The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-24 00:00:00

Weli WOW* ordinarily and from 90e. to if
for Wised eiteellent quality. M. Delamarre is a
rich man, who has launched this establishment, I
have no seesaw to doubt, from patriotic motives. His
experiment will be watched with interest. There can
be no doubt that the profits of retail dealers in Paris
are enormous. If it can be proved practically on
a large scale that the necessary middle-man between
the producer and the consumer can be sufficiently re-
munerated with lees money than he has been in the
habit of taking, a considerable social advantage will
be attained. M. Delamarre disclaims any sharitable•
purpose, and he opens his first warehouse in one of
the richest quarters of Paris.
Again we have had a bed Bourse. The Rente fell
260., closing at 84f. 40c. Credit Mobilier fell 121.50 e.
Lyons and Mediterranean fell 101., and all the other
railways were lower. The Napoleon Docks were
extensively offered, in consequence of the announce-
ment of a general meeting for January 23, to consider
the dissolution of the society. It is still, however,
thought that the society will be reorganised upon a
new Jamie.
The Moniteur contains a decree promoting Sir
Joseph 011iffe (the physician to the British embassy)
to the rank of officer in the Legion of Honour, and
nominating Mr. Taylor a knight in the same order,
both having been members of the jury of the Univer-
sal Exhibition.
Vice-Admiral Trebonart, the commander-in-chief
of the Mediterranean squadron, has just arrived in

Paris.
Mademoiselle Cravelli is to be married on Jan. 6
to a Paris banker, the Baron de V—.
The wife of the Marquis de Mourtier, French am-
bassador at Berlin, has just died in Paris.
The town of Montmartre, which now possesses a
population of between 20,000 and 26,000 souls, is
about to borrow 400,000 f. for the formation of a cir-
cular boulevard on the top of the hill on which it is
situated. From this boulevard a magnificent view
will be obtained.
The Pay. says :
It may be remembered that four months ago a treaty of
commerce and friendship was signed between France and
Persia. It is with the ratification of that treaty that Baron
Lejetthe has reliantly started for the Court of Teheran, and
it has thus become definitive. Although that diplomatic
act contains no political stipulations, and confines itself to
regulating the commercial relations between the two States,
its importance is nevertheless serious. The efforts are
known by which Bessie has lately endeavoured to pain the
active co operation of Persia against Turkey. The journals
of Bt. Petersburg have even boasted loudly of a step taken
by the Shah in despatching a special envoy to St. Peters-
burg, from no other reason than that dictated by Oriental
custom, sassalv, to felicitous the Czar on his accession to the
throne. It is satisfactory to be able to affirm that net only
is Persia net allied with Russia, but that the relations of
the former with the Western Powers are becomiss more
and more strengthened.
The Monitetur publishes the official return of the
Customs revenue for the month of November, which
amounted to 12,658,506 f., being 678,626 f. less than
in the corresponding month of 1854, and 422,644 f.
more than in that of 1863. The total receipts for
the first eleven months of the present year have
amounted to 178,883,063 f., being an increase of
42,821,003 f. on the corresponding period of 1854,
and of 48,327,763 f. on that of 1863. In making the
comparison between the eleven months of 1856 and
1864, the articles which show the principal increase
are—Coffee, 4,454,229 f.; bar iron, 2,783,169 f.; raw'
Icotton, 1,811,373 f.; raw wool, 4,830,257 f.; foreign
5ugar,12,762,369f.; French colonial sugar, 4,260,07
potable liquors, 2,281,416 f. ; rough castings,
1,218,8801.; coal, 1,349,581 f. For the month ef
November just passed, as compared with that of
1864, the articles which show the principal diminu-1
tion are coffee, 1,261,372 f.; raw cotton, 234,751 f.;
raw wool, 275,872 f.; foreign colonial sager, 103,000 f.;
land among then showing an increase was bar iron,
1194.054 f.
A switchman and a station master,whose negligence
occasioned the terrible accident which took place on
the Versailles Railway (left bank) on the 9th of No-
&ember last, have been sentenced to the unusually
severe but well merited punishment of five years'
imprisonment, besides fines of five hundred francs.
It was proved that the switchman had left his poet to
take a glass of wine with an old friend, and that the
station-master at Vangirard, whoa duty it was to ses
that the switches were duly turned, bad taken it for
greeted that the man was at his pat, and had given
use signal for a train to start without having person-
ally ascertained that the line was in readiness. An-
other servant of the railway company, whose culpa-
bility was much less than that of the two others, has
also been found guilty of neglect of duty. It happened
that one of the trains between which the collision
happened was unusually crowded, and M. Armour,
the stetion•master at Clamant, bad allowed several
people to get into the luggage waggons, in breach of
the regulations. lie had, it is true, remonstrated, but
not with sufficient firmness. It turned out that most
of the people killed or injured were in the carriage
where they ought not to have been. Arno= is sen-
tenced to two months imprisonment, and 60f. fine.