The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TOEBDAT EVINING.
The Patric gives the following as "Latest
News :"

We have a letter from London, dated Jan. 20, which
states that the English government has determined to pro-
test against the idea entertained by the cabinet of Washing-
ton to submit to Congress a bill enacting that the Southern
ports are and shall be deemed to be, in point of law, closed
to foreign oommerce, and that the captains of foreign ships
who may enter them in contempt of each law shall be
treated ea pirates. We are assured th►t such a law would
be regarded by the cabinet of London as a cause of open
rupture between North America and Europe.
The steam aviso Forfait, now in Cherbourg Har-
bour, has received orders to hold herself in readi-
ness to proceed to North America on a mission.
The Prase says that the French army to be sent
to Mexico will eonsiat of 6,400 mon.
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At the Bourse the Bente has again risen, and is
firmer than ever. The diminution in the rate of
discount, and the statement that M. Fould's finan-
cial projects will be disclosed before the Emperor's
speech, led to very large purchases. The Rente
rose 50c. and 40c., closing at 70fr. 30c. and
'Mfr. 400. Mobilier still remains unaffected by the
upward movement, and fell bfr. Railways also
were, on the whole, rather lower.
One of the victims of the accident in the Bois de
Boulogne lake, M. Lerebours, a young man of 22,
who was a partner in a manufactory of mathe-
matical instruments on the Quai d'Orfevres, lost
his life in the very act of saving that of a fellow-
creature. Gros-Claude, the drunken coachman,
who, as hes been already stated, was the first to
break the ice, was seen by K Lerebours as he was
falling into the water. The latter skated up to him,
and succeeded in pulling him out and placing him
on a solid place ; but a moment afterwards, other
people rushing to the scene of the catastrophe
caused a large expanse of ice to break, and the
generous K Lerebours was among the four who
sank never to rise again alive.
Couut Berthier, grandson of the Prince de Wag.

ram lately narrowly escaped aaeassination from
the ram,
of a lady living iu the Loretta quarter of
the town. The ease will shortly come before the

assize court.

Prince Napoleon has been confined to his room
for some time put by indisposition, but is now
better. His illness is an angine COMARetlie. He
has bad leeches to his neck. The Princess Clothilde
enjoys excellent health.

The Cologne Gazette states that out of the 10,000
homes in Berlin, there are only 31 which are completely
tree from mortgage.
A communication from Vienna states that all the
English officers residing in Austria, who had received ardms
to return to Befriend, have received a prolongation of
their leave of absence, since the danger of a war with
America has paned away.l
The Pontifical Cu k ittiar for 18412 ham just been
published. It declares that there are 938 dioceses in the
catholic world, and that 75 episcopal sees, most of them
Baran, are now vacant. It designates Cardinal Milesi as
being still Legato at Bologna, and Mgr. Leapt as being
Legate at Torii; everything is retained as if the Legations,
the March." the 'Umbria, were still governed by the Holy
See.
A Paris letter in the Nord says :—" Our saloons
MS sow beginning to receive company, as the cold weather
has driven people from their country seats. The Duke de
GellOra has resumed his receptions on Mondays ; M.
Drouyn de Lhuya on Tuesdays and Wednesdays ; the
Marehionees Roccaliovias, Me Bonaparte, on Fridays.
Mme. Walewska, her parties on Thursdays; and Marshal
Barman de Saint-Jean d'Augnly his Thursdays. Balls
will shortly be given by the Ministers of War and of Public
Works."
The former Minister of Electoral Hesse, the pro-
moter of all the illegal measures which continue to cause so
much dissatiafaction in the state, M. de Hasaenpflug, had a
stroke of apoplexy on the 12th instant. Fallen into dis-
grace with the sovereign whom he served but too faith-
fully, he has lived for several years in the small town of
Marburg.
It is stated that the Paris Moniteur will shortly
announce officially the fact that the Princess Clothilde is
enceinte.
In the French Academy, M. Octave Feuillet is
spoken of as likely to be elected to the se►t left vacant by
the death of M. Scribe, and Prince de Broglie as successor
to Father Lacordaire.
The Debate of to-day publishes a very lengthy
despatch, addressed, on the 20th inst., by the Prussia
Minister of Foreign Affairs to the representative of Prussia
at the court of Dreeden, in reply to a despatch from Barra
de Build., relative to a scheme for the reorpnisatioa of the
Germanic Confederation.
A Wiesbaden letter says :—" This year the
gaming establishment is to be subjected to infinitely Weber
taxation than heretofore. The ease et 14,000 florins a year
hitherto paid is to be raised to 154,000. It is thought that
the mower of the teed sappeemisa of the gaming homes
here Is not eorreet." The rearm is qui** related, met
I to Wieebedea, bat to Bdes•Badss, whisk km under wailiar
govenosat.