The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1855.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, WIDITUDAT 8113111.1111.
Vie House opened today very heavily ,ender the'
' Mimes of the news telegraphed from Landon of
the taking of Kars (pews by the way not 'manned
from any other quarter), aad of a fall of I ia Consols. I
Inure was, however, a good deal of resistance to the
fell In the Rea* and ultimately the lowest pries of
the day, 64t. lie., was improved upon to the extent
of 64f. 35e., the definite fell being bat 160. Credit
Mobilise fell 7tr. 600. Railways were generally about
2fr. 500. lower, bat Lyons and Mediterranean roes
7fr. 60e.

I learn that the fusion between the Lyons and
Geneva and the Victor Emmanuel Railways is defi-
nitively settled. The first trial trip an the Victor
Emmanuel line is to be made this week between
Chandlery and Ai:46-136km
This morning the 'members of the telegraphic con-
ference now in Paris were present at a farther expe-
riment on the Rouen Railway of Chevalier Boa-
nelli's leoodnotive telegraph. A miss of enoosedul
experiments were 'made with tress running between
the Bt. lame station and Oman&
The affair of the French lines of Transatlantic
packets is spin upon the tapir. I understand that
the government feels so mush embermased between
the claims of eight applicants for the cones ion. that
it has delegated to a nommission the task of
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making a chase. Among the Comakeionere are M.
Swarm, Peetmester-Generel ; M. Gatlin. Director-

General of the Customs; and M. Paden; Councillor
of BMtm The principal 'competing companies an the
biessageries Giairalse, the General Maritime Com-
pany (an institution included by the Credit Mobilise),
the A■glo-Ameelaa Company, Meran. Theodore
Barbey and Co., and the Company of French Clippers.
It was by mistake that the telegraph announced
the snivel at Marseilles of the General of Division

Chasesloup-Lanbat. The person of that name who
returned from the Crimea with General Niel wee the
Count P. de Chuselosp-Laubat, the 'mother of the

Ciesetel of the sun asate.

The Beyond Division of the Army of the Ewst, no

stationed at Paris, has received the routs for Lyons.
We read in the Pays:

&veal Gersease have hem remedy anis, as amateun
with the Reralias is the Crimes. Two of them have just
arrived at Balla, when they at °sae become objests of
gnat aerially. Ose of them has jest seme from Simpha
repel, and the other from Kars, which plass he quitted
the day after the usseesseful assault,' as& he erased
I the whole of Cireeseis. About the middle of October,
the sate of Maga at ilimpheropel was pretty to
The traps were severally a little dis-
couraged by sigh • Meg WWI of defeats, bat
there was me wet of provides% sad Imperial recompetwes
were lavishly distributed. It is believed than that 140,000
Remises perished dewing the siege of Sebastopol, sod that
10,000 have bees erippled for life. The best aeons ban
disappeared, and have bees replaced by young man, sot lam
brave, bet very iseaperieseed. fiebutepol is •bout to be
declared a hely atty. The soldiers who have left it have
alma all of time is their knapsacks • bit of wood, estate,
or the @plata of • shell socalag from " the sanctuary," as
Bebeater:4 is mow ailed la Lauda, which they mad us pre-
cious relies to their families.

THE RUMOURS OF PEACE.

The language bold by the principal continental
journals received yesterday on the subject of pesos is
very guarded, sad calculated to nourish only the most
moderate expectations. The alma* nye :

We aeosido; it whoa to eelleet all the nuatiers that
still is chralatloa to t►e Freaah sad fetriga sewspap

&beat the hopes of a paella arrenganent between the
belligerent power& Oa viewing =ore closely ell the news

sad ill the rerekas puldished ea this subjset, we issa say
that the quest:lea bas set Mussed a single stay. It would
even seem that the Assess el peace have lost rather thaw
liaised peas& during the week that has just elapsed.
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- Oa the maw asideet Le Nord says:
The eillnasUess relative to the shames of pew are be-
using more eat mere vague ; we ere wag to speak even
of alltruatkos, gime °sly expreetleas of doubt ere now
uttered.

To the ransom of s step about to be taken to common by
a few Guam Courts wit► the Emperor of Eosin, with the
view of Winging biro to listen to some paelbe sevangemat,

ether mean tinselly doubtful authority have sweieeded,
'bleb aasousee that the Diet is to be again called upon to
preemies, is the Eastern geodes. Now, at the last sitting
of the Diet cra the 7th of December, that august eacenzbly
devoted itself merely to questiess of trivia inpertanca
Aceording to our private lettere mad the Fraakfort /owns*
the allegatioas of which we reproduce, no proceeding,
tinehiag the great gsestioa that sow swift the pat&
salad of Karam need be anticipated either on the part
of Austria or ta that of any other state of the Corded'.
ration.
The Iledepadaseas says :

A fresh miaow is stoat respediag the negotiations for
pease. The Pubis Petrie Ms mdertakea to malt forth
iato the world. Goma liteekelberg, the military atteeht
to the Russian legalise at Timm, bag, it is said, taken to
81. Petersburg porositiese mouths; from Austria, sad
to which Prime Clorteholoff, the represeatative of the Cur
at the mart of Timm, has gives kis adhosiou, at least,
causally sad yrovisiesudly. Gland Stackelberg, the
paper goes sa p my, is shortly expected is the espital of
Austria to return from St. Petuebtarg, whoa it will sect be
knows how the Impala Almeader has resolved the prow,
sale brought to lika by his military envoy. Back is the
states's% of the Paris. IBMs whole of it there 66a b•
and there is as truth tee is the words saaminaiag

the speedy ntant of Gams] fiteekelberg to kis pest amid.
tory alkali, to the Awls* Inaba of 'fiesta% AU the
rest eta only be a times of slater breath. Why we wW
sow explain. It is sot recoatly, it is about two meads' ago,
that Glansl liteekelberg left Vireos la order to go, like
General Beakeadorff, es aide-de-camp to the Emperor
Aleaeader to the Crimea, whither both those generals pro.
soled the Car la the Joann, he took, at the begnalag of
last "Death, to the southern provisoes of his empire. Messrs.
Stackelberg sad Beekandorff were eves to take active
envies la the Crimes* anay. Bat, at the mesa' of re-
turuieg to his 'apical, the Emperor Altonader changed his
=tad; be 'dent kis two aides-d►amp to go sad
resins' their hastiest as military olio:Ida—ON ear
at Vinton, the ether at Beene, bat to pass through
St. Petersburg before they proceeded direct to their
poets. It was therefore from the Crimea, sad sot front
Vienos, that Osamu' Mackelbsrg proseeded to St. Peters
burg, where he mast be at this very mowing. Hew eon it
be said then that he has arrived is that eapital the bearer
of paella proposals wrested to him by Austria ? He must
esosequeatly have hoes o►arged with them prepaid' two
mouths ago; he his given them sudsy to the Crimea, sad
it is now for the Ant time that he meassualeates them to
the Emperor Abizanda. We see, thee, that this
freak ramose paraded by the P.M. will sot stead
eausiaatisa for ea lastaat, and to my the truth,
we have bees engaged ea it too lon already.
For the matter of that, it is sot the cooly rumour flying
about. The believers in pesos seem eves to have taken
fresh heart a little yesterday. Bet slain sothiag son sore
than what is past sad dose with is brought forward in sup-
port of them hopes, as they still rest solely cos the efforts
now actually bolas made with a view to ea arnagemnit,
although nothlag as yet indicates the susses of those
efforts, we maintain our previous reserve, sad we Mill re-
commend autism to oar wooden. We may likewise add,
t►at aeranilag to the tease of ear oonsepoadeat's lenses
from Berlin, theme rumours of pesos obtain far leas credit in
Getaway the I. Fraser or Eaglead. The journals of this
last eased &many are, ►esides, la panel, still little io-
dised to regard theta favourably.

There is a talk at Paris of establishing a hippo-
dream is Me late buildieg of the Ezpositiow. It is hid
that room might be foiled foe 20,000 @postmen resod the
sass. while the tipper pilaffs@ night still be fielleVed for
the wren of ea Ikkibitiss.
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At the sitting of the Frisch Academy. ea Tete-
day loot, If. irlanot nag a Tartar tragedy. entitled Zolosa,l
tao Naas of wldok woo laid fa tali Wawa, oat at sow
math* s moat data.