The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(11011 001 OWN COIIISPONDINN.)
PARIS, WIDNISDLT EVENING,
A supplemental triumphal entry into Paris of
troops returning from the war in the Crimea took
place to-day. The 39th and 50th regiments of the
line (both of which took a distinguished part in the
capture of Sebastopol), and a battalion of voltigeurs
of the Guard, assembled this morning at tea o'clock
on the Place de la Bastille. There they were met
by General Niel, the well-known director *1 the
engineering operations before Sebastopol, who was
selected by the Emperor for this honour. There was
nothing like the ceremony observed on Saturday
week, the number of troops being comparatively so
small, and, of course, there was not so great a
crowd. But the fraternisation of the people with
the army was even more conspicuous than on the
former grand occasion, for there being no troops to
line the way, and but few sergens de villa to
interfere with individual action, the Fati.
bourg St. Antoine youth, in their cape and blouses,
marched along, not only side by aide, bat in many
cases intermingled with the troops. Greetings be.
tween relations and friends were frequent. Most of
the soldiers carried laurels in their hands or on their
bayonets, and frequently the gamins and the soldiers
struck up songs together along the line of =reit.
The Emperor reviewed the regiments in the Place du
Carousel. The Empress, accompanied by her ladies,
appeared in the balcony of the Pavillon de Pliorloge.
At the Bourse there has
.been a farther fall which
is attributed principally to the great decline in Con.
sole. The Bente fell 15c., closing at 62fr. 70c. Credit
Mobilier and Bank of France fell 6fr. each. Rail.
ways were again all lower, Lyons and Geneva fell
12fr. 50c.; other lines from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr.

This evening's Pattie says it is informed by
" high personage" in the diplomatic world at Bet.
lief that the news of the King of Prussia having
sent an autograph letter to the Czar, although antra
when first promulgated, was " only premature,"
and is true now. The Patrie's correspondent af-
firms in the most positive manner that the King of
Frugal* has very recently written a letter to the
Emperor Alexander, advising him in the strongest
terms not to deceive the hopes of the friends of pesos,
and to accept the Austrian propositions. It is, how.
ever, remarked—sod this is a very important obssr.

vation—that the Prussian Ambeisader at St. Pe.
terebarg hu cot by any personal efforts supported
the advice in his Sovereign's letter, so much u was
desired at Vienna. "A certain degree of rearm
evidently studied, was remarked in his demeanour."
When a statement like this is the strongest that the
pesos party can put forward, you may judge of its
value.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Regent of the
Bank of France, has gone to Constantinople in the
Borysthene.
The persons who were arrested at the funeral of
M. David (d'Angers) have been set at liberty. They
were all students, and their only offence wu that of
cryieg " Vin la Liberte." The fact of this cry having
been attend is openly stets(' in the Wele of this
morning.
The Emperor has decided that a certain number of
representations at the Orand Opera shall be given foe
the entertainment of the troops returned from the

Crimea. The first of these performances will take
place on Saturday next, when Jovita will be given,
with the overture to the Muette, and a cantata sang
by ffirleymard. The non•commisssioned officers and
soldiers are to be seated in the pit, the amphitheatre
stalls, and the third and fourth rows of boxes, whilst
the orchestra stalls will be reserved for the officers,
The performance is to common°e each night at •
quarter to eight, and will terminate before half-pset
ten.

The Borsenhalle of Hamburg publishes a despatch
announcing that M. Fontes, Finance Minister of
Portugal, has concluded a loan in Paris of 1,600,000 fr.

LIFE AT ROME.

(mow ova OWN

!DINT.)

ROMS, Din. 31.
Rome has received an enormous influx of visitors:
the hotels are overflowing; the churches, galleries,
and antiquities are besieged by indefatigable lion.
hunters, whilst fox-hunters from the three kingdoms
(cliactos a ens gout) scour the Ceram/nit and maks
the welkin mug with their joyous taUy-ho! The
Piffentri have done serenading the Madonna, to the
great relief of such irritable persons as are averse to
the strains of the bagpipe at five o'clock in the morn.
lug, and the more elaborate performers belonging to
the French and Roman military bands are curds•
ing their musical talents under the windows of their
respective officers, to elicit the largesse customary at
this period. A perfect furor attended the opening of
the theatrical carnival season on the 26th inst., and
the ticket office of the Apollo Theatre was assailed by
such a mob of ferocious dilettanti, many of whom had
been waiting around the doors since six o'clock
in the morning, that several persons were
severely injured in their frantic struggles to
obtain the precious piece of pasteboard. On
the evening of the first performance, the
Governor of Rome, or as he is now denominated
according to the new ministerial nomenclature, the
Director of Police, a prelate of course, made his state
entry into the opera-house, escorted by gendarme,
firemen, and torchbearers, and his appearance in the
official box was the signal for the opera, the Troratore,
to commence. After the second act the ancient cite,
tom was revived, of sending refreshments at the
governor's expense to the occupants of the second
and third tiers of boxes, which are usually taken foe
the season by the timbre/odors and nobility. At the
same moment all the box doors were thrown open,
and a hundred and forty servants appeared, two at
each box, bearing ices, biscuits, and wax candles.
The effect was extremely brilliant, and the reverend
prelate was much lauded for his liberality.
Apropos of prelates, Monsignor Antinori, one of
the auditors of the Sacra Roots tribunal. has, with
his Holiness's permission, doffed the prelatical garb
to enter the holy state of matrimony. Although not
actually in holy orders, it is very rare to see en
ecclesiastical functionary of such high rank abandon
celibacy.
Amongst the arrivals at Civita Vecchia on &Om.
day, the 29th, by the Marseilles boat, was Sir John
Carmichael. His state of health was so bad that he
was with difficulty conveyed on shorn, and expired
at the hotel during the night. It is singular that
this is the fourth baronet who has only survived by
a few months his accession to the family title.

1 THE POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED

8 FATES.

(FROM MR

NEW YORK, Du. 26.

Let see first explain briefly the romans why om
Congress has not yet organised, and proceeded to
business. We are a strange people. We must be
strange people, or Englishmen would comprehend as
better. It certainly seems strange that a new Con.
gems, composed (in its popular branch) of 234 dele-
gate., freshly elected by the people, should come
together, and strive, writhe, and struggle for three
weeks without being able to elect a Speaker. The
reuses are obvious. We are pacing through a poli-
tical revolution. It is attended by no bloodshed—it
is marked by no comp d'aat—it is hardly a period of
general political excitement. But it is, theirs,
• period that will be marked for ever in our political
annale--• revolution that is working deep in ths
hearts of the American people. Other nations
may not, and do not understand it—but e•
know it, and feel it ; and we trace its progree
from day to day, and hour to hour. I will rapidly

indicate some of its eb. arecteristios. Codisguisal op,
position 3 proclaimed in all quarters, and by all cliques
Sod Pectins, to the present administration. Neither
the president nor his cabinet now command the i
con-
deem of any party or any class of our chinos.
Wee should they? Every pledge has been violated
honour has been outraged. "There is," as a
Western orator said the other day, "nothing left of
Fres's Pierce to swear by." The man has sunk so
los—he has betrayed so many and so Nally, and be
ys been betrayed. so generally in return, that we
iitsies the humiliating spec•acle of a chief magi-
erste of this Republic who dares not confide • copy
of his annual Nleseage to the public printer, ap-
pointed bf himself. It has been the usual custom
for the President and his secretaries to send the
wow and the reports to the public printer to be
made ready far Congress when the day of its annual
cohveotion took place. If a delay occurred in the or-
gsnisation of the Lower House (there is never
soy dr;sy in the Renate), these public papers were
moldered sate, for they have always hitherto hese
cortitird to respectable men ; but on his secession he
poser President Pierce elevated men of low chars&
dry to places of trust, and he is reaping the MOW
yieacee. He cannot now trust his Meal.* sag 111
his sight, and he sends for the compositors be use to
the presidential mansion. They come in the night,
briogieg their cases, presses, and all the implements
of their art with them. It is tiinday, but they go to
work, leaf by leaf, sash eee being watched and
guarded. When the Prodded goes to dinner, or a
cabiset souseil, he locks his wee in; when Soy go
home be locks them oat; sad esthe terse gene on
day by day till the Mirage is set up. Thin ease;
a steamer—for the bongs dose net ergaaise—sed the
President wishes, after reading his eewspapers aed
despatches, to alter a line or easel a persompii,
Again the compositors are sot for, sad euss
more locked in. The neemeery changes are
made, and again thecompaniters are locked out. Days
gp by, and still the Noose dose not organise—the
Alssrege Is not called for. It gets tame—it is wrong
—" it want do." Another steamer arrives from
Europe. Own more the poor compositors are sent
for, and other are changed, and some new
ones are eddsd. and other old ones are cancelled.
Meantime every " printer's devil " has learned the
Message by heart, and not a man or boy has • word of
it, except by reading type, for every " galley proof "
has goes straight into the presidential twitches
pockets. But something like this ihimniscs Message
gets by " hook or crook " into the beads of nese-
body, who posts off to New Yorks aM elan it for
sale tea fast ultimo:, which don't shiest to 3001.
as the price,but doubts the mares, et the proofs.
And so we wait from day to da , sed boar to boar,
and even week to week, and no Mamie emu% end if
it came from the face of Gomel Pima's ewe type,
as it has beee twenty times pristed, k would not be
the Message we shall some iv have, As the poor
beleaguered man alters it day!
It is humiliating to an AsassMs to telltbess fade
It mew like a well ease mated satire or farce got
op against the great by some minion el a
Roman despotism. tr Eel:, is all bur—store
than true--it will not be in any responsible
quarter.
And yet it is nesessery to tell it, for it is important
to be understood—it is doe to our Republic that the
facts be known. When honest travellers fall into
the beads of thieves, they ought to have a bearing.
Gies us one.

liiiiltippens that what I hare stated partly na-
tal the assess of the delay in the organisation of
Everything is in chaos. The econdast of
the lirrsideatve has lett him without a party. Not
eves sae-third of the delegates are found ready to
stand by a man whom General Pierce tolerates, mash
lass is ssybody willing to sustain smut who le One-
nil Pima lost choice.

Times an her pasties is Commie ; bet the Pre-
sident has moms. is hit. it is nearly tree, as a Preach-
mom said to um a day el two ago, " Everybody has a
port, bet Nepalese liareekhat." First, the &pub&
=rasing time, agitators, ►free-milers, or alma-
; esswibrMaise-slavery mom, the suet
amtigsim of the helm I thirdly, the Fres-Soil
lame-Ilethiags (was Ms with the first ohms) ; sad
hirthly, the National Low-Nothings. The oily
two that have yet coaleseed are the firstsad third,
Promfloilers. whether Know-Nothings or not. Their
coalition has not been able to command a majority
of all the votes. The National Know-Nothings will
sot mite with the two former, for they stead where
Webster stood, so far as the spirit of national okra is
concerned. Nor can they unite with the therpro-
slavery or democratic party, beams disassin‘vete
together to semis slavery per eh god the
Nebraska-Lama Bill. Bat in this straggle
the President has bees utterly lost eight of. Not a
scas is Congress has said awe word is favour of Ge-
m eal Pierce—not a vote has bees mot for his He
hasven bees entirely overlooked is the whole Goe-
Mr. isake, the candidate of the Abolition party, is
in
a Maemehmetts sae, who, although a Low-
Nadia,. has bees taken ap by the Repabliesse as
least obsozioss to them, became he is supposed to be
as esti-Lams mew The Dements, or pro-alavery
mem will sot vote for him Dor will the Nadosal
Lew-Nothings; aid yet Blake ha. from the start
stood hem 100 to 107, and at any tium five or sight
noes mem would have elected his Bat these votes
he meld sot get. Home the delay. is sleeting a
Speaker, which has delayed the organisation of the
he.., which has delayed the publication of the Pre-
eidest's Lesege, whisk has kept the world is the
dark es the oohed of the foreign policy of the Pre-
sident, which has, he.. L., is the style of "tit
hems that lack built," all through the chapter.