The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(now ova owx

PARIS, WZDNZSDAT EVINING.

The Queen of England arrived yesterday before
Cherbourg and was saluted by the batteries of the
coast. The municipality of Havre hope that her
Majesty may visit their port before returning home,
and in the expectation of that event considerable
preparations have been made for her reception.
Pilots are in readiness to proceed to the roadstead
in case the royal yacht should require any mist-
moo.

General Windham has arrived in Pula ou his way
to Marseilles, to embark for India.
Rear-Admiral Clavaud, who has just been ap-
pointed to the command of the French squadron in the
Levant, vice Rear-Admiral Count Bonet Willattmes,

will leave Toulon about the lath September on
board thea vino Solon for the Pincus, where he will
hoist his flag on board the Pomona—the present
admiral's frigate.
The squadron of evolution, commanded by Vice-
Admiral Trchouart, put out to sea from Toulon
yesterday.
. . . .

The Bourse continues dull, with remarkably little
business doing. The Rents closed at yesterday's
price, 67fr. bc. for cash, and 67h. (with a fall of 154.)
foe account. Mobilier fell 7fr. 60e. Railways were
extremely heavy. Lyons and Southern fell from
10fr. to 12fr.; and the other lines from 2fr.Boe. to Sfr.
A popular bat scurrilous biographer of living
celebrities, M. hquot, who assumes the name of
De 31irecourt, and who has been cast in actions for
libel oftener, probably, than any writer extant, has
again been unlucky to-day. The proprietor and
editors of the Constitutionnel have fired a volley at

him with deadly effect. For a libel upon M. Mires,
he is sentenced to eight months' imprisonment, a
flue of 2,000 fr., and 20,000 fr. damages. His free-
doms with M. Boniface are punished by one month's
imprisonment, 200 fr. fine, and 600 fr. damages.
The young and brilliant redacteur of plea,
M. rrecost r arum, wnose liberal prin must
make a press prosecution a matter of the last resort
to him, hu also obtained a sentence against M. de
Hirecourt of one month's imprisonment, 200 fr. tine,
and 300 fr. damages. A coalissitr of the Bourse,
M. Joseph Colon, was yesterday sentenced to two
months' imprisonment for spreading false news.
The Daily News was wired yesterday for the
leading article on Ledru Rollin; and the Daily
News and Express were seized to-day on account of
Signor Campanella's letter.
The Opinions of Turin was also seized to-day, 1
know not for what reason.

In continuation of the improvements of Paris, the

unsightly houses in front of the Theatre Francais
are about to be taken down, and the demolition'
will, it is said, comprise the whole of the Rue
Jeannisson, the =wholesome Passage Guillaume,
and one side of the Rue de la Fontaine
The announcement of this great clearance has re-

vived an idea which was ventilated in the Chamber
of Deputies twenty years ago, of the erection in
Paris of a statue of Joan of Arc. The project was
abandoned partly from financial reasons, and partly
because no eligible site for the statue could be
Sued upon. The latter objection will now
be removed in a very especial manner, for the
space about to be thrown open in the heart of the
city was in Joan of Arc's time outside Paris, and was
the spot then used as a pig market, on the hillock of
St. Hoch, on which she encamped when besieging
the town, then in possession of the English. A
legend tells that, being resolved to order an assault,
bat being uncertain u to the quantity of water in
the ditch of the fortifications, she came early one
maiming, accompanied by Signeur de Rats, as far as
the St. Honore Gate, which was situated just about
the place on which stood the recently demolished
Cs& de la Regency. There she took soundings with
the handle of her long lance. She was perceived by
the English, who from behind the walls sent a
shower of arrows, one of which wounded her in the
thigh and brought her to the ground. It is on the
spot where she fell that it is proposed to erect the
statue.

A great crowd of petsons, very many of than
foreigners, have visited the Dew Louvre daring the
last two days, the promenades under the covered
galleries being all open to the public. At night the
whole is brilliantly lit up.

PIEDMONT.

The Marquis Pallavicini, whose recent appoint-
ment as syndic of Genoa has been cited u cvideneo
of the reconciliation of government with the princi-
pality, has declined the office on the plea of ill-
health.

The Dec de Grarnmont gave a grand dinner at
Turin on the occasion of the Emperor's Rte as the
16th. Count de Cavour, General de Luaus";
M. Matsui, Count Nigra, the Chevalier Wu*
Sir James Hudson, Count Stack"lberg, sad other
personages of distinction, were among the pate.

SWEDEN.

" Private letters from Stockholm," rays the Nord
of Brame* "state that the health of the Bins of
Sweden has become much wone, sad Unpins the
greatest alarm"

A Stockholm letter says wT e somatittee of
legislation, composed of members of the km orders
of the Swedish Diet, has rejected, by a majority of
Ave, the bill presented by.the governmsat to the
chambers at the commeaseamat of the mention for
removing from the cede the punishment of exile
enacted against persons abjuring the Lutheran
religion. This daisies bus cam ad a very painful