The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TVISDAT
The Neufchatel Conference met again to-day, and
again sat till a late hour.
The Pays states, from Bagdad, that Mr. Murray,
who had been staying there for nearly a month,
was to leave for Teheran on May 13. According to
arrangements consequent on the treaty of peace, a
guard of honour and a grand dignitary of the court
were to receive Mr. Murray at the Persian frontier.
I mentioned some time since that the government
contemplated a great reduction in the import duties
on sulphur, in order to encourage the use of that
Wield as a preservative from the grape disease.
The decree appears in the Muniteur of this morning.
The reduction is very considerable, being —l. For
raw sulphur, in French ships, from the place of pro-
duction, 10e. (instead of 50c.) ; from other places,
60c. (instead of lfr.) ; in foreign ships, Hr. (instead
of lfr. 50c.) 2. For refined sulphur, in French
ships, lfr. (instead of sfr.); in foreign ships, lfr. 50c.
(instead of Mr. 50c.) 3. Fine flour of sulphur, in
French ships, 2fr. (instead of 13fr.); in foreign
ships, 2fr. 50c. (instead of 14fr. 30c.)
The Bourse has again been good. It was an-
nounced that the bullion in the Bank of France has
increased seventeen millions since the returns of the
14th. It seems to be thought that M. do Parien
will accept the governorship. The Rente left off at
yesterday's price for cash, but row 15c. for account,
closing at 69fr. 55e. Mobilier was less firm than the
ltente, and fell 2fr. 50c. The "hears" made great
efforts to oppose the rise. There was not much bu-
siness doing in railways, but quotations were gene-
rally higher.
A new catholic sasociation under the patronage at
Monseigneur de Seger, formerly an auditor of the
Rota, a prelate of the Popes household, and digni-
tary of the imperial chapter, has just been formed at
Paris for the express purpose of opposing the march
of protestant propagandism. The founders of this
society are much alarmed at the multiplication of
protestant schools and churches, which they attribute
to the subventions and tracts of foreign bible soci-
eties. They complain pathetically that here.y runs
rampart in Limousin, has penetrated into Hauphins,
even to the very foot of the mountain of the miracle
of La Salette, and that a protestant church has
just been built in Avignon, the city of the popes.
The weapons with which the new society proposes
to fight are very harmless and perfectly fair. They
ask all wellwishers to their cause to send money and
information to Nlonsigneux de Segur, and undertake
to offer up prayers every day for the conversion of
protestants and the confusion of the enemies of the
one true faith. The society is to be called " The
Society of St. Francis do Sal3s."
The performance of M. M. Dumas and Paul
Mewice's translation of hamlet at the Cirque
Imikrial, with that excellent actor M. Rouvierc in
the principal part, has excited an extraordinary
degree of enthusiasm for Shakespeare among the
French jeuilletollistes. The Moniteer critic notices
as striking evidence of the capacity of a French
audience to appreciate Shakespeare, that the solilo-
quy .. To be or not to be" was rapturously encored !
The Monde, r states that the Wine Hortense
arrived at ',orient on the morning of the 24th, and
left again in the night of the 25th for Brest.

General Todleben arrived at Cherbourg on the 1
21at, and wee present at the launch of the sem. frigate IA
Clorinde. This vessel, which has been converted into a
screw in less than eight months., will hare Inc plaza en the
slips occupied by the frigate La Bellow, 'AIM is liieWies to
be altered.