The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SVNDAT Bvwwu.

The Patric gives a positive contradiction to a
statement which it had itself repeated yesterday
from a German journal, that the Turkish Am-
buwador at Vienna had made a communication to

the Austrian government on the subject of the
closing by Russia of the eastern ports of the Black
Bea. The same journal alsocontradiets an assertion
that the Emperor, in consequence of representations
made by England, has consented to submit the ques-
tion of the exportation of negroes from Africa to
the French colonies to a conference, to be held in
London.

The Emperor sad Empress went on Friday last
to Neuilly to witness some experiments, conducted
by M. Carteron, the inventor of a process for render-
ing wood tissues of all sorts, theatrical decorations,
dce., incombustible. The experiments are reported
to have been entirely suceessfuL Ladies' dresses
of the most genre-like materials, were set lire to and
would not burn. An officer's tent, containing a bed
with muslin curtains, resisted the application of

numerous flaming torches. A cottage, half of
which wu secured by M. Carter:es preparation,
and the other half filled with straw, wu set on fire on
the unprotected side ; the lames raged with fury, and
consumed half of the building, but the fire died
away when it reached the prepared part, and left it
altogether intact. A theatre, with all its scenery,
ropes, and decorations was attempted to be burnt in
vain. Their Majesties, who remained upwards of an
hour, expressed great satiafaction at what they had
witnessed, and the Emperor gave 500 fr. to the
workmen employed. . . . .

. .
The feeling of comparative confidence which has
been undoubtedly manifested in French commercial
circles, within the last few days, is now spoken of
in ecstatic terms by the French government journals.
Tho Pays alludes to it with " joy," and ascribes
the impunity with which France hes traversed the
crisis to the "general policy of the present govern-
ment." If in France there have been only the aver-
age number of failures, while other nations have
been wildly asking whether they were not "about
to perish," the reason is that "God has sent to
France one of those great men who take tottering
nations by the arm, and guide them in the ways of
eivilimation and progress."
The Pharamond steam-packet, belonging to the
Memageries Imprrialea, is said to have been wrecked
on the coast of Itonmelia.

A fog of the most intense kind suddenly enve-
loped Paris about six o'clock yesterday evening.
The obscurity wu such that it was impossible to
see ten steps in advance. On the bridges and the
quays the drivers of carriages were obliged to alight
and lead their horses by the head, while they kept
calling out to give warning of their approach. The
Place du Carrousel was almost impassable—for car-
riages, when on it, had the greatest difficulty to
find their way out. On the bridges and ether
places of active circulation, the police officers on
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duty were posted at certain distances with torches.
One peculiarity attending the fog was that it was
confined to a very short height from the ground, for
at a certain distance above, the sky could be seen
perfectly clear and the stars shining in all their
brilliancy. It was also partial.or confined to par-
ticular spots. On the Boulevards, near the Ambign,
it waa very intense, while at a hundred yards off
the atmosphere was perfectly clear.;

PARIS, BATUIDAT ETIOMIO.
The Jeufosee trial has terminated, as every of

acquainted with the temperament of a French jury
expected, in a verdict of aequittaL If it were pos-
sible to submit this verdict to the approbation of
universal suffrage in France, then is no doubt that it
would be confirmed by an overwhelming majority.
All sympathies are enlisted on the side of the honour-
able family, the sanctity of whose home was violated
by the persevering annoyances of a contemptible
village Don Juan. At the same time it is impassible
to deny that the finding of the jury is against evi-
dence, and affirms by implication a principle not
I admitted in the code of any civilised country.
M. Berryer baring spoken emphatically of the
publicity given to the case, I feel bound to say, as I
was I believe the first to send an account of it to
England, that there is no scrap of credible evidence
—nor even of what in au English court would be
called evidence at all—to affect the character of
Mdlle. Blanche de Jeufosse. All is hearsay. And
the hearsay evidence, which, such as it is, would
prove nothing more than a case of imprudent flirta-
tion, is all distinctly traceable to the mouth of
Cluillot himself. The amatory letter of his, which
was read in court, ought not to condemn her. It is
quite consistent with the known circumstances of
the can that that letter may have been written for
the purpose of annoyance, and that the tender inter-
views to which it refers were imaginary. It was
well observed by M. Berryer that no single line
written by Blanche to Guillot had been produced or
spoken of, and that if she had written to him he,
who boasted of her favour to all his boon compa-
nions, and even to the village barber, would have
been sure to have shown her letters.

-11ORoursehasiee; firm all day, and has again
improved. The Rente roes 6f. for cash, and 20c. for
account, closing at 67.15 and 67.40. Mobilier rose
ior. The railway market was animated. Orleans
rose 13f„ Lyons 10f., Westerns 7.60, and the other
lines from 2.60 to 6.