The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN coaar-spastma.)

PARIS, SATURDAY Eviutum.
The police of Paris—not of course the political
police—is very indifferent ; the policemen, sergents
de vine, may be seen lounging in couples or threes
(for they seem never to venture to make ten steps
alone), wherever they are not wanted. But when
an emergency arises, especially on a dark night, in
such solitary places as abound in Paris, they are
never to be found. But if thus unsatisfactory in
Paris, the police in the populous villages of the
neighbourhood is much worse. Neuilly contains
40,000 inhabitants, and the high price of houses
may lead one to suppose that it contains at least
wealth in proportion, but the care of the public se
curity is confided to a single sergeant de villa, a very
zealous and excellent officer, no doubt, but bent
with age or the weight of his duties. An incident
which has just occurred in the village Levallois,
net far from Ncuilly, calls attention to this ques-
tion. Four persona—an innkeeper, his wife, and
two daughters—have, it is said, just been maws-
sinated. No details are yet known, but the motive
was robbery.
The Bourse has been very bad, and almost al
kinds of securities are affected. This unwilling-
ness to support the market is due principally to the
impression still felt of the losses of the month of
July, although the general feeling that we are only
in a truce which threatens to be even shorter than
was originally foreseen no doubt contributes to the
general uncertainty. It is particularly for account
that prices have fallen. Bente", 68.70 for cash,
sc. lower ; 68.70 for account, being 15 c. lower.
Mobilier is 16.25 lower for cash ; 12.50 for account.
It has closed below 600, which seemed the limit
the fall would reach. The last quotations, 593.75,
and 596.25.

PARIS, SUNDAY Err c.
The review to be held to-morrow of the Imperial
Guard and the cavalry division of Versailles will
take place on the race-course of the Bois de Bou-
logne at half-past 1. Previously to this the Em-
peror will preside at the first formal meeting of the
commission for the reorganisation of the army. It
is now acknowledged that preparatory sittings have
been held at the Ministry of War, employed in the

examination of official documents and memoirs on

the subject communicated by individuals. It is
alleged that the whole will be decided before the
departure of the court for Compiegne, which would
only prove what I have already written,

that the whole plan, _at least in its princi-

pal features, was decided on before the commission
was named, and that it is called together only

pro forma. It is not, however, probable that so
important and complicated a measure can have been
matured in the short time that has elapsed since its

necesaity became evident, and it is not impossible
that the concluding meeting may be held at Com-

piegne.

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It seems now decided that General Fleury
is to go to Rome, whether on a public
or private mission is not stated. There is,
indeed, a rumour that he will go there
as ambassador and commander of a battalion
or two of soldiers which would remain after the
departure of the army of occupation as a guard fur
the French Embassy. So puerile an arrangement
can only be the brain-product of those who are
singularly deficient in that useful part of the human
orzanisation. Whether the mission be private or
public, it seems of bad augury fur the Pope to
those who remember that the same general otlicer
was sent to the King of Denmark just before the
Austro-Prussian invasion. He can only be sent

in hopes of jockeying the Holy Father. It is
stated, by the way, in this evening's France that
Mr. Gladstone has had another long audience of
the Pope. It is to be feared that his Holiness
will be less successful with him than was the Greek
Archbishop of Corfu.
You will have received M. de Beust's circular,
which is commented upon in a friendly spirit by
most of this evening's papers. There has always
been among the majority of Frenchmen since the
war of 1859 a strung feeling in favour of Austria,
and some even of those who were the most ardent
partisans of Prussia express themselves now in
accordance with this sentiment. M. de Beust's
nomination to office seems to them that it is
the promise on the part of Austria to
make such concessions to the different na-
tionalities which compose the empire as
shall insure their cordially working together. The
Presse calls attention to the concluding paragraph
in which the new minister, after professing his
determination and acknowledging the necessity of
avoiding everything which could lead to a rupture
of the peace which has cost so dear, adds that it is
more than ever incumbent on her to safe-guard her
dignity. This seems to promise that he will not prove
more yielding to Prussian pretensions as minister
of Austria than he did when minister of Saxony.
This evening's Monittur states, " from an
authentic source," that the Empress of Mexico's
health is as good as could be wished, and that her
complete recovery may be shortly looked for.
The Tribunal of Commerce was on Thursday the
scene of one of those affecting incidents which occur
so rarely in real life, and whichßalzac has described
so touchingly. M. Desjardins, an ornamental
metal worker, failed some twenty years ago with
debts amounting to 100,0001 r. He had a wife,
two sons, and a daughter, and to support them
and himself he again became a workman. In this
position he acquired his master's confidence, be-
came his partner, and finally succeeded him in his
business. One of his sons became a braes founder,
the other entered a manufactory of chemicals. The
daughter, when old enough to work, became &sewing
girl in the intervals that the care of her blind
mother left her. All laboured to the same end,
and on Thursday Di. Deajardins appeared in the
Tribunal accompanied by all his creditors, who had