The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

THE CONFERENCE.

(From yaliatisy'a Nemitau .)

The plenipotentiaries empowered to change into a
definitive treaty the preliminaries of Villafranea are
to meet this day (August 6), at Zurich. These ple-
nipotentiaries are:

For Fnmee—The Baron of Bourqueney and the
Marquis of Bannerdle.
For Austria—The Count of Colorado and the
Baron of Meyeenberg.
For Sardinia—The Chevalier dee Ambroie.

" By the margin of Zurich's fair waters," as the
wag rays, the coefereace is re Italy to to sociable this day
to she effect to the basal of pesosegresdaposat Villanoca.

The Independanee Beige 'eye :—" We ere assured
that there will be no official neeption on the °masks of the
If Is of the 15th of Augur, the Emperor intending to set out
immediately for the Pyrenees." "It le expected," 'eye
another journal, "that the Emperor will stay a foelnight at
81. ftenveur, when the court goes into the country, the Em-
peen going straight on to Biarritz, where his Majesty
would afterwards rejoin her. Orders have been given that
everything should be ready to receive the court at the im-
priall villa on the 18th testant."

Prinoe Louie of Bavaria, brother of the Empress
of Austria, Is about to mom (norpitatically) Mdlle.
11,tedst, a Jewess, the daughter of a jeweller. The lady
will assume tits We of Strome, do Walborn'.

Commander Boneompagni, late Sardiaian Com-
minions/ Extmordtztary In Tasesay, artirad at Turin on
the 4tb, (rum Flateaer.

A Turin letter in the Indipendonee Beige stair
that a defensive onalederation appears to have beat decided
on beween Modena, Tummy, and the Lrgatione. For
military pavers the three states will be mimicked es one,
sad the oommand of all the central forces of Italy will be
given to one immentl.

M. Yvon, the painter, who accomp►nied the French
may to Italy, is order to sketch on the spot the priecipal
events of the campaign, bee had an audience of the Emperor
at the Palace of St. Cloud, for the purpose of meriting to
his Ilajesty two large sketches of the battles of Magenta seed
llolferisn The Emperor examined than with greet atts•
tion, and approved of them. Theft sketches end a espresso.
Moon of the interview of the Emperors at Vilkfraoce will
he executed of the same size u the paintinp relating to the
Crimean war at Verlaine*, and will be plead la the same
TOM.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

MOM OWN OWN

PARIS, BIINDAY EVIIIIINO.

Like all the world of Paris, I have paid a visit to
the camp commonly caw the °amp of St. Mane, but
designated by the Moisiteur as the camp of Vin-
cennes. Either name is equally appropriate, for the
white tents dot the whole plain, about a mile and
a half square, which lies between the Vin-
cennes tower and the pretty woods which skirt the
village of St. Maar. Parisians of all classes flock
thither at all hours of the day to welcome their
friends home after their perilous campaign, and to
enjoy the novel and interesting sight of a large
army under canvas. Omnibuses run from the Bas-
tille every five minutes, and reach the outskirts of
the camp in less than half an hour. But visitors
who object to much walking in • broiling sun would
do well to take a carriage from Paris if they wish
to see the camp comfortably and thoroughly. There
are various roads through it, along which carriages
are allowed to go up to eight o'clock
in the evening, and you can get out and
walk about whenever you like. There are to be
80,000 men in this camp before the 12th, and I sup-
pose these were upwards of 40,000 there yesterday.
Troops are arriving every few hours by the Lyons
Railway, • branch of which brings them to Charen-
ton, almost close to the camp. At the station an
officer is in waiting to guide each corps to the
ground marked out for it without loss of time. The
centre of each regiment is designated by a post
with the name and number inscribed upon it. I saw
three or four regiments arrive. Although they had
not had • regular night's rest since they left Italy,
and came by rail from Marseilles with not more
than two hours halt by the way, the appearance of
the men generally was very healthy. I had heard
so much about their damaged uniforms that 1 was
sitonished to see how well clothed and equipped they
were. It is tree that I noticed many a darn in
coatees and pantaloons, but they were never-
theless very clean and serviceable. The men
marched along with buoyant step, and a proud
happy look, as knowing that they were about
to receive a great reward for the dangers they had
passed in the congratulations and praises of their
admiring countrymen. Already many friends both
of officers and men had found them out at the
station, and walked by their sides to their camping
ground, eagerly asking questions all the time. As
soon as a regiment reaches its destination the
colonel gives the word to halt and form line. The
adjutant then summons a non-commissioned officer
from each company, and dictates to them orders
which they take down in a note book. While this
is going on the men take off their knapsacks, and
hastily refresh themselves—those, that is to say,
who have money in their pockets, and they are often
not a few—with a glass of brandy, absinthe, or
curie, which they find awaiting them on little tables
set up with wonderful rapidity in the rear of the
line by the cantinieres who follow the regiment.
These cantiniires, it must be stated, are not always,
nor even generally, pretty girls in uniform,
such as we see on the stage, but ugly
old women in cotton gowns, who are nevertheless
very good creatures. Almost every regiment has
one pretty, or at least fine-looking, cantiniere, who
marches at the head of the troops immediately be-
hind the colonel on parade days; but her little keg
alone would go but a short way when the regiment
is thirsty, and the main part of the refreshment
service is performed by the plain-looking ladies
aforesaid. I spoke to several who had been at
Magenta and Solferino. Bat the word sac ei dos,
" fall in," speedily calls the newly-arrived men from
their drinking booths. The calfskin knapsack, sur-
mounted by the canteen and often by a camp kettle
or a loaf of bread, springs up from the ground as if
by magic, and is on the soldier's back in a trios.
The men, I observe, put on their own knapsacks in
a moment; the English soldier generally requires
the assistance of • comrade, partly on ac-
wont of the stiffness of the snipe and
buckles, but mainly, I fancy, because if the
four corners of the knapsack should happen
not to set according to the precise regulation angles
from the shoulders, Colonel Pipeclay would be apt
to get into a tremendous passion. The men now
form companies, pile arms, lay their knapsacks on
the ground, and in au incredibly short space of time
erect their tents. I have spoken of an army under
canvas, but few people perhaps form to themselves
an idea of what very light canvas it is. The entire
army at St. Maur sleeps under the tents abri—a
modern invention. Each soldier carries on his back
a morsel of canvas and a light pole, weighing altoge-
ther not more than ljlb. Six of them tie
their pieces of canvas together, prop them up with a
pole, and there is a tent for six men. I have seen an
improvement upon this, invented by Mr. Bennett,
an Englishman, who makes the men's clocks serve
as a knee abri, and thud saves the weight of the
canvas, which serves for no other purpose. Moreover
bis tent is much higher and more spacious than the
French one. Those which I saw at Vincennes are
indeed very low. There is but just room for the
six men to lie straight, and the sloping canvas is
but • few inches from their mouths when they are
in a recumbent position. In cold or wet weather,
when it is necessary to close the tent completely,
they must, I should think, suffer from want of air.
In this beautilal weather, however, the tents are

left open at both ends all night. A little straw
shaken on the ground under these tents constitutes
the soldier's only couch. There are plenty of
blankets at Vincennes for those who like them, but
many regiments, and the Zonaves among the num-
ber, reject the blankets as cumbersome and
useless in this dry warns weather. The
camp is admirably provided with water
brought from the Marne by subterranean pipes
and stored in four large reservoirs. Bread is
served out every other day at the fort of Vincennes-
Five slaughter-houses, placed at convenient die-

tames round the camp, supply it with meat. An
immense supply of wood far cooking is collected in
the centre. A part of the army for whom room
cannot be found in the plain of bt. Maur is quar-
tered in the barracks of Fort Cherenton, or en-
camped in the neighbourhood of Maisons Alfort.
It was stated by mistake that the Emperor went
to the camp of Chalons yesterday evening. His Ma-
jesty, accompanied by the Emprees, passed the
afternoon of yesterday at the camp of St. Maur.
But this day at 2 o'clock the Emperor left Paris for
Chalons; it is said that he will return on Wed-
nesday.

Immediately before setting out his Majesty re-
ceived at the Tuileries in a private audience Prince
Richard de Metternich, to present an autograph
letter from the Emperor of Austria..
The Debate contains the following correspondence
from Vienne, dated August 2:
The nearer we appeoech the period Azad for the meeting of

Zurich. the difficolues which POEM Hkely to adjourn a I ac:ific
understanding ■ppesr to become greater and greater. Among
the difficulties which ere tu from being oohed,
Here le ta the Bret place the great question
whether the Venetian fortresses are to be oc-
cupied by a garrison exclusively Austrian or by mixed
troops bekagiog to the future confederation. The political

esseciation of the Peebtrular nations being socompligred, It
would mom that ere of them being equally intemated in
the meletinesee of order and independence in the me-
isientied states, ought to have a right to sued Poe quota of
troop to the fortresses in question. Such is the system of
the Germanic Cmiederation, upon the basis of which it has
been thought that of Italy would be organised. Doubts
have, however, been raised, alter what has lately passed In
Gainsay, whether that system would be predesly the best
that could be adopted for Italy. But it Is already plain to
bran, from whet Is mid Pro, that Austria will not in say
owe renounce her right to the exclusive oommathra of the
Italian fortresses left under her rule. She will
sever consent to allow any military fors but
her own to enter those place', and above all
will she object to receive • single soldier of the Meg
of &Minis in her garrisons. And yet this peat
peed= ought to be settled diplomatically before the pleni-
potentiaries meet at Zurich. A new project which bee been
talked of is this—that the Italian confederation should con-
struct two or three first-clue fatness' at their common ex-
pense. Bat Austria, whom financial resources diminish day
by day in the moat alarming manner, contra agree to this
plan ; she feels that her own formidable fortresses are quite
sufficient to secure her exclusive domination in Venetia, and
she has no interest in the erection of federal fortresses in
Italy.
The Tame, of whom three battalions are en-
camped at St. Maur, are now the lions of Paris.
They seem to get leave of absence very easily, for I
have seen numbers of them about the streets within
the last two days. They are followed by a wonder-
ing mob, among whom there are always numbers
ready and desirous to treat them to wine, which, in
spite of the precepts of Mahomet, they imbibe very
freely. Although they carry, many of them at
least, their formidable side-arms, I have not heard
of any instance of their misoonducting themselves.
Those that I have seen are all fine-looking, well-
built men, rather above the average height, exceed-
ingly active and lithesome. Many of them are quits
black; others copper-coloured; and some few are
as fair as Europeans. I believe there is here and
there a Frenchman among them. Sometimes a party
of them may be seen driving about the Boulevards
in an open carriage,accompanied by owls, oats, dogs,
and monkeys, which they have brought with them
from Italy. It is said that the Emperor intends to
form a special battalion of these men for his Impe-
rial Guard, to be selected from the 2nd provisional
regiment of " Tirailleurs Algeriena," which has
just been dissolved. Their uniforms are distin-
guishable from those of the Znuaves, by the baggy
breeches being blue instead of red.
Among the many novelties talked of for the
approaching fetes, a very striking one will be the
appropriation, for decorative purposes, of fifty-two
temporary observatories which have lately been

erected in different parts of the city for what is
called the " triangulation of Paris." These edifices,
one of which may be seen in the Place de la Con-
corde, are skeleton towers built of massive timbers,
and as high as, or, I should think rather higher than,
Nelson's column in Trafalgar•square. It is said
that they are all to be covered with painted canvas,
so as to look like real stone towers,and to be illumi-
nated in the evening.

PARIS, SATURDAY BYRXTRO.

A Turin letter of August 4th, published in the
Correspostdaesesflier, states that Lord John
Russell's wife lately wrote to a friend in Turin as
follows :—" I am glad that my husband had nothing
to do with the war, end I shall be more pleased still
if he oan avoid having anything to do with the
peace, as it at present stands."
The Minister of War will visit the camp on
August 12, to make final arrangements for the entry
of the army into Paris on the 14th. There will be
no other cavalry on this occasion than that of the
Imperial Guard. The difficulty of transporting
horses is so great that it ha. been found impossible
to get the cavalry regiments home from Italy in
time.

The Bourne is again remarkably firm. Although
the amount of business done was still comparatively
limited there was much more animation than we
have seen for some days. The Rent. has now fairly
turned the difficult corner of 70f. which had long been
regarded as the utmost limit of the rise. Notwith-
standing a good many sales to realise profits when
that quotation was attuned the upward movement
continued. In the course of the day the Rente for
account was done sa high as 70.40, and it left off,
very firm, at 70.25 with a rim of 30e. The cash
price was 70 ~ with a rise of 25c. hiobillier rose
8.76. Railway shares were in fair demand at an
improvement of from 2.60 to 6E
There is very much talk now of great measures about
to be taken by the Emperor for the encouragement
of trade and industry. A reduction of import duties
upon raw materials, and the speedy completion of
various lines of railway, are spoken of. It is, more-
over, said that besides the 160 millions surplus of the
' war loan, the Emperor thinks of raising an indus-
trial loan " of 260 millions, to be laid out in public
works. I cannot guess whether rumour, of this sort
are likely to give confidence to trade, but I am not
surprised that efforts should be made with that view,
for the stagnation in business is truly deplorable.
The reduction of the bank's discount from 4 to 3i
per cent. is a measure which does not touch the
public. For a long time put commercial bills have
not been discountable at all except at ruinous rates.
Few bankers will look at paper at all. People in
good credit go to them in vain, and entreat them
to see the excellent signatures they have to their
bills ; the answer is, " It does not matter how good
your bills are, we are not discounting at preeent."
In the rare cues where buiness is done, 10 per cent.
is commonly paid, and that, be it understood, for
good bills—bills, in common parlance, " as good as
the bank." As for small tradesmen, they can only
get accommodation from usurers at 40 and 60 per
cent.

An artillery officer has been sent to Honfieur with
instructions to restore the battery called the hospital
battery in that port, and to arm it with 12 rifled
cannon of large calibre.
The limes was seized today.
The Sardinian government hu found it necessary,
in consequence of the present state of feeling in
Piedmont and Lombardy, to threaten fines against all
hotel keepers and others who shall refuse to provide
lodgings for the French troops whenever legally re-
quired so to do.
All the Austrian prisoners in !trance are to be sent
home immediately; the first detachments will march
to-morrow.

The report that the French government had
inch dto Sardinia the gunboats that were on Lake
Garda was lately contradicted, and I believe the
boats in question are on their way home to France;
but several Piedmontese journals, arrived to-day,
state that Sardinia has bought a large quantity of
munitions of war from the French army of Italy.
The ladies of Milan, who proposed to have pre-
sented the Empress with an Album, have, it is said,
hit upon another gift, in consequence, perhaps, of
I Manzoni having declined to write the dedication.
They have ordered from the eminent artist, Signor
Vela, a piece of allegorical sculpture, representing
" Regeneration and Hope."
M. Outroult, who wss the principal editor of the
Preue when it belonged to M. Millaud, is about to
bring out • new paper, to be called L'Opi•ioa
Natweale, the first number of which will appear on
the 16th.

A new volume by M. de Lamartine, entitled
" Alexander the Great," has appeared this week, and
is spoken of u throwing a new light upon a very
ancient page of history.
A few days since, a man named Fusnot, while sit-
ting quietly in the Café No. 1, Boulevard Bonne
Nouvelle, wu wounded by a projectile, which struck
him without aoy report being heard. This noiseless
shot made considerable noise in the quarter, and dark
rumours were in circulation about mysterious air
guns and secret societies. It results, however, from
the report of M. Devisine, the eminent armourer of
the Boulevard deb habeas, that the ball which hit M.
Fusnot came from a very ordinary pistol or rifle, and
he attributes the evident to a wide shot from one
of the shooting vineries in the neighbourhood.