The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

IMPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. THURSDAY EvwYo.
The evening journals, semi-official and indepen-
dent, contain absolutely nothing but wearisome
repetitions of their respective views on the Polish
question, and I find in them nothing worth quota-
tion or comment.

M. Ferdinand de Lesseps arrived in Paris last
night from Egypt, and has had an interview with
Huber Paella, who is now staying at the Hotel du
Louvre.

The Opinion Nationale eays, under the head of
" Latest News :"

The project of establishing an empire in Mexico ie
viewtd with gnat mistrust throughout America. We learn
by our oorrespotidence from Brazil that the population of
Rio &moire is very hostile to an idea the execution of which
must necessarily change the political equilibrium of all the
American states. In oonesquence of this state of feeling,
the circular at Juarez' minister, M. la Faso* has met with
a most f►vourable reception. .

The Bourse has been better to-day, notwith-
standing the augmentation of the Bank of France
discount from 4to 5 per cent. The measure was
anticipated, and seems to have produced its effest
in the fall of the last two days. To-day the rise in
Rent*, after a great struggle, was 20c. for cash,
and 15c. for account, the bat prices being 671 r. 700.
and Mfr. 80e. )(Allier rose 21fr. 25c.

Liet night at about 12 o'clock there was a fire at
No. 9, Rue Albouy, in the Faubourg St. Martin,
attended with fatal consequences. Three dead
bodies have been extracted from the ruins, which
are eupposed to contain as many as ten more.
Three firemen and an inspector were seriously in-
jured, and are now in the Dubois Hospital.
Among the many accounts of the late daring
act of brigandism on the road from Sorrento to
Naples, and at the very gates of the city, the most
amusing, though very probably not the most
soberly accurate, is one written to the Frame by
H. Alexandre Dumas, who says that he was on
the point of booking himself as a passenger by
one of the stage carriages which was stopped, but
that finding no place but on the box he shrunk
from the contact of a specially unsavoury coach-
man, and went to the expense of a carriage for
himself. In this vehicle he was about fifty yards
behind the others when the brigands attacked
them. lie heard the pistol shots and saw the men
who were bound and laid on their faces by the
roadside. On his return to Sorrento he fell
in with a man who had been made prisoner
by the brigands, but released on the interces-
sion of one of the band who knew him, upon
the ground that he was too lame to walk with the
party to their refuge in the mountain. M. A.
Dumas had the greatest difficulty in getting this
man to tell him anything ; and he at first thought
that he was afraid of the vengeance of the brigands
if he talked about them. This, however, was a
mistaken supposition. The man, who knew M.
Dumas perfectly well, confessed at last that he was
afraid of offending General Lamas-more, the
Governor-General of Naples. " How so P' said
N. Domes ; " I cannot uuderataud why he, whose
duty is and whose wish must be to put down the bra-
pads, should object to your giving all possible infor-
mation about them." " Why, sir," said the Italian,
withiLlogics which N. Dumas commend; " the case is
this : General lemarmora commands an army of
90,000 men. The cost of that army on a war foot-
ing is from 115,000 fr. to 120,000 fr. a day. Now,
it certainly cannot be an agreeable thing to General
lemarmora to have it said that, with such an
immense army, and such a large treasure at his
disposal, and after two years of a terrible struggle
with brigandage, be should be unable to protect
travellers within six leagues of Naples, and in one
of the most frequented roads in the kingdom."
This is certainly a striking view of the affair, more
especially when, as N. Dumas sari, General La-
mmers from his quarters in Naples might have
seen the whole business through an ordinary spy
ems.