The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TOIESDAT Evawixe.
Although the Zurich Conferences progress " like
a fly through a glue-pot," the prospects of the Italian
canoe seem brightening. I am 'aimed its well-
informed quarters that the restoration of the original
dukes is looked upon here as utterly hopeless. As
to new candidates, we learn that the cabinet of St.
Petersburg repudiates the ides of putting forward
the young Duke of Leuchtenberg ; and the sup.
porters of Prince Napoleon appear to have been so
snubbed, that all uneasiness may cease on that score.
The Constitidionnel says :

The government of the Emperor, faithful to its promisee,
has aildnused words of reconciliation to the three duals,.
It has not yet abandoned all hopes of moms ; it will not
weary of its efforts; and to the last will labour at its
disinterested mission. But if it fails in the end,
what will it do ?—is the question eeked with strange per-
sistence. Do not the services just rendered by France to
Italy entitle her to offer something more than advice?
Older., perhaps, and soon threats, followed up by action?
No. Prance is not a gendarme in the service of prism
against peoples. Shs seeks to re-unite them for their mutual
benefit; she has no thought of using violates to one or the
other. If at Rome an army of occupation fulfils the mission
of protecting the Sovereign Pont f, it is that at Rome wo
find not merely an Italian prince in presence of his subjects,
but it is the Pope, the father of all the faithful, whose tran-
quillity and security we have to secure In the interest of
France as of Italy herself, and of all catholicity. • • •
In a weed, Italy owes se her independence, and we will not
take away to-morrow what we gave her yesterday.

A deputation from Modena is expected in Paris.
The Marquis Fontanelli, well known here, is one of
the members.

I hear on good authority that a relaxation of the
pram system is under serious consideration , one
change spoken of is an extension of the right of pub-
lishing a journal, by either greatly reducing or alto-
gether dispensing with the caution money nowexasted.
The fact is, the Imperial government can have no
great reason to dread a moderately free press, so long
as there exists not contemporaneously with it a free
representative assembly; whereas there was some
danger, lest the too great tension of the situation,
provoked by the system of warnings and suspen-
sions, might have resulted in the snapping of the
cord.

A village core, M. Combe-Dalmas, has written to
the Siècle in defence of the temporal power of the
Pope. His line of defence is, that there are other
countries besides Rome in which the temporal and
spiritual powers are united in one person. He in-
stances first and foremost Queen Victoria, whose
authority, according to him, is exercised in a much
more dangerous manner for English consciences,
than that of Pitts IX. He of oonne omits to
state, that while the Queen of England
claims to be Defender of the Faith in her own do-
minions alone, the Pope of Rome exacts the spiri-
tual submission of the temporal subjects of other
monarchs. It is perfectly notorions—to speak only
of France—that the French clergy, in pursuance of
the maxim " divide et imperil," regard their spiritual
allegiance to Rome u the great source of their
power and their comparative independence of tie
head of the French government. The unpardon-
able offence committed in their eyes by the firebrand
author of the "Question Romaine" was that he
hinted at the propriety of a transfer of the head-
quarters of the Galilean church from Rome to Paris.
" In other words," said Louis Veuillot, reviewing
the book, "M. About offers the papacy of the Gal-
ilean church to the Emperor Napoleon 111., in which
hierarchal system he would probably himself become
a cardinal," &c.

The customs receipts for the first sevea months of
the year are published. TAO result is an increase of
387,813 fr. for the same period upon 1857, and a
diminution of 498,220 fr. on 1838. Owing to the re-
establishment of the sliding scale, the foreign trans-
actions in cereals for the month of July have con-
siderably fallen off.
The movement of the month of July gives a gene-
I sal increase of the metallic circulation to the amount
of 41,947,060 fr. The stock of goods in the depots is
generally below that which it was at the COMM.
ponding period of last year.
Scarcely any business doing to-day at the Bourse.
Arrangements are said to be pending for the intro-
duction of the system of assessors to the agents de
change. Sone business was done for cash in Aus-
trians and Stobilier. At the cloys Renter left off
heavily, at 35fr. 80c. for the account said 691 r. cash,
being afa of 30c. for the latter and 10c. for the
former. relit Moteher, 822 fr. 50c.