The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-17 00:00:00

EMPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE CAB STRIKE.

Mott ona ows coaassrosuair.)
PARIS, Famar Evsaara.
The strike continues. The information I gave
you in a postscript to my yesterday's letter that
the better sort of carriages, called voitures de
remises, would strike to-day, turns out to be true.
There are a very few carriages, most of them of a
nondescript character, to be seen about the streets,
but there are more private" flys," which have been
authorised to ply in this emergency, and the drivers
of which are unconnected with that great company,
which monopolises the petite. ecikires—i.e., the en-
tire hackney carriage accommodation of Paris. The
Droif of this morning says the inconvenience is so
great and palpable that "something must be done"
II to remedy it. What that something is, however,
11 yet remains a secret. The Emperor has had a coa-
-1 saltation to-day with M. Baussmann, the Prefect of
Police, and M. Downs, the director of the petite
voitures,but the public does not know with what re-
sult. If there is to be a coup d'itat, one giving the
utmost facilities for private competition would be
the only thing useful. The cry against monopoly is
raised by all the independent journals. The Con-
stitutionnet and Pays, in their character of semi-
official organs, bound to ignore everything dis-
agreeable, say not a word of the news which occu-
pies men's minds more, and in its consequences
threatens to be of more importance, than anything
else.
A joke which has great success on the Boulevards
is that the next strike will be a strike of the army,
all the soldiers in France refusing to do duty unless
they get higher pay. The proverb, " Many a true
word is spoken in jest," has • grim significance in
this instance. When an idea once gets hold of the
popular mind in France it runs like wildfire, and
nothing is so infectious as a strike. Although there
is no foundation for the joke of the day, nothing is
more possible than that the army should as a body
be suddenly impressed with the fact that whereas
other classes of society, by the operation of a strike,
force their employers to raise their wages, their
pay, even including the privileges which the
Emperor has given them, is more out of proportion
with the existing dearness of all necessaries of
life than that of any civilian operatives. If this
idea were to take hold of the army, then indeed
chaos, or as M. Proudhon phrased it, anarchy
would really come. The army, if it came to the
push, could help itself, and unless discipline
should repress the feeling which now pervades the
lower classes almost universally, it would be very
likely to do it.
M. F. Camus, the secretary of the Journal des
Debate for the last 40 years, is dead.
At the Bourse the Rente opened heavily, then
rose a little, and finally closed at 66fr. 40c. (ex
div.), a price about equivalent to the closing one a
yesterday. It has very rarely happened that the
approach of the dividend, combined with extraor-
dinary cheapness of money, has exercised so little
influence upon quotations as on the present occa-
sion. Mobilier fell 10fr., and the Lyons Railway
10fr. The only security, curious to say, which
rose was Mexican, which advanced from 441 to
45a upon a rumour that Juarez had taken to
flight and was in New York. When it is found out,
as I have no doubt it will be, that this news is not
ere true, Mexican will oome down with a rush.

FOX CLUB.—The fifth meeting of the Fox Club 1
(the animal dab dinner) will be held at the Trafalgar, Groan-
with, on Saturday, the 2lth of June.
BANQUETS IN THE INNER TLIIPLE.—The hlastera
of the Bench of the Middle Temple have accepted an invi-
tatioo to dine with the Neaten of the Beech of the Inner
Temple, on Wednesday the 28th inst. The annual dieser
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to the auditors of the otter Temple is fixed to take pleas
on Thursday, the 22nd Met., and at both entertainments a
distinguished oompeny le expected to be present.
CHERBOURG AND POOLL—On Tuesday last the ,
inuuimpality of Cherbourg amt-liaised the Mayor sod I
corporation of Poole end the directors of the Somerset sod
Dorset Railway Company at Cherbourg. oa the opening of
a new line of steamers running between the towns just
mentioned. At the banquet, which took pleas in the hall
of the new bathe, there were present the Mayor and Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce Countur the
Admire' of the Port, the Boas Praet, de Tooque-
' villa, Coast de 80/eager, H. Alexandre Doss', the aratho•
rides of the Chemin de Per do ?tartest, the English Coma
Mr. R. Remoud. The English viaitore were ecenmpanied
Iby Mr. Beery Seymour. HP. for Pools. The Mayer el
Cherboarg proposed "the health of Queen Vedas.; sad
the English Causal "the Emperor of the Preach." The
Admiral of the port thee gave the toast of "the Leigh
Army and Nary," in ea exordient Eolith& speech. lb. H.
Seymour moposed to Pesach " the health of the May of
Cherbourg." M. Alexandre Daman proposed "the
, memory of William Shakespeare," and the proceedings
' were brouibt to a slow