The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM 001 OWN

PARIS, FIWLT EVININO.

This week has been marked by a singularly rapid
succession of news of deaths of " men of the time."
Reschid Pacha, confessed to be the greatest man in
Turkey, has now gone. He was only fifty-two
years of age. A dispatch says that he died sud-
denly of apoplexy, but this, I believe, is not true.
According to a more authentic version he had been
indisposed for three days before his death, but not
(as it was thought) seriously. He had dined with
M. de Thouvenel, the French Ambusador, but a
very short time before the fatal event.
A mild thaw of an unusually undecided character
has succeeded the intense cola of the last few days.
Almost all the blocks of ice in the Seine were dis-
solved this morning in that part of the river which
runs through the heart of the City ; but, at the same
time, the part between the Austerlitz and Berry
bridges was completely frozen over. At the other
ends of Paris, parts of the river beyond the Pont de
Jena are also frozen over. •
Several journals state that the Emperor went to
hunt yesterday in the forest of Fontainebleau.
Others represented him as having been on the same
day skating on the lake in the Bois de Boulogne, the
Empress being in her carriage looking on. The
French journals have such a peculiar system of
false dating that nobody can ever tell within twenty-
four hours what day "yesterday" means, so that
both the stories may possibly be true. If, however,
as the Maisano. announces, the Empress was suffer-
ing from the influenza, to sit still in a carriage in
the Bois de Boulogne during the intense cold of
either yesterday or the day before, was scarcely a
prudent proceeding. I hear it said that the Empe-
ror did go to the Bois for the purpose of skating,
but found so many people on the ice that he came
away almost directly.
A terrible accident occurred to-day at the magnifi-
cent church of St. Sulpice, in the Faubourg St.
Germain. At ten in the morning, while mass was
going on in the chapel of the Virgin, one of the hot-
water pipes used for warming the church burst
with a tremendous noise, throwing boiling water
and splinters of iron and marble upon the congrega-
tion. Three persons were killed on the spot, five
others were seriously injured, and half a dozen more
were hurt. M. Luoien Boyer, physician to the
Senate, was present, and volunteered his services.
The celoriNre which caused this sad catastrophe
woe put up about three years since, as a substitute
far a former system of warming the church by hot
air, it being thought that hot-water pipes were
more wholesome. It is fortunate that the accident
did not take place while the chapel was crowded,
as it often is on the occasion of • merrier or a
burial. The loss of life in each a clue might have
been immense. The Prefect of the Seine visited the
church as soon as be heard of the accident.

The Bourse has experienced a downward re-
action to-day, in consequence of its being understood
that the bullion in the Bank of France had
decreased by two hundred and fifty millions, and
that the Bank could not therefore reduce its discount
to 4 per cent., as it had hoped to have done. The
Rents fell 34c. both for cash and account, closing at
(Mfr. 80c., and 70fr. 10c. There was, however, a
great deal of animation in the market and a con-
sider .ble anscant of business was done. Mobilier
roso 7fr. 10c. The railways, after much fluctuation,
left off from Mr. to 10tr. lower.
The

says that the Prefect of the
Seine, on the occasion of the new year's receptions,
told the architects of the city of Paris that it was
intended, in the course of 1858, to carry on the
execution of public works to a greater extent even
than in recent years.

The funeral of Rachel is fixed for Monday next,
at 11 in the morning. The Evitr'aele states that it
is authorised to declare that the report of her having
embraced the Roman-catholic religion is without the

slightest foundation.
The severity of the cold, and the cessation of
building operations which it has °positioned, have
caused a great number of workmen to visit the
cheap kitchens, established under the patronage of
the Emperor, in the forty-eight quarters of Paris.
Each of these kitchens distributes dsily on an aver-
age from 10,000 to 15,000 portions of soup, meat, or
vegetables; each portion *oats only 10e., and the
demi-portions may be had for se.

Tau Haman Mutam—The galleries, libraries,
asil maim rm. of the Mak blossom were re-owed yes-
iamb, 'kr the mod wads&

THE UNITED STATES.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIORT.
The North Star bea arrived, with the American
mails. She left New York on the 26th inat.

Christmas has been kept very riotously in Phila-
delphia, where several fatal affrays have taken
place.

A destructive fire had happened at Buffalo.

The Persia arrived out on the 25th. Her advice*
were considered unfavourable, both financially and
commercially.
The Assistant Treasurer at New York had given
notice that he would receive deposits of gold coin to
the amount of three million dollars, for which Trea-
sury notes, bearing 3 per cent. interest, would be
given as soon as issued.
' It is said that the argument of Mr. Marcy against
the French claims in respect of damage by the bom-
bardment of Greytown proved so resistless that no
claim had been made on behalf of Great Britain.

In the New York' market, cotton was dull; flour 1
and meal had risen in price.
The trannetions in grain hare been limited.
Freights are dull. The stock market is also dull,
with a declining tendency.
Many of the cotton factories in Philadelphia
county, which suspended work at the beginning of
the financial crisis, have resumed operations.