The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY Eviania.

The postponed council of ministers takes place
positively at St. Cloud at 10 o'clock to-morrow
morning, under the presidency of the Emperor. It
is not doubted that M. Drouyn de Lhuys' last
despatch to Russia will appear in the Mowitetir of
Sunday. There have been rumours current of Rua-
' ids being more conciliatory, and a report that
Count Orloff was coming to Paris on a mission is
said to have contributed to the rise at the Bourse
yesterday and to-day. I do not think there is any
truth in these stories. The language of the Rus-
sian journals and some words pronounced by the
Czar at Nijni-Novogorod argue that the cabinet
of St. Petersburg is not disposed to make the least

Lord Clarendon, who bas been at Frankfort
since the 15th, is expected in Paris on the 31st,
to pass a few days with Lord Cowley. His object
probably is to confer with the English ambassador
in Paris on the important difference between Den-
mark and Germany on the knotty Schleswig Holstein
question. _ _ .

M. de Persigny, who had written a speech for the
council-general of the Loire, which he was pre-
vented from delivering by M. Boudet's prohibition
of political speeches by the presidents of councils-
general, took an opportunity to let it off at the
"Club of Arts and Commerce" of St. Etienne.
This speech is an historical and philosophical
essay upon the empire, its foundation, its
progress, its present state, and its future prospects.
In it the late Minister of the Interior develops his
favorite theory that parliamentary government is
impossible in France for want of an aristocracy
such as exists in England. As the Opinion
Nationale observes, we have heard all this before
from the same quarter. The speech is but a para-
phrase of the circular which the speaker sent to the
prefects on the eve of the late elections—with what
ill success is now matter of history. He talks a
great deal about liberty and the fusion of all the
old parties in the empire, but the misfortune is
that his latest acts when in power were quite at
variance with all his liberal doctrines, and so far
from propitiating former enemies, they disgusted
the best friends of the empire. He now lays down
the doctrine that the entire political organisation
of democracy in France consists in its " ad-
ministrative hierarchy," and that all beyond is but
"grains of sand without cohesion." The Temps
characterises this declaration, coming from such a
quarter, as "important but melancholy." It
would, however, be unfair to the empire to accept
M. de Persigny as an authorised exponent of its
present principles, since he was wisely turned out
of office after the memorable condemnation of his

policy by the electors of Paris.
Three iron-clad frigates, the Provence, Revanche,
and Savoie, which have for some time been on the
stocks at Toulon, are being rapidly completed ;
the Provence will be launched early in October,
and the other two shortly afterwards.
A letter from Venice states that the bishops had
obtained from the Austrian government a prohibi-
tion of K Renan's " Vie de Jeans," but that K
Schmerling, after consideration, has revoked the
order, and that the book now freely crosses the
frontier. This is not the only instance of an indis
position of Austria to submit to the yoke of Rome-
The editor of the Verona Journal, the well known
Perego, has been excommunicated, but the govern-
ment nevertheless patronises his paper more
warmly than ever. A school at Verona has been
lately closed by authority, on account of the teach-
ing being too ultramontane.
Mdlle. Tietjens, already so well known in Lon-
don and Vienna, makes her debut at the Paris
Grand Opera this evening in the Huguenots.

There was much fluctuation at the Bourse to-
day, and the rise of yesterday was at the time lost,
but ultimately the Rente closed with the further
improvement of 20c.
The Daily News is seized.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police has been
lately occupied with two actions brought against
M. Mir 6, for defamation, in a pamphlet published
by him, the plaintiff in one case being M. de Saint-
Priest, and in the other, M. Louis Innocent. After
hearing counsel, the court, is both cases, con-
demned the defendant to 500 fr. fine, ordered the
suppression of the pamphlet, and the insertion of
'the judgment in five journals. The imprisonment
in case of non-payment is in each case fixed at one
year.

WEATHER REPORT.- HIE DAY.)

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Aberdeen 23.67 84 1
Leith 211.84
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showers.
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some showers. fresh to moderate.
North-Nast.Calthness to Norfolk. West=Donegal to Corn-
wall. South-t hAu:iel and Bay COW& South-Sast=Stralt of
Dover to Norfolk.

THE CRAWLEY COURT MARTIAL—It is currently
reported in military circles that General It. Rumley will be
the provident of Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley's coact-martial.

—United Service Gazette.

The long-expected Channel fleet, for the appear-
woo of which the inhabitants of Derry and Yoram have
been eagerly watching, arrived in Lough Foyle at 6 o'clock
on Wednesday morning. The crews inumber more than
5,000 men. Several hundred memos visited the fleet fa the
coarse of the day ; and a deputation from Morino presented
an address of welcome and congratulation to Admiral Dacron
on board his fiagabip. The shore wu illuminated at night
with tar barrels, fireworks, mad bonfires.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company this day make a very important addition to the
magnificent fleet which they already pommy by launolling
two Iron screw ships, the one from the premise* of the
Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company, and the other from
the Millwall Works.

The Ottoman empire as yet pommies but three
railways—from Smyrna to Aidin, from Kuntendji• to Tam,
sawodo, aad from Alereodria to Suez. According to the
Journal de Cenutantinnple, there is an intention to estab-
lish a line from Soediah to Aleppo, from Aleppo to Bagdad,
aed from Bagdad to Busiorah.

The Congregation of the Index at Rome has
condemned the " Vie de Vous" of M. Rama.