The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-27 00:00:00

1:-XPRIISS FROM PARIS.

(Iscit ous OWN colaispoirDsra)
PARIS, SusuAl Evimaia.

Lord Napier's despatch, telegraphed from Lon- I
don, is cozsidered as by far the most alarming
feature of the present alarming situation. It is
quite inconsistent with the pretended acceptance of
the six points announced yesterday by the Memorial
Dipknnatique. There are rumours that a despatch
from the Duke de Montebello—certainly received
by the French government, but not yet published—
savours still more strongly of an immediate diplo-
matic rupture than that of Lord Napier's. Unless
some unlooked-for reassuring news shall be made
public to-morrow, we may expect a more serious
panic at the Bourse than any that occurred last
week. The Temps maintains that the Emperor will
go to Cherbourg to review the iron-clad ships im-
mediately after the Pin races. All the letters from
Russia continue to speak of the Czar's preparations
for war. He is paying constant visits to Cron-
stadt, and the number of workmen employed on
the fortifications there has lately been increased
from 15,000 to 18,000 men. The Constitutionnel
has an article by M. Paulin Limayrse, which re-
futes the Gortchakaff despatch paragraph by para-
graph, and may be described as mildly warlike.

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The Nation, which continues to advocate peace,
launches the following canard:
We have this day nosivcd a latter from London, which

supplies us with important information touching the rea-
sons which induced the First Lord of the Treasury, after the
reading of the Russian despatch, to show himself much more
reserved than he had been before. Lord Palmerston did
mean atone time to speak very firmly and haughtily, but in the
come of the day he received despatches from Berlin which
made a sudden change in his views. What was there in these
despatches! Our correspondent has not read them, but he
is enabled to state that they spoke of the Rhine frontier ea
being the object of French designs. Lord Palmerston was
told that his ally over the Channel was only waiting for a
public declaration from England to enter upon a conflict
which would end in France taking the Rhine. This is the
meson why Lord Palmeraton, who was about to make -a
thoroughly warlike speech, suddenly changed his mind, and
used that pacific language which caused you as much sur-
prise as well-founded mistreat.
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The Nation is prudent enough to say that it
accepts this revelation of its correspondent with
" some reserve," but it nevertheless draws the
conclusion from it that since England is eo distrust-
ful of France, France should be distrustful of
England, and not rush blindly into a war.
The above story is probably but another version
of the one according to which Prussia has offered to
come forward as a mediator.
The analog/ which many people see between the
symptoms of the hour and those which preceded
the Crimean war, is reinforced, to certain curious
observers, by the fact that there are as
many different ways of spelling the name
Gortchakoff as there were nine years ago
of spelling Mentchikoff. The Moniker it-
self has printed the name of the Vice-
Chancellor of the Russian empire in three
manners ; i.e., Gortchakoff, Gortachakoff, and
Gortchakow. The Nord, which ought to be a good
Russian authority on such a point, writes Goitcha-
k ay. Under these circumstances the Prose says

that the perplexity of its correctors is only equalled
by that of the diplomatists who invented the four
points for Rome and the six points for Warsaw.
The France says that Juarez has abandoned the
idea of occupying Ban Luis Potosi, and was en-
deavouring to embark for New York.