The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY Evaxixo.
We arc without anything new relative to the
Eastern question. The rise at the Bourse is main-
tained. The telegraphic accounts of the proceedings
in both houses of parliament last night were consi-
dered very favourable. I must observe, however,
that while Lord Clarendon is reported to have said,
amidst loud cheers, that "lie considered the imme-
diate and complete evacuation of the Principalities
as the sine qua non condition of all negotiations,"
I cannot find that the most sanguine here venture to
profess a belief that the proposition accepted by the
Emperor of Russia contains any stipulation on the
subject. A very curious explanation is given of the
unexpected rapidily with which what all the world
is for the present agreed to call the acceptance of
the proposition of the four powers was received from
St. Petersburg. M. de Meyendorff, the Russian
ambassador at Vienna, was, as is aheady known,
invited by the tho representatives of the
four powers there to attend their conf, rences.
This he declined to do, but they communicated to
him their resolutions before they had put them into
a formal shape. He was thus enabled, as early as
July 28, or perhaps 27, to scud the substance of
them to St. Petersburg, and there is every reason to
suppose that the Emperor's acceptance, telegraphed
from St. Petersburg on Aug. 3, is based, not upon the
prepositions themselves, but upon his own minister's
report of what they would be. It is very possible,
then, it is said (and I am now quoting a Russian
version) that the terms of evacuation of the Princi-
palities may not have been precisely stated to the
Emperor Nicholas by M. de Meyendorft: This sug-
gestion lets in light upon a wide field for equivoca-
tion and intrigue.
Mr. Tucker left Marseilles on Saturday night, in
the Caradoc, with despatches for Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe.

The Moniteur publishes a further list of presidents,
vice-presidents, and secretaries of the councils ap-
pointed by the Emperor. The following are some of
the most remarkable names included in it: M. de
Maupas, ex-Minister of Police ; Marshal St.
Arnaud, Minister at War ;M. Baroche, President of
the Council of State; General Itegnault de Saint
Jean d'Angely, Vice President of the Senate ; M. Ill-
lank, President of the Corps Legislatif; the Marquis
de la Rochi•jaquelin, Senator; Count do Montlaur, a
writer in the Bulletin de Paris; Prince Lucien
iMurat, Prince de Wagram, M. Magne, Minister of
Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works; General
Count Itoguet, Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor ; Ge-
neral Penton ; M. Michel Chevalier, Councillor of
State; M. Sallandrouze de Lamornaix, Deputy ; and
M. Adam, President of the Chamber of Commerce of
Boulogne.
The passport system, which some people at one
time hoped Napoleon 111. would abolish altogether,
continues to be enforced with more rigour than ever.
It was till lately most unusual for travellers of res-
pectable appearance to be asked for their passports
in the interior of France, much less to arrest them in
default. It appears from the following paragraph in
the Courrier de l'Eure, that it is now "usual" for a
commissary of police to demand passports from tra-
vellers by diligence, and that two eminent personages,
MM. Carnot and Goudchaux, were actually subjected
to the indignity and inconvenience of an arrest, be-
cause they were uoprovidcd with these useless pieces
of per :
When the diligence from Berney to St. Pierre-Louviers
arrived on the 2nd at Neubourg, two persons coming from
Rouge-Terriers in the private carriage of M. Dupont (de
l'Eure), took their seats in the public vehicle. When the
commissary of police came forward, in the usual way, to
examine the passports of the passengers, the new comers
were found to be without any. The commissary of po-
lice, in consequence, declared them to be under ar-
rest. They stated themselves to be M. Carnot and M.
Goudchatix, formerly ministers under the previsional go-
vernment, and declared that they were returning to Paris,
after a short excursion in the department of the Eure.
They were, however, kept in custody until some persons of
Neabourg came forward, and affirmed that they were the
persons whom they represented themselves to be. They were
then allowed to depart.
The Imperial Court of Paris yesterday adjudged
that a contract between a manager of a theatre and
an entrepeneur de susses dranzatigue was null and
void, as contrary to public policy and morality. It
consequently held that no action could grow out of
such a contract, and that a party who had paid
money to another in consideration of his undertak-
ing to procure applause at a theatre could not re-
cover it back, although the contract should not be
performed. This is another blow to the disgraceful
claque system, which, however, is so deeply rooted in
French habits that M. de Manpas, after having put
it down for a few days, was induced to withdraw
the prohibition at the request of actors and ma-
were, who felt wretchedly low-spirited when de-
prived of their accustomed stimulus.
The Echo Agrkok publishes details of the state
of the harvest throughout France, and sums them up
in these terms :—" On the whole, we may say that
the harvest is below the usual average, and that the
importation of foreign corn will be necessary." The
deficiency is estimated as fully one-third below an
average crop.
Yesterday evening the Emperor and Empress
_ were
present at the representation of the " Consulat et
l'Empire," at the Cirque. Their Majesties left at
half-past eleven for St. Cloud.
The great rise that took place in Routes yesterday
has been well sustained today, with a firm market
at the close of business. The Three per Cents. for
cash have advanced 5c., and for the account 35c.;
the Four-and-s-Half per Cents. for cash remain un-
changed, but are steady ; and for the account they
have gained 30c. Bank Stock has improved 15f.
The closing prices are :—For cash : Three per Cents.,
79f. 75c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 40c.
For the account : Three per Cents., 80f. 10c. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 40c. Bank Stock,
2,835 f.
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Northerns, 8841. 50c. ; Paris and Orleans,
1,21914 Paris and Strasbourg, 9561.; Paris and
Lyons, 945 f. 75e.; Paris and Rouen, 1,1071. ;
Lyon. to the Mediterranean, 780 f.; Western of
France, 7671.