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

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAPA Moan► 7 &LIMA.

A pamphlet (believed to be semi-official) on the
Roman question is announced for to-morrow. It
gives, I am told, a long history of the efforts of the
Emperor, during the last eleven years, to serve the
Pope, and, without coming to any definite con-
clusion, seeks especially to establish that if his
holiness is now in a position of inextricable diffi-
culty, it is entirely his own fault.
A Turin letter says that as soon as Victor Em-
manuel shall be proclaimed King of Italy by the
national parliament, he will formally ask the Pope
to accept the protection of Piedmontese troops, and
to consent to the withdrawal of the French garri-
son. It is certain that a very strong party in the
Senate and Corps Legialatif will make a demonstra-
tion against the recall of the army of Rome ; and
if the Emperor, whose real intentions on the sub-
ject nobody knows, should ultimately decide to
keep the troops there, he will be able to say that
his hand is forced by the representatives of his
people.
At the Bourse the Bente, which on Saturday fell
from 68fr. 700. to 68fr. 55c., sustained a further
decline of 15c. and 10c., closing at 68fr. 35c. for
cash, and 68fr. 45c. for account. Business was
very slack. Mobilier left off without change.
Railways were from lfr. to 3fr. lower.
The French government being about to collect
the statistics relative to manufattures, which are
made up every ten years, has addressed a series of
forty-four questions to the principal manufacturers
of France as to the articles they produce, and their
value, the number of workmen, and the steam-
power they employ.
M. Darimon, the opposition deputy, observes in
the "'ruse that the " statement of the affairs of
the empire " just laid before the two houses is,
in point of fact, nothing more than a compliance
with Art. 2 of the constitution of 1862, which
provides that the "president of the republic shall
send a message " every year. This article,
which is copied almost textually from one
in the republican constitution of 1848, had
hitherto been a dead letter, awl M. Darimon
now congratulates the government on the
" satisfaction which it has given to the letter and
spirit of the law." He notices, however, the meagre-
ness of the financial part of the statement, which is
much less developed than the explanations which
tho Moniteur has till this year published some
weeks before the opening of the session. The bud-
gets of 1860 and 1861 are not yet finally made up,
but it is quite certain that neither of them will
realise the anticipated surplus. It is true that
against the loss of 90 millions in the budget of 1860
attributed to the new tariff there is to be set off
an augmentation of 99 millions. But then there
are heavy supplemental credits occasioned by the
Chinese war, the expedition to Syria, the reinforce-
ment of the army at Rome, and the annexation of
Savoy and Nice. The Chinese indemnity fund
will in part compensate for these extraordinary
expenses. The budget of 1881, which was voted
with an estimated surplus of 664,000 fr., is now
known to present a deficit of about five millions, but
to compensate for this the additional tax on tobacco
is looked to, and this it is thought will produce as
much as 30 millions.

To day the Court of Caseation, presided over by
M. Troplong, decided that a woman who married a
liberated convict without a knowledge of the fact
of his conviction is entitled to a decree of nullity of
marriage. The Supreme Court, overruling the
judgment of the Imperial Court of Paris, holds that
the mistake as to the person which the code lays down
as a cause of nullity is not restricted to the
" physical person," but comprehends a mistake as
to an antecedent of a party which changes his
" civil person " in such a serious degree as a con-
viction for felony. This case excited extraordinary
interest. I venture to think that the judgment of
the court below, though not taking the popular side
of the question, was the soundest of the two.

The Italian Government has placed a steamer at
the disposal of the senators and aspetice of the Neapolitan
provinces. Th 6 steamer is to leave Naples on the 15th.

The anniversary of the revolution of 1848 Iwas
celebrated at Messina with great solemnity on the
29th ult.