The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TWISDAT EVKNING.

The grand local event of the day is the opening
or "inauguration" of the new Boulevard Male-
' sherbee by the Emperor in person. As in the
case of the review the other day, the ceremony
takes place at 5 o'clock, p.m., on account of the
tremendous heat. This new thoroughfare promises
to become one of the meet important in Paris.
Commencing at the Madeleine, as a sort of pendant
to the bouvelard of that name, it will peas through
the renovated Pare de Monceau:, and terminate at
the Place de l'Etoile. The ceremony will be pretty
much the same as was observed when his Majesty
" inaugurated " the celebrated Boulevard de Sebes-
topoL These peaceful triumphs of tedility, as asso-
ciated with the grandeur of the second empire, are
satisfactory to the pride of this artistic and "ideal"
people, and, judiciously administered, may long
serve to keep up the amount of stimulus required
for state purposes by the present government.
The military element is made to enter largely into
the affair. As I write, the streets and boulevards
leading to the scene of action are alive with troops,
both of the line and the national guard, and re-echo
to the sound of the drum and the trumpet. The
lateness of the hour at which the event comes off
will prevent the evening papers from chronicling
the same—at least, should do so—for the proba-
bility is that the whole story has been in type in
the different offices for many hours at this present
writing (4 o'clock).
Of political news there is great dearth. The
solution of the Roman question, at a period more
or less remote, has already become so much an',
accepted fact that people hardly think it worth
while to discuss the modes operandi. In point of fact,
the question is rapidly solving itself ; and by the
time the Emperor makes a move in it, whatever he
does will probably appear to the mass of mankind
the only thing he possibly could do. The tone of
the ultramontane and reactionary journals is fast
becoming that of absolute despair. They are be-
ginning to throw up the game. The Monde says'
that, in spite of the denial by the Constitutionnet as
to a mixed garrison of French and Italians being
about to succeed the present French garrison, " all
its disquietude. continue to exist." It continues :
The revolutionary press believed events were rushing as
to a consummation, and we had reasons for fearing what the
revolutionary press hoped. If there be a slackening in the
revolutionary movement, there is no stopping. So long as
some energetic measure shall not prove to the revolution
that it will no longer be tolerated, the revolution will
ocetinue to advance. It now appears that our troops
are to remain at Rome longer than was believed a few days
ago, but it is also certain that the Piedmontesed Italians
(car) continue to hope, and that there is nothing calculated
to discourage them. It will very soon beooma impossible
to prolong this state of uncertainty. There can exist but one
of two parties—the revolution with anarchy, or conserva-
tism with order and true liberty.

Among other signs of the times, we find M.
Ronland, the minister of public instruction, making
the following remarks on the occasion of the dis-
tribution of prizes in the amphitheatre of the Sor-
bonne, in allusion to the bowls of despair ejaculated
by the organs of ultramontanism :
Be not troubled if your studious tranquillity is inter.
ranted by the echoes of disturbances from without—be not
troubled if you hear that religion is disquieted and
threatened—that society is about to disappear, swallowed
up in the abyss of the revolutionary spirit—that under the
system of modern ideas and institutions the evil exceeds
the good—in • word, that, to serve France, we should
retrace the furrow which she ever continues to raise before
her.

These are words well worthy of note, seeing
who is the speaker, and the occasion on which they
were uttered.

The Bourse had an upward tendency, and it is
believed that if there were any business of im-
portance for transaction—which there is not—
confidence would gradually return. Route rose
30c. for cash, and 20c. for the account, leaving
off at 68fr. 33c. for both ; Mobilier rose 16fr. 25c.
cash, and 13fr. 75c. for account. All railways
were better.