The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(non ova owx oonassroiramv.)
PARIS. Wzaszamx Emma.
The Emperor left Paris be-day los the Baez Bosses.
His Majesty will acoompany the Empress from gm
Benzes to Biarrits. Their Majesties will return to
'Paris very soon--evrtaisly is the muss of next
week. and, according to one statement, as early as
Bosky next. It, however, seems unlikely that the
great preparations at Biarritz should have been made
enly for such a very hurried visit se the latter version
would imply.
His Majesty's departure to-day was quite incognito.
He arrived at the Orleans station at half-past twelve,
In a plaia dress, and without any escort or mite. No
preparation was made for his reception, and orders
have been seat by telegraph that his favors& is to be
respected at the different stations. His Majesty was
to arrive at Tours at 4.50, and at Bordeaux at 11.30
this evening. The Director of the Orleans Railway
Company rode in the same carriage with hie Majesty.
I rightly surmised that the Olosslittitiownei would exult
is the cote in yesterday's Afolsitear. It confesses
that the paper on free trade occasioned considerable
sensation, bat omits to explain bow it happened that
its own ample columns, which habitually reproduce
everything of importance appearing in the offload
=, did eat afford their hospitality to the very
salting document which the Monitewr printed
conspicuously in that part of its front page where
nothing bat what is approved of in the highest quarter
ever appears. However, tho CONalitutionisel Dow draws
.from the explanation that the statistics were furnished
by the Board of Trade, and that the French Ministry
of Commerce had nothing to do with their oompila-
tion, precisely the false conclusion which I anti-
cipated it would be sure to do. "Thus," it exclaims,
"fall to the ground all the presumptions as to the in-
teatime of the government which were founded upon
the appearance of this paper." Not so. The French
government is not in the habit of gratuitously pro-
mulgating doctrines of which it disapproves, and—the
reasoning of the amentationml notwithstanding—yon

May be very certain that the Emperor is thoroughly
convineed of the sounds's, of free trade prin-
alpha, and is determined to carry them out
am rapidly as the immense amount of pre-
jadire he has to contend with will allow him to
do, without alienating supporters and ceasing
alarm. The CoesQutiosenel affects to be quite easy

on the subject, and tells the protectionists they may
be reassured, because the commercial policy of the
government was sufficiently expounded by •
of M. Fould's to the National yin
Mele,hwhen, in opposing &free trade motion, be (being
then Finance Minister) pronounced in favour of a
*wise protection." This reference to a period
which, measuring the distance by the events
that have passed since, is remote as the
dark ages, proves that SEW protectionists, whose
fanatical Dodoes of their own interests are rem-
ained by the Consesletionowl, must be reduced to
great straits to find materiels for cionsolatios. It is
slaw 1861 that all the Emperors free trade measures
hare been decreed, and it is perfectly idle to suppose
that he now considers himself bound by what M.
Foald may have said in parliament, now that
the parliamentary Government no longer exists.
One of the best excuses for the Coop d'Etat
lids that the head of the State was so ham-
pered by the peculiar state of parties in France,
that he could not do what he wished to do
for the good of the country. He has used his
absolute power in many respects well, sad, at all
events, when the question is what are his probable
intentions—speeches of his Ministers, made when a
sovereign national assembly had to be conciliated, are
i wholly rrelevant to the subject.
The Rents was rather weak at the Bourse to-day,
with little business doing. The closing price for
cash was 88fr. 100., being a rise of fic., but for the
end of the mouth there was a fall of 160. Bank of
France rose 201 r. There was scarcely any change in
French railways, but the Austrian line, in which a
dividend is expected, was in great demand, and rose
Mr. The reports about the loan to-day are that there
is somewhat lees enthusiasm on the part of the
public.