The Express. — 1868-01-17 (London, England)

PARIS, THOISDAT KTEIIIIO. It is confirmed that the mysterious velvet hat and sword blessed by the Pope for the prince "who best deserved of the church in 1867" have been  conferred upon Napoleon ELL Certainly any other destination for such a present would have been unjust. The Emperor has sent one of his aides-decamp to Rome with as autograph letter of thanks for his well-earned pries, but which I suspect will prove to be a dewiness haredites. The Pays publishes an amusing letter, accompanied with amusing comments, from M. Dusautoy, who prides himself upon having formerly been, and is supposed [erroneously] by the public yet to be, the Emperor's tailor. His name still appears over the famous shop at the corner of the Rue Lepelletier on the Boulevard des Italians. The trial of Hyppolyte Schumacher, for attempting to murder his sister, the Marquise de Manbrsuid 'stated last night that M. Goujat, the president of the Asalse Cant, had'been so pestered by applications for tickets of admission that he hal refund to give any. This news was singularly untrue, for at an early hour this morning the court was as crowded as it could possibly have been consistently with the orderly conduct of the proceedings, and great many well-dressed ladies were in the best places. The public was ill-rewarded for its curiosity. It had expected to see the rich and famous Marquise de Maubrenil d'Orvault, known as Madame Labruyhre and nee Schumacher, in the witness box, but she has left Paris and France to be out of the way of the trial. The details which came out were only those of a very vulgar assassination attempted by a confessed thief when foiled in a desperate endeavour to extort money. After the reading of the indictment M. Lachaud, the prisoner's counsel, applied for a postponement of the trial on account of the absence of the Marquise d'Orvault, who was the only witness of the assault charged. The court refused to accede to the application on the ground that by French law a sister could not be heard upon oath in favour of her brother. The prosecution had not thought fit to summon her, and although the prisoner's advisers had served a summons at her house at the last moment, there was no probability that she would appear at another sessions any more than at this. The prisoner, a tall young man of thirty, rather well-looking, and with a full chesnut-coloured beard, admitted the forgery which had occasioned his dismissal from the Comptoir d'Escompte. He admitted the purchase of a six-barrelled revolver, but said he only intended to commit suicide with it. He alleged that while wandering about, after having loaded the revolver, it suddenly occurred to him that ho was near his sister's house in the Rue Royale, and he went in to ask her for some money to enable him to leave the country. He asserted that if he shot at her be did not know what he was doing. This system of defence, notwithstanding M. Lachaud's efforts, did not suecoed. The jury found Schumacher, junior, guilty of forgery and attempted murder, with extenuating circumstances, and the court sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment with hard labour. On this sentence being pronounced a shrill scream was beard from the small space partitioned off for the public at the bottom of the court. The shriek proceeded from Madame Shumacker, the unfortunate mother of the prisoner. She was carried out of court and placed in • cab at the station in front of the Palaia de Justice. The driver not being to be found, Schumacher, senior, a cabman by trade, got upon the box, and drove the wife home to the family hovel at Montrouge. The Bourse opened with a further decline, but Rente rallied for the close, and left off at 68fr. 85c. for cash, and 68fr. 6i c. for account, with a rise of lies. and ;lc. Italian rose 60c., Mobilier lfr. 25c., and Credit Foncier lfr. 25c. Comptoir d'Escompte I fell lfr. 25c. A paragraph going the round of the French papers says that a difference of opinion has occurred between the Finance Minister and the Minister of State on the question of a loan. M. Magno thinks a loan indispensable, while M. Rouher contends t, that combinations are possible by which a loan t•o may be avoided. (or  THE SUIPWREriCS ON