The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EVERDIO.

I am happy to announce that it iv M. de Per-
signy's intention to give a favourable answer for
New Year's-day to all the applications for permis-
sion to start new journals which have been ad-
dressed to the ministry of the interior since his
accession to office. M. Emile 011ivier's paper may
therefore be expected to appear.

I believe there is no doubt that M. Thouvenel
bas written a diplomatic note to Austria in favour
of Count Teleki.

The Patric announces, for the second time, that
the Viceroy of Egypt is about to make a pilgrimage
to Mecca, but I have reason to believe that the
news is unfounded.

The Bourse continues to be much depressed.
The heavy fall in the Rente yesterday has been
followed by the further fall to-day of 20c. for cash
and 25e. for aooount, the latest price in each case
being 67fr. 75c. In other mecuritiee,which hitherto,
in consequence of the little business doing, have
been less affected than the Route, the fall was more
serious than it has been for a long while. Mobilier
fell 121 r. 50c. The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 75c. ;
Northern, 7fr. 50c. ; Lyons, fffr. 25c. ; Western,
Mr. ; Southern, 3fr. 75c ; and Eastern, 2fr. 50e.
The Mires Bank shares were much depreciated.
The rumours about the Ottoman loan and the
parties concerned in it, are, to say the least, quite
as unfavourable as ever. No credit is attached to
a paragraph in the Conatitstientiel denying in general
tenna the interference of government with a certain
prosecution.
Last evening the thaw was decided, and the
night was as mild as in summer ; a soft south wind
and a blur moonlit sky so beguiled the senses that
people were standing about i► their gardens at
midnight and almost expecting to hear the night-
ingales. But this morning, about 10 o'clock, the
wind chopped round to the north-east, and it is
again freezing hard. The streets are in such a bad
state from the frozen "slush," left by the thaw,
that carriages can only get along at a foot-pace.
Professor Becquerel, of the Institute, has slipped
down iu the Jardin des Plantes, and fractured his
thigh. He is going on well.

The discrepancy in the accounts of the sale of
Prince Soltikoff's museum is now cleared up. It
appears that the Emperor only purchased his speci-
mens of ancient arms of Europe for the mere trifle
of 10,0001. sterling. The bulk of the collection,
including the Eastern anus, and a vast assemblage
of works of art, has become the property of Baron
&there, wbo proposes, it is said, selling them by
auction about the month of April.

PARISI THUMSDAT ETIVINO.
It is hoped that on the let January the Emperor
will announce the conclusion of commercial treaties
with Prussia and Belgium.
There was a serious fall at the Bourse to-day,
which is attributed partly to the decline of in
Conwda partly to very sinister rumours about the
affairs of an eminent financier, and partly, perhaps
principally, to the disappointing news that the en-
trance fee of If., which was thought as good as
abolished, is, after all, to be maintained. The
Route fell 443. for cash and 35c. for account,
closing at 67.06 and 08. Mobilier fell 10f. The
Orleans Railway fell 5f.; Southern, 3.76 ; Northern
and Lyons, 2.50 each ; and Eastern, 1.25. Western
was without change.
I hear that M. Alex. Dumas will ho obliged to
give up his Naples journal, the INAlipetedente, and
that he is coining back to Paris very shortly.

M. de Saint Lige, one of the oldest ineiiibers of
the staff of the Deliats, is just dead, at the age of
73. He was an old soldier, and his speciidite was
to write military articles in time of war. His de-
scriptions of the campaign iu the Crimea will be
freshly remembered.
Snowballing in the Tuileries gardens was carried
on to such an extent on Christmas-day that it be-
came necessary to send for troops to protect the
public. A parcel of young scamps systematically
assailed every well-dreesed person, particularly
holies who wore bonnets worth spoiling. One
young man, supposed to be an Englishman, used
his cane iu self-defence, and • regular row was the
consequence. Many bear-skin caps belonging to
grenadier guards who came to restore order were
seen rolling about in the Wow. The troops were
unarmed and could do little, but ultimately a body
of sergeuts de vile cleared the gardims and arrested
several of the snowbaLlens.

To-day there is a cold, disagreeable thaw, and
the streets are in a horrible state, notwithstanding
the great and praiseworthy eiertiona of the tallies.

The Lake Windermere is, says the Kendal Mer-
rum now frozen over, and number of skaters may daily
he seen plying their healthy and invigorating amusement
ou the glassy surface of the beautiful lake.