The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY Ev=um.

The Emperor, the King of Sweden, and Prince
Oscar went to the Opera last night to see Gratiosa,
Le Marche des Innocents, and part of the Huguenots.
During the performance the Emperor frequently
changed plays with the King of Sweden, to let him
see better. The royal party, instead of going to
St. Cloud, as was expected, slept at the Tuileries,
possibly because it was a more convenient place to
organise a bachelor supper, otherwise it would
have been more agreeable during these hot nights
to sleep in the country. This morning the King of
Sweden inspected the Louvre, and visited various
monuments in Paris.

In answer. to a recent paragraph in the Pantie,
stating that there was to be a new organisation of
the commissariat and all the other corps of the
navy, the Pays offers the following vague and
shadowy sort of contradiction :—" We think this
information very conjectural. We may even say
that it reposes rather upon words than upon
serious and accomplished facts." This is what
lawyers in England would call a plea of the statute
of frauds, which is never a very creditable one. I
do not see why tho French government should be
ashamed of reorganising its navy, if it wants re-
organising. But why make a distinction between
a scheme " reposing " on wonls, and one reduced
to writing 1 It is quite plain that the words
alluded to must have issued from no vulgar
mouth, otherwise they would not be solid enough
to support the weight of the paragraph in the
Petrie.

M. Faidberhe, the governor of Senegal, has
arrived in Paris, on leave of absence ; and, accord-
ing to the Pays, ho has come for the purpose of
suggesting an exchange of the French settlement of
Gabon for Gambia, which exchange he hopes to
prove would be equally advantageous to France
and England.

The Abbi Bordeaux of Chinon (a place, by the
way, celebrated by Rabelais as a hotbed of priest-
craft) writes to the Opinion Nationak to complain
of the inaccuracy of the report of his speech at the
distribution of prizes at the school of the Doctrine
Chrtitienne, and of the consequences which followed.
The only correction of any importance is that the
abbd protests that he never meant to attack the
Emperor's government ; he spoke of the revolution
which desolated Italy, but said never a word of
the second empire or of the war in Lombardy. It
appears, however, from the abbe' own showing
that the functionaries who hoard his speech must
have interpreted it in a different manner from him-
self, for he admits that he was arrested, although
he takes exception to the word " immediately."
A gendarme " invited " him to go to the public
prosecutor's office, but he showed no arrest war-
rant. When there he offered to repeat his dis-
course, and that not being enough he sat down to
write it. Notwithstanding this frank proceeding on
his part, a "minute search" was subsequently
made at his residence, and • paper was seized,
but which he declared to have been not the
text of his speech, but merely a rough draft of some
fragments of it. He admits that the local autho-
rities were present in the school, and pleads the
unimportant fact that they were not in uniform,
but leaves uneoutradictod the substantial allega-
tion that they rose and left their seats in conse-
quence of what he said.

The Gazette de France, which, owing to its cleri-
' cal connexions, often has early intelligence from
Rome, though its manlier of hashing up the sews
for the public makes it generally unreliable, says
that General de Goyon is coming to France to pre-
side at the couuzil-general of his department, and
that on July 2 he had a farewell audience of the
Pope. The general arrived at. the Vatican just as
the Pope was going out, bat counter orders were at
once given, and his Holiness remained closeted
with his military protector for three hours. The
above statement, although not confirmed in any
other quarter, is probably true. I subjoin from
the same authority some other items which are
much more sujet d caution :
The fall of the temporal power is regarded as imminent
by very many of the upper clergy. It is even said that the
Pops has demanded list of those of his noble guards who
would be disposed to follow him in case of his departure
for a foreign land. The guard unanimously replied in the
affirmative.

The Sardinian consul, It. Tecchio, has been warned that
he will not in future be permitted to receive any telegram
in cypher. This difficulty he will easily got over, by re-
ceirog his desperhee through the French embassy ; but
there is a talk of bringing his nurceuvree to • short cud
by seeding him his parporta.
We expect to receive very shortly a decree of Victor
Emmanuel, pronouncing the absolute deposition of the Pope.
If we are well informed, reparations are now making at
the Castle of Si. Angelo for • grand allegorical transparency
to be exhibited on August 15, in celebration of the Franco-

The ex-canon Liverani is Lathing at Montecatino, and at
the same time composing a new opuscle agaiast the Pope.
The French Emperor wished to buy the Faroe'. Palace
u well as the Peruse Gardens from Francis IL ; but
whether the Roman government wished to spare the King the
nessesity of making a disagreeable refusal, or whether it
ham vim of its own with regard to the palace, it interfered
with the negotiations by brining forward the trust. of
Cardinal Farnese's will, which gave the Pope a right of
pre-emption. People are at liberty to draw what nonce.
guanaco they like from these facts. • • • We shall
return to the subject of the acquisition of the Farness
Gardena by the Emperor.

The Bourse was weaker to-day, owing to nume-
rous realisations of profit. Reute and railways
closed without change. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c., and
Credit Foncier, 10fr.
The Correctional Tribunal pronounced judgment
this afternoon in the are of M. Calley Saint Paul.
He is acquitted of all the charges against him but
one. The court is of opinion that be committed a
breach of the law of 1850 by distributing a fictitious
dividend ; but inasmuch as be acted in the inte-
rest of the shareholders, and no complaint is made
by any shareholder but M. Grimaldi, who is held
to be actuated by evident motives of private ven-
geance, the court awards M. Grimaldi no damages,
and finding M. Calley St. Paul guilty, with ex-
tenuating circumstances, sentences him only to pay
a fine of 3,000 fr.

M. Solar's case, set down at him own request, on
the allegation that he meant to take his trial, was
called ou to-day, but, as I anticipated, he did not
appear, and a second "default" was recorded
against him.
A letter from Mogador of the 26th ult., in the
&slut Public of Lyons, says :

I send you some information as to the state of affairs
here. The difference between Morocco and Spain is not
yet settled. Mr. Deno:mood Hay, English consul-general
and chargé d'affairce at Tangier, started a fortnight ago for
Mequioex, where the Emperor now is. Report says that the
object of his interview with the Emperor is to persuade
Sidi-Mohamed to pay Spain annually, so that Tetuan may be
immediately evacuated, England offering to guarantee the pay-
ment of the sums due. Mr. Drununood Hay is expected to
stay about a month at Meluiees. Trade is very quiet here,
for no one will engage in any important speculation, so
long as the Spaniards remain at Tetuan. Many of the
tribes are dissatisfied with the Emperor, and refuse to pay
their tribute-money. The provinces of Chiadma Antouga
and Rebmos are in a state of insurrection, and the road
from this place to the city of Morocco is intercepted by