The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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PARIS, MosnAT Birsin.NG.

The Moniteur, as is customary on New-year's n:•7,
is nearly filled with lists of appointments and pro-
motions in the Legion of Honour. The Moniteur de
iztrnsee publishes a very large number of promo-
tions in the army. The official receptions took place
at the Tuileries, according to the programme in the
Moniteur of yesterday. The Emperor and Em-
press received the constituted bodies of the
state, and the officers oil the Imperial Guard, the
army of Paris, and the National Guard, in the Salle
du Tronea. After the reception most of the court
visitors went to the Palals Royal to leave their cards
upon Marshal Prince Jerome. For many hours the
neighbourhood of the Tuileries and Louvre was
crowded with officers and persons in rich offi-
cial uniforms going to or coming from the
palaces. The whole of Paris to-day, including
the banlieue, presented the aspect of a fair.
The most out of the way streets were almost
as crowded as the Boulevards. Oa every vacant
space where room could be found for a stall,
without manifest obstruction to circulation, vendors
of gingerbread, oranges, toys, and articles for
&rouses, were plying their trade. When looking
at the countless stalls, it seemed impossible to believe
that a tithe of the articles exposed to view could ever
be sold; but, on the other hand, contemplating the
ever-flowing streams of human beings, the mind
was lost in wonder at the idea that "such legions of
people could find:all they wanted within the nrszow
space enclosed by the wall of Paris. The extreme
mildness of the weather induced the entire popula-
tion, with:rare exceptions, to turn out to enjoy the
holiday. The Press. says the stall-keepers have
sold more than they did by this time last year, and
that the manufacturers of toys have been obliged
to engage extra hands.
A new landing-place is now being made on the
Seine for the reception of goods sent to the Great
Exhibition. It is reported that, to facilitate the
transit of packages arriving by railway, a special
line of rails will be laid down from the Batignolles
station of the railway round Paris, to communicate
with the Palace of Industry by the route of the
exterior Boulevards and the Champs Elyseed
The Chambre Syndicale of the agents de change
of the Bourse of Paris has given 18,000 fr. to the
subscription which is being raised for the Eastern
army.
The subscription at Bordeaux for the purchase of
tobacco, cigars, and other articles for the allied armies
in the Crimea, now exceeds 40,000 fr., and in addition
the committee have received from different persons
4,000 bottles of old Bordeaux wine for the military'
hospitals. Mr. Scott, the British consul at Bordeaux,
haring communicated to his government the fact of
the Bordeaux subscription being applied equally to
the English and French armies, has received a
letter from Lord Clarendon, in which he states that
the British government appreciate, in the strongest
possible manner, this fresh testimony of sympathy
and friendship.
It has already been stated by a private telegra-
phic despatch that a shock of earthquake had been
felt at Marseilles. The Courrier de Marseille of
the 30th ult. givrs the following account of it :
"In the night of the 28th we felt a shock of earth-
quake, the oscillations of which were renewed
three times in the space of two minutes. In the
higher quarters of the city they were more sensi-
bly felt than in the other parts—the doors and win-
dows were violently shaken, and the furniture in the
rooms was moved about; the kitchen utensils were
for some moments violently agitated, and in many of
the houses the clocks were stopped. The emotion
caused by this phenomenon did not last long, and
the alarm felt at first soon wore off."

The earthquake, which took place at Marseilles on
the 29th ult., was also felt in the country around.
The shock, which came from north to south, lasted
about three seconds.

A letter from Trieste states that a great many of
the wooden houses which have been made in Styria
for the English army in the East were sent off from
that port on the 27th nit.
A letter from Odessa, of the 19th ult., in a Vienna
journal, says: "The 9th division of infantry, under
the command of General Popoff, has this day received
orders to proceed by forced marches to the Crimea.
Tho 7th and Bth divisions left yesterday. It is con-
sidered probable that the sth and 6th divisions will
arrive at Odessa also for the same destination."

PARIS, SUNDAY EVINING.
It is rumoured that General Montebello, on his
return from hie special mission to the Crimea, will be
made a senator, and appointed ambassador to Madrid
in place of M. Turgot, whose health is not restored.
A French officer who came from Constantinople by
the last mail told me a story from Sebastopol which,
though at first suggestive of a smile, leaves a deeper
and better impression behind. In the beginning of the
campaign some officers of the guards invited several
officers of General Boequet's division to dins at their
mesa. The French officers sent a deputation to de-
cline the invitation in the most delicate and friendly
terms possible. Most of them they said had little
or nothing beyond their pay to live upon ; they could
not return hospitality in the same style that they
knew it would be offered to them, and they felt
certain that English officers would understand their
scruples and not press them to accept civilities which
some at least among their number might feel as
laying them under the weight of an obligation.
They would eagerly seize every occasion to grasp the
hand of an English officer, would be delighted to
join in a promenade and a cigar, bat upon the whole
thought it best to abstain from entering upon a course
of dinner giving. Against such an excuse of course no
remonstrance could be made, and the English officer'
merely expressed their regret that they could not see
so much of their comrades in arms as they had hoped
to do. But after the battle of Inkermann the English
mess in question had lost their plate and china, their
cellar, their potted meats, hams, preserves, and other
luxuries, and, owing to commissariat difficulties but
too notorious, found it difficult to procure the most
ordinary rations. When these misfortunes became
known in the camp the French deputation of officers
renewed their visit, and said, with comic good
humour, that since the fortune of war had removed
the inequalities which originally constituted their only
objection to an interchange of feeding, they hoped
the English officers would condescend to take pot
lack with them. This epirituel invitation was natu-
rally accepted, and the delightful fraternity which
prevails between the two services was thus cemented
by another link.

THE NEW FRENCH LOAN.-REGULATIONS
OF THE ISSUE.

PARIB, Dic. 31, 1854.

The President of the Council of State, charged
provisionally with the Ministry of Finance, orders, in els.
cuti,si of the imperial decree of this day ' as follows:
Art. 1. From the 3rd to the 14th of January, 1856, in-
clusively, Sunday, the 7th, being comprehended therein,
the public will be admitted to subscribe to the loan of five
hundred millions authorised by the law of Dee. 31, 1864.
The subscription offices will be :—For Paris and the de-
partment of the Seine, at the central cash office of the
treasury ; at the central receiving office of the Seine, Native
des Mithurins St., Nn. 38; at the office of deposits and
consiguations, Lille Bt., No. 2; at the mayoralties of the
twelve wards. For other departments than that of the
Seine, in all the chief places of every department and ward,
at the respective dime of the general and private collectors
of taxes. They will be opened on the 3rd of January at
9 a.m. and will close on the 14th of January at 6 p.m.
Art. 2. The subscribers will have the option between the
rents of Four-and a-Half per Cent. (created March 14,
1862) and the Three per Cents.
Art. The rents of Four-and-a-Hall per Cent. will be
issued at the rate of 92f., with interest from Sept. 22, 1864;
that is to say, that in eigegiog to pay into the Treasury
the sum of 92f. at the periods 'Waisted in the 6th article
following, the nabeeriber will receive a rents of 4f. 600.,
which, aseerflintending the delays granted for the payment
of the stateeriptinn, will commence running without &duo-
tion,Yreen the laid of September, 1864. The rents of Three
per Cent. will be braid at the te of 86 fr. 26 e., with in-
terest dating teen Doe. 12. 1864.
Art. 4. Ma _b. _s will be admitted save for 10
frame of rests awl Cite multiples of 10 frame.
Art. 6. If the meant of the subscriptions exceeds the
sum of five hastened millions, they will be subjected to a
propordasal Modes. Nevertheless, those subscriptions
not exceeding 600 Imo of nate shall undergo no redaction,
save in so far as they skate may eloped the sant alive hun-
dred Wiliam The subscribers whose demand may be re.
• daeed will regliTe 111111Wiistely after the liquidation, the rt,