The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TIIIIDAT EYNXINO.

MM. Isaac Perste*, Thurneysse n, Hottingnier, and
B. Fould left Paris this morning for Biuritn, to have
an interview with the Emperor. There can be no
doubt that they Sr. summoned to confer with his
Majesty upon the subject of the long-pending ques-
tions relative to the Pyrenean network of railways.
11 A letter from Biarritz says.—" The Queen of
Spain lately charged General Marchesi, .Captain-
General of Navarre, to present her respects to the
Emperor and the Empress of the French, on the co.
elision of their being so close to the Spanish frontier,
He arrived on Friday at Biarritz with one of his
aides-de.oamp, and had the honour of being received
by their Majesties to-day (Saturday)." The same
letter adds: —" A handsome tent has been erected
here for the reception of the Empress before and
after her baths. It is at a very short distance from the
Her Majesty has already commenced bathing."
General Pariset, who commands the French troops
still remaining at Constantinople, hes paid, without
discussion, the extraordinary bill sent in by the
Russian government fordsmages done to the embassy.
The claim is considered exceedingly mean in prin-
ciple, and it is proved to be exorbitant in detail.
But the line taken is to consider it as proceeding
from the over zeal of functionaries at Constantinople,
and not as the result of direct orders from St. Peters-
burg.
The Phare de la Manche says that ship building
is going on with extraordinary activity at Cherbourg.
The government staff of carpenters is to be augmented
by 200 men. The Ville de Nantes, 90 guns and
900 horse power, is to be completed with
all speed, the Sebastopol, 70 guns and 900
horse puwer, will be forthwith put upon
the stocks, and the transformation of the Dona-
werth is to be hastened. The Loiret, mixed trans-
port, will be launched in September, and the
Somme, another mixed transport, in the same month.
The Reeolue and Clarinda frigates are to be pat on
the stooks at the next high tide, to be converted into
mixed vessels. An expectation is still entertained at
Cherbourg that the Queen of England will come
there this autumn, and it is raid that the Emperor
will meet her there. Bat I rather think this rumour
is bat the echo of a bygone plan. _

At the Bourse the Rent, was a shade firmer than
it has been of late, but there was a further fall in
railways. The lOnte for account accomplished& rise
of 100., closing at 70fr. 600, after having been at
70fr. 350. For cash there was a fall of 10c., the last
pries being 70fr. 40c. A great many orders for
sale of railway shares arrived this morning, in conse-
quence of the panic of yesterday. There was ulti-
mately a recovery from the lowest prices of the day,
bat still most of the lines closed some francs lower
than yesterday. The fall was greater for cub than
for account, the sales being for the most part made
by bona fide holders of sto:t who are losing confi-
dence, owing to the long continued depression. It
appears that the diminution in the receipts of the
working lines is not the only reason for French
railways being out of favour. Another is
that the government having met its face
against the system of raising money upon
obligations which did not participate in
a dividend, and having driven the directors
to issue new shares instead, whenever they wished to
increase their capital, a general decrease in dividends
is apprehended. Credit Mobilier fell 15fr. for cub,
and rose 2fr. 50c. for account. The Sardinian rail.
way Victor Emmanuel was in considerable demand,
and rose 7fr. 60c., it being announced as certain that
the line will open next month. _ _

The Doke of Malakoff is expected at &mu on
Sept. 6, to witness the " carrousel " which will be
given on that day by the Imperial Cavalry School.
Madame 11;stori, pursuant to her own special re.
quest, has been authorised by the Minister of State
to play Medea, at the Opeta Comique, on September
4, for the benefit of the Society of Dramatic Artistes.
Tois will be the only occasion on which she will play
in Paris before April next.

The Earl of Westmoreland, who hes been for the
het two days in Pad!, leaves this afternoon for
L,odon.

Oenersl Ruiz, who, in consequence of the recent
events in Spain, has, se is known, sought refuge in
France, has chosen Montpellier for his residence.

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 22nd contains the
royal decree which, as announced by telegraph, dis-
solves the National Guard, and it publishes the report
on which the decree is founded. The report, which
is of very great length, begins by declaring that
"reasons of the highest order, which arise from the
necessity of preserving intact the bases of society,'
have caused the ministers, after " ripe and conscien-
tious deliberations," to propose the dissolution of the
National Guard; it then throws on the National Guard
of Madrid the responsibility of having commenced
the recent sanguinary outbreak in that capital, and
on that of the provinces of having continued it ;
it asserts that the National Guard, as a body, though
it rendered services in the civil war, has on the whole
been "an element of incessant perturbation, aid the
incarnated spirit of protest against all established
powers, whatever their origin or policy;" and it pro-
claims that "the experience of the past proves that
the existence of the National Guard is incompatible
with the normal and regular government of the
stater The other Madrid journals contain long de-
tails of the entrance of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria
(announced by telegraph) into the capital.

(17/011 ♦ SPECIAL COWS PONDIET.)

They have at length taken off their mask. The
National Onard,which has everywhere been dissolved, '
will not be reorganised. The decree which detini- I
Lively abolishes that institution has now appearedjoed
Senor Rios Roses he, taken the opportunity to make I
en exposé of the pliey of the government. The
reactionary party has carried everything its
own way. Rios Rosas and O'Donnell, though hostile I
at bottom to everything like a National Guard,
would not themzelves have ventured entirely to
suppress it; they would have preferred to have a
kind of civic guard, composed of the tax-payers up
to a certain standard. But the Absolutists, who are
only waiting for the total suppression of the
national militia to raise the Carlist banner,
have sucoeeded by the prevailing influence of the
ring Consort and of Concha. O'Donnell and Rios
Roses have yielded.
From the provinces there is bat little news. At
Barcelona several factories have stopped woskingi
and others only go on for three days in the week ;
the country being, it is said, quite inundated ',with
merchandise which has been brought in by
smugglers.
From Bigamy we bear that the rain has come at last
to dissipate the fears which were entertained for
the males crop, which is now med.
At Tarragona, however, the crop is a bad cue;
the ears of own have not received selecting nourish-
ment, and the walnuts sad other fruits, of which
there is so large an ezportatimi to England, are this
year almost mainly lost.
The leader of the democratic party, the Marquis