The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WEDICIBDAT EN73130.
The Pays, twin brother to the Constitution/id,
returns to the vexed question of General Sebofield's
" mission," and takes upon itself tbus to describe
the object of it : io
The truth concerning General Schofield's sojourn
Puts is that this general officer intends to preset his
respects to the Eangseree of the French. sad to Mew
I assurances of symp►W7 on the pert et the Federal corers•

mint.
Row can he do this without having received
instructions from the Federal government 1 and
yet Bonifece, of the Constitutionnel, has said twice
that he bas no mission at all. The Pays goes on,
"General Schofield will also see the Minister
of Foreign Affairs." Most certainly he will ;
and that not as Bonif ace would infer,
as a private individual travelling for his pleasure,
but in the character of a public man authocieed to
speak on public business of high importance.
1 " Bat," the Pays continues, "it he had been
charged, as has been said, with an almost co
notary minion" (again a contradiction of the Con-
stitutionnet, which affirmed that he had none of
any kind), "he would not have waited till now to
fulfil his instructions, and, above all, would not
have proposed a toast to the perpetual amity of
France sad the United States." In this last len-
' tepee the Pays raises altogether a false issue, tot
the purpose of oontradicting a statement that no-
body thinks of asserting. Nobody at all acquainted
with the views of the government of the United
States supposes that there is any desire at Washing.
ton to go to war with France. On the contrary, there
k every desire to avert such a calamity. But there
is not the least inconsistency in the toast alluded
to with the supposition that the general and diplo.
matist proposing it is negotiating to carry • point
on the part of his government.
I have alluded first to the concluding paragraph
of the Pays' article because it is the only part really
important. A long introduction of a column and
a half is so trivial as scarcely to deserve notice. It
affects to suppose that Mr. Bigelow's speech the
other day participating in what it inaptly charac-
terises as the " exclusively" pacific sentiments of
General Schofield, was intended by the American
minister as an answer to assertions made by certain
New York journals to the effect that "Mr. Big&
low has come to an understanding with the prin-
cipal opposition members of the Corps Legislatit,
who have promised him their support daring
the coming session." I am very sure that -
Mr. Bigelow would not give himself the
trouble of contradicting any such absurd story
as that, and it is impossible to find a syllable In
his speech conveying the remotest allusion to the
subject the Pays descants upon. It was quite
needless, therefore, for that journal to lecture
solemnly upon the duties of foreign ministers and
the reserve which should guide their conduct in
, the country to which they are accredited. It is,
moreover, a truism that " the opposition members
in the Corps Legislated will speak against the
Mexican expedition as they have always done, and
that M. Bigelow would have nothing to gain what.
ever by sakingifor their aasistanoe."
I am informed that Admiral Goldsborough, com•
mending the United States squadron of evolution
in the European waters, has gone to Villafrancs,
near Nice, for winter quarters. I also learn that
three more ships are now on their way from America
to join him.
The Phone de la Loire has received a warning for
having in its number for December 9 said inn..
ference to the funeral at Buenos Ayres of M.
Amildee Jacques, a French subject, and o
t a speech
made over his grave, that the speaker " hollowed
in the person of this proscrit that science, lofty
thought, industry, and honesty which had caused
him to be persecuted in France." The warning
states that M. A. Jacques, falsely represented by
the Phase de /a Loire as having been " proscribed,"
quitted France of his own accord, and that the
article censured is therefore " calumnious, and an
insult to the French government."
The Libels says it was decided at the Ministenti
Council held on Saturday, at which M. Rause.
mann attended, that the cab monopoly shall be
abolished, due compensation being made to the
company which now enjoys (I) it.
Some Bourse critics pretended that the Emperor's
telegram to Leopold IL, as published in the
Moniteur, was not so strongly worded as hi the
version which first circulated, and that the im-
portance of it was diminished by the fact that it
was an answer to one sent by the young King. I
can see no force in either argument. The Em
peror's expressions of condolence seem to nie sub•
stantially those which were thought satisfactory
when first published. There was the trifling fall
in the Rents of 10e. for cash and bc. for account,
the last quotations being Mr. 90c. and 69fr.
Mobilier fell sfr.

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