The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDA! Emma..

The committee on the address of the Corps Legis-
latif have resolved, after a long discussion, not to
adopt any one of the amendments proposed. They
will be brought forward on their own merit* by the
authors of them, and of course have no chance of
being carried. Among the amendments, besides
those which I sent you some time since, there is
one directly aimed at the opposition of England to
the prolonged occupation of Syria by a French
force. On the Roman question, I apprehend
that the out-and-out partisans of the temporal
power will not obtain so large a majority
in the lower house as they did in the
Senate. M. Grapier de Cassaguac is deputed by the
committee to defend the paragraph of the address
relating to Rome. The government orators, having
precisely the same instructions as they Lad in the
Senate, will neither pledge the Emperor to with-
draw his troops from Rome, nor to maintain the
temporal power under all circumstances.
The report of the jury appointed to judge the de-
signs for the new opera-house is now published.
The result, as far as regards the award of prizes,
was already known. No drawing was considered
good enough to merit the grand prize, but
five were selected for prizes as worthy of
especial notice. The jury now recommend that
the five prizemen shall be invited to compete
again among each other, and that this time the
prize to be given shall be the contract for building
the opera. It is by no means decided that the site
of the new building shall be upon the spot lately
proposed, opposite the Rue de la Paix. It is the
general opinion that the designs sent in show that
the approaches are too restricted at this place.
There is a gigantic scheme for pulling down all
the houses between the corner of the Rue de la
Paix and the Tuileries, and building the opera-
house en the Butte des Moulins. To this the
ruinous expense is a great objection.
The Empress having taken a dislike to the Hotel
d'Albe in the Champs Elysees, in which her sister
died, has exchanged it with the city of Paris for a
large piece of ground on the Quai Billy, where she
means to erect a splendid palace. Her Majesty
pays the city a very considerable sum of money for
equality of exchange.
A subscription has been set on foot for Madlle.
Nan de la Rochejagu, an authoress, and a cousin of
Chateaubriand, who is in a state of distress. M.
Scribe, a few days before his death, wrote a letter
telling her that her parentage gave her a claim
upon all of noble birth, and her talents upon all
friends of the fine arta. In the latter character M.
Scribe, who seldom paid empty compliments, sent
the lady 1,000 francs. Subscriptions are received
by M. Ledoyen, the bookseller of the Palais Royal.
PARIS, SATURDAY EVZIMIG.

In a private letter received in Paris from one of
the Emperor of Russia's ministers, it is stated that
the Russian government regards an armed peace in
Europe as almost as bad as a general war. Peace
on such conditions, says this statesman, is nearly
as expensive as war, with this additional inconve-
nience, that it lasts longer • and all the while trade
and manufactures are pet as much paralysed as
if the most bloody struggles were going on. There
is a great deal of truth in this opinion • but coming
from such a quarter it affords matter for grave re-
flection, seeing the persistency of the reports that
there exists a sestet and intimate alliance between
Russia and France.

Francis 11. bait, I believe, been forced at lest by
very shame to send an order to General Fergola to
surrender the citadel of Messina. We may there-
fore hope that humanity may be spared the
frightful spectacle of a massacre of the peaceable
inhabitants of the city as a holocaust to the glory (1)
of this effete Bourbon. The news from Rome
about the condition and projects of the exiled royal
family of Naples is most contradictory. Some
despatches say that they are on the point of remov-
ing to Bavaria, while otters repeat the assertion that
they will stay at Rome as long as the Pope remains
a temporal sovereign. I have seen letters stating
that the King has spent all his money in the vain
attempt to defend Gaeta, that be has been com-
pelled to sell his horses and carriages for bread,
and drawing a graphic picture of the despair of his
discharged servants, who he is represented to be no
longer able to pay. On the other hand, he is said
to be ordering new carriages and liveries, preparing
to give a grand fete, and it is asserted that he has a
clear 200 millions of franca snug in the Bank of
England. He went the other day to the church of
Sant Agostino to offer up to the Virgin some frag-
ments of a shell which burst near him at Gaeta.
Cardinal Antonelli's answer to the Gueronniera
pamphlet appears in the form of a prosy despatch to
M. Meglia, the Papal charge d'affaires at Paris.
Its tenor may be summed up in a word. Like Car-
dinal Mathieu in the Senate, it says that Rome
must have "all or nothing." That the court of
Rome promised reforms Antonelli admits ; that it
has not kept its promises he also confesses ; and be
also adds that no concession will ever be extorted
so long as the revolution keeps a footing in the
Roman States ; in other words, the Romagnas, the
Marches, and Umbria must give up their newly-
acquired liberties, and return to "order"—viz.,
cardinal misgovernment—before the court of Rome
will so much as take into consideration any change
in its system of temporal government. He takes
not the least account of the twenty-six millions of
Italians who stand in the way of the purblind pre-
tensions of his obstinate master. There is not,
from one end of the document to the other a single
line affording an opening for any practical
meat.
It is announced that the court will go to Com-
piegne for • few days towards the end of the
month. The Chalons camp is to be opened on
April Ist, and the Emperor will be present on the
occasion. The force, which will consist of 40,000
men to begin with, is to be gradually augmented to
60000.,
The King of Italy will shortly send special am-
bassadors to the different courts of Europe to ask
for a recognition of his new title. I understand
that the Marquis Massimo d'Areglio has been
already designated for Paris, Baron Mow& for
London, and General La Marmon for St. Peters-
burg. The latter selection is attributed to the
marked cordiality with which General La Marmara
was received on the occasion of the recent visit to

Betlinbi M. de Budberg, the Russian ambassador
there. These ambassadors will be fitted out with

unusual pomp and magnificence.
The Poles in Paris assembled to-day in great
numbers at the Church of the Assumption, to hear
a mass for the souls of those who fell in the late
fehaufotiree at Warsaw.
The Bourse was almost deserted. The Rents
closed heavily atse. lower than yesterday. Mobilier
fell sf. In railways there were scarcely any quota-
tions. The Mires securities, which have been nearly
stagnant all the week, went down considerably.
The Caisse Mires fell 16f., closing at 82.25; and
the Roman Railways fell 17.50.
The express trains between Paris and Marseilles
are shortly to accelerate their speed, so as to gain
two hours in the journey. For this purpose there
will be ten fewer stoppages than heretofore, and
the breakfast at Avignon, which, though pleasant,
costa the loss of half an hour, will be done away
with. When this change shall be carried into
effect, Marseilles merchants will get their Paris
letters at three o'clock instead of five, and con-
sequently in time for the afternoon's bourse.
In Paris the effect of the reform will
be still more advantageous, for the letters which
leave Marseilles at 10.30 p.m. will be distributed at
5 p.m. the next day, instead of remaining all night
in the post-office. In thirty-six hours the writer of
a letter from Paris to Marseilles, and rice re rsti,
will now receive an answer.

The Budget of 1862 proposes to raise the weight
of an ordinary letter, circulating in the interior of
the empire, from 7* grammes, as at present, to 10

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The scandalous affair of Canon Mallet hail called
public attention to the truly alarming growth of
monasteries and convents in France since the
restoration of the empire. The establishment of
Les Petites Scours des Pauvres de Paris was
founded in 1844 by two women occupying a single
room • it now possesses thirty convents and twenty-
five Millions of property. The "Sisters of the
Holy Union" of Cambrai started only a very few
years ago, and they have now 130 houses of their
order in France and Belgium. These are the ladies
who got possession of the young Jewess, The6se
Bluth, passed her from convent to convent, and now
say, on their oaths in a court of justice, that they
don't know what has become of her. A Mortara
case has occurred in France, and the law appears
to be impotent to deal with it. The Abbd
Ratisboune, who cuts a very discreditable figure in
this business, is the superior of " Notre Dame de
Sion," a conventual establishment which the city
of Paris has been giving money to.
This has been one of the finest spring days ever
seen so early in March. The season promises to be
very forward. The famous chestnut tree in the
garden of the Tuileries, whose first leaf is not tale
ditionally due till March 20 (le Vingt Mars), is al.
ready quite verdant, and garden shrubs in she!.
tered spots are more advanced than they were
at the end of April last year.
A sad accident has cast a gloom over the town of
is Rochelle. Two young gentlemen, MM. Louis
land Marcel d'Orbigny, aged respectively 18 and 12,
nephews of the celebrated naturalists Alcide and
Charles d'Orbigny, were looking for shells on the
beach, near Chaypoint, when a part of the over.
hanging cliff fell down and crushed them to death.

POLAND.

The Correepowiance Bte!her publiiihea the following
letter purporting to give details respecting the
recent disturbances at Warsaw :

CRACOW, Meson 4.
The students of the School of Medicine have arrested a
suspicious individual, who was selling arms and ammuni-
tion to the people. He is suspected of being a provocative
secret agent. But what will have an immense influence
over the people and even the Russian army is, that during
the deplorable scenes at Warsaw the Russian officer who
had received the order to fire on the inoffensive crowd ed.
yawed in front f the eoldiers drawn up in line, and de-
clared that it was not thus he understood his duties His
profession, he said, was not to assassinate and mow does
with grape saute° and children, but to maintain order
when really di.turbed, and loyally to defend his country.
In his indignation he tore off his epaulettes and broke his
sword. The people greeted with immense cheering the
manifestation of this noble heart, which thus revolted
against a barbarous abuse of force. Seeing this, the police
pounced instantly oa the courageous officer, but the people
gathering round him gave him the means of escape.
The hordes of Circassian and Mussulman cavalry that gm.
riven Warsaw were then let loose against the people. These
Russian bashl-bazouks committed acts of Vandalism that
will for ever sully the hand which unchained them. Per.
suing the people, and flogging with their thonged whim
the women and children, they entered the church of the
Bernardino.. whore they sabred indiscriminately the priests
and the people, who were quietly praying and singing
hymns. Lut what was worthy of the times of the great
Suwarrow is the circumstance that these Asiatics hordes pro
fined the sacred host and cnt in pieces the large and beau.
tiful picture of the Holy Virgin. These facts, I repeat,
are truthfully exact.
The ollicer I have been just speaking of was not the only
one who refused to take part in these acts of cruelty ;
numerous defections in the Russian army have occurred.
At the moment when General Zebolockoi ordered the men
to fire, a subaltern threw down his arms ; I saw him tit) IA
myself ; be thee abandoned the ranks of the soldiers and
pared over to the people.
The deplorable events of which Warsaw has been the
theatre will have an immense and mournful echo from every
part of ancient Poland. Yesterday, which was Sunday,
they celebrated at Cracow, in the presence of an immense
, congregation, a funeral service for the victims that fell at
Warsaw on the 27th of February. During the Requiem
sobs and groans could be heard, and during the whole timed
divine service the shops were closed. Lemberg (in Austria)
has also gone into mourning for the sad events at Warsaw.
The following is the complete list of the persons slain:
Kartcheirski and Rutkovaki, members of the Agricultural
Society ; Vitte, of French extraction, foreman of the works
at the bridge of Warsaw ; Areissevski, • medical student,
killed at the window of his house ; I3eudel, • workman;
Kahatkin, butcher ; Tthernevitch, a farrier. The inhabi-
tents of Warsaw have opened a subscription to pay the ex-
pease. of burying the victims slain on the 27th. A sum of
200,000 francs war collected, but the wothmen and ,under.
takers would accept nothing. Crowns of thoens,have been
placed on the tombs of the victims.