The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Doily News is again very much talked of ho-
ds,. Lord Itedcliffe and Baragusy d'Hilliers' answer
tolieschid Pacha are cited from it in all the French
pipers, and also in the ladepeadanes Belye.
The article in the Times abasing Louis Napoleon
gives rise to many conjectures. Everybody is asking
obit can be the meaning of it. It will certainly
r•ye great offence, and as the articles of the Times
sec religi.ualy supposed here to be written by Lord
Aberdeen, some explanation will doubtless be called
for. The papers here will not dare to translate the
obnoxious passages. Even Galiynani omits them.
Inc following telegraphic pa
destch has been re-
ceived by the government, and is published in the
Af siifi
Pere, Dee. 22.
The renal assembly having authorised the minister le
stows,. the students et the Mosques, elicited by some
times, met yesterday to retition against that resolution.
Disterbances were at one moment feared, bet the measures
tikes by the eabiaet, assembled in the palace, prevented
say do-ceder. From three to four hundred students have
been rrrrrr ed. Everything Is tranquil. A procluestion
just issued makes known the true object of the delibera.
ilea of the general assembly, and announces that measures
will be taken against the perturbators if necessary.
It is plsio, from the terms employed by the Alma-
tear, that the statement in certain Vienna despatches
that the (melte was likely to lead to an armistice is
a mere coinage of a mint notorious for its persevering
issue of false currency. The intention of the con-
cotters of that despatch was to make it appear that
the Porte, unable to control its own subjects, had
been constrained by its patronising allies to consent
to a disgraceful peace in exchange for an onerous
protection. But it is, on the eneleary, clear, funk
the official intimation of the Fan& goveraimalle'
that the Sultan had been advise* he tleewasinicia
a proclamation that the terse eniddebbeaseetellib,
to negotiate were not incosagedliemillt lib tram
and dignity. or with the visions posselks Halle
war .nt interim. Had an anwiatiee bees bi cesedea
the .Ifonifeur would not have failed to allude to it.
The bourse today was supported by successive
telegraphic despatches announcing that Cane& were
higher. This rise e:as however generally attributed
to the reported consent of the l'orte to an armistice,
and as the note in the Moniteur so far from confirm-
ing this report, implicitly contradicts it, the sympa-
thy with the English funds was greatly checked.
The Three per Cents. rose a little during the day,
and were at one moment as high u 72.50, but they I
closed at ;2.20, being lower than yesterday. Thal
Four-and a-half per Cents., which at the beginning
of business was pretty well supported, suddenly fa
towards the close, and drooped below par, closing at
e 0.90, with a fall of 60c. ink of France fell 23fr.
The St. Germain railway fell 35fr. In the other lines
there was little more than If. variation either
way, and some of them improved to that extent.
'the Setatinette of Toulon, of Dec. 30, says:—" It
is reported that the Caton will leave to-morrow for
the Levant, and that it will carry out the new in-
structions to our squadron and ambassador, of which
the journals and electric despatches from Paris have
spoken."
The Sleek, after quoting from the Daily News the
licttterhlinitabc/a,thesaaymbassadurs, at Constantinople, to
If this reply he enact in its details, the first remark which
mews hall to the mind in this:—Did it require eight
days to deliberate on a note which replicate a demand fur
co-operation, or rather for assistance, by reproaches dwell-
non or of want of skill ? And besides. is It easy, le be
satisfied with this declaration, that the preemies of the Swag
in the Bosphorus is only • !torsi support for Turkey, salsas
the Russians should attempt shielding which weeld
min the integrity of Turkey ? The best thing tell=
after reading this letter is to wish that it may be s
We sincerely desire it. But, leaving the am=
whose conduct from the very commencement of this pleat
quntion has never bees is accordance with the Dopes of
the public, we will confine ourselves to the acts of tke go-
vernment. On the 13th a telegraphic order was sent from
Paris sad London for the tut:ince of the fiesta into the
Black Sea. Two couriers have since left with detailed sad
precise instructions, to which Lord Radcliffe and Genera
Busguay dliilliers will have to conform themselves, with-
out frump to involve their personal responsibility. Dip's.
may will have so well performed its part that it will be ner
misery to finish by a direct eorrespondrnce between the re
moments and the admirals. The TOWS thinks that tie
first shock has already taken place, and that we are as
longer at pews. We we of the same opinion, and for this
decisive reason, that it there had remained a chance of as
amicable arrangement, it would have been mentioned oil-
Sally at the Tuileries, its the same mouser as it was on
13th August last. le the present state of affairs we
',meld have preferred a few significant words from the
Chief of the State to the silence which has been observed.
M. Lightenvelt, the present Minister of Catholic
Public Worship at the Hague, will succeed Baron. de
Fagel, as Dutch ambassador in Paris.
The reported death of Lord Henry Seymour is
contradicted. The Conrlitirtionnel lays:
We announced, OD the authority of the Soeieni, of Arras,
that Lord Edward Seymour, so well known in racing circles
in l'Arle, had disd at Soulogne•cio-Mgr. We are happy to
be able to contradict thus report. Lord Henry Seymour
(and not Lord Edward), so celebrated at the Parisian turf,
does indeed live at Boulogne, but a letter from him, which
arrived in Paris yesterday. proves beyond a doubt that the
Arras journal was misinformed.
The indemnity to the bakers of Paris for the secioad
fortnight of November, and which amounts to
b38,000fr., is now in course of payment. This
amount supposes a consumption of 7,618,018 kilo-'
grammes of bread during that fortnight. The drain
on the city funds was increasing in frightful proper-
time when the bakers' bank was established a few
days ago. The indemnity above mentioned exceeds
by about 200,000 fr. that paid for the first fortnight
in November.
M. Emile &twee, the sculptor of the colossal statue
of Napoleon on the column in the Place Vendome,
has just met with a dreadful accident. He fell down
during the late frosty weather and broke his left
arm and collar-bone. His present state is said to be
somewhat dangerous.

PARIS, WILDNZSDAT EVIXIXO.
The following intelligence, of the highest import-
ance if true, is given by the Siecie:—." We are in-
formed that the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have
announced to the governments of France and Eng-
land that the sending of the fleets into the Black
Sea, at the moment when new Depilation, had been
opesed, had led Austria and Freesia to withdraw
from the conference, and to reserve their liberty of
action. We, however, give this sews only under
reservation, and as one of the thousand rumours
which are in circulation."
It is curious that the &eels, is another edema,
complains of the systematic eirealatioa of Wm sews,
accompanied br a reservation by way et same, sad
instances the Vienna report of the Sultan bay dis-
posed to consent to an armistice, es a ilsgreat SIN ie
point. This circumstance induces people to *fah
that the Stick would not, in the wary ems Wallb•
bee of its journal, have circulated a piece of DIM of
this im port ance lightly. At all events, cowries rumour
to-day confirms the Seek aconst raise espesislly
with respect to Austria whose esmi-eileial ergo"
I may observe by the way, NI goal ell eosins that her
only object in joining the ossfernsee was to father
the ecds of Russia without war.
From all I hear the Fres& government has so
intention to allow Austria to preserve—or)%ther
feign to preserve---a neutral position in the
coming conflict. I have reason to believe
that something very like an ultimatum is at this
moment being
_firmed by the French representative
at the court of Vienna. A cabinet minister has lately
been heard to say that it will in all probability %lose-
cereary to attack Russia through the sides of Austria,
that being one of her most vulnerable points. The
Minister at War has made arrangements which would
enable Lim to send an army to Austrian Italy at a
very short notice.
At the Princess Mathilde's ball on new year's
night a group of persons who saw the Emperor sad
Empress arrive were very curious to see what met
of reception the Emperor would give to the Reasisa
ambassador, M. Kieselef, who was standing in este a
position that their Majesties could not fail to pan
close to him. The Emperor pseud the Rusks
ambassador two or three times in ths seem el the
evening witholt appearing to take say motile
of bins, and cash time the excited ob-
servers whispered to each other, that this
marked coolness was a certain indication of approach-
ing war. But, to their great surprise, later in the
evening the Emperor presented the Empress to
Kisselef as his partner for a quadrille, and, taking
the arm of the Princess Mathilde, danced with them
e!t.tials•eis. The circumstance has of course MD_ pa!
lineal signification, it being the most natural thbg
in the world that, while diplomatic relations remain