The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FltOM PARIS

(raoit °us welt °want OEMS)
PARIS, Fam►r Emma.

The ministerial council, from which so much was
expected after the Emperor's return, was held to-
day at St. Cloud, and I think it already safe to say
that no decision of any importance with reference
to the great and pressing question ofjßome was
come to. There are no symptoms of any change
in the status quo. The Pays has been instructed
by some minister or other to say, iu small print,
"it would appear (if paraitrait) that the council
was mainly occupied with financial and industrial
matters." The convenient season so long waited
for has, therefore, not yet arrived, and the san-
guine believers in the evacuation of Rome must
now invent some other period to look forward to.
Bußier's Correspondence says that M. Thouvenel
read his answer to General Durando's circular at
the council, and that the minister uses moderate
and conciliatory language, but without departing
from the tone of his former official correspondence.
All that means evidently nothing. No wonder that
M. Rattarai's visit to Paris should be said to be
countermanded.

The Pays contains the following parsgeaph on
the subject of Mny'co :

A despatch from Reuter's agency of a nature to excite
alarm in the country appears in the Independa.tee peoe.
That despatch announces that the vomit* is making great
ravages in the French fleet at Mexico, and that uneasiness
Is felt about a convoy of a million of dollars sent to Orizaba.
No packet having arrived for the last week from Vera
Cruz, we do not understand how such a despatch can have
been received in France or elsewhere, and there is, there-
fore, pound to believe that the news must be false.
The Pairie is lead positive in its contradiction, for
it admits that Mexican news to the date of Sept.
11 has arrived by way of New York, but it holds
that the statement in question must be false or
" much exaggerated."
The Bourse was less active to-day. Route fell
10c. fur cash, and sc. for account, closing at 71fr.
65c. and 71fr. 90c. Mobilier was without change.
The Italian Loan rose sc. Railways were generally
lower, but Southern ruse 7fr. 50c.
A Paris correspondent of the Journal du Havre
says :—" The Council of State is already occupied
in examining the budget of 1864, that is to say, four
months earlier than usual. That fact is considered
an indication of the Legislative Body being called
together before long." Other commentators, how-
ever, draw no inference whatever from this fact
with regard to the greater or less proximity of the
coming session, but simply give M. Fould credit for
having his budget ready earlier than his predeces-
sors were wont to do, and thus challenging the
fullest examination of it.

That unfortunate journal the Courtier du Di-
manehe has received a warning (N 0.2.) for an article
in last Sunday's number by M. Prevost Paradol,
which is considered by M. de Persigny to contain
matter " exciting to hatred and contempt of the
government." The offence is not further or other-
wise specified ; and there is this peculiarity about
the warping that instead p otrdetrnating, aa is
customary, the paragraph or paragraphs containing
the incriminated matter by citing the three or four
first and the three or four concluding words, it
gives merely the first and last line of the entire
article, thus insinuating that libel lurks in the
whole and every part, without its being necessary
for the government to specify any passage in par-
ticular. Misers est servitue sari raga est lex.
" The statute of 1808," says the Debuts, "autho-
rised the granting of the title of Knight of the
Empire on certain conditions to the members of the
Legion of Honour. Since the restoration of the
Council of the Privy Seal, numerous demands
relative to that hereditary:title of knight bad been
addressed to the Minister of Justice. These de-
mands, which until now had been reserved, have
just received a favourable solution, and the title
has been accorded in those cases which presented
the required conditions."

The- ate= advice boat Rodeur has arrived at
Marseilles to be placed at the disposal of a com-
mission charged to inquire into the state of the
French coast-fisheries in the Mediterranean, and
especially to ascertain whether the present suffering
condition of the said fisheries is owing to the free
competition allowed to Spanish and Italian fisher-
men, with a view to the adoption of protective
measures if necessary.

The London correspondent of a leading Parisian
journal boa a ridiculous tole about a young lady who
served comestibles behind M. Veillani's counter at the Ex-
hibition. A baronet one day called for a bottle of chum-
pagne—drank it, left his purse behind. It contained a good
deal of money and a senor, ticket. " Mesa " returned tt
to him ; but he retained only the ticket, and made her •
present of the purse and its contents. The next day "the
baronet came for another bottle of champagne, and again
left his pane ; and he continued the lame strange proce-
dure for several months. At length came a day when he
did not leave his purse : the young lady asked him why,•
and he thereupon made a proposal of marriage. She is
now Lady In this singular manner do English
baronets make love."

Father Pantaleo, Garibaldi's chaplain, who war
arrested at Naples, has bees set at liberty.
Garibaldi intends, it is said, to have himself re-
moved in a few days from Varigeano to an hotel at
Spins* la which his soo Menotti has already taken op his
residence.