The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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PAIiI S, TVICIDAT Emu:tn.

The Pigh/k, which, under the direction of M.
Dreolle (late editor of the Petrie), now passes as
the principal organ of 3d. Rouher, says, while
echoing the ified d'ordre given to the semi-official
press to-day, that there are no despatches of im-
portance about the Tureo-Greek conflict, and that
the matter has entered upon a diplomatic stage,
"It is affirmed, however, that the Ottoman
Cabinet has required the Egyptian Government in
the identical terms used towards Servia and Rou-
mania, to expel the Greek inhabitants of its
territory." This grave news, contradicting by
implication an assertion that no such measure as
that alluded to had been taken in regard to Sorvia
and Roumania, i 8 qualified by several telegrams
asserting that on the suggestion of England,
Turkey has consented to suspend the expulsion for
three weeks.

The Public also says that the Marquis de la
Valette's circular on foreign affairs WAS settled
yesterday, at a very long conference with the
Emperor, following an unusually short sitting of
a council of ministers, and that it will
Probably be issued to-day or to-morrow. This
intelligence is exciting to read, but I find the
Temps and the Joarnut dr Paris coinciding in the
information, that the circular instead of giving any
key to the policy of the French government. will
confine itself to notifying the change of ministry.
This reticence, pays the (Gazette de Fran,e, will
show M. de In Valette's wisdom. Ho probably
knows no mere than anybody else what is going
to happen. In France the Emperor proposes and
chance disposer'.
The tint act of the litigation occasional by the
severance of the government conuection from and
after January 14 next with the existing Mnsitrer,
and the creation of a new Moniker in it's place,
came off yesterday in the Tribunal of Commerce,
The plaintiffs, MM. Panekoule and Co. are, it is
not disputed, the proprietors of the Arena, ler
U,. ear/ft/which has existed with that title ever since
1759. It is also an adulated fact that, notwith-
standing the determination of the government to
withhold official documents and communica-
tions from that paper. it will still have
a property in its title the Mouiltur
Under that title it proposes to go on as
it private journal. The government, without
contesting this right. has made a contract with
the defendants Wittersheint and others for the
publication of u new paper to be called the Moni-
eur 0_4,44. The plaintiffs claim a property in the
word " Moniteur," and say the word propoeed to
be appended, " offieiel," will not sufficiently dis-
tinguish the forthcoming publication from their
Moniker reiterel. Counsel for MM. Penckouke
and Co. observed that the public knows of but one
Moniker. and asked the puzzling question t
which of the two rival olli.cs letters ad-
dressed after January 1 sinq.ly to the editor
of the .Voo deur will be deliver*. I That
the N. *deur has been almost time out of min 1
the official organ of the French government had,
be contended, nothing to do with the question.
All the time the government merely hired the use
of a certain quantity of space in a newspaper
which was just as much a private concern as any
other. If the government now chose to patronise
another paper, it had no right to trespass upon
the goodwill of an old property. All the legiti-
mate circulation which must necessarily be at-
tained by the paper containing the earliest infor-
mation which the government desired to publish
would be attained quite as well under a new title.
The plaintiffs' paper was not to suffer on
account of the vulgar error that the word
AVM ittur exclusively belonged to the French
government. The advocate cited as precedents
injunctions granted against the "Constitutionnel of
1830," as beings piracy of the title:of the then ex-
isting Conefihdion net; against the Journal (1011
Pr titre AAA(' Diurues et Noetariaes, as interfering
with the Journal des Petite. ,Apiehes, and against
the Proyn,:e de Paris, which was adjudged to bo a
title infringing the acquired right of the Progris
I de Lyon.
On the other side it was contended that the addi-
tion of the word " officiel" was quite sufficient to
distinguish the new, and henceforth only official
ifeeikeir from the Monikur Caivereel. Such
a pretence was entirely norel. There ex-
isted a great many Moniteurs, all founded
subsequently to the Moniteur Ushers!.
There was the Mouiteur d. r ArtnAe, the
Monitetor de la Rolle, the Musiteur dee Clinisiniers.
do., &0., and the idea of contesting the right to
these titles had never occurred to the plaintiffs.
Judgment in this curious case, which will go
farther, is postponed till Monday next.
The Bourse was much firmer to-day. Relate
rose 17io. for cash, and 270. for amount, closing
at 69fr. 85c. and Oh% 92&e.

Mdme. Patti left Paris on Monday for Brussels,
where she will appear to-morrow night in Lorin, oa the
26th in the Airtime", and on the 26th Ia Ara. She is to
sing this last is French. Oa New Year's Day she is sa-
laaming! fee • :orientation at Leiria at Li4ge.
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