The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TIIIJILSDAY EVZNING.

The latest news of the day is that at a minis-
terial council, held this morning in the Emperor's
presence, it was resolved not to publish a note on
the Luxemburg question in the Ilfoniteur which
had been talked of, but to make a communication
to the Senate and Corps Legielatif to-morrow
touching the conference.
It continues to be thought that the meeting of
plenipotentiaries will take place in London on
May 7 ; but even if nothing should prevent this,
the necessary preliminary formalities will probably
prevent the commencement of real business before
the 11th or 12th. Some of the telegrams say that
the matter in hand will then be disposed of in two
sittings.
The Presle mentions a rumour from Berlin that
both M. Benedetti and M. do Goltz are likely to be
at once removed from their posts ; and that provi-
sionallyyrance will be represented at Berlin and
Prusaia in Paris only by a charge d'Affaires. This
news, if true, has rather a sombre aspect.
The emphatic denial of Lord Stanley that Eng-
land has prejudged the point upon which the
conference is to deliberate, by expressing an opinion
on the merits of the Luxemburg question, does not
prevent those French journals which take their
cue from the authorities from continuing to repeat
the untruth. This evening's Pays, in a para-
graph throwing cold water upon the " hopes"
which it admits may be entertained upon a happy
issqe of the conference, although such a result
is not " absolutely certain," says that " a
point upon which no doubt can possibly re-
main is the moral situation which France
acquires by the accord of the three great
powers against the pretensions of Prussia." And
again :—" France has achieved a real success. We
reserve our opinion on the definitive solution ;
but this much may be said at once—that, as far as
regards the first incident of the discussion and the
pretensions of Prussia, France is declared by Europe
to be in the right."
This most impudent assertion has been reiterated
in so many forms not only by the Pays, but by
the Pattie, France, Prase, &c., that it now passes
in Paris for an indisputable truth, and is ignorantly
repeated by the independent press.

It is of course remarked that during the review
by the Emperor in the court of the Tuileries yes-
terday, the Prince Imperial did not even show
himself at the window as he did last time. I fear
it will turn out that the satisfactory accounts of
his health which you may read almost every day
in certain communications from Paris are not
founded in truth. The Sport says that great pre-
parationi are making for the reception of the
Empress and the Prince at the Chateau d'Arenen-
berg, where the Emperor passed a great part of
his youth with his mother, Queen Hortense. This
is one among many other projected plans of an ex-
cursion and change of air for the heir-apparent,
but like all others of the kind, its realisation must
be very uncertain. It has not yet been possible to
remove him so far as St. Cloud, whither it was
wished to take him many days ago.
The election of two Academicians in the place of
the late MM. Barante and Cousin took place to-
day, and resulted in the choice of Father Gratry
and M. Jules Favre. The former was rather hard
run by M. Thophile Gautier, and a second ballot
was necessary before the definitive decision. M.
Jules Fevre was elected on the first ballot by 18
votes against 12 given to M. de Champagny. M.
de Montalembert, whose health continues to be
very bad, had himself carried into the Academy to
vote for M. Jules Favre. It may not be generally
known that M. Jules Favre, though an extreme
democrat and an uncompromising opponent of the
temporal power, passes for a good catholic and goes
to confession. This explains M. de Montalem-
bert's vote for a man with whom he can have little
in common except a deep feeling of hostility to the
present form of government in France.
The papers say that " Mdlle. de Cessiat, niece of
M. de Lamartine, has applied to government for
permission to bear and to transmit that grand
name." The wording is rather odd as applicable to
a " demoiselle " whose future and yet unchosen
husband is no party to the arrangement.
At the Bourse, notwithstanding a fall of in
Consols, optimist ideas were in the ascendant.
Rente rose 2sc. for cash and 274 c. for account,
closing at 68fr. and 68fr. Sc., after having been
quoted as high as 68fr. 30c. Mobilier was without
change. Credit Fonder rose 40fr. and Italian 57ic.