The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(1110 X 00/1 OWN CORIESPONDINT4

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENIND.

The Marquis Pee de Villamarina, the Sardinian
Ambassador, has gone to Marseilles to await the
arrival of the Prince and Princess Napoleon, who
are expected there early on Wednesday morning.
They will remain only half a day at Marseilles, and
will leave at about 4 o'clock for Paris. They will
pass through Lyons at night without stopping there,
but will halt for a few hours to rest at Fontaine-
bleau. The Princess Matilda will receive them at
the chateau, where they will breakfast. Their
arrival iu Paris may be expected at about 3 in the
afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 3.
The Presse, availing itself of the full measure of
liberty which the French journals have been per-
mitted to enjoy in discussing the question of peace
or war, describes the characteristics of despotism in
the following burning words :

Despotism ir like • bar of steel—it may be broken, but it
will never bend. It will never give up a single one of those
privileges which, taken together, oonatitute its brute foroe;
it will waver make any real concemions. The plaintive voles
opprcomed populations never finds an echo in ha lieut.

It is necessary to explain that the despotism
alluded to is that of Austria. This power, the
Prim firmly believes, will be deaf to all the advice
which is supposed to have been tendered by the
cabinet of London, and will continue, in the words
of the Austrian Gautte, to consider the question of
any infraction of the treaties of 18:6 as " a problem
which can only be solved at the cannon's mouth."
The answer of the Constitutiontsci to the article
in the Daily Yews upon the effective force of the
French army is reproduced this evening, doubtless
by order, in the Presse, Pays, and ?aerie.
rmtl3, SATURDAY EVENING.
The Bourse hu been feverish, and a rise which
occurred in the middle of the day was not sustained.
The rumours of war continue without abatement.
There was a report that M. Delargle is about to be
superseded in the Ministry of the Interior by M.
Laity, lately a prefect and formerly a lieutenant
concerned in the &filar of Strasbourg. It was also
said that Count Walewski was going out. Rumours
of this sort are frequently circulated without any
foundation. The Rent* closed at 68.70 both for cash
and account,with a fall of 18e. and sc. Mobilier left
off without change. Most of the railways were a
trifle higher.
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After Hoarse the Rente was done io a Café on
the Boulevards 30e. lower, in consequence of the
rumours of war assuming additional intensity.
Marshal Castellano has paid a flying visit of 24
hours to Paris. He left this morning by express
train, for his post at Lyons. Whether the object of
his visit was political, or simply to see his daughter
the Countess de Hatzfeldt, who has just lost her
husband, is matter of conjecture. It is stated pretty
positively that the Emperor offered the old Marshal
the vacant post of Grand Chancellor of the Legion
of Honour, but that he refused it, and that in con-
sequence the contemplated removal of :gushed
Canrobert from Nancy to Lyons will not take place,
at least for the present.
Various reasons have been assigned for M. Louis
Veuillot'a journey to Rome. He will doubtless see
the boy Mortars, and will state in the Unirers that
the child, miraculously inspired by the teaching of
the church, does not desire to be restored to
his parents. To see the little stolen Jew can
hardly, however, be a sufficient explanation of
the &placement of so great a personage as M.
Veuillot. Another motive is suggested to-day, which
I think more likely to be the leading one. It is said
that M. Veuillot, finding his favourite policy of an
Austrian holy alliance completely scattered to the
winds, desires to take the Pope's instructions as to
the particular line of Jesuitism which it may be
practical for bim to take in his journal under the
altered circumstances of the situation.