The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. THURSDAY Evunco.

M. Taxile Delord, a veteran liberal of the French
press, who, after many years of facetiousness in
the Cherivari and several of serious writing in the
Si&le, is now giving his valuable aid to K Peyrat
in the .4 venir National, says, speaking of the pre-
sent tone of the democratic-imperial press :
But a few months ago war was tabooed as tending to
divert the public mind from the consideration of home
questions. Peace alone, we were told, could favour the
development of our liberties. The journals which main-
tained this thesis with the greatest eloquence seem to have
renounced it to-day :to hear them one would say that
war is no longer the natural enemy of progress. We shall
I perhaps have occasion shortly to explain the reason of
their present attitude. Meanwhile we beg both Paris
and the departments to take note of it. They pretend
that public opinion is exasperated against the Plllll6llllll,
and that the French people want to march upon the
Rhine. We read in several letters addressed to provincial
journals that General Chsagarnier has offered his sword
to government in ease it will declare war against Prawns.
General Changarnier is now rather too old to command an
army, and yet we do not suppose he means like General
Wrangel to volunteer as a private soldier.
The editor of the Belgian journal L'Espiegle,
prosecuted for a libel on the French government,
has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and
I,ooofr. fine. The French beau ideal of inter-
national law prevails in Belgium so far as the
press is concerned.
The government denies that it hindered a
meeting of the Paris notables to consider the
claims of a candidate for the Tribunal of Commerce,
and alleges that the delay complained of by M.
Candas and represented by him as tantamount to
a refusal, was only a reasonable one. The result
of the election, which took place yesterday, shows
that government had good reason to fear that the
same spirit which returns political opponents in
every electoral distriot in Paris would guide com-
mercial men. K Louvet, a non-patronised candi-
date, was returned as president of the Tribunal,
against K Gaillard, by 593 votes against 490.
This event is unprecedented. Hitherto the can-
didate proposed by the Tribunal of Commerce it-
self has always been returned with docility.
It would appear that the rise at the Bourse yes-
terday was attributable only to oscillations conse-
quent upon the settlement. To-day the market
was extremely heavy. Large losses were spoken
of ; and it is feared that a great many private
dealers will not be able to meet their differences.
Rente fell 50c. for cash and 45c. for account,
closing at 69fr. 10c. and 69fr. 15c. Italian fell
950., closing at 51fr. 39c. A forced Italian loan of
350 millions in obligations, at 95, repayable in an-
nuities, was very seriously spoken of. Mobilier
fell 23fr. 70c. Railways lost about half the rise of
yesterday.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

(RIOTER'S ZIERISS.)

PARIS. Aucogr 2.

The following is the return of the Bank of
France for the week ending to-day, together with
the corresponding figures of the previous account :
August 2. July 26.
nisroa. Yr. e. IT. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 0 182,100,000 0
Pronta in addition to capital
(Art 8, law of June 9, 18571
Reserve of the Bank and Its - . --.

branches
Reserve of landed property
Notts In circulation
Bank notes to order and receipts
payable at sight 23,919,324 47 31,710,775 56
Treasury account—current cre-

ditor -
Current scoounta, Parts

Ditto branch banks
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry interests
Re-discounted the last six
months
Surplus of receipts not distri-
buted

131,488,086 0 181,554,780 26
800,530,926 29 311,868,188 99
44,338,621 0 38,688,954 0
2,8K8,666 75 3,481,011 76
3,771,998 94 3,186,787 43

2,372,301 91 2,377,301 91

Sue is

- -
10,308.838 84 11,873,266 88