The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORREISPONDZIM)
PARIS, MONDAY Eva-vise.
As was anticipated, the polling places have been
much more crowded to-day than they were yesterday.
Very many electors who originally did not mean to
vote felt themselves carried away by the prevailing
excitement, and took out their cards at the last
moment. I will not offer any conjecture about the
result, because my letter will be anticipated by the
telegraph with positive news. We shall know
to-night, not indeed officially, but with sufficient
certainty, who is elected for l'aris, and the results of
very many polls in the departments will come by
telegraph to-morrow morning.
The elections in Paris have gone off with the
greatest order and tranquillity. Very strong
military guards were stationed at all the :dairies,
but no occasion arose for their active services.
If however, everything passed off quietly and
apparently legally at the dairies, the same thing
cannot be said of the electoral operations all over the
town. I have it from an undoubted source, that at '
Belleville, yesterday, the distributors of the opposi-
tion candidate's bulletins were set upon and beaten
by some ill-looking fellows not known in the locality.
The police interfered, but only to arrest the
distributors, and let the aggressors go free.
A similar incident occurred at the same hour in an-
other section of the same circumscription. The
bulletins bearing the name of M. F. de Lasteyrio
were taken away from the persons legally employed
in hawking them, and the men were arrested. After
this was done, an elector volunteered to distribute
the opposition bulletins, but he had scarcely begun
his functions when he was struck with a bludgeon
on his back, and seized by a sergent-de-ville, who
carried him off to the nearest guardhouse. The
men thus most foully and illegally arrested
were kept in custody five hours, and were only
at last released in consequence of the active
exertions of the opposition candidate himself. The
bulletins in their possession were, however, all de-
stroyed. At Nanterre some distributors of opposi-
tion bulletins were ordered by the gendarmes to
leave the commune. This morning a police agent
entered the house of an elector in Belleville without
any warrant, made • search, and on finding bulle-
tins bearing the name of M. F. do Leateyrie, he seized
them. Other facts of the same nature are reported.
They must be attributed to the over zeal of certain
functionaries, for they are directly contrary to the
instructions issued by the government.
As a fact showing the extreme anxiety of the go-
vernment to bring their men to the poll, I may
mention that in the course of the night a return
was made out of all the electors of Paris who did
not vote yesterday, and a circular, accompanied by
a bulletin for the government candidates, was sent
to them this morning.
The Bre Noureiie of La Rochelle publishes a
complaint by M. Fabius Filippi, an opposition can-
didate, setting forth that the men employed by him
to placard his address had been threatened with ar-
rest by the commissary of police, who, assisted by
the garde champktre, bad torn down his ad-
dresses from the walls in the presence of
many witnesses; that his son having called on the
mayor to complain of these outrages, could obtain
no redress, but had been called a mountebank, and
that for all these and many other still more serious
reasons, he protest' against the election of General
Vast Vimeux, the government candidate.
The Prefect of the Gcrs has suspended M. Gounon,

the mayor of Banc, for coming forward as an opposi-
tion candidate.
The Mayor of Bordeaux announces in a " commu-
nicated note," inserted in the journals of that city,
that he intends to apply to the Belgian government
to prosecute the Indipendanee Beige for having cir-
culated the false news that he bad sent a bribe of
Bfr. to several electors, together with their electoral
card. The origin of the story, be says, must have
been this;—lie lately received from M. Lacoste, a
notary, the sum of 3,600 fr. to distribute in charity
He wrote to the cures and protestant and Jewish mi-
nisters of the fourteen parishes in Bordeaux to ask
for the names of the most needy among their pa-
rishioners, and distributed the money pursuant to
their recommendations. It may have happened that
some electors may have received relief from this
fund, but none of them could have received it with
their electoral cards, for the distribution was made
by a different officer.
The Bourse was very firm all day. The nomina-
tion of M. Fould to the Ministry of Finance, ad
interim, during the absence of M. Magne, gave
confidence to buyers, as it is considered certain that
be wiU combine measures with M. de Germiny to
easo the money market. The Bente rose 25c. for
cash and 10c. for account, closing at 88fr. 63c., and

68fr. ise. Mobilier rose 10fr. The railways were
pretty well supported. Orleans rose 10fr. ; Northern
and Eastern sfr. each; Lyons, 7fr. 50e.; Southern
and Western, 2fr. 50e. each ; Mediterranean fell
21r. 50e. More business than usual was done in
foreign railway shares. Austrian was in great
demand, and rose 7fr. 50c.
A telegraphic despatch has been published by the
sub-prefect of Pau, announcing that the treaty had
been signed with the Southern Railway Company
for the Pyrenean lines.
In the Paris corn market during the past week
business has been exceedingly calm, and prices have
varied but little. The four marks still remain nomi-
nally at 74fr., as they were last week, but purchasers
cannot be easily found for lots of any importance at
above 73fr. 50e. Wheat bee followed the example
of flour, and remains nearly without alteration in
price. The beat qualities were quoted at 42fr. and
43G., and inferior at 40fr. and 41fr. 50e. Tho
country markets present a slight decline, but tho
farmers seem but little inclined to offer their stocks
for sale.

PROPOSED BANNING ALLIANCE.—The Journal
des Actiowediret contains an article recommending that an
understanding should be come to between the different great
hanks of Europe, for the means which they may think it ad-
visable to adopt to lesion the intensity of any monetary crisis.
A common and of such a nature would, it con-
ceives. prevent many financial difficultier, The fret condition
of such in
accord would be, it says, to get the notee of the
various es received freely in the different coun-
tries; and, RA a commeacemeat, the Berke of England and
France ought to accept their respective paper. The same
journal also recommends se a useful measure to have the
public funds of the two countries quoted reciprocally at Paris
end London.
MoNEV Oitnr.a Ogglggs.—On the let July money
order offices will be opened at Castte-atreet, Karkdale, Liver-
pool; Cheetham-hill, Manchester; Harm trewells. Barra
Et; BalSock ; Everehot, er ; Litton
Ely ; Longdon, Rugeley ; end Upper Teen, Stafford. TM
money order office " Blackheath-Ur will in future be
designated "Blackheath-road."
MOVEMENTS OP SPECIE.—LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
—The import of specie by the hrabirt has been the largest
from New York for many yews, amounting to above two
million of dollars. The amount for Havre, amounting to
500,391 dollar*, was transhipped on board the Cunard stems
ship Ronne, Capt. Little, which ailed this forenoon.
TAR UNITED STATES PRIGATP:
LITISPOOL, MONT/RT.—The United States Mem hisses
Masons (12), Captain Hudson, arrived in the Memo this
shames, sad anchored in the Slovue. She Mt Plymouth
yesterday, after completing her ariatigements for de tsar
Urntraimadaatic cable.
A despatch from Madrid announces that the dal•
rides conceminn of the Spanith line of transatlantic enware
los been granted to M. Carriguirri, overeating. la ea'
pony of Gauthier Brothers, which lAA
bees allyings dg
service provisionally.