The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evwxo.

.Aa. _luta) by M. Gueroult in the Opinion
Nationale is calculated to make some sensation. I
have pot yet seen the license for plain speaking,
which dates from November 24, taken such larva
advantage of. M. Gueroult sofa out by proclaim-
ing himself a friend of the Empire, which ha
earnestly desires to " maintain and consolidate?"
because it is the first government since ;89 whieki
has been able and willing to profess and apply "to
a certain extent" the principles of the glorious re-
volution, and because, although " born of violence,"
it has been baptised by universal suffrage. After
this patronising exordium the writer takes the
liberty of a friend to tell the imperial government.
that "for some time past its conduct with regard to
Italian affairs, and also its home policy, is marked
by a hesitation which dose not respond to the exi-
gencies of the situation." Why, he prooeeds to
ask, does the Emperor not recognise the undoubted
fact that the temporal power of the Pope is at an
end ? Why does he not leave M. Grainer de Cas-
sagnac andthe Pays to speculate upon the probability
of ilia Pope's conversion to liberal principles—the

.econciliation of fire and water—and without
further delay yield up the capital of Italy to the
only sovereign capable of governing it ? All this
while Rome is the Centre of a conspiracy against
the empire, the ramifications of which are daily
spreading in France. " From forty thousand
pulpits and as many confessionals" words of hatred
are daily openly fulminated or secretly whispered.
Orleanism, which " yet remains in possession of
most of the higher offices," is raising its head and
preparing for action. 250,000 Austrians are massed
between Venice and Verona. Germany is arming.
Russia, after a semblance of liberalism, has adopted
with regard to Poland an atrocious policy, which
draws her nearer to Austria, and must estrange her
from France ; and England, true to her traditions,
stands aloof, arming and watching, ready to dictate
the conditions of peace when others shall have
engaged in the conflict. In this state of things M.
G ueroult thinks the vacillating policy of the Emperor
cannot answer any longer. It is good to give
questions time to " ripen," but not to wait till they
become " rotten."

All the evening papers are instructed to say that
the French government maintains the 'tabu quo at
Rome.

The Pays, by way of throwing light upon the
St. Domingo question, corrects the news of an
annexationist movement in the island towards
Spain, by averring that a part of it is anxious to
become subject to France ; it recalls to mind that
formerly St. Domingo contributed 100 millions of
francs to the French revenue.

The Pattie, whose remarkable demonstration in
declining to notice the Monitcur's note on Poland
I mentioned yesterday, now gives a curious illus-
tration of the sort of " order" which reigns in
Warsaw. The authorities, being disgusted with
the sad appearance of the city, have ordered the
theatres to be re-opened ; and as nobody will go to
them of their own accord, free tickets are served
upon citizens, with an intimation that those who
abstain from occupying the places ',Reigned to them
will be prosecuted. A great many persons arrested
at random after April 8 are now declared by the
law officers to be free from any charge ; but they
are nevertheless to be kept in custody, and banished
to distant provinces, because it might reflect upon
the government if they were to be set at liberty at
present.

At the Bourse there waa a little reaction, which,
considering that the Rente has risen lfr. within a
week, was to be expected. The closing price was
68fr. 35c. both for cash and account, being a fall
of 15c. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c. Railways were
from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. lower.

The Emperor's hunting establishment is now at

Fontainebleau. The belief is that the Emperor,
the Empress, and the Imperial Prince will, at the
beginning of May, pass a few days at that place.
The Sport says :—" It is stated that the Em-
peror has requested Count Walewski, Minister of
State, to present to him, with as little delay as
possible, plans for the restoration of the palace of
Saint Germain-en-Lye. We regret that an old
royal residence, which possesses the finest park and
is dose to the most beautiful forest in the world,
should be left in a state of ruin, and the task of re-
viving its former prestige and splendour belongs to
the Emperor Napoleon."