The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. Moamar &lowa.
The Fiance has • shuffling article on Mexican
politics in connexion with the United States. While
not adopting the suggestion of the Patric the other
day, prima imprentionis, that the salary of a Mexi-
can minister having been voted by Congress for a
certain time it was a mare matter of course that
President Johnson should find somebody to draw
it; and thinking on the contrary, that the nomina-
tion of a new minister to the Mexican republic—
which, according to French theory, no longer
exista--and especially of such a personage as Gen.
Logan, is an extraordinary, unfriendly, and repre-
hensible act on the part of President Johnson, it
clings to the forlorn hope derived from the
Courrier des Etats Unis (a journal in the
pay of the Tuileries) that General Logan will
not swept the nomination. The version
of -another French organ, that the real instructions
of General Logan are to ascertain that Juarez bas
no seat of government and then to open diplomatic
relations with Maximilian, is too absurd for the
France to notice. M. de la Gneronniere's journal
discredits the report that General Shoffiald (his
name, which I fancy is Scholefleld, is spelt
here in many ways) has ►ny mission
whatever to the French government. That
he should have come to negotiate about
the evacuation of Mexico it thinks above all
things improbable. The conclusion of the artiole,
however, implies doubts and reserves, for the writer
of it says, "We must wait for full explanations before
we can assign their true characters to events now
passing." I can echo these words so far as to
affirm that most important events in connexion
with Mexico and America are now passing hourly.
Something very extraordinary is going on in the
offices of the government journals, the Constitu-
henna and Pays. A general meeting of the share-
holders was to have been held to-morrow to
nominate a successor to M. Graniguillot, who
has been put out, because, to use an euphe-
mistic phrase, he did not make both ends meet.
It was believed the shareholders would elect M.
WAN whereas the government, which according to
the extraordinary laws of the empire has a vote in
the matter, wishes to appoint aM. de Saint Pnest.
To-day the two journals were sequestered by au-
thority, and the general meeting is adjourned. I
do no not suppose, however, that theme extraordi-
nary proceedings so difficult to reconcile with any
received ideas of private property, will in any way
weaken the value of the elf/natures Bonithos and
Limayrac, with whose names the telegraph has
made the world familiar.
The King of the Belgians is in a most alarming
state. The tenor of recent private despatches
may be inferred from the Moniteur du Sots, which
reproduoes a statement of the Belgian Moniteur of
Dec. 2, that the new phase, that of amelioration,
continued, but had " made no progress."
The second volume of the Zmperoe's " Life of
Caesar," which was announced to come out at
Christmas, will not be published till April, his
Majesty, who has been looking over the proofs at
Compibgne, having found occasion to make volumi-
nous corrections.
The Duke de Mouthy was sufficiently recovered
from the knock on the nose given him by his
unoourtly horse to accompany his *nide the
Princess Anna Murat, to the Gymnase Theatre,
last night. I presume the lady had a chaperon,
otherwise all French notions of propriety would
be shocked ; but the fact is not stated in the
organ of fashion, from which I borrow the in-
teresting intelligence.
Baron James de Rothschild's grandson, lately
called to the bar, had a first brief last week in
the Court of Correctional Appee. He was
assigned by the court as counsel for a hardened
old thief. He did not get him off, but he did his
beat to do so, and that best was not bad. Some
people think it hard that a blushing young advo-
cate should have a bad cause to make his dEbdt in,
and liken the task to that of a rising Sawbones
who should be called upon to resuscitate a corpse.
Without prejudice to the argument, I think it may
be safely said that the name of Rothschild honours
this corruption ; at any rate, it may be safely pre-
dicated that his first unsuccessful effort will not
be, as it ought not to be, prejudicial to his future
career, and that heavy fees will doubtless shortly
add to the untold wealth of his wonderful family.
A meeting of the deputies of the Seine, to which
MM. 011ivier and Darimon were not invited, has
just taken place at the residence of M. Marie. The
deliberation lasted four hours.
There were great fluctuations to-day at the
Bourse. It opened heavily under the influence of
a fall of in Consols. and other causes, but after-
wards became extremely firm. Rent. varied from
GBfr. 67,1 c. and6Bfr. 70c. to 68fr. 95c. and 69fr. 10c.,
closing at the latter quotations with a rise of 16c.
for cash and 3711 c. for account. Mobilier rose
llfr. 25c. One suggestion made to account for the
rise is that the evacuation of Mexico has been
resolved upon ; but although I believe that evacua-
tion must shortly take place, I expect to see even
more fluctuations in the news about it than there
were in the funds to-day.