The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNINDAT Emu No.

The Indepenclanee Beige, which has been accused
of making news when it has none, says i►e are in •
"situation politique oompletement immobilises
and this is true with a vengeance. In the absence
of facts one Is more disposed than otberst;ss to listen
to on dits, at the risk of fincintg them only
canards.

Some days ago it wu announced that France was
about to lend Turkey some administrative offroirs—
intendants of Finanec—or what not. The 'torment
wu in due course denied. It Is not impossible,
however, that we may yet find there was fire where
the smoke wes seen. It has been mystor:ously
hinted to me (with positive instructions not to tell)
that there is a grand Turkish plot now hatching here,
according to which " the sick man " is henceforth
to follow the prescriptions of his French physician,
to the virtual exclusion of all other advisers what-
ever. Freed from the oightmare presence of the
terrible De Redcliffe, end flush of English money,
Turkey is supposed to offer a gcod field for French
exploitation. Two or three high Orientsl
tionaries are named in connexion with the scheme,
which is also said to find favour with an exalted
personage. The prevailing principle appears to be
that of regenerating and strengthening Turkey,
white admitting "no brother sear the throne."
Various details are mentioned as to the measures in
contemplation ; for instvsce, the suppression of the
privileges now extended to Christian foreign sub-
jean, and the substitution of a bettor general law,
the introduction of a Mont-de-Pietk, and of various

commercial novelties (probably a Credit Mobilier
and ditto Fancier), and though last, sot lost, some
financial scheme for keeping op Turkish credit,
which probably means a wholesale dealing in
Turkish Bonds on the Paris Bon. se. I give all this
as I received it—cum grawo.

The Press* falls foul of the liforosioepOiroiticle,
apropos of the remark of that journal that had Lest
Palmerston been is power Russia would never have
obtained from Sardioia the lease of 1/Matrixes. The
Presse observes that without knowing what Lord
Palmerston might have done it may venture to
'mart that England most not hope to prevent the
maritime expansion of all other nations. It in-
Mamas the Russian, the American, and the French
maritime progress ; admitting that though France
has put her navy on a " respectable footing" she
has too much neglected her merchant saris/.
Other countries, says the Presse, w;1l follow in the
same warm; and England most " make the best of
it," for it would be a &Moult task even for
Lord Palmerston, to oppose the oriverml tendency
to maritime increase under the specious pretext that
it is prejudicial to the rights of England as the first
maritime power in the world.
It is stated that the Austrian government is about
to increase the subvention of the Austria% Lloyd's
Company, in order to strengthen its heads against
the new Russian oompetitiou.
A telegram from Marseilles announces that the
hustled Mossolman party is intimidated by the firm-
ness of Said Pasha ; that several begs had been ar-
resbd and publicly exiled; and that several pachrs
sad beys, seemed of illegal exaction, had been con-
demned to the galleys.
M. de Bellecour, secretary to Baron Gros, will not
be free from his quarantine at Marseilles till four
o'clock this day. Meantime, the particulars of the
Chinese treaty have been received by private tele-
gram. The terms are generally the ease as those of
the English treaty. We have permission to send
ambassadors (resident). The Chinese may, or may
not, at pleasure. They are henceforth to discontinue
the use of the word barbarians. Indemnity is to be
given as for destruction of property, bat not for ex-
penses of war.
The Nord, returning to its &fawn of the lease of
the port of Villafrases to Russia, says that power,
tar from wishing to make a Gibraltar or a Toulon,
desires nothing more than to mks part in the great
commercial movement which is partly greeted by
her produce. It is to be expected that England,
whose merchants, together with those of Northern
Germany, have hitherto monopolised the foreign
trade of Russia, should regard with dissatisfaction
the determination of that country to ribs it into her

own hands. Austria, on her Part, will narnrally
dread any interference with the interests of Trieste.

L the psiseest dearth, not only of news bat of
canards, the Parisian ha:lauds have an opportunity
of taking a lesson in natural history in the heert of
their airy, which it comes net within the lassos of
the Jardin des Planes to give them. The Place
Vendome is the head-quarter not only of the
garrison, bar of the flying squadron, the swallows
of Paris. Here they congregate from all parts of
the city, and hold councils as to their general policy. I
At prtsent the sabjeet under discussion is evidently
their migration to winter quarters. If any mete
will betake him to this grand square at emit= he
will see the air darkened as by a cloud. The birds

separate themselves into three bodies—an advanced
guard, the main column, and the rear guard. k
this military order they wing their airy way to the
open country, remain there some hours, return, "a
having received the orders for the following day, fgis
off to their quarters. The object of these flights is
the teaching their young to use their wings on a
long march; and they are repeated daily till the
day of their migration arrives. This grand day is
said to have occurred last year on the feast of St.
MichaeL