The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EviNtxo.

I sent this morning by telegraph the entire text of
the article in the Moniteur, complaining sorely that
"for some time put" (depuis guelgue temps)" divers
organs" of the English press have taken pains to
circulate "odious calumnies" concerning the French
government ; and, therefore, I dare say that before
these lines reach Londoa you will have taken',
suitable notice of the subject. For my own
humble part, I do not feel called upon to plead to this
indictment. I cannot accuse myself of having
within a period which, by any reasonable construc-
tion, can be considered as indicated by the elastic
phrase depuis guelgue temps written anything which
even the French government would call an odious
calumny. Years ago, indeed, I said my say of the
coup dela, the dragooned universal suffrage, the
mock constitution, and so forth; but it is very
long since I ceased to dwell on any
such topics, considering that the acquiescence
of the French people in the regime under which they
live, entitled their ruler to be spoken of with the
respect due to the recognised head of a great and
friendly nation. My communications have long
been confined to statements of facts, none of which I
adopt without reasonable evidence, and to comments
of the most moderate, not to bay tame, kind upon
political events as they arise. I, therefore,
abstain from entering upon any defence of
the " divers organs " of the English press,
whichever they may be, to which the Moniteur
refers, observing merely that sine(' the professed ob-
ject of the paragraph is to warn the English people
against the excesses of their press, it is desirable that
the accusation should be made a little more specific, in
order that the public may have some guide to the
selection out of the immense mass of matter daily
written in England about French affairs to what the
French government meats to include under the expres-
sion odious calumnies. It results from one sentence in
the paragraph that the reason why the French go-
vernment can only reply to these calumnies by
contempt, is because they are anonymous; bat in
what other way it would reply if the obnoxious
articles were signed by the writers, after the modern
French fashion, dots not appear. At all event'', the',
newspapers are not anonymous; and the publishers
of all of them are quite as responsible for libellous
matter as the authors of the articles would
be, supposing they signed them. It is evidently
desirable that it should be known whether the
French government complains of fair and serious
criticism of its diplomacy, of disquisitions not alto-
gether flattering as to the political and financial state
and prospects of the country, or of grossly im-
probable gorier, written only to raise a laugh
and not believed by those who laugh at them, or
(and I have just been told that this is after all the
gravamen of the offence which has caused so much
irritation) the citation of au article from an American
paper. I must add, however, that many people
—unable to believe that at this moment
when the fleets of the two countries are
making a joint demonstration big with im-
portant consequences, the French government

mid make a fuss about any mere scurrilous libel
—are seriously apprehensive that the paragraph
indicates a had state of feeling between the cabinets
of London and Paris in regard to European affairs.
The Prase says, in its leading column, that the
Monifeur has " produced a certain sensation ;" and in
its money article it has the following paragraph, the
wording of which is very remarkable :—" The ca-
lumnious articles of the English journals, of which
the 11fonitesir speaks this morning, have produced an
impression among the speculators who did not
hitherto know of their existence."

The Bourse was very depressed indeed. Although
the feeling of discouragement was considered to be
owing in some degree to the note in the Moniteur,
the further fall which took place wu attributed
principally to the "execution" of a number
of speculators for the rise, who have hitherto
held on in the hope of seeing a reaction from the
long continued downward tendency of the market.
The Rents, which closed yesterday at 66fr. 60c. for',
account, opened at 66fr. 50c., went down to 661 r. 30c.,
and after a feeble rally to the extent of a few can-
times, closed very heavily at 66fr. 25c., being a fall of
400. For each the tall was the same. Credit
Mobilier was offered in all directions, and
fell 651 r. The Austrian railways, which for some
days have resisted the general depression, gave way
to•day, and fell 10fr. in French railways very little
business was done, but quotations were generally
from sfr. to 10fr. lower. Grand Central sell only
2lr. 60c.

Madame Rosati achieved a great success in the
Corsairs," at the Opera i■ Paris en Thursday evening.
The audience were as enthusiastic as only ra ri,i , ns can be.
A ballet, in which Itterti and Ferraris will appear together,
is is preparation. It is entitled "Marco Spada, and is
rounded on the comic opera, arranged in ballet by Smits,
and set to music by Anher.
That Madlle. Wagner's advertised retirement from
the stags is a misting, Ora Prussian journals prove—since
they anuounee tne lady's re-appearat.cs as Lucre:is Bt rgia,
and further mention that she IS about to Mao part in a new'.
opt., "A Night in Howie," by Herr Dorn.
Signor Rossini has returned to Paris for the
winter, with heelth, it is said, eatinly motored.

AUSTRIAN TREATY FOR THE ENSLAVE-
MENT OF NAPLES.

The Frankfort Post Zeitung lately stated that
"Naples was bound by treaty not to establish any
institution similar to the Spanish Cortes." The
Leipsic Deutsche Allgemsine Zeitung denied the
statement, and the Post Zeitung replies by publish-
ing the subjoined important document, which is
the secret article of a treaty concluded between
Austria and Naples on the 12th of June, 1815 :

The obligations which their Majesties take upon them-
selves by this treaty, for securing the internal peace of Italy,
make it their duty to preserve their States and their Taegu-
tine subjects from new reactions, and from the misfortunes
coiling from imprudent innovations, and it is, therefore,
understood by the high contracting pert:es, that his Majesty
the Ring of the Two Sicilia., on again taking into bigheads
the government of his kingdom, shell not make any changes
which are not in keeping with the old monarchical institu-
tions and with the principles adopted by his Imperial Royal
Majesty in the internal government of his Italian pro-
vincu.