The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THUESDAT EVIIONG.

The Moniteur confirms the date which I gave you •
some days since of January 22 as the opening day
of the legislative session. There are rumours of;
ministerial changes within the next fortnight. It
is stated conjecturally in print, the fear of punish-
ment fur false news notwithstanding, that-both M.
Dronyn de Lhuys and M. Duruy are going out.
Some say that as many as four nainiketi'will be
changed. It is nearly time for the Euefor, who
has been slumbering for an unusually Tong period,
to do something " sensational." TheAatreme calm
of New Year's-day can scarcely tsfir long, and I
think novelty of some kind may be fairly looked for
in the speech from the throne a fortnight hence. The
Debate (whose impression, I must say, is very
generally shared), says there was nothing im-
portant in the few words addressed by the
Emperor to the Pope's nuncio and the Corps
Dipibmatique on Monday, that they embodied
only the usual new-year's compliments, and that
it would require " great subtlety of mind to see
in them anything else." This "subtlety," how-
ever, is displayed by several journals. First of
all the Constitutionset, by the lyric pen of M. Paulin
Limayrac, opines that the "Emperor's words have
produced a profound impression in France and
are destined to resound far and wide throughout
the world." The democratic Siècle, in more sober
language, goes so far as to see in the little speech,
" a prospect of the cessation of distant wars and
the confirmation of accomplished facts in Italy."
The Duke and Duchess de Mouchy, accompanied
by Princess Lucien Murat, were at the Italian
Opera on Tuesday to see Pulinto. The bride, who
had dined at the Tuileries on New Year's-day, was
dressed in white mourning with black pearls. Her
appearance made a "sensation" among the habituts
of the theatre, who remembered that the appear-
ance in the same box of the Princess Anna Murat
with the Duke de Mouchy in November last was an
event which set at rest all doubts about the mar-
riage which shortly afterwards took place.
M. Delaugle, the suxessor of M. Dupin as Pro-
cureur-General of the Court of Caseation, appeared
for the first time in his new place to-day. He main-
tained successfully a cause which I cannot help
thinking a very bad one. He obtained the confir-
mation of a judgment holding a railway station.
master guilty of a fraud upon the Post-office by
receiving a parcel containing letters. It is practi-
cally impossible for railway servants to know the
contents of a parcel, and they cannot but continue
to run the risk of breaking the law.
The Nord says :

The File do la Patric alma that MM. Herren and
Ostroff, finding the Clock a failure, have hawked iesout
their serviced; to almost all the official journals of St.
Petenborg.

Ou this libel the Opinion Nagionak remarks :

Never during the three years that we have had the pain
of resdiog the Muscovite journals of Paris and Brtuwels
have we met with such an odious calumny as that now
launched against the patriot' Hersen and Ogareff. Indig-
nation L to weak a word to express oar (*gimp ; the libel
makes us sick.

The Bourse continues to go down. The rise of
discount iu London and Paris far outsets in the
financial mind the happy inferences sought to be
drawn from the New Year's speech. Rente fell
20c. for cash and 120. for account, closing at
68fr. 30c. and 68fr. 40c. Mobilier fell M. 'Mc.
Mnxican news was inquired for with anxiety.