The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-04 00:00:00

Joretgn attb Colonial Intelligence.

FRANCE.
THE CONFERENCES IN PARIS.

The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great Bri-
taM, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey met Thurs-
day in conference at the hotel of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, to take cognizance of the final act signed at Con-
stantinople on the sth of December last, for the purpose
of consecrating the result of the labours of the Commis-
sion created by the 30th article in the Treaty of Paris
for the definition of the Russian and Turkish frontiers
in Asia. The Conference acknowledges formally to the
Plenipotentiaries of those two Powers the receipt of
their communication.

The first ball of the season was given at the Hotel
de Ville Wednesday night. It was, perhaps, not quite
so splendid as usual. A good many members of the
Senate and Corps Legislatif returned their tickets be-
cause the Prefect of the Seine, apropos of the bill for
expending 180 millions in further improvements in
Paris, took occasion to speak of those bodies in • way
which wounded their sense of self importance. Apro-
pos of this quarrel, which threatens to become famous,
the hid/petulance Beige of Thursday has been seized
because it contains a letter from M. Javal, the deputy,
giving some particulars concerning it. Moreover—and
this is a very important piece of news—General Espinasse
has signed a decree interdicting the circulation of the
Independanee Beige in France until further order. This
is a measure without precedent since the time when
Louis Philippe shut out poor Punch.
The Palace of the Tuileries is about to undergo a com-
plete repair. The works will last until the winter, and
it is thought that, in the mean time, the Emperor and
Empress will take possession of the Palace of the Elyske.

THE Put.sit OF FRANCE—The New York Tribune
says:—" All French commercial houses having funds in
the United States to be forwarded to Europe, had
ordered their correspondents there to make the trans-
mission in bills of exchange on London, instead of Paris,
as usual." They have no confidence, adds the New York
journalist, in the permanence of Louis Napoleon's
Government, and take this means of making their

money sure..

Tag PARIR ELICCTIONS.—PARIS, Monday, April 26,
11.55 p.m.—ln the 6th arrondissement, M. Jules Favre,
the Opposition eandidate, has 11,316 votes; hi. Ferret,
the Government candidate, 10,166. In the sth arron-
dissement, hi. Picard (Opposition), has 8.590; M. Eck
(Government), 8,973. In the 3rd arrondissement, hi.
Lionville (Opposition), has 7,329; General Perrot
(Government), 10,166.

The increase of the national liabilities since the re-
volution of 1848 is represented by an increase in the
amount of dividends paid equal to £5,520,000 yearly, of
which £1,840,000 has arisen from debts oontracted by
the Revolutionary Government, and £2,880,000 by the
Empire. The total amount of increased dividends has,
however, been reduced by a sum of £720,000 through
the conversion of the 5 per Cents. into 411. If we sup-
pose the whole of this money to have been borrowed at
5 per cent,, the successive Governments of France will
have received in the course of the last 10 years
£112,400,000 by way of loans over and above the
annual revenue. It would consequently appear that
France is adding to her National Debt at the average
rate of £11,250,000 sterling every year.
The earthworks are nearly finished on the entire rail-
way line from Caen to Cherbourg. The houses for the
guards along the line are built, the intermediate stations
are considerably advanced, and the stone work of the
terminus at Cherbourg is concluded. The stores for
merchandise are rapidly progressing, and the houses
for the safe keeping of the locomotives are commenced.
The last line of rails is being fixed, and 40 wagons are
daily employed in conveying sand for the road. The
great metal bridge over the river Vire is carried on with
great activity, and the other bridges over the Tints the
Douve, and the Madeleine are commenced.