The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. FRIDAT EVENINO,
The Neufchatel Conference will, in all probability,

re-assemble to-morrow, to take into consideration
M. Hatzfeldt'a communication of his new instrue-

tions, and it is thought that the signature of the
Convention arranging the affair will not be delay ed

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beyond Monday the 25th.
Baron Gros leaves Paris to-night to embark for
China on his mission.

Prince Napoleon is expected this evening. The
Patric is mistaken in announcing that he returned
to the Palais Royal yesterday.
The commercial treaty between France and Rus-
sia will probably be signed next week. It is very
positively stated that M. de Morny will be in Paris
by June 20.

'The Mondeur de rArmee repeating the news
already given that Marshal Itandon's operations
against Kabylia would commence on May 21, states
that each of the three divisions employed in the ex-
pedition consists of about 8,000. The first division
is commanded by General Renault, the 2nd by
General Itl'Mahon, and the third by General Jusuf.
This force will be aided by a column of cavalry con-
sisting of four squadrons of African chasaeurs and
flue peletons of Spahis.
The Grand Duke Constantine, who left Bordeaux
en Wednesday in the Heine Hortense to visit the
seaports of France, is expected at Brest on Sunday ;
sad on Monday, when there will be the highest tide of
the year, he will witness the launch of the Ardente,
sae of eight new steam frigates built on the model
el the Imperatrice Eugenic, a vessel which the
Grand Duke admired at Toulon. After leaving
Brest the prince will proceed to Cherbourg.
A correspondence from Berlin published by the
Gazette de la Bourse affirms that the Grand Duke
will return to Russia without visiting either Berlin
or Hanover.

The Pattie says that the ball to be given at the
Hotel do Ville in honour of the King of Bavaria, is
fixed for Thursday, May 28; but the Pays announces
that it will take place on Thursday, June 4. Fash-
ionable arrangements must therefore remain in a
state of suspense until the official organs of public
information shall be better agreed.
The Pays announces that Lord Cowley will shortly
pay a visit to London.
The Count de Chambord left Geneva incognito
at the beginning of this week, and passed two days
at Chambery and Aix lea Being.
M. Jules Fevre, the Republican candidate for
Lyons, has got into disgrace with the electors
because he defended Madlle. Merliere, in the matter
of the Salette miracle.
An event, :says the Courtier du Gard, "which

produced a great sensation at Nismes on Tuesday is
the unexpected arrest, by order of the authorities, of
M. Chameroy, director of the public stores. That

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measure, it is said, has been caused by the disappear-
ance of merchandise confided to his care. As the
investigation ordered has only just been commenced,
we refrain from saying more."
The Bourse continues to be much depressed. Tho
Rents fell 3c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing
at 68fr. 00c. and 68fr. 85e. Credit Mobilier fell
20fr., and hank of France 50fr. The railways fell
considerably, and left off at the lowest quotation of
the day. Mediterranean fell 20fr. ; Southern, 161 r.;
Northern and Lanterns, 10fr. each; .Orleans,
7fr. 50c. ; Western, Mr.; and Geneva, 10fr.

A telegraphic despatch states that the warehouses
of the Beeler and Graisseasac railway have been de-
stroyed by fire, together with a large quantity of
girders contained in them.
It appears that the butchers of Paris, in order to
evade the tax upon meat, find means to buy up cattle
at a comparatively low price before it comes to
market, and then at market they readily pay the
high rates asked, and in this way raise the averages
which regulate the retail price. It will be abso-
lutely necessary to throw open the trade unless
meat is always to remain at a famine price, which it
is now. The tax—which is absurd in principle,
because it takes no account of the difference in
quality between one beast and another—has turned
out even a worse failure than was anticipated. In
all the restaurants, except, perhaps, a few of the
first class, the food offered to consumers gets
worse and worse, and private individuals
find that for prime pieces they most pay prices that
were never heard of before the tax. The under part
of the sirloin, called filet de keti, the only part of a
French ox which can be relied upon to be tender, is
frequently sold at half a crown a pound. Families
are made to pay 2fr. the kilo. for joints not o
whit better than the meat delivered at the hospitals
by contract for less than half the money.
The extent to which the Parisian's suffer from
regulations interfering with the laws of supply and
demand is almost incredible. You can scarcely ever
get fish really fresh in Paris; and yet there is no
reason in the nature of things why this metropolis
should not be just as well supplied as London. A
company was projected the other day for bringing
up fish with rapidity from the different ports, but
when all the arrangements were nearly made, it was
discovered that the octroi regulations would make
the enterprise hopeless. I saw mackerel selling in
Paris a short time ago at 2fr. per head. A lean
fowl now costs Gfr. or 7fr.

PIEDMONT.

The Senate of *Turin, in its sitting of the 18th,
passed • bill for a railway between Geneva and
Annecy, and others for the establishment of three
new chairs in the University of Turin, the sup-
pression of the salt monopoly in Sardinia, and the
construction of an aqueduct from the valley of the
Sangone to Turin.
The Opanione of Turin, of the 19th, says:—" In
consequence of a slight accident during a drive in
the environs of Rome, her Majesty the Empress
Dowager of Russia has announced by telegraph that
her arrival at Turin will not take place before
Friday evening (22nd). Her Majesty Rill only
stay three days at Turin."

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna Bays i

Some of the nobles of Hungary have drawn up an address
to the Emperor, in which they expo., their consictien that
Hungary regards herself as for ever united to the house of
Hapsburg, and expects her salvation from it; tut that, on
the other hand, the safety of that house resides, an
is proved by history, in the fidelity and bravery
of the Hungarian nation. Consequently, if at any
future crisis it be desired that that nation shall
render services, it would be only just and prudent to
concede to it greater rights than those it new posseeses, and,
in particular, to give it more the character of a separate
people. This petition has received numerous eignaturet, and
all the bishops have adhered to it ; but it appears that, after
all, it is not certain that it will be presented to the Emperor.
The same letter adds :

Among the estates counts:Med in Hungary after the events
of 1848 end 1849, which are about to be restored in virtue
of the recent amnesty, figure those which belonged to Count
Louis Bathiany, president of the Hungarian Council of
Ministers in the revolution; his estates are to be given up
to his heirs. This restitution proves that the amnesty en-
tends to property which at the moment of confiscation was
`held by pawns who are now dead.