The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, BUNDAT Evzignro.

The Prairie announces, as if it had no doubt of
the fact, that the Emperor and Empress, and the
Imperial Prince, leave Paris for Biarritz this evening
(Sunday). lam informed, however, that this is a
mistake, and that their Majestiei will certainly not
leave till to-morrow, and possibly not till Tuesday.
They will break the journey somewhere, on account
of the baby, but I do not at present know where
they mean to halt.
The Press, says in its weekly commercial review :

The moment ►as cow arrived when business ought to
revive and become ezatedingly active in most of our mane
factories. Bat hitherto there Is very little @mouse
among buyers. Many circumstances combine to cause a de.
premien. la many branches of industry it has bees found
necessary to raise wages from fifteen to twenty per cent.,
and all the while t►e price of raw material was rapidly
rising. The consequence is that the producer hiss been
obliged to pat ao additions' price upon his goods, which the
public does not readily submit to. The d is of living,
and the high rate of rents —the main causes of the rise is
wave—at the same time indica the consenter to deprive
himself of every superfluity. Foreigners who boy at pre-
sent prim, ask generally for longer credit than the vendors
like to give. Neverthelas there has been a satisfactory
export bummers done during be last two maths. Great
sales have, in particular, been affected for the Brezils.

The Council State, in its sitting of Wednesday
last, approved of a draft decree conceding the im-
mense dock, which is to be made at the Joliette port
at Marseilles, to M. Paulin Talabot.
A new screw steam frigate, the Impetuense, 80
guns and 800 horse-power, was launched at Cher-
bourg on the 15th.
The Revue des Beaux Arts says that M. Horace
Verne, has received sad (what does not follow as a
matter of course) accepted an order to paint a grand
picture representing the taking of the Malakoff. It
is also said that Colonel Langlois, whose panorama of
the battle of Eyler' was a etc:ding object of attrac-
tion in the Champs Ripen for mOy years, has
returned from the Crimea with all the sketches nee...
eery to enable him to complete a panorama of the
assault of September B—the taking of cebastopol.
On the 144 day one of the rockets lot off at the
Barriers du Trove fell upon a coal warehouse on the
Boulevard Moatreuil, and eel fire to the building,
which was destroyed, with all that it contained.
Owing to the exertions of the fire brigade, the flames
did not spread to the neighbouring house..

The Moniteur of yesterday contains decrees by
which M. Albatucci, keeper of the meals, minister of
justice, is charged provisionally with the ministry of
state and of the Emperor's household during the ab-
sence of M. A. Fould; and Marshal Vaillant, minis-
ter of war, is charged provisionally with the ministry
of marine and the colonies daring the absence of Ad.
miral Hamelin.

The Monilair also states that by decree of August
16, 1856, the Emperor, on the proposition of the
minister secretary of state for the war department,
hoe conferred the military medal on Sir William
Codrington, general of the armies of her Majesty
the Qum of Great Britain ; and on the Chevalier
Alphoneo della Marmon, general of the army and
war minister of his Majesty the King of Sardinia.
Rear-Admiral Lageol (Jean) has been appointed to
the chief command of the two naval divisions on the
western coasts of Ameriea and Oceania.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

The subscription to furnish the new fortifications
of Alessandria with a hundred pieces of artillery
continues in Piedmont with the enthusiastic concur.
renos of the people. Besides many private contribu-
tions, the municipalities of Turin, Vernsete, Salem,
Carmagools, Vercelli, Arena, Poeto Maurizio, Pal-
ms, Gravelimas, Ricoli, Bus, and Mortara have
voted various sums towards this patriotic object.
The Sardinian government has just published the
trade returns of that kingdom for the year 1864. It
appears from these returns that the unfortunate coin-
cidence of a bad harvest caused by the oidium which
infected the grain crops, with the cholera and the war,
reduced the amount of the general commerce of the
country, as compared with the preceding year, 1853,
from 664,672,818 lire to 627,313,622, but that on the
other hand the special trade in articles of native manu-
facture increased from 283,034,772 to 309,622,800,
showing a progressive development of manufacturing
industry.
An exhibition of native agriselture and saanufse-
tares is intended to be held at Turin in the year
BM&

The commissioner appointed to take part in the
settlement of the Danubian Principalities, on behalf
of the government of Sardinia, is the Chevalier
Raphael Semi, lately the Sardinian Consul-General
in Mexico.

PARMA.

A letter of the 11th of August says that Lord
Normanby has arrived at Piacenza, on a second visit
to the Duchess Regent of Parma, which occasions
many conjectures as to what is going on.
A complete battery of Austrian artillery, escorted
by Jigers, has just been sent from Bologna to
Piacenza, and scarcely a day passes without the
arrival of some reinforcements of Hungarian cavalry.
The joint commission of the Sardinian and Par-
mesan governments, upon railway communication
between those two states, has decided that the juin-
tion of the Piedmuntese line with that of Parma
shall be near Caetel San Giovanni, on the Bardoneg-
gia, and that the lies shall keep to the north of the
ancient Emilian Way.