The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THOILSDAT Eviwrcc.

It does not seem that the recent cabinet council
at London has come to a resolution on the subject
of Greece altogether satisfactory to the French
government. The France complains that the de-
cision not to refuse the throne for Priuoe Alfred
until after the Greek nation has voted "conceals
a manoeuvre," the objet of which is to ensure the
election of some prince devoted to English interests.
Certainly manoeuvres of some kind or other on the
part of England are much called for in the face of
such a declaration of the St. Petersburg Journal as
that which was yesterday cited with approba-
tion by the Muniteur. The official organ of
the Czar says that "at another moment "
the Russian government would be delighted to see
a Russian prince King of Greece; but that, in con-
sequence of the "deplorable rivalry" which such
an election would provoke, the plan must be given
np for the present. Thereupon the Moniteur ex-
claims that since Russia withdraws hef claim all
difficulty is at an end. I really do not think so.
The "other moment" alluded to in the Russian
journal may happen very soon. If England objects
to Prince Alfred being King of Greece, it is
mainly because she does not want to be
dragged into a war about the Eastern ques-
tion. But if Russia, backed by France, is only
watching an opportunity to raise that question at
a moment more favourable for herself, why should
England forego the vantage ground now afforded
her by the favourable disposition of the Greeks 1
If only as a choice of evils, it is better to brave
France and Russia with the Greek people in our
favour than to allow them to be organised by
France and Russia against us. It is difficult to
see how the cabinet of London can give way with-
out a guarantee against the Duke de Leuchtenberg
or any other Russian prince, not only "for the
moment," but permanently. . _ .

. .
A paragraph in the Temps says that M. de Bud-
berg, the new Russian ambassador just arrived in
Paris, is believed to be the bearer of a protocol
recognising the duke as a member of the imperial
family excluded from Greece by the treaty of 1830,
and that England makes a sine qua nos of such a
protocoL There is a rumour that the court of
Bavaria is making another desperate bid for the
vacant throne, and promises this time to furnish a
prince who shall embrace the Greek religion.
The difficulty in the way of forming a new minis-
try in Italy, at which M. de la Guoronnibre's jour-
nal, the Frame, rejoices with fiendish delight,
provokes the following very just observations from
the Opinion Nationale :
. _ .

We deeply deplore the protect aituatioe of Italy, although
we are persuaded that the present difficulties are merely
temporary ; our grief is the more poignant because it is
upon us that the Italians fix the responsibility, as they are
justified in doing. It is quite true th►t the imperial govern-
ment turned out Rimisoli's cabinet as it has done Itattlizzi's,
and as it will overthrow all their successors until the day
when our flag shall cease to protect the temporal power.

The Ladepenthance Beige says that it has received
from Mexico a version of the notes exchanged
between President Juarez and the Prussian am-
bassador at Mexico, which differs widely from that
published by the Mositeur ; but, inasmuch as all

its recent news from Mexico has invariably occa-
sioned the seizure of the journal in France, it
deliberately excludes the last Mexican letter from
the French edition. The Independence takes this
opportunity of observing that the governments of
Russia and Austria are much less severe than'
France with regard to the circulation of foreign
journals. This comparison, the justness of which
is undeniable, may not touch the satellites of M.
de Persigny, but must be painful to him.
The Pattie, in several articles opposing the aboli-
Ilion of the bakers' monopoly, has asserted that
bread is dearer in London than in Paris. M. Le
Play, Councillor of State, reports the contrary in
an official document. This conflict is now ex-
plained by the Opinion Nationale. M. Barral, one
of the writers in that journal, says that a part of
his family was staying in London for three mouths
last summer, and that his accounts, which are
scrupulously kept, show that they paid three cen-
times per lb. less for bread than it costs in Paris.
It appears that the Prefect of the Seine, whose
calculations are adopted by the Pattie, takes into
account only the regular tariff which applies to
bread sold by weight, and ignores all that of supe-
rior quality which, under the denomination of
" fancy bread," enters largely into consumption.
The Bourse closes with no change in the Route,
and very little in any other security. Mobilier fell
7fr. 50c., the Italian Loan 10c., and the South-
ern Railway 12fr. 50r.

A Paris correspondent of the Nord states that
the Emperor Napoleon is still at work upon his "Life of
Cawar," and that the public are very anxious to see the
first volume, which has ',men long announced.