The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAT EVEKCIO.

The Patric contains the following observations,
which, if—and this, notwithstanding M. de la
Guerronniere's inspiration, must be very doubtful—
they express the sentiments of the French govern-
ment, show that France not only approves of the
attitude of England in the affair of the San Jacinto,
but is in a great hurry to join us ,in a war against
the northern states of America. This journal
says:

What will be the attitude of France in this matter? In
our opinion it will be difficult for ber to remain passive in
preemiee of a violation of the law of nations, which affects
all maritime powers. We are much disposed to think that
the northern states will refuse to recognise the justice of
England's demands for satisfaction ; ►nd in that ease the
probability is that war will be immediately declared, and
that the recognition of the southern states will be the first
act of hostility. We have never concealed our opinion
upon this American conflict, but it was not for us to antici-
pate the resolutions of the Emperor's government by giving
the reasons for the side which we took. We believe, how-
ever, that we may now say that we cannot understand
how the pretensions of the Washington cabinet are to be
defended.

I stop to call attention to the form of the Patrie's
phraseology, because whether the present article be
really semi-official or not, it is evidently written
with the view of inducing the public to suppose
that it is.
The Patric continues :

It is time to put a stop to a fratricidal war, in which the
vital elements of the contending pastes will be lost.
French trade suffers cruelly by the present state
of things, and the injury done to in by the inter-
ruption of commercial relation, with the state• is as
great rto England. We are profoundly convinced that
the war between the north and south will be interminable,
and we cannot under any pretext remain disinterested
spectators in a struggle between North America and
England. No doubt it is not our businees to avenge insults
to England, but the recognition of the south by the
power would lead to the definitive scission of the United
States, and that cannot be an isolated act, but will impose
upon France a decisive attitude. The result will be that
the two great maritime powers of Europe will take a
common action with an identical object, and President
Lincoln, by his violent act, will perhaps have acted
providently, and will have prepared the way
for • separation which he can now neither
propose nor accept. Besides, we have no desire to see the
United States navy destroyed ; and is it not the best way
to prevent such • catastrophe to rander all resistance im-
possible by uniting the nav►l forces of France and England,
and thus tseminating a question the dhionement of which
L inevitable, and which can never be settled other.
wise, except by perpetual divisions and irreparable mis-
fortunes?

Here, then, is a distinct programme for joint inter-
vention by France and England to settle the
affairs of the American continent. I, for one,
greatly hesitate to approve of inch a partnership.
It was announced by mistake that M. de Plancy,
government candidate, had been "elected" a mem-
ber of the Corps Legislatif for the department of
the Aude. The fact is that be merely obtained a
bare majority, and that the election being void for
want of what is called the " absolute majority," a
new poll is ordered for Dec. 8. M. de Plancy only
moored 12,323 votes, while as many as 21,093 were
polled for various independent candidates. This is,
therefore, one of the most serious electoral checks
that the government has ever received in the pro-
vinces. The opposition in the department of the
Aude now knows its strength, and there can scarcely
be a doubt that a coalition will be made which will
result in the election of one of the independent
candidates on this day week.

There is an unfortunate schism in the French
bar about the Berryer banquet, which will conside-
rably diminish its Mat. M. Jules Favre's liberal
idea of inviting the high government functionaries
who were formerly barristers to meet their old asso-
ciates on this interesting occasion, has not found
favour with the bar generally. There is,
in particular, a wide-spread repugnance to
sit down at the same table with K
Chain d'Kst Ange, whose conduct towards the
bar since he has been procureur-general has given
great offence, more especially in the aff.iir of the
prosecution of K Emile 011ivier. Up to the present
moment, less than half the bar have put down their
names for this fate, which was intended to be a
unanimous demonstration ; and it is understood
that a great many of those who have subscribed
their 40fr. mean to excuse themselves from personal
attendance. The rather high price of the tickets
is one of the causes of disaffection, as it is known
that the rate was fixed for the express purpose of
making the banquet " select," thereby drawing an
invidious distinction between those members of
the profession to whom 40fr. is a serious expense
and their richer brethren.

The vacancy in the Academy of Painting, caused
by the death of M. Abel de Pujol, was filled up
yesterday by the election of M. Meissonuier, after
a severe contest, iu which M. Hesse ran him very
hard.

The funeral of the Rev. Pk* Laconlaire took
pines at Sori•se on Thursday, and the same day a funeral
service for the repose of his coal was celebrated at 9 in the
morning at the Cathedral of Notre Diane in P►ris. A con-
sideraide number of persons of all ranks and conditions at-
tended. The French Academy was represented by its offi-
cers. The church was lilted up in the most simple manner,
slid the pulpit from which the brilliant orator so frequently
charmed his audience was covered with crape. There was
no funeral sermon delivered. One of the Vicars-General

of in the ptceence of the Cardinal Archbishop of
Paris.

A letter from Florence says :—" The rainy season
baa set in in real earnest in Central Italy—a steady drench-
ing rain, which accompanied me the boat part of the way
across the Mardies sod Umbria, and which has ceased
neither day nor night since I set my foot in Florence. The
Exhibition Palace is tolerably waterAight ; not so the out-
buildings, mere bastalprooled.ia wooden sheds, where no-
thing is safe from the wet. The committee of management
are, however, busy repairing the leaks wherever they show
themselves, and up to this time none of the exhibited articles
have suffered any serious damage. The same committee are
also devising plans to wage war against the cold weather which
is sure soon to begin. The main building can easily be sup.
plied with hot-water pipes, and, as the manufactures and
works of art are mainly housed here, visitors will not greatly
regret their exposure to the cold air of the coinpanitively
unprotected outbuildings. It seems, also, that not many
applications have been sent in either by exhibitors or pur-
chasers for the immediate removal of the articles respec.
tively belonging to them. The Exhibitioo, in short, holds
together pretty fairly, and the interest taken in it by the
whole nation is not likely to be damaged by the wet or
chilled by the frosty season."

One of the gossiping correspondents of the
hadependante snorts from Paris that the resolution to
tarry off the Southern envoys from on board the Trent was
agreed to at a meeting of the American cabinet at which
General Scott was present. Ho insinuates that this has
bees mentioned by the general to his friends at Paris.

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WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)
-.--
1102 DAY, 1.11021111L2 2, $ AL

S. E. L.l D. S. 10. .. ..
NAIRN ISOM b— 8.8. W. 2 I
2 b 2
kosaami —.10.29 31 W. 6 1 b $
Liu= 3033; 41 37 S. 2 6 mI I
lizawicz 13636, 36 31 Z. 0 4 b 2
ARDROISAN 810.301 38 U NE. 3 7 cI I
Pomo= 30.211 36 37 8.1.. 1 2 b 1 4
8111E1.9.
0.66867 36.16 47 MI 8.8. W. 4 7 0 2
38.444904940 S 40.411 34 33 8.Y.W.8.8.W. 2 1 b 3
wiserooi 11011.42 38 Si B.E. 2 II m 2
YAL3NIq ..- - - -
Quiwinowil 1,10.961 49 411 8.8. W. 5 3 r 6
YARZuWIN 10.47 37 315 W.N.W. 2 $ mi 6
LONDON .3848 SI 36 LN.& 1 - 4 .
Lay= 130.47 43 41 N.E. 1 2 . a 1
P 04439301433
PORTLAND
Pixsount
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&—Baromater comicted
hived : each 10 feet, of vertl
of an Inch diminution : an 4
nearly three-hundredths
in shade. 111.—Molstenft
point). D.—Direction of
netic). I.—Your (1 to 12-
Initials : b, blue sky : e, el
lightning: m, misty (hazy)
thunder.

OLA,NATION.

and reduced to 112 deg. at mean sea
teal rise, causing about one-hundredth
id each 10 deg., above al deg., causing
increase. C. Exposed thermometer
d bulb (for evaporation and dew
wind (true—two points klt of mug.
—estimated). V.--Cloud (1 to 0. I.—
gouda (detached) : I. fog; h, hail:
0. overcall (dull) : r, rain ; 1, snow
thence 11 to 0). 7.—Calm,

PRIM US TO TIM WORT. PROBLIILE 111110611 WTD/IMAL
N. Britain—&W. to N.W. and N.N.W. to E.N.E.—ntzuna,
N.—ltalny, strong, in place's clear.

nTind—Kil.W. to W. and N. S.W. to N. and N.K—Soine
Moderate to strong, rainy. snow, fresh.
'antral —S. to N, W. —Uale, W. to N. and N.s—flesh, tinc,
rainy, then strong and clear.
Coast —S.W. to N.—Ntrong, N.W. to N. and E.N.E.—kresh,
some rain, then fresh. clear, clear, flue,
England—KW. to NW., N., Similar.
and to E—Ogle, rainy, then
strong and clear.

The last of the valuable contents of the Royal
Charter, wrecked on the Welsh coast so long since as Oct.,
1859, has only just been recovered. Long attar the wreck
of the vessel it was known that a safe remained on board
containing 7,0001. in gold. The uncertainties attending the
recovery of this treasure led to the ship being offered for
sale by auction, the purchaser to have a right to the safe and
its contents. No bid being made, the wreck was bought by
Yarn. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., of Liverpool, for 4,0001.
After considerable labour the wreck has now to a large
extent been removed, and on Fraley last the safe wee
recovered, with the 7,0001. in it.

On Saturday Herr Paulsen, the distinguished
Item-player, finished at Manchester his Herculean task of
playing at one time ten games of chess with players of
local reputation. Herr Paulsen did his work solely
from memory, and without looking at the boards,
and what seems to make the task mare onerous is
that the games had been adjourned from the pre.
vious day, and the twenty-second move in each instance was
given by Herr Paulsen solely from recollection. One game
was drawn previous to the Saturday's play, one was won,
and one player was unable to attend, so that seven games
were to be played out. Of the ten only one was lost by
Herr Paulsen, ono was not played out, three were drawn,
and five won.

FINSBURY Et zeriox.—The following is the report
of the committee appointed at the public meeting of electors
held at the Belvidere Tavern on the 25th ultimo :
• After the most mature and anxious consideration
and • comespoodence with distiaguiahed gentlemen holding
tanned liberal principles, your committee have to re-
port that they have been unable, in view of the probable
short deletion of the present parliament and the expense
of contesting a large metropolitan constituency, to ob-
tain a candidate of the views adopted by the con.
tempos held on the 19th ultimo as being consonant with
those of the great majority of the Finsbury eleetcn.
Your committee cannot therefore take further action unless
some mom eligible candidate should present himself than
the gentleman now in the field.—Joss H. More, Hon.
Sec. The Belvidere, Dec. 2,186 L"
BlerHirax-Giteas. —On Friday last, the 29th Met.,
a large meeting was held at the Parochial Schoolhouse of
Bethnelgreen, of the principal inhabitants and many of the
poor, for the purpose of presenting their newlyappointed
rector, the Bev. Timothy Ginn, D.D., with a full set of
new rubes, value 22/., and with a silver silver, value 461.
The meeting was addressed by the Rev. John Pattern,
rector of Spindled& and mind dean, the Revs. George Mon
and Strickland, and by Mr. H. Meroeroo, Mr. George By-
ford. and Mr. Methanol Haedingham, churchwardens, Dr.
Vandenburgh, and others. The inscription on the salver is :
—" This salver ia punned with a full set of robes, to the
Bev. Timothy Gibson, D.D., by his congregation and friends
of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, in testimony of their san-
t:We regard and high appreciation of the aftectimiate zeal
and ability displayed by him its the discharge of his duties
as lecturer and curate, during a period of 19 years; and to
express to him the satisfaction they derive from his recent
appointment to the rectorship of that parish by the Right
Bev. the Lord Bishop of London, an event both honourable
and deeply interesting
861." to himself, and moat gratifying to
the parish at Mtge.-1
AN Ewuu.n FOR VOLUNTEERS. —The Bradfool
volunteers have gone determinedly to work to make their
military arrangements Da complete u possible. arc
Saturday what is called their new " barracks" was opened,
though this name can hardly be applied to them. It
is, however, a handsome bulding, comprising a Imp
drillroom, • gymnasium, an alone urdeily room, a ser-
geant.' orderly room,i an armoury, and some rooms for the
resident drill sergeant. Attached to the building is a drill•
ground covered with mullein, and the military arrange.
meats are as complete as any government establishment as
be. There was a dinner held in the drill-room on Satunlay.
Basavir or Paomise. —An action was tried on
Friday in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, before
Chief Justice Monahan and • common jury, is which a
sum of 5001. was claimed as damages for • breach of
wombs of marriage. The plaintiff is Min Arabella
Wilson, aged 26 years, the daughter of • farmer living near
Lanolin, in the count of Fermanagh; and the defendant,
"• young man of 40, is a Mr. Thomes Montgomery, a
strong farmer, from the same district. The defence was
that the promise had been rescinded by mutual consent;
and further, that the plaintiff's father had promised her a
fortune of 1001., which he had not given her, cod that
therefore defendaut refund to marry. It appeared from
the evidence that the defendant had agreed to put his farm
In settlement • that he and the plaintiff olitaiued a lieense,
and had called on • clergyman with reference to the °ere-
mony then about to be performed ; that they proceeded
I from the clergyman's house to the lawyer** where the deed
of settlement was laid before the defendant He, however,
refused to sign it, and left the house, saying lie did not is-
tend to make his will yet. Subsequently the plaintiff
waived her right to a settlement, and the promise to marry
was again meowed only to be again broken. The jay
awarded the plaintiff 1201. damages and costa.
Tors CAT ASTILOPRII AT EDI NBY : —The full
extent of the catastrophe occasioned by the fall of the
house, 109, High-street, Edinburgh, on Sunday morning
last, has now been ascertained. Thirty-five bodies have
been recovered from the ruins, the remains of persons of all
ages, from 90 to sucklings found on the mother's breast
The number of the escaped and rescued is, so far as can be
ascertained, thirty-two. On Friday—the sixth day after
the catastrophe—a cat and a dug were extricated
alive, both much emaciated. Some of the animals dug out
alive from the ruins, including two bird, taken down from
the walls in their cages, have been since sold for consider-
able sums, one gentleman giving 201. for a little mongrel
previously not worth as nuiny pence. The fund for the
relief of the sufferers amounts to about 1,2001. or 1,50 Y.,
and would have been much greater but that large coutrilai-
inum have not boon encouraged, from the fear of estop
meting the committee with a surplus, as has been the cue
with several fire funds. There is on doubt the fund ad
be quite ample, but many are displeased that the ready
bounty of the public shoal. d have been repressed either by
example or advice.
THE POSTAL SERVICI BETWEEN ENOLAXI' AND
EX =ICA. —The following is the text of the telth artirle d
the last postal convention between Crept Britain and the
Cuited States, vie.: "In PM' of war between the too
nations the mail packet, of the two Mikes shall connote
their navigation without impediment or moleoatioa uutl
six weeks after • notification shall have been made no tie
part of either of the two governments and ilelivered to he
other that the service is to be discontinued, in which
they shall be permitted to returu freely, Will rider speed
protection, to their respective pone." !lost of the Ana"
pan mail packets subsidised by the Uuited States peerr
meat sail under the Bremen or Hamburg deg'.
COST OF CELEBRITY.—My dear, you would like
to be • heroine! You would like to travel in triumphs'
caravans ; to Ale your effigy placarded Cu city walls: to
have your levies attended by admiring crowds. all 074
out, " Was there ever such a wonder of a woman`"
would like admiration! Consider Cie tax You ply for it!
You would be alone were you eminent. Were sou 51) JO'
tiugniehed from your neighbours—l will not sal II
a beard and whiskers, that wen, odious—but 11
great and remarkably intellectual superiority—wwn
you, do you think, be any the happier! Consider err;
Consider solitude. Consider the jealousy and toren 4
miod which this Kentucky lady must feel. amps., she "
hear thatthere is, let us say, a Missouri prodigy. with I l'en'
larger than hers! Consider how she is separated from la,
kind, by the possession of that wonder of a beard. ll'hen that
beard grows grey, how lonely she will be, the poor old thou.
If it falls off, the public asliniratioa falls off too nib°
she will miss it—the compliments of the trumpeters, tt°
admiration of the crowd, the gilded progress of the
is, an old woman alone in a decrepit old camvso,
cobwebs on the knocker, with a blistered ensign IhPP
idly over the door. Would you like to he that desenw
person Ah, Chloe ! To be good, to be simple, to he or',
dent, to be loved, Le thy lot Be thankful thou art w'
taller, nor stronger, nor richer, nor wiser than the met
of the world !—Coratill ifuee:int for December.