The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRLDAT EVINING.

There is not a line in the Monikur to satisfy
public curiosity as to the result of the ministerial
council at St. Cloud. But, judging from the soft-
ened tone of the journals which yesterday were
running a muck against England and Austria, and
talking of a close alliance between Russia and
France, I think it safe to conclude that the Duke
de Morny's party have not for the present gained
a victory, and that M. Drouyn de Lhuys will con-
tinue for some little time longer the hopeless task
of negotiating for the six points, the conference,
and the armistice, iu concert with the other two
powers. Both the France and the Pays say to-night
that the question remains " a European one." The
France says :

France will not isolate herself in this affair. Prince
Cortchakors despatch endeavours to give satisfaction to
our national susceptibility, but it does not weaken the
understanding which unites us to Austria and England.
There is something which France values quite as highly as
her own dignity, and that is the loyalty of her relations
towards her allies.

This language is totally different from that which
the France has been using for the last throe days,
and is on that account the more remarkable.

The Petrie says u "Latest news :"

We believe we can Mate that the French government
shows itself disposed [a weak expression this] to consider
Prince Gortchakors despatch u being intended to make an
attempt in regard to France similar to that lately made at
Vienna—to separate oar of the powers (rem the other two.
In presence of this appreciation of the French cabinet, and
after new communicatioas made to France by England,
separate notes will probably be drawn up at Paris, Vienna,
and Loudon, but containing identical paragraphs.
The Pays speaks in the following tender terms of
the Gortchakoff despatch :
The fact of such an explanation having been sent to Paris
without waiting for the answer of the three powers ►ttests,
on the part of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, an
intention to give the most conciliatory character possible to
ulterior negotiation,.

It results, I think, from these meagre explana-
tions, that the hints thrown out by the Nation, of
SD alliance with Russia, although they probably
represent ideas caressed by the Duke de Morny
and other advisers of the Emperor, met with no
success at the council yesterday. Russia has pro-
bably tried to detach France from the triple
alliance (if alliance it can be called), but, for the
moment at any rate, her overture has not been
responded to. A note of the offer will, however,
be doubtless taken.

It should be explained that this rather extraor-
dinary note of Prince Gortchakotf was written, not
in answer to any diplomatic document, but to
verbal remarks made by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to
Baron de Budberg. The note in question was read
to M. Drouyn de Lhuys so long ago as Tuesday
last. It quite fails to bear out the description of
it given in the mysterious and discreditable oor-
respondemw of the Debuts.

The Bourse construed the note as inconsistent
with the pacific conclusions which the Dlbats
founded upon it and which the public yesterday
was inclined to accept. The llente fell 30c. for
rash and 40c. for account, closing at 67fr. 45c. and
67fr. 35c. Mobilier fell 37fr. 50c. In railways
the only notable change was a fall of 10fr. in
Lyons and of 15fr. in Southern.

POMPEII.—A communication from Naples says :
—"Five fresh rooms have been laid open in that part of
Pompeii which had been uncovered this year, not far from
the Forum. I have visited those rooms, and was astonished
to find in them • number of pieces of bread, which must
have been wrapped up in napkins, the Witte of which is still
in • perfect state of procreative. There has been also found
a pretty seal, having for motto the words • Ani. Mo.,'
which Y. Fiorelli, the learned inspector of the excavations,
tells me was a proper name—' Anicelos llodestus.' Y.
Felix Padiglione, the persevering artist who is teproducing
Pompeii, in cork, at 100th of its natural sire, has just added
considerably to that work, which travellers may see in the
small museum of odds and ends which bare not been mot
to that at Naples. It contains specimens of all the small
bronzes, tern cotta, utensils, sod other articles of private
life, which tom the riche, of the Neapolitan galleries. The
excavations of Pompeii, carried on with so much real and
intelligence since the union of Naples to Italy, reflect the
highest honour oo the_governmeot."
CON PEDILEATZ FA ITN. —The index coolly ob-
' serves that " if Johostose is allowed quietly to collect the
paroled prisoners of Vicksburg-00M 20,000 men—he will
have in soother three weeks a very powerful array In the
field." The repudiation of the terms on which the
starved and imprestmed garrison of Vicksburg got food and
liberty would bequite in keeping with the If Weappl re.
pudiation, Ly which Mr. Davis was beet knows before the