The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

ER .;7, 1858.

EXPRESb iltOM PARIS.

(FROM On OWN CORRESFONDZNT.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

It is expected that Prince Napoleon will leave
Paris about September 25, for Algeria, and that, in
compliance with the request of the council-general
of the Herault, he will embark at Cette. Should
the latter part of this DOW prove true, the com-
pliment paid to a council-general so pre-eminent as
is that of the Reranit for its devotion to free trade
doctrines, can hardly fail to be construed as an indi-
cation that they are approved of in the highest
quarter. I am sorry to say, however, that the
general current of opinion in the councils-general
throughout France is still highly protectionist.
Many of them speak with abject terror of
the near approach of 1861, to which date
the Emperor, in consequence of the outcry
made in 1856, consented to adjourn his
project for doing away with all absolute prohibi-
tions of foreign merchandise. They call loudly for
a further respite, and vow and declare that the
spirit of manufacturing enterprise will be fatally
blighted unless French workmen are secured by
protective laws against all foreign competition for a
long time to come.
The upward tendency of the Bourse, which was
checked for a moment by the settlement of the last
account, has developed itself formidably to-day. The
Rente went up to 72fr. far cash, and 72fr. se. for
account, closing with a rise of 65e. in each case.
Mobilier rose 45fr. The Orleans Railway rose
17fr. 50c.; Eastern, 13fr. 75e.; Northern, 10fr. ;
Southern, 15fr.; Lyons, 6fr. 25c.; and Western, Er.
Haider Effendi, the Turkish Chargé d'Affaires at
Paris, is going to St. Petersburg in the same capacity,
to replace Riza Bey.

The Welt, denies altogether the boasted superiority
of the English navy over that of France, and main-
tains that,extraordinarily numerous as are the vessel,
of England, they are not proportioned to the im-
mense extent of her various colonies. Passing then
to &consideration of the naval strength of France,
the article says :
The French navy, on the contrary, is in perfest eq•ilibelum
with the wants of the country. In the hypothesis of a naval
war, we have not thousands of points to protect, and we
can devote all our energies to attack. It is not sufficient,
It may be truly affirmed, to possess immense
resources; they should always be on the point
that is menaced, as Bonaparte clearly denioestrated to
the Austriana in his memorable campaigns in Italy. The
English, besides, in their reasoning on maritime matters,
always oommit an error, which we have already pointed out
on several occasions. In a war, a power ought not to expect
to have only one enemy, several should be looked for. Bat
England regards exclusively on the side of France ; thinks
only of Frame. But she has another enemy, Roads, who
presses her in the East, in China, in India, and who menaces
her In the Baltic, where the Rtmeian fleet, from being ex-
cluded from the Black Sea, is forced to accumulate Its forces.
Suppose, then, for • moment that an understanding was
come to between France and Russia, the French Beet holding
firm against the English vessels, whilst the Russian fleet
should convey an army to disembark in England—suppose
that, and the Cossacks might very easily be seen in London.
Unite, on the contrary, the Russian and Engliah Beets, and
thejunetion would be perfectly indifferent to us. From our
ports, with our army and our maritime populations so emi-
nently warlike, we repel every attempt at landing. Therein
lies our superiority ; we support our navy by an army,
which England cannot do, or at least which she has not been
able to do up to the present time.

In another passage of the same article we read :

The English Must make up their minds to the develop-
ment of maritime ideas in France. Admiral Napier has
recommended them to bring us to an arrangemect,eonsistieg
of each power consenting to have a limited navy. We, on
oar side, advise them to draw closer all the bonds which
attach them to France, to attempt the greatest number of
enterprises they possibly can in conjunction with us, and to
look with suspicion on those sentiments of jealousy which
have so long animated them against France. It is not to
diminish the French forces that they ought to endeavour,
but to so manage that a war with us should become utterly
impossible from the multiplicity of relations and friendships
existing between the two countries. When an end shall be
come to of spurring on the two populations against each
other, when they shall be persuaded that their alliance
shisitham them reciprocally, they will no longer dread the
fared one or the other in such or such a branch of the
service.

An interesting work by M. Jules Janin, entitled

"Mademoiselle Rachel et la Tragddie," will shortly
be published, No writer ever wrote more severe
strictures upon Mdlle. Rachel than the celebrated
critic of the Journal des Debate, but nobody now
feels more acutely than he does bow immense is the
void left in dramatic, art by her death. The volume
will be illustrated by several remarkable photo-
graphs, representing Rachel in her principal charac-
ters. She had a presentiment of her early death,
and in order to form a series of portraits,
dressed herself as Hermione, Camille, &c.,,
and striving with all a woman's vanity
and all her great intelligence to show herself off to
the utmost advantage, caused herself to be photo-
graphed in the most striking attitudes of her prin-
cipal parts.

A Chevalier de St. Loais (an order of knighthood
whose ranks are now fast thinning) has just died—
Count de Rochemnre de Saint-Cyr, a member of the
old nobkise, who was much respected.