The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

an official article from the prefect calling upon all
mayors is the department to put a stop, in the moat
4, duvet and energetic," tnanner to canvassing in
favour of men of extreme opinions, who have already
refused the oath of fidelity to the elect of the nation.
The provincial journals of the departments near
Paris state that the abstentions are very numerous.
!At Lille a marked indisposition to vote has been ob-
i served.

M. Lamm-tine hu addressed the following letter to
the Journal de Saone and Loire :
Bt. Point, July 2S.
I learn, in my retirement, th.,t a certain number of the
Hectors h re the obliging intention of proposing my name
at the approaching • lection of the council-general. Will
you be good enou4h to make known through your Journal
my intention nut to accept their suffrages, and my grati-
tude for their flattering remembrance of me.
Lgnarerinc
. .

Government accounts to 6 o'clock this evening state
that the results of the elections of councillors-gene-
ral and councidors of arrondissement in several
platys have been received. he government candi-
dates have, generally speaking, obtained enormous
majorities, In some instances, however, where there
was no opposition, the elections have failed for want
of the legal number of votes. In these cases a fresh
ballot must be had next Sunday. Among the most
prominent names of eouncillora-general electe I aro
General Itoguet, principal aide-dc camp to the I're-
sident of the Republic, in the Haute Garonne; Ge-
neral Magnan, in the Bits Itin ; and M. Daviel, at
Rouen.

The municipal council have contracted with MM.
Ardouin and Co. for the opening of the new Rue de
Strasbourg. The expense of the works will be
7,750,0001 i., of which one-third is to be paid by the
state.

The scaffolding for M. Nieuerkerke's statue of the
Empe►or, at Itond-Point, in the Champs-Elysees,
is in the course of erection. The works for con-
verting the Marchii ch.% lunocens into an immense
ball-room, for the Jae of the ntli, have also cora-
-1 menccd.

1 Mdllc. de Praslin, one of the daughters of the late
Duke do Prinslin, has just married Count de Reber-
Bart, of Mons; and one of her sisters is, it aaid,about
to marry a young Count de Montalembert, nephew
of the Couhteas de Gagemont, also of Mons.
The Prase, in its weekly commercial bulletin,
says :
Some orders begin to be received by the manufacturing
houses for the departments of the south and for exportation,
and England, which h.is been fur some time occupied ex-
clusively with the elections, has lately sent some important
orders. The Parisian trade is still very dull, but the period
is not yet arrived when business generally becomes
active. The manufactories in the departments are
well occupied ; purchasers of woollen and cotton goods
present themselves, and sales would be more extensive if
prices were not so high. A further rise is spoken of at
Mulhoue and at Itoueu. The trade in corn has been very
active. It has been said that wheat of the new crop
would be of rather middling quality, but, as favourable
accounts have been received from many of the department.,
as well as from abroad, purchasers will not submit to
pay a higher price. The same remark may be applied to
wines and spirits. Speculators have taken advantage of the
presence of disease in many of the vineyards to spread gene-
ral alarm, and to produce an enormous rise. It has, how-
ever, been found that the evil was not so serious as it had
been represented, and there is every reason to hope that the
crop may produce more than three-fourths of an ordinary
one. The rise has consequently been followed by a mate-
rial fall, and it is expected that many speculators in the
markets of the south will be serious sufferers.
.. ..

At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closed without change, at 104 f. 05c. ; the Three per
Cents. rose 75c., and closed at 76f. 30c. Bank of
France shares rose 30. St. German Railway rose
60f.; Orleans, 17f. 30e.; Bale, 13f.; Rouen and
Northern, 12f. 60e. each; Strasburg, 10f.; Lyons,
tif. 73e.

ITALY.
LOMBARDY.
Tho (lowa Gazette of the 29th states, that Aus-
tratiermanic telegraphic lines are now open between
the stations of Hanover, Bremen, and Harbourg.