The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(7110 X 0171 OWN

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Bourse opened with higher quotations than
yesterday, but as soon as the transactions con-
nected with the settlement were completed prices
gave way. Rente, quoted at onetime at 69fr. 26c.
and 69fr. 100., closed at 69fr. both for cash and
account, with a fall of 15c. and 17ic. ; Italian fell
52}c., closing at 48fr. 90c. Other securities were
considerably affected by the downward reaction.
Mobilier fell l2fr. 50c. ; Credit Fonder, Mr. ;
Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. 50c. ; and the Northern
Railway Mr. The other lines remain without
change.

The 11,71 in Typers inflkl from the vehement u.
surances of. the Moniteurs (big and little) that no
diplomatic step whatever has been taken by Franoe
concerning Schleswig—that the French govern-
ment, not seeing its way to any forward step, for
the moment has "caved in." This is the opinion
of that very National Gazette from which the
Moniteur yesterday absurdly quoted a garbled
paragraph for the purpose of propping up its own
falsehoods. The most probable explanation of
this imbroglio is that M. Lefevre de Behaine,
a young diplomatist who, in the absence
of M. Benedetti, is French chargd d'affaire,s at Ber-
lin, finding that in the course of a diplomatic " con-
versation" with M. de Thile (M. de Bismarck's
locum tenens) he was unfavourably listened to, and
being asked whether his language was warranted
by his instructions, lost his temper, pulled his in-
structions out of his pocket, and read part of a
despatch which was intended to have been " confi-
dential." It is this despatch which the French
government now thinks it politic publicly to dis-
avow.

The Salzbourg interview is the thing now looked
forward to ; but that I doubt will be a deception. I
The papers which say according to a mot d'ordre
that there will be nothing political in the mourning
interview between Napoleon 111. and the Emperor
of Austria at Salzbourg are nevertheless hunting
up the history of the place in search of analogies.
It was at Salzbourg that an interview took place
in 803 between Charlemagne and the ambassi
dors of the Emperor Nicephorus I. Other par-
ticular► about Salzbourg are that it is about 100
miles from Vienna, contains 16,000 inhabitants,
was an'independent archbishopric in the 12th cen-
tury, became secularised in 1803, was immediately
erected into an electorate, became part of Bavaria
in 1809, and was ceded to Austria in 1814. It
was moreover the birth place of Mozart.

I was misled the other day when I stated that
the blank column and a half in the Cologne
Gazette of July 31 was peculiar to a special issue
for circulation in France. The censorship which
led to the hiatus was exercised by M. de Bis-
marck's subordinates in Prussia. The article
eliminated is said to have advocated the execu-
tion of the treaty of Prague in the way demanded
by France.

When ►t Vienna the Sultan ►ppeared much
fatigued by his long journey. The Emperor was seldom
seen in public with the Sultan, but the latter was often
accompanied by one or other of the Archdukes. The
Empress is at IschL This, of course, is in consequence of
the deep mourning the court is now in, and not from any
want of cordiality on the part of the Emperor. The Sultan
occupied the same apartments at Sconbrunn as Napoleon
occupied in 1810. They were magnificently fitted up for
his reception and are extensive and commodious, but the
mite of the Sultan complained very much of being over-
crowded.

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There are at the present time five steam packet
communications from Southampton to Hontlenr, three to
St. Melo, five to Havre, and two to Carenton. Large
quantities of cattle are imported into England from France
by means of these packets.
PROGRESS or AVSTRALIA. —ln 1865 the imports
into the Australian colonies reached 35,000,000/., and the
exports 30,000,0001. Within the last sixteen years New
South Wales and Victoria have yielded 1.50,000,0001. worth
of gold, and New South Wales has produced 5,000,000
tons of coal. South Australia has also, within the last ten
years, exported 5,000,00 W. worth of copper. The tonnage
of vessels which arrived at Australasian ports in 1865 was
2,000,000, and a similar amount' of tonnage left those
ports during the lams period. Arty Tears ago the number
of horses, cattle, sad sheep in Australia was wader 400,000:
the umber is now nearly 35,000,000.

lUDIARKS.
The barometrical which hi now generally inreaeng
over the Brain!' Ides, hr eluaged bet little shire yesterday.
Winds ore uorthweeterly sad aght, and winither tine.

COFRT OF COMMON COUNCIL. —At a meeting ,d
the Common Council held at Guildhall yestentsy. the
Lord Mayor read the subjoined communication, which had
been addressed to his lordship by the Earl of Derby, tm•
ferr.ng upon him, by command of the Queen, the dignity
of a baronet:—" 25, St. James's-square, July 29.
My dear Lord,—l am happy to say that I received free
the Queen last night her Majesty's sanction to my MO&
mendation that the dignity of • baronet of the United
Kingdom should be conferred upon your lordship, in cow
mensuration of the visits of the two illustrious poteatatas
the Sultan and his powerful vassal, the Viceroy el
Egypt, whom your lordship has had the distinguishei
honour of receiving on behalf of the City in a manse
worthy in all respects of this great metropolis. manes
Majesty has been further pleased to direct that Si.
honour of knighthood should he conferred upon the tin
sheriffs who Lave been associated with your looldup epa
this occasion. I have much pleasure in offering to you of
congratulations upon your weU merited honour ; and ha's
the honour to be, my dear lord, yours faithfully, Utast
The Hight Hon, the Lord Mayor.' The letter was ordered
to be entered en the journals of the court. Mr. Stapelteg
moved that it be referred to a committee to ensile
whether it would not be advisable to make such weariest
alterations in Guildhall as would render it tit torecene
the noble and distinguished visitors who were coostaffil
being invited to visit the corporation. He said that der*
the last sixteen years no less than 50,0011/. had en.
pended by the corporation merely for the purpose Been.
porary erections when distinguished persons were
vited to the City, and he considered it was most olrinfflo
that some change should be made. Upon a diciest
the motion was carried by a majority of 11-45
number, being, for the motion 54 ; against it. Os
The election of a clergyman to fill the appointtuest of rec-
tor of St. Peter's-upon-Cornhill was peons-dot with'
There were five candidates on the list, hut (wily three Po*
tented themselves, namely, the Venerable William Earls
8.D., Archdeacon of Ely, and Honorary Chsphis MO*
Cambridge University Rifles; the ltev. From is Osbero•
Gifford, If A., of St. John's College, Oxford. and Vies: of
Hartley Whitney, Hartford-bridge, Hants ; oral she
Rev. Richard Whittington, of Trinity College. esmlcidger
one of the Masters of Merchant Taylors' School.. man in
charge, and evening lecturer of St Petees.on.Conlill.
Between these candidates it had been arranged that •
poll should take place to reduce the number to two, and
the result of that poll showed the votes to stand ss
—For the Rev. Mr. Whittington, 1:6; ; for the Veturdde
Archdeacon Emery, :13 ; and for the Rev. Dlr. :""
On the announcement of the number* Arehdr.con Eu,ry
and Mr. Giffard retired from further contest, sosl the R. V.
Mr. Whittington was declared to he duly presented by the
court to the rectory of St. Peter's, Ccrnhill.
that
NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—WC paCCITI!
the Notional Reform Union will hold a fourth Peet "4'l"
meeting on Wednesday evening nest, to protest sgs".ll.
the so-called amendments of the House of Lords Tsar"
u three
ing the lodger franchise, voting p the apers. rte p .
cornered constituencies. Mr. Mer, Ilagh Torrey,. •
,;(
will preside on the occasion, and the following metek_7_,.
parliament have promised to attend and address Off °"7.
lug :—The Right Hon. G. Joachim Coaches. Mr., Thoww
Hughes, Mr. James Stansfeld, and Mr. George tb:
newly-elected member for Birmingham. As St. Jitme%
Hall is engaged every night next week. the meeting
be held in the Queen's Concert-rooms, Hanover-sqmo.
13 o'clock.