The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(not ova OW col

PARIS, MONDAY Emma.

The uneasiness caused by the announcement that
the Toulon fleet had left for an unknown destine
Lion is somewhat lulled by the statement of the
Moniteur that it has put to sea for exercise, and
will anchor at Ajaccio for the fetes of August 15.
Although Ajaccio might be a station on the way to
the Adriatic, the opinion prevails that the Emperor
does not contemplate war this year.
The Bourse was flat, with scarcely any change
except in Italian, which fell lfr. 20c. _ .

The result of the election for the Maine et Loire
is known. M. Berger, government candidate,
19,120; M. de Faßoar, clerical opposition, 7,255 ;
majority for M. Berger, 11,865.
M. de Fallon' complains that the Prefect kept
back his electoral circulars several days in the post-
office. It may be taken for granted that the
government practised towards M. de Fallon' all
those unfair and illegal manoeuvres which belong
to the Imperial system of universal suffrage ; but
M. de Fallon' had no chance, because the demo-
cratic party either abstained, or voted for the
government candidate as the least objectionable of
the two.

Mgr. de Dreux BrogrA, the Bishop of Moulins, a
very rabid ultramontanist, took the trouble of
going to Vichy to meet the Emperor on his arrival
there. Moreover, he made a speech in which he did
homage to the religious sentiments and political
wisdom of his Majesty. Can this be confirmation
of the news which comes from Rome, that the Pope,
finding Austria annihilated, and having no
confidence in the power of Narvaes to
act up to his enthusiastic catholic senti-
ments, has made a virtue of necessity, and
informed the cardinals that he has resolved to
throw himself unconditionally into the arms of
France ? The term for the execution of the con-
vention of September 15 is now within a few
weeks of running out. Nothing has been said of
this matter for a long while, but during the
armistice it must necessarily oome on the order of
the day. What excuse the Emperor will make
for not executing the convention it is dif-
ficult to see. And yet few believe that
the convention will be executed. If the
Emperor chooses to cling to Rome and Civita
Vecchia on catholic principles, it is indeed difficult
to predict how much he may yet do to defeat the
unity of Italy. In Germany his policy is foiled ;
but he has yet a fearful hold upon Italy.
The Liberth publishes in English, with a French
translation, the advertisements about the " police
excesses" in Hyde-park, and the reform meeting of
working men convened to be held in Lincoln's-inn-
fields ; and then, to show the absurdity of those
French journals which argue that England is after
all obliged to come round to coup d'etat doctrines
when order is threatened, says :
If within a week of an e'esente newspapers can without
Moonvenience publish such advertisements and announoe
such public meetings, if these advertisements and these
meetings provoke little disorder, and if such few instances
of disorderly conduct as do take place are met by slight
sentences pronounced within four-and-twenty hours, is it
not demonstrably proved that liberty does not involve in
practice those evils which partisans of the " Reason of
State " suppose?

ACCIDENT TO HER MAJESTY'S SHIP ACHILLES.
(THIS DAY.)

PLYMOUTH, MODAL

Her Majesty's armour-plated iron-screw steam-
ship Achilles, 26, Captain Edward W. Vansittart, having
been refitted at Devonport, left Hsinoase this morning under
her own steam, sided by two tugs on her port side and one
on the starboard side. Shortly before 8 o'clock she struck
the eastern side of the Winter Book, which lies in the
northern part of the Sound ; her head was then south-east.
She was backed off immediately. The Achilles afterwards
proceeded outside the Breakwater, apparently to try her
speed at the measured mile, but having immediately after-
wards returned to the Admiralty anchorage in the Sound,
it is supposed that she has incurred some damage.
At the time of the accident it was about high water.
Wind W.N.W., a strong breeze.
The rock is marked by three buoys.

FREEDOM or OPINION us Vriwna.—The Ost-
Deittoolie Post, one of the Vienna journals,
has ceased to exist, having in its issue of July
27 announced that it would not appear until the opera-
tion of the ordinary law was restored, and until it could
express itself with freedom of opinion.
The leohnorial de la Loin says :—" The change
of the gun with which the infantry of the French army
is provided has long since been resolved upon in principle;
at present the manufacturers, and especially those of St.
Etienne, are actively occupied in the fabrication of the
new arms, which are smaller in the bore than the gun at
present in use, and are loaded at the breech. It will be
understood that this change must entail considerable ex-
pense ; in order to lessen it as much as possible the Em-
peror is reported to have authorised the Minister of War
to dispose by degrees of the old flint musket, percussion
cavalry carbines, and smooth-bored cannon, as well as the
sabres of abandoned patterns, which are in the magazines
of the state."

Tai ELLIN OF PAILIB.—The Gaza4e Hebdoma-
dawe de Mddeeiste contains the enbjoined :—" So far as
Pans is concerned, the silence of the public preys, as well
as of parsons placed at the seat of information, added to
the certainty that a number of eases of cholera exist, has
had the remit, as was the ems a year ago, of exciting a
feeling of uneasiness. To our own knowledge, many
families have advanced the period of their departure, and
others who intended coming to Paris have postponed their
visit to a more favourable moment. The silence to which we
allude is the more ill-advised, in our opinion, that the sani-
tary state of Paris is far from offering any serious reason
for nneasinem. We have not been able to obtain the
exact number of deaths from every muse, but we are able
to give within one or two the decemes from cholera sinus
the reappearance of the epidemic :-19th, 116. 20th, 142 ;
21st, 1 ; 22nd, 89 ; 23rd, 92 ; 24th, 94; 26th, 90 ; and
26th, 86. Thus it will be seen that, not only is the mor-
tality exceedingly moderate for so populinie a city as Paris,
but that it is declining steadily." The Courtier lifickcal,
its side, says :—" The sanitary state of Paris has visibly
reproved within the last few dayw—au incontestable fact,
which we are happy to announce."