The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TOISDLT EVININII.

The Paris lloonteur reprints the note of the Moai
tear Belga, and adds:—" We felicitate the Belgian
government on the care it takes to guard its inten-
tions from misapprehension. The part of the French
government hes been simply to point oat the evil and
its consequences : it is for the cabinet of Bressels alone
to seek, to find, and to apply the remedy. The go-
moment of the Emperor concerns itself with the
efficacy sad not with the nature of the remedy."
It is impossible not to be struck with the studious
arrogance—the thoroughly unfriendly tone of the
above paragraph in the Mondeur. It is more offset.
sive by far than Count Walewski's speech itself, and
contains the very menace- wht,4l that "sinister,
with great assumption of delicacy said, the "re-
monstranese alone of a stronger power with a
weaker" too much resembled. The Belgian Masiteur,
correcting a telegraphic despatch published in Paris,
to the effect that the minister had declared that the
country would consent to a modification of the
laws of the press, said that what he had really
said was that the present ministry would
never propose to alter the constitution. The differeooe
wee not, in substance, of very great importance, for
it clearly appears from the authentic report of the
speech that what the Belgian minister vehemently
protested against was any change, at the dictation of
a foreign power, of the constitation as affecting the
press. The correction of the Belgian ifonnesor is
perhaps more emphatic than was necessary ; still
no objection can fairly be made to the de-
claration that the government did not Intend
to bind itself not to propose to parlia-
ment, " within the limits of the constitution,"
any modification of the press laws at its Men
good time. Probably the hope of conciliating the
French government had something to do with the
wording of the paseage. If so, the Belgian cabinet
most be woefully disappointed. The Monitor, in
sarcastic language, ignores the " limits of the con-
stitution " to which the official journal of Brussels so
carefully refers. It affects to see in the reserva-
tion of the power to propose an alteration of the
law in a legal way " whenever the Belgian govern.
mat may see fit," a reluctant avowal that the
cabinet of Brussels is bound to " seek for, fled, and
apply a remedy" for the grievances which France
has indicated. The Emperor's government, Belgium
is told, ears* nothing about the nature of the remedy,
but will only look to its efficacity. This means evi-
dently " Franca takes no note of your constitution or
your juries, but you, Belgium, must contrive to have
a press which shall not offend France."

The Emperor and Empress will go to St. Cloud to-
morrow, to take up their summer residence there.
M. de Hubner has goo* to Strasbourg to inset the
Arehdake Maximilian, who is expected in Paris to-
morrow or Thursday.
The King of Wurtemberg left Pare this morniag.
Business was stagnant at the Bourse to-day. The
Renee, which warmly fluctuated 60., closed at yester-
-1 day's primp, 75rr. for ash, and 75fr. 20c. for menet,
being a rise of 10e. Bank of France rose 25e. No
variation in Credit Mobilier, and very little in rail-
ways. The principal business done was in railway
obligations.