The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-13 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

INION 0111 OWN

PARIS, FILIDAT EVINING.

The Paris journals, anticipating public impa-
tience, do not readily resign themselves to accept
the statement of the Moniker that no despatches
from General Forey, confirming the fall of Puebla,
can be expected to arrive in France before the pro-
tracted date of July 2 !

The Patric says :
There is, however, reason to hope that a special packet
will bring, before many days, an official despatch from the
eommanler•inchief of the expeditionary army, making
known, in somewhat lea summary terms, the glorious feat
of arms, the details of which the public is so anxious to
peruse in full.
The Pays, after citing the Moniteur, observes :
Bat there is every reason to hope that we shall not have
to wait so long for the important and precious document
in guestios.
In another column the Pays gives some of the
grounds upon which this hope is founded. It
quotes a despatch in the Times reporting that ac-
cording to the Diario of Havannah of May 26, the
news of the taking of Puebla was sent from Vera
Cruz by the French war steamer Doria, which
brought despatches from General Forey to Havan-
nah. The Pays then very naturally surmises that
"this ship Doris will have left Havannah at once,
and must, without long delay, arrive in a French
port with the despatches and letters so impatiently
expected." There is, I believe, no such ship as the
Doria in the French navy ; but that matters not ;
a mistake in a name is very supposable. The
really extraordinary thing is that the Moniteur
should take no notice of the information upon
which the minor government journals build up
their arguments, should assume that General Forey
will have sent no special boat with despatches of
such transcendent importance, and that nothing is
likely to be beard from him before the arrival of
the ordinary English mail in July !
It is remarkable that the Moniteur in repeating,
as from "private despatches," the news that May
17 was the date of the capitulation, and that
General Forey sent a division towards Mexico the
next day, uses as applicable to those two facts the
conditional moods strait and aurait, which in
French newspaper language imply doubt and die-
trust. The use of these words argues that the govern-
ment has really no other official information than
that contained in the two lines telegraphed by
Consul Montholon from New York to Cape Race.
But if that be the best evidence, it must be ad-
mitted, considering how much false news from
Mexico has come through New York, that it is very
slight ; and that reasonable doubts may be yet
entertained whether Puebla is really taken. It is
perfectly astounding that if Consul Montholon had
his news direct from General Forey he should not
have said so in his telegram. In the absence of
that statement, his despatch merely amounts to a
New York rumour, which the consul thought of
sufficient importance to adopt. The news may be
true ; but if so, I persist that it is very unsatisfac-
torily laid before the public.
The announcement in the Moniteur that the
Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia have
congratulated the Emperor on the event does not
of course add to the weight of the other evidence,
including that of the minute guns of the Invalides
and the illuminations.
The Petrie grumbles because Spain and England
have allowed Prussia and Austria to be beforehand
with them in sending congratulations. I think,
after the statement in the Moniteur, it will be well
to wait at least till July 2.
The Pattie, contradicting an article in the Pays
which I commented upon the other day, says posi
tively that M. Drouyu de Lbuys has ordered Gen.
Montebello on his return to Rome from Paris to
concert measures with any general that the Italian
government may order to meet him for the more
effectual suppression of brigaudage, and that General
La Marmon will probably be charged with this
mission. The assertion of the Pays in its hostile
article to Italy that no fresh negotiations were
necessary or probable, and that the Italian minis-
ter's despatch was scornfully left without an answer,
would seem to be false.
The Daily News is seised.