The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRIDAY linarma.

Fresh reinforcements are leaving for Mexico.
Yesterday and Wednesday various detachments
were on the march for Toulon, to embark on the
Entrepreneur, which is to sail next week. Another
transport, the Seine, now on its way to Alexandria
with troops for Cochin China, is to take on
board at Alexandria 1,000 Egyptian auxiliaries,
and will proceed with them to Vera Cruz. [The
Opinion Nationale gives this as "Latest News,"
without any reserve, but it seems very improbable
that France should ask the aid of Egypt to conquer
Mexico.] The steam frigate Panama left Toulon on
Monday for Algiers, to take up troops from the
army of Africa for Mexico.
Bullier's Correspondence says :

I must tel you that the relations between Paris and
Madrid are still somewhat cold. No doubt there is an end
of the incident referred to by the Mcntitesir. I am quite
sure that the matter is completely settled. But it is im-
possible to be pleased with the attitude assumed by General
Prim in the Mexican question, and it is especially to be
regretted that the cabinet of Madrid should support the
policy of that officer, notwithstanding that he is disavowed
by the Senate, the Chamber, and the country.
The same lithographic sheet says that the rumour
of Victor Emmanuel's visit to Paris is neither cor-
rect nor absolutely incorrect. The visit is on the
tapis, but depends for its realisation on conditions
easily to be guessed, but " which are not yet ful-
filled." This means, I suppose, that the King of
Italy will not be a welcome guest until he reverses
his policy, and crushes the hopes of Lis country
by renouncing all claim to Rome.
At the Bourse, after a dull opening, there was a
sudden rise, owing to false news of a great success
of the French army iu Mexico. Qua of the evening
papers says, " there was a rumour that the cannon
of the luvalides was heard firing to celebrate the
taking of Puebla." I can certify that up to this
hour nobody has " heaxd" anything more than the
rumour. Some people at the Bourse, not contented
with Puebla, went so far as to say that the city of
Mexico had fallen. Bente rose 25c. both for cash
and account, closing at 69fr. 85c. and 69fr. 90c.
Mobilier rose 15fr., and the Italian Loan 50. The
Orleans Railway rose 3fr. 75c. In the other lines
no important change.
General Fleury has returned to Paris from Brus-
sels. His "mission" was, as I surmised, hippie
and not diplomatic. Instead of seeking in the
Belgian royal family a candidate for the throne of
Greece, he went to seek new types of reproductive
horses for the Emperor's stables. He bought eight
stallions of Count Orloff, the Russian ambassador,
who had lately made a large importation from
choice studs in his own country. _ _

Cardinal fiferlot, the Archbishop of Paris, is dan-
gerously ill from an attack of pleurisy. He has
received extreme unction, and prayers were offered
up for him in several churches this morning. His
death would be an important event, because the
party whose mouthpiece is Gueronniere would
use all its influence to put an ultramontanist in
the first see of France. The present archbishop,
although somewhat of a trimmer, passed for a
Gallivan when he was Bishop of Tours, and is, at

any rate, a moderate man. It would be very easy
to change for the worse.
The Archbishop of Cambrai, in a Christmas
address to his clergy, sings a song of triumph over
the defeat of Garibaldi at Aspromonte, and repro-
mute Colonel Pallavicini, whose men shot him
down, as a manifest instrument of Providence for
the protection of the Pope. The prelate exhot;4l
his flock to contribute liberally their " St, Peter's
pence," giving as a reason th►t the money is wanted
for "an immense administration embracing the
entire universe." He states that the contribution
to the St. Peter's pence fund has amounted in bis
diocese alone to 151,100 fr. 2c. in the course of a
single year. This is, within a little, as much as all
France has hitherto subscribed for the distress( 1
cotton manufacturers. The Pope, as we are in-
formed by the Moniieur this morning, sends the
latter 10,000 fr., but takes the opportunity of
pleadfing poverty as a reason fur not giving more.
The advertisement, aided by the episcopacy, will
no doubt return him his own with usury.
The Siiele, alluding to the Pope's regret at being
prevented by the state of his finances from sending
a contribution to the distressed operatives of the
Seine-Infdrieure more in harmony with the marks
of devotedness which he receives from the French
people, says :
Those proofs of devotedneas are manifested by the send
ing of funds, often in very considerable sums, if the journals
are to be believed which take the trouble of informing as
from time to time of the amount of the receipts of Peter's
pence. Thus, while feeling obliged to the Pope for having
taken part in the subscription in aid of the workmen, we
cannot but regret that the state of his financed, have not
permitted bim to proportion his offering to that which is
collected two or three times a year in France by all the
archbishops, bishops, minis, superiors, superioreeses, and
directors of the innumerable parishes, religious seminaries,
convents, and other religious establishments of the French
empire.