The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(10M 011 OwN ComisrONDIXT.)
PARIS, TuNDLY Brume.
None of the news circulated at the Bourse yester-
day hae been confinned to-day, and we are absolutely
without any freak intelligence from Sebastopol.
There has been a considerable fall in every description
of securities. The Rents declined 40c., closing at
66fr. 50s. The Loan of 1855 fell 60c., and Credit
Mobilier 45k. The railway market was extremely
heavy. Orleans fell 30fr. ; Lyons, 27k. 50c.; West-
ern, 101 r.; Northern, 2k. 50c.; Austrian, 17fr. tiOc.
A good deal of business was done in the " French
clippers," which were in request at a premium.
Prince Napoleon arrived in Paris yesterday, on his
return from the excursion to the coast of England.
MABBEILLEB, 17TH.—We expect here every mo-
ment the steamer which brings the detailed accounts
of the capture of Sebastopol. Maxima Mazloum, the
Patriarch of the Oreek Church, has just expired at
Alexandria. Six battalions of the 11th and 31st
regiments of the line have just arrived here, and will
embark this week at Toulon for the Crimea.

The Sleds has a remarkably warlike article,
strongly urging that the present opportunity should
be improved to settle the question ef nationalities.

The Commerce Breton states that several bakers
were fined on Monday last for not having a sufficient
quantity of bread in their shops. At Montreuil a
farmer has been arrested for having made a false
return of the price at which he had sold his wheat at
market, with a view to raise the averages. Frauds-
, lent manceuvres of this kind have, it is said, been
frequent at Montreuil.
At Bordeaux the price of bread for the second fort-
night of September has been fixed at 63c. the kilo-
gramme for first qualittt 48e. fqr second, and 43c.
for third. This is higher thanike Paris tariff issued
the other day, and the municipality of Bordeaux evi-
dently anticipates a further rise very soon, for, in its
sitting of September ;16, it voted a sum of 60,000 fr.
to make up the difference to the poor in case bread of
second quality should be quoted higher than 60c.
Last night, at the Francais, Madame Arnould
Flossy made her first appearance in Paris since her
long sojourn at St. Petersburg. The play selected
for this long-expected rentree was " Tartuffe." On
her appearance at the beginning of the first act,
Madame Plessy was greeted with a hearty round
of applause, which lasted for several seconds. She
was visibly affected by her reception, and, indeed,
exhibited throughout the evening almost the timi-
dity of a debutante. She played the part of Elmire
with excessive care, spoke somewhat too slowly, and
did not tread the stage with the assured step of the
members of the company around her. A certain
anxious look seemed to show that she was thinking
about the caprice of Parisian audiences, of the new
favourites of the last ten years, and of the effect of
those same ten years upon that beauty which was
deemed so peerless both in Paris and London. I
think it may be safely said that the lady has nothing
to fear on either of these heads. Last night, to be
sure, it was observed that the audience was some-
what cold,knd that there were critics who pronounced
the word failure,when it was found that Madame
Piney was not called foe at the fall of the curtain.
But in truth the latter omission only shows the dis-
crimination of a Francais audience. The wife of the
credulous Orgoo is not the principal character in
Tartuffe. The saucy soubrette (admirably played on
this occasion by Madlle. Aagustine Brohan), the old
grandmother who clings to the belief in Tartar(/'
virtue till she finds him turning the whole family
oat of their houses, the unsuspicious husband, and
the arch-hypocrite himself, are such prominent
figures in the drams, that to have awarded
all the honours of the evening to tke fair',
truant fresh from St. Petersburg would not
have been a genuine expression of the emotions
produced by the performance. In the afterpiece (a
most airy trifle), La Vgne Broils, Madame Plesay
was more at her ease; and the desiderated call was
her reward at the end. As regards personal appear-
ance, Time has treated Madame Flossy with remark-
able tenderness. There is, to be sure, an unmistake-
able increase of embonpoint, but it is sack only as is
naturally the concomitant of robust health in the
prime of womanhood, and the art of the corsetiere
exercised upon a tall well-proportioned person, pre-
serves the line of beauty unimpaired. The lustre of
her eye is not dimmed, her voice is as mellow as ever,
and when she shakes off the little nervousness that
she could not repress on her first appearance on the
scene of her former triumphs, she will, doubtless,
feel that her power to please is as great ever. She
remain., undoubtedly, without a rival In the highest
walk of comedy.
M. Tracy, the holder of the winning ticket is the
lottery of Bt. Bach, writes to the newspapers to say
that it is not true, as has been stated, that he has been
paid 10,0001 r., in part of the 100,000 fr. due to him, ail
he has declined to accept any sum on account, lest he
should thereby appear to sanction the delay which
has taken place in the delivery of the pries. It has
also been stated that a M. Desouches had claimed to
be the rightful owner of the ticket; but M. Tracy,
in his letter, says that that person has abandoned the
I claim, and that, besides, it was totally unfounded,
inasmuch as be (Desottches) had declared in presence
of witnesses that he purchased the ticket in March,
and that it was of a yellow colour, whereas the lot-
tery was not authorised until May, and all the tickets
are of a violet colour.

The Preece states that the project of establishing
the Central Post-office on the Place du Chatelet, is
to be, if not abandoned, at least considerably modified.
The cause of this is said to be a desire of prolonging
the Boulevard de I'Hotel de Ville to the Louvre,
under the name of the Boulevard Victoria.

The Exhibition will remain open till the 25th of
November.