The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, 81310 At EVIRING.
The Monikur publishes a decree for the promul-
gation of the treaty of commerce and navigation I
concluded with Holland. The customs duties in
that country being already on the most liberal
scale, no duty on any article exceeding 5 per cent.,
the treaty had for its object to admit Holland to
the benefits of the system inaugurated by the treaty
with England of 1864. Some diminution has been
obtained on the charges on w,ne, which, in addi-
tion to the duty, is subject to heavy octrois varying
in different towns. By a progress
ive reduction the
entire dues on French wines will be lowered to
42fr. 30c., the present ranging from ;sfr. to 80fr.
Large concessions have been made to French trade in
JavaaudSumatra. Alldifferential tounagedueshave
been abolished, and the ports in these colonies are
now open to French vessels on the same terms as to
those of Holland. Considerable reductions have

also been made in the customs.
A commission has been named to study the cattle
disease now prevalent in England, end to propose
the measures which should be taken in case it
should make its appearance here. A letter from
Bale, speaking of the enormous numbers of foreign
cattle imported into England, says that herds some-
times pass through that town which it takes three
hours to water.
The Moniteur also publishes a note in answer to
the complaints of the Times' correspondent here on
the delay in the delivery of the morning poet from
London. The answer is simply a statement of the
facts which everyone knows—a delay of a quarter
of an hour in the arrival of the mail train prevents
the distribution of the letters that evening. We
all know this, and this is just what is complained
of. Why not have the last delivery at 8 o'clock in-
stead of at 7, the train only being due at 6.301
The only internal question seems to be at present
the programme of the Nancy decentralisars. It
affords matter for comment to all the papers ; but
your readers already know the objects of its advo-
cates, and the heterogeneous opinions which have
united iu the attempted crusade enable us to judge
of its impracticability. Instead of embarrassing
the imperial government as its members intended,
it may turn out that they have served it. ouch a
coalition reminds us too forcibly of the famous club
of the Rue de Poitidrs.
Dr. Ndlaton's report of the sufferers at Neuf-
-41401 is favourable. The Emperor has returned to
his work at Fontainebleau, holding cabinet coun-
cils and entertaining Alxl-el•Kader. I observe in
one of the papers an expression witty enough to be
worth repeating. The Emir, before returning to
Syria, is going to visit Aruboise, "which was his
university of Ham." His last appearance in Paris
was at a wand fête given by the freemasons of the
Grand Orient, the official branch of the order here.
The Lisbon Correspondence denies that there was
any conflict with the nuncio on the subject of
Victor Emmanuel's standing godfather to the young
prince. The baptism, according to this authority, has
been delayed on account of the sanitary condition of
Portugal. This is uo doubt the truth, but the
original story was very like a true one ; for if the
King of Italy be, as they say, excommunicated by
the Pope, and excommunication means anything,
be could hardly be accepted as a godfather. The
two children of Prince Napoleon are still un-
baptieed, if I remember rightly, for the same
reason, as his grandfather was to be sponsor for the
eldest. The Epoce of Madrid, in contradicting a
rumour that the heir of Italy was to marry the
Princess Isabella of Spain, insinuates that her
baud is intended for the King of Bavaria, whose
youngest uncle married a sister of the King's.
The Constitutiorerei, referring to the discussions
in the German papers on the convention of Salz-
bourg, says :
That which strikes us In this long disunion Is the eau
plots silence which the organs of all parties observe as to
the real intimate of the duchies, their wants, their wishes,
and their sufferings,. Proasian aad Austrian I.berak,
members of the Natiocalverein, no one—aboolutely no one—
seem* to miderstand that it is a gaieties of populations,
conquered, transferred, ceded, like a house or a bale at
goods.
There is nothing very original in this ; it has been
already said by all the liberal press ; and on this
subject the press is all liberal, both in England and
Franca ; but when the cautious Conatitutionna
allows itself such a remark, it may be regarded as
an informal caveat, proceeding from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
M. Masse Ryppolyte Milland. the proprietor of
• the Petit Journal, is cited before the Sixth Cham-
ber, along with his chief editor, for opening and
advertising an unauthorised lottery. It was an
' ingenious combination by which he sold Mexican
/ • stock at 350, the price being about 325. Each