The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO.

The debate on the address in the Senate will be-
gin on Wednesday or Thursday. In spite of the
reiterated expression of doubts whether Prince Na-
poleon will pronounce a speech or not, I believe it
to be certain that be will not miss the opportunity
of making an onslaught upon the temporal power.
Putting together all I hear, I cannot but think
that this speech will be the most important one of
the session. Difficult as it is to fathom the depth
of the Emperor's duplicity, there is much ground
for reasonable conjecture that Prince Napoleon
will foreshadow his real intentions more correctly
than the authorised ministers. Although there are
frequent differences between the Emperor and his
cousin, it is important to remember that the prince,
after being sent into Tuscany at the head of an
apparently useless expedition, in order, as it was
pretended at the time, to get him out of the way,
was nevertheless chosen at the last moment as the
confidential agent to negotiate the peace of Solferino
with the Emperor of Austria.
The Patric to-night contradiots the news lately
given by the Independance that Italian troops were'
about to occupy Rome and the patrimony of the
Pope jointly with the French, and asserts that the
state quo will be maintained. lam greatly afraid
that the Patrie is right. At all events, no change
is likely to be made till after the debate on the
address. The Patrie, however, represents the
papal element in the Emperor's counsels, and the
extreme obscurity of M. de la Guerronnihre's recent
lucubration (signed " Ponterie") in favour of the
temporal power show that the clique is groping in
the dark.

A French priest named de Millard has just had
an audience of the Pope to present him with
300,000 fr., subscribed in'Lyons to the St. Peter's
Pence Fund. It is observed that this sum con-
siderably exceeds the subscription made in Lyons
for the weavers now suffering such intense distress
in that city. The misery is, that this money col-
lected from the widow and orphan by spiritual
pressure, is employed to make more widows and
orphans in Southern Italy.
The papers amuse themselves by contradicting
each other on various insignificant points of detail
about the Mexican expedition. One says it has
received news from Vera Cruz two days later than
the Moniker, and another wonders by what
channel such recent intelligence can have come.
To the announcement that General Doblado,
the governor of Mexico under Juarez, had
established excellent relations with the French
admiral, Jurien de la Grimier°, the Pays replies,
that at the date of the last advises the two forces
were at least two days' march distant from each
other. The report that an aide-de-camp of the
Mexican General Almoute had embarked from
England with important lespatches is contradicted
by the allegation that General Almonte was aocom-
I ponied by no aide-de-camp, but only a secretary,
who is still in Paris.

The Pays hears that the English colony of Sierra
Leone is in a state of hopeless anarchy, and that
20 English soldiers were killed in a recent combat
with the natives.

Very serious complaints are made of • recent re-
pudiation by the syndicate of the stockbrokers of
the liability to make good a breach of trust com-
mitted by • member of their body—a breach of
trust arising out of confidence placed in him in the
regular discharge of his duties as a broker. Hitherto
it has always been understood that the syndicate
was liable. It is a very serious matter indeed if
the liability does not exist. The public have no
chains but to confide their money or stock receipts
to a broker when they wish to buy or sell : if the
roguery of a single individual is to make an ordi-
nary transaction unsafe, the whole nature of basi-
licas connected with investments will be changed.
The sensation created by this affair is so great that
I think something must be done to restore confi-
dence.

The legal journal Le Droit, in reporting the
suicide of a gentleman in the Rue de Provence
without any known reason, states that his imme-