The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-03 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nox on OWN comusseonnr.)
PARIS, WZDNESDAT EVENING.

Before the King of Prussia arrives at Compiegne
an anonymous pamphlet will be published in
Paris, which, if be should attach any importance
to it, will be calculated to make him comfortable as
to the designs of France, but uneasy as to those of
another equally near neighbour. This pamphlet,
I am given to understand, does really proceed from
"very high inspiration." It will nut be published
by Dente but by Amyot, in order, as it is artfully
whispered, "the better to throw people off the
scent." Notwithstanding all such precautions, how-
ever, we know by experience that if the work
really emanates from the Emperor care will be
taken that it shall make a great noise. Without,
therefore, pledging myself as to the accuracy of a
matter of fact not likely to remain long doubtful,
I will merely give an outline of the argu-
ment of this pamphlet, which, I ant assured
on us good authority as can reasonably be
had in such case, is important. The title
is "The Rhine and the Vistula." France,
it is protested, does not want the Rhine, which
would be worth nothing to her as a frontier ; she
has already quite as much of the German element
as she wants in the French community, and there-
fore has no aggressive designs upon Belgium ; at
the very utmost a slight "rectification" of her
frontier towards Sarrebruck, just for the sake of
symmetry, is all that she could desire. Germany,
therefore, has nothing to fear from France—the
Rhine is safe ; but can as much be said of the Vis-
tula t Russia is the power which Germany has to
fear. Russia, though crippled at present, is
watching her opportunity, and will certainly be
aggressive before long. The pamphlet concludes
that the only way for Germany to guard herself
against Russia is to encourage the reconstitution of
Poland.

It is rumoured in diplomatic circles that Russia
has sent a comminatory note to the Porte, remon-
strating against the expedition to Montenegro ;
there is oven a talk of a Russian fleet being sent to
Cater°, and it is said that Austria is very uneasy
at the projected movement.
There was a good deal of fluctuation at the
Bourse to-day, the Rente having oscillated between
68fr. 40c. and 68fr. 6c. in the course of an animated
struggle between the bulls and the bears. The
closing prices were 68fr. for cash and 68fr. 15c.
for account, being a fall of 15c. in the first case,
and • rise of 15c. in the latter. Mobilier
fell 10fr. The railway market was unset-
tled. Southern fell 10fr. ; Western, 6fr. 25c.;
Northern, 3fr. 70c. ; and Eastern, 2fr. 60c.;
but Lyons rose Mr., and Orleans left off without
change. A further restrictive measure of the Bank
of France contributed to depress the market—viz.,
a resolution to reduce the proportion on which ad-
vances will be made on shares and obligations from
6 per cent. to 4 per cent.
The Constitutionna has the following :

We have several times alluded to the difficulties which
the settlement of the claims of the Bank of Franca on the
principal bankers of the Levant has encountered at Con-
stantinople. Oue of our correspondents now informs us
that this af►ir has been definitively settled to the satiafac•
tioo of all the parties concerned. The Bank of France still
holds the bills of the bankers indebted to it, but has allowed
them time for payment on receiving guarantees and regular
transfers of their claims on the Otkumin government. By
this arrangement the bank has secured the full payment of
its claims in the course of two years at most, by means of
monthly instalments, and his prevented the evil results
which a longer suspension of business must have inevitably
produced on the trade of Galata. This settlement has not
been attained at once, nor without difficulty. The bank
was obliged to send a commiesion to Constantinople with
full powers.

The scarcity of convenient currency in this coun-
try is now almost unprecedented. You know that
gold has long been at a premium, but within the
last few days the Bank of France has oeased to
issue 100;r. notes, owing, it is said, to the
numerous recent forgeries of notes of that deno-
mination. If you have a heavy note to change the
only alternative is to take paper in notes of not
less than 200 francs each, or massive 15fr. silver
pieces.

The Pavillon de Flore of the Palace of the Tuile-
ries is, it is known, being demolished, and yes-
terday the floors of some rooms on the fifth story
fell in, and their weight forced the fourth on to the
third. In that one a number of men were engaged
in pulling down some woodwork, but by an extra-
ordinary piece of good fortune none of them were
injured. By the removal of paper-hangings in dif-
ferent rooms of the pavilion, caps of liberty and
other emblems of the republic of 1793 have been
discovered on the walls, and emblems of the monar-
chy on others.
The Nourelliste de Rouen says that before the
Tuileries can be made habitable according to the
Emperor's taste, it will be necessary to pull down
the Marian pavilion on the Rue Rivoli side, as
well as the Flora pavilion on the quay, which is
now in course of demolition ; but that the expense
is a serious consideration, it being quite decided
not to ask for any further credit from the legis-
lative chamber. This journal is also so presump-
tuous as to offer the opinion that although the
Emperor is moat anxious to have the new opera
house built and opened within two years, it will
not be possible to realise his Majesty's wishes.

The Opiniome of Turin says that Castrucci per-
sists before the tribunal in his confession of the murder of
the Poistifical gendarme, and that his statement is con-
firmed by other evidence.

An iticitlailt of Austrian brutality is given in the
Temps. A few days ago, some soldiers, billeted in a
house at a few leagues distance from Pesth, lost seven
florins. Their suspicions turned on a young Huntwise,
named Houth, whom they denounced to the own.
truunlant of the district. The supposed culprit was
then ordered to deliver up the sum in question, but de-
claring his innocence and failing to do so, was condemned
to three hundred lashes. Honth fainted several times under
t►e executioner, and the day after was so exhausted by
the punishment that he died of its effect., not, however,
too late to hear himself okeirld from the stigma thrown
upon him, by a girl who committed the theft coming for-
ward
and publicly confessing it.