The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS,
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Evastxo.
There is a current report that the Count de Cnom-
bord has protested to the court of home against the
intervention of the Pope in the coronation of the
Emperor of France.

Envoy from the Pope arrived in Paris last
night by the Lyons Railway. One of the Im-
perial carriages was in waiting at the station to
receive hint. The grand affair of the coronation may
now, therefore, be expected to receive a speedy solu-
tion.
Yesterday morning, at 12 o'clock, the Emperor re-
viewed in the court-yard of the Tuileries and in the
Place du Carrousel the sth battalion of Foot Chas-
sears, the 3rd Regiment of light infantry, and the
49th Regiment of infantry of the line, which are
about to quit Paris for change of garrison.
The Emperor and the Empress went on Saturday
to pay a visit to Prince Jerome, and with him they
minutely examined the works of the tomb of Na-
poleon, which are nearly completed. As already
stated, the tomb is to be inaugurated ou the 4th of
May with great pomp.
A letter from Coutances of the 2nd says :
We were very much alarmed last night, at eleven o'clock,
by a shock of earthquake, which was repeated twice within
50 seconds of time. A portion of the ceilings of our stymy
rooms fell, but no further damage was done. The night
was beautifully clear, clouds moving rapidly over the sky,
with occasional bat stormy gusts of wiad. We passed a
sleepless night, and felt some slight shocks at half-past 12
and 4in the morning. The alarm in Coutances was very
great. At the cathedral the high altar is slightly injured,
the marble slab is displaced, and the crucifix was turned
round.

The shock of earthquake experienced at Havre ex-
tended, it appears, to Cacn, where the furniture SVCS
moved in the hothes, and tho barrels set in mothin
and rolled on the quays. The weather was perfectly
calm at the time.

At the Bourse to-day the general rise that took
place in the funds on Saturday was-not maiitained,
these securities, except for the Four-and-u-lfalf per
Cents. for cash, having experienced a decline. The
Three per Cents. for cash fell 20c., and for the ac-
count, 15c. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash
advanced 10e. on the closing price of Saturday, and
Bank Stock 15f. The market, before the close of
business, had assumed a generally firm tone. The
following are the closing prices :—For cash : Three
per Cents., 79E 50c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
103 f. 40c. For the account: Three per Cents„ 791.
50e.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1031. 20c. Bank
Stock, 2690f._

The following are the latest quotations from other
continental bourses :—Amsterdam.—Dutch Two-and-
s-Half per Cents., 644; Three per Cents., 774 ; Four
per Cents., 95 15-16 ; Spanish One per Cents., 244;
ditto, Inter., 434; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 521; Austrian Metal., 814. Vienna.—New
Loan, 941; ditto, 1851, 107; Lombardo-Venetian,
100; Bank Shares, 1,408; Exchange on London,
10.50. Frankfort.—Austrian Five per Cents., 97,
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 7%; Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 444; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
(Baring), 1031; Four per Cents. (Hope), 921; Four
per Cents. (Stieglitz), 92; Spanish Interior Three
per Cents., 441; One per Cents., 24 15-16; United
States Six per Cents., 1171; Exchange on London,
short, 1191. Berlin.—New Loan Four per Cents.,
991; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,lo3 ; Bank Shares,
110. Antwerp.—Loan, Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1844,ditto,Cony., 981•
per Cents., 1844, 5,1 ; Spanish Deferred, 241; ditto
Three per Cents., inter., 43; ; Austrian Metal , 83 ;
Exchange on London, 23.10. Brussels.—Loan, Five
per Cent., 1852, 1004; Four-and-a-Half per Cent.,
1844, 981 ; ditto, Cony., 1832, 984; Three per
Cents., 1838, 744; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 1844,
6513-16; Austrian Metal., 85; Spanish Deferred,
241; Roman Loan, Five per Cents., 98; ; National
Bank Shares, 1,690; Belgian Bank Shares, 901;
Exchange on London, 25.05.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVKXING.
The Casette des Trilmnaux publiihcs an opinion on
the question of religious inarriago by M. Dupin. The
greater part of this opinion turu s upon points of law
which are not doubtful. In conclusion M. Dupin
says:

The question is whether, bee to.. the nuptial benediction
is a sacrament temporal, sovert:igns are to abandon to the
church all the civil jurisprude ace relative to marriage. This
is what will never be cosier ded by French legists and ma-
gistrates to the Ultramoutteaes. U they could give way on
this point the result woo' d be that everything regarding
marriage, and consequent ly the civil counition of jursons,
would be under the control of ecclesiastical authority. Our
laws will not admit of this; they lead to the very opposite.
One of the first, the ..nost powerful, the most useful effuets
of the revolution of l 7 9, was to locularise legislation. The
legislator has part'.cularly declared thot the law considers
marriage only as A civil contract. In this, the authors of
our laws have oe ly marked a just separation between the
temporal power and religious authority.

Count d'Escayrac de Lanture has arrived in Paris
from Constantinople, to prefer a complaint to the
Emperor against the Turkish government: and tio
demand redress foe an ttttitek upon his house and
violene':• offeea to his person by a mob at Damascus.
Accoraing to the account of the affair given by him-
ar'j, he had for upwards of eight months resided in
Damascus, for the purpose of finishing an historical
work. He took a house in a part of the town called
Kanavrat, a quarter inhabited by several influential
native families, but principally by government em-
, 1)100 of a high grade. Passing most of his time in
study, he avoided receiving any natives at his house.
The foreign consuls and a few Europeans were
his only visitors. The Turks of the fanati-
cal party, however, took a dislike to him,
and sought occasion to drive hint out of the quarter.
On January 31, 1833, Count d' Escayrac had a party
at his house. In the course of the evening an es-
member of the Nleflieles, named itassibi-Eltendi (who
had been turned out of the Council at the lopes' of

b!. Tipped, the then French consul, in consequence of
hissystimatic hostility to the French government).
collected • crowd of people in front of the house,
who uttered loud cries. Count d' E.euyrac went to
the door test* what was the matter, and was assailed
with a shower of stones. Upon this he organitcil
ists, in number mice only, as a garrison defence,
ibey hied two shots to frighten the •;,dlients, The
trilsh°l"ner 41'16°410 "11. Mght, but none of the
11011 ventured to arse the threshold of the house.
In the morning the Count sent to the chief
of the polite, an.l asked for protection fur one of his
servants whom ho desired to seed to inform the
French consul of what had passed. The mob, ex-
cited by Ilsesitii, still maintained a menacing atti-
tude. llaseibi turd his own story to Hassan Pacha,
who offered to art as mediator in the matter, an offer
which Coen: d'Escayrac, conceiving it to be couched
in suspiciously vague terms, politely declined. Ile
then, mactopetiiist by a jaui,sary, a draginnn, and
his servants, went to NI. Barbet de Joel, the French
consul, who werinly approved of his conduct in de-
fending his bowie. and recommended him to perse-
vere iu the MP:filen he a xpres,ad of continuing to
reside in it. The Prussian consul, the Superior of
the Lazarists, and other foreigners, also approved of
this course. On returning home at eight in the evening
the police attempted to arrl,t one of his servants,
bat they were disarmed and driven off by his party.
Achkiarali Paella attributed the conduct of the police
to a misunderstanding. The next day • council,
composed of the leading natives. assembled at the
house of the Sheik Abdullah-el-Ilasaibi, and passed
a resolution to close all the mosques at the hour of
prayer time on the day following, to send the keys
to the Sultan, and to proclaim to the people from
the minarets that Islamism had been vanquished by
thu violence of the Christians. The consequence of
this step would probably have been the massacre of
the Christians pruteeted by France, or nt least the
pillage of their dwellings and consulates. The plan
was warmly approved of by Hassibi Effendi, Nialki
Effendi, and Gloat Effendi, but the next day their cou-
rage failed them, and it was not carried into execution.
The agitation gradually subsided. Count d'Escayracli
enemies, although influential, were not popular, and
he attributes the non-execution of their project to
the hesitation of the populace in following the fana-
tical leaders. Finding he could obtain no redress
from the l'acha he left Damascus at the end of ten
days, intending to lay his complaint before the
French Ambassador at Constantinople. Although
he endeavoured to keep the day of his departure
secret, twenty thousand persons lined the streets
through which he and his followers passed when
leaving the town. When, on his arrival at Constan-
tinople, he found that the French Ambassador was
no longer there, he resolved to proceed at once to
Franey and state his case to the Emperor.