The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-25 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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PARIS, MosDAT Evwnta,

Although the prevalent opinion is that the
" Eastern question" is not threatening for the
present, some of the government journals continue
to speak in an alarming tone of a probable rising
in Bulgaria. Is Roumania, they say, the link
(tl:o trait &union) of an alliance between RUSSiR
and Prussia?

This evening's Patrie says : • -
It results from a letter dated Galata, Pcbrittry that
the declarations and reiterateellasnrance of the Ronsnain
government are in contradiction with the information
which came front the other side of the Danube, where the
greatest confidence is entertained of succour to come from
the Bulgarians and Servians who hire taken
loge in the Principalities. But the chiefs act now
with more prudence then they did at the time of the last
insurrection. They avoid the neighbourhood of great
tows!, are never to be build, and drill their partiues on
the banks of the Danube, a very few at a
time, so that they may cross the river Is ith•
out provoking suspicion. Lake to the number of 2,:303
were recently sent through Bucharest to Bulgaria—
half by way of Calms's, and the rest by Silistria. Ten
bales of revolvers were introduced at Luella in the night
of Jan. 29, and lodged in a safe house, where four of the
bales yet remain. The other see were immediately for.
warded to Bulgaria.

This news, observe, is from the Patric, which a
few days ago said the " train" laid between the
Danube and Constantinople, which was dangerous,
had been broken up.

The Prance says great importance is attached to
a mission of M. Cautacuzeue to St. Petersburg.
This envoy of the cabinet of Bucharest is nego-
tiating, it says, for the countenance of Russia to a
declaration of the absolute independence of
Roumania, to be made with great solemnity on the
2nd (14th) of May next. It is calculated that an
invasion of the Principalities by Turkey would
be the consequence, and that then a pretext
would be furniabed for the interference of the
' Powers. Russia would ask for the confirmation of
the fait accompli, and a guarantee of the indeper,
deuce of Roumania. This would be a mild form of
raising the Eastern question, nothing so formidable
as the general insurrection in Bulgaria which the
Patric apprehends.
Count d'Argy, the commandant of the Antibes
Legion in Rome, has just arrived in Paris, and the
Prone says he has an " important minion."
M. Edmond About, with his friends MM. de
Raise and du Lode, is expected in Paris next
week, returning from a long tour in Upper Egypt.
M. About's impressions of his trip, like everything
that proceeds from his pen, will be looked for with
interest. They will appear very soon.
At the Bourse there was some hesitation, but
the high quotations of Saturday in the Rente were
maintained. Italian fell 2Gc. There was • talk
of the loan being made in 4i instead of 3 per cents.,
but this would be a complete reversal of the policy
of " unity of the Relate " entered upon some years

The Moniteur gives the address of U. Dronyn
de Lhuyo to the members of the Imperial Society of
Aoslimation, whose meetings take place annually. Ile
gave an interesting account of the zoological coati ibutions
lately moiled at the gardens of the society in the Bois de
Boulogne.

Among the recent arrivals at Rome is that of the
benevolent Mr. Peabody, who has takes up hie residues
with his talented countryman, Mr. Storey, the ate•
brated sculptor. Sir Charles lavock is in Rome, end the
Duke of Northumberland and his family were expected
from Nios.

Prince Lucien Bonaparte, one of the canlinals
to be created in the oonsistory on the 16th Mara, la to
arrive at Rome flea Paris a few days before, when he will
!eke up his middenss in hie paternal palace on the Piaui
.11 Venetia. It is said that his formal reception will Mk*
plass by special desire of the Emperor his cowls at the
Fran& Embassy, where the Countess de &Mime will do
the honours.

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The Countess de Stollberg, Lady-Superior of
the Hospice of BeMania, at Berlin, bee just died of
typhus fever caught while visiting the provinces suffering
from famine and epidemic disease.

The Paris correspondent of the Times observes
that the popularity of the French government has been on
the wane alnoe the debates on the Army Bill and the Pres
Bill. Not very long ago when the Emperor appeared on
the Boulevards or in the theatre he was greeted with
asedamations. He now passes aloes amid the snow* of
the people. In the theatre the slightest 'Unties to the
press or the army is eagerly laid hold ot—s• at the Odeon
I the Wm evening, where the eminent M. Jells Wawa
who has attacked the law on the pram because It is ae:
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