The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nor oua OWN oonsaronarr.)
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING!.

There is no new symptom throwing any light
upon the great question of the day. The autho-
rised journals, while vaunting the firmness of
France, continue to harp upon the theme that the
question is a European one ; and that I construe to
mean that there will be no war unless England can
be dragged into it, which will not, I think, be the
case.

The Bourse has not recovered from the fall of
yesterday, but the panic has not oontinued. Rente
only fell 5c.; Mobilier rose 15fr.
The France persists in its contradiction of there
being any intention to have a naval review at
Cherbourg. The iron-clad ships Solferino, Magenta,
Gloire, Couronne, Plnvincible, and Normandie,
are indeed to be shortly assembled in that port,
but only for the purpose of experimental manom-
vres similar to those which have often taken
place at Toulon.
The Moniteur publishes flaming accounts from
the Mexico journal, the Sociedad, of the rejoicings
of the Mexicans at being conquered by General
Forey. One little detail, however, which the
Moniteur omits, is essential to the truth of
history. This Sociedad is a journal started by
General Forey himself for the express pur-
pose of writing up the French occupation. The
flowers, white pocket handkerchiefs, crowns,
wreaths, mottoes, and shouts are all described
in !the very style of the Paris journals when
they set forth the joy of the Parisians after the
coup &fiat, and, for the matter of that, it is very
probable that the work is done by one of the same
pens.

The Moniteur also publishes an adulatory
address to General Forey, from the " municipality"
of Puebla, the value of which as an index of public
opinion may be gathered from the single fact that
they thank him for having " created them." This
illustrates the accuracy of the statement of a semi-
official organ, the other day, that Mexico was
already being governed upon French principles.
The new Minister of Public Instruction, M.
Duruy, is gaining "golden opinions from all sorts
of men," the extreme clerical party only excepted.
His activity and courtesy are beyond all praise.
Without doing open violence to the church, which
would not be in accordance with the Emperor's
intentions, he is reversing the policy inaugurated
in 1852, for the express purpose of lowering the
dignity and destroying the independence of uni-
versity professors, and strengthening the hands of
the priests. In a speech, delivered yesterday to
the Imperial Council of Public Instruction on the
occasion of the close of its session, M. Duruy—
after thanking the council for their assistance in
carrying out the Emperor's wish for the re-esta-
blishment of the class of philosophy—referred to
the fact that their body is composed of men of
divers creeds, who, nevertheless, consult toge-
ther in perfect harmony for the purpose of
furthering the great work of education. Religion
and philosophy should not be considered as ante-
goniutical, but each should fulfil its parallel task.
Quin corpus ouustam
. . . Asimum quoque pnegravat ass
Atque Olga Immo diviaos partici/lam aurae ;
He concluded as follows :

Our society is formed in the image of this assembly. It
unites and causes to live in peace, under the same law, for
the greatness of our beloved country, men of all religious
communions. It is the same with our colleges; ►nd just as
there is not a catholic or a protestant rhetoric and
geometry, there will not be • Hebrew, • Humid-
man, or even • university philosophy, as some
already say there is, unless by the word " univer-
sity" they mean what I would willingly accept,
good sense and patriotism. With regard to that word,
allow me to say that the ministry of which you are the
eminent counsel is not the head of a narrow, jealous, and
exclusive corporation. We are, gentlemen, the impersona-
tion of public instruction, by which I mean the civilisation
and morality of the country. The priest at the altar, and
the professor in his chair, have both the same task. They
pursue it—the former with his eyes raised to Heaven, our
future home; the other, with his eyes turned earthwards,
on past ages and this present life. They follow two parillel
lines, with the same end in view. Following your example,
gentlemen, let them be actuated by good faith, mutual re.
spect, love for the public weal, and let them remember that
peace on earth is promised to men of good will.
The telegraphic statement that Turkey had pro-
tested against the cession of the lonian Islands to
Greece is contradicted.

After five weeks of dry weather is Paris a light
rain commenced falling yesterday morning, and in
the afternoon and evening it came down rather
heavily for several hours, accompanied occasionally
with loud claps of thunder. Yesterday morning
the waters of the Seine had sunk to the summer
level of the year 1719, which has long been the zero
point of the scale for measuring the depth of the
water at the Pont Royal and other bridges. The
Seine has not been so low more than once before
during tbe present century—in the year before the
comet of 1811.

A letter from Lisbon states that the sale of
crown diamonds, recently ►uthorised by the Portuguese
Cortes, has taken place at the Bank of PortugaL The
principal purchaser was M. Bernard, of the Imperial
diamond-cutters' establishment of France, to whom four of
the principal iota of rough diamonds were knocked down
for a sum of 1,300,000 fr. The total proceeds of the day's
sale were 1,800,000 fr. These precious stones oame front
the mines of Minas Genies, in BraziL They were brought
to Portugal, as has been stated, be King John VI. in 1821.
The value of the diamonds which the crown still has to sell
is estimated at about 35 millions of francs. It I. said that
tree rough stone among them will, when cut, 'wpm in size
the floret at present known.

The Lobos, Macabi, and Guanape islands have
been surveyed by order of the Peruvian government, and
it is estimated that they contain 8,000,000 tons of gums°,
worth 46,000,0001. sterling.

The emancipation of slaves in Dutch Guiana
was to take place tho beginning of this racutL