The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-15 00:00:00

FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WED:M.4I)AT EVE /G.

Probably since the opening of the Rue de Rivoli,
and more recently of the Boulevards of Sebastopol
and Strasburg, no grand thoroughfare has been
given to this splendid metropolis combining at
once the useful and the beautiful in so great a de-
gree as the Boulevard Malesherbes, yesterday in-
augurated with oven unusual pomp and ceremony.
The occasion was seized by the Prefect of the Seine,
as well as by the Emperor, for making some useful
' and important remarks d propos to the doings of
the day. The address of M. Hausmann seems to
have been intended as a sort of defence against
i attacks, with or without foundation, of which he
has recently been the object ; but some of his
statements are not without interest. He observes
upon a much debated subject that, in spite of all that
has been said, "many more buildings are erected for
the poorer than for the wealthier classes." This
he satisfactorily establishes by the following
figures :—The tax-gatherer—that authority which
there is no disputing—bears him out in saying that
in the newly-built houses 671 apartments have been
taxed this and hat year ►t the rental of 1,500 fr.
and upwards ; 330 apartments at from I,ooofr. to
1,500 fr. ; 1,030 apartments at from 500 fr. to
I,ooofr. ; and 5,270 apartments at from 250 fr. to
500 fr.; while 1,722 more than previously have been
exonerated (roman taxea,aa paying only 250 fr. a year.
He says in another place that the increase of
house rent is not peculiar to Paris, that it exists
throughout France, and that as regards Paris it
must be attributed in part to the great increase of
population—half a million in ten years—an increase
to which, high as it is, it is not proportionate. He
refutes the charges of ruin to the city finances by
statements which speak volumes. His statistics
are more satisfactory than his laudation of impe-
rialism, for he winds up by calling the Emperor
"the nephew of Caesar."
The "excuses" made by the court of Rome
evidently do not count for much iu the Roman
question. The Goyon-Merode incident has been
too much erploiti here to allow of its being passed
over by mere " excuses." It will be brought out
from the shelf on which it is laid in good season.
The pro-minister remains in office; consequently
he and his principles are not repudiated at Rome.
The very abruptness with which the "incident"
has been dropped here proves that more will be
heard of it anon. The Debuts says :
We should regret that a violent scene were followed by
the departure from Rome of our troops, and that so grave
a decision as the abandonment of the temporal power were
the result of a mere quarrel ; but these oonflicte teach us a
lesson. They manifest between France and the Roman
government an incompatibility of temper which must nems-
eerily end in a separation.

The last now solution of the papal difficulty,
coined in the German mint, is the proposal (ema-
nating, of comae, from the Tuileries) of handing
over the Isle of Elba to his holiness.

The Bourse opened satisfactorily, but a trifling
fall occurred towards the end of the day. Rente
fell 16c. for cash and sc. for the account, leav-
ing off at Mfr. 400. and 681 r. 50c. respectively.
Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. both for cash and account.
Railways all a little down.