The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-15 00:00:00

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(MOIL OWN OWN ODINWIRONDINT.)
PARIS, MONDAY Emma's.

The umasiness caused by the Greek question is
neither greater nor lets than last week. The go-
vtrawent journals refer to the matter in few
words, which are the reverse of confident.
The Tatra says

riivate and very reliabUt Information auttiorioi: :a. to
hope. in spite of the despatch of the WI, that the efforts
of the powers will succeed in preventing a conflict in the
East.

The l'rew, which would call itself an Molls It-
dent imperialist journal, takes a much loss h 015.1.11
view. It says :
We believe that the effcrt, of diplomacy will he
and that between this and the 17th a rupture will be de-
dared between Turkey and Greece. The Gresk giveru-
mcnt knows well enough that it incurs no .orious danger
by resistance. In any case the protecting powers will not
destroy their own work. If the powers, de :irons, above all
things, of preventing a collision, send Beets to Athens.
the Greek government, overwhelmed by suprior force. will
wash its hands of the matter and leave foreigners to do
its police work. But if, which we think more likely. the
powers leave Turkey free under certain limits to act as
she pleases, the Greek government hopes for ultimate sup-
port from Russia, and St. Petersburg alone can give en
answer to the grave question whether a general war is to
result from the present difficulty.
The France thus curtly expresses the official
hopes yet entertained :

The em great powers are still acting in common to
overcome the resistance of the Hellenic government. It
is still Doped that the &dim' result will be attained be-
tween this and the llth, the day fixed by Turkey for a de-
finitive answer from Orroce.

The Gazette de Fran. e, a great Bourbonian au-
thority, says that on the news of the Cadiz insur-
rection General Pezuela, Count de Cheste, Gon-
zalez Bravo, and many other men of note devoted
to Isabella, held a meeting in Paris, at which it
was decided to agitate the army in Spain and pro-
voke anti-revolutionary e',,,eutes. General Pezuela,
it is said, left Paris on the 11th to act in Spain
against the Provisional Government, and entertains
the greatest hopes of success. The Gazette de
France professes to disbelieve the telegrams re-
porting the interference in the affairs of Spain
of the Duke de Montpensier. I believe that in-
terference true, and it is most important. Spain
seems to be drifting into a frightful civil war.

One of the rumours on which are founded the
hopes that the Eastern question may not blaze up
just now is that the haughty Turkish demonstra-
tion was prompted by Austria, ou the assumption
that she was acting in accordance with the desires
of Napoleon 111., and that now the French
Emperor, shrinking from the catastrophe, has in-
timated to M. de Bvust that ho must keep Con-
stantinople quiet.
M. Marie, the republican who was elected a
deputy for Marseilles in 1t463 at the same time
with the legitimist, Berryer, thinks himself bound
by the compact then made between the two Bell
tions of the opposition, and, to the great astonish-
ment of his democratic friends, patronises the can-
didature of the Marquis de Barthelemy instead of
that of M. Oambetta.

The French banister of War has just informed
the different departmental sanitary aatborities that arms
will be distributed to the National Guard Mobile
from the Nth to the 30th December, and that the force
will commence Ms Maiming in the math of Februai7
ant

Letters from Naples ere most favourable w-
omb of tlia mops of ailk, cotton, olives, and other arti-
cles of exportation from that country.
Some of the German journals announce that the
library of the Emperor Maximilian is about to be told at
Leipsin

The Dublin Mud regrets to state that the alarm-
ing illness of the Comtism of Mountsdgetuabs has ren-
dered it necessary that the Duke of Aberoorn should
immediately mooed to Cannes.

Prince Frederick, undo of Xing George I. of
Greets, arrived lately at Code, and embarked immediately
for Athens on board a Tempel sent to receive him.

M. Joseph Perier, Regent of the Bank of Franoe,
and last surviving brother of M. Casimir Wrier, although
142 years of age, has Just undergone an amputation of the
leg for an incurable tumour. The operation wit+ per-
formed by M. Huguier, in presence of MM. Nilaton,
Juice Cloquet, Hieord, Tardien, and other distinguished
medical men, who had previously held a consultation on
the ease. There are now great hopes of the patient's re-
covery.

The LiberV has the following :—" After ail tho
esenarchicall combinations attempted by the Spanish Pro-
visional Government, there is one which appears likely to
be effectuaL tin this subject we have received informa-
tion sufficiently certain to be able to assert that Prince de
Carignan is the candidate of Prim, Serrano, and their
colleagues, and that for his highness is destined the sue.
eerie. of babas if the Cortes decade en a kingly nyiese.
Meter Zinsanall has positively reseed to give his eon to
the flpaohyds. Comanualeatioes have been opened with
the king's season. Will they prods** any result f We
hope tlie mama el has Majesty will be a waislag to tie
Priam."