The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUESDAY EVININO.

The London Society of Arts has arrived in Paris
on a visit to the Universal Exhibition. The Society
had a reception this morning at the rooms of the
British Commission, No. 14, Rae do Cirque, which
are placed at their service by Mr. Cole. To-morrow
morning the members will pay a visit to the ma-
chinery department. Mr. Robert Stephenson and
Mr. Scott Russell will be present, and explanations
are expected to be given. The Society and the
friends of members will be received by the Imperial
Commission at a full-diem soirée in the Patois on
lerridly. The Emperor hr.s promised to give an au-
dience to the Society next week.
The International Statistical Congress, which held
its maiden sittings in Brussels in 1863, will meet this
year in Paris. The 10th instant is fixed for ,the
opening of its second session. M. Rouher, the minis.
I ter of agriculture, commerce, and public works will
preside. Among the members of the bureau coin
posed of the French commission, which has been de-
puted to organise this session, are several names well I
known to science. Besides MM. Charles Hopis,
Alfred Lego) t, Villerme, de Watterille, Michel
Chevalier, and Monoy de Mornay, are those of the
heads of government departments who supply ele-
ments for statistics; M. Mestro specially representing
the Colonies, MM. Arondean and Bayle-Monillard for
Justice, Count de Lesseps for Foreign Affairs M.
Julien for Home Trade, M. Fleury for Foreign Trade,
General Daumas for Algeria, M. Greterin for the
Customs, M. Tourous for Registration, and M. de
Fraaqueville for Bridges and Highways. In Bros-
sels, in 1853, the Congress met with considerable
success. Twenty-five nations were represented
by deputies, many of whom were very eminent
men. The Royal Family attended some of the meet•
logs, and the then Minister of the Interior,
Piercott, placed the columns of the Moniteur Beige
at the service of the vuugreaa fur the poulieatton or
their proceedings. The session now to be held is
Paris will of course attract a much larger share of
public attention than the original meeting did in the
comparatively little town of Brussels. The French
programme is less comprehensive than the Bel-
gian one was, it having been thought de.
sirable to leave aside questions already pretty
well exhausted, and to investigate principally
those which are generally admitted to require
elucidation. The inquiries are divided into foul
sections :—lst section. Nosological tables of deaths ;
statistics of insanity, of epidemics, and of accidents.
2nd section. Statistics of agriculture, of means of
communication, and of foreign trade. 3rd 'Defies.
Statistics of civil justice; the preparation of a table of
crimes and misdemeanour', declared to be such by

the respective laws of every country ; statistics of

4th section. Statistics

of prudential institutions; statistics of great towns.
It appears that Abd-el-Kader, whose illness at
Marseilles I have already mentioned, was unwell
when he left Brous& The earthquake there de-
stroyed the irrigation works. The water spread over
the country formed stagnant pools, and produced
marsh fever. which attached the Emir and many of
his suite. His whole party arrived at Marseilles in
a deplorable state. His interpreter, M. Rosseao, is
described as being so altered that his friends scarcely
knew him. Abd-el-Hader, who arrived at the Hotel
d'Orient on the 30th, became worse the next day.
M. Baudens, a military inspecting-sorpoo, who
happened to be at Marseilles, on his way out to the
Crimea, was mot for, and paid every attention to
the fatness Arab Chief. It is reported that Abd-el-
lades said to him, speaking of the Crimean soldiers,

?hip fare lions and heroes, and I congratulate you
that ycia are going to join them."
A telegraphie despatch of this day from Marseilles
says, that notwithstanding his suffering state
MI-el-Hader set out for Paris th.s morning. It is
feared that he will be compelled to stop at Lyons.
"On Sunday," says the Emancipation of Brus-
sels, "an agent of this city, named M—, was ar-
rested by the polico on a charge of enlisting Belgian
subjects for the English army. He had enrolled
nine, of whom two or thus were soldiers. They
were to have been sent off to Lille on the very
evening of his arrest."
At the Bourse, the Rents, after opening nearly at
yesterday's price, declined to 66fr. 90e., and closed,
with a dull market, at a fall of 30c, Credit Mo-
bilier rose 20fr. A good deal of business wu done
in the early part of the day in two or three railway
lines, while all the rest were neglected. Lyons and
Northern rose 10fr. each; and Grand Central,
6k. 25e. The Austrian railways fell 6k.