The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(at SUBMAItINE TELEGRAPH.)
PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Government refuses its adhesion to a fusion of
the Orleans and Lyons Companies.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Bourse was again greatly agitated to-day, and,
after numerous fluctuations, closed with a heavy fall.
It was thought that the note in yesterday's Mohiteur
was of a reassuring character, and, as nothing new
has occurred to shake the opinion generally expressed
both in France atld England, that the Turkish ques-
tion cannot lead to immediate war, hopes were
entertained that securities would recover from the
extreme depression of last week. This hope
was completely disappointed, for the route
closed at 79.05, being the lowest price of
the day. The minds of speculators were in
so exeiteable a state that no canard was too absurd
to be believed. A rumour was circulated that
Belgium was to be invaded by a French army to-
morrow upon no better ground than that the garri-
sons of several towns within a reasonable distance
from Lille have been ordered to march there, to be
reviewed by Marshal St. Arnaud, on his way to the
camp at St. Omer. As usual, the bears circulated
reports of a fall in Consols.
It is consdently stated that thelLyons and Orleans
Railway Companies have settled tho terms of a
fusion.

A military fracas of rather a scandalous nature
occurred at Satory on Friday while Marshal Magnan
was inspecting the camp and arranging the plan for
Sunday's review. He made some observations with
regard to the orders given by some of the generals, of
so provoking a kind that General •Dulac plainly told
him he was no strategist. In consequence of this ill-
timed expression of an opinion very generally enter-
tained in the army, General Dulac has been dis-
missed from his command, and General Martin de
Bourgon has been appointed to succeed him. I hear
that General Esterhazy is undsr arrest for taking
part with his brother officer in a breach of discipline.
The famous infernal machine plot of Marseilles is
again spoken of, but -as it may now be presumedfor the
last time, except as matter of police history. The
accusation chamber of the imperial court of Aix has
just discharged the two individuals who have been in
prison for several months upon the charge of having
been accomplices of Gaillard, who has left the coun-
try, declaring at the same time that there was no
sufficient evidence against them. The proceedings
being secret, the public will never know the true
origin of the plot.
A few minutes before the close of the session of the
Corps Legislatif a curious scene occurred. After a
number of bills had been passed with extraordinary
rapidity, and when the President was about to make
his farewell speech, M. Achille Jubinal rose to ask as
a personal favour that the house would adjourn till
8 o'clock, in order that they might be enabled to pass
the Copyright Extension Bill this session. It could
not, according to the standing orders, be placel upon
the order of the day before that hour, 24 hours not
having elapsed since the distribution of the report.
This proposal was received with a loud murmur of
dissent. Many of the members had made arrange-
ments to be several miles on their way to their homes
long before 8 o'clock,and although the name of the Em-
peror was invoked by M. Jubinal, who as an old
writer in the Bulletin de Paris, might be suppseed
to have some authority for using it ; the house reso-
lutely assumed the responsibility of leaving the
widows and children of authors to take the chance of
next session, rather than accede to the certainly very
irregular motion submitted to them. When, on a
show of hands, the adjournment was negatived by
an overwhelming majority, M. Jubinal, with violent
gesticulation, declared that the vote was a " legisla-
tive barbarity," an expression which caused much
laughter. The Corps Legislatif has voted in the
coarse of the session about 200 laws, the majority of
which are private or local. The principal public
acts passed are, besides the budget, the bills upon
civil pensions, the declaration of the jury in criminal
matters, the punishment of political offences and at-
tempts against the Emperor, the organisation of the
pm/limn/es, and the bill relating to public baths
and wash-houses.

The improvident bill for the conversion of the
commercial and departmental debts is no: passed in
the shape presented by the Government.