The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-18 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TUISDAT EVINTM.

Although rumours of ministerial modifications
were lately denied with the usual amount of indig-
nation, I think it next to certain that there will be
several changes before the new year. In all proba-
bility Count Walewaki will resume the portfolio of
Foreign Affairs, M. Thouvenel going to London as
ambassador. In that case M. Fould will combine
the most important functions of Minister of State
with those of Minister of Finance. It is rumoured
that Marshal Randon will supersede the Duke of
Malakoff as Governor-General of Algeria, and be
succeeded in the Ministry at War by General Reg-
nault de St. Jean d'Angely, the Duke of Magenta
replacing the latter in the command of the Imperial
Guard.

At the Bourse American affairs continue to be
regarded iu a most unfavourable light, and,
although Consols wore telegraphed i higher, there
was not the slightest symptom of a reaction from
the lowest point of yesterday's depression. The
Rents fall 25c. for cash and sc. fur account, closing
at 67fr. awl 67fr. 20c. Mobilier fell 10fr. There
was a serious panic in the Italian Loan, which fell
Ur. sc. ; this decline is attributed to the warlike
tone of Garibaldi's last letter. Railways were all
2fr. or 3fr. lower.

The American packet service between New York
and Havre is interrupted in consequence of the
armaments of the United States ; notice has just
been given at Havre that the fine ship Fulton,
which was expected this week, has been taken up
by government to carry troops.
M. Amyot, the publisher of the "Archives
Diplomatiques," has collected in • single volume
all the treaties, conventions, and diplomatic acts
relative to Poland for the last 100 years—from 17'82
to 1882.

There is not much sympathy expressed for M.
de Leprails, the academician, who, as you will have
seen by the Afoniteur, has fallen a victim to one of
M. de Persigny'e bursts of anger, and is dismissed
from his Lyons professorship. Even the Temps
admits that, by the oath he had taken, and the
place ho held dependent on the government, he had
placed himself in a false position. The Opinion
Nationak, which lately showed up some of the ex-
tremely bad verses in the Con-espundamt, of the
seditious character of which M. de Persigny com-
plains, merely says that it would have abstained
from criticism had it anticipated government in-
terference.

The Monde publishes a long protest from the
Bishops of Umbria against a circular of the
Minister of Justice at Turin. The Bishops of
Umbria declare that they are ready, as the Gospel
orders, to render unto Gager the things that are
Casiar's ; but they conclude in the most unexpected
manner by declaring that they recognise no other
sovereign than the Pope. If a part of the Italian
episcopacy engage themselves iu this retrograde
road, the information which arrives from Italy
affirms that the lower clergy are becoming more
and more attached to the national cause.
The Atmcie is likely to be prosecuted for its ac-
count of the triumphal entry into Nismos of its
bishop, Mgr. Plantier, on which great occasion the
ultramontane prelate compared the Minister of
Public Instruction to the "reptile which stung Bt.
Paul in the Isle of Malta."

The Marquis de Flers, who Les withdrawn his
appeal to the Court of Caseation, was to have CUD-
atituted himself prisoner the day before yesterday ;
but, as his health is delicate, the belief is that he
will be allowed to undergo his punishment in a
maison dc mantE. You may remember my telling
you that there was no legal ground tin: sup-
pressing the report of M. de Flers' trial under the
pretext that it was a press offence. This is now
admitted, and the Ortzetk du Tribunau.c publishes
a first part of a report.

M. Dele-Sedie, the baritone of the Italian Opera,
at Pork, is engaged for the ensuing NUM by 11r. Cye fi.r
Covent Garden.