The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY &Imam.
The Pattie contains the following announce-
ment :

We have reason to know that a despatch relative to the
affairs of Poland baa just been sent from the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs to Baron Talleyraad, the French ambas-
sador at Berlin. The despatch, said to bear date Feb. 20, is
believed to boo:ow:led in carefully moderate and very friendly
terms. It insists principally upon this point of view, vim,
that by aiding to put down the insurrection in Russian Po-
land the government of King William would, perhaps, be
likely to arouse the aapirations of other populations of
Polish origin, and induce them to make common cause with
the insurgents of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. If we are
correctly informed, the document, of which we attempt to
indicate the general seam, does not conclude with the usual
direction to leave a copy with M. de Biemark, and there-
fore has not, strictly speaking, the character of a note.
The last line of the above paragraph accounts
for the origin of the rumour put forth, no doubt
designedly, that a " note " had not been sent.
The date of the despatch, Feb. 20, also shows
that the report of a note having been sent in the
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middle of last week was premature.

The mission of the government journals for the
moment is to prevent the public from beifig
alarmed. _

The France says it can go further than the
Constitutionnel, and announce that Austria seems
disposed to join with the two powers in a common
remonstrance. Under these circumstances, it thinks
that the peace of Europe is in no danger.
The Petrie has heard that the Grand Duke
Constantine "did not desire and bas not fully
approved" the treaty with Prussia which has
excited so much commotion in Europe ; it suggests
also that the Emperor Alexander will not be
displeased at the representations made to him from
Paris, knowing that the "honour of Russia can
have nothing to fear from a Prince whose character
is kuown and appreciated by the Czar, and whose
policy has been so often in accord with his on the
gravest questions."
The Bourse has recovered to a certain extent,
but business was heavy at the improved prices.
Rents rose 2i c. for cash and sc. for account,
closing at 69fr. 70c. and 69fr. 65c. Mobilier rose
13fr. 75c, The Lyons Railway rose 7fr. 50c., and
the other lines about 2fr. 60c.
" Nothing is talked of in the Paris saloons,"
stye the Nord, "but the strange incident which
happened a few nights since to Baron and the
Baroness de L►doucette. Their carriage had just
pulled up at the door of their house, and they were
preparing to alight, when some thieves rushed up
to the carriage door on the side where the lady was
sitting, opened it, and endeavoured to seize ou her
diamonds. They would perhaps have succeeded,
for there were several of them, had not the coach-
man had the presence of mind to whip up his
horses, and thus defeated the intentions of the
thieves. Some passers-by coming up, the fellows
took to their heels, but three of them were se-
cured."
Without any special reference to the jewellery of
the Baroness de Ladouoette, I take this opportu-
nity of saying that I don't believe in French dia-
monds, and that thieves who steal them run a
great risk of being taken in. The mania for the dis-
play of baubles is altogether overdone. I remember
that some years ago, after a ball at the Tuileries,
advertisements in the papers stated that a great
many jewels had been picked up, and might be had
by application to the Emperor's chamberlain. No
' applications were made, and the reason was
that all the trumpery was false and of no value.
Now that the custom has grown up of setting forth
in the newspapers the precise oust of the diamonds
and pearls displayed by court ladies, you may depend
upon it that there are more counterfeits than ever.
It is notorious that ladies who really possess dia-
monds of great value wear paste otos in addition
to make up the quantity that some richer person is
supposed to have. Nobody but a jeweller can tell the
I difference between the true and the false. There
1, must soon be a reaction, under the empire of which
the lady the least bedizened will be held to be
the best dressed. Families will not long continue
to ruin themselves for the sake of a parure not
differing ostensibly from that which a farmer of
• lottery tickets is always ready to furnish to a
housemaid for leas than thirty shillings.