The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1857.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, FRIDAY Ernst:co.
The Nenfohitel Conference met to-day for the
seventh time.

The evening papers announce on the authority of
a Belgian journal, but not from any original infor-
mation, that Chevalier Pianelli, the Neapolitan
diplomatist whoec departure from Naples, on a mis-
sion to the French F.mperor, has been repeatedly de-
I tiled, has actually arrived in Paris.
The Bourse was seriously acted upon to-day by
the rise of the rate of discount in London. But for
this measure on the part of the Bank of England, it
is probable that the Bank of France would have
reduced its discount next week. Although it was
believed that the present high rates will not be main-
tained very long in London, the Bente fell 45e. both
for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 50e. and
70fr. 20c. The railway market experienced great
fluctuations. At the opening the principal lines
were quoted lower in consequence of the great fall
in the Bente. They recovered rapidly to nearly
yesterday's prices, and then gave way again.
The market was very wild at the close, and in
two or three lines the difference between quota-
tions for money and for time was immense. Or-
leans rose 15fr. for cash, and fell 17fr. 50e. for ac-
count, and Mediterranean rose 35fr. for cash, and
fell 20fr, for account. St. Rambert rose 12fr. 30e.
for cash, and fell Ur. for account. AU the other
lines were uniformly lower—the fall for account
being in every cane several francs greater than for
cash. Idobilier rose 12fr. We. for cash, and fell
16fr. for account. The weekly receipts of the prin-
cipal French lines continue to be very favourable
indeed. The returns for the Lyons, Southern,
Northers, Eastern, Western, and Mediterranean, all
show a considerable increase as compared with the
corresponding week of last year.
Although since the Emperor's speech promising
to give up Cayenne as a penal colony on account of
its unhealthiness several more transports hare been
. . _

sent there, the imperial idea is still held up to the
public. The Patric says there is " a talk" of a com-
mission now sitting at the Ministry of Marine to
consider the question of transportation, and that
"according to a very generally received opinion,"
New Caledonia, where France has already begun to
form an establishment, will "at no very distant
time" be substituted for the country to which cri-
minals will be transported. The climate of New
Caledonia is, the Petrie is instructed to say, more
favourable for colonisation than that of Cayenne.
A rather obscure note ;n the Pattie, in answer to
an assertion of a foreign journal that the awe(
colonsis d'abus against the Bishop of Moulins, now

pending before -the Council of State, involved a
question of much more importance than that between
the bishop and his curia, and amounted to a conflict
between the supremacy of the state and the inde-
pendent* of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, denies
that any such issue is raised. No conflict, it says,

is posibk, the object of the Minister of Public
Worship being not to entrench upon ecclesiastical
jurisdiction, but merely to re-establish the bounda-
ries of the jurisdiction of the state. lam unable to
say what is the object of this play upon words.
Preparations are making in the Palais de l'ln-
dustrie for the annual exhibition of modern artists.
Works will be received from and after the '2oth
instant. The Emperor paid a visit to the building
inspect
on Wednesday to the arrangements.
Ferukh Khan is expected in Pans from London
on the 11th.
M. Serrano, the Spanish ambassador, had audience
of the Emperor to-4y, to take leave on his depar-
ture for Madrid to attend the opening of the
Senate.
I have heard a report that M. Leo de Laborde, a
pure legitimist of the nosier, of the Gazette de
France, dined at the Tuileries yesterday. I should
hesitate to mention this news even as a rumour did
I not know that it is certain to be made public. The
legitimists whom I have met with protest vehemently
that the thing is a priori impossible to be true.
The city
.of Paris has determined to make a
gigantic main sewer, to be cut from the Rae de la
Pepiniire to the bridge of Asniires, in order to carry
a great part of the slth of Paris into the Seine
at a paint far below the remotest part
of the river from which water is taken for
the supply of Paris. The cost of the works is esti-
mated at 2,500,000 fr., and the contract for the exe-
cution of them will be adjudged at the Hotel de
Ville on the 15th of April. The adjudication of the
projected public gardens in the Quartier du Temple,
will take place on the same day.

FINAL DEPARTURE OF THE ENGLISH
FLEET FROM TURRET.

The following telegraphic despatch from Constan-
tinople, dated April 1, has been received at Paris :
" The English fleet left Constantinople yesterday,
making for Malta."

BELGIUM.

The statements made by M. l)umortier, in the
Belgian Chamber of Representatives, on Wednesday,
relative to the disturbances at Tourney on Saturday
night, caused by the excitement amongst the menu-
Whiting population there upon the free-trade con-
troversy, seem to have been very much exaggerated ;
although the ministers, for want of official informs- ,
Lion, could not answer them with an immediate
denial. The burgomaster of Tourney, M. de Rust,
has written to the Courier de (Tsang to state
that it is not true that any of the people were
wounded by the gendarmes with the edge of their
sabres. Both on Friday and Saturday evening
the mob committed greet excesses in the streets ;
several thousand persons were assembled in front
of the house of one of the members of the
Chamber of Representatives, vociferating insults
and threats against him and other free-traders.
They also threw stones at his windows, and
chalked abominable inscriptions upon the wall
of his house. The burgomaster, for his own
part, was among the crowd for two hours, trying to
=them to retire, and used all his efforts to
them peaceably, until he was obliged reluc-
tantly to order the gendarmes to drive them away.
He declares that not a nle person is yet ascer-
tained to have been wounded, except the police and
officers, some of whom were a good deal knocked
about. The Procurear du Roi, M. A. Robert, also
wrote on Wednesday last to the same journal to say
that he had been waiting at Tourney four dap!, in
attendance to receive any complaints which might
be made of the conduct of the gendarmes, and no
case of ill-treatment had yet been announced to him.