The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(ROY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS. TULIIDAT EVIDTENG.

A great change has taken place in the weather;
the extreme heat from which we have recently been
suffering having disappeared before friendly breezes.
Stagnation, political as well as commercial, is the
order of the day, what remained in Paris of the
moveable population, high or low, having been
carried off by the Cherbourg trains. The Western
Railway Company, in imitation of your system of
"excursion " trains, has made liberal deductions
from its ordinary fares to those travelling by
that which is here known as a " pleasure" train.
Accidents on railways being happily less frequent
here than in England, the name runs 'tittle risk of
becoming a misnomer. The few Parisians one finds
to discuss political questions are decidedly peaceful
in their prognostications. The last hope the war
party clung to of an immediate rupture with Rus-
sia consisted in the wild delusion, spread abroad for
obvious purposes, that Austria was ready to enter
into an alliance with France against anybody and
everybody. Consistency seemed to be given to this
idea by the supposed readiness of the Archduke
Maximilian to accept the figment of a throne
promised him in Mexico. That belief having now
given way—in spite of the assertions of La France
to the contrary—before the incredulity on the sub-
ject expressed by the German papers, it is difficult
to conceive that warlike projects can seriously be
attributed to the French Emperor.
The public has read with much satisfaction the
paragraph in the Moniteur, which intimates, that
Marshal Forey's famous, or rather infamous se-
questration ordonnance has been rescinded. The
act was a disgrace to the name attached to it, and
utterly at variance with the sentiments of a high-
minded people like the French ; and it is satisfac-
tory to find that even under this press-gagging
regime, public feeling can make itself felt through
its organs, when any outrage of more than ordi-
nary magnitude is attempted.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to have told
Marshal (then plain General) Forey, when he
was about to start fur Mexico, that he was under-
taking "la plus gram affuire de snow refine." I
believe I am not solitary in my opinion that it
will prove the moot disastrous event of this reign.
Its unpopularity is wide spread and invincible.
Nothing appears to render it palatable to
the country. Wrap it up in pLbisciles,
set it ablaze with rockets and Bengal
lights, promise untold riches from its mines,
dress up the subject in any way you like,
the people, to use a cammon phrase, won't have it.
I for one utterly refuse to believe thatthe Mexican
question forms a part of any vast scheme in the
teeming brain of the French Emperor. I look upon
the Mexican expedition as a solitary fact—one of
the many desperate and reckless throws of the
political dice which we Lave witnessed,
and probably shall yet witness, during
this adventurous reign, and I anticipate
that each new phase of the "occupation" will be
marked by new and increasing difficulties. For in-
stance, hero is this blockade question. Already
we learn the seizure of an Euglish ship, the Caro-
lina Goodyear, by the French steam frigate Pa-
nama. The complications which have arisen between
us and our American cousins are at hand to show
us how great are the risks of ill blood run in these
questions of blockade.

The Temps announces a report on good authority
that the Emperor Napoleon will shortly have an
interview with the Emperor of Austria at Baden-
Baden, at which place it is known the King of
Prussia is already staying. This is not the first
announcement we have had of such an intended
interview, but the report has never fouud much
credit.

Among the few Bourse speculators who remained
at their post to-day, the peaceful anticipations
above-mentioned evidently prevailed. All aecu-

rities had au upward tendency. French Bente rose
Ilk for cash, and 20c. foe account, leaving off at
67fr. 65c. for cash. Italian Rente, which was in
great demand, left off at 721 r. 50c., both for cash
and account. Mobilier rose 17fr. 50c. for cash,
and 15fr. for account, leaving off at 1,107 fr. 50c.
for both. Business is described as having been
unexpectedly active.