The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY Enanto.

People are on the tiptoe of expectation for news
from London as to the answer to be given to the
Emperor's alleged proposal for a triple media-
tion in the American quarrel. It is given out that
the matter will be considered at an English cabinet
council to-morrow ; but meanwhile some of the
evening papers express, a feeling of disappointment
that the telegraph should bring no opinions of the
London journals of Monday morning.
The Prase, observing that the fact of France
having taken the initiative is now as certain as
any extra-official fact can well be, says that it is a
very serious matter, but that, although on the first
blush nothing could be more conformable to the
generous traditions of France than an attempt to
put a stop to • bloody and disastrous war, the
misfortune is that in the present case "the end
proposed would not be attained." Slavery being, in
spite of all assertions to the contrary, at the
bottom of the war, the immediate effect of an
armistice would be to re-assure the alaveowners
and encourage them to take vengeance upon run
away and rebellious slaves. The servile war now
feared would be indefinitely threatening ; peace,
assuming it possible, would only be made upon the
backs of the slave, and that in a literal as well as
metaphorical sense. The torrents of blood shed by
the northern arms would have been poured forth iu
vain, and the black spot would remain on the
Union flag.
The Temps, citing the paragraph in last night's
Patric, says :

We think no peat hopes can be attached to this news,
even admitting it to be correct. The civil war in the
United States is doubtless a great calamity both in itself
and in its consequences. But how is European diplomacy

to stop it? By what arguments is it to impose an armiatice ?
And how in the present state of the question can it be
hoped that "good daces" will bring about a reconciliation ?

Mr. Slidell, the unrecognised representative of
the Confederate States, is now very assiduous in
his attendance upon M. Drouyn de Lhuys.
The guests at Compiegne this year find the;*
apartments all filled with new furniture—mahogany
is discarded—nothing but ebony and Japan lacquer
is now thought good enough. Bullier's Corres-
pondence, which I should be sorry to deprive
of the credit of the story, says that the trans-
iformatiii is entirely owing to the Empress's late
visit to Chamarande. Hee Majesty, on that
occasion, was struck with the comfort and mag-
nificence of the Countess de Pereigny's visitors'
rooms, and resolved at once that Compiegne
should no longer be second to them. On her
return to Paris she ordered her carriage, visited
Suisse, Tallien, Giroux, and other purveyors of all
that is most novel and expensive in furniture,
and made a regular ra is of the contents
of their warehouses. A whole army of
upholsterers invaded Compiegne the next day,
and within two days of the imperial visit to the
minister, the apartments of the Chateau of Com-
piegne were transformed. The author of " Ten
Years of Imperialism in France" may adds notice
of this fact, in his next edition, to the chapter
headed " The Imperial Fertilising System."
The Bourse has been very heavy to-day. The
abolition (whether temporary or not seems doubt-
f til)of the supplementary market of the "assessors"
renders transactions difiicult ; there were rumours
of a great diminution in the bullion of the Bank of
France, and the uncertainty of foreign affairs, par-
ticularly with regard to America and Greece, con-
tributed to the indisposition to buy. Rente fell
20c. for cash, and 25c. for account, closing at
70fr. 80c. and 70fr. 85c. Mobilier fell 15fr., and
the Italian Loan 50c. The Lyons Railway fell sfr.,
and most of the other lines 2fr. 50c.; but the
Eastern rase lfr. 25c.
A Paris letter in the Inclipendance says :

The savors at the Bourse, who have just been deprived
by an administrative measure of the exercise of the func-
tions to which they had been appointed by imperial decree,
have appealed to the Council of State against the deciaion
of which they have been the object. Should the suppres-
sion of the 118110111011 be maintained, an increase of the num-
ber of agents de change may possibly take place.
There is a rumour that the Emperor will, after
all, not come to the inauguration of the Boulevard
Prince Eugbue on the 15th instant. M. Pereira
has purchased the whole of the new building
ground ou that boulevard for 8,600,000 fr.