The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mom ova OWN C011118PONDINT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVE(DiG.

The "'ream contains, in its leading column, the
following paragraph, which, though speaking doubt-
fully as to facts, is remarkable as showing the
direction in which men's minds are running in
France just now :
A private letter from Toulon will have it that we are at
this moment arming a new naval division in that great Me-
diterranean port. It states that 2,000 sailors have been
sent for from different points of Frame, and that most of
them have already arrived at Toulon. The Toulonnese see
in these preparations the formation of a squadron destined
to watch the coast of Sicily. Others speak of the Adriatic,
remembering what was said a mouth ago ; and some, not-
withstanding the denial of the Pattie, persist that a squadron
is going to the Baltic. All this is very vague, and, for our
own part, we have not only no opinion whatever as to the
destination of the new squadron, but we entertain doubts
of the facts of its formation.

BL Fould is now in Toulon, and, as it is said,
paying particular attention to naval affairs.
5L Troplonis report on the motes consultum
will be presented to the Senate at a public sitting
to-morrow, and the debate will begin the next day.
It is expected that there will be a good deal of
difference of opinion, and that the discussion will
last two or three days.
The Bourse, after opening languidly, improved
towards the close. The Rente left off with a rise
of 30c., at 67fr. Side. and G7fr. 90c. ; Mobilier rose
Sir. 75c. The Orleans Railway rose 7fr. 50c. ;
Northern, Gfr. 25c. ; Lyons and Southern, 3fr.
75c. each ; Eastern and Western were without
change.
Caussidiere, the prefect of police in the early
days of the republic of 1848, died on Saturday of a
cancer in the stomach, at the age of 52, and was
buried today. The government appeared to ap-
prehend some political demonstration at the
funeral, for an immense police force was sent to
keep order, but their services were in no way re-
quired. The followers, although more numerous
than at an ordinary private funeral, were nothing
in comparison to the crowd that I remember to
have seen following the hearses of Beranger, Arago,
and Lamnienais. On those three occasions, more-
over, it was thought ueceesary to make a large
display of military force. Times have much
altered since the last of those three funerals.
Both government and people fear each other
less; and so far at least it may be said
that they have reciprocally more confidence. M.
ICaussidiere, after his banishment, stayed for a long
wlsile in the United States, and went to England in
August last in a bad state of health. He has been
in France only since the 11th of the present month.
His conduct during the short time that he was pre-
fect of police has been much criticised, but his own
boast is that he made " order out of disorder," and
at any rate his memory is entitled to the benefit of
this remarkable evidence of the esteem of his fellow-
citizens that, after leaving office, he was elected a
deputy for the Seine by a very large number of
votes, standing No. 12 on a list of thirty-six mem-
bers. Among the mourners to-day were MM.
Gamier Pages, Colonel Cluinard, Ernest Dema-
nd, Bastide, Ducat's, and Etienne Arago.