The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom on OWN onuaroppin.)

PARIS, MOZMAT EVLNING.

There are rumours of something disastrous hav-
ing occurred before Puebla, and these rumours are
very insufficiently refuted by the large columns of
addition published by the Moniteur, showing the
fabulous number of cannons, cannon-balls, and
bullets which have been, or will be, sent out to
Mexico. This much is clear, that the Moniteur has
a mass of despatches, from which it does not think
it expedient to publish even an extract ; but there
is in the front page of the Moniteur this morning
some very significant evidence that the losses of the
expeditionary army must have been something very
far exceeding anything that the government has
hitherto admitted. We find that in the
single month of April General Forey conferral,
on the field of battle, 10 crosses of officers in the
Legion of Honour, 26 crosses of chevalier, and 79
military medals. The recipients of these honours
were almost all severely wounded. Such a very
large distribution of rewards infers very great
slaughter, as a reference to the Moniteur in former
years will show by the rule of proportion.
The France states that four ships of the line,
three transports, and two frigates are going to Vera
Cruz immediately with reinforcements.

A highly characteristic electoral anecdote is re-
ported from the department of the Corrbze. The
prefect had his orders from M. de Persigny to com-
bat might and main M. de Jouvenel, the ez-
deputy, who was a government candidate six years
ago, but has fallen into disgrace because he pre-
sented the famous report against the Palikao dots-
bon job. In a commune of that departwent,Saint
Pardue: l'Ortigier, the mayor is a nobleman "of
that ilk," the Count Maurice de Saint Pardon
residing in his ancestral chateau of St. Pardon.
He had been mayor of his native place for fifteen
years, and in 1857 received orders to make his
people vote for M. de Jouvenel. This year it seems
to have been suspected that he was not ready to
turn his coat with sufficient celerity. On the eve
of the elections, at the undue hour of three in
the morning, he was roused from his bed by
a gendarme, who came to tell him on the part
of the prefect that he was suspended and must
leave his assistant to preside at the electoral
bureau. " Very well," said the count. "But,"
added the gendarme, " I am ordered not to lose
sight of you until the elections are over." There-
upon the suspended mayor resigned his office in
the following letter :
Monsieur le Sous-prefet,—l thank you for the honour-
able position you have carved out for me by suspending me
during this election. By way of showing my gratitude
be good enough to ask the prefect to accept my resignation.
—I have the honour, &c..
COUNT MAURICZ Dr SAINT PARDOUX.
Chateau de St. Pardon. June 2, 1863.
M. de Jouvenel's candidature has produced an
epidemic among the mayors in the Correze. Three
other noblemen of good family in the department,
the Marquis de Soilhac, the Marquis de Corn, and
M. de Blauchefort, were suspended from their
functions as mayors, on the suspicion that they
were not likely to be sufficiently docile.
M. Berryer is going to Grenoble, with a special
retainer, to defend the Impartial Datiphinois for au
article on the elections, written by M. Casimir
Perier.

One of the moat novel of all public commercial
companies is advertised in the Parisian journals, vie., "La
Compaguie Clnerale des Chiffons de Paris "—a company to
buy the produce of the street scavengers, who pick up
paper, rage, bones, broken glass, &c., in the public thorough-
fares of that capital. The prospectus says that 25,000
people live by this strange trade. The shares are 500 fr.
each. . . . .

The Paris Temp spublishes the following curiosity ;
it is a bill posted up oo behalf of the Marquis de Pirf, the
official candidate at Rennes :—" Mon Cher M. de Pirf,—To
contradict the rumours calculated to damage you in the
opinion of the constituency, I hasten to certify that you
are in possession of all your mental faculties ; and that
your physical health has so far improved that you are tow
able to walk with the support of a cane, and that every-
thing leads me to hope that that improvement will coo-
tione.—PSSAULT.—Setmea, May 26.—A true copy.—The
Prefect of Ile et Vilsine, FEAST." K. Penult, it may be
necessary to state, is M. le Marquis's medical man.
Seven Italian Roman catholic priests left South-
ampton in the Teutoois on Sunday, os their way to Ca-
lifornia. They assisted in the performance of divine ser-
vice at St. Joseph's catholic church, in that town, on Sun-
day forenoon. One of them, a greed vicar, preached a
sermon in excellent English.