The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(MY Sal 0011111PORDIDIT OF TRII DAILY trews.)
PARIS, SATURDAY EVRXIIO.
The following very remarkable c=pit In the
/Inane, professedly addressed to as wallas
French newspapers, and, in point of het, neat es
en admonition to the English peen else% will be
read with intent: interest at the present moment
" It is useful to remind the peen, both in Frans*
aid abroad, of the imperious deities of discreties
which the security and interest of our troops im-
pose on their patriotism and impartiality. Foe
the purrss of gratifying the impatient*, otherwise
so legitimate, of their readers, the journals pub.
lisp, on the military operations at the Ceheeer
information, sometimes correct, but men frequestly
false, which is transmitted to them from the
theatre of war, or taken from letters written by el&
errs and soldiers to their families. When these
recitals are false they mislead public opinion ; and
when true are attended with a still more serious
inconvenience, that of giving the enemy some idea
of the plans and means of attack combined by the
generalrin-chief in their secret conceits, and so
everything that ought carefully to be kept secret is
revealed. In both cases this publicity is dangerous
and even culpable, and if it cannot be repressed in
countries where discussion is free, it will certainly be
sufficient to point out the danger of such indiscre-
tions, to render them henceforth impossible. Every
one must, in fact, comprehend that letters written
from the camp of Saba,topol on the operations
of the siege are not intended for the Russians.
To change these confidential letters into articles
for journals. is to expose the lives of the heroic
besiegers. In a time of war, silence is sometimes
a sacred duty for those who every day ad-
dress the public ;if journals lose something by this,
as far as their interest goes, they gain considerably
in self respect. We no longer live in a time when
war abroad should necessarily lead to dictatorship at
home. The governments which have accepted the
honour and responsibility of a great struggle, entered
into for the purpose of insuring the independence
and balance of power in Europe, have not found it
necessary to decree laws of public safety. They have
relied on the intelligence of public opinion, as well
as on the heroism, the patience, and the abnegation
of their armies and their fleets; they have not been
deceived on any point, neither will they be disap-
pointed when they request from the press of all
countries the patriotism of discretion."
'The Prestos says of the above article :
We found this exhortation is addressed much more to this
foreign than to the French press. The Paris journals do not
general)g Na is the direction of audacity or indiscretion.
I believe the erroneous impression which I men-
tioned yesterday as having existed in the public
mind, that the negotiations with Petunia were likely
to lead to a favourable issue, may be traced to a too
sanguine opinion, momentarily entertained by M.
Drouyn de Lbuys, of the persuasive power of his own
eloquent despatches. When MM. de Wedell and
Usedore arrived in Paris, the Foreign Minister re-
ceived them with more than diplomatic courtesy, and
talked so accommodatingly about the " analogous
treaty" as to lead these statesmen to believe that
Prussia had really gained her point. Letters were
sent all over Germany after this interview stating that
all the coacessions Prussia desired would be made, and
the opinions so ventilated were speedily reflected back
to Paris by telegraph. M. Drouyn de Lbuye, I em
told, had persuaded himself, on the other band, that,
at the pnce of waiving the mere form of Prussia's
adhesion to the treaty of Dec. 2nd, his last despatch
had really succeeded in inducing Prussia to bind her.
self to similar terms by a separate engagement. On
further examination, however, it was found that the
whole negotiation was but a piece of diplomatic
fencing. Prussia proposed the " analogous treaty"
not expecting it to be accepted, and as an excuse for
not joining the Western Powers. France accepted
it, in order to put Prussia's sincerity to the test, but
n meant to be friends with Prussia on any other
terms than an honest offensive and defensive alliance
against Russia. This neither M. de Wedell nor M.
Leedom had any serious intention to conclude.
The Emperor, who knew this well, received
them with icy coldness, and cut short
the conversation, as I told you yesterday,
by a rough announcement that if Prussia did not
consent to the march of a French army across her
territory, the army would go without leave. M.
Drouyn de ',buys was, I know for certain, quaking
for some hours in the fear of losing his place for
haring been too mealy-mouthed with the l'russians.
The court of Berlin, finding its two envoys at fault,
has resolved to send a third. M. Niebuhr is expected
here immediately—sent at the ur;ent request of the
Russian General Benckendorff. According to some
accounts he is the bearer of fresh instructions to
General de Wedell, while other letters say he is
coming on a like mission. No evasion will answer
for many hours longer. Prussia must come to the
point at once.
The reports of a mutiny among the Zouaves in the
Crimea, brought to Paris by the London journals,
have created a very painful sensation. The
story is no doubt greatly exaggerated, but it
is not thought altogether without foundation. The
notion of 400 men having been sent in irons to
Toulon is scouted as absurd. General Canrobert
would certainly not find such a number of fetters in
the whole French camp. But the Tendon generally
credited at the Bourse cwhere the affair was much
talked of) was that the lonaves had objected to obey
the orders given them to bring up English stores
from Balaklava ; that a mutiny, or something very
like one, had occurred ; and that one consequence of
it was the occupation by the French of a considera-
ble portion of the line of the English trenches, which
Lord Raglan's army was not able to serve effectually.
Those who know the Zouaves, and their wild
determined nature, think them quite capable of
revolting against an order to do any work which
might not appear to them within the legitimate
sphere of their duty as soldiers.
The Bourse has been exceedingly heavy all day.
The disposition of the market has suffered a marked
change since the beginning of the week. The Rent*
fell JJR, closing at 87.15. All the railways were
lower. Rouen fell 10E, and Lyons and Mediterranean
12.50. Northern fell 7.50. Bank of France recovered
of. from the fall of yesterday. Some larim sale@ were
made in the Austrian railways, which fell 17.
According to a Paris letter in the indipenekesseet
Brussels, a marriage is in contemplation between die
second son of Prince Czartoryski and the 'Wet
daughter of Queen Maria Christina and the Duke&
Manna's. The'youthful couple, in case of the ado
taking place, will reside, it is said, in Paris.
It has been decided that the new statue in bream
of Joan of Arc, ind the newly repaired Hotel de
Ville at Orleans, shall be inaugurated on the Bth of
May next, with great pomp.
It appears from the returns of the Beak of Pismo
for the month ending Thursday, Feb. 8, that esa
metallic reserve has increased at Paris 7 million.
and in the provinces 421 million francs. The die.
count accommodation shows an augmentation of lif
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millions in Paris and 21 millions in the branch tanks.
The advances on public securities of France assoeht
about the same in the Paris establishment, but are
nearly 1 million greater in the departments. The
advances on railway securities are 11 minion
greater in Paris, and near:y 2 millions greater
in the provinces. The rent., of the reserve fund
have increased from 10 million to nearly 13.
The item of discounted treasury bonds for the go-
vernment (which amounted last month to 30
...millions) no longer appears in the returns, and has
consequently, it is to be presumed, been paid off. On
the aide of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have
declined 2 millions in Paris and 111 millions in the
branch banks. The account-current of the Treasury
increased from 73 to 121 millions, evidently in
asesequence of the money received from the subscrip-
tions to the loan. Private amounts current have
increased 11 millions in Paris, and a few hundred
thousand francs in the provinces. The whole of the
metallic reserve amounts at present to 422/ millions,
to 637 millions of notes in circulation.

PARIS, SIMDLT Evaxixo.
According to the Courrier du Pas de Calais, it is
rumoured in the northern amp that the Emperor
sal go to Boulogne this week.
An aidedscarnp of General Marmara, and leveed
Piedmontass officers, mired at Lyons from Turin cm
Fri* evening, and yesterday morning they em-
barked in a Rhone steamer, on their way to the

CAMS to mate poperatione foe the arrival of the
Piedmont'', enetingent.
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A Bucharest letier of Jan. 31, in the Comfits.
gonna, gives the following account of the reasons
which led Omer Pasha to tender the resignation of
his ocesinand

Those hes k. been a bed holies beton. OMIT Packs
amiort ties the Turkish miloblatina Pecks more
per. T
very neosimat thetthoZalerm.at the request
iWirFe_pliONlS of the allied essedge. iMemlaed to send
Omer Nall Mai Crime, the Ale eommesi of the army
of Soeundla sod the pima Dawdle woe etederred upon
buten Paths. who bed previously loss iodinated for
the army of Lela. Ismael is net te is under the
orders of Ocoee Puha. The latter woe the mere inligoant
at this dimilosedes of the importune of ble command,
during
be-
ams, while he MI is vela the whole winter long
eidisitsi daddy nod &me for be army, Rise Po
at
mere esettlobisall Pasha all that the generalissimo had
been waft M Odds. The iadoepemiene outherity given
to Ismail Peas be the practical diet of ieprivisi Omer
Pacha of the milobeeenlell's and ems the which
he might la it oemmary to draw from Instead
of giving orders he would be fond to solicit
from Ismail Packs, as from • colleague, end at the
risk of • refusal, the subeisteace of his owe army. This is
the more serious that there me SO stores of any sort at
Eapatoris, and the Turkish troops are obliged to carry
everything with them to the Crimea. The corps already
embarked at Hopatoria are subjected to great prim ions.
Nothing bet affeetice for, and mildews, in, Omer Paella,
keeps op the spirits of the troops. So great is this affection
that several colonels on learning that their regiments
were not to go to the Crimea begged permission
to follow their 'semi as simple volunteen. It is,
therefore, the fear of seeing the well being of his
army compromised, which determiaed Omer Puha to
resign. This retirement is more thee • toes for Turkey.
It is a calamity, for there does sot sow remain in the
Ottoman Empire • single general possessing the knowledge,
eapacity, and expertise's, seceseary to make war on a large
seal..

The above letter was written before the with-
drawal of Omer Pacha's resignation, consequent
upon the yielding of the Porte to hie jut and neces-
sary demands.

M. Soule arrived in Paris last night at the Hotel
de Londres. He goes to London to-morrow, and
will sail from Cowes on Wednesday in the St. Louis
for the United States. He considers the scheme for
the purchase of Cuba by America as completely
knocked on the head.
A St. Petersburg letter of Februaryy, 3, states that
the Czar's government has just resolved upon two
grand industrial measures. The Volga is to be made
navigable from Aatrakan to the Caspian Sea, and a
company to be called the " Golden Fleece" is maim-
rised to work the gold mines in Siberia.

This morning. at half-past nine, the three-mast
sailing vessel Franoe-et-Bretagne anchored in the
Seine, opposite the Louvre, having made the voyage
from Paris to Rio Janeiro and back. The event of her
safe return was celebrated by the firing of a hundred'
and one guns. Within the last two years the safe
arrival up the Seine of several seagoing ships. spe-
cially built for the purpose, has gone far to establish
the darling proposition that Paris may be esteemed a
port-de-mer, but this is the first time that any
ship that has crossed the Atlantic has made her way
to Paris. The captain of the vessel complains, with
much reason, that he was compelled by the custom-
house authorities at Rouen to land the whole of his
cargo there for examination, and he afterwards had
to re-ship it. He hopes that the success of his expe-
riment in navigation will lead to an order from the
director general and customs allowing vessels to pro-
ceed direct to the quays of Paris without being sub-
jected to the delay and expense of unshippiog
their cargo at any intermediate port. The
France-et-Bretagne was built at Bordeaux by
M. G. B. Coureau, according to a plan submitted by
the captain, M. Le Barazer, for the purpose of expe-
rimentally settling the question whether a vessel
adapted tor a long voyage could come up the Seine
to Paris.

Vely Pacha, the Turkish ambusador, gave a bell
last night, which was thronged to an extraordinary
degree by persons anxious to show their regret at
his recall.
M. Odillon Barrot was yesterday elected a free
member of the Academy of Bdinces in place of M.
Blondeau. At the same time, there being a vacancy
for a foreign • member, M. Brand*. of Bonn, was
chosen.