The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

LETTER FROM PRINCE NAPOLEON ON

POLAND.

(nom ouz owzr coazzarozzimr.)
PARIS, THUBSDAT EVINTNO.

Prince Napoleon bas written the following letter
to M. Belmontet, in acknowledgment of a copy of
versa in favour of the Polish cause, headed Dieu
le sent !

Pte, Oct. 19, 1863.

My dear M. Belmontet,— I have received your verses co
Poland and have read them with deep emotion and greet
interest. God grant that your voice may be beard and
that France will not see that unfortunate country, which
has always been so faithful to u, annihilated. I trust that
your vote as a deputy will be very soon seen to be in
axord with your generous idea as a poet. Receive, my
dear Monsieur Belmoatet, the renewed easusaos of my
distinguished sentiments. NAPOLZON (Jewel).
The above letter shows, to • very recent date,
that Prince Napoleon is still prepared to lead an
opposition in the Senate. There is a vein of irony
in his expression of • hope that M. Itelmontet's
vote in the Corps Legislatif will correspond with his
verses, for M. Belmontet, besides being poet
laureate, is • government deputy.
The Union says that the baptism of the Prince
Napoleon's son is at this moment • great stumbling
block to the church. The little prince was half-
baptised (oecloyg) immediately after his birth ; but
it is almost without precedent that the full cere-
mony of baptism should be postponed longer than
six months. The infant is now more than a year
old, and the reason given for the extraordinary
delay is that Prince Napoleon will have no other
godfather for his son than the King of Italy, who
is excommunicate. The Pope making a great point
of bolding to the excommunication in this case, no
bishop in France can be found to fly openly in the
face of the church, and the Prince Napoleon, with
equal firmness, declares that unless Victor Em-
manuel holds his infant over the font, he shall
not be baptised at all.
The only certain news of the ministerial council
of yesterday, presided over by the Emperor, is
that it sat from 2 to 6 o'clock. This unusually
protracted deliberation will probably not be thought
evidence of unanimity.
The Prance thinks itself authorised to contradict
the news of Marshal Niel being about to be sent
on • special mission to Russia. According to a
frequent habit when any false news is to be contra-
dicted, the Prance represents this as coming from
English journals. The fact is that no English
journal spoke of it until it was first circulated by
Paris newspapers.

The meudacious habits of the official journals
when they speak of the health of any great per-
sonage are such that great anxiety is always felt
about anybody whom they assert to be very well.
It was stated a few days since that the Duke de
Morny, being entirely recovered from the con-
sequences of a knock on the head from a horse, was
coming to Paris from his country seat at Nades
on a day mentioned, and would certainly preside at
the opening of the new legislature. But the Nation
now says that although the duke is cured, he
"still requires great care," and that "it is possible
he may not be able to take the chair during the
first days of the session."
The Sank of France, not having raised its dis-
count, the Bourse somewhat recovered to-day.
Bente rose 100. for cash and 150. for account,
closing at 67fr. and 67fr. sc. Mobilier rose
17fr. 50..

The Moniteur publishes the following note :
The Mexican oonstda at Paris, Bordeaux, and Havre hav-
ing been obliged Mame the exercise of their functions, the
mansgemeot of their respective poets Ina been temporarily
coolkied to the weenie of Goatentala, who ere consequently
charged with the protection of the persons and iotereas of
Me:tom subjects at than plasm The Minister of Foreign