The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-27 00:00:00

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Dorsey for wholesale Man. • • .ns abounded and
the..ate of interest on TO. 6 was low. The
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IA o ' guano qnestiop a una had greatly in-
fi the metallic markets, both silver and gold
ha fallen considerably. Bar silver had fallen
2do . per mark. Some of the miners had sus-
pended operations.
Rate of exchange improved ; bills on Europe, 42
per cent.
The American ship Chatsworth was wrecked on
the coast of Chili, fifty-five miles south of Valpa-
raiso. All !muds were saved.
CANTON, Ammer &
Business is again impeded by the rebels who
have possession of the panes.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. WIDEMSDAY EVENING.

The Patric alleges that Garibaldi has issued a
proclamation in which he asks for 12,000 resolute
volunteers to march immediately upon Rome.
The Pays endorses this unlikely news, but at the
same time adds that it comes through Turin, and
may possibly be propagated either by injudicious
friends or open enemies of Garibaldi For myself
I do not for a moment believe that Garibaldi
means to make war upon France. The " sensation
news" which the evening journals are now in the
habit of publishing by way of latest intelligence,
must always be r:oisiv:d with great reserve. Orly
the other day they took the trouble of saying that
all other journals were wrong in calling the
Austrian circular on the subject of the invasion of
the Roman states a "protest," but the great article
of the Constitutionnet signed Boni`ace saidl m terms
yesterday that Austria had "protested." The
Patric has propagated in large type at least a
dozen of capital pieces of false news within the last
fortnight.
The Patric in a leading article says that Lord
Dufferin's only object in urging FusdPachts to exe-
cute Ahmed Pacha wait to deprive the French
troops of a pretext for marching upon Damascus,
but that France will not be thwarted in her projects,
and will go through with her work in Syria, what-
ever happens. This of course mer-is, if it be any-
thing more than mere bravado, that the Emperor
has no intention of being bound by the convention
by which he promised to withdraw his troops from
Syria within six mouths. The same journal says
that Lord Palmerston contrived to get the son of
the Emperor of Moro= on board an English
yacht, and kept him there until it was too late for
him to meet Napoleon 111. at Algiers, and this
because the appearance at Algiers of the represen-
tative of a Court essentially Mahometan would
have been understood by the Arabs as an adhesion
to French policy in Syria. After this brilliant
story the Patrie complains of the " littleness" of
English statesmen.
The Opinion Nationale has reason to know that
a note issued by Lord Palmerston and Lord
John Russell (I discredit at any rate the double
signature) has been despatched to Turin, represent-
ing very strongly the dangers and inconveniences of
an attack against Venice. This note, it is said,
invokes an argument not new, namely, that such
an enterprise would furnish Austria with an excuse
for recovering all the ground which she has lost in
Italy, and that Piedmont could no longer reckon
upon any assistance from France. The Opinion
adds that it knows not upon what grounds the
English cabinet thus prejudges the intentions of the
French government, but that the public will Boon
be able to judge, because a copy of the note is to
appear to-morrow in the Times.
The Bourse was calm at the opening, but became
rather animated towards the close, and the Rente left
off with a rise of 20c. and 15c., at 68fr.70c. and
SKr. 75c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. The Orleans
and Lyons railways rose Sir. 75c. each, and
Not Jena and Western, 21r. 50e. each. In Eastern
and Southern there was no change.

The Mandate announces that the storm of the
night of the 24th and 25th having destroyed a part
of the rifle practice works at Vincennes, the opening
of the shooting match is postponed till Oct. 7.
I spoke a few days since of the importance of the
bold step taken by the prefectoral council of the
Bouches-du-Rhone in setting aside the last muni-
cipal elections for Marseilles. Their judgment,
now published at length in the papers, is well
worth attention. It seta forth a long list of gross
frauds perpetrated by the mayor and his agents,
in order to ensure the return of the government
candidates. The authorities struck out registered
electors by wholesale, and ou the other hand ad-
mitted great numbers of non-electors, many of
whom were strangers to the town, and some of
whom were not even Frenchmen, to vote. In
many instances the same individual voted over and
over again. The pull books were tampered with to
conceal the frauds. A president of a section arbi-
trarily arrested a voter just as he was coming
to the poll, and thereby struck terror into
the whole district, and the mayor illegally
nominated Dr. Bartholi, an influential oppo-
sition candidate, to the presidency of a sec-
tion in a small township in the suburbs
for the express purpose of getting him out of the
way on the day of the election. It was the mum-
cipality so elected—this beautiful specimen of
universal suffrage—which was presented to the
Emperor on September 8, by the mayor (M.
Lagarde), who had the hardihood to say on the
occasion "The municipal council by which I sin
now surrounded appears before your Majesty with
an authority [meaning a genuine mandate from the
people] hitherto unexampled."
The electric cable upon which the Emperor had
relied for communication with Paris during his
tour in Algeria having been unfortunately broken
on September 15, people have been at a loss to
know by what means he received and transmittal
intelligence with the rapidity which it is evident he
must have done. The explanation is this—the
imperial despatches were sent by an uninterrupted
telegraphic wire from Algiers to Oran, and
conveyed thence in a few hours by fast steamers
to Carthagens, between which city and Paris the
telegraph exists. The statement in the Moniteur
that the Empress only beard of the death of her
sister when she returned to France, is an official
fiction. That sad event was known at Algiers a
few hours after it occurred, and it was the real
reason why the Empress did not go to the ball,
although it was thought desirable to instruct the
Algiers papers to say only that she had heard cf
her sister being seriously ill. A special correspon-
dent of the Ruttier agency, who was suit to Algiers
Ito report the imperial progress, writes that on the
morning of the day of the ball the Emperor told
the Empress that her sister was in an alarming
state, and that the Empress thereupon expressed
her determination to start for Paris at once to see
her. The Emperor then felt compelled to say that
the journey would be useless, as the real fact was
that the Duchess of Alba was dead. Notwithstand-
ing her grief the Empress went through the ceremony
of laying the first stone of the Boulevard Eugenie,
but she refused to go to the ball, and struck out of
the programme the excursion to Blidah, where, it
seems, a wonderful orange bower had been prepared