The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM ova OWN

[DINT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Pays and Patrie of this evening both USlm
distinctly that the signature of the preliminaries,
about which so much fuss has been made, was a mere
diplomatic formality. Some pleasantries are made
upon Lord Palmerston's want of memory as to
the day on which the signature took place.
But it is agreed on all hands that it was
not on Saturday, but earlier in the week. So that
the great and exclusive news is altogether blown out
of the water. It conveyed a totally false idea in
point of substance, and was not even right in point
of date.

The Monileur contains the official announcement
of the appointment of the widow of Admiral Bruat
to the post of " Gonvernante des enfants de France."

It is, perhaps, necessary to explain that by this ex-
pression it is intended to refer to the prospective pro.
geny of the Emperor Napoleon 111. and the Empress
Eugenie.

The budget of 1837 may be thus briefly summed
up:

Ordinary and extraordinary eapeeses 1,695,057,161 fr.
Ordinary and extraordinary receipts 1,710,474,512
Surplus of receipts
The ordinary expiate are 1,641,493,164
The ordinary receipts

Leaving a surplus of
Eztraordieary worts. 53,564,000fe
Extraordinary receipts., 1,129.286

Remainder 62,434,714

Leaving a sulphls of
as stated above. It must be borne in mind that, in
the above figures of the budget, the exceptional
expenses which the war necessitates aro not in.
eluded, such outlay being covered only by means
of extraordinary resources. The resources in qua.
tion are not set down in the receipts any more than
the exceptional outlay is amongst the expense..
Oily a credit of 2,000,000 fr. is to be opened to the
Minister of War to pay the military pensions of the
year 1857. _ _ _

The Bourse continues to be pressed down by the
knowledge that the greater part of the speculative
business done is unsound. To-day the great difference
between the price of the Rente for account and for
cash tempted many people to buy for money. In the
result there was a rise of 10e. for cash, and a fall of
130 c. for account, the respective prices being 72fr.10c.
and 72fr. 1330. There were considerable fluctuations
during the day, and the market closed heavily
at the lowest price.. Credit Mobilier rose 35ft.
The large investments made by the society in reports
are a source of great profit to the shareholders.
Railways were, on the whole, better. Lyons and
Mediterranean rase 40fr.; St. Rambert and Grenoble,
20fr.; and the little line of Graisseasac and Beziers,
30fr.
The Constilutionteel says:—" The plenipotentiaries

of Russia had hitherto oily appeared at the Tuileries
in plain clothes, for the special reason that, besides
the state of war, the acoession of Alexander U. has
not yet been notified to the Western Powers. Their
presence at the Imperial sitting of Monday in mi-
-1 form has been generally interpreted in the diplomatic
world as a certain indication of a speedy renewal of
official relations between the Court of St. Petenbarg
and those of France and England, and consequently
as a manifest proof of the favourable turn the Con•
ferences of Paris are taking." The reasoning of this
paragraph is anything but conclusive. The state
of war, modified by the armistice, still oxide,
and if it ever were a good reason for MM.
Orloff and Branow not donning uniform in
Paris, that the French Emperor is supposed
to be ignorant of the accession of the present Cur,
that reason would be still in force, however well the
Conferences may be going on.
The Progres dr .Pas de Calais reports that there
have been five most destructive fires at Arras within
the space of four-and-twenty hours.