The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAY ETINDIL

A note in the Monititur d. PArtnie of this day is
cited by a competent French authority me evidence
that the rumours of a reduction in the army, which
I descredited the other day, are totally unfounded.
The following is the text of the paragraph :
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Pursuant to Orders from the troperor. , The soldiers whom
term of mentos expires in 1868, end who yet remain with
their corps, will Immediately pass to the realm to receive
their disobergea In order to All op dm vacancies oecasioned
by these disabuses, as well m the average less from deed,
an imperial demon dated November 8, mils into active see-
rim all the menthe yet remaining on the lists of 1867. They
will not be required to loin their respective regiments till
the 20th or 26th of December.

The Mondeur de la Plate, a decidedly semi-
official journal, gives currency to the serious news
that the Emperor of Ramie has purchased the state
of Monaco, from the reigning Prince, for a large
sum of money. It is true that this journal guards
itself by introducing into the paragraph the words
" it is said"; but this cautious phrase cannot be con-
sidered as depriving of importance the deliberate
reproduction of a statement published by the Pram
as much as a fortnight ago.

Aooording to the In;itspendanee, the question of
giving a warning to the Ilnirnrs for its attack upon
the appointment of Jew oouncillors general in Alge-
ria was debated at a council of ministers held in Paris
on Friday, and the Prince Napoleon, against whom
personally the virulent article of the ultramontane
print was mainly directed, strenuously opposed the
adoption of any rigorous measure. It will, how-
ever, I think, be too much to hope that non-clerical
journals will enjoy the immunity to censure acts of
the government which has long been the privilege
of the Univers.
A letter states that a scheme is on foot in Cuba
for the importation of 80,000 free Chinese labourers,
it being considered hopeless, after the concession
made by France to the dogged opposition of Eng-
land to the slave trade,.to get negroes from Atria
any longer.
The Correspondant de Nuremberg mentions a
rumour that M. de Hubner intends to resign the
post of Austrian Ambsa4ador in Paris.

The Censtitutiossowl, in an article laudatory of the
new decree for extending to upwards of sixty towns
in France the system which has prevailed for a short
time in Paris and Lyons, of forcing bakers to keep a
three months' reserve of corn or flour constantly on
hand, draws.an argument in support of its favourite
doctrine, that all trade should be regulated by
government, from the comparative prices of bread in
Paris and London at the present moment. It asserts
that, while the prios of floor in the two capitals is
nearly the same, bread is more than one-third
dearer in London than in Paris. The figures it gives
are these:—The price of bread in Paris (making
allowance for the extra charge put on to com-
pensate the bakers for selling under the market
price when corn was scarce) is 30 centimes the
kilogramme; while in London the four pound loaf
costs 73 centimes, or more than 40 centimes the
kilogramme. This enormous difference against the
consumer the Constitutionowl attributes entirely to
the fact that in London bakers are unlimited in
number, and put their own prices upon the article they
eell—whereas in Paris their number is limited, and
the State fixes the price of bread. If the facts stated
by the French journal be correct, London people
will not, I should think, be slow to inquire " the
reason why." Bat the probability is that there is
some mansion in the Cinsehrutionnsl's figures, aris-
ing from want of attention to the different quota-
tions of different qualities of bread.

PARIS, BATII/WAT KYIXINO.

The Emperor and Empress are expected at the
Tuileries on Dee. 2. According to one announce"-
meat they will leave Compiegne on Nov. 30, and
stay two clear days at St. Cloud before returning to
Paris.

It is reported in Paris that Sir James nucleon,
who has been travelling in Italy on leave of absence,
has sent a report to his government on the state of
opinion there, and that, in consequence of the in-
formation sent by him, he was ordered to return
immediately to his poet at Tarim, where he had not
intended to go before January.
Lord Cowley is indisposed at Compiigne, and, as
it is said, obliged to keep his bed.
Admiral Putlatine, who negotiated the Russian
treaty.with China, has just passed through Paris, on
his way to St. Petersburg ; but before leaving he had
an interview at Compidgne with the Emperor, to
whom he was presented by the Count de Kiuelef.
M. de Bourqueney has arrived at Paris with the
deed bodies of his wife and newly-born infant, which
he will convey to Blois for interment. It is ru-
moured that he will not return to Vienna as Am-
bassador.

Madame Lightenvelt, the wife of the Dutch
Minister, died this morning, after an illness of three
or four dap, which wee not at first cousidaid
serious.

A recent letter speaks of domiciliary visits and
many arrests at Venice, and 'aye that a force of
8,000 Croats is oo the march to reinforce the garrison
af Milan.

The BOUM opened with greet &mune, tad the