The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

BANK OF FRANCE.

CIT SCIIIURINI ♦ND SMIRK

PARIS, FRIDAY' NOIIfIVO.
The .fifoniteur publishes the monthly returns of
the Bank of France to yesterday, Dec. 10. We give
the most important items, with the corresponding
figures of last month en regard:
Dec. Nov.
Coin and bullion, Paris 82,697,109 .... 73,936,884
Ditto ditto branch books 163,424,483 .... 116,809,023
Bills discounted, Paris 269,908,201 .... 807,436,839
Ditto brunch banks
Notee in circulation, Paris 488,343,900 .... 631,678,000
Ditto branch banks
Treasury depoilts
Private deposits, Paris 123,384,359 119,108,822
Ditto branch banks
Advanced on public saterrhiss 18,932,436 23,079,036
Ditto by branch teaks
Advanced on railway securities 21,117,200 .... 21,266,200
Ditto by branch banks
Since last month the stock of coin and bullion ham
increased 1,800,0004 ; the bills discounted have de-
creased 3,000,0001.; and the circulation has de-
creased nearly 2,000,0001. These changes place the
bank in a much stronger position.

(FLOM OUR OWN OORRNSPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY ITYNINO.
The Courrier de Paris of this evening has an aril- I
cle replete with good sense, and of such moderate
dimensions, that I think it possible to give a fair
idea of it, with all due regard for my time (for post),
and your space. Replying to the objection of ►
London journal that there can be no such thing as
a constitutional opposition without ministerial re-
sponsibility, it asks this question :
What would have happened, if at the general 'leaks* Is
June last the conatitnency had returned a majority deter-
mined to support the empire, but oleo resolved to ask for the
promiecd liberty ? Can it be 'apposed that the Emperor
would not have taken such a maudestatice of
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public opinion into Ma moat merlons consideration ? Could
he have Seen in it any gawk 'gaunt his person or politics
such Si would have induced him to exorcise the power rr

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served by Art. 46 of the Constitution, which enables Win to
dissolve the house and convoke a new one—still elected by
universal suffrage—within sin months? Our conviction is
that he would on the contrary have hastened to c.hoooti his
ministers from among this elect of France. All his spseanst
tend to eupport this conviction. In none of them do we end
any systematic opposition either to ideas of prowess or
men of progreri.—(Here 6,110 w several citations from the
Emperor's speeches.) In England there is no such thing ea
sztra-constitutional opposition. Whigs, noise, radicals, and
chartists ell mega the reigning dynasty. In Prance there
in no other then sa extra-oonstitutional opposition, that
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whip taldng so account of universal euffrege, neither re-
cogniseethe resent constitution nor the Imperial dynasty.
This opposition h condemned to 'deuce, but although mute
it does not the lees exiM. The Emperor la thus plead bo•
billU sworn monks who approve of nothing that be does,
and fascinated friends who approve of everything. Between
these two is there not room for a party in the intonate of
both the empire and liberty, etapporting each by the
other? If there be a place for such a party, what better
name oen be given to it than constitutional opposition t We
athrolt this question to ell candid people, whom we take for
judges between the attempt made by the Cowrie, de Paris
and the mistimes which it meets with from the journals
which are thwarted by this tlfort.
The electors of the 3rd circumscription of the
department of the Meuse are convoked for the 3rd
January next to elect a deputy to the Legislative
Body, in the room of the Count de Efigur, resigned.
Is Coast Skgur's case the illegal proceedings of the
pmeament agents were es scandalous and flagrant
that It was deemed absolutely necessary to hush up the
matter by ordering the honourable member to resign.
By this mansuvre the very moderate publicity
which would have followed the presentation to the
Corps Legislatif of the report of the committee
upon his election wee avoided. M. °Hitter, one of
the democratic members for Paris, attempted to
bring the circumstances before the house on the
occasion of the question being pat whether Count
BEgur's resignation should be accepted, but Count
de Mom' shut him up in right imperial style, and
after several ineffectual efforts, this gentleman, who
is the only orator of the five members who form
the "constitutional opposition" sat down protest-
ing against the violence done to him.
There is a general strike of the members of the
bar of VOlKetki, arising out of an altercation between
an advocate named Parrot and the Procureur Impe-

rial of the court. The presiding judge interfered,
and ordered M.Parrot not torepeat emnething which
he had said, in such terms as seemed to the latter in-
compatible with the respect due to his profession.
Ile therefore at once left the court, and submitted
the circumstances to M. Noirot, the leader of the bar

of the town. The council of the order held a meet-
ing to consider the cue, and passed a resolution that
no advocate of Vesoul should appear before the
Maize Court of the Haute Saone until sa-
tisfaction was given for the affront to M. Parrot.
This resolution has been acted upon, and now M.
Noirot and his brother councillors of the order are
semmoned to appear on Saturday next betore the
Imperial Court of Besancon, to answer a charge
preferred against them under an article of a decree
of Dec. 14, 1810, which is thus worded :—" If all or
any of the advocates practising in any mart shall
coalesce together, under any pretext whatever, for
the purpeee of declaring that they will not plead,
the advocates so acting shall be struck off the rolls
of the bar, and shall be incapable of being restored."
The affair mates immense excitement at Vessel
and Besancon. _ . . .

The Emperor and the Empress went to the OpEra
Comique yesterday evening, to witness the first re-
presentation of the Camara, de Veniee.
The following telegram has been received this
afternoon :—" Trieste, Dec. 10.—According to Con-
stantinople letters of the sth, Lord de Rrdcliffe was
to leave for England on the 12th. The Governor of
Asterabad had beaten a corps of Turoomans, and
wu about to march to relieve lingeinurd. General
Kalergis will probably represent Greece at Paris.
King Otho has received M. Lamps with much
ceremony."
The Bourse has been heavy and inanimate, but
without any great fall. The Rente fell lbe.
for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 66fr. and
86fr. 13c. Mobilier was a little better, and rose
lfr. 13e. The Lyons railway fell 10fr., sad the other
line 3fr. or 41r., but there was a great demand
for railway debentures, as it was known that the
directors of the railway companies had yesterday
signed their treaty with the Bank of France, and
that it was to be submitted to the signature of the
Bank to-day.