The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(710 X OUR OWN

PA.8.18, TOISDAT EVINING.

The Moniteur contains a very long report of a
committee appointed some years ago to frame new
rules for the management of the Imperial Library
in the Rue Richelieu, better known by its name of
world-wide celebrity, the " Bibliotheque Royale."
The committee recommends, and a decree of the
Minister of Public Instruction adopts a great many
' changes in the personnel of the establishment, upon
the principle of centralisation of power and respon-
sibility, the suppression of useless, and the augmen-
tation of the salaries of useful officers. But oat of
regard to vested interests, the greater part of
these changes are only to be made gradually, unless
it shall be ultimately determined to grant fall com-
pensation to discharged servants. The great question
whether the library is still to be open to all the
world, notwithstanding the complaints that ignorant,
idle, and destitute people crowd the library, either
for the sake of shelter and warmth, or from morbid
or idle curiosity, without any bond fide desire
to study—has been resolved in this way : There are
to be two reading rooms—one, to be supplied with
about 40,000 volumes, comprising all the works
likely to be asked for by ordinary readers, will be
open as heretofore to all the world. Access to the
other is only to be obtained by tickets. Ido not,
u at present advised, think that tb;s arrangement
is objectionable in principle 1 but of course I assume
that no vexatious difficulties will be thrown in the
way of granting tickets, and above all that the re-
served room will not be in practice monopolised by
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functionaries and their friends. The mere fact of a
man taking the trouble to apply for a ticket and to
give a reference, ought to go a long way to chew
that he has a serious literary object ;ti desiring to be
admitted.

The Bourse has been better to-day. The Rente
rose 15c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at
681 r. 30c. and 68fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c.
All the railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher.
It was reported that Rothschild of Paris had taken
the Turkish loan at 88, payable in a year.
_ . _

I am informed that ihe'Dulte of Montebello was
lately ordered to represent, civilly, to the court of
St. Petersburg that it might perhaps be better, to
avoid any misconception, that the Russian squadron
about to prooeed to the Mediterranean should so
arrange as not to be visible at Cherbourg when the
Queen is there.

A telegram announces that the squadron of evolu-
tion which left Toulon a few days ago has strived at
Cherbourg this morning.
The Patris is of opinion that all the exhortations
of the English press to augment the army in India
are in vain, because the Queen has already done all
that is humanly possible. The grounds for this
notion are to be found in the following dogmatic
sentence :

Victory cannot be commanded without aimies Now, it
is only in Franoe that large armirs can be improvised. In
all other countries, in England more especially, they can only
ba obtained by patient combinaticas and long efforts.

The offices of the Minister of State have just been
removed to the aputments in the new part of the
Louvre which face the Palsis Royal. These hand-
some rooms were at one time thought to be destined
for Prinee Napoleon as Minister of Algeria and the
Colonies, but it has been arranged instead that the
insufficiency of his wing of the Palais Royal shall be
made up by the adjunction of a large house in the
Rue Rivoli belonging to the Emperor's " house-
hold."

The Press* says, in its weekly commercial review

The Improvement to buainess witch had lately become
apparent has not slackened tbot:ng the pest week, and some
branches, which bad not before been much benefited by the
change, have now begun to feel its effects. Dut ing the last
few days commlseica-agents have made considerable pur-
chases for exportation 4n jeweller/, bronzes, perfumery, and
other goods com4ng rider the special denomination of Paris
articles, and have also given large orders for future delivery.
The improved feeling is more particularly remarkable in
regard to tissues, for which large orders have been received
both from the United States and the wholesale houses In
Paris. The latter had scarcely bought anything for the last
six months, and their stocks us now unusually low. The
manufacturers at Roubaix, Turcoing, and Lille, have
effected considerable sales of their old stocky, end
area:muting fresh orders. At Rouen end Mulhouse there is
less activity, although in both those toast—at Rouen more
especially—symptoms of improvement are decidedly per-
ceptible. We understand that the Bank of France has dis-
counted a good many lolls takin the last week ; the satis-
factory movement shown by the last reit:Pill under the head
of "bills discounted" gocs on. The Besucalre fair has
opened well. There is more merchandise than there was last
year; strangers are arriving, and there are good grounds for
hoping that It will turn out better than was expected a month
ego; there will, at all events, be an improvement upon last
yen. • • • • Hs+veet+ng is now actively going on

throughout Frence, end the ferment conthquently have but
little time to rug run to market. Prim, however, 110 far
from coatiatang to ries, have fe'len tom piece,.

The Debate appears to anticipate a heavy fall, at
no distant period, in the prices of all agricultural
produce. It conceives that the public is thoroughly
tired of paying the unprecedented prices which
have ruled since 1834 and 1855, and that the main-
tenance of these rates in the face of generally abun-
dant crops is now artificial. Consumers, it is
averred, are not buying, and prices ere only kept up
by speculative houses, five-sixths of whose business
consist in time bargains. In regard to silks particu-
larly the Debars does not believe in the scarcity
which holders allege to exist. It concludes :—" There
are unmistakable symptoms that the day of expiation
for the gamblers who keep up prices is close at
hand."