The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(mu ova own conzsroznirr.)
PARIS, fiATOZDAT IMMO.
It i 4 rumoured that the Emperor's architect will
shortly proceed to Nice for the purpose of selecting
• site fur the erection of a palace. It is thought
not to be improbable that Nioe will replace Biarritz
as a sea-bathing place for the Emperor and Impress.
Negotiations are going on between Paris and
Turin for the settlement of the new boundary line
between France and Piedmont. France desires to
push her frontier as far as San Remo inclusively,
while Sardinia only understood the osssion of
Savoy as minimising the line of Turbia.
Vinti-
mi is now spoken of by way of a conioromise.
M. About, in his weekly feuilletmo, in the
Opinion Natturisde, referring to recent seizures of
writings, some of which are taxed with opposition
to the French government on the Ronan question,
w I ile others are only open to the charge of supporting
the goverment too zealously, says :—" Thu double
current of censure is a sign of the times ; it proves
the existence of a conflict, uncertainty, hesitation.
The great clock of Europe is regulated by an all-
powerful pendulum, which has been owaillating for
the last year between &Menne and Villafranca."
In the course of the debate on M. de Delum's
election, M. Picard alluded to an expression of the
Archbishop of Rennes, as being too "Breton" to
be repeated in the house. The opinion of the most
reverend prelate upon universal suffrage in his dio-
cese was bluntly conveyed in these words,—"li
Britanny I would undertake to get the people to
vote for a broomstick."
Thw publication of the seventeenth volume of M.
Thies' histo.7 was delayed for two days on account
of its contauslasoonie very strums observations on
the conductu km I. in atilimpting to dissolve
tho marriage of his brother Jerome with Dino
Pattesou i and also historical documents showing
that the children of that marriage are legitimate is
the eyes of God and man.
At the Bourse a huge business was done, and
the fluctuations have been very considerable. The
Ream opened very firm, and ruse to 68.60, being
a.l improvement of 80c. upon the nee of yesterday.
Subsequently there was a serious reaction, attn.
bused to the sews of a collision at Rome between
the Pope's troop. and the populace, and the Rents
receded to 68.1 b. The closing prices were 68.2 p,
both for cash and account, with a fall of 10c. it
each cam. Mobilier fell 3.75. Railways left of
fully 10C lower than the highest quotations of the
day
7' but with the exception of Northern, which
fell .60, the closing priceare nearly those of
yesterday.

THE PITITIONING cos CHURCH RATS Amon.
TIoN. When, on the **rood reading d Sir John Trelawny's
Bill, Lord It. Montagu referred In " ow miserable petition"
presented is its support, he probably did not anticipate the
egad which such unwise taunts would be likely to pro.
dime. The tide of petitions in reopens' to those the pro-
✓ate party is now rolling in, end by Wednesday afternoon
those who have hitherto thought, or neutered to think, that
the desire for church rate abolition is confined to bet few
phew, and to but • oomparatively few persons, will be
Ailed to resort to rime other expedient for upholding the
gement symem The latest report of the Petitios
unties of the Hume of I.!. 411111001 dose not come down later
than the llith inst., up to which time only 42J petitions fur
abolition, with 37,5 e signatures, had beet. presented.
lest week, however, affected a material change
in the position of the opposing parties, them
Mir* bees 14 petitions pretested out the 19th ; 115 cm
the glith ; hit us the flat ; 215 maths 2MI ; and ce Friday
night the lance number of 555 petitions. We believe that the
=te number of signatures to the total number pre.
at that date-1,66{--may be 'Minimal at about
130,0109, so that is about ten days the abolitionists will bare
..at in petitions with as many signatures as the other side,
who have bets engupd in collecting, with peat labour, for
' some mouths peel A very large number of petitions are,
we andersten4 es the war for presentation, those of the
grestest importance not having bees presented. Thus the
Mamehester sad Salford general petitions have no fewer than
31,500 names attached, and several Imply signed pratems
from other provincial towns, and from the metropolitan
harenghs, have yet to p ill. It is, however, desirable that
as many as posuble should be presented to-morrow.
ANZZICAN, CANADIAN, AND AFRICAN MAIL Die
arenas; non /.rnarnoi, —Oa Saturday last the Guard
Royal Mail stiminaliip ti smiled from the Mersey ler
Bonus, with the waited States and North Americas smile
end eighttiorpmewmfre. On Saturday also the Attlee mail,
Mesas, was despatched from Liverpool far the
i
Peel emit AMA, with the mails for M•Adra, Trostiffe,-
aid the wort owl of Afrits, and nineteen paasengers,,
among whom me Govesor Andrews of the gold east. Mel
end Mistrial Mail Company's assume Ariglo4daxoef
Rom the Mersey for Portland, with the
Oalledlea ffillted•Stator mails. The box at the Llieri
=op:et-odes will be open on that day for the reosipttef,
ea, la 10.30 and MA Queenwtown until'
1 11,3Sp.et.
The Por,le papers state that a steamer will'
shortly he put ea between Poole and Cherbourg, to oonuect
the Smith -Western Railway in England with the Western.
Railway in Prsam