The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-08 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MIS DAY, /bur o' Clock.
EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received the despatches of our Path cor-
respondent of last night. The paragraph of the royal
speech referring to the reform banquets continues to
be the subject of lively discussion in all circles, and it
is felt that the greatest delicacy and circumspection
will be necessary in shaping the reply to it in the ad-
drew M. Guizot has been already sufficiently
alarmed by the manife,tions of opinion on
this subject to qualify in the bureaux and
in political circles the sense of the para-
graph, and not a little discordance has
ensued between him and his adherents on the
subject. The reply on the address will be in most
measured and cautious terms, the great object in high
quarters being to prevent any debate on the point.
Notwithstanding the apparent firmness assumed
by the king throughout the last solemnities over the
remains of his old companion and friend at Dreux, he
is shaken—eonsiderably shaken, and more seriously
so by the strong effort to suppress his natural feelings
before his family and the public.
Lord Normanby was confined for some days by
the influenza, but is convalmeent.
Lieut.-Colonel Lheureux, orderly officer of the
minister of war, has left Paris with despatches, it is
said, relative to Abd-el-Kader.
A long account appears in several of the opposition
journals of a scene which in stated to have token place
on Wednesday et the hotel of the minister of public
instruction, at a reception held on the occasion of the
new year. The account states that, in place of com-
pliments, the reception presented a scene of great re-
crimination ; and that sixty professors expressed their
determination to bring before the Chamber of I)cputies,
by means of a petition, the circumstances of a differ-
ence which exists between the honourable minister
and the royal council of the University.
The Djinecratie Parifique announces that the lec-
tures which M. licheiret intends delivering this
season are to be published weekly.
A letter of the 27th ult., from Algiers, states that the
submission of Abd-el-Kader was announced there by
salvos of cannon. The city was illuminated at night,
and the central commissary of police went to the
theatre, and made known this important event to the
audience, who received the intelligence with enthu-
siastic cheers. The" Marseillaise" was called for and
sang on the stage, the whole of the audience joining
in the chorus.
So far as the experiment has yet been tried, the
mid-day mail from London has proved almost useless
at Path. In no instance have the letters arriving by
it been delivered till a late hour in the afternoon, and
generally those despatched by the mid-day and
evening mails are delivered together. Perhaps there
may be more regularity when the organisation has
been worked a little longer, but the truth is French
officials are unaccustomed to this degree of expedition.
PAIN ROI ww., JAN. 7.—For *atty.—Vet' Loan, —: There per
Cents, 71 F 3; Fire', 116 55; —; Four, 100 ; itch:min
Fires, 1)lO, 9si; no. 16+z, gat; Do. Four-and 91 ; Naples
Rents, 102: Roman Loan. 961. Treosui y Bonds, 41. Bank Shales,
3,215. Exchange on London. sight, 2'i 1,5.
Boot sts.—Esris 11111 i Orleans, 1,20 o; Paris oral Rosen, 901 25;
Rouen anti Havre, 4341 : Mignon arid Marseilles, :0:5; straatourg
and Bale, leitt; (.4' tatty Vinson, 531 25; Bordesiux, 4;7 SO; North,

The Madrid mails of the Ist inst. were received in
Paris at the moment our mid-day express was being
despatched. The question of the confiscation of the
property of the Prince of Peace was brought before
the chamber, but adjourned, at the desire of the Mi-
nister of Finance, to give time to inquire into the
affair. The accusation against M. Salamanca was
laid on the table, signed by MM. Tidal, Schots Lo-
gone, Rios Roses, Gonzales Bravo, Gonzales Romero,
and Gonzalo Marou. The chief grounds of charge
against the ex-minister are the affair of the
Aranguez Railway, the negotiation with Ar-
doin and Co., the conversion of the royal claims
into Three per Cents., and the affair of the contraband
trade with Alicant. The proposition was referred to a
committee, by whose decision it will be determined
whether there are grounds for an investigation.
If the committee decides in the affirmative, M. Sala-
manca will then present his defence to the Chamber.
The subject will then be again sent before the com-
mittee charged by the Chamber with making an
official report upon it.
The money stolen from the bureau of the sinking
fund amounts to 25,000/. sterling.
The (I,tumr PoMico has the following rather mys-
terious paragraph: "New differences have arisen be-
tween General Cordova and the Duke de Rianzares,
and are the subject of general conversation in all the
most distinguished circles of the capital. Many per-
sons profit by this opportunity to express (very un-
)ustly, we think) doubts of the courage of the Duke."
New Ycar's-clay being kept as a holiday, there was
no Bolas.