The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-23 00:00:00

23, 1856.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CYZON WI owl

PARIS, MONDAY Remiss.
contains an article defending

the mote published in the Meallmer spinet the
attach of the " foreign" (meaning the English)

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journals. Bach, at lead. is the oetewable object of
the article. Bet it seems intended quite u much to
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mitigate the bad effect which the manifesto of the
Monifeer has produced upon pnblioopinion in Frain*

as to reply to foreign alit:Wein. The Constitutionals!
represents that the conflict is not so mach be-
tween the cabinet of Berlin and the He'relic

Confederation as between the King of Prussia and
the Federal Council, which it would have it

supposed does not represent the Swiss nation. This
distinction between a nation and its government, I
may remark in passing, is the very one which the
French ministerial prints always protest against
most furiously wh it is hinted that the govern-
ment of the coup d'etat may not always faithfully
reflect the deliberate opinions of the French people.
However, the Mon few doctrines anent this very
affair of Neufchatel only add one more instance to
many others to show how deeply the policy of the
Tuileries is imbued with the spirit of the celebrated
Hudibrastio cosplet setting forth how there
is one law for the saints and another
for the wicked. The Coisstiltdioniwi, wishing to
insinuate a contradiction to the notion encouraged
by the legitimist journals that France means to take
this opportunity to join in crushing demo:racy in
Switzerland, says that the "government of the
Emperor most and doss keep watch that no ulterior
event shall affect in the slightest degree the position
of independence and neutrality granted to the Helve-
tic Confederation." But if this assurance is of any

vans it amounts to a confession that the Moteifeur
said what it did not mean. For the Moisiteur clearly
gave oat that, in consequence of the obstinacy of
"demagogic" Switzerland, the French government,
withdrew it, " good will," washed its hands of the
business, and left events to take their course. This
meant, if it meant anything at all, that for anything
France would do the Xing of Prussia was quits free
to carry oat his project of invasion. The article was
understood by all Europe to mean at least that.
This evening's Prune, notwithstanding the great
difficulty of publishing anything in Franco, in opposi-
tion to the Moaiteur, says:

To whoa is the utak of the Mostlour Wafted ?—to
those who have engprated the import of the °Zeal note
or to thaw who have matted its publication ? To both
parties probably, but more especially to the Int. We know
that the organs of the retrograde party base taken advan-
tage of the note in the Montrar to represent It otherwiso
than what it is, viz., a simple declaration of neutrality.
They have professed to ea in it a dalarstion of war, and
one journal has pas so far as to agnate that no scrap-
smut sea be made so long as the proaat political orgutise-
' ties &aim In Switzerland. We sweet that the priaeipul
object at the Caltreirlaatna I. SO threw a little cold water

upon this exultation. Bat its 'Aisle appears to us to be
open to store than one objestion, and we shall return to the
subject, contesting onnoshas with observing now that the
distinction drawn between Switzerland and its government
appears to be utterly unfounded.
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The Proud may well nay that the Constitutions.:
article is open to objection, for it dose, in fact,
threaten the very interference to pat down " dema-
gogy" which the Assombies clamoromly seta for.
' It nye :
Br; at this momnt, the fadepeadesee fad seetsallty of

Switzerland are not meneeed by the ring of Fred., bet
by the carnet of demagogical passiona which strive to dreg
the aatioa after the government into • fatal path. Here
lies, la fact, the real danger for the indepeadense and neu-
trality of the Helvetia Confederation ; for it is In becoming
• perpetual lever of Galatia& that Switzerland may awaken
the fears sad svelte the diseoateat of the Powers which
sorrow' her. Thew rowers eau miner hair that • Ration,
placed by trestles seder the protection of the great mo-
ns:skim of Ike Coatlneat.shoald maintain on their frontiers
the elemeats of disorder which are always ready to food
meareltical passions fa all Europe. They weed be called
spot by their own secuity to satiapieh a permanent hot
bed of revolution from which sparks may lane to their own
prtiattioe. It ls then that the independence and neutrality
of Switmrlaud would beer the danger of perishing, of
being saarileed to the proservatioa of Emma order-
Pratios resist protect this independence sad this ant:ratty
better than by deft:nisi the etre•gth and by raining the
hopes of demagogy, their real enemy. .

The partisans Of government here hug themselves
with the belief that Switzerland may be bullied into
giving way. They openly my that when she seer
Prussia is in earnest, and mains to demand twenty
millions of thetas for the expensed, of the war, the
Swiss. who are a "calculating people," will yield. I
am fully persuaded that this ignoble supposition will
be signally belied by the fact, and when the win
breaks out, I entirely disbelieve that the French Em
purse will be on the watch to protect, at least in any
good sense, the neutrality of the Helvetia Conti Se
ration.

There is nothing very new to-day on the subject of
the Conferences. A telegraphic despatch from Mar•
mi►ks, announcing the arrival there yesterday el
Reschicl Paella's son. says he has brought lustros.
Lions "relative" to the Conferences. That is hardly
the expression which would have been used bad bt

wee with definitive instructions to consent at one:
to their being opened. A letter from Vienna, in the
Pod Ampt Galata, says :
The Ports has presented a note to oar cabinet, in which
it declares is the strongest simian against the territorial
sompensatioa demanded by Russia for the abandonment ci
Bolgrad, and In particular ISMS that it will not coment to
any indemnity preladisial to the interests of Turkey. It le
said that the journey to Paris of Gludib Paehe, son of
Ewald, is connected with We protest; and that Gbalib b
moreover charged to ezplais to the French cabinet the mo-
tives which led the Porte to authorise the English fleet to
winter at Binope.
The Bonne hu again been heavy to-day, and the
fall progresses. The Rents fell 25e. for cash, end
15e. for account, closing at 66fr. 25a. and 66fr. 652.
Bank of France fell 60k., and Mobilise 301 r.
Railways were all lower. Orleans fell 10k., Lyons
15fr., Mediterranean 15k., and other lines from
Mr. to 101 r.

The payment of en entrance fee at the Bourse has
it appears, been positively decided on, workmen
having been engaged on Saturday in putting up the
turnstiles by which the receipts are to be checked,
The entrance is to be lfr. each person, or 150 f- the
year by subscription, for the hours from one to three.
From three to five the charge is to be 500.
The Mossitsur of yesterday contains a report of
M. Foetid, the Minister of Finance, upon the budget
of the civil list for the year 1857. lie comments upon
the extraordinary circumstances of the past year,
which occasioned the disbursement of large sums in
charity and acts of munificence ; and, observing that
this unforeseen expenditure has absorbed the whole
of the surplus which remained from the civil list of
the previous year, he recommends the Emperor to
restrain his liberality within the limita of prudence
for the future.
The Pays explains that the publication in the
Moisiteur of M. Fould's report is called for by " false
assertions," repeatedly made in foreign journals,
to the effect that the Emperor's civil list was
burdened with debt, and that he had even dipped
into the public treasury to provide for his liberali-
ties. The Pays insists that according to well reta-
blWhed rules for keeping the public accoutre, it is
quite impossible that any malversation of public
money can take place in France.
Accounts from Cayenne of the 13th of November

announce that a convention has been concluded 1
between the French authorities and a French steam
company, for the introduction into French Guyana
of from 600 to 600 Chinese emigrants. The conven•
tion is published in the official journal of the colony.
The quarterly drawing of the bonds of the Credit
Foncier took place yesterday at the offices of the
company. No. 149,413 pined 100,000 fr.; No.
193,747, 60,000 fr.; No. 158,529, 40,0001 r.; No.
164,311, 30,000 fr.; No. 192,744, 20,000 fr.; No.
95,442, 10,000 fr.; Noe. 105 ,473, 99,976, 129,629,
10,099, 120,477,101,018, 78,036, and 122,561, 5,0001 r.
each.

The Paris corn-market continues inanimate, and
prices remain very nearly u they were. Excellent
flour can be had at from 78fr. to 801 r. the 159
klieg., and the feeling is increasing that lower prices
must be quoted before long. The reserve has some-
what increased in Paris, being at present above
10,000 metrioal quintals. Wheat wee more offered
during the past week than for some time past, and
prices have fallen between 50e. and lfr. Bomo very
fine samples obtained 45fr. the 120 klieg., but
secondary qualities did not bring more than 42fr. and
43fr., end inferior kind', 39fr. and 40fr. The quota-
tions of the country markets round Paris have all
arrived with lower prices.

SWEDEN.

(nor Otri OWX

STOCKHOLM, Dic. 14.

The King has promoted Lient..C,olonei
formerly one of his aides.de.camp and late chief editor
of the &Altaic° Tidning, to be the head of the topc-
graphical department in the war office, with the rank
of full colonel in the army.
Great stress is laid here on the appointment of
Admiral Virgin u Swedish envoy in extraordinary
mission to the Danish court. . . .

1 Amongst the alterations proposed to be made in our
constitution is that of concentrating the debates in the
Storthing in one general assembly, instead of each of
the four estates (nobles, clergy, burghers and
peasants) deliberating in separate apartments u
hitherto. The proposal seems to meet with general
approbation, and to be considered an improvement.
The report of the committee is also quite in favour of
the alteration.

(PROM OUR Owx

BERLIN, Dzc. 20.
Reports having been circulated that the troops
designated to take part in the forthcoming ezpeditioa
to Switzerland are to consist of the 3rd, 4th, 13th, and
7th army corps, I think it right to inform you that
this is quite incorrect, for according to the latest
arrangements each of the eight army corps of Prussia
is to tarnish two divisions, so as to permit the whole
of the Prussian army to be represented by a part of
each corps. The numerical strength of this army of
op3ration will be 135,000 men. It is stated here
with confidence that Prance his undertaken to march
as army towards Switzerland and occupy the fron-
tiers, to prevent the spread of revolutionary prin-
ciple,.
The letter received here to-day from Bt. Peters-
burg confirm the intelligenoe, already mentioned u a
vague report, that Russia is really concentrating large
bodies of troops on the Persian frontiers, and mention
particularly the great activity going on in the naval
department for the purpose of putting the fleet in the
Caspian Sea in a state to be prepared for anything
that may happen.

PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND. - PREPA.