The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

OF WIZ DAILY inws.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
While many people are yet doubting of a fact which
hu never from the first been a moment doubtful—the

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Emperor's fixed intention to go to the Crimea—there
appears in the Conatifidionnel of this morning the
following very conclusive annonnoement :

The amp equipage of the Emperor wu sent off yester-
day to the south by the Lyons railway, in charge of several
employes of the Menus Plai•irs, who, before their departure,
IMO provided with a complete uniform, and an ample
cloak. These men, selected from the best upholsterers of ,
the gsrde•meuble, will have the care of the Emperor's tent
as all its accessories during his Majesty's progress, and it
will be their duty to see that the Emperor is properly
lodged wherever ►e may be.
This is the first positive intimation that has ap-
peared in any French paper that the Emperor was
going to take the field in person. For a long time
the journals were prohibited from alluding to the
subject, and later they were only permitted to speak
of the project as a contingency. I believe it to be
not doubtful that the Emperor will leave Paris on
the 10th (a day already frequently mentioned), if
not—which is very probable—sooner. I understand
that his Majesty, as Generalissimo of the Allied
Forces, will have a staff composed of officers of the
four armies, English, French, Turkish, and Pied-
montese.

With regard to the subject which transcends in
interest every other—news from Sebastopol—l feel
it almost useless to speak, it being next to certain
that before this letter arrives you will have im-
portant intelligence in much more detail than we
have here. It is beyond all doubt that the govern.
ment keeps back information which it has received,
and it is equally certain that the system of
ermcealing bad news, which must come oat in
a few hours, does no good in any point of
view whatever. To-day the public mind is tho-
roughly alarmed—more so (I indulge the hope)
than it would be if it knew the whole truth.
The despatch attributed to General Canrobert by the
Moniker, dated Sebastopol, the 17th, is construed
most unfavourably. The expression that the army
is " not prodigal of its ammunition," is understood
to mean that ammunition is some, and for " hitherto
the attack has been chiefly made by the artillery ;
but now the engineers combiee their efforts and
make trenches, which bring us nearer to the place,"
the public road, the bombardment is over without
success, and we are forced to resume our slow siege
operations. The death of General Bizot, which I
reported yesterday, is universally believed, and,
although no journal publithes the fact in Paris, it
appeared in the departmental edition of a leading
government paper. I believe the rumour which cir-
culated on the Boulevard yesterday, of the death of
General Baguet, was twine. His name was, 1
have little doubt, mentioned by mistake instead of
Bizot.

There is a report, which I merely mention as
snob, that General Peliesier will be immediately ap-
pointed to succeed General Csnrobert, who will re-
turn to France as a Field-Marshal.

At the Bourse a feeling of the utmost depression
prevailed throughout the day. The ltente fell nearly
2fr., closing at 68fr. 30c. Credit Mobilier fell
32fr. 50c. Several railways declined from 17fr. to
23fr. Austrian lines, 2•;1r. 75c.