The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1867.

FRANCE.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRZPONDINT.)

PARIS. B.lnnumy Emma

A fearful panic at the Bourse, caused
by the ap-
prehension of immediate war, is the all absorbing
news of the day. It might have been very reason-
ably argued that the despatches from the Hague,
showing that the Dutch government washed its
hands of the Luxemburg business, and leaving it
to be inferred that the King of Holland, finding
what a row his bargain with France had made, was
willing to rescind it, would have had a tranquil-
lising effect. If the King of Holland was no
longer ready to sell there was a capital oppor-
tunity for the Emperor Napoleon to say that his
honour did not compel him to buy, and so get
out of the disagreeable entanglement without war.
Many people came down to the Bourse with this
idea, and made purchases, which sustained prices
for a time, but amidst violent oscillations the
downward tendency predominated, and the closing
quotations are undoubtedly war prices. Never-
theless I continue to think that the Emperor must
" cave in," and that there will be no war this year.
It is with him that the decision rests—the Prus-
sian mind is made up. I have already stated this
decidedly as the result of all my information, and
the true construction of M. do Bismarck's speech.
I have seen to-day a letter from Berlin, written by a
I personage in a position to have the best information,
in which it. is stated that the question whether the
" Imperial dentist was to be allowed to draw a
tooth from the Prussian western jaw" was a sub-
ject of long and anxious deliberation. The final
and decisive resolution is " hands off." The
Minister of War has given it as his opinion that
Prussia cannot defend the Rhine without the pos-
session of the fortress of Luxemburg, and that
possession she is resolved to maintain against all
comers.

War rumours crop up in all directions. It is
said that Marshal MacMahon, Duke of Magenta,
has been telegraphed for from Algeria, that Marshal
Canrobert has gone on a mission of observation to
Strasbourg, and (more important perhaps than all)
that Major Luise!, one of the most distinguished
officers in the French army, who was for a long
time military secretary to the Emperor Maximilian,
has been sent in hot haste to tho Rhine.

I had to-day in my hands letter written from his
prison in Abyssinia by our unfortunate consul, Mr.
Duncan Cameron. There was little in it. lie
charged the friend to whom it was written with
some private messages. Referring pleasantly to his
forlorn condition he said, " I have now been so
long an attache par is jambes (a pun upon his
chains) that I think I deserve to be made an am-
bassador." I suppose there are cogent state rea-
sons why England, with all her might, can do
nothing for him. But I should really like an op-
portunity of privately asking a minister whether
if three regiments and a battery of artillery
were sent secretly on an expedition to Abyssinia,
with a good commissariat, they would not scatter
to the winds and walk through all the armies of
the wretch who reigns in that country.
The tailors on strike will hold a second general
meeting at Montmartre to-morrow (Sunday).
It is said that M. Le Play, the commissioner-
general of the Universal Exhibition, is about to be
made a senator.

It is long indeed since a Bourse report has re-
corded such fires as to-day. Rente fell 1.60 for
cash and 1.32 for account, closing at 66.70 and
66.90. Mob' 'er fell 21.25. closing at 388.75 !
Credit Fonder fell 25f. Compton. d'Escompte,
17.50. The Northern Railway fell 25f. ; Lyons,
28.75 ; Orleans, 17.50 ; Southern, 17.50 ; and
Eastern, 5.

AMERICA.

(DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 6, 6 P.Y.
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Accounts have been received that the liberals,
under Escobedo, have been defeated. 3liramon
was pursuing. The Emperor Maximilian was re-
turning to the capital.
President Geffrard's flight from Haiti is con-
firmed.