The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN OORDJEIPONDRNT.)

PARIS. FRIDAY Ell:NINO.

Mr. Slidell, the Confederate envoy resident in
Paris, had a very long conference with the Emperor
at the Tuileries yesterday morning. His Majesty
sent for him as soon as be was up, kept him to a
the a leStt breakfast, and did not part company
with him till the ministers were assembled in coun-
cil and waiting for their imperial chairman. This
incident will naturally impart additional credit to
the rumour that interference with the United
States is likely to be one of the consequences of the
' fall of Puebla. In reference to this rumour M.
Drouyu de Lhuys' office speaks, through its organ,
the Pays, in the following haughty but oracular
language :
Neither with regard to the United States or Russia has
oar policy been in any way hampered or restrained by the
Mexican expedition. That policy is invariable, and guided
by the requirements of our own dignity, interests, and
legitimate influence in the world. If there shall be any
change in that policy,it will be only on account of new even-
tualities, new necessities which may call for a different line
of conduct from that which we have heretofore pursued.
But our recent victory at Puebla will no more be the occa-
sion of any such change than the protraction of the siege
would have been an impediment had &change been judged
desirable.

This rhetoric is not very much calculated to allay
the public apprehension that uew wars are brewing.

kullier's C'orrespolutence says

If Russia accepts the propoeitions now made to her, all
will be well ; but her refusal may lead to a declaration of
hostilities. It is natural that the public should be uneasy,
but it would be perhaps going too far at present to consider
war as certain.

The Bourse was decidedly uneasy, in conse-
quence of the warlike rumours. Reute fell 10c.,
both for cash and account, closing at 681 r. 50c.,
and 68fr. 55c. Mobilier fell llfr. 25c., and all
the railways were 2fr. or 3fr. lower.
The Pays is instructed to say that there is no
truth in the news given by the Preec and Ltchf-
pendance Beige that M. de Sartiges, the French
Ambassador at Turin, is disliked by the King of
Italy ; and it further asserts that there has never
been any idea of recalling M. de Sartiges.

It is said that the court will come from Fon-
tainebleau to Paris expressly to witness the first
representation of the Sicilian Vespers. Couut
Walewski had a select party the other evening, at
which the principal pieces in this opera were sung
by MM. Villaret and Bonnehee, Verdi himself
accompanying them on the piano.
Madame de Galiffet, whose husband, the mar-
quis, was seriously wounded before Puebla, has
been invited to Fontainebleau, to stay with the
Emperor and Empress till the arrival of the next
packet at St. Nazaire, by which it is hoped M. de
Galiffet will be well enough to return.

THE CAPTURE OF HERAT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Juice 19.

The following despatch has been received from
her Majesty's charge d'affaires in Persia, dated
June 11 :

" Intelligence received this day of the capture of
the city of Herat by Dost Mahomet Khan."

Seventeen Polish officers in the service of the
Porte have resigned their commissions, and left for the
Principalities, en route for the theatre of the national
movement. A young Levantine doctor, of Polish origin,
has also left for Paria to proceed by that route to the same
destination.

RELIGIOUS TOLZRATION IN TURKEY. —The
weather on Thursday last having prevented the Roman
catholic procession of the Flte Dieu, which should h►ve
taken place on that day, the ceremony was postponed tall
Sunday, when it was performed with the accustomed oat-
of-door display. On this, as on previous similar occasions,
the government exemplified its wonderful religioaa liberality
by providing a military band and guard to precede and ac-
company the procession through the principal streets of
Peru—in contrast how striking to the treatment of pro-
infante at Boon or Madrid I—Levant Herald, Jane 13,