The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

~Tar"RESe--FROM. PARIS.

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• PARIS, MONDAY Enema.
The French government journals are instructed
to deny that the French and English armies are
' marching to attack Pekin ; but the contradiction is
a mere play upon words. They confirm the news
that the Chinese commissioners refused to sign the
treaty of Tien-tsin, alleging the want of sufficient
powers, and that thereupon the French and English
ambassadors and the two armies advanced to
Thung-tchou, a town situated between Tien-tsin
and Pekin. After this "demonstration" the Patric
entertains the " conviction " that the Emperor of
China will send au order from Pekin to have the
treaty signed, and that hostilities will not be re-
sumed. This will very likely be the case, but if
so, it will only be because the Emperor of China,
entertaining a very different " conviction" from
that of the Petrie, is fully persuaded that the allied
troops are going to attack him without loss of time
unites he gives way. The advance of the armies is
manifestly caused by an apprehension of bad faith
on the part of the Chinese ; and it is ridiculous to '
say—as the Pays does—that there is " no sort of
foundation" for the rumours of a proximate
Iresumption of hostilities.
The government papers have all had the cue to
say " ditto " to Count Peraigny about the relations
between France and England. A curious instance
of this appears in this evening's Petrie. Last night
that journal contained an article by K Cm:bevel
Clarigny, exhibiting much soreness at a state-
ment attributed to the Observer, that the
French troops in China had been in the way of
the English rather than of any use to them, and
that their rifled cannons were only playthings com-
pared to the Armstrong guns. M. Clarigny went
on to say that if the Observer would only organise
a pleasure train to convey 100,000 French soldiers
with their " playthings" as far as Canterbury, it
would be found that the " young artists would do
their work so effectually that parliament would be
relieved from the necessity of any further labours
concerning the fortifications." The meaning of
this not, it must be confessed, unprovoked sally
was that 100,000 Frenchmen, if they could only
land, would conquer England. But the Patric
having chosen a wrong moment for striking this
chord, has been compelled to eat humble pie, as
appears by the following paragraph, which is evi-
dently a communique :
We yesterday published, in answer to an English journal,
the Merrier, an article which has given occasion to wrong
interpretations as to the relations between Prance and
England. We regret this misunderstanding, and we dis-
avow every thought contrary to the ideas of conciliation
which animate the policy of the French government.
After this general adhesion, as unconditional as
that of Catherine Parr to Henry VIII.'s religion,
it is impossible to deny that the P aerie is a journal
bite peasant.
There has been a fall at the Bourse to-day in
consequence of the Bank of France having raised
its discount from 31 to 4i per oent. An advance
was only to be expected after the example set by
the Bank of England, but it was not thought that
the rise would be so considerable. Those who
were in the secret sold largely at the high
opening prices of this morning. The Rente
was first quoted for account at 701 r. 60c., but it
dropped to 70fr. 25c. for the close, being a fall of
135 e. on the day, and of 25c. from Saturday. For
oath the fall was 25c., the last price being 70fr.
15a Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c. The Orleans Railway
fell llfr. 260. ; Lyons, 6fr. 250. ; Southern, 3fr.
75c. ; and Eastern and Northern, 2fr. 50c. each.
Western was 2fr. 50c. higher.
A great many patents have been taken out in
France of late years for stopping runaway horses,
and in almost every saddler's shop we see en-
gravings of apparatus devised to squeeze a horse's
throat, or nose, or to catch up one leg and throw
him down. But to all this machinery it is objected
that if a horse is really running away at a great
peas he cannot be stopped suddenly by violent
means without considerable risk both to
man and beast. A very ingenious, and,
as I think, valuable, invention, operating
upon the horse's movements by moral force
alone, was publicly tried in the Champs de Mars
last week, and is described in the Morsiteur of Nov.
10. The inventor is K Levique, late of the
Guides and of the cavalry school of Sanmur. His
plan will assuredly not be approved of by those who
object altogether to the use of blinkers, for it is
but an extension of the blinker system. The parti-
sans of blinkers, however, for horses in harness,
are, up to the present time, in an enormous ma-
jority. The leading idea of M. Leveque's invention
is to induce the horse by his own natural instincts,
and without any mechanical force, to hold his head
in such a position that the bit shall act properly
upon his mouth. Inside of each blinker he place
a sort of leather fan, called a lunette (forret, which
opens or shuts at pleasure by means of a safety rein.
When developed, it only partially blinds the horse,
and it is in the natural action of the horse to avail
himself of the sight left him that the virtue of the
system consists. If he throws up his head to run
away, and the lunette is opened, he MD see nothing
but the sky, and he then inevitably brings his
head down to the proper position in order that
he may see straight before him. If, on the con-
trary, the habit of the horse be to escape the action
of the bit by curving his neck till the chin almost
touches his breast, the apparatus may be so ad-
justed as to prevent him from seeing anything but
the ground, and he naturally raises his head. Thus
the lunette acts both as a bearing-rein and a
martingale, but more certainly, and without the
dangers and inconveniences of those contrivances.
For horses addicted to shying the apparatus is par-
ticularly useful. As soon as the horse pricks his
ears to shy at any object lying in the road, the
driver has only to raise the lunette, and the animal,
seeing only the distant horizon, and
nothing immediately about him, will go by or
even right through the thing which frightened him
without taking the least notice. On the
Champs de Mars I saw horses go unhesitatingly
through the flames and smoke of lighted lumps of
straw, which but a moment before, when the
lunettes were folded, they could not be made to ap-
proach. The apparatus is intended chiefly for
horses in harness, but there is a form of it adapted
for saddle-horses ; this latter, however, I have not
seen in action. Of course a hard-mouthed horse
cannot unfailingly be prevented from running away
merely by the use of this lunette, but a great deal
is done towards diminishing the danger when his
head is got into a proper position, because he will
then surely be pulled up before long, and in the
meanwhile the driver can guide him. Ido not ap-
prehend that the invention can be put forward as a
cure for positive vice, but for timid horses and
horses with defective sight I have no doubt that it
will be found of great utility.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company have
given notice that their retina of wave money will be in-
Smelled on slid from the let Jiii,usry next, in consequence
of the rise iu the freight of coati rind in the freight awl coot
of nand dons.

INDIA.

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By the arrival of the overland mail We receive
advice. from Calcutta to Oct. 8, and frtan Madras
to Oct. 14. The Calcutta news, which is a week
later than that received via Bombay, is scanty.
Lord Canning has made arrangements for leaving
Calcutta on Nov. 15, and sailing up the Gogra to
Fyzabad to decide as to its navigation and per.
sonally inspect the working of the new talookdar
magistrate system. Returning to Benares, the
Governor-General will there permanently establish
his camp for the cold weather. Thence he will
make flying visits to the chiefs of Central India and
the Deccan. He will return to Calcutta early in
March, when the usual term of oflloe of five years
will have expired. The belief is general that he
will be succeeded by Lord Elgin, though it is
understood that, unless the country is perfectly
quiet and taxation is working smoothly, he may
remain another hot season in India.
Sir Hugh Rose after being present at the opening
of the East Indian Railway to Rajmahal with Lord
Canning and Mr. Grant on the 15th, will sail up
the Ganges to Allahabad, and form the first of his
cold weather camps of instruction at Cawnpore.
Since the issue of the government manifesto, two
Volunteer Rifle corps havebeen formed in Calcutta.
The two clubs which formerly existed in Lahore
have been amalgamated into a corps, and clubs are
being organised in Allahabad, Agra, and Delhi.