The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-05 00:00:00

privet a grand fdte at his palace of the Hermitage.
CM this occasion, the ambassadors of France and
England, it was remarked, were the object of parti-
cular attention from hie Majesty."
Letters from Jassy and Bucharest to the 14th
.and
19th of July give details respecting the ltussisn
forces, who are fortifying themselves in a formidable
manner in the Principalities. Every day there were
arrivals of artillery intended for the works of de-
fence established in the strongest poietsof the country.
The Russians are forming three entrenched camps,
which are intended to protect all their lines, and
which are to be rendered impregnable.
The Oriental Company's steamer Bengal, which
arrived at Southampton yesterday, reports that the
Egyptian squadron, with 10 hired transports, having
10,000 troops of the line on board, weighed from the
outer roads on the afternoon of July 21 for Constan-
tinople. The squadron was thus composed : Baylan,
100 guns, flag ship; Fayvorne, 100 guns; Rasheed,
frigate, 60; Sheer Dgehaad, frigate, 60; Biekeriah,
frigate, 64; Dgehaad Bekrie, corvette, 20; Dgehaad
liken, corvette, 20 ; and a brig, 20.
The Cadiz, which left Constantinople on the 19th,
Malta on the 24th, and Gibraltar on the 28th ult.,
thus reports the position of her Majesty's shipe :—At
Constantinople ; Her Majesty'. steam ships Retribu-
tion, Niger, Furious. At Besika Bay : The British
and Fiench squadrons. At Malta: Her Majesty's
steam ships Modeste, Wasp. At Gibraltar: Her
Majesty's steam ship Cruiser.
The Union reckons up the following four pending
" solutions:"

1. A proposition of the Austrian envoy, accepted, it is
said, both by the Czar and the Porte, but rejected, according
to the French ministerial journals, by France and England.
2. A proposition made by the representatives of the united
powers at Vienna, the contents and the tato of which are
alike unknown.

9. A proposition emanating exclusively from the cabinets
of France and Engisnd, which continues to be involved in
the most complete obscurity.
4.. A proposition from the cabinet of Berlin, submitted to
the Porte by Colonel de Wildenbruch, which we never heard
spoken of till within the last day or two.

FRANCE.

FARB, Tu **REIM Y EVENING,

Tho hioniteur contains several decrees. The
first fixes Sept. 4 for the elections to vacant
seats in the Legislative Body. There are no less
than seven vacancies caused by resignations,
nominations to the Senate or public func-
tions, and death. Oneis that in the Vendee,
caused by the refusal of M. Bouhier de l'Ecluse
to take the oath. The other departments in which
elections will take plat* are the Nord, Loirct, Cotes
du Nurd, Yonne, Ile-et-Vilaine, and Aveyron.
Another decree authorises the execution of the
works necessary for the embankment of the left bank
of the Seine between Quillebatuf and Laroque. Hy
another decree, the Importation of certain descrip-
tions of iron, steel, exletrees for locomotives and car-
riages, and oak bark, is authorised from the island
of Corsica into France by the customtvhouses of
Arles and Bouc ; but the decree declares that cut
iron and iron and steel in bars imported into Corsica
from foreign countries shall pay the duties fixed in
the general tariff on being brought into France.
The following reply of the Journal de Rennes to
the lame explanations of the provincial government
journal, the Auxiliare Breton, in the affair of M. de
Falloux, clearly shows that the gendarmes paid him
so friendly visit:
The story told by the Auxiinere is incorrect from ens end
to the other. In the first place it was nut before the a I,
nor before the speech of M. de Fallout, that the gendarmes
earns to the house of his relative, the Counter de Martel.
It was at a quarter past ten in the evening, at an hour
when the doors usually open during the dsy were
fastened up, that the gendarmes presented themselves, and
we know ir'm a certain source that they told the concierge
that M. de Fallon: lad " just made a speech." It was not
in passing. and as to a private acquaintance, that they spoke
to the concierge. She did not know either of them. They
came there in the exercise of their public functions they
asked tore the Countess de Martel, not knoeriag that she
was absent. On the next morning, at 9 o'clock, • urgent-
de rifle went to M. Sore's. and asked the servant
who opened the door where M. de Fallon: was,
and what route his had taken. We
pretended regulation of the gendarmerie, according to which
their duty is to report to their chiefs the arrival and depar-
tare of all important personages. This rule, as acted upon
at Rennes, would assimilate a private house to a common
inn, and place every person of distinction under a sort of
surveillance of the police. But, assuming such a rule to
exist in the gendarmerie, how is the visit of the seryent-de
silk explainer/ ? How happens it that M. tie Falloux, who
travels a great deal in France, was
in this fashion before? Instead of venturing upon these
, conjectural and inadmissible interpretations of the facts, it
would to better for the Aaxiliore to admit, with the entire
public, and with M. de Fallon: himself, whose personal
impressions are known, that what passed at Rennes on
Tuesday evening anti Wednesday morning is an enigma
which bee not yet found an lEdipus. •
The Union adds to this statement that M. Falloux,
hearing of the steps taken by the gendarmes, in-
stantly wrote to the Prefect of the Ile-et-Vilaine
that he was to be found at the house of his father-
in-law, the Chateau de Caradeuc, and that the prefect
sent him no answer.

The Order of Advocates at the Cour Imperials of
Paris assembled yesterday, to nominate the twenty-
one members to compose the Council of Discipline,
when MM. Paillet, Duvergier, Berryer, Marie,
Lionville, Lacan, Bethmont, Plocque, Cheux-d'Est-
Ange, Gaudry, Leblond, Desboudeta Desmarest,
Landi in, Jules Fevre, Paillard de Villeneuve, Caignet,
Thoreau, Benoit-Champy, Rivolet, and Fontaine,
were elected.
The Moniteur Akerien, of the 30th ult., publishes
a general order, appointing General Palmier, com-
manding the province of Oran, to take the govern-
ment of the colony during the absence of the go-
vernor-general, who comes to France on leave of
absence.

Queen Christina is expected at Havre on Saturday
next. Her Majesty has taken apartments at the
Frascati Hotel for the bathing season.
Countess Orloff, wife of the Minister of Police
at Bt. Petersburg, arrived at Rouen yesterday with
her suite and carriages, on her way from Dieppe
to Patio. _ . _

M. de Risseloff having requited from the French
government explanations of the articles of the Con-
stilutionnel, received for answer that the lioniteur
alone expresses the thought of the cabinet.
The unfavourable reaction reported yesterday in
the public securities continues to-day, and ltentes
have experienced a heavy fall. The lest prices
were :—F'or cash : Three per Cents., 771. 45c.;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1021. 40c. For the ac-
count : Three per Cents., 771. 550. ; Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 102 f. 30c. Bank Stock, 2,800 f.
Northern., 8451. 25c.; Paris and Orleans, 1,137 f.
25c.; Paris and Strubourg, 907 f. 50c.•, Paris and
Lyons, 9071. 50c. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,065 f. 60o.;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 7401.; Western of
France, 7381.; Rouen and Have., 4901.; Bordeaux
and Cette, 8151. 50o• •