The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THITILSDAT EY/LWINO.

This being Mansion-day, the Bourse and all
public offices are closed, and there are no evening
I !Vim
The French ambassador to the Court of St. James's
mod the Counter de Persigny have left Paris to re-
turn to London.
The debate on the budget—for no less parliamen-
tary word than a " debate " has yet been invented
to describe the small talk in which that pale shadow
of a parliament, the Corps Legielatif, now and then
indulges—commenced on Monday, and (the house
not sitting on Ascension-day) stands adjourned till
Friday. It excites not the least public
Interest. When the present Imperial Consti-
tution was young, the French journals used
to copy from the Monitetir the official report
of the promalings. You are aware that none other
flea the died report can be published, and it may
sot be abridged or commented upon. The conse-
quence of this nonletion is that the newspapers,
finding by expellees that people never reed the
speeches of ncerinal representatives of the people,
who exercise no real influence over state affairs, fill
their columns with more interesting matter, and it
is only in the Mondevir that the observations made
by members on the occasion of their registering go-
vernmental decrees can be found. As far as the dis-
cussion on the budget has hitherto gone, there has
been no speech having the slightest tendency to
lighten the darkness in which the state of the public
finances as a whole bas long been involved. There
is no prototype of Joseph Hume in the present
Chamber, and so far from containing any complaints
against the extravagance of the estimates nearly
all the speeches made were nothing but pleadings
on behalf of particular dames of persons for larger
salaries or pensions. Everybody under government
wants more money on account of the damsel of
living. Claims were put forward on behalf el peer
curates, clerks in public offices, retired Mem
registrars in the Juge de Pace's Court, clerks i• the
prefectures, and old officers of the Logien of
Honour, which, if all listened to, woad smillimis
the budget to the extent of NES Mss IN twat"
millions of francs per annum. To erne erniamirldolt
were all very plausible, the government commis-
sheers had but one unvarying answer, that however
mei the necessities of the claimants might deserve
sympathy, all that could be done was to take a nob
of the arguments used to be considered at some fu-
ture time, when the financial situation would permit
a plater outlay for the public service. Ono mem-
ber, M. Dante, who appeared as the advocate of the
irks in the prefectures, ventured to say that when
the.. millions were allotted for furnishing and deco-
mAing the Louvre, 400,000 fr. for the purchase of the
Crystal Palace, and large sums for forming camps,
which, after all,wore not such good schools for war es
Algeria; a sum of 649,800 fr. (which was all that he
asked for) ought not to be grudged to keep the
junior protectoral clerks in the departments from a
data bordering on misery. In the course of this de-
bate, M. Achille Jonbinal brought forward the griev-
ances of the proprietors whose houses have been pulled
down without compensation, because, according to a
recent decision of the Council of State, they stood
in the way of the fortifications of Paris. M. hibi-
nal said that in a petition presented to the Emperor
these proprietors made use of the following strong
expression :—" We have on our side law, right, and
equity, the opinion of lawyers, public opinion, and
immemorial possession. To deprive us of our pro-
perty without compensation is spoliation ; it is the
re-establishment of confiscation." The reading of
this passage produced something like a sensation in
the house, but M. Baroche brought the matter to an
end by the conclusive observation that whatever the
Council of State has decided was a chose juges,
and could nut be quartioned. It appears that
when the fortifications of Paris were made it was
generally understood that the obligation called
"servitude militaire," which the proprietors of lands
adjoining other fortified towns are under in virtue of
a general law, was not to be applicable to Paris. It
is this understanding which the proprietors repre-
sented by M. Jubinal now allege to be violated by
government for the first time. I mentioned some
time since that some of the owners of the houses in
question were so excited that they had armed them-
selves and frightened away the men Afro had com-
menced the work of demolition. The amount of
property afftcted is very large indeed.
Paris was this evening visited by a very heavy
thunderstorm. The rain fell in torrents from five
to six o'clock. All the cellars in tho low parts of
the Faubourg Montmartre are full of water.

SPAIN.

The Dards contains the following analysis of the
new law on the press submitted by the Spanish
government to the Chamber of Deputies:

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The new race which is to govern the pews will not be
accused of teepeet a libcmlity. In order to publiah a political
journal in Madrid, it will be neomeary to pay 600 fr.
direct tame; if in the provinces, UM. It will be name,
eery to prove the payment of this mount, calculated three
year. in advance. Should the journal be published In
Madrid, it will be requiaito to degoeita caution-money of

76,000 f; ; if in the provinote, • sum at 60,000 tr. Articles
on political, philomphical, sad relleloas 'objects most be
signed by their miters. Mama couneltted by the pram
will be liabb to Anse not movediag 20,0006. and not under
I,ooofr. These camas will be tried by a special tribunal,
composed of a prosidsat sad Animism la Madrid. and of •
president sad UMW judges la the province". The publica-
tion of the pleadings for the Mere se for the accusation is
absolutely prohibited.

HUNGARY.

A letter from Vienna, given in the Union rye:

It appeals posillve that the Eaprot tW Rot maim hit
IMMO et clatotacy 4 hem et limpelise to Or we-
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arty pealed to retitled plums sedretopee, bet will
dm radon thus their leaded purely dented after the
revendloo, sod ohnlnistsred since that period by a special
commission. It le stated that the tables are being drawn
up he the disietries of. the Interior, Finance, and
lathe, of the parity darted in Hungary and
other puts of the sorb* Wining to persona
osaimmed for palled 116110111. thwording to 'Withal
wily of faith, the with of the Load property 'equa-
lised In Hungary sesowend in 1400 to swirly 40 million
&ism RIM that thee the Take of bad hu inerseeed.
One away, that of the wdottanate Colonel de KM who
vas old altar the vides, of the Metro-Russians, ekes had
properly osothisthill to the othst of 10 =linos of francs.
The deter °C linked Was, who, grevioody to the revolution
emoted a Mgt 'whir st the mud of Vienna, is now in
the Aland Ste" whin is is earrthed to obtain a living
by giving music lessons.

After witnessing a launch at Bordeaux, on Tues-
day, the Greed Duke Conatentine was entertained at a grand
dinner at the Hotel de Villa Arming the gnats ware the
Cardinal Arehblahop, Osmond de Tartan, the Prefect, the
CoonninarrGeneral of Yarise, the Rambo Conenl-Os-
sera, and a number of the notabilities of the city. At about
half-put aloe the prime proceeded to the theatre, where the
&op as Berrpsisa, the second sad third acts of Le Reim
do CANN", sad the divertimereent of Lie disarm ias Dial*,
were given. Oa entering the box of the prefect, the prime
wee receired with acelarnations, which won repeated when
he quitted the house, The Omni Deb embarked on Woe:l-
-anky he board the Use itortesee fee ItechetecL

AUSTRALIA.

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CST warm miszArz.)
MOM OCR OWN 001113STORDS

PLYMOUTH, Famty,

The Stamboul, Captain Cole, the first vessel dis;
Fetched from this port on the Australian Auxiliary
Steam Clipper Company's line, arrived here this
morning, from Melbourne. She brings a mail, 125
passengers, and 45,000 ounces of gold. Her sews
has been anticipated from other sources.
The Stamboul rounded the Horn on the 2nd of
April, and crossed the Line on the 27th of April.
Calms and light winds experienced in the trades
have been the cause of her long passage.