The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-26 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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The Pope's health is again a subject of specula-
tion. According to letters received to-day in Paris,
he is confined to his bed, has lately had successive
attacks of fever, and suffers much from his chronic
erysipelas. His physicians complain that he is not
a good patient and forgets that he is " seventy
years old."
The commutation of the sentence on the gen-
darme Locatelli, is attributed by the Opinion Na-
tionale to the influence of General de Goyon, who,
seeing the attitude of the population, told his
Holiness that he would not be answerable for the
consequences of the exqcution. The petition against
the French occupation is covered with thousands
of signatures in Rome, notwithstanding all the
efforts of the police.
The legitimist journals daily tell the most auda-
cious lice about Italy. They represent all the
brigands in the Neapolitan states as saints and
heroes, and all the soldiers of the King of Italy as

assassins and cannibals. The Gazelle de France
receives from special correspondents despatches
recording the triumphal progress of General
Borjes and a mythical Spanish legion, of whose
feats of war all the rest of the world is ignorant.
These fictions please the high born and religious
ladies of Brittany—the subscribers to the Queen
of Naples' diamond necklace—for whose especial
benefit they are written, and occasionally, when
politics aro dull, they amuse newspaper readers in
cab* but it is very seldom that anybody taker
the trouble to contradict them. The gallant
General Foray has, however, done the Gazette de
France the honour to address to it the following
letter, which puts an extinguisher upon a very ma-
lignant invention :

Cologne, 19th Sept.
fiir,—l have been exceedingly surprise& to receive here at
Cologne, where I have been sent to witness the MAIIMUTIIIII
of the 7th and Bth Promise corps d'armee, n copy of your
journal of the 12th, in which I find the following article
" A Paris letter in the France Cen trek of Blois says
Me movement of reaction in Italy is everywhere most
marked, and one of my friends heard General Pony,
who wee recently sent to Italy to examine the feeling
at the people on the general situation, declare in a
drawing-room that al: tho princes who bad lost their
thrones are warmly desired by the populations, particularly
the Duke of Modena and the Duchess of Parma, and that,
if those sovereigns presented themselves at the frontiers of
their duchiee,they would be received with acclamation.'" I
certalely went to Italy some months back, not to examine
the feeling of the people and the general situation, but
molesly to revisit with my family the glorious battlefields
where, for my pert, I shed some small part of my blood foe
Italian isdependeses. On retuning from Italy, and with-
out even stopping at Paris—where I had not time to go to
a drawieuvrooni, Ia which you make me say the very oppo-
site of my way of thinking—l proceeded to the camp of
Chalons. I consequently gin to the article which I have
quoted above the most formal contradiction, and I request—
er, if necessary, require—you to publish this letter in your
next number.—litemeive, ke., GiNINAL Poser.

At the Bourse the Rente, after dropping lan-
guidly to 69fr. 20c. and 69fr. 36c., recovered, and
closed very firm at 69fr. 26c. and 69fr. 40e., being
within &shade of yesterday's prices. Mobilier rose
2fr. 60c. Railways left off from lir. to 3fr. higher.
A French journal lately congratulated the
country upon the fact that although the French
harvest of 1861 is undoubtedly deficient, the truth
had not been kept back from the public, as has
been the case in former yews, and that therefore
the evil was greatly mitigated, since provision had
been made in time to supply the wants of home
production by importations. It would appear,
however, that the old leaven of conoealment is not
yet wholly got rid of, for I read in the Echo Agricole :
"For reasons which we cannot explain, the govern-
ment has ceased, for some months past, to publish
the importations and exportations of wheat and
flour ; and yet this is the very moment at which
commerce has the greatest need of such informa-
tion."

A gentleman sent to China on an agricultural
mission by the French government, M. &igloo Simon, has
made a valuable report on the flab and fisheries of tha
country, and hes also despatched specimens of several kind
which he thinks capable of being bred in Europe. He
speaks of these in the highest terms, ►nd says that it would
not be difficult to select forty or fifty species. worthy of
observation. Amoopt others is the Lo-io, or king of fish,
clamed as Crenilabrus by Dr. Bridgman, measuring
sometimes six or seven feet in length, weighing from
;Albs. to 21101 be., or even more, and said to be equal
to the famous salmon of the Rhine. Then come the Lien-
in-wang sod the Kan•ia, almost se goad, sod even larger in
sues than the other; the Li-in, liner than any carp in Eu-
rope, and weighing sometimes 3011 a. ; and the KW°, or
Tsi-in,whicb does not weigh more than 10 or 1211 e. or so,and
is the finest and most delicate of all in flavour, partaking at
mesa the characteristics of the trout and solo. M. Simon

also speaks of the immense care which the Chinas in
former times paid to the embankment of their rivers, the
directing of their course through mount.iina and along
plains, and in the formation of immense lakes, in which
millions of fhb And refuge from all but carnivorous man.

The Tuscan Monitore of the 22nd gives a fall
description of the funeral procession which accompanied
the body of the gnat tragic poet G. B. Niamlini to the
grave. It took place by torchlight, and was composed of
people from every corner of Italy. The owners of the
pall were held by Marquis Bartolommei, Gonfaloalere
of Florence ; the Abbe Lambnuchial, Sauter ; Prince
Ferdinand IStroazi, President of the Academy of Film Arts;
sod the Chevalier Burson Bianchi, pmescretary of the
Academy of Li Cruses. The Municipal Council, Marquis
Ridolfi, President of tbs Rzhibitios, the Professors of the
Faculties, sod other distinguished persausges immediately
followed the hearse, and the streets through which the pro-
eession pared was lined with national guards. At the
church of &tuts Croce, where*. last funeral rites were
performed, Professor Atte Vanucei read an appropriate
speech.