The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY ETININO.
The second mail from London has not reached
Paris to-day, in consequence, doubtless, of the quan-
tity of snow which fell last night.
The Municipal Council of 1 has just published
its budget of receipts and expenditure for 1833.
The ordinary receipts are estimated at 1,166,500 fr.
for the communal centimes; 34,569,000 fr. for the
octrois ; 3,177,725 fr. for the rent of stalls in the
retail markets ; 136,000 fr. for the weighing tax;
145,000 fr. for the voieries 7 1,174,000 fr. for the
revenue of the waterworks ; 431,000 fr. for the tax
for the Caisse do Poissy, the slaughterhouses, and
the ontrep:sts ; 629,722 fr. for rents arising from
plates let on the public highway; 164,469 fr. 9ao.
for rents of communal property ; 98,000 fr. for copies
of documents; 407,500 fr. for tax on funerals;
700,300 fr. for concessions of ground in the ceme-
teries; 130,000 fr. for the voieries; 1,319,843 fr. 80c.
t9xes for various works and services ; and 743,286 f.
'sundry receipts; making a total of 46,164,3461 r. 79c.
The extraordinary receipts are set down at 930,000 fr.;;
making a general total of 47,114,346 fr. 79e.
In the enumeration of the octroi duties, fresh
water fish is set dowa at 44,000 fr. ; oysters, 170,000 fr. ;
sea fish, 540,000 fr.; poultry and game, 1,180,000 fr.;
corn and flour, 43,000 fr. ; butter and ears,
550,000 k. The amount received by the city
for supplies of water by subscription is 820,000 fr.,
'and from the fountains which supply the water car-
riers 3.54,000 fr. The letting of chairs produces
' 4,364 fr. and the charge to public carriages for the
right of standing for hire. 400,000 fr. The ordinary
expenses amount to 40,108,851 fr. 67c. and exmordt-
nary expenses to 7,005,495 fr. 12e., malting a general
total of 47,114,346 fr. 79c.

PARIS gOVESE, FEB. 18.—Closing Priem—Pony-
and-a-Half per Cents., 106 f. ; Three per Cents., 80f.
70e. _ _

PARIS , THURSDAY ETENINO.
Among the persons arrested on Sunday week, and
yet remaining in prison, is a celebrated German poet,
M. Maurice Hartmann. He was a member of the
Frankfort parliament elected in 1848, and was one
of those who persisted in sitting to the last, after the
assembly was transferred to Stuttgardt. He was
banished in consequence, and has ever since resided
in France. During his sojourn in this country he
has published " A Tour in Languedoc and Provence,"
a work which has met with great success on the
other side of the Rhine. He has devoted much of
his time to the study of curious French literature,
and two volumes of his translations of the
songs of Brittany are at this moment in
the press at Leipsic. This is one of the
pot-house journalists of whom M. Gravier de Cas-
sagnac spoke so contemptuously when the arrests
were made. The prisoners are now I believe reduced
to the number of 10. jugs d'instruction has
divided these into several categories. Some are yet
au secret, or only allowed to communicate with their
nearest relations under severe restrictions. Others
can see their friends with more or less difficulty.
The prosecution, if it ever comes into court, will as-
sume ridiculously small proportions, but it is yet
thought probable that it will be abandoned.
_

M. Deemer has gained his cause for the Marquis
de Vogue, accused before the tribunal of Correctional
Police of Cosne, of having distributed the proclama-
tion of the Count de Chambold. The prosecution
was not instituted upon the ground that the paper
was treasonable or seditious, but it was sought to es-
tablish that the Marquis de Vogue, by circulating
writings without a license, had infringed the laws
relating to hawkers. The court, however, held that

as the distributive was eia:le through the Post-office,
those laws did nut apply. The judgment notices
the fact, that when the very severe law which now
fetters the eirrula!ion of uritings war propascd to
the Legi-lative Ass4mitily, an objection that it would
e•ttircly suppress the wri;;en expri.ossion of say
'minions °lomat...is to the gun•ramcmt of the day, was
answered by the reporter upon the law saying,
that the Peet-office would always be open. The
Court of Carne Lc) s it clown emphatically, tLat the
position that no circular can be sent 14. post without
a previous authini.a,iou of the prefect is inadmissible
and contrsty to the evident spirit of the law. The
decision is very important, so important that the
go%Linment will pruhebly appeal from it.