest. The Queen of Spain, on whom he relied for help, has written an autograph letter begging him to retire. It is thought, however, that lie will not go to Spain, but to Bavaria. As a matter of course he will protest " again before he leaves. The Bente rose 40c. for cash and 30c. for account, closing veil, firm at 70.40 and 70.45. Mobilier rose 20f. The railways were less affected by the upward movement, but Orleans rose 8.75, Northern 5, Eastern 6.25, Lyons and Southern 3.75 each, and Western 2.50.  In this great world of Paris extraordinary " accidents and offences" frequently occur of which the public hear nothing. It would be impossible for a man to blow his brains out cornet populo in Cheapside or the Strand without everybody knowing all about it the next morning. But here such things may well be ; there are no coroners' inquesta. A sudden death is inquired into privately by a emumissary of police, and it depends very much upon the fancy or discretion of that officer whether any statement of the circumstances is published. The . . . .  newspapers are not in the habit of investigating such matters for themselves. About three weeks ago some English friends of mine (from whom I have the following story) were strolling along the Boulevard de la MMeleine at an early hour in the evening, and talk tug, curiously enough, about spiritrapping—in which, however, I must nay, for the credit of their testimony, they are not believers ; the cafes were all blazing with light, and the streets were crowded. As my friends neared the Madeleine church their conversation was interrupted by the sharp report of a shot proceeding from the ground floor of a house at the northwest corner of the Rue Royal, and occupied by a M. Tout, who carries on in it the joint business of a wine shop keeper and restaurateur. On the restaurant side of the establishment, and close to a window looking on to the Madeleine, there sat at the table at which he had dined, a handsome young man, extremely well dressed. His countenance was placid, his position in his chair that of a living man which he was only a minute before. But through a small hole in his white waistcoat his life's blood was pouring out, and the edges of the aperture were turned into tinder, and smoking. He had shot himself through the heart, and was presumed to bequite dead. But nobody touched him, it being the custom here, even at the risk of withholding timely sucoour, to leave a murdered or self-slaughtered man just as he is until a magistrate sees him. In a few minutes two or three policemen cleared the house, and the windows were closed. On the table before the dead man was a slip of paper, on which was written, "My pigtail and my clothes will pay for my dinner." He la said to be a Prussian ; this is all that I can learn of the tragedy. While the French papers, as I have above observed, often omit to notice current events they abound in fictions which they serve up as 'facts. The fear of prosecution for public or private libels induces them as a general rule only to give initials in their police reports. The consequence is that the interest attaching to them is wholly irrespeotive of their truth, and the penny-a-liner who can manufacture any readable story has just as good a market for his commodity as the man who gives himself the melees trouble to ascertain facts. The severe laws against "false news" greatly tend in practice to the propagation of falsehood, sad prevent the newspaper from being what rt ie in England, the "mirror of the time." As an illustration of these remarks, I notice a dramatic story in to-day's papers which would be very extraordinary if tree, but the journals which publish it neither know nor tare whether it is true or not. They say that a young and of course beautiful girl, named Adeline B—, living at Courseulles, near Paris, having been seduced under promise of marriage and afterwards abandoned by her lover, resolved to commit suicide. She lit two tremendous charcoal fires in her bedroom, but the tutees instead of killing her merely made her ill, and her groans being heard she was succoured and restored. But now conies the bossqoct. There slept on the floor above the young girl's room a not involuntary Actaeon, a wicked peeping Tom, who for vile purposes bad with a gimlet bored a little hole in the plank just above Miss Adeline's bed. Through this little hole the bulk of the poisonous vapour ascended, and killed the amorous youth, whilst the disconsolate lost ono miraculously escaped ! To complete the story, her lover was so touched by the tragical occurrence that lie repented him of his infidelity, made her an honest woman, and paid a handsome sum of mosey to the family of her unfortunate victim ! Now I do not positively undertake to say that this romantic tale, or some part of it, may not be true ; I only assert that from the system upon which the French proii conducted, the public bare no means of knowing.  , 4 irifi4 ‘' TRW R111:45 KON 1 y e NOVI ; gf :' 1I , 11., *lfi 1.4 . much more we shall wilktrsis sfialliriib LOT ' ,Ai ie ~ EX .•:. FROM . is ... 4 • --.....--rom apprehensiontvwhilkiwelyse , ' we be able to tale tiara, 'recant &is. ' ' • , tfAPLIS. . 'ir fru= ova omit cosissro very circumstance that statistics of this Ibe of little value until we are able to