The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY

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PARIS; WIIDWAIDAT Rviware.
The Posse, in allusion tOlho ?atria's coutradic-
tiolt OUthe stem* attribitted tp Colonel Fleury,
says'
It will be remembered that we oureikes characterised as
1. entirely improbable sp“ch attributed to
o:2lll4,lsurptbe. The cots ra tho Patric, therefore, does
see eerpriee es, sad we register it with all beam:Jag pka-
sue. But, is it not to be feared that this note, which the
Messiterr, owing doubtless to inadvertence, has abstained
hem re-yeeducing, and which, moreover, does nu bear the
uessl eiga of authenticity, " Communiqui," may not he
&mewed by the German newspapers with ail the deference
desired ? This is au observation which we throw oat.
The Prose is pleased to be complimentary to Mr.
Communiqué, whose character for veracity must
be admitted not to stand quite so high as the
observation would seem to imply. However,
it is true that general opinion attaches different
degrees of weight to official paragraphs, according
to the plain of their appearance and the form in
which they appear. Thus a statement in the Moni-
tour stands higher in point of credibility than one in
the Journal de l'Enspire, and a note in the latter
journal, signed "Communique," is a degree more
entitled to credit than one without any. signature.
An unsigned paragraph in the Patrie is, perhaps,
at the present moment, the weakest form in which
an official intimation can be conveyed. But it by no
means follows that it would be prudent in the
government to follow what I cannot help consider-
ing the insidious advice of the Frew, and to launch
a higher class refutation against the statement of the
Gazette de Co.logne. In these cases public incredu-
lity is apt to increase in proportion to the force used
to subdue it. The contradiction in the Petrie is
quite sufficient to show that the government desires
to be understood as not adopting the warlike expres-
sions imputed to Colonel Fleury. Whether he
really expressed sentiments, which for the rest it is
notorious are daily utterred in every barrack-room
is an inquiry which it might be impolitic to pug
very far.
The government prints appear to have received
orders to change their line of argument on the sub-
ject of the Bourse. Two or three days age.the Pays,
in an article which I had occasion to notice, spoke
of the persistent fall as a grievous thing, and attri-
buted it to excessive speculation. To-day this jour-
nal declares that the Bourse, relieved from the per-
turbations incident to parliamentary government, is
precisely what it ought to be, that it is an exact
thermometer of the money market, of the bona fide
state of commerce, of the general requirements of
credit, of the activity or flatness of business, in a
word, of all those sound relations which exist between
supply and demand. A paragraph to the same
effect, and in nearly the same identical language,
was inserted in the Constitutionnel the day ofe
Pays' former article appeared. To hear these two
journals you would suppose that nobody. now goes
near the Bourse except to make a sober investment,
or to sell out capital destined for employment, and that
gambling for " differences" was an obsolete vice that
went out of fashion with the republic. The Pays now
protases to think that the continuance of the fall,
astwithstanding the proclamation of the empire, and
the esespition by the great powers, was an excellent
symptom. The fact proves (says the optimist writer
in the Pays), that the Bourse, emancipated from the
yoke of political parties, is not easily influenced byl
external events • that it is governed by itself alone, I
seserding to the natural play of public prosperity,
and it further troves that the government abstains
6111111 all direct interference with the money market.
Psemerly, when the Bourse was a sort of moral
balance, in which the credit of the state was weighed,
it was sometimes necessary for government to throw
its influence into one of the scales to counterpoise the
manoeuvres of political passions. But now, so solid
am all the institutions of the state, the government
weld scorn to interfere with the Bourse in
any other way than indirectly by wise mea-
sures promoting the increase of natural wealth,
and directly, by solemnly enlightening public
opinion whenever malevolence may seek to
lead it astray. The barefaced impudence of this
article, having
regard to notorious facts, exceeds be-
lief. There is, however, a vulpine wisdom in it:
When the funds were rising, their high price fur-
nished an inexhaustible argument in favour of the
new political regime. Now that they are declining it
is policy to say that they are quite independent of
politics. The grapes are sour.
M. 'Moult, an artist much admired for his aqua-
relies, has just died.
Baron Gustave de Rothschild has been elected a
member of the Woollen& consistory.
The neuron's of St. Genevieve was closed ',ester
day, both at the church of Bt. Genevieve (the Pan-
theon) and at St. Etienne-du-Mont. At the former
church a grand mass was celebrated by the Abbe
Baguet, srchdiacre of Notre Dame, and a sermon was
delivered by the Abbe Dufour. The tomb of the
saint in the church of St. Etienne and the shrine in
the Pantheon are crowded with crowns and offering&
During the last nine days upwards of 300,000 per-
sons have visited the tomb and the shrine.
The Weser Gazette publishes the text of the note
addressed by the President of the Germanic Diet to
the Marquis de Tallenay acknowledging the receipt
of the ofcial notification of the sozesmon of Louis
Napoleon to the throne of France. The note states
that the Diet has received with satisfaction the as-

surance that the policy of the French government, as
regards foreign powers, will not be changed, as it
sees in this declaration a guarantee of respect for ex-
isting treaties and the maintenance of the territorial
limits on which the political system of Europe and
the general peace depend.
The grand centre-piece for a dinner service which
M. Chruitolim is making for the Emperor consists of
a group representing the genius of War moderating
the speed of his horses in a ear, and of another re-
presenting the genius of Peace in a car drawn by
oxen, whilst in the centre is a figure of France dis-
tributing crowns to the national glories. The groups
are united by four pedestals, bearing figures of Force
and Prudence on the side of War, and Justice and
Clemency on the side of Peace. The service, of
which the centre-piece forms part, is to comprise
four large vases, representing the north, south, east,
and west, with specimens of their respective pro-
ductions Nand there are to be also candelabra, sym-
bolising the productions of science, art, and agricul-
ture.