The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-04 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

PARIS, THIIMIDAT Evistwo.
A despatch from Vienna announces that on the
night of the 28th ult. the Archduchess Sophia slept
in her own apartment for the first time since the
attempted assassination of the young Emperor.
It is to be inferred from the following semi-official
announcement in the Conalitutionnei, that, although
u a result of the protracted discussions at the Tuile-
ries the budget will be presented with the deficit
considerably reduced, the desired equilibrium has not
been established.

It is announced that the budget of 1851, the examination
of which has just been concluded by the Council of State,
will be presented to the Corps Legislatif at the end of next
week. If we are well informed, in consequence of
reductions in certain departments, such as the ma-
rine and public works, it has been found prac-
ticable to augment divers expenses judged necessary
in other departments, and yet to approximate con-
siderably to an equilibrium between the receipts and ex-
penses. That would be a magnificent result after the re-
duction of taxes, the just importance of which was pointed
out by the Aloniteur the whir day. We shall have occa-
sion to return to the very satisfactory state of our financial
situation after the presentation of the budget.
It will be well to wait, not only for the presenta-
tion, but for the discussion that will ensue, before
forming a final opinion as to the value of this puff
preliminary.
The Mi-Carime, favoured by a bright sun, accom-
panied by the drawback of a piercing wind, has
been celebrated to-day by the traditional procession
of masquers on the boulevards. The masquere are,
however, not allowed to wear their masks, and the
whole display is but the mere shadow of what
it formerly was. The procession consists of little
more than a few advertising vans, decorated
with flags, and bearing some habitual denizens of
the counter, decked out in flaming fancy costume.
Of these the only one remarkable was that of the
Prophets, the French " Moses and Son." In the
triumphal car of this establishment appeared a
' " cutter-out," of large stature, attired in the
robes of John of Leyden, tailor and saint,
drawn by six horses, with white plumes,
almost as wavy and abundant as those which deco-
rated the eight coursers that drew the imperial wed-
ding coach. lie was preceded by a regiment of
tailors on horseback, blowing horns, and dressed like
beef-eaters. If the amusements of Mi-Carme
have fallen off, it is quite otherwise with
respect to the masked balls at night. These are ten-
fold more numerous than they were some few years
ago, and some people account for the meagre
appearance of the street revels, by suggesting that
the masses save their money for what they consider
the more serious rejoicings of the evening.
More spirit and animation have been displayed on
the Bourse to-day than any day this week. The
Three per Cent. Itentes, called at the opening
80f. 55c. for cash, and 80f. GOc. for the account, left
off at an improvement of 15c., and the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. 30c. higher, being last called
108 f. 50c. for cash. Bank Stuck declined 3f., closing
at 2,797 f., and no quotable variation in any of the
leading railway shares or similar investments.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVININO.
A heavy blow has been struck at the Parisian
press. Three journals, the Freese, the Asseinblre,
and the Mode, have received warnings. With the
exception of the comparatively unimportant warning
given a few days since to the Gazette de France,
the peculiar engine of terror invented by the present
government, and called • " warning," has not been
set in motion against any metropolitan journal since
the amnesty for press offences, which accompanied
the proclamation of the Empire.
M. Emile de Girardin has published three articles
in the Press. entitled, " Why the Republic did not
last," which, with very slight alterations, might be
appropriately headed thus, " Why the Empire will
not last." In these he openly contended that uni-
versal suffrage should never delegate its sovereignty,
that it should be a perpetually active principle, so
organised as to be able at an?, time tepull down
what it has set up. this, of course, is
treated by the Emperor as an attack upon
the constitution of the country. The incriminated
article in the Assembles was provoked by a series of
articles in the Constitedionnel by M. Oranier de Cas-
sagnac, headed " The Bonaparte. and the Bourbons,"
in which the government writer attempted to prove
from history that the Bourbon dynasty had died a
natural death, and that the fourth, or Napoleonic
dynasty, united every requisite for the foundation of a
new hereditary line of monarchs. The A seemblee, in
reply, treated the Empire of 1804 as a brilliant
meteor, presenting no points of comparison with the
monarchical institution which had been the slow
growth of centuries. It argued that Nopoleon I.
admitted and bitterly lamented that he was never
seriously looked upon, even by his own partisans, as
the representative of the hereditary principle. The
Bemires Consultum of 1804 decreed in words that
the Empire should be herediMr3r, but it was never
regarded by public opinion in France as anything
but a temporary personal government, depending
entirely upon the life of a single man, his name, and
his victories or defeats. It is implied, although not
openly stated, that the present Empire is of the
lame mushroom species as that of which it presump-
tuously professes to be the legitimate continuation.
The article in question is generally attributed to M.
Guizot. A journal warned is one-third suppressed.
The law only contemplates two warnings, and for
'the third offence prescribes suppression.

It is said that when the Emperor left mass at the
Tuileries on Sunday he expressed surprise at not
having seen any member of the Corps Legielatif in
the chapel. Upon its being observed to his Majesty
that probably the deputies were not aware that they
had a right to come there, the Emperor gave orders
that not only the members of the Senate and Corps
Legialatif should be admitted every Sunday, but
also their ladies.

It is now the Empeeor's custom to give audiences to
private individuals on Sunday from 12 o'clock till 4.
The persons admitted to an audience are distributed
in different galleries and salons of the palace, ten or
fifteen in each. Every person is then called for in
succession b 7 his name, and the Emperor generally
converses with him foe the space of five or ten
minutes. The Empress has hitherto received but
very few private visits, and almost all of those have
been from old intimate acquaintances.
The Journal de 1 'Oise says:—" A letter lately
sent from Rome by a person whose name inspires
complete confidence, confirms the news which we
have already given of the approaching journey of the
Pope to France, and of his residence at Compiegne.
This journey is the great subject of conversation at
Rome, and it is said there that his Holiness will re-
main two months in France."

A decree of the Emperor enacts that 2,000,000 fr.
shall be appropriated to the railway from Paris to
Cherburg, and 3,000,000 fr. to that from Bordeaux
to Cette, and eventually from Bordeaux to Bayonne,
and Narbonne to Perpignan.
A letter from Macao states that the French Chargé
d'Affaires in China has sent in an energetic protest
against the persecutions to which Christians are sub-
jected in that country.
M. Buachek, the director in Europe of the New
York Universal Exhibition, has had the honour of sa
audience of the Emperor, who expressed the most
lively interest in the undertaking, and assured M.
Buachek that the imperial manufactures would be
well represented there.