The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

FRANCS.

PARIS, Sart. 24.

The Xing of the Belgians was to leave Biarritz
last night for Geneva via Marseilles, where it is
said he will confer with several important per-
sonages. It is supposed that the journey of Hs
Majesty is in some way connected with the proposal
of a magma at Brussels.
The report of the foundation of a kingdom of
Central Italy under the rule of the Count of Flanders
has been positively denied, and declared to be with-
out foundation.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Pamir, 831. r. 23.
The MUMS of the Senate publishes an Imperial
ukase ordering—

1. The concentration of all institutions of credit
under the ministry of finances.
2. The brae of five per cent. bank notes in ex-
change foe those at present in circulation; the draw-
ing to take place every year, commencing with the
year 1881, and to last for 37 years.
3. That all monies deposited with the bank are to
return three per cent. interest instead of two per
ant. as heretofore.
4. The term of service in the army to be 15 yeara,
and in the navy 14 years.
BT. PETERSBURG, Funky Many.

The interest on moneys deposited with the bank
is reduced from 3 to 2 per cent., instead of increased
from 2 to 3 per cent., as stated in the previous
telegram.

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Stn. 23.

The Director of the Police has refused to sanction
the publication of the statutes of the National
Society established for the pupae of promulgating
the reform of the Diet.

Upon this the Society has appealed to the Senate.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(110 X 0171 ORX

PARIS, FRIDAY ENZI,IRG.

The Pearls states that, according to a despatch sr
rived in Paris to-day, the Archduke Maximilian is
appointed Governor of Venetia, and is in all pre-
bability invested with extraordinary powers. The
same despatch is reported to announce that a con-
gress will assemble at Brussels under the presidency
of King Leopold. None of the other jao-nals confirm
this news, and nothing is known of it at the agency
1 where private telegraphic messages are usually re-
ceived. The announcement in the Pattie is cot
published in the form of a communiqui, and if truss,
which must be considered very doubtful, it can only
be founded on some accidental knowledge of
official intelligence. The Pays end Patric
both throw doubts upon the news from Zurich
that peace is to be signed between France and
Austria alone, the question of the Duchies standing
over, and Austria holding Piedmont to the prelimi-
naries of Villafranca. The Patric observes that the
intelligence appears to be traceable to an Austrian
source at Frankfort, and that its adoption by a tory
organ in London is no sufficient confirmation. As
to any positive information on the subject, the moat
profound silence is observed here in all those quar-
ters which are generally looked to for indications of
what is going on at court. The Italians in Paris
express extraordinary confidence that an will come
right, and that if anybody is to be deceived it will
be Austria.
In the Constiiutiannel M. Grangoillot undertakes

to answer the humorous article of the Debate, in
which M. Prevost Paradol exposed the prevailing
system of sending to the country papers from a
government office leading articles, ready oat and
dried, which are signed by various editors as if they
were their own product ions,and not unfrequently cited
afterwards by the ifoniteur As evidence of "public
opinion in the provinces." hat in the same way
the Monitory often quotes, as the principal feature
of the English press, paragraphs, with the origin of
which it has every morn to be well acquainted,
from one particular London journal. The Chastity-
amine!, following the approved principle in the
conduct of a controversy which teaches that raillery
should be met with reproving frowns, affects to be
very much shocked that the Debate should laugh at
so sad a matter as the barrenness of invention of the
French provincial press. The writer explains the
fact, which he laments in thi, way. It very
often happens that the entire staff of a country
paper consists of a single individual, who
iv at once printer, proprietor, manner,
and editor. The budget of such journals is com-
monly very restricted. Their distress for " copy"

led to the formation in Paris of an "honest and

intelligent agency," which "fur very small profits"
undertake* to supply them with matter, and hence
it happens that the same leading article often
appear& simultaneously in the north and in the
south of France. The necessity for this central
manufacture of political essays arose, u the Con-

stitugionnel would have its readers believe, out of
the discontinuance by the prevent government of
the bad practice of the monarchy of July, which on
every oocuion of importance 11111 in the habit of
' sending elaborate articles into the departments, for
publication by all the papers that would take them.
The country editors were very sorry to find the
imperial government scrupulous not to exercise
undue influence upon public opinion, departing from
the ways of its foregoer., and ceasing to furnish them
with matter gratis. Hence the advent of the" honest
agency " as a mere private speculation. Now, I
apprehend that if the independent Paris journals
were quite ea free to speak as the ministerial circular
pretends, they would not accept this statement of
the CYO as altogether correct. It is quite true that
in Louis Philippe'e time the provincial papers were
occasionally, perhaps even frequently, crammed by
his ministers. But it is important to observe that it
was not the government, but the ministry which
furnished the articles. The opposition could and
did do the like, and therefore the mina:sera in thia
kind—of the constitutional ministers responsible to
parliament—were rather part of a system of
party organisation than a governmental trick. The
papers being then free wore ender no obligation to
adopt the ministerial correspondence rather
than the other. Now they have no choice.
, There is no opposition correspondence, and
lif they were system►tically to reject the