The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Many people had persuaded themselves yesterday
that the Moniteur of this morning would contain an
announcement that the Emperor of Russia had or-
dered the evacuation of the Principalities, and the
silence of the official journal is supposed to be one of
the causes of the decline at the Bourse, where the
Rente has fallen 20c. A letter from Constantinople
of the 18th, received by way of Germany, and pub-
lished by the Constitutionnet, mentions some facts
showing the extreme pressure exercised upon the
Sultan by the ambassadors before they could wring
from him even the qualified assent to the
Vienna proposition, which was ultimately ob-
tained. The grand council convoked for the 16th
was put off to the 20th, when on the 18th, at 7 in the
evening, the news was circulated that it would be
advanced some hours, and would be held that same
evening, at the demand of the ambassadors, who in-
sisted on an immediate reply. It is known, in fact,
that the couriers who left on the 19th brought the
decision of the Divan. A fact which caused a gene-
ral astonishment was that the patriarchs were, fur
the first time, called on to be present at the extra-
ordinary council. The news from the army con-
tinued to be excellent, both as to health and as to the
spirit which animated it. An imperial order
of the 16th decreed the immediate levy of
the 80,000 men remaining of the redif.
The Constitutionnel observes upon this, that now twat
the note has been accepted with some trifling modi-
fications the levy loses its signification. This is to a
certain extent true, because on the 16th the Porte
had not determined to yield to the representations of
the ambassadors, and was thinking only of resist-
ance. It does not appear, however, that the levy is
countermanded, and although Turkey was placed in
such a cleft stick by her allies, that she could not
help listening to their urgent entreaties, she is well
aware that the question is not settled, and seems, by
all account* to be making up her mind to rely leas
upon her allies and more upon herself.
The price of bread in Paris for the first fortnight
in September is fixed at 90c., being a rise of life.
This I led you to anticipate some days ago. News
has been received to-day, confirming the rumour cir-
culated in the Bourse of Monda', that a fall in corn
had taken place at Marseilles. fho fall there is 3fr.,
and lower prices have also been quoted in some other
principal markets. In Paris, however, no diminu-
tion has yet taken place. The notoriously untrue
assertion of the Patrw, that the harvest is more than
an average one, is severely commented upon.

On Monday morning at about 11 o'clock the im-
perial steam yacht, the Wine Hortense, arrived in
the Dieppe roadstead from Havre, having I'rincc
Jerome and his son Napoleon on board. They were
saluted by seven guns. Owing partly to the state of
the tide, and partly to the bud condition of the port,
the vessel was not able to land them at the
jetty. The princes got into the captain's boat, wed
were rowed to the quay, where an imperial carriage
was in waiting to take them to Chapman's Hotel
adjoining the Hotel de Vile. Two hours afterwards
their Majesties, accompanied by two persons only,
walked down to the boat, and almost before they
were recognised by the loungers on the quay, the
crew of twenty picked sailors rowed them out of the
port, and pullcd away in the open sea towards the
yacht. They were received by Captain Exceltuam.,
the commander, one of the Emperor's aides•de-camp.
Atter a stay of about an hour they returned.