The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

EXPRFSS FROM PAS•

GENERAL SCHOFIELD AT PARIS.

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PAWS. TIJILSDAT Evsana•
)L Bonifses writes as follows in the Comfits-

tionnel:
Certain journals speak of the arrival in Paris of General
Schofield, charged with a mimics from the President of the
United Mate& We can state positively that the French
government has received no communication on the eabject,
sad we believe the news to be devoid of tomedattes.
Even if one had no more to go upon than the
language of the above curt note, it would be pretty
evident that ht. Boniface is not telling the whole
truth. The distinction between what he can
"positively state" and what he "believes"
is suggestive. If he knew that General
Schofield had merely come to Paris like
so many of his oountrymen, on a pleasure
trip, and that his diplomatic mission was
the mere creation of imaginative newspaper writers,
he would have said so in clearer terms. It is
quite true, as M. Boniface affirms, that the French
government has not (to use the more cautions lan-
guage of the France, "as yet") any official knowledge
of the existence of the American general's minion.
But I am perfectly certain that he has not come
here in the character of a private individual, and
that he has in his pocket discretionary instruc-
tions, which, however, it is very likely he may net
see fit to act upon. General Schofield is a man
of mark in the United States. He is a distinguished
West Point officer, and has held several high com-
mands. He is at this moment staying at
the Grand Hotel with a suite, including two
aides daeamp, of whom one has the rank of a
general officer. His mission is probably one of
those well-known iu diplomacy of which no official
traces will be left unless it succeeds. If, after
indirectly sounding the French government, be
should come to the conclusion that he could not
usefully assume the character of a special envoy,
he may very likely go home as he came. The
Temps says he has already had an interview with M.
Drouyn de Lhuys, but I do not know whether this
is the fact.
The Patrie has the following remarks upon the
news of the day :
The Constitutionnet ought to have stopped short at the
first half of its contradiction. It may well be that the go- I
varmint hes received no official advice of the mlrios, said
by the way to be quite a confidential one, of the old
thead of I
the staff of General Sherman; but people persist in eh belief
that the arrival of this officer in Paris is really connected with
Kerico,fimerican affairs. We need sot say that we do act
ve belie in the first story, which we only repeated ironically,
that be wan coming to treat for the evacuation of Mexico.
Bat there is another version more probable, namely, that
he is instructed to explain to the imperial government the
political significance of a strongly worded passage relative
to Mexico, which will be found in President Johnem's
message. This massage will have been presented to Com-
pels this very day, assuming that this assembly shall have
succeeded in regularly constituting itself, and in a week we
may have an analysis of it. General Schofield is also re-
ported to be furnished with explanation relative to the
nomination by the cabinet of Washington of a minister
aearerlited to Juarez.
The France argues, and possibly may have
, received an official hint from Count Waleweki, the
t new president of the Corps Legislative, that no
I change in the constitution is necessary to give the
f deputies the desired right of " interpellation,',
or putting questions to the representatives of
t the government, inasmuch as that right
o is inherent in the Assembly, which can make
a its own regulations for the conduct of its de-
-1 hates. The chamber, of course, may refuse
411 to allow a member to ask a question, and the talk-
,o ing minister may decline to answer ; but that would
ix also be the case even if the right of interpellation
s- were expressly conferred by the constitution. The
t- right in question, it contends, is not one of those
• to be granted, but one that is " taken." This is
at
or quite a new doctrine ; but it may perhaps be found
a out to be a sound one.
he The circumstantial account of Prince Napoleon's
q, arrival in Paris was a piece of false news. He
le went from Toulon by way of Lyons, Dijon, and
Besancon to Pranging, Switzeriand, where he
son
ied now is.
for It is stated that the rinderpest has broken out
in the Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris, whither it
son was brought by two infected gazelles imported from
end London. These two gazelles died of the disease,
in a having first communicated it to six yaks or zebras,
and which it has been thought prudent to kill and bury
in deep ground.
the The Bourne has not materially changed after the
De- rise of yesterday. Bente closed with a rise of sc.
the
has for cash, and a fall of sc. for account, at 69fr. and
69fr. Sc. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c.
tat The Daily News is seized.
lora,

Pante Attusintztynt nt Spiv.—The Temps of
yesterday says:—" Bull fights no longer suffice in Spain.
A fortnight ago the Pieta de Toros, at Übida, was the
scene of an entirely new kind of representation. An ele-
phant of the name of Pizarro fought bravely against two
young bulls. Wounded in the trunk, he at first drew back,
hesitated, then seizing one of the bulls by the neck be sent
it rolling sway like a ball, and meanwhile crushed the ribs
of the other under his enormous feet. The antique sports
are thus again the order of the day. Elephanta now.