The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(non tem ows colazsroanzier.)
PARL% MONDAY EYENING.
The conference on the Belgian treaty of commerce
met to-day.
The oouference on the Syrian question will posi-
tively meet to-morrow.
It is stated, not, however, without some reserve,
that Francis 11., when he leaves Rome, will go to
Cadiz for two months, and late in the spring will
proceed to Munich. Although it does not appear
that he was put under terms not to head the insur-
rection in the Abruzzi, it is satisfactory to find that
he does not entertain any such wild project.
According to another report, however, the King
went to Trieste this morning.
M. Peyrat writes in the Prase :

Although no:one knows exactly what is the real and posi-
tive object of the pamphlet everybody is convinced that it
indicates consequences which it does not state. . . But,
notwithstanding the mysterious reserve of M. do la GUN,
ronnii.re, his conclusions are evident, and we are sure that
we state them correctly while we strip them of mystery.
. . . When people ask who is to be the Luther, Calvin,
or Henry VIII. of the present day, they forget that heresies
imply a lively faith, which is now nowhere to be found.
Luther', Calvin, sod Henry VIII.'s are now as impossible
as they would be useless. In this age of rifled cannon, w'no
cares to use coaletrinra . . There is only one solu-
tion for the Roman question—the total absolute fall of the
temporal papacy. This solution u certain ; it may be de-
layed, but it cannot be avoided.

The Bourse was much agitated, and the Rents,
after fluctuating between the extreme points of
67fr. 90c. and 68fr. 15c., closed at 68fr. 10e.,aith a
fall of 15c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c. Railways were
a little lower. The Caisee Miris fell 27fr.

The Minister of Commerce has just addressed
the following despatch to the Chamber of Com-
merce of Amiens, in answer to various letters
praying that the full operation of the new tariff
may be suspended for the longest period possible,
according to the stipulations of the commercial
treaty with England :

Messieurs,—la your letter of Dee. 21 you return to
the question of the maintenance of the full delays
which we are empowered to insist epos by the commercial
treaty with England, and you state that the manufacturers
of your district are disappointed at the silence of the
Muniteur of December 1, as to the periods at which the
new tariffs are to come into operation. You persist in
thinking that a premature application of these tariffs would
be injurious to your principal manufacturers who use flax, '
hemp, wool, cotton, and goat's hair. You add that the
reasons which militate in favour of postponing the tariffs
as long as possible, derive additional force from the low
duties exacted in England, and from the financial and com-
mercial crisis in the United States. The markets, you say,
are glutted with English stuffs, which are sold at a loss; and;
nevertheless, the English manufacturers find them-

selves compelled to send their surplus goods here,
not being able to place them anywhere else.
You infer from this situation the necessity of
suspending the operation of the treaty. iFor otherwise, you
say, the French market being prematurely thrown open to
a vast male of merchandise, there will be • crisis, our
neighbours all the while thrusting their goods upon us at
any price. The question whether the period for the execu-
tion of the English treaty shall be shortened or not is under
the anxious consideration of the government, which in pre-
sence of the divers opinions emitted by the various interests
concerned will endeavour to find the solution most conform•
able to the general interests of the country. But as to the
presumed glut of English produce in our markets, I must
observe that in there times in which we live, there is such a
solidarity between commercial natio.s that a crisis occur-
ring with any of them necessarily reacts upon all. Now,
w►en these is • crisis, speculation is checked, buyers are
timid, opportunities to effect sales are rare and difficult,
notwithstanding all the temptatiou of extraordinarily low
prices. It follows that the mere sending of merchandise
into a country does riot ensure the sale of it—buyers must
be found, and buyers are not forthcoming when sales are
preened. We therefore need fear no inundation of English
products ; for they will remain unsold in our markets. The
Eagliah have too much experience in business not to under-
stand this most thoroughly.
The Minister of Agriculture, Commerce,
and Public Works, Rouses.

The Nouse:lists of Rouen publishes a piece of
news which may serve as a comment on the pamphlet of
Viscount de la Guerronnire. "At the same time," it says
" that the new pamphlet appeared, M. Thouvenel ad.
dressed to the French diplomatic agents 'abroad, • circular
intended to explain the motives which have decided the
French government to leave its troops at Rome. Accord-
ing to the terms of this circular, France will continue to
keep garrison in the Pontifical states until a congress shall
have determined on the reorganimation of Italy."
A Toulon letter says :—" It now appears certain
that an expedition to Cochin. China has been decided on, in
order to settle all questions in dispute in those distant
countries. The whole difficulty consists in the efficacy of
the means to be employed. There is no success possible
except in a bold march on the capital. The Emperor of Annan*
—whom his courtiers have persuaded that the capture of
Pekin is a fable invented by the foreign barbarians—will not
be convinced except by the actual presence of danger, and
the taking of his palace and of his treasures will have much
more influence on his decisions than the occupation of three.
fourths of his empire."

Dentu, the well-known publisher at Paris,
has protested against the act of piracy immolated by
several French journals, which published the whole of M.
de la Guerronoiere's pamphlet, and thereby enabled the
public to buy for three sous that which would have cost
them thirty at his shop. He abstains from a prosecution
this time, but gives it to be understood that he will not be
so indulgent in future. There can bo no doubt that M. de Is
fluerrouniere's profits have been considerably diminished by
the piracy in question.
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. , .
Mme. George Band has arrived at Marseilles,
and intends to remain there for some time for the benefit
of her health. She is accompanied by her son, M. Maurice
Sand.

On Saturday the Empress, accompanied by the
Prince Imperial, visited the new greenhouses of the Jardin
d'Acclintatation In the Bois de Boulogne. Her Majesty was
received by IL Drouyn de Lhuys, M. Geoffrey Belot-Hi-
laire, and the directors. The Empress passed nearly an
hoer in examining the magnificent photo collected there.
The Milan Gazette of the 11th states that, on
the preceding evening, Victor Emmanuel was at the Theatre
of La &ale, together with the Durham of Genoa, when
General La:cannon& entered the royal box, and presented
his Majesty with an autograph letter from the King of
Prussia. Very nearly at the same moment the telegram
simmering the fall of Gaeta was delivered to the King,
who, after oricamonicating it to the duchess, g►ve it to
General Lemennora, requesting him to here the welcome
intelligence made known immediately to the public. The
announcement was received with enthusiastic cheers fur
the King, who, acknowledging the compliment, retired.