The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE GOVERN-
MENT TO THE CORPS LEOISLATIF.
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PARIS, Tomsk: EvExt.
There was an unusual crowd at the Corps Legis-
latif this afternoon to hear the momentous "com-
munications from government." The galleries open
to the public will not hold anything like the num-
ber of people who hold tickets whet., as on this oc-
osaioe, every deputy exercises his privilge to give
one. I was among the many disappointed ticket-
holders who were condemned to wait outside the
tribunes for want of space in the interior. The
sitting was not opened till.an hour after the time
announced.
Count de Morny took the chair a little before
two o'clock, and immediately after Count Walewaki,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, entered the house. M.
Baroche, who occupied the seat set apart for the
government commissioner, remand a bill for the
increasing from 100,000 to 140,000 men the levy au-
thorised by the law of Mara, 1868, the expos!
des motifs merely stating that the bill was in-
tended as a simple measure of precaution. Count
de Morny then addressed the members in the follow-
ing words :
" The bill now presented to you unites all the
conditions of a measure of urgency, since the coun-
cils of revision are already convoked; as a bill of
urgency it can only require a very concise report.
I therefore propose that the chamber should at once
meet in its bureaux and appoint a committee which
will make its report immediately. The sitting may
be resumed in an hour. The chamber will hear the
report read; it may be printed and distributed in
the course of the evening, so that, consistently with
our regulation., the bill may be dimmed and voted
to-morrow. Allow me to add a few words which
are called for by existing circumstances :
"Gentlemen—The statement which you have just
hoard shows in the clearest manner that the Em-
peror, without having abandoned the generous and
exalted object which he proposed to himself from
the first, has never for a single day departed from
the principles of moderation which characterise his
policy. At every phase of the negotiations he has
readily accepted every combination offered to him
by his mediating allies with the view of preventieg
war. The very delay in the presentation of the
present bill is the strongest proof of the hops
and desire which the Emperor has persistently en-
tertained to obtain a pacific solution of these diffi-
culties. This conduct bed the effect of reassuring
the great European powers, and if, in spite of all
their efforts, war is inevitable, we may at least feel
certain that it will be localised and limited, mere
especially if the other German powers will
have the wisdom to understand that the
question is one purely Italian, and one
which covers no design of conquest, and will
give birth to no revolutions. As to you, gentlemen,
you exhibited when the question was first raised a
pacific spirit inspired by your solicitude for the
great interests of the country. It was your right
and your part to do so. The feet will only give
additional force to the support which you will now
give to the Emperor. Let it be seen to-day, so that
no one either at home or abroad may be under mis-
take, that in the face of the foreigners we are united
in one only thought—the emceess and glory of our
arms. Once the straggle begun all material in-
terests will stand aside to give place to patriotism,
all inquietude. will be silent, in ceder that we may
the better hear the voice of the national honour
Let us no longer look back, the flag of France
Liras
feats before us."
Count Walewski then read a statement of the
whole progress of the late negotiations, and declared
that France, having done all that was possible to
illesorv• peace, ootaidetted herself freed from all
ibility, and looked with academe to the

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peewees et events. The resection of the two
spemismo was a little cold at int, but considerable 1
stpplaiiiis greeted Count Walewski when he with-
drew. M. Baroche then presented a second bill, to
authorise the government to contract a loan of 600
millions of franca, after which the deputies with-
drew to their bureaux, as had been agreed to.
. . .

The liedlpendanee Beige was seized to-day, pro-
bably on aoconnt of its containing the following
paragraph :—" Three French corps d'armee will ad-
TIMM simultaneously to the aseistance of Piedmont
the day when the entrance of the Austrians shall be
certainly known. The first will enter by Calor and
Mont-Cenis ; the second, by Grenoble, Briancoe,
and Pignerol ; and the third, going by see, will
land at Genoa. This last-named point will be kept
as the base of operations, and the French forces will
thence be able to march immediately on Alexandria.
The first two corps will march towards the interior,
one on the left of Turin, in the direction of No-
vo% and the other directly on the Piedmontese
capital."
The Preue says, in its weekly commercial
review

We have scarcely a word to say beyond repeating on
siatestnts of the last two months. Basica. is 'impended ;
no one think' of undertaldng any commercial operation in
the midst of the anxiety occasioned by the great question of
peace or war. The only manufectories that are actively
employed are those which we connected with WHOM
equipment'; all others are doing nothing, although the
present month is one in which banner Is gamed:
brisk. The retail trade labours under the same de-
pression, sad purchases are restricted to the waste of
daily consumption. Thom branch* of trade which pre-
boa articles of luxury continue in a any depressed wadi-
Ike, the deed season with t 0... having mew lambi eseseel
mouths'. At Lyons the masniestamns, who km dodo,
I the lest two months ben pretty well essegiell ea des be
abroad, see now again in • dell skate, the Paris nobs seg.
glen them with little or whin to do. At Rona also
bagnses has become shot. The market foe raw taboo at
Retro hoe bees heavy, but coo very materiel change has
takes pisc• In pricer. Raw sugar In the Park market has
slightly declined, but reflood sugar maintain' its price. 00
continues looking up with a limited amount of Wainer.
The Three per Conte. closed to-day at 621. 96c.
for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 90f. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,162 f. 600.; Great Northern, 840 f.; Strasburg,
6671.60 c. ; Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean,
766 f. ; Western of France, 466 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, 4161. ; Lyons and Geneva, 4461.; Bank of
Credit Mobilier, 6651 ; Austrian Railways, 427 f.
60e.
COCAS AUTRANTIQUE. - PAZ" APILIL 28. - Cash
Priors.-Pour-sod-a-Halt per Cents. (sot reimbursable kr ,
10 yews), inf. 901. 60a. 901.90 f. lac. 60.906896 76c. 700. ;
Four per Cent., 806 ;Three per Cont., 636 36c.1100. 260. 206 ,
160. lik. 6316
0.26 90c. 626 80c. 760. 63L 621. 90c. 831. 631.
621. 800. 76 600. 700, 90c. ; Beak of France, 2,6006
2,6266 2,6001. ; Credit Fancier, 616 L ; ditto Obligations of
6001., Four per Cents., 4606; ditto Tenths, Four per
Cents., 066; ditto Tenths, Three per Ceuta., 006 ; Credit
Mobilise, 670 f. 6601. 6606 6666 6621. 600. ; Discount Beak,
68136 ; Piedmonts'. Five per Con's., 726 ; Roman Loan,
811. ; Spanish Passives, 20. ; ditto Interior Debt, 37 Mt.
"aching" on London, at sight, paper, 266 ;
261. 60. ; three months, paper, 241. 971 c. ; soonenT.
9116.