The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(TROY OUR OWN cowsroreurr.)

PARIS, FRIOAY_ Ecnmto.

Bullier's Correspondence announces that Prince
Murat's private secretary, M. Rufferini, has re-
signed his poet "on account of his love for Italian
unity." What does this mean ? M. Rufferini,
like all the rest of the world, must have known
all along that Prince Murat was an enemy of
Italian unity, because he is a pretender to the
throne of Naples. The national inference, there-
fore, is that something new and unexpected must
have occurred to stimulate M. Rufferini's conscience
up to resignation point. Can it be that the im-
perial speech is this new event 1 Can it be that
the Muratist party, hitherto only connived at, have
now received assurances of effectual support from
the Tuileries 1 I should not be at all surprised at
it. If a new map of Europe is to be drawn up under
the Emperoi's supervision, it isten to one that he will
hark back to his Villafranca scheme, the abortion
of which he has never forgotten or forgiven. If
Victor Emmanuel really believes Napoleon 111. to
be a friend to the unity of Italy, coming events are
likely to undeceive him. This resignation of Prince
Murat's secretary for the reason alleged is, sup-
posing the news to be true, a most significant
event.

The "yellow book," containing diplomatic cor-
respondence, will not be distributed on Monday,
as bad been announced, and it is even said that
the printing of it is suspended. The impres-
sion now is that it will be kept back till the an-
swers of the sovereigns to the Emperor's letter are
received, and that it will be retouched according
to circumstances.

M. Brisson, the editor of the Phase de la Loire,
lately sent a challenge to M. Emile 011ivier, in
consequence of his speech in the Corps Le-
gislatif on the question of "incompatibili-
ties," as far as regarded railway directors.
K Brisson, who was the first to start the
objection which was afterwards supported with
much ability by K Floquet of the Temps, felt that
M. 011ivier's repudiation of " cavilling, equivocal,
and blameable " opposition tactics reflected upon
him. KE. 011ivier, however, has explained that
be meant no personal allusion, and the affair will
happily go no further.
The Opinion Nationale says of M. Thiers that
"in this short discussion he displayed all those
qualities of a dialectician at once subtle and im-
passioned which people remember of old ; he
belongs to that race of statesmen who are the
honour of Great Britain, and who at the end of
half a century of public life are strangers to fatigue
or discouragement."
The Bourse was to-d►y weaker, Bente falling
100. and Sc., but Mobilier remains at yesterday's
quotations.
The Daily News and the Lsdeperulanee Beige are
seized. Here is the way in which the French
police works public opinion, and thinks it is doing
something very clever. In the first instance the
semi-official press stated mendaciously that all the
press of Europe was thrown into °Mimics at the
proposal of a congress, and dazzled by the mag-
nificent, wise, simple, frank, modest, and con-
ciliatory language of the Emperor. Then they
keep back the delivery of the English journals
generally, and, after close inspection, definitively
seize such of them as contain articles too manifestly
clashing with the false representations made. Of
coarse these manoeuvres only enable them to
deceive a few very simple people for a very
few hours ; and now that the whole truth
comes out, and it is impossible to conceal
the fact that the congress is universally re-
I guided man impracticable and insidious proposition,
the France complains that the English journals
have repented of their " unanimous cry of ad-
miration" of the first day, have completely turned
their backs upon themselves, and, guided by narrow
and ignoble considerations of self-interest, declare
the congress "impossible." The whole fallacy of
this argument lies in the fact that the "unanimous
cry of admiration" was from the beginning a
French invention.

THE DEBATES IN THE CORPS LEGIBLATIF.