The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUIIDAY MOWNO.

Several Jews have been appointed members of
the General Council in Algeria. The Emperor and
Primo Napoleon concur in thinking it useful and
opportune to manifest by an act of the govern-
ment that the equality of religious beliefs is abso-
lute and complete in the French law.

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PARIS, MONDAY MYRNIND.

The French government journals receive the :pro-
' jest of ceding five of the lonian Islands to Greece
with marked disfavour. The Patria says:

What flir John Yana( proposes would be pure end
dimple confieratlon applied le ea en*. people. Selland,
the *lona proteolyses of Ihefreedent el the Werke, will never
alertly attack the egislenee ci a Christi's sides, She will
lot efface a free peogis ken the nap el the wall without
Meows twewest, enul without the count of the eatireoUng
powers of 1816.

The Pays also insists that the change proposed
would be as palpable an infraction of the treaties of
1816 as was the dismemberment of the Low
Countries in 1831, and the erection of the kingdom
of Greece in 1927, and that the Powers must nem-
sexily be consulted before any modification can take
place.
The Bing of Portugal's speech has now come
hand, and it gives the lie direct to the ilonitenr.
But it has hitherto only been published by the
Univers, which got it first and contrived to steal a
mink upon the government precautions. The
ether papers have received strict orders not to print
it, and these orders have been obeyed. The thing
seems incredible, but so it is. Hes there ever been ano-
ther instance of a royal speech being deliberately
suppressed by a fire-rate power, in order to conceal
from its own subjects the fact, known to all the rest
of the world, that it had been guilty of a misrepre-
sentation ?

The mixed transport Marne will leave Rochfort
for Cochin China, on November 20, with reinforce-
ments for Admiral Rigault de Genouilly.
There has been a slight reaction at the Bonne to-day.
Some anxiety wu felt about the result of the coun-
cil at Compiegne yesterday, and the non-appearance

of the expected financial statement. The Rents, fell
10c. for cash and 6c. for account, closing at 74.40 and
74.60. Mobilier fell 8.26,and railways from 3.76 to 5.
The reaction was encouraged by unfavourable news
from Vienna, where the National Bank has ceased
its advances on public securities. Threes varied
from 74fr.

A meeting of the committee of the Lintels'
subscription wu held to-day at the Hotel
du Louvre. M. de Lamartine, in an impassioned
speech, the delivery of which lasted not less'
than two hours, explained the state of his
private affairs, and justified himself from the'
charges of prodigality which he said had been
calumniously brought against him. The amount of
his debts had, he said, been exaggerated ; it was
only 2,200,000 fr., and •he had this year paid off
900,000 fr. The chairman, M. Vavin, pat
the question to the meeting, whether the
Lamartine subscription should be abandoned or
continued, and it wu unanimously resolved
that it should be continued, and a new appeal made
to the country. MM. Emile Pereire, Hachette, and
Beaumont de La Somme were among the members
of the committee present.