The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY Em ixo.

The government has resolved to make • certain
extent of restitution, at the public expense, to some
of the members of the Orleans family, who were
stripped of their property by the confiscation decree'
of 1862. I have before gm a printed copy of a bill,'
dated June 20, now before the Council of State, and
which is in the following terms:
The Minister of Fleeces is authorised to muse to be in-
' scribed upon the Arend book of the public debt, with /ours-
lOW' from Sane 22, 1866, the Three per Cent. Routes here-
inafter mentioned, that is to say, 200,0001 r. Bente In the
names of the heirs of Marie Tie, e d'Orleana, Quin of
the Belgians, 290,0006. la the name of the Primes, Marie
Clementine d'Orlmos, Duette,' co Sass Coburg-Oaths, and
200,000 fr. in the names of the heirs of the Priapus Marie
Christine of Orleans, Duchess of Wurtemberg.
A report just mode to the Corps Legislatif states
that the supplementary credits over and above the
budgets voted, for the years 1854, 1855, and 1856;
amount to the enormous sum of 1,400,747,283 fr.
36c. Of this sum 1,229,890,278 fr. 60. were
for the war. the other little item, of nearly 200
millions, was for "sundries." Small as this amount
may appear in the eyes of a great government, it is
sufficient to confirm the fact, which no observer of
what bas been going on lately can doubt, that French
budgets are a farce. Every year homilies are pro-
nounced by the government financial reports against
supplementary credits, and last year immense credit
was taken for the presentation of a budget in
equilibrium, but atter this marshalling of figures,
"deficit" always comes out as the balance. It ap-
pears that in the three years mentioned seventy-six
of the extra millions have been expended " in sup-
plying the deficiency of food, relieving the misery of
the populations, and multiplying public works." The
Universal Exhibition of 1855 cost 11,000,000 fr.
A very taking puff is going the rounds of the French
papers in favour of • joint stoca company called the
Caisse gliserme des .dctionnaires, which was founded
about six months since by M.M. L. Amail and Uo.,
and is now increasing its capital from 4,000,000 fr.
to 25,000,000 fr. The nudieguised object of this
company is gambling at the Bourse. It offers to the
speculaticg public in general the advantages of the
principle of association as applied to capital. The poor
clerk, the small tradesman, the straitened widow, who
may only have almost ruinod themselves by yielding
to the fascinations of the Bourse, are encouraged to
go on, and to risk what little money they may have
left, by trying again upon an improved system.
They are plausibly told that small capitals, if isolated,
moat always go to the wall; that financial, like mili-
tary victories, are ever on the side of grosbotaillons
but that if they will take shares in the Caine, they
will participate, in proportion to their investment,
in the enormous gains which must ever be made by
"great financial establishments, whose chiefs are in
a position to have the earliest and best information."
Convinced, am the founders of this Cause were, of
the soundness of their principles, they were conside-
rate enough to wait until they had practically
tested them, before asking for the co-ope-
ration of the public. Accordingly they now
come forward with the statement that, in the
course of five months only, they have distributed to
their shareholders the enormous dividend of 27 per
cent, over and above 9 per cent. for the expenses of
the management. Now, then, is the golden time for
the large and continually increasing Oars whooie con-
stant thought is how to realise great gains without la-
bour. Any one who can scrape together 101. may
get the "knowing ones" to stake it for him on the
Bourse green baize, and will, of course, be sure to
with Walk is, ladies and gentlemen!—

Let the ea how play who never played before;
And those who slams played, nr.w play the more.

There but b. en a very considerable rise in the corn
and flour markets. At the Hallo yesterday, flour,
which only a week ago ranged from 95fr. to 97fr.,
was quoted 104 fr. to 103 fr. All the corn markets in
the Paris rayon are from 2fr. to 3fr. higher.
I learn that, in conaqusnce of the breaking off
of a marriage by which he expected to come into the
possession of a very large fortune, Prince Dolgou-
ronki will not come to Paris. 0.-aeral Strogoooff,
the curator of the University of Moscow, is likely
to be the new Russian ambassador.

M. Hector Berlioz was yesterday elected a mem-
ber of the Academy des Beaux Arts, in plain of the
late M. Adolphe Adam.
M Andre, the Mayor of Dijon, who in pursuance
of the general limitation sent to the mayors of all
the departments, had come to Paris for the baptismal
Wes, died suddenly here. His body has been sent
to Dion for interment.
The senate e:sembled in its bureaux on the 20th,
for the purpose of proceeding to the nomination of a
committee empowered to examine a project of
renates-consalt um concerning the regency of the em
pire. This committee is organised as follows :—Connt
Portal* president ; M. Ferdinand Barrot, secretary;
President Barthe, Marshal Canrobert, President
Helene., Ge.neral Count de Flahealt, General Mar-
quis d'Hantpoul, General Count d'Ornano, the Mar-
quis de Pastoret, M. Sapey.

PARIS, SATURDAY Evaxigo.
Prince Oscar of Swedea left Paris this morning
for Boulogne, on his way to England.
The Prince Regeet of Baden arrived in Paris tc-
day from England on a visit of four or five days to
the Emperor.
The Bourse has been considerably better to-day.
The "executions" resulting from the last settlement
are over, and although speculators were still exceed-
ingly cautious, the market felt freed from the incubus
of bad accounts which has weighed upon it for several
days past. The Bente rose 35c. for cash and 2i:.
for account, closing at 70.65 and 70.90. Credit
Mobilier rose 25, and Bank of France 50f. The rail-
ways were all considerably higher. Lyons rose 25,
Northern 20, and Mediterranean 37.50

The news from the flooded districts in the south is
diatreming. Some telegraphic despatches speak of
the Garonne having subsided, but others explain that
the reason is that the waters have overflowed the
surrounding country. The Emperor has sent his
Aide-de-Camp, General Birdie, to the nutria de-
partments to examine the extent of the damage dour.
"M. Roeder, Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce," says the Courrier de (lure, "arrived at
Grenoble on Wedoeadhy from Paris, to aKertain by
personal inspection the effects produced by the inun-
dations in this part of the country."

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A postscript to a letter from the Viinna
"Too dent of the Constitutionnel says, after noticiag
the fact that according to the treaty of Belts Liman,
concluded between Russia and the Ports on June 16,
1849, the powers of the hospodars of Moldavia and
I Wallachia expire on Jane 21 of this year, stales that
instead of installing the Sairnalties, who were de-
signated to replace the hospalars, and were spoken
of in the congress of Paris, the Salton, to wham the
Allies have left the fullest tatted., to provide for the
provisional administration of the Principalities until
their definitive nvorganisatlem, has determined to
keep the hoopodes, at the bead of the Principalities
' for the t, the divan being unanimously of
opinion =he mainteoance of the existing ad-
minietratioa is an additional guarantee for the tram
gnillity sad order necessary for the European own-
, mimics to falfll its task.

Lettere from Athens announce that King Otho was
to Ware oa the 17th a hisjoaraoy to Ususuat.