The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNIIIIIMY Evirynto.

This evening's Pays announces that the Grand
Duke Constantine will arrive in Paris on Thursday,
April 30, and will remain tiU May 16. During his
stay there will be Rtes in Paris and at Fontainebleau,
a grand ball at the Tuileries, a grand soiree at the
liotel de Ville, races in the Bois de Boulogne, a
hunt at Fontainebleau, and a review at the Champ
de Mare. There will be two " commands "at the
opera. Marro Spada will be represented on the
first occasion, and the Corsairs on the second. The
Prince will leave Paris on the 16th of May for
Bordeaux, and after seeing the town will embark
on board the imperial yacht the Heine Hortense
which will be in waiting to receive him.
Marshal Bandon, the Governor of Algeria, who,
according to an announcement, which turns out to
have been incorrect, was to have gone to Toulon to
meet the Grand Duke, left Marseilles on Monday
for Algiers. He was accompanied by one of his
aides-de-camp, a son of Prince Bibesco of Wallachia.
The Bourse opened better, under the influence of
a rise in Consols, grounded, it was thought, upon an
improved state of the money market in London. At

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one moulent it was expected that the Rents would
takes a decided upward movement. This hope was,
however, disappointed. Quotations ruled very
dull in the latter part of the day, and
tle Threes closed at 69fr. 35c. for, and 691 r.
30c., with a rise of 10c. for cash and a fall of sc.
for account. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. Railways
were weak at rather lower prices than yesterday.
I understand that the Credit Mobilier, being de-
sirous of effecting an operation in Russian railways
which it could not lawfully do without the consent
of the government, has been refused the authorisa-
tion.

It is announced that the Minister of the Interior
has determined to dispense with the formality of the
"verification of passports and visas," in the cue of
travellers arriving at Boulogne by boats coming
from England. In the absence of any in-
formation as to the reasons for this mea-
sure, I am not sure that I apprehend the import
of it. I do not think it can be considered as an
instalment of any appreciable value towards the
abolition of the ridiculous passport system. If,
indeed, the minister had relaxed the rule in a con-
verse direction, and allowed people to embark from
Boulogne to England without the neoessity of show-
ing passports, the convenience to English travellers
would have been immense. But it has never been
the custom to require the production of a
from passengers landing at the Boulogne pierarer;
are asked, indeed, whether they have passports, but
if they have not, their names are taken down and
they are allowed to pass on. When ones in the
streets of Boulogne, there is no practical
impediment in the way of going on to
Paris ; or, indeed, to any other part' of
France without a pempret. The only real difficulty
is to get out of France without one. Ido not there-
fore see any essential reform in SA new regaiatiam.
" The inhabitants of Plosabitees," says a War
from Paris in the Nord of Brume* "expect that
the Emperor will again visit them this year, and
stay for a month. His Majesty, it is said, will net
be accompanied by the Empress, but at the end et
August will accompany her to Biarritz, where they
Prreto pass the rest of the season."
new Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Morlot,
will be installed on Saturday at Notre Dame. The
bells of all the churches in Paris will be rung in
celebration of the event on Friday evening, and also
matins at noon on the day of the installation.
The death of the Duchess of Ragusa, which was
announced by all the French papers two days ago,
is contradicted. She is, however, seriously a

TURKEY.

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CONSTANTINOPLR, Aram 13.
We hear from Belgrade that Captain Magnan, of
the French navy, has arrived there. He has suc-
ceeded in forming a French company, the title of
which is thus given, " Premiire Compagnie Fran-
!Also de Bateaux i Vapeur sur le Danube et sea
Affiuens." Those steamers that used to ply on the
Rhone are being sent to the Danube ; one of them,
the Lyonnalse, has been at Belgrade for sometime,
and is now to commence running from Widdin to
Belgrade, and from the latter place up the Save. As
soon as the other steamboats arrive the trip is to be
extended to Galati. The company, by way of com-
mencement, has already published ita tariff, which
is found to be 10 per cent. less than the Austrian.
A great quantity of Slavonic books have been con-
fiscated here and at Varna, which were destined for
Bulgaria and Bosnia. In most of these books the
following prayer occurs:—" May God destroy the
Turkish empire, and bestow it on the orthodox
Emperor!" It is declared in these works, to all
appearance officially, that they have been printed at
the command of the Emperor Alexander 11. and the
Holy Synod. As the Russian ambassador, M. Boa-
tenieff, entered his protest against the Circassian
expedition, why should not the Porte demand se-
curity against this holy conspiracy ?
I took a walk yesterday in front of the Sultan's
palace, and saw children approaching it from every
street ; they were singing, and I asked what it all
meant I was told that on that day the youngest
son of the Sultan had begun learning to read, and
that was why all the schoolboys, from far and near,
had come to congratulate hishoy-highness. I went
with them into the palace, when I heard what it
was about, and there they were, ranged in a circle
by their khodzas, or teachers. The prince appeared,
and received their greeting, after which he ordered
a distribution of sweetmeat. among them, which
had the effect of a dismissal without any of its
harshness.

Great agito • tion prevails in the Danubian Princi-
palities, on which account the Austrian troops are
placed near one frontier, and a Russian observation
corps near the other, for the purpose, perhaps, of
wet feriug in case of any outbreak. It is to be
hoped the Wallachians will keep order without
requiring the oil of a foreign power to still the waves
of sedition. The several commissioners have been

received enthusiastically, but the French commis-
sioner moot so. The card of membership adopted by
the Wanachian political club, bearing the mottos
" Union, self-government, a constitution, and a
foreign prince, were described in a previous letter.
It is rumoured here that the French commissioner,
M. Talleyrand Perigord, is somehow mixed up with
the printing and disseminating of these cards.
The result of the commission of inquiry about the
expedition of Mehemed Bey from this capital is now
published. Mchemed Bey, Fehrad Pasha, and
Ismail Pasha are declared guilty. The government
of the Porte has pared against them the sentence
of banishment, and the two last-named individuals
go into exile this very day, one to Browns, the
other to Ismid.

The international commissioners for the regulation
of the frontier in Armenia have to meet at Kars on
the 13th of May next.