The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUZSDAY Evaituf o.
I deeply regret to state that the friends of Turkey
here—and I may add the real friends of England
and France—are in very low spirits to-day. I have
heard, in quarters not likely to be misinformed, that
it is determined to put such an amount of pressure
upon the Sultan to force him to consent to an
armistice that he will scarcely have any choice but to
accede. General Barapay d'Hilliers' brusque military
manners are to be brought into play to imposes die-
, graceful peace upon Turkey. If application should be
made for the assistance of the fleets in the Black Sea,
I am told distinctly that it will be refused, and every
advantage will be taken of the affair of Sinope to
intimidate the Porte into submission to the terms
offered. It will be represented that if Turkey obsti-
nately persevere in the war, she will be sure to be
beaten. That France and England will stand by and
give her no assistance, unless in the event of Russia
crossing the Balkans and marching upon Constanti-
nople. That in this extremity they would still pro-
tect the Sultan's person and capital, but
that they should not then insist upon the evacu-
ation of the Danubian provinces as a condition
of a treaty of peace. When these arguments shall
be pressed—as I repeat I seriously fear they will be
—with the now doubtfully friendly cannon of our
fleets pointing upon the city they were sent as it was
thought to aid—it will not be surprising if the
English name becomes a bye-word of contempt in
Constantinople.
The Sitscle has received a warning for having
quoted a paragraph from the Independance Beige,
stating that M.M. Berryer and Chaix d'Est Aoge,
conceiving that the arrest of M. llubbart, the
barrister, was owing to something said by him
as counsel while defending one of the Opera
Comique" prisoners, had applied for an explanation
to the Procureur-General. The warning states that
the Siecle had represented the arrest of M. Hubbart

as an interference with the freedom of defence
usually allowed to prisoners' counsel, whereas in
reality that person was arrested under the charge of
being affiliated to a sestet society, that in having
thus misrepresented an act of ordinary judicial pro-
ceedings it has tended to excite hatred and contempt
against toe public authorities.
It is now well understood that the Emperor was ad-
vised not to attend the inauguration of the Boulevard
de Strasbourg on Sunday on account of the newly dis-
covered conspiracy against his life. The inauguration
was not, as has been stated in some journals, post-
poned. The Emperor, however, paid the' new street
an unexpected visit yesterday. In the afternoon he
left the Tuileries with the Empress in a carriage-and-
fonr, attended only by a lady of honour and MM. de
Seville and Valbrecque, and proceeded to the Bois de
Boulogne. Their Majesties alighted at the Porte
Dauphine, and walked u far as the Rood Point de
Mortemart. They afterwards re-entered the carriage,
and proceeded to the Boulevard de Strasbourg, where
the conspirators, if any are yet at large, were cer-
tainly not looking out for them at that time.
At the Bourse to-day the Rents opened with some
flatness, owing to Consols coming lower than
the price officially reported yesterday. Towards tho
close, upon a report (not official) that Consols had
recovered, the French securities improved. The
Threes opened at 75fr. 90c., fell to 75fr. 65c., and
closed 75fr. 65c., with a fall of 10c. only. All the
railways, however, fell, and some considerably. St.
Germain, 20 fr. ; Orleans, 16fr. 26c. ; Northern, 10fr.,
Lyons, 10fr. Don Miguel Bonds were in consider-
able demand at 7, the highest price they have yet
touched since the Queen of Portugal's death.
In consequence of the dearness of provisions the
principal butchers of Bordeaux have proposed to dis-
continue the Christmas boxes usually given to the
servants of their customers. Should the whole trade
agree to the proposal, and it is thought they will, a
sum of 30,000 fr. (the average amount of the above
Christmas boxes) will be paid by the butchers to the
municipal fund tor the relief of the poor.
The Council of State has rejected Madame de Solms'
appeal against the order of the Minister of Police
requiring her to leave France, and has decided that
her husband having repeatedly declared himself to
be a foreigner, and affirmed that he had no intention
of accomplishing the formalities necessary to establish
his right to be considered a French subject, Madame
de Solms cannot claim the benefit of the article of the
Code Napoleon, which enacts that a foreign woman
marrying a Frenchman is entitled to the rights of a
Frenchwoman. This decision was come to although
M. de Solma had been set down in the recruiting
lists for the army, and had voted as a French citizen
for his wife's kinsman Louis Napoleon in 1818.