The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

IAT EVENING, JULY 2

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peg purposes exclusively, is equally clear awl
strictly just. Vested rights will of course be re-
spected. Liverpool will be relieved of very consider-
able liability, which that town has incurred
by purchasing the Birkenhead Docks; for
by this Bill their works, with all the liabilities
attached to them, will be transferred to the newly-
elected body. Nor is this all. The Town Dues,
whilst in the hands of the Corporation of Liverpool,
have been mortgaged to a considerable extent for
local purposes, totally unconnected with shipping.
These debts will not be thrown entirely upon the
Corporation, but the Bill will provide for a very large
proportion of the debt so incurred being charged
upon the Town Dom This is only fair. We trust
that the Corporation of Liverpool will recognise
the spirit of equity which animates the promoters
of this Bill and the Board of Trade, and will acquiesce
in a measure which, whilst it treats vested interests
leniently, is only an act of justice to the shipping
interest of the country.

GENERAL KMETY.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAT Evaante.
Lord Palmerston's speech on the Isthmus of Sue:
question has raised a perfect storm of opposition on
the part of the French government journals. They
express a confident belief that public opinion in
England will compel the Premier to abandon the
position he has assumed.
lam informed that on the morning of &ranger's
funeral Alandull Magnum isued an order of the day,
which has not been made public, from which it is
either to be inferred that he really t nticipated street
fighting, or that ho wished it to be supposed that
serious apprehensions of a collision were entertained.
He reminded the soldiers of their brilliant conduct in

December, 1851, and expressed his confidence that I
they would again chew the same indomitable courage.
Besides the many btrategetical positions which 1
have mentioned in preceding letters, as being occu-
pied by troops, the heights of Montmartre and the
terrace of St. Germain were the theatre of bivouacs
on the supposed eventful day. " Etifin," as Molierc's
fop says to the unsuspecting ladies, "Notts aeons
echappe belle."
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The Bourse seems to have taken quite a new turn
after the long period of demotion. To-day there
has been a decided and important rise in all descrip-
tions of securities. The Itente rose 30c. for cash
and 35c. for account, closing at 67fr. 60e. and
67fr. 70c. Credit Mobilier, which till within the last
day or two has been continuity declining, jumped
up tr2fr..soe. The improvement in railways was, in
almost every instance, very considerable. Orleans
rose 20fr.; Northern (both old and new), about
2lfr. ; Eastern (old and new), 20fr. ; Lyons and
Mediterranean, 30fr. ; Western, 15ft.; Southern,
10fr.; St. Itambirt, 20fr. Some purchases were
made in the expectation that the Bank of France
would reduce its discount on Thursday, but people
likely to be well informed on the subject say that,
on account of the large demand for specie made by
the branch ettablishmenta of the south, the Bank
will not be able to make the reduction this week.

Letters from Japan confirming the news that the
Emperor has decided to open diplomatic relations
and make commercial treaties with the European
Powers, state that his majesty has fixed upon the
Governor of Simoda as an envoy whom he will
shortly send to Europe.
A letter from Odessa, addressed to the Preece,
contains a long and circumstantial account of the
expuhion of fitly or sixty Frenchmen from Sebas-
topol, under circumstances which it is thought will
Teed to explanations between the cabinets of Paris
and St. Petersburg. It is alleged that several
French shopkeepers who, after the full of Sehas-
topol, and at a time when it was difficult to supply
the town with provisions, were encouraged by Ad-
miral Boudakolf, the then governor, to come from
Kamiesch and set up shops, under a promise that
they should have the privilege of introducing goods
free of duty, have for a long time been illtreuted
by Boudakors successors, and finally expelled to
their utter ruin. The Prase, however, does not
seem to be very confident in the accuracy of its
correspondence, but should the circumstances related
be true, it hopes that the Russian government will
disavow the acts of its subordinates.
A Paris correspondent of the Indi'pendunee of
Brussels writes:
The bending out of some French and English vessel, of
war to Tunis is spoken of. Franco has several times made
similar manifestations agaioat the regency, and fur a less
serious muse than the present one; under Louis-Philipps
two each manifertetions were made. The concessions of
Si-Mohammed to the fanaticism of his subjects are all the
more ineonveivable that his envoy-estraordinary, General
Kes-Eddin, was in Paris some month' ago, and was the
bearer of presents to the imperial family. The A khor of
Algiers demands, in the interest of public security, that the
Ilatti-humaioun of Constantinople shall be applied to Tunis.
But this guarantee is not equal in our opinion to a frank
execution of the treaty of alliance concluded in ISM by Ad-
miral de Rummel, the stipulations of which provide for all
the points connected with good neighbourhood and religious
toleration. _

A principal part of the f'te of the 15th August
is this year to take place in the Champ de Mars.
An immense scaffolding is king constructed on
the side of the Avenue de la ltourdonnaie, to re-
present the Malakoff Tower, the attack and cap-
ture of which are to form the principal feature in
the day's rejoicings. A display of fireworks is to
take place on the heights of the Trocadero, and in
it the column which it is proposed to construct on
that spot is to figure.
A correspondent at Boulogne, writing on the Cith
inst., says:
The races are fixed for Txursday, 23rd, and Satur-
day, 35th July. The Philharmonic Society have announced
a concert for July 28, for the benefit of the British Free
Schools, and Messrs. Ernst and Amber have promised their
sasitaasre. There are to be some grand religions far.; at the
end of August, to oclebrote the completion of the dome of tho
Cathedral, and the Archbishop of Pori' is coming to preside
over them. The amatory condition of Boulogne is now
peculiarly stiefectory —quite In accordance with the reputa-
tion the locality ham always enjoyed for salubrity, and
well calculated to efface the recollection of the somewhat
unhealthy mason of 185 G. In the first fourteen days of July
there were only 14 deaths in a population of nearly 40,000,
while in the same period the number of births was 38.
Visitors me now arriving at Boulogne for the bathing semen
inconsiderable numbera.