The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM OUR OWN 001113PONDINT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVILNING.
The Moniteur of this morning says of the late
M. Fould :
His Excellency M. Achille Fould, Senator, and Grand
Cross of the Legien of Honour, died suddenly on Saturday
night at his chateau at Lanbere, near Tarbes. The loss of
this eminent and devoted man, who had been many times
Minister of Finance and Minister of State, and has done
so much service to the country and the Emperor, will
cause profound emotion in France and inspire general
regret•

The above is far from being a mere passing
complimentary notice, usual in the case of the
demise of distinguished personages. He was
undoubtedly a politician of great ability and
lunimpeachable integrity, and was in all proba-
bility on the eve of being once more called t 3 the
discharge of high official functions at a time when
France stands particularly in need of equal firmness
and talent in those whose duty it is to aid the
Emperor in the government of the country, in
times of no ordinary difficulty. The deceased
statesman died of an attack of apoplexy, and was
67 years of age.
Great uncertainty and no little mystery continue
to hang over the internal as well as foreign affairs
of France ; and a modification of the
ministry is still the theme of conversation and
the subject of political speculation. Whether
M. de Mouldier is to be succeeded in the
Foreign-office by M. do Lavalette, and whether
one or the other of these statesmen is more or less
inclined to peace or war, is just now the subject of
much debate, or perhaps, I should say, much
gossip and vague calculations. There is nothing in
the antecedents of M. de Moustier, as compared
with his colleague in office, which should consti-
lute him a standing menace to the peace of
Europe. M. de Leveled° wrote on the 16th of
September, 1866, a letter full of resignation
when it was averred that France would
receive no compensation for the aggrandise-
ment of Prussia ; and M do Moustier was equally
submissiveand condescending in the circular written
by him explanatory of the interview at Salzburg.
Whatever change in the ministry may be impending
would not, therefore, appear to be evoked from an
over-anxious solicitude for the interests of peace,
since these, so far as the two pacific ministers are
concerned, are apparently, as much as in them lies,
fairly protected by their personal tendencies and
views. But after all it must not be forgotten
that whatever may be the private dispo-
sitions of these statesmen, they are neither
of them, according to the constitution of
1852, anything more than the executors of
orders transmitted to them—nothing but the
agents of a superior will, and which has declared
itself to be alone responsible. "To imagine," says
the Arenir National, " that France and Europe
could be reassured by giving the portfolio of
foreign affairs to M. de Leveled°, or that the na-
tions would tremble if it were left in the hands of
M. de Moustier, is to forget alike the past history
of these two ministers and the rdgime prescribed to
us by the 2nd of December."
The death of M. Fould caused great sensation on
the Bourse among financiers. The money market
again presented a somewhat calmer aspect. Threes
closed at 68fr. 25c. ; Italian at 45fr, 95c.

The Empress and Prince Imperial will, says the
Tonionneis, pass a month of the ensuing winter at Nioe.

Stag-hunting has commenced in the deer forest
of Compiegne.

A magnificent vulture was shot two days back
in the forest of St. Germain.

The Messenger drt Midi states that the recent
storm has done immense damage to the chestnut crop. In
some cantons more than half the crop has been destroyed.
In that of Joyeuse the damage is estimated at 800,000 fr.
In another more than 3,000 trees were broken or uprooted,
and in • third 2,500.
The band ,frf the French Gendarme. of the Im-
perial Guard has been giving concerts at Aix-la-Chapelle,
Dusseldorf, Elberfield, and Cologne in return for the
visit of the Prussian military band which visited Paris
and Lyons two years back and again at the festival in the
Palace of Industry. At Cologne they were received with
great enthusiasm, • feet on which the Montrealr dwell.
with an emphasis not without significance.

The Temps publishes the translation of a letter
from M. Schulae•Deitsch, general agent of the Co-opera-
tive Associations of Germany, and which he has addressed
in that quality to the members of those bodies. This com-
munication consists of a long and earnest protest against
the prohibition, lately pronounced by the French govern-
ment, of the meeting in Paris of an International Congress
of Co-operative Societies.

A young Russian Prince, of 14, at school at
Neufchatel, ran away with a troop of mountebanks to
&pleura. Being brought back by toe police he again
escaped, but waa arrested at Vienne (Inure) by the gen-
darmery and taken back to Neufchatel. Love for • dansewie
was the cause.

A correspondent of the Post, writing from the
city of Mexico, says that not one word of reliable infor
motion has been received from M►rquez since he fled on
the 20th of July. But wherever he is, and whatever he
may be doing, he is a man fatal to all hopes of tranquillity.
" He is a devoted crusader, an avenger of the church, a
destroyer of heretics, and of the infidels who deny the
supremacy and power of the clergy. He wears the ' Grand
Cross of a Commander of the Legion of Honour,' bestowed
upon him by the Emperor Napoleon. He is stained all
over with crimes, and all the multitudinous seas could not
wash away the innocent blood that dyes his soul. But he
is a power in Mexico. He has probably more money in his
coffers than the Republican government can command
within the next six months."

A terrific hail and thunder storm passed over
Liverpool yesterday afternoon. Its advent was sudden,
but the effects of the storm will be severely felt.

The Creithie correspondent of the Edinburgh
Courant writes :—On Friday, a bronze statue of the late
Prince Consort was placed on a pedestal of rade mason
work, consisting of huge blocks of granite, about 64:1 yards
west from the obelisk erected by the tenantry, and •
quarter of • mile rut from RalmorsL The statue, which
is by Theed, is a striking likeneas of the lamented Prince,
and as a work of art is thought to possess great merit.
lie is represented with the right hand on the head of •
large shaggy etaghound by his aide, with • rise in the left
and with the face towards Balmoral.