The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. MONDAY E,ua4.

The Courrier de Bayonne, cited by the Pays, says
that the Emperor and Empress will spend the 15th
of August in Paris. This will be the first time for
some years that the Emperor will have been pre-
sent at the great annual /fee of his own institution.
It is said by the same+ journal that after the fête
their Majesties will go to Biarritz, and that the
Emperor will stop at Bourges to fix upon a spot
for a new foundry of cannons. Ido not think this
programme can be wens:lt as far as the Empress is
concerned. She, I have no doubt, will go to the
Eaux Bonnes, or some other Pyrenean watering-
place, when the court breaks up at Fontainebleau
mat week, and it is not likely that she will return
to Paris in the middle of August.
The Dibats, while lamenting that France and
England cannot come to some understanding about
their naval forces, instead of ruining each Other
by jealous preparations, compares the discussion
between Lord Palmerston and Mr. Lindsay to the
great theological controversy on the subject of the
five propositions of Jansenius. In that case both
parties were agreed that nothing could be more
detestable and diabolical than the five propositions,
but the hot dispute was whether or no the ob-
noxious propositions were really to be found in the
writings of the Bishop of Ypres. In like manner
Mr. Lindsay would quite agree with Lord Pal-
merston that if France is building as many ships
as reported, she ought to be kept in check by counter-
building on the part of England ; but he doubts the
fact.

The Opinion Nationale calls attention to a
correspondence from Rome, which asserts that
Francis 11. made a fictitious sale to the Pope of
the 80,000 rifles which have lately been so much
talked about, and that 1,000 of theme arms, got
possession of under the fraudulent conveyance,
were at once employed iu arming as many
brigands in the Neapolitan states. A postscript to
the letter states that the French ChargiS d'Affaires
has sent a peremptory note to Cardinal Antonelli
on the subject. All thus confirms the news which
I sent you two days ago, and the distrust which I
expressed yesterday of theConstitutionnes assertion
that the depot remained intact.
The Akhbar of Algiers has been visited with •
"communicated note" for some remarks censuring
the lubberly slowness with which the land batteries
returned the salute of an English vessel arriving in
the harbour. The official jobation expressly dis-
dains to inquire whether the facts alleged are true,
but begs the presumptuous journal never to forget
that there are in Algiers "authorities" which re-
quire no advice whatever.
The warning given to the Arai du People of
Angers does not show upon the face of it which of
the sovereigns "allied with France" is "odiously
insulted at the same time with the public con-
science." It appears by reference to the article that
it is the King of Italy who is called by this small
legitimist print, "Becker the Great" If, in prin-
ciple, a warning could ever be approved of, it
would be in such a case as this.

The Bourse was very firm, though the amount
of business done coutinues to bo small. Rento
roes 10c. for cash and sc. for acoount, closing at
67fr. 90c. and 67fr. 86c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c.
Railways were from 3fr. to sfr. higher. The de-
cided success of the Italitm Loau contributes to
the firmness of this market.

It is said th.it a law sill be passed next session
to relieve country schoolmasters from their present
state of subjection to the priests.

Letters from Pesth state that the debates in
the Diut on the imperial rescript are expected to
last three or four weeks—the crisis, therefore,
which many apprehend is as least postponed.
M. CaLmatta, an eminent Italian artist, whose
portraits of George Sand and the Abbe Lamennais
are well known, has refused an order from Lamar-
tine, because the president of the republic of 1848
entertains the opinion (an honest one beyond
all doubt) that the unity of Italy is a thing not to
be desired.

Count Pernotti has arrived in Paris, charged
with a military mission from the King of Italy.

A letter from Rome mentions that the price paid
by Prance to the ex-King of Naples for the Farms. Gardens,
is 90,000 crowns, about 600,000 fr. They are situated on
the Palatine Mount, where the place of the Ctiesan formerly
stood. The French government is about, as mentioned, to
make further excavations on the spot.

A second ball was given at Vichy on Friday
night, and was more brilliant than the preceding one.
Organised by General Huber, it was remarkable for the
good taste of the arrangements. The ball was opened at
half-past 9 by the Emperor, who glanced with Mdlle.
Leroy, daughter of the mayor of the town. In the same
quadrille was Count Walewski with the Countess Litt*;
Count de Moray with the Countess de Labedoyhe, and M.
Baroche with the Countess Walewski. The Emperor, before
retiring. walked round the ball-room accompanied by M.
Reuther and the Priem de la MOskowa. His Majesty ap-
peared in excellent health and good spirits.

•
TEI EMMEI4B AT FONTAINEBLILAII.—During the
my of the Empress at Fontainebleau, she, and some of the
Whet who accompanied her, adopted some very pretty and
original fancy costumes. They wore their dresses looped
up over striped silk petticeete of very bright colours, with
leather goiters, and small turned-ap white straw bate, with
Wok and white rosettes, or tufts. Ooe of the ladies wore
a sailor's costume, consisting of • small straw bat with •
straight brim, awl
•a jacket embroidered with anchors.—
The Entitiatwonian r Donuatie Magazine.

THE PUNCH PRESS AND THE
GOVERNMENT.

The Debuts of this day has the following :—" We
published yrterdaiy the text of the warning given
to the Ami du Feuple of Augers. We learn to-
day that the editor of the Indepentiant de I'Ouest,
who was prosecuted before the Correctional Tribu-
nal of Laval, has been sentenced to a fine of Mfr.
and costs. The Paris correspondent of the Sema-
phore mentions that a domiciliary visit has been
made at the residence of M. de Fiera one
of the correspondents of the Incitprsdanee
Beige and Journal de Geneve. This visit,
and the search which followed it, have
originated in the understanding which the ad-
ministrative authority supposed to exist between
M. de Flees and what is called the Orleanist party.
We must observe that the warning given to the
' A,ni du Peuple, the condemnation of the Ind_gun-
dant de COuest, and the domiciliary visit to M. de
Fiero, 001001110 with a puerile article published two
days since in the Opinion Nationale, against the
two parties called ' legitimist' and Orleanist.'
The Opinion Nationale especially attacked the 'weak-
-111.46 of these two parties—their weakness in general
and their particular weakness in not being able to
put forward a clear political programme. We can-
not too distinctly avow the justice of these accusa-
tions. The two parties in question are utterly
powerless to reply to the valiant writer who skulks
behind the press-law and the law of public safety.
Protected by this double rampart he can crush at
his ease all parties, past, present, and to come, but
he crushes them with more security than glory."