The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

Prince Napoleon is expected in Paris from Hol-
land in a few days, and it is expected that he will
speak in the Senate against a petition got up by
some ultra-imperialists, praying that the journals
may be prohibited, absolutely and altogether, from
making comments upon the debates of the Senate
and Corps Legislatif.
"Prince Humbert, eldest son of King Victor
Emmanuel," says the Sport, "is expected in Paris.
The prince will reside with his sister the Princess
Clothilde, at the Palais Royal." Some journals
have represented this visit as a counter move to
that of Garibaldi in England, but I fail to see the
possibility of drawing a parallel between the two
events. Prince Humbert may be a very estimable
young man, but the Parisians know nothing about
him, and not ten people in Paris would walk a
quarter of a mile to look at him. What the Eng-
lish people think of Garibaldi you beet know.
Lady Cowley's second ball last night was more
crowded than the preceding one. All the great
court people whose absence last week, though very
possibly accidental, has been commented upon as
indicative of a coolness between the two courts,
were present on this occasion. It is certain that
Mr. Stansfeld's resignation and Lord Palmerston's
speech are regarded as pledges of a better under-
standing. Among the English visitors to Paris
present at the ball was Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald.
The clerical party is intriguing very strongly to
get K Durny, the Minister of Public Instruction,
dismissed. He owed his appointment to the per-
onal appreciation of the Emperor of his great abi-
lities,but he has few supporters about the conrt,and
his refusal to turn M. Renan out of the professional
chair is the latest pretext for bearing hard upon him.
The priests are very powerful in France now, and
there is no knowing how far the Emperor may think
it expedient to resist them. It is reported that Car-
dinal Bonnechose, who was so completely routed by
M. Delangle the other day when he supported the
fanatical petition of Captain Merlin for harsher
laws against "bad books," is going to return to
the charge upon another petition, more moderately
and artfully worded.
At the Bourse the Rente underwent no change
but quotations were heavy at the close, and Mo-
biller fell 3fr.

General Marquis de Castelbajac, formerly a peer
of France and ambassador to Russia, and under
the present empire a senator, his just died at Pau,
after a very short illness.
The papers of the late M. Pietri,which have been
sequestrated because they were known to contain
private letters from the Emperor, have been restored
to his family.
The Independatil de la Charente inferieure, a jour-
nal published at Sainte*, has received a warning for
an article on the Paris elections in its number of
March 29, which article is condemned by the prefect
on the ground that the writer " seeks to mislead
public opinion, and to excite to hatred and contempt
of the government" by describing it as " an un-
bridled power without counterpoise, and one which
can do whatever seems right in its own eyes." I
really do not think public opinion can have been
much misled by the description, for most people
will think it as like as a photograph.
I presume there must be something which the
authorities think likely to mislead public opinion in
the Daily News of yesterday, for the number is
seized.

" Great interest has recently been excited in the
artistic world hero," says a Paris letter in the Suhit Ps6fic
of Lyrae, •• by aUs portrait of Madam* Victoria Lafon-
taine, painted by an artist named Filo, bons without arms,
but who plan the quell very dexterously with his feet.
This is not the Mat instance of the kind ; for, during the
reign of Louis Philippe, several of the annual exhibitions at
the Louvre comprised paintings by IL Downie*, of Lisle,
who appended to his signature the words • Painter without
arms.' "

A decree of the Supreme Court of Constanti-
nople, sanctioned by the Sultan, has just prohibited the
sale of haschish, a dangerous narcotic which the Turks are
food of smoking. Dispensing chemists may. however, supply
it as a medicine when prescribed by a physician- All other
persons who may henceforth sell this drag will be prose-
cuted sod severely punished.

The Duke de Luynes has been at Jerusalem, and
is at the present moment exploring the Dead See onboard
a small steamer called the &gar, 33 feet in length. He
bad this built on purpose at Toulon. It was then takes to
pieces and seat to Jaffa, whence it was conveyed to the
Dead Sea on the backs of camels. The Arabs in the
neighbourhood, struck with amazement at ths sight of this
tiny vessel moving along the waters in a way inexplkable
to them, firmly believe that it is s Chastan (demos) which
has risen from the bottom of the manned lake of Sodom.

The tide of emigration Bows on with increasing
volume from all parts of Ireland. Travellers declare that
they have MOM whole villages in Connanght utterly de
sorted, the people, old and yousg—grandfathen and little
children, being met in hundreds on the road, making their
way to the emigrant ships. The clamorous grief of rola-
tires parting is seldom witnessed now ; on the contrary,
the emigrants ere quite cheerful. Speaking of those who
sailed by the City of Glasgow, the Cork Reporter says that
they seemed as joyf el as if they were embarking for • pis-
ale ea • summer lake. The booking-ofSoss in Dahlia have
all the births engaged in the Atlantic steamers for weeks
le ciente. Erse in some of the best counties in Wester
and Ulster the smell farmers are giving np their amylase
draggle to live on their small holdings, and are going in
great Dual= to the ceentry where they ear have farms
without rent. In many mem the peasants have their pas-
nage paid by their relatives i• America.