The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. THUBLIDAT EVINING.

The Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial
Prince arrived at St. Cloud from Biarritz in the
middle of the night. The ministers (with the ex-
ception of Marshal Bandon, Minister-at-War, who
is absent on leave) went to the palace this morning
to present their respective reports. A ministerial
council will be held ou Friday.
Prince Napoleon, whose intentions (or whose
orders) about the Egyptian visit have fluctuated
wonderfully, is now said to have given up the trip,
and the papers say be will be back in Paris by the
26th instant. .

The Bourse opened with considerable animation
on the strength of M. Fould's report, but in the
latter part of the day it became heavy, and Refute
closed with a fall of sc. for account. Mobilier rose
8f r. 75c. The Italian Loan fell 25c. The Lyons
and Southern railways fell sfr. each.
M. de la Gueronniere's journal La Fiance,
while joining the older ultramontane and
the government press in extracting from the
late deplorable riots in Hyde-park the con-
venient moral that all public meetings are
bad things, and should not be allowed by any well-
oonstituted government, makes a touching appeal
to its readers in favour of the ten thousand inno-
cent Irishmen who, as it represents, were wantonly
set upon, ill-used, and overwhelmed by a ferocious
majority ten times as numerous. La France, with
true jesuitical reticence, carefully conceals from its
readers that not one of the 100,000 Garibaldians
assembled in Hyde-park went there for the purpose
of imposing upon any human being an opinion by
physical force. Not one of that vast multi-
tude of Italian sympathisers would ever have
dreamt of interfering by physical force with any
meeting which the partisans of the Pope might
have desired to hold at their own time and place.
The Irish papists alone, M. de la Gueronnihre's
clients, went to a peaceable meeting armed with
cudgels, with the savage purpose of preventing
loyal and orderly Englishmen from giving expres-
sion to their opinions in a peaceable way. I pre-
sume to say nothing upon the question whether
Hyde-park is a proper place for a public meeting
under any circumstances ; but my English blood
boils when I find the servile hirelings whose trade
it is to deprecate every kind of liberty, arguing
that the grand English right of holding public
meetings is to be done away with, because in a per-
ticular instance a few suborned agents of the Pope,
heading a band of the most benighted population
in the world, succeeded in kicking up a row and
breaking a few heada.
M. Mathieu (de la Delme) lately sent a paper to
the Academy of Sciences, which was read at a pub-
lic meeting, prophecying that from the 7th to the
14th October there would be such heavy rain in
France as had scarcely ever been seen before. In
Paris the prophecy has hitherto been singularly
falsified, for we are enjoying fine autumn weather,
which seems likely to continue. But M. Mathieu
will probably find materials in the south of France
for saying that he was right.. The Toulon journals
state that heavy rains have prevailed there during
the last few days, and the water in the streets has
been so deep and rapid that the shopkeepers have
had great difficulty in securing their property from
injury. The day before yesterday a heavy thun-
derstorm broke over the town and neighbourhood,
and the rain fell in torrents Marseilles also was
yesterday visited by a heavy storm ; the scaffolding
erected for the repairs of Notre Dame de is Garde
and several buildings in the town were struck by
lightning.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE
SLAVE QUESTION.
--4,--

The following circular, by Mr. Seward, addressed
to all the diplomatic and consular agents of the United
States, is published in the Paris papers :
Department of State, Washington, Sept. 22, 1862.
"Gentlemen,—You will receive by the mail which will
carry you this despatch evidence which will convince you
that the aggressive movement of the rebels against the states
remaining faithful to the Union is arrested, and that the
forces of the Union, strengthened and reanimated, are again
ready to undertake a campaign on a vast scale. , if you con-
sult the newspapers you will easily perceive that the Guth-
cial resources of the insurrection decline rapidly, and that
the means of raising troops have been exhausted.
" On the other side Ton will see that the financial situp•
Sion of the country is good, and that the call for fresh
troops, without which the material force of the natioa
would be seriously crippled, is being promptly responded tr.
" I have already informed our representatives abroad of
the approach of a change in the social organisation of the
rebel States. This change continues to make itself each day
more and more apparent.
" In the opinion of the President, the moment has come
to place the great fact more clearly before the people
of the rebel States, and to make them understand that i
these States persist in imposing upon the country the choice
between the dissolution of this government, at once neces-
sary and beneficial, and the abolition of slavery, it is the
Union and not slavery that must be maintained and saved.
With this object the President is about to publish a pro-
clamation, in which he announces that slavery will no longer
be recognised in any of the States; which shall be in rebellion
on the Ist of January next. While all the good and wise
men of all countries will recognise this measure u • just
and proper military act, intended to deliver the country
from a terrible civil war, they will recognise at the same
time the moderation and magnanimity with which the go-
vernment proceeds in a matter so solemn and important.—
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
"WILLIAM li. SEWARD."

The Queen of Prussia, who is still at Baden-
Badeo, will remain there for some time, and, after paying
a short visit to Coldents, will proceed to Durckheim, in
Bavaria, and enter on • course of the sanatory process
known as the " Tranbeneur," or grape-cure.
The Messager de Bayonne gives an account of an
extraordinary effect of electricity produced last week in the
village of Saint FAZO, near Perpignan. About one in the
morning, while M. Gaily, the mayor, and his family were
in bed, they were aroused from their sleep by a tremendous
clap of thunder, a,companied by heavy rain. The lightning
had fallen in the garden of • house about 800 yards from
them, but as the storm did not appear to have touched their
house, and had soon afterwards passed away, they again
composed themselves to sleep. On getting up in the morn-
ing, however, they were astonished at the effects that had
been produced by the lightning. All the doors and windows,
both on the ground and first floors, that of the dining room,
which led into the garden, and of the kitchen, which opened
into the street, were covered with patches of a substance like
melted tin or silver, and round all the edges were shining
streaks of the same kind.

It would appear that another set of requieitionista
have their eyes on the Guildhall, for on Wednesday the
Lord Mayor received on intimation that a requisition might
soon be presented to him, asking for the use of the hall for
• meeting "to adopt an address to the Queen praying that
her Majesty will be pleased to command her wielders to
abstain from urging on the Emperor of France the with-
drawal of his troops from Rome, as such withdrawal would,
under present circumstances, cause tho invasion of the
capital of the dominions of the sovereign pontiff, the ally
of her Majesty." This, of cows., emanates from the
Roman catholic. It is also stated that a communication
has been received at the Mansion-house from • Roman
catholic scarce to the effect that an organised attempt
would be made to detest the object of the proposed
meeting, and that • serious disturbance might take place,
adding that the Irish population in London are in a st►te
of great excitement.