The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(room oua OWN CORRISPONDINT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY EVINDIO.

The France, whose information, however, is con-
siderably discredited by its admission that every-
thing it said yesterday was wrong, now affirms that
the result of the debate of the Council of State in
the Emperor's presence yesterday, after speeches
from Prince Napoleon and Marshal Niel, was to
re-open the whole question of the reorganisation
of the army, and to suspend the decision which
the France as well as several other Paris journals
had announced as settled the day before. A
totally new combination is now said to be
on the tapis. The proposal to fix the
duration of service in the regular army at six
years, and in the reserve at three years, is to be
abandoned ; and, instead, the regulations of the
law of 1832 will be revived, with the only change
that the time of service thereby limited to seven
years will be reduced to six years and a half for
all arms. In order to form a large reserve which
may be rapidly made efficient in case of need, the
latest idea is to create a Mobile National Guard,
of which all the able young men of every
class up to the age of twenty-nine, who
escape general service, would form part. The
result of this plan, yet sub judiest would be that the
military forces of France would be divided into
two categories thus composed :-Ist. The active
army consisting of the contingent annually voted
by the chamber ; and 2nd, of the Mobile National
Guard.

The only considerable variation in the Bourse is
a rise of 30fr. in Credit Foncier. Rente fell sc.
for cash and rose sc. for account, the closing
quotations being 69fr. 65c. and 69fr. 6211 c.

In its remarks upon the Queen's speech, the
Indi petulance Beige says:—" Among the domestic ques-
tions, that which more than all excites the public mind,
and the solution of which will be the affair of the session,
—the reform question,—is treated with unparalleled
sobriety. The Queen confines herself to saying that the
attention of parliament will be directed to this subject,
and she expresses the hope that the chambers will adopt
measures which, without unduly disturbing the balance
of power, will give a liberal extrusion to the right of
suffrage. But she does not announce the presentation of
a bill, and still leas does she indicate the nature and the
bases of the measures her government expects from parlia-
ment. This reserve and this omission leave the door
open to ►ll the expedients recently talked about,
which public opinion has constantly feared Lord Derby and
his colleagues would have recourse to, in order to bring
about a postponement of the question, or to transfer to
parliament itself a task they feel incapable of accomplish-
ing, and which, to say the truth, is for them an utter im-
possibility, as they would have to satisfy at once the just
claims of the working-classes, and maintain the electoral
and parliamentary privileges of the aristocratic classes they
specially represent in office."

Speaking of the Queen's speech, the Nord says:—
" The Ministry seem to have drawn up the royal speech
with the express intention of not committing themselves
upon any of the capital questions of home or foreign policy,
and of reserving their complete liberty of action with
regard to aIL"

Yesterday's Siiele says of the Queen's speech :
" The existing domestic question in England. that of
electoral reform, is approached in the royal speech with a
timidity and with oratorical circumlocutions, in which is
plainly apparent the tory cabinet, convinced on the one
hand of the impossibility of eluding any longer the
energetic claims of the people, and distressed on the other
at having to make a serious concession, a step along the
road which will lead England to universal suffrage."

We read in yesterday's Temps:—" The long
speech of the Queen of England contains nothing very
striking. The questions it touches are very numerous,
and it gives about equal importance to all."

Tea PARIS EIHIBITION.—The Lightning arrived
last week in the East India Dock, after a rapid passage
from Melbourne, bringing for the Paris Exhibition, with
her other cargo, upwards of 120 tons of articles of various
kinds, the produce of the colony of Victoria, consigned to
Mr. William Fane De Salim, chief commissioner to the
Paris Exhibition for that colony. The same ship also
brought 30 packages, the produce of Queensland, con-
signed to Mr. M. H. Marsh, chief commissioner of
that colony. Owing to the Exhibition buildings in Paris
not being as yet in a fit state to receive exhibits, the
articles landed from the Lightning will for the present be
warehoused in the East India Dock, in lieu of being at
once transhipped for Paris. The Lightning was to he im-
mediately followed by another ship from Melbourne, bring-
ing a second oonaignment of colonial articles, which may
now be daily expected.