The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-12 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. l'augaDAT Evitmo.,

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No doubt is entertained here of the truth of the
news that Puebla has fallen. I have seen people
who refused to repose implicit faith in the two
lines of the Monitevr ; but their doubts were en-
tirely removed by the sound of the twenty-one
guns which were fired at the Invalides this after-
noon at two o'clock to celebrate the event. I
understand that the publication in the Monitevr
and the firing of the guns were both ordered ex-
pressly by the Emperor, to whom the ministers
referred (by telegrams to Fontainebleau) before
they would take upon themselves the responsibility
of acting.

The Pays contains the following paragraph :
Our private information permits us to give the following
details of the taking of Puebla. As long ago as May 14 the
firing bad nearly ceased. The town began to ran short of
provisions, and the inhabitants, who on March 21, the
date of the opening of the trenches, bad begged
penal Forey to spare the monuments, preear
General Ortega to surrender. Negotiations were opened
that very day. [May 14 is evidently the day meant].
Ortega and his troops were disarmed. It is stated that they
will be sent to Martinique and Guadeloupe, there to remain
until the conclusion of peace. The packet which brought
the news to New Yerk made the passage in nine days only,
having left Vern Cruz on May 22, and reached New York on
May 31. The North American, bound for Liverpool, had
left the evening before ; but on passing Cape Baca, on June
1, it band the despatch published this morning in the
Moaileur, and which had been sent from New York by
telegraph. General Porgy's despatch announcing the taking
of Puebla is not, therefore, to be expected by this packet,
but it will come by the transatlantic company's boat, which
may be looked for at St. Nazaire on Saturday or Sunday.
The question arises, how can the Pays know so
Much more than the Moniteur f The only latest
news is that dated New York, June 1, which caught
the North American at Cape Race. The Moni-
teur professes to give the textual despatch sent by
M. de Mentholon, the French consul at New York.
There is no date in that despatch. Surely if the
Monifeur had known of a date it would have given
one. The Pays has learned in some extraordinary
manner that the boat which brought the great
news from Vera Cruz made the passage in exactly
nine days. The Opinion Nationale, however, speaks
of eleven or twelve days as the shortest passage

possible.
The following telegram, published in the French
journals, gives a different account from that of the

Pays :
New York, Jane 1.—Immediately after the capitulation,
General Forey mot a packet to take the news to the French
consul at Haranosh. The latter sent a boat to the nearest
point on the American continent, from which the news was
sent by telegraph to New York. General Forey also sent
• division on the road to Mexico to take possession of the
commanding points. The garrison made prisoners esti-
mated at 9,000, of whom 700 are °dicers.
It is to be romember;tl that a great deal of false
Mexican news, sometimes in favour of the French
and sometimes against them, has reached Europe,
via. New York ; and the French journals have
hitherto said that all news from New York must
necessarily be incredible, because General Forey
had taken measures to send any important in-
telligence, in shorter time, to Saint Nazaire.
Seeing the discrepancies above mentioned, I cannot
yet think it absolutely impossible that the French
consul at New York may not have been misled.
However, there is, I repeat, no doubt felt about
the fact here. Fontainebleau was illuminated last
night, and there are preparations for illuminations
in Paris this evening. It is said that Sunday's
Vonifeur will gazette General Forey a Marshal of
France.
•

The Tetnps and Opinion Nationale express a fer-
vent hope that now that General de Lorencees
check a year ago is avenged, and the lustre of the
French flag augmented, the government will treat
with Juarez, and put an end to an expensive, boot-
lees, and unpopular war.
It is said that orders have been despatched to
Cherbourg to suspend the reinforcements.
At the Bourse the Puebla news to some extent
counteracted the effect of the rise in the bank dis-
count, but the highest prices of the day were not
sustained. Reote, after being quoted at 69fr. 500.,
closed rather heavily at 69fr. Silo., with a rise on
the day of but 15c. Mobilier reoctvered 22fr. 50c.
from the fall of yesterday.
The Daily News is seized.