The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-17 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

WIWI OUR OWN COIN'

PARIS, TI7I.BDkT EVIMIXO.

The Emperor and the Prince of Prussia returned
to Paris from Fontainebleau this morning. There
was a white frost this morning unfavourable for
hunting or shooting. Daring the prince's stay in
Paris there will be a grand cavalry review at Ver.
Nines.

The Bourse has again been very downcast. The
Rents fell 600. for cash, and 46c. for account, closing
at 66fr. and 66fr. 30c. Mobilier fell 45c. The rail.
ways were more depressed than they have been for
some time. Mediterranean fell as much as 60fr,;
Orleans fell 22fr. 50c.; Lyons, Southern, and Grand
Central, 20fr. each; Eastern, Southern and Western,
10fr. each; and Northern, Mr.
Marshal Coatellane, who has long been in command
of the important garrison of Lyons, arrived in Paris
this morning. General I)umontel commands in his
absence, but it is said that the marshal will return to
his post on the 21st.

The great Univers libel case is, after all, likely to
be tried. On the cause being called on this morning,
merely as it was supposed to register the settlemect
which was formally announced three or four days
sinew, IH. Josseau, the counsel for the
Univers, said there bad been a misunder.

standing—that when the Univers proposed
to withdraw from the prosecution it had supposed
that the pamphlet " L'Univers jugd par lai
was to be suppressed, but that the author, the Abbe
Cognat, now declared that he never meant anything
of the sort, and that his only intention was to dis.
claim the injurious sense which M. Venillot, on the
part of the editors of the Univers, had attached to
certain passages. Upon this statement the cause
was adjourned to this day week, when, unless an
effective compromise be made in the meanwhile, it
will be heard upon the merits. The extraordinary
interest attaching to this case is explained by the fact
that it is generally considered not as a quarrel be-
tween a journal and a pamphleteer, but as one be.
tween the Ultramontane and Gallicsn parties in the
church, the bishops of the respective persuasions
being bottle holders to the combatants.

M. de Balvandy, whose state of health has long
given the greatest uneesineu to his friends, expired
on Monday at his seat of Graveron, in Normandy.
He retained to the last moment the full possession of
his faculties, and was able to bid a most affecting
adieu to all those who surrounded him—to his son,
M.*Paul de Salvandy, to his daughter, the Marquise
d'Aux, and to his wife. M. de Salvandy had a few
days before received the sacrament from the Bishop
of Evereux. The deceased was born at Condom on
11th June, 1793, and was consequently only sixty.

one years of age. Only a very short time before hu
death M. de Salvandy corrected, with a firm hand,
the proofs of a new edition of one of his works. M.
de Salvandy was for many years member of the
French Academy, and was a leading politician in the
time of Louis Philippe, under whom he wu, for a
beg while, Minister of Pablio Instruction.
The lesta tette, referring to the embezzlement cou
mitted to the prejudice of the Credit Mobilise
which I mentioned some days ago, confirms my
statement that the society withdrew its complaint,
bat the public prosecutor hes taken the affair up, and
the case will follow its legal course. The amount
embezzled is 147,000 fr., in shares of the Southern
11 Railway.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

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The Alhambra has just arrived with the Peninsula
Mails. She has been anchored all night in the West
Channel on account of a dense fog. She left Lisbon
on the 10th inst.

Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of
21,5001. Don Henriques Bomo, one of the richest
men in Portugal, is dead. George Crofters, the Eng.
lisbman who discovered the coal and iron mines in
Batalha, has had his claim of fiat discoverer allowed
by the Portuguese government.
Indian corn is admitted into Portugal free of duty.
Foreign ult can be imported at a dirty of ten reas
per hundred pounds weight. The duty on vege-
tables, coal, and firewood, is now nominal; vessels of
all nations laden with cereals are freed from tonnage
dues. The duty on fish is reduced.
The English and Prussian squadrons are reported
to be off the Rock. The cholera has ceased in Pot.
togal.
At Lisbon the operations in foreign exchanges
have been limited. The rate of exchange on London
fell to fifty-three for ninety days.
A new vessel from Lisbon, bound for the Brazils,
had been out two days, and bore up Irons stress of
weather, when she touched on the shoals, which
canoed her to leak. She was laden with wine and
coke, and, the leakage causing confusion, she wu
run on shore. All the boats of the fleet went to her
assistance.