The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-10 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNESDAT ETIXLWO.

The Courtier de Paris continues its work, but
gathering confidence u it goes, develops its theories
of "constitutional opposition" at such an enormous
length that it is impossible for me to ask you again
to find room for its article. There is not a politician
in Paris who now doubts the fact, which I at first
announced as a suspicion, that M. Emile de Girardin
is the author of these articles. I happen to
know by accident that a snug little din-
ner, given at a restaurant a few days
since, brought together these three :personages—
Prince Napoleon, If. Prost, the proprietor of the
I:surlier de Paris, and M. E. de Girardin. At
this dinner the plan of the campaign, of which M.
E. de Girardin is the commander-in-chief, wu talked

over and settled. He is carrying out the idea with
extraordinary ability, steering occuionally very
clam to the wind, bat still, upon the whole, writing
in such a way as really to support the government,
unless the government entertain any such wild
and hopeless design ss to keep France in a state of
perpetual subjection to its own arbitrary will.
By an arrangement with the Sink, those sub-
scribers to the Prelim, who desire it may receive
a copy of the &eels during the suspension of
the Press ; but, notwithstanding this offer,
so great is the demand for an evening paper that
the circulation of the Pagrie has increased by 10,000
copies within the last three days. If M. Emile de
Girardin were to-morrow to put his signature to the
articles in the Courier de Paris, there is no doubt
that the Presse, for which M. Milhaud paid him
800,000 fr. not long ago, would be worth compara-
tively very little when it comes out again at the end
of January. It is a curious fact that M. Milland,
who is a very harmless millionaire, without any
political opinions whatever, bought the Press* under
such conditions that he had no control over the
editing. A law snit is at this moment pending
upon that subject
The Bourse was very anxious to-day about the
recent failures in Germany, Switzerland, and (more
especially) Marseilles, at which latter place further
disasters are apprehended. The Rente fell 15c. for
cash and sc. for account, closing at 651 r. 850. and
06fr. 03c. Mobilier, after opening with an improve-
ment of nearly 20fr., declined for the close, and left
off with a fall of lir. 25c. The railways were very
heavy. Lyons fell 10fr., and most of the other lines
from 2fr. 50e. to 3fr. Northern and Southern rove
2fr. 50e. each.

The Daily Nein and Espreu were seized to-day.

THE PANIC AT HAMBURG.

(11011 OV2 OWN

HAMBCRG. DE% S.

The disappointment produced by the hail meanies
adopted by the Senate and Burgerschaft, is greatly
extending itself, and instead of its doing any good
in creating confidence, it has only had the effect of
inducing holders of a heavy stock of bills to rush in
to obtain discount for them, and thus neutralise the
object in view. In vain have the Board of Com-
merce published an address to the merchants, im-
ploring them not to abase the beaefits to be derived
from the Government Discount Institution, but only
to supply_their meet immediate and pressing wants;
the want of confidence is so great that no attention
is paid to this well Aimed appeal.
Three or four fresh failures are reported to-day on
'Change, amongst whom is the large Danish house
of Poutoppidan and Co. (the head of the firm is the
Danish Consul-General in this city), bat every

time is making by their friends to put them On their
logs again, u it is feared that if these attempts are
tuumooessful, the two largest houses in Altona, and
a great many at Copenhagen, will also be ruined.
The Tribunal of Commerce has today published
the meetings of creditors of the following houses
failed, in addition to the forty-three whose firms I
sent you yesterday L. Schoop and Co. ; Herman
Yellmann t C. H. Roper ; Droop and Co.; Frede-
rick Riedel and Co. ; and W. S. Wolff and Carpels.
The total list of the failures up to the present day
shows the number to be 127.

Although the number of public notaries in this
eity ha. been hitherto found equal to the business
under ordinary circumstances, the immense number
of bill' to be protested and presented is so great
that it is utterly impossible to get through the
work. One of our principal notaries (Dr. Schramm),
though he has increased his usual staff by twenty
. .

supernumerary clerks, and they all work till
four o'clock in the morning, is unable to despatch
the business confided to him. Under these circum-
stances the Senate have appointed a new batch of
temporary notaries.
P.S.—Four o'clock.—The Governor of the Danish
Bank at Copenhagen, M. Hvidt, has just arrived
here to see what can be done to support the firm of
Pontoppidan and Co., and the other Danish houses
in this city and Alton*. In the produce market
ems sake of cake were made for home consump-
tion; but nothing was done in corn, sugar, or
spate,. For the second time the official quotations
of the exchanges on foreign places have not been
published to-day, owing to the great dinkrence is
the prices of the few transactions that took plea.
Some bills on London were sold at the following
quotations :—Short, 13.2 ; three months, 12.10.