The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-28 00:00:00

EXPRFSS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THUUDAY Eynon.

The Bonne war much depressed to-day, notwith-
standing the reduction of discount by the Bank of
France. The news of Omer Pacha's reverses in
Montenegro excites uneasiness, and some fears are
entertained of a general rising in Servia. The
Rente fell 35c. for cash and 25c. for account,
closing at 69fr. 50c. and 69fr. 60c. Mobilier fell
Bfr. 75c., and the Italian Loan 25c. Railways were
all heavy : Orleans fell Sir. 75c.; Southern, 6fr.
25c.; Lyons, 3fr. 75c.; and the other lines, 2fr. 50c.
" The extraordinary budget for 1863, which has
just been presented to the Legislative Body," says
a Paris letter in the Journal de Rouen, " con-
tains the financial arrangements pointed out
by M. Fould in his report to the Emperor.
The chapter of the receipts contains the duties
on salt and sugar. It would, however, result
from positive assurances emanating from the admi-1
nistration of the finances itself, that the proposition
of those taxes does not imply the firm resolution on
the part of the government to adopt them. They
stand in the budget to form the equilibrium, leav-
ing it to the Legislative Body to find measures
which would allow the withdrawal of the projected
taxes. For salt, for instance, the amount which it
is hoped to realise is 33 millions ; if that sum can I
be obtained in another way, or if a saving to that
amount can be effected in the budget of the army
or of public works, the finance administration
would accept the proposition. The ides therefore
entertained is that the reduction of 30,000 men in
the contingent in active service is kept in some
measure in reserve, in case of an absolute refusal
relative to the salt duty."
M. de Persigny's rash assertion, through the com-
plaisant Constitutionnet, that, come what may, he
will remain in office till next year to carry the new
elections, lays him open to so much ridicule that
the prophecy, unlike those which achieve their own
fulfilment, has a tendency to defeat itself. The
journals here venture to comment upon it, taking
the simple precaution of affecting to believe, not-
withstanding the echo in the Moniteur, that poor
M. Boniface, of the Constitutionnel, was really the
author of the paragraph to which he was desired to
sign his name. The Charieari says :
It follows from the Cotsditutionners revelations that the

present cabinet will remain intact until after the electioas
of VMS, so that it has at least from fifteen to eighteen
menthe life in it. We have not the lent objection ; bat what
passim us is to think that the Constitutionnel should know
this. Is that journal • prophet or a sorcerer! Has it con-
sulted • fortune telling gipsy or the msgiciaa of Mahal*?
And that its way of representing the Minister of the In-
terior as being thoroughly resolved to patronise goverment
candidates, and to combat independent candidates, may,
wham not be altogether to the taste of M. de Persigny,
who in very famous circulars loudly proclaimed his
rasped for liberal principles and the righte of citizens.
Is • man then to be held au enemy of the govern-
ment merely because be dose not vote for the candidate
of the administratioa? We cannot help asking what I.

the moaning of a warlike proclamation of this lied a year
before the fight—supposing that there is to be a fight.
How mines it that good idod M. Bonitore should be
transformed so suddenly into a clap of war thunder? " A
alight purge," es Dr. Distolrus says, " would be meld
to quiet all this bile."

A very miserable press prosecution, of which
the court itself seemed ashamed, came before the
correctional tribunal to-day. M. Basin, a jour-
neyman printer, was accused, in the slang
language of libel cases, of " exciting citizens
to hatred and contempt of each other," on
amount of a pamphlet in which he advocated the
employment of women as printers-♦ subject upon
which there has lately been a good deal of contro-
versy in Park. He was found guilty, but sen-
tenced only to 100 fr. fine. His printer was ac-
quitted, on the ground that he was absent from
Paris at the time the work appeared, and had no
personal knowledge of it. The prosecuting depart-
ment, the parquet se it in called, has displayed a
great deal too much zeal of late, as is proved by
the almost nominal sentences which the courts,
even as now constituted, have felt bound to pass in
several cases.

Madame Ristori has arrived in Paris from
Berlin. •

WEATHER REPORT.-(THD3 DAY.)

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