The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, IIosDAT Bums°.

Much has been said and written about Count
Walewski's retirement from the imperial councils
in its supposed connexiou with the Polish question.
That numerous fraternity of politicians gifted with
the faculty of seeing through a stone wall has
pronounoed the cause of Poland as lost beyond
redemption now that M. Walewski is now longer
at the council table to denounce the atrocities of
Generals Mouravieff and Dlotowski. I venture to
suggest that such an inference is hasty and un-
considered. Moreover, I have reason to believe that
what has been said about warlike preparations here
is not greatly exaggerated—preparations, I mean,
greatly exceeding those which are necessitated by
the Mexican war alone.
The report which has been circulated of an early
meeting of the new chamber has tended to strengthen
the opinion of those who believe in the eventuality
of a war with Russia. A war will render a new
loan necessary ; a loan cannot be made without the
consent of the chamber, so, in the event of the
report I have mentioned proving well founded,
the Emperor may have to inset his new
chambers with an appeal at once to the pocket&
and the vanity of the nation. It is needless to ask
which consideration will carry the day. The his-
tory of France is there to answer the question.
The Bourse opened heavily, but the announce-
ment of a rise of I per cent. in Consols gave a
slight impulse to business. Political questions are
little discussed on the Bourse, the causes of de-
pression being irrespective of external matters.
The approaching settlement is looked forward to
with great anxiety. Three per Cent. Rents rose
sc. for the account, but was stationary for cash.
The chief business done was in Italian Rents, which
is in great favour, owing to the late statements of
the Italian Finance Minister. The closing price
was 73fr. 40c.

WRATH= REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

Tvemar, Anna 10. 1 0.30

Nairn '061114'
Aberdeen Asti
Leith
Shields
ioerbormina WAY, 18
Greeseestle 130 13 66
Galway eo.lB
Velentla
Queenstown
Liverpool 130.17 55
Yedlbsed 57
Pembroke 10.22 66
POOMMOS 130.27 68
30.28 57
aochators
Plymouth ,l.f Mb
Weymouth .....32.12 681
Portsmouth —183.19 66
London .1.0.18 68.
Dover 313.21 —1
Vermouth 30.13 68,
Helder
Heligoland 30.06 681 2

W.N.W.

111,01111311.

WEDNESDAY. TrinanDLT.
W. to N. and K., NOng-SIFT. N.N.W. to LE.E.,
trash. fine. fresh, floe.
W.N.W. to N.N.E., Warr. N. W. to N. 8., mode.
fresh to moderate, rate, line.
N.W. to N.H., fresh boors. Northerly, variable,
to light, fine. fine.
N. to E. and S.E., BOVrH-F.Mtr. N. to E. and &Z., mo-
moderate, fine. derate, !Me.
North.East=lforay Firth to Norfolk. West=.DonegalteCorn-
wall. aouth,Channel and French Coasts. South-Heal,-Strait
of Dover to Norfolk.
8.-barometer corrected and reduced to 32° at half tide level.
Each ten feet, of vertical elevation, cousin: about one hundredth
of an inch Dignitcrion : and each ten degrees, above 32., ans-
ing three hundredths micaitass. -Expoeed thermo-
meter in shade. D.-Difference of wet both (for evsporatkea and
dew point). W.-Wind, direction of (rault-two parte IIJT of
magnetic). F.-Force (1 to 12-estimated). 1.-Intraise force
since last report. Q.-Quarter whence maws force (NNE=t,
to 32=N). I.- Initials : sky: n-eloads (detached);
f.-fog; h.-hall: 1-lightning: m.-matt' (hazy) : 0.--overeast
(dull); r.-rain: a-snow ; t.--thunder. /L=lain-fall, meow oe
hall (melted), since hat report. 3.-Sea diatorbaace (1 to 9).
Z. —Calm.

The Landreth of the Konigsberg district, Baron
von Hfillessetn, with whom it may be remembered the
Crown Princess of Prussia danced recently at a bell in that
city, has just issued a remarkable decree io reference to the
official Kreisblaa of that place. The government has of
late been misusing this and other similar local gazettes by
inserting in them political articles and reports of
a ministerial and feudal tendency. The conse-
quence was that the Konigsberg District Assem-
bly has refused any longer to bear the ex-
pense of printing the paper. The district govern-
ment therefore provided the fonds from other quarters, and
continued to publish the paper, including the political pert,
which has since become more obnoxious than ever. The
administrative authorities in the various towns and villages
of the district, to whom it continued to be sent, were so
annoyed at its character that most of them regularly re-
turned the paper unopened to Von Hullessem. The latter,
in the arbitrary decree be has just issued, imposes a fine of
from five to ten thalers on all the local authorities who do
not preserve the objectionable print, and place its official
part bound among the official records of their several locali-
ties ; and besides this, be imposes a fine of 100 thalami on
all who send the papers back to him.
Galignani says :—" Fhe Empress appears to have
a marked preference for Fontainebleau, and the air being
• very favourable to the health and physical development of
the Prince Imperial, it is thought that her Majest► will
continue to reside there during the Emperor's stay at
Vichy."
M. Gilbert de Voisius, husband of the celebrated
dancer Mlle. Taglioni, has just died at Figuiers, in Spain,
where he filled the post of vice-consul.
A general Exhibition of the Fine Arts is to open
at Brussels on the let of August, and to close on the 30th
September. The works of living artiste of all °Aims will be
admitted. - . .

The humanising influence of s hied and gentle
treatment of the idiotic was yesterday illustrated at the
Farlawood Asylum, before a large number of the friends of
the institution. who had assembled by invitation to witness
the amusements of the inmates at their thetal summer fete.
In the extensive grounds (rooting the bundle( were to be
seen some 300 persons of both sexes—the drag of
nature, whose very looks and voices made humanity
sicken and mourn over its own littleness—disporting
themselves with a glee and a unanimity of which
only rational beings might have been supposed capable.
The day had evidently been long anticipated, and was now
thoroughly enjoyed.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' Scoots.—The half-
yearly meeting of this charity was held yesterday at the
London Tavern ; Mr. Moore in the chair. Mr. Lender, the
secretary, read the report, which hated that the receipts
for the half year showed an increase of 3831 . 12s. 3d.. as
compared with the same period of 11162. to 000sequeoce of
the serious illness in the schools for the last four months the
board had thought it desirable to defer holding the usual
puhlio examination • but the usual school prizes, together
with the Conley medals, were distributed to the most de-
' serving boys and girls. Oa the 27th of May last the number
of children in the school was 150. Eighteen who had com-
pleted their term left, and when the fourteen to be elected
that day, and the two to be admitted by purchase, were
added, there would be 152 in the wheal. The board had
received a legacy of 200 guineas, and two gifts, one of 1001.
and one of 501., daring the past half-year. In conclusion,
the board thanked the stewards for their exertions on the
part of the charity, urging them to continue their efforts
to increase the number of annual subscribers, there being
I at the present election twenty-eight candidates for the
benefits of the charity. On the motion of Mr. Way, se-
conded by Mr. Kearney, the report was adopted. Some
alteration in the bye laws having been cootinned a vote of
thanks was passed to the chairman, and the election of
fourteen children—Mite boys and dye girls —was proceeded
with.
Torsi, WRECK NEAR LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Thomas
Evans, coxswain of the tubular lifeboat belonging to the
National Lifeboat Institutioci, italicised at New Brightest,
thus reports the total wreck of the schooner Vigilant,
of Kirkcaldy, oo Taylor's Bank, oe Saturday morning
last : "I saw the schooner Vigilant, of Kirkcaldy, Thome'
Dixon master, about 10 o'clock a.m. on Taylor's Bank,
about 7 miles from New Brighton, in a dangerous poeitiee.
It was blowing strong at the time front W.N.W. lat
once launched the tubular lifeboat and proceeded lied.:
move to the vessel's assistance. After ratios some
distance we were taken In tow by the steam-toe Mazer, which
took us to windward of the vessel. We stayed by her three
hours to see whether she would come off or sot. At about
four o'clock the mew of six men abssdoesil her, and were
taken on bard the lifeboat. Before we had got back to
the station the vessel had capsized, and become a total wreck.
She was bound from Liverpool to the Frith of Forth with a
cargo of eels—Thomas Doss, oemairsim*