The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The 3foniteur contains another hesitating step to-
wards free trade. By a decree of tho Emperor the
additional duty imposed by the decree of March 17,
1833, upon ores of all kinds imported in foreign bot-
toms, is suppressed provisionally so far as respects
iron ore.

The Minister of Finance has fixed the interest
upon treasury bills at the followiwr rates from and
after September 12: upon bills having from three to
five months to run, 24 percent.; upon bills at from 6
to 11 months, 3 per cent. per annum; and upon bills
at a year, :4 per cent.
Their Majesties arrived at St. Cloud at six last
night.
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A
note in the Moniteur states that the Emperor
when at Dieppe adopted in principle a plan submitted
to him by a commission for the improvement of the
port of Dieppe, the expense of which is estimated
at 2,200,000 fr. The most urgent ameliorations,
estimated separately at 1,300,000 fr., are to be com-
menced immediately, and terminated within three
years.
'f he price of flour has fallen but very little at the
Halle of I'aris sines the famous dec.oe fixing the
price of bread below the natural rate. The price, if
it wore to be settled now according to the regulating
scale, would still be tlOc. the two kilogrammes, or
two sous above wh a the bakers arc compelled to sell
at, and there is very little probability of a sufficient
decline before the 15th to prevent a rise in bread
units. by the continuance of the exceptional measure.

The Pays has an article on the Flu:tern question
bearing very hard upon Turkey for having made
alterations in the Vienna note. So far as the ex-
pressed views of this journal nay be taken ns an
indication of the present intentions of the French
go% ernment, the inclination to resist Russian aggres-
sion is now at low water mark. The Pays, after a
great deal of uninteresting argument, says :

Should the note, as adopted, not without hesitation, by
Russia, be definitively r, jected by Turkey, what will he 'be
result ? Europe, in that cue, will look on and wait fur
events, not indeed that she will abandon Turkey to the
fatal destinies towards which she seems wilfully to
be about to precipitate herself, but she will only
interfere when she sus the cause of European
right again at stake. This much may be taken as certain—
the Western Powers will not allow Russia either to take pos-
session of Constantinople, to conquer any portion of the
Ottoman territory, or to Impose upon the Sultan conditions
incompatible with his sovereignty. But if Europe
is perfectly resolved to maintain in any event the
complete integrity of the Ottoman empire, she will not, we
may be will assured, engage herself headlong in quarrels
about words and phrases. She will not needlessly engage
her solidarity in pretensions without any reasonable ob-
ject; she wilt not betray any interests she ought to pro-
tect, but the better to serve those interests she will cruse
her will and her supreme arbitrament to be respected for
the sake of the peace of the world.

The Gazette de France makes some curious revela-
tions to-day on the subject of the " fusion." You
may remember that strenuous efforts were recently
made to bring about a meeting between the Count de
Chambord, and a prince of the house of Orleans. It
was even reported that they had an interview
at Vienna, but this was afterwards contra-
dicted. The Count de Chambord expressed himself
perfectly ready to receive his cousin as a cadet of his
royal house, but firmly refused to see him as the
representative of a family pretending to have sepa-
rate dynastic rights. It was found that the two
parties when they talked about fusion did not mean
the same thing, and for the twentieth time it was
announced that an attempt to effect a reconciliation
between the two branches of the house of Bourbon,
after touching very near to a happy conclusion,
had ultimately failed. It now appears that a lead-
ing fusionist," having recently gone to Clare-
mont to renew negotiations, has met with such a
rebuff, that, according to the Gazette de France,
the most sanguine partisans of the fusion must
abandon all hopes of seeing it effected. I would
not take the Gazette's word to this entire extent.
It no doubt honestly reports the facts within
its own knowledge that the fusionists have just
received a severe check, but the Gazette is anxious to
justify its own predictions that the fusion would
never do, and to lure back all the stray sheep of its
party into the fold of pure legitimacy. But there
are so many astute men among the royalists who are'
persuaded there is not room for two Bourbon parties
in France, that their ingenious efforts to unite them
into one are likely to be renewed from time to time.
Some of the Orleans princes would readily lend
themselves to any combination which might add to
their importance, but the Duchess of Orleans opposes
la firm will to every proposition tending to compro-
mise what she considers with a settled faith as the
rights of her son to impersonate the principle of
constitutional monarchy.
Colonel Victor de Oibelin, the last survivor of the
Swiss officers present at the Tuileries on the fatal 10th
of August, 1792, died yesterday week at Soleure, at
the age of 83.
The crown jewels of Hungary are said to have
been found at Orsowa.

PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING.
The Mont teur announces the election of the fol-
lowing government candidates, as representatives to
the legislative body :—M. A. Chevalier for the 3rd
circumscription of the Aveyron ; M. Nogent Saint-
Laurent for the Ist circumscription of the Loiret ;
Count Paul de Champagny de Cadore, for the let cir-
cumscription of the Cotes-du-Nord ; Gen. Lebreton
for the 3rd circumscription of La.Vendee; M. Godard-
Desmarets for the Btb circumscription of the Nord ;
Count Rodolphe d'Ornano, chamberlain to the Em-
peror, for the Ist circumscription of the Youne, in
the place of M. Larabit, elevated to the Senate, and
M. Gaultier de la Guistiere for the let circumscrip-
tion of the Ile et Vilaine, in the place of M. Pon-
gerard, appointed a receiver-general The Moniteur
abstains from giving the number of votes, because
the returns would show the apathy of the electors.
I mentioned, yesterday, the probability that owing
to the systematic abstention of the inhabitants of
Orleans, the election for the Loiret would probably
be void. It appears, however, that the country dis-
tricts made up more than the legal minimum for the
circumscription. Oat of 47,782 registered electors
the government brought up 19,245 to the poll.
The Preue satirically observes upon these elec-
tions, that they strengthen the government by two
additional votes in tho Corps Legislatif. General
Lebreton and M. Godard Desmarets replace MM.
Bouhier de l'Ecluse and de Merode, who made part
of the almost imperceptible phalanx of parliamentary
resistance. Thus (says the Prase) government gra-
vitates more and more towards its ideal, and tne pro-
blem of entire unanimity proposed by MM. de
Morny and Porsigny in 1852 is very nearly being
resolved. Such a result is not displeasing to us. We
would only call to mind this incontestable principle,
that in proportion as obstacles disappear responsibi-
lity increases.
Several political arrests were made two days ago
at Orleans. Amongst the persons arrested is a man
who was transported in December, 1851, but subse-
quently pardoned. It is more than probable that
theesarrests are connected with the abstentions.
' 'At the hour at which I -*rite I have not heard
of the arrival of their Majesties at St. Cloud, but it
was fully expected that they would leave Dieppe at
two o'clock.

The ball given to the Emperor and Empress on
Tkanday evening at the Skein is reported to have
Ole off exceedingly well.
Yesterday and to-day, the grand military opera-
tions simulating the taking of St. Germain have
been going on. The camp of Satory was divided
iuto two parts, one supposed to have taken possession
of the town, and the other intended to represent the
attacking party,which was in the end to regain
sion. The former was under the orders of Gen. Cite:
ton, the key of its position being the bridge of Chalon.
The other body, which was to dislodge that just
mentioned,wss under the orders of Marshal Magnan.
To-day a bridge was thrown across the Seine, St.
Germain was taken by storm, and the victorious and
vanquished armies, the spectators being much puzzled
to know which was which, Sled past on the terrace.
A great many windows were broken by the rever-
berations of the cannon. Several English families
residing at St. Germain were astonished to find
soldiers billeted upon them.
There has been no remarkable feature at the Bourse
to-day. The want of some regular and trustworthy
telegraphic communication of the prices of the Lon-
don Stock Exchange is greatly felt. The sudden
rise at the close of the Bourse yesterday was owing
to an accredited report that Consols had risen I per
cent., whereas it appears by the evening papers that
they fell j. The Threes to-day fell 10e. for account,
and rose do. for cosh. Railways varied but little
from yesterday's prices. The Normandy fusion
lines were neglect d owing to a belief that
the settlement of the fusion which was thought so
near at had may remain some time in suspense. It
appears that the surveys of the Brittany lines are
not sufficiently advanced to allow of the decree in-
tended to unite the Western and Northern Railways
into one group being drawn up.
The appeal of some of the persons condemned to
various tines and periods of imprisonment, for being
concerned in the affair at one time absurdly called
the " Vincennes plot," and afterwards known as the
Ligue Federale, was concluded yesterday before the
Imperial Court. The court quashed the condemn:,
lion on Mazy, Sicard, Germain, and Bouquin do la
Souche, as based on insufficient evidence, and ordered
them to be discharged; it rejected the appeal of
Jeanne (the stationer in the Passage Choiseul),
Pigard, Dupatie, and Barbotte—the two former of
whom were condemned to two years' imprisonment
and 5001. fine, and the two latter to a year's imprison-
ment and 100 f. fine; and it reduced the sentence on
Jamct and Salvat from eighteen and fifteen months'
imprisonment to a year's.

Qt'ta CHRISTINA 010 SPAIN.—BOCLOGNE, SEPT.
11.—The Queen Christina of Spain, with her nume
rous suite, arrived hero by the Princess Helena,
from Folkestone, on Friday, having had a splendid
passage, and expressed herself much pleased with the
kind attention of the servants of the S Juth Eastern
Company. The Queen left for Paris in the royal
saloon carriage, which had been detained expressly
for her Majesty.