The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1853.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TR VIIIIDAY.
There has been much inactivity in business at the
Bourse to-day, and a considerable fall has again
recurred in the Three per Cents., purchases in that
desetiption of stock for the account having ultimately
been effected at a decline of lf. on yesterday's closing
quotation ; for cash there was a fall of 60e. The
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. were well maintained,
the previous quotation for the term remaining
unchanged, with a variation of 10c. only for money.
Bank of France shares fell sf. Closing prices.—
For cash: Three per Cents., 7SE 50c. ; Four-and-
a-Half per Cents., 101 f. 90c. For the account:
Three per Cents., 78f. ate.; Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 101 f. 75c. Bank Stock, 2,680 f. 50c.
Not many transactions took place is the railway
share market to-day. The final quotations were:
—Northern., 890 f.; Paris and Orleans, 1,060 f.; Paris
and Strasbourg., 905 E; Paris and Lyons, 920 f.;
Paris and Bonen, 1,065 f. ; Lyons to the Mediter-
ranean, 7601.; Western of Prance, 745 L; Rouen
and Havre, 5101.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
It is settlement day, and the bears have been
caught. The rise has been extraordinary. The
Threes have risen nearly 2 francs, and the railways
from 30f. to 40f.

Two of the " foreign correspondents," MM. Flan-
din and de Planhol, have appealed to the Supreme
Court of Cessation against the judgment of the Im-
perial Court.
Tho Moni€eur contains a decree promulgating, so
far as respects Sardinia, the international sanitary
convention, which was agreed to, in the early part of
last year, at the conferences held on the subject at
Paris, and which has been approved of and adhered
to by the principal maritime powers of Europe. The
powers that have finally agreed to set upon this con-
vention are Turkey, Sardinia, Portugal, and Tus-
cany.
The Paris and Strasburg and Baden Railways are
about to be prolonged, so that the terminus of each,
instead of being at a considerable distance from the
lthine, may be brought close to the respective banks
of the river.

A letter from Lille states that the judicial autho-
rities of that place had proceeded to the frontier, in
sposequenee of an important seizure of seditious
writings having been made by the police at Tour-
coi og. It is said that several persons residi lig at Roubaix,
who are compromised in the affair, have been arrested
and brought to Lille.
Wo read in the Moniteur :

Apprehensions were hitherto entertained of the state of
the crops, but at present no doubt can exist as to the excel-
lent situation of our principal articles of praduee. Wheats
are in general backward, it is tine; but the recent rains
and the warmth have already made them shoot above the
parasitical plants which might injure them. As to rye, it
is in general flue everywhere, and the colas is most abun-
dant. Oats are not very forward, but the late rains have
been most favourable to them. As to the gross crops, they
were never seen more abundant, particularly in the fatal-
eial meadows.

SW:

Before accepting the command of the Federal
army, General Dufour applied for the advice of his
friend and former pupil, Louis Napoleon, Emperor of
France. " Take it at once," was the reply.
The very broad statement published yesterday by
the Times, that "diplomatic relations have been re-
established between Austria and Switzerland,"
appears to rest upon the too narrow foundation of
the following paragraph in the Independance Beige:
We are informed from Vienna that M. de Bourqueney,
Minister Plenipotentiary of Frame, having demanded ex-
planations of M. de 800 l respecting the read of M. de
Karnicki and of the rupture of diplomatic relations between
Switzerland and Austria, M. de Buol informed him that
no.rupture In the strict diplomatic sense had taken place,
and that M. de Kunicki had only received orders to repair
to Vienna, so that whenever be might be seat back sato
Switzerland be would need no new credentials.

It results from this statement, supposing it to be
an authentic report of a private conversation, firstly,
that Austria hue been so neglectful of the estab-
lished forms of diplomatic procedure as to leave
Switzerland and France in doubt as to her
real position towards the confederation ; se-
condly, that on withdrawing her representative,
Austria did not wish to deatro the basis upon which
peaceful intercourse with Switzerland m*ht be re-
mind in case of need; and, thirdly, that France has
not, as has been asserted within these few days, cast
off the friendship of the confederation and made
common cause with its enemy. Of the re-establish-
ment of diplomatic intercourse, however, this pare,
graph contains no trace. A rumour was, however.
current in Vienna on Tuesday evening that new ne-
gotiations were about to be opened at Berne.
The Amsterdam Mandela/kid of Wednesday states in
a telegraphic despatch that the federal council of Swit-
zerland has dissolved the grand council of the canton
of Neufchatel, a canton now menaced more directly
than ever with Prussian aggression.

irbe Court.