The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-08 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUESDAY EVENTNG.

I learn, on indubitable authority, that the effec-
tive force of the French army is at this moment
greater by 75,000 men than it is represented to be
by the budget. This fact has been discovered by
the budget committee, and is clearly proved by
official documents. It was intended, after the
voting of the budget, quietly to provide for this
extra force by the facile expedient of a supple-
mental credit, about which the representatives of
the taxpayers would have known nothing till some
future and long distant time, when the interest
attaching to present events should have passed
away, and new circumstances would have diverted
criticism into new channels. As it is, the matter
will be brought before the Chamber when the de-
bate on the budget comes on, and several members
intend to avail themselves largely of their newly-
acquired privilege of plain speaking on the occasion.
The long enduring prestige of H. Hausmann,
prefect of the Seine, after being in these latter
times rudely questioned by public criticisms, has
been at length officially damaged by the Council
of State, which has quaabed several of his decrees
prohibiting proprietors from building upon ground
which he had pitched upon for a new street, as
"void for excess of power," the public utility of
the new street not having been established.
The Pays, in its " Damara@ Nouvelles," contra-
dicts the report that Russia has placed her army
on a war footing, and adds that the concentration
of a Russian force on the Pruth is greatly exagge-
rated. The fact is the Russian army at the
present moment is almost a myth. One of the
recent numbers of the Revue Contemporaine
gives from authentic sources very interesting
details showing conclusively that the great and
much dreaded Russian army exists principally
upon paper, and that the Czar has scarcely any
forces available for foreign aggression. I have
heard this said over and over again by Russian
refugees in Paris.
If we may credit a telegram from Rome,
the obstinate young Bombe (Francis IL) has
just contracted a loan of nine millions (of
some coin not stated) with foreign bankers.
This news, if true, will only furnish an addi-
tional reason to the many which the indepen-
dent journals are daily urging upon the French
government for the speedy evacuation of Rome.
The Emperor mast be blind if he does not see that
his occupation of Rome is the corner-stone of
anarchy in Italy, and the mainstay of his clerical
enemies iu France.

The Bourse was acted upon to-day by the news
from Hungary, which is serious, not to say alarm-
ing. Speculators who bought yesterday on the
strength of the rise at Vienna—which, by the way,
still continues— are selling to-day. The Iterate fell
20c. for cash and 25c. for account, closing at 69fr.
30c. and 69fr. 25c. Mobilier fell 16fr. Railways
were from sfr. to 10fr. lower. The Callum Mires
fell from 90fr. to 82fr. 50e., which is the lowest
quotation of these securities since M. Mirka' arrest.
M. Doyen, sub-governor of the Bank of France,
accompanied by a principal clerk, and M. Cou-
ainiery, the Smyrna banker, have left Paris this
day for Constantinople, in order to make au ar-
rangement with the Greek houses involved in the
late financial crisis.

A high mass was celebrated this morning at St.
Roch for the victims of Warsaw of April 8. The
numerous congregation was attired is mourning.
The telegraph reports that a great tire occurred
last night at Limoges, and that the prefect, while
courageously directing the operations of the firemen,
was seriously injured by the falling of a beam.

Woll-informed Americans are confident that on
the arrival of the Great Eastern at New York the Northern
Stake will offer to buy her. The agents of the compsay
will probably feel themselves justified in making a pro-
visional sale upon adequate terms, which could subtle-
quietly be referred here for confirmation.
This morning a return was made to parliament
of correspondence respecting changes in the Italian tariffs
in 1859 and 1860, and an extract of a despatch from Lord
J. Ronal to Mr. Elliott, dated June 21, 1860. The latter
'striket is as follow.:—" With respect to the constitution
of 1812, or any other political measure, her Majesty's go-
vernment do not wish to interfere. But you are instructed
to remonstrate with M. Carafe in the strongest terms
against any repetition at Naples of the bombardment of
Palermo. AU Europe has been shocked by it. You will
speak in like terms of Messina, in case the bombardment of
that place is intended. You will inform M. Brenier, who
has instructions similar to yours."
THIS ENOLIPM thinner( AT NAPLES.—A letter
from Naples states that orders have been received from
Turin, confirming Garibaldi's grant to the English resident'
of a piece of ground for the purpose of building a church.
RIINCIAN IMPORTATION OF TEA.—BOARD OF
TRAM; Winriusts., MAT 7.—The Rillon. the Lords
of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received
from the Secretary of Sate for Fas, Affairs • copy of •
dispatch front her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Peters-
burgh, enclosing • Copy of a Runs& Imperial Morse, per.
muting from the 13th April, 1862, the importatson of tea
by the sea porta of the empire, and by the European land
frontiers, at the rates of duty spmified.—t7entle.
A Porctors HOOF/E.—The Echo du Nord states
that by the census which is being taken throughout France,
it ha. jut been ascertained that one house in the Rue du
Mat, lAIN contains 19 families, reckoning among them 101
drUmn, and that twelve more additions to the population
are shortly expected by the inmates. The house is let to
the families of working men at 6 fr. • month for two good
rooms, and is descnbnd by the census officers u being re.
markably clean, orderly, and well conducted.
The great spring fair at Leipeic may be considered
es termrnated. The rile of cloth and other woollen articles
and of mixed wool and cotton goods was active, and • rise
of from 5 to 6 per mot. took piece in the prices of the latter
compared with those of the preceding fair. For calico and
printed articles the demand was dull. the Moldavian., Wal-
Uchians, and Poles, who are generally large purchasers, not
Suring presented themselves at the fair in any numbers.
For the light silks of Sammy, sod Prussia also, the demand
was dull, owing to the absence of Americans. The same
was the use as regards jewellery, and Swiss watches and
clocks.

THE Naw Corse.—The comet which has lately
made its appeanume is our celestial hemisphere wee—not
without some difficulty owing to the swiftness of
,tscitir
re -
nt course having carried it further than was ex
hunted up at the observatory in this town last onday)
evening about 9 o'clock. Its approximate position then
was, It. A., 9b.7lmin., N. I). 3i deg. 4.4 min. To the naked
eye the visitor is scarcely visible, and when descried has the
applesauce of • dim star of small magnitude, and although
it is rapidly gaining brilliancy, it is also quietly passing
beyond the ken of the inhabitants of this side of the globe.
To ordinary observers it may be useful to state that it may
he looked for • little westward of the constellation Ursa
liajor.—Bury (St. Edmund's) Poet.

PATNINT or Roi CATHOLIC OFFICLALB IN
GAOLS AND WORILHOUDNIL—The Liverpool select vestry at
their meeting yesterday adopted • petition to the legislature
against the employment of paid Roman catholic chaplains in
pole and workhouses and paid Roman catholic school-
masters and anistrassis in pariahs.