The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARIS, FRIDAY Emma.
The Conferences will not, it is thought, meet
again till Monday or Tuesday.
There is a report that the Neufchatel question is
as good as settled.
The new system, exacting payment from persona
entering the Bourse, was acted upon to-day for the
first time. Although, owing to its being settlement
day in the Rente, more people than usual had occa-
sion to come to the Bourse, the aspect of the establish-
ment was greatly changed by the new toll. There
were, perhaps, not more than half the
number hitherto seen on a settlement day.
Loud complaints were made of the hindrance
to business caused by the innovation. Only sub-
scribers by the year are allowed to go in sad out as
they like. These who pay the bane for a days ad-
mission can have no return check, sad rat stay
during the whole time of change hours if air, would
not pay over again. Such a loss of time is intoler-
able, and many people to-day paid fair and five
times over. The settlement was very difficult, the
rate pf contango excessively high, and the Rents
ultimately fell 2.5 c. for cash and 40c. for account—
closing at Mfr. 30c. and 66fr. 15e. Mobilier fell Mr.
Railways were heavy: Southern fell 12fr. 60e. ; and
other lines from 2fr. 60c. to Sfe.

The following remarkable article, signed by M.
Neffise r, appears in this evening's Press.:
The Sired* bee taken en initiative with which, hew-
ever praiseworthy the intention, we suet beg lave sot
to arociate 0,021111•011. It be. edittamed a sort of ratan to
the grammar praying fee s reldele led usecaditional
ammery for theme poems who we budded by the derma
af December, IMP. It hi wry painful to arida treat Al-
ai the gilds rider amt thearatemera, sad or beer
birth at *bethought al the pear af rile. But we art
leek et de thsatioa r it to. Whet ati the fir& erect
Om its ear areftedgeT Does it swan thet its satiate
will mike to put the gram dam worry ea the
mar at the day, emet that the Cowan of Marra met yet-
Malay to aeltheratompam proporioa? Lad if it does mot
were that, whet am be its project ? If the gewerament
heed b entepesette he coessal, It would demblime slier
the merpapen a grater Ebony to promousoe r %air.
Did it air for 'nothing for say nicer e, sad =journal
I is a rain= to give the gowarmaaamt rare. Is herr
Urea the ?law isergursted its souring out by the acerthr•
aide pert width it tor im the great smateity of 1837; but
journals we the le a didereat drake, sad bad
mama of indirect which they do Dot now poster
We are for haw thinking that the press ought therefore to
I mouse' all =ducky awl an imitative. It is still is tom-
meurestice with the punt sad with *Moe, sad it is is
that dineticta that it should act if it deems to be tuotaL
latierselesely at the illTiCte which it may reader everyday

by the diaovrio of principles end the elucidation of heti,
grand *xenon will soon occur. The general elections Is
take place within a few months. We will then peon the,
if we do not like wwlese dernonatratione, we have not them.
fore renounced all political action.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dee. V.
The government exempt, from the payment of
customs duties, during the misting food crisis, ail
barrels imported from a foreign country, when cos.
mining any alimentary substance.

PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND.

(ram'

GENEVA, DSc.
The conditions of Europe at the present as.
ment are such that, were Prussia, Austria,
and France to agree amongst them about an UM-
Mon and even a partition of Switzerland, they would
meet with no very senowi opposit ion on the part ofother
great Powers. Deeds equally atrocious and iniquiteas
Live been accomplished in Europe, almost within
men's recollection. The sympathy of England and
the aid of America might come late, or might. prowl
inefficient. It is therefore of supreme importance
for the Swiss that they should provide for themselves
and suffice to themselves. And truly, it may be said,
at a first glance, that the country is boldly, firmly,
unanimous!y preparing for the worst. It is Dot
merely the dominant party, the democratic party,
that puts a bold countenance on the dangerous gam,
I have spoken with Genevese merchants, and mu
with Neufchatel bankers, who belong to the royalist
or conservative party—men who used to think ad
to say that the country, or at least its commerce,
was ruined by its separation from Prussia ; but even
they now declare that they are Swiss to the heart's
core, and that, however they might wisl. to see the
matter amicably settled, they would undergo any
sacrifice rather than allow their country to submit to
open threats. Hitherto not one dissentient voice has
been heard, and the Federal Government, no less than
the government of every canton, is backed in its
warble measures by the good will of the whole popes
lotion. Were the quarrel left to be settled between
Prussia and Switzerland—were the latter to meet

only one enemy in the field—there is no doubt
but the resistance would be worthy. of her
ancient renown. Even in these industrial
districts, even in this sedate and sober city it
Geneva, there is hardly a jeweller's or watchmaker's
apprentice that is not the owner of a rifle, and that is
not a thorough marksman. Riflemen and
men Switzerland can muster by hundreds of th
The infantry of the line and the cavalry may he di.
drilled at first and inefficient, but the country swami
with old soldiers and experienced officers, and there
will be no lack of foreign refugees. and adventurers of
every description to gave the Swam a helping hand if
they need it. The troops of the Canton Gement
are ready to march at a moment's notice, and
their contingent amounts to no less thee
eight thousand fighting men. The picture, how-
ever, has a dark no less than a bright side to it. I
have heard some of the youths belonging to the in-
dustrial classes shudder at the bare thought of t
winter campaign, and others lament the unavoidable
interruption of business as dolefully as one might
expect to hear the spinners of Manchester or the
colliers of Newcastle complain, were they to be
driven from their looms or their mines and pressed
into military service. It would be vain for the
Swiss to flatter themselves. Wherever industry has
struck deep roots, wherever wealth has accumated,
it is idle to hope for such sacrifices as would befit the
grandchildren of the heroes of Morat and Morgarten.
It is not at Geneva, not at Basle or Zurich, I believe
that the Swim will make head against their foes:
The frontier towns will have to be given up after •
few ineffectual skirmishes; but the Swiss has his
home in the heart of the Canton Berne, and in the
double and treble chain of his mountains. Thither it
is not likely, indeed, that his enemy will pursue him;
but the loss of the towns thus left exposed will be
seriously felt, and already the bare menace of
a war is, on this account, not without a dis-
heartening effect on the cooler part of the
population, which offers a sad contrast to the
sanguine expectations of the most uncom-
promising patriots. Nevertheless, the prospects of
a contest with Prussia alone would not be sufficient
to shake the firmness of the Swiss. But were they
assailed at the same time on the north, east, south, and
west, nothing would remain for them but a desperate
appeal to the revolutionary party throughout Europe.
The recall of the 15,000 mercenaries from Naples,
and of the 4,000 or 5,000 from Rome, were those
troops to answer their appeal, would certainly throw
the whole of Italy, and withal the Austrian empire,
into a general combustion. But wise people in tbie
country shrink from such extreme memo , find
entertain great doubts as to the probable asione
their troops in the Roman and Neapolitan inesity.
Nor are prudent persons inclined to lay
draws on the proffered aid of the Amery=
They look to England as the only power erbeio
voice may yet be heard against the immoderate pro.
tensions of their enemies an the councils of Europe.
and they think that England would resent, as keenly'
as Austria herself, any attempt on the part of the
United States to interfere in European polities. Ir
deed, there is no doubt but the Americans, in glinif
great eagerness to meddle with what does not NW '
cern them, are lavish of offers which they are neither
able nor willing to make good. These Swim inns Gig
fall of Yankees, and there is no end of their bray-
per
and blustering. Their time hat not yet come
; but theycertainly lack no inclination to
in troubled waters, and they would have no
great scruple in bringing the Swiss or any other
into mischief, were these blind enough to
Leollvele their specious declarations, and to trust their
maim&

The dortax produced in the past year in the
37,01*caummes of the Fres& empire a nun at las aim
h-eaes. Tble ai• nearly equal to the intend aft Or MI
at then eaummee.

Taa LATE FRAUD Of Tlia CREDIT Mownfa,.
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knows ea the Boma was tried isa Weimar b the Paris
Trauma of Command Polies for sedoWherat. It
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to We %air atria of "Mori* I. The way albs pis
of the wassines of lOW of limo ma Is lama aim. lei
• Ewa. The seam of ownptites ariployel the this •
Portia widear, X. de Illettersids, von lab ihet of the
most open rid alairier klad, 'Ala some risen, pw
rift to roam Maim laid pea fort. Thai MA. nfle•
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lad the Wed prod as aim herb Wow s
was dimmed that We am he st bone aerial
the ,Tarry Maass of a realm d a Warhol bodwrarf
(host wee the Words of the swap/ ,tier d Ye La of
the other mean he diw ha Bed, sad ot le steled hie
aemapor aparebase the posseiah with the gales ens,. is •
the awalibffis it lad iota odd sad resold; sad the tribe ti
amid to its kart for. the taus* of the evairy_ bows,
The Pwilladie d let us a tummies as 01111 We
traitor it woo intended for: We only give this peptic anew.
dote in order to exhibit swims of the mesas radars
by the Court of Berlin. On this " legitimate boas •—oa
germ stuffed with louis-d'ors—reiits the right of the Novas
of Hohenzollern to the mmereiguty over Neufchatel:.
Zoketie Bettina for Jimmy.

BRITISH CASUALTIES IN THE OPE-
RATIONS AT CANTON.

ADMIRALTY, Jut. 3.
ne knowing is a statement of the killed awl
~skid is the went operations at Coate, the
partilehre et which have already appeared in the
pa& newspaper&
11w WOOllll6l were reported by the Admiral, at the
tide 01 his despatch (Nov. 14), to be doing well.
Inalo.—Jsmot Torbay, boy, H.M.S. Nomads; WM=
Tomos seamy, H.M.S. Coteau& ; Hwy Mesita Iwo.
WOO. oohs% H.M.B. Wham
Wormoss.—Mr. Oliver T. Lug, adaehipmea ; Alma-
& Horboo, ; Gomm Dwyer, A.B. ; T. Itztry,ltad-
bi AM" alt oliokey ; S. Praetor, ord., misty—Noaho.
Warm Rid, Lod Mai" dworosoly ormadod; lain
giros, Royal Moths, woody; John Doopolsr, Gooier.
woe, dightly; Clotho Hipsy, Odor,
.a—.D
it Her Mdloty's "hip Bemweata. Hoary Sods,
DM Mod. Royal Mathes, vary slightly—HM.B. ;
hba Basheyilebi, swelas, wordy; Richard Has,
do., Mildly; ammo Midas, do., sermtly ; Wm. draw,
as, wooly; Simon Iwo', do., slightly—H.M.S. Calcutta;
hoot Bistro, Royal Met, daoserouly ; sod Petrick

Oros, dials, dislay--11.11d.8: Wl;ehaaa;; Jima Lave,
les,essigno aal 7; 14116011 Bergey, eke, Royal Maks^
*buy Waco dead) H. 11.8. Cana; sad R&M Read-
arA, ditto—RlLL Isomatar.

TATION OP NEWPORT, ISLE
OF 'mar.

Mr. W. Biggs, M.P., has imbed the following ad-
ewe to the stators of Newport . _

.43aarrrxxxx,—Cireomammaa of a —y pommel mil
hmatis ohmsaisr mho it atpodirat dr mo (at all arab hr
tio prammt) r Mira *cm parlimmat
" I aball, *maw% Wm on arty ormartadty of ammitias
am samba Ake mew the Cr.,ws which will asomarily
Naar my .it variat.
I comsat, bowomr, do tido without armardag my met
ha a moo d duty maker it barman lima we to elms •
phial caammioa wits year borogrit, aid& ban bum of
hi moot gratitytag sad agamalda danotar. . _

Iher; am; lind the imams at repreendlag yea la bar
emerenve emicom at pernamem, &Mai which dm I a
amaires that I have ',doomed emry piedm I aces gam to
en electors either on the Menai, or akewime. I out
hip lad prandly nay that I aim gem a voted the Lome
d Corneae that I cm bob repo with regret, or !or
cry Aar wpm dna the parodies at the beet atingle
d ely onstry, the dime er mtsmion at the principles at
eivil awl tacker libirty, and the adveaceraent at the came
d hewn prawn and Minim civilisation.
.

6 I haWla he lesser epos three several maisse of
seam yes vets of Seeks tor ay pubic envies and
ismis at your cooties.* cooddmee is tee hr the Mare—
Me mats will le recorded S toy smeary as the proudest
si met polity's( resisietesees at lay pale Eh.
• had are, gesekeeem is Mktg you fireweil, melt my
weed thumb he tbe WO sad lowanbis milks le
Well you Ms hes pleased le piece Ns sad rat essored
Kto he beest period ot ry bib, I ehill ever apprechts
Mt the mat metal recollsedm the MMus as&
his Newt, sad sympathy, et the as of Newport.—l
Me the beam to mats gestlessa your wry elleast
mat. rlenaust Droos."

■e. lig err to deer tits &dm het endow, art
6. A. W. Leila., of Wilt= Bowe emene, Ira
siker dm IS Needy.