The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-15 00:00:00

F ItANCE.

PARIS, Wri)N•AIDAy Eympiu.
Bou-Mara, the Arab chief who gave the Fesash
some work in Algeria after t'ae capture of Abel-
limier, and was subsequenftle taken prisoner himself
and confined in the castle of Ham, has just succeeded
in a second attempt to escape from that citadel.
Boa-Mesa had obtained leave to visit the ruins of
Pierre-Fond, in the department of the Gide, in com-
pany of a keeper. No sooner had he reached this
place than he gave his keeper the slip, and took the
rail again at the nearest point. A glimpse was
caught of him at the station of Amiens, and orders
were transmitted by telegraph to arrest him at the
nearest possible station. The C'eurrier du
Pus de Calais states that he escaped on
Saturday night, and was accompanied by a miller's
workman, who acted as his servant. This celebrated
chief effected his escape once before, immediately
after the revolution of February ; but he was soon
canght again. Should lie have beCcr luck this time,
the recent rebellion of the Kabylcs would render his
presence in Africa more formidable than ever to the
French.
There has been long talk of pnilonging the Stras-
bourg railway to Vienna. An important step has
been just taken with a view to carrying out this
plan. Two of the administration have set out for
Ulm and Augsburg. to come to an understanding
with the governments of Wurtemburg and Bavaria
for effecting a junction with the German line from
Stuttgart to Ulm and from Augsburg to Munich.
Three trains are to bear the President, his suite,
and the visitors invited by the administration of the
Strasbourg railway, on the occasion of the inaugura-
tion of this line. The first train will start at 3 on
Saturday morning, direct for Strasboure. The second,
conveying the ]'resident and his immediate personal
attendants, will start at tr on the same morning, and
stop at Nancy. The third will start on Sunday
morning, and proceed directly to Strasbourg. 'fhe
resolution not to admit any ladies in the trains on
the occasion of the President's voyage, has occasioned
clamorous expostulations on the part of the fair Pari-
sians ; but there is nothing new in this arrangement,
which has been invariably observed on all such trips.
The .lAmile or publishes the following communi-
cated note: "All the military and naval civil func-
tionaries who will be admitted on Saturday to the
trait) which is to convey the President to Strasbourg
are to be in uniform. They will wear undress dur-
ing the journey and full dress for the balls, recep-
tions, and other public ceremonies." The Patric says
that the most rigorous measures have been taken to
prevent any person from taking his seat in the train
without a personal ticket of invitation. Ushers who
know the principal official personages by sight will
be placed at the entrance to the railway to recognise
them. Strict inquiry will be made of all other per-
sons presenting tickets, and those who may be the
bearers of any not in their own names will be sent
back.
The Minister of Public Works will not return to
Paris till late this evening, the inspection of the line
huffing taken some hours more than was expected.
Thu trains will nevertheless start punctually at the
time fixed.

A letter from Berlin of July 11, says that the
President will go to Forbach from Strasbourg, and
that an officer of rank of the Prussian army will be
sent there to pay him a complimentary visit.
A tecent fact cited tome, confirms what 1 told you
on the subject of the probable amnesties, or rather
pardons, to be granted on August 15; there was a
special bureau of pardons at the Ministry of the In-
terior; this bureau has ceased to be in operation, but
its attributes hare been centralised at the Elysee
itself, where they have been put into the hands of
General Goyon, aide-de-camp of the President, who
has already been entrusted with a similar task with
regard to prisoners at Ilicetre. General Goyon will
have the power, in the last resort, of examining the
papers relative to all the prisoners sentenced by the
mixed commission, excepting those already examined
specially bs General Canrobert and MM. Espinasse
and Baudiart.

M. Pietri, the prefect of police, has distinguished
himself by organising a regular St. Bartholomew
massacre of dogs. He has posted up a polite notice
to signify to ladies, as well u gentlemen, that even
those pets whom they lead in strings will be slaugh-
tered befoie their eyes if left unmuzzled. The
serycniale-rifle have strick orders to fall on all dogs
whose noses and chins are not fast bound together.
The Patric tells us that 286 informations were
laid yesterday against owners of dogs. If the police
proceed at their present rate in destroying dogs, the
proceeds of the tax to be levied on these animals will
be seriously affected Hence it is said that M. Pietri
has received a hint from the minister of finances to
stop this canine butchery.
You are aware that the catholic clergy have been
dispensed from taking the oath of allegiance to the
President. This dispensation has been extended to
the ministers of all other worship paid by the state.
The council of the Bank of &France held a meeting
on Monday to consider the regulations relative to the
formalities to be observed in making advances upon
railway shares and bonds. Hitherto it has been
customary upon the signature of the borrower to the
loan note being attested by a stock-broker, to ad-
vance the money ;on the day of the deposit of the
security. It is resolved that for the future the loan
note shall not be submitted to the council of dis-
count, and that the sum lent shall not be paid till
the day after the deposit of the shares or bonds.
The heat to-day has been 38 of Renmur in the
shade. The belief in a great convulsion of nature to-
morrow is still general. Many persons in the lower
ranks of life have left Paris. I have myself seen an
English gentleman, whose servants have asked leave
to go to Boulogne, to be out of the way of the im-
pending catastrophe. M. Arago has not made any
public statement to explain how far he is responsi-
ble for the terror that prevails. I believe it to be
certain that he did prophecy that to-morrow, July
15, would probably be the hottest day of the year in
Paris, but I cannot learn from any good source that
he said more.
General Lawceestine has postponed all reviews of
the national guard on account of the beat.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte gave • grand dinner at
Frascati's, at Havre, yesterday, to the principal civil
and military authorities, the staff of the 2nd regi-
ment of the line and the officers of the Heine Hor-
tense.

There is a report that Napoleon, the son of Jerome,
is to be made minister of state.

Tbs Constitutumnel, although a systematic oppo-
nent of free-trade principles in France, as being
likely to injure the public treasury, seems to think
that a large reduction of the duties on French wines
in England would so much increase the consumption
that the amount of revenue to the state would be
rather increased than diminished. The Constientionnel
regards the reduction also as a measure prescribed by
equity. There can he no doubt that a large re-
duction of the duty on French wines would lead to
an enormous increase of consumption in England.
and be of great benefit to the French growers. There
are certain French wines which are at once whole-
some and cheap, and which please thu English
taste. The duty on some of these wines in England
amounts to three times its original cost, and acts
therefore almost as a prohibition. Good Beaune, for
instance, if there were no duty, could be had for six-
pence per bottle in England, and Picardin, an excel-
lent subs'itute for sherry, for about the same price.
If, therefore, the duty in England were to be no more
! than the cast of the wine, tte English would have a
choice of some ten to fifteen good wince, at a total cost
' of about one shilling per bottle, and none but the very
poorest persons would he unable to drink French wine.
The reduction of the duty has long been talked of,
! hut, considering the advantages that it would hold
oat to this country, the government. in Englund
have nlways stipulated for some concessions in favour
of iron, coals, or other ar; idea of British prduce.
Fifteen years ago the governments of France and
England had entered into serious negotiations for
the reciprocal reform of their customs tariffs, and Sir
H. Ilulwer and Dr. llowring were appointed escorts-
, nil-glom-Ts of the British government to discuss with
the cominiasionersof the Frencligovernment the baste
of a new commercial treaty. chew labour,continned
' several months, and were proceeding sa.isfactorily
when they were suddenly broken off by M. l'hiers,
who was then in the French cabinet. The only mo-
tive as for this proceeding was the improbabi-
lity of inducing the Chamber of Deputies, which ut
that time was composed in a great measure of mono-
polists and anti-tire traders, to consent ; but it was,
we understand, the opinion of the English commis-
sioners that, if the government had been sincere in