The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRMAT Evricrio.

The Pays announces that M. Terabit's report on
the Polish petitions will be read in the Senate on
Saturday, and that the debate will begin on Mon-
day. lam inclined to think that this is a =is-
leading statement. The Polish petition is indeed
on the order of the day for to-morrow, but there is
a great deal of business before it, and I do not be-
lieve that it is intended to be brought on. In 0011-
sequence of the uncertainty of the French govern-
ment as to the course to be taken, I think it very
doubtful whether, when the petitions do come on,
K Billault will make the great speech expected.
It is very likely that the petitions will be referred
to the consideration of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs without any decisive ministerial declaration
on the subject of them.
K Boulanger, a councillor-general of Valen-
ciennes, has written to K Thiers to ask whether it
is true that he means to stand at the general elec-
tion, and if so, to promise him his vote and interest
in case he does not 1310,431 to " threaten the existing
order of things." K Thiers, in a letter dated March
9, replies that, being unwell, he must request a few
days' time before giving a complete answer ;
but that, meanwhile, the published report of what
he said at the meeting at the Duke de Broglie's
may be taken as an indication of the sense in which
his answer will be framed. The important fact that
Thiers is a candidate is therefore now officially
avowed.

The France asserts that Langiewicz has declined
the proffered services of Garibaldi, on the ground
that, the movement in Poland being essentially
national, he does not wish to offend those classes of
Poles who might object to succour of an exclusively
revolutionary character.
The Grand Opera is to be closed during the
whole of Passion week. This is a return to the
usages of the Restoration ; ever since 1831 the
theatres have been open every day in Lent except
Good Fnday.
The Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, who has come
to Paris from Windsor, was received by the Em-
peror to-day.
M. Barthe, the Mayor of Versailles, died of
apoplexy on Wednesday afternoon, while going
from Paris to Versailles in a cab. The driver,
when arrived at Sevres, did not know the way,
and turning round to look in at the window of the
carriage, found that his fare was dead. The de-
ceased, though apparently in good health, must
have had some premonitions of danger, for In his
pockets were fouud two prescriptions from different
physicians, and his going to Versailles in a cab
instead of by the railway leads to the supposition
that he feared the shaking of the train.
The Bourse has very nearly lost the rise it ex-
perienced yesterday. Political rumours still occa-
sion doubt and uneasiness.

The following particulars are given of the Polish
demonstration at Marseilles :
A considerable egitatioe manifested heel( three evenings
back at Marseilles, owing to about 1,000 persons having
aaaembled for a manifestation in favour of Poland. The
crowd hawing aseensbled is the Grande Plaine, around •
Polish standard which had been erected, a oomeniseary of
police cams forward and seized the flag. The crowd then
proceeded along the Cannabiime, raising cries of " Vire la
Pologne I" Fears bsiog entertained that the assemblage
would go to the residence of the Russian Consul, in the
Itue Moutgtsnd, to make • hostile demonstration, a mime.
roue body of police were called out, who prevented any
attempt of the kind. Sonic arrest. were made, ►nd after a
time the crowd dispersed. The persona arrested were
afterwards liberated, with the exception of one man, who
bad resisted the police is the execution of their duty.