The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

The Indian Mail hu arrived here.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TEZSDAY EVENING.

The Patrie, while stating that news has been re-
ceived of the entry of the Beets into the Dardanelles
on the morithig of the 14th, contradicts the state-
ment that Omer Pacha was making preparations to
cross the Danube near Ibraila. The packet which
left Constantinople on the 16th is hourly expected
at Marseilles, and will probably bring important
details.

The Presse, in announcing the fact that the fleets
have entered the Dardanelles, takes exception to the
paragraph in the Pain representing the event as of
no importance:
The l'atrie endeavours as much as possible to weaken the
import of this decisive fait acconspli. It would have it
thought that the fleets merely went into the Dardanelles
because they could no longer hold their anchorage at Besika.
We cannot see the use of this interpretation, which
is in no way whatever admissible. It is clear
that if the fleets had simply wished to change
their anchorage they might have gone elsewhere than into
the sea of Marmots. Neither can we allow it to be said
without contradiction that the difference will be confined
to the two nations immediately at war.
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The Bourse opened with an improvement upon
the considerable rise of Saturday, but this position
was not long maintained. The news brought by the
London papers of the withdrawal of the French
ambassadot at Naples was thought very serious, and
the pacific assurances of the London journals with
regard to the Eastern question commanded less con-
fidence. The receipt of a Russian manifesto—or, to
speak more correctly, a Russian note in answer to
the requisition of France and England calling upon
the Czar to evacuate the Principalities— was no
longer doubted. It was currently reported that the
document would appear in the evening papers—
an anticipation which has not been realised.
The English funds were posted at the open-
ing at 91, I, I, but later in the day, although no
further official placard wee exhibited, it was under-
stood that quotations from London came lower. In
the result, the Threes fell from 72.85, the highest
price of the day, to 72.40, being a decline of 25e.
from Saturday. In railways there was but a very
slight variation. Some of the lines even rose, but the
difference either way was not more than 21. or 3f. A
report was circulated that the Emperor had been
thrown from his horse at Compiegne, and I am
assured that an influential broker sold largely upon
the receipt of a letter from Compiegne this morning.
A placard was, however, exhibited, stating that there
wail no truth in the report of the accident.
I have heard nothing to confirm the announcement
made by the Sius, that the Emperor and Empress
are about to pay a visit to London. The news is
generally received with incredulity. The evening
papers do not even notice the report. The Emperor
arid Empress will leave Compiegne on Thursday,
and, it is now said, will make • short stay in Paris
before going to Fontainebleau.
We read in the Moniteur :

An imperial decree of the 14th ult. reduced from 50fr. to
3fr. a-head the entrance duty on foreign cattle. This
measure, the consequences of which might be readily con-
ceived, is about to receive its complement in Paris by
the establishment of a retail sale by auction of
butchers' meat. This mode of sale will be inaugurated
the day after to-morrow in one of the holies construed
some years since, near the Marchi des Prouv a , for the
wholesale auction. This latter sale has gone on constantly
increasing. The quantity, which in 18.52 amounted to
4,485,929 kilogrammes, rose to 4,547,058 kilogrammes
during the tint nine months of the present year. Although
these two kinds of sale cannot be assimilated in an ab-
solute manner, there is every rearm to hope that
the retail sale .. will produce excellent results. It
is, moreover, an experiment which is dictated to the
authorities by the ardent desire with which they are
animated that the working claws shall be able to
procure butchers' meat at the lowest possible price.
The Chamber of Commerce of Havre has received
from the Minister of Marine a letter, announcing
that the government has resolved on a material mo-
dification of the tariff as regards guano. This article
is to enter France in French bottoms free of
duty, when imported direct from the place of pro-
duction, or from a free port. When it is imported
from other ports the duty is to be Mr. per ton. If
imported in foreign bottoms, the duty in all cases is
to be 10fr. per ton.