The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM OUR OWN:CORRZSPONDRRT.)

PARIS. TUESDAY Ernmcc.

The New Year's receptions at the Tuileries will
be curtailed owing to the gloom occasioned by
Mocquard's death. The Emperor will, as a
matter of form, receive military men on January
1 ; but the usual receptions by the Emperor and
Empress on January 2 will not take place.
It is very positively stated that an obscure
provincial print, published at Besancon, and
called the Jrmrikil de la Fianehe Condi, is desig-
nated as a chosen vessel for the propagation of the
ideas of the half dozen men who aim at
the formation of a tirra parti with the motto
"The Empire and Liberty." M. Latour du Moulin,
a deputy, formerly censor of the press, whose
newly-fledged liberal opinions were lately ridiculed
and reprimanded by the Pup, is the active patron,
and it is said that the Duke de Morny himself will
deign occasionally to write a few paragraphs.
The new political journal which M. Peyrat has
at length obtained leave to publish, the Arenir
National, will appear on Jan. 2.
The government has prohibited M. E. Pelletan
from fulfilling his engagement to deliver lectures in
the Freemasons' Hall, Rue Cadet ; the avowed rea-
son for this piece of tyranny is scarcely less odious
than the act itself. Opposition deputies who have
a legal tribune elsewhere are not, it is said, as a
general rule, to be suffered to enhance their per-
sonal importance by appearing on any platform
whatever. Another glossary this on the working
of universal suffrage !
M. do Brecey, an opposition candidate, has been
elected councillor-general iu the Manche against
the government prot<'•g^, M. Boudier.
A letter from Rome says that a delegate of the
Israelitish Society is now canvassing iu the Ghetto
for emigrants to Jerusalem, which he says it is in-
tended to transform into a Hanseatic town peopled
by Jews from all parts of the world.
The newsmongers who promulgated the intelli-
gence that Victor Emmanuel had been shot at
were willing to compromise afterwards for a slight
attack of apoplexy. But all authentic accounts
concur in stating that the King is perfectly well,
and that there is no shadow of foundation for the
sinister rumours circulated.

Madame Scribe writes to the papers, contra-
dicting the news that the revision of the libretto of
Meyerbeer's ..4fricaine had been entrusted to a
young poet. She says that her husband, in his
lifetime, completed the work to the satisfaction of
M. Meyerbeer, and that no one has now a right to
change a line without her permission. She has
delegated to two of M. Scribe's old assistants the
task of attending the rehearsal, and making such
alterations as may be found necessary to put the
piece upon the stage.
The Bourse, after some fluctuation, closed very
heavily with a fall in the Rente of Isc. for cash and
10c. for account, closing at Gsfr. Isc. and 65fr. 25c.
Dlobilier fell 81r. 75c. Railways are without much
change.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

REDNYNDAT, DEO,-115113 r.l, 8 LW.

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F. Ei

Nairn.. 1101 i Sit r'.
Aberdeen .2e; 40, EN E.
Guth
Ardroama 30.20 301 N.
Greeucmtle 30.22 44 E.N.E.
Galway
Valenta%
Cape Clear 31.14 Si! NE.
Queenstown 30.18 33 N.
Liverpool 3)07 40 N.W.
Holyhead
Pamteooe 30.11 41 N.
Penrau.m
L'Orlen. 3004 43 N.N.
Kochalort
Plymouth
Weymouth 31.0s 44 N. W.
Portsmouth_ 30.05 43 N.V.',
Loodoo 30.03 40 W.S.W.
1. r 90.14 42 N.
Yarmouth
icarborough 31.0) 49 K
Melds
110/Roland —

771UK,T1S.
tn N., fresh to mo-
derate.

PIODABLI.
og hos:HUBS! STUDAY.
Coals. N.E. to S. 11. and S.
moderate to fresh,
generally fine.
.N. %V. to F.. N. E., WIPTICIia. \.F. tea: moderate,
fresh, generally tine. generally fine.
NW. to N.E. and E., 84111111111. As nest above.
fresh to moderate.
S N. E. and to LITIPJI.

.W.. fresh to mo-
dentc, In places
,me rain.

N.W to N.E. and R.E.,
moderate to froth.

Northern =Scotland. Warfare= Ireland. WILIrn. lad 149.
een:ica. door orru =Englith Channel and hay of Illacny, fidatoen
mdiastarard England and North Saa.

A St. Petersburg letter mentions that on the
13th Sir Andrew Buchanan, the new British Ambassador at
the Court of Runic, and Lady Buchanan commenced their
receptions at the &ohslay. The official world and the
most distinguished society of the capital attended in great
numbers.

Among the high society of Turin, a decision has
been come to that every person whose name stands in the
Oti,,t/Gl,/...,,te as having given Mr. to the Mendicity Asylum
shall be considered to have fulfilled all the duties of polite-
ness relative to visits on the first of the year.

The Spanish journals uiention that Queen Chris-
tina, wishing to proceed to Madrid, is detained at Palencia,
in Old Castilla, in consequence of the roads and railway
being blocked up with snow.

According to Baron Haussmann's statement, just
presented to the Municipal Council, the number of homes
pulled down in Paris during the year 1864 has been 256,
and the number built 2.781 ; since 1852,12,696 houses have
been removed. and 63,925 new ones erected.

Many interesting specimens of ancient art were
recently exhumed at Pompeii, among them four bronze
vases of admirable form, and an eleg►nt matble table, on
which is a statuette of Victory, executed in a most mas-
terly style.