The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-02 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The news of a resumption of hostilities may now
be expected from the left bank of the Mincio every
day. The Emperor, who had waited at Volta to
see his entire army pass the river, has now atoned
it himself, and established his head-quarters at
Valleggio. Pursuant to a plan knob .1 to have been
previously settled, the Sardinians commence opera-
tions in the quadrilateral, by laying siege to
Peachier'. This place was taken by the Sardinian
troops inlB4B, after a twenty-six days' siege. Prince
Napoleon's corps is, according to one account, to
invest Mantua at once. The prince was to have
met the Emperor at Valleggio yesterday.
There are now very persistent rumours that the
Emperor will shortly return to Paris. Some say
that he might be expected at the beginning of next
month, but others look for him much sooner. I my-
self feel it difficult to believe that the unequal war
can drag on for another month, but I do not think
the Emperor will leave the army until the campaign
is over.

I have Been a private letter from an officer of the
49th to his wife, in which it is stated that twenty-
two officers of that regiment were killed and
wounded at Solferino. This letter confirms the fact,
not yet stated in any Paris journal, that General
Douay was wounded; the colonel of the 49th was
obliged to take the command of his brigade before
the battle was ended. I hear of another regiment in
which a third el the officers were hors de combat.
By another unpublished letter I learn that the
casualties of the ICOth regiment were 6 officers
killed, 11 wounded, and 423 men killed and
wounded.

These figures foreshadow a frightful total of losses,
end fully account for the hesitation of the French
government to let the whole truth come out. The
first Sardinian balletic, which stated the casualties
in the Piedmontees army at 1,000, was unfortunately
very erroneous. An official bulletin, signed by

Ueral Della Rocca, now gives the totaal gardinian
lose at 6,525, of which 3,406 are wounded and 1,268

A Paris letter in the Gironde of Bordeaux toys
the Corps Legislatif will probably be invoked
shortly for an extraordinary session. This news
savours of new taxes and new levies.

The Bonne was tolerably firm. Rumours of
more satisfactory news from Prussia were in circu-
lation. The Rents rose 10c. for cash and account,
closing in each cue at 63fr. 10c. Mobilier fell
;fr. boc. Railways left off a shade lower.
All the principal coulisaiers have resolved to ab-
stain for a time from doing business, in the full belief
that the want of them must soon be so strongly felt
even by the regular brokers themselves, that the
government will be forced to take measures to re-
establish them in their functions. It was at one
time expected that the body would be unanimous on
this point. Bat some of the younger members
thinking that the risk of a second prosecution is
but alight, are unwilling to forego their profits, and
say they will go on in spite of the adverse judgment
of a court of law.

There appears to have been a momentary fear
that France might, in consequence of the war, run
short of coal. It is now said that all apprehensions
on this subject are at an end. Large supplies have
lately been received from Eogland and Prussia, and
20,000 tons are expected shortly from the United
States.

M. Perrfe, auditor of the Council of State, who
has just returned to Perk from the Emperor Napoleon, to
whom he carried ffepatcher, relates that he found his Ma-
jesty the morning ate the battle of Solferino In a house at
Cardona. We Modesty ►ad paved the night In an
(tarnished room, which was also occupied by some of hie
suite, and the Emperor was only reiterated from thorn by •
simple curtain. The Emperor wu in perfect health, and
entertained the auditor at teeakfaat. A table in the room
Ina covered with maps and plans. After reading the de-
spatcher, the Emperor prepared his answers to them, and Is
a few hours scot off M. Puler. An Interesting fact was re-
lated to that potteries':l,—Tel children of the family to
whom the house belonged were is the mottling estsuad and
presented with sweetrm ate by the Etapt rt.r of Austria, and
in the evening received caresses and booboos from the Em-
peror of the Frock I