The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MosoarErma.
There is great uncertainty about Garibaldi's
movements. Letters and newspapers from Italy
contain contradictory accounts, some saying he has
been persuaded to renounce his projects, others
that he is more determined than ever to go on with
them. According to several accounts, four volun-
teer regiments, the nucleus of his army, have
already crossed the frontiers, one, two, or three at
a time, as private individuals, and are only await:
ing a signal soon to be given to assemble in arms.
M. Rattazsi's new promise to execute the maven_
tion of Sept. 15 does not meet this case, because
by that convention Italy promises to protect the
frontier but not to cross it to put down a revo-
lutionary movement breaking out in the Roman
States. There are rumours of a new convention
to be entered into between France and Italy, by
virtue of which Italian troops will at once march
upon Rome for the purpose of protecting the Holy
See and the rights of the Roman people. The
Gazette de France, a favourite organ of the Bishop
of Orleans, sees a snake in the grass in the
word " rights." It apprehends a plebiscite
directed by Italian bayonets to put down the tem-
poral power. If the King of Italy is really going
to take possession of Rome with French conni-
vance Garibaldi will doubtless be satisfied with •
great first step made in consequence of his initia-
tive. But the Preset and the Epoque speak of orders
having been sent to Toulon to hold ships in readi-
ness to transport 20,000 French troops to Civita
Vecchia. That would be a most serious step, and
I cannot believe it will be taken.
Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris from a
long stay at his Swiss estate, Prangins. On passing
through Lyons he paid visits to M. Arlie Dufour
and M. de Meta

The Libert4 publishes the following letter from
M. Arles Dufour :
My dear Girardin,—You are a hundred, a thousand
timer right when you oppose those idiots, depraved of
memory, who would make war on Germany because she
has succeeded, after fifty-two years' endeavours,
in constituting her unity. Do they then forget that
it war foreign intervention which produced intestine
quarrels and bloody struggles in France, and that it wee
only then that the nation rose as one man and marched
to the frontiers ? Are they not aware that on the slightest
threat of intervention, even a friendly intervention, in the
affairs of Germany, seven or eight millions of Germans,
almost all proteetante, now subjects of Austria, would join
the great Germania oonfederation ? I speak of Germany,
knowing something about it, for when a young man I
posted five years in the oountry, and I have always kept
up intimate relations with it. Having said this much I
beg you to pnt my name down for 300 francs in the sub.
scription for a statue to the great Turgot.

Ansa Porous.
The subscription for a statue to Turgot was set
on foot by M. Emile Girardin, who headed it with
I,ooofr. It has gone on but slowly, the total
amount announced to-day, including M. Aries Du-
four's 300 fr., being only 1,565 fr. The function-
aries who were compelled to subscribe for a statue
to M. Billault are not likely to figure on the list.
This letter of M. Arne Dufour, coupled with
Prince Napoleon's recent visit to him, is a confir-
mation scarcely required of the contradiction of the
rumour that a recent warlike article in the Siècle
was prompted by the Prince.
The Bourse was calm with a downward tendency.
Rents fell 15c. for cash and 2ic. for account, closing
at 69fr. 20c. in each case. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50e. ;
Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. 50c. ; Credit Foncier,
sfr.; and Italian, 25c. Mobilier Espagnol, which
is for the moment a favourite speculative security,
rose Ilfr. 25fr.

The hidepenclanee Belge,CologneGazette,Augsbeurg
Gazette, and Italian Dieato were seized to-day.

The Queen of Denmark, the Grand-Duke, heir
to the throne of Russia, and the Grand Duchess the
Prince. Dagmar, embarked on the 17th in the Schleswig
at Copenhagen for Lubeck, whence they will proceed to
Wiesbaden to visit the Prince, of Wales.

Wt Sunday the Empress Eugenie will preside
at the distribution of prise, of the Society for the Protec-
tion of Apprentices and the Children of Workmen. The
ceremony will take place in the great nave of the Pakis
dlndustrie, Champs Elysees. There will be present all
the principal manufacturers and heads of commercial
houses in Paris, as well am s large number of master work-
men, who, executing their trade in their own homes,
employ one, or perhaps two apprentices. Invitations to
this ceremony are sent out in the names of the president,
Senator Dumas, and the Duo de Mouchy. The first prises
will be portraits of the Empress, bearing an autographic
inscription in her Majesty's writing, recording the circum-
stances under which the prize has been given; likewise
portraits of the Prince Imperial, bearing in his hand-
writing a similar record; gold, silver, and browse medals,

A very heavy storn3 of wind and rain visited
Paris on Friday afternoon, and the lower parts of the city
were flooded to such an extent that walking wu impossible
excepting knee-deep in water. The rain, which fell in
torrents from about 3 till 8, and did not oevs until 9, wu
a groat trial and a more vexation to the thousands of visi-
tors on leaving the Exhibition.