The Express. — 1857-04-01 (London, England)

OWN  PARIS, TCLIDAT ETIMING.  The Neufchatel Conference sat to-day for the fifth time. It is believed that the instructions from Berne which the Swiss plenipotentiary, Dr. Kern, has been waiting for, authorise him to make some concessions. Nevertheless, all difficulties are not yet removed, and, as I intimated yesterday, the negotiations may be protracted for several days longer. At the Bourse the Rcnte opened with weakness, in consequence of the high rates of eontinuation,but it rallied for the close, and left off with a rise of 20c. for cash and 6c. for account, at 70fr. 50c. and 70fr. 66e. The railway market was extremely animated. Money, which has been scarce for operations in the Rente, seemed almost abendant for investment in the favourite values. Orleans rose 12fr. 30c., Lyons, 20fr., Mediterranean, 371 r. 60c., Eastern, 22fr., Northern, 12fr. 60e., and Southern, 7fr. 60e. Grand Central remained unvaried, and Western was a trifle lower.  Them is a very strong feeling against the bill for putting down spurious nobility, and many think the measure will not get through the Corps Legislatif. People see that the real object is not so much to discredit titles which command no respect already, as to create and set up a privileged imperial order. Such a plan is equally distasteful to aristocrats and democrats. Many of the best old families in the Faubourg St. Germain would renounce their titles rather than be put to the expense and trouble of proving their right to them by legal evidence, and more especially when all they could gain would be to put be on a par with functionaries whose titles (in most cases originally usurped) would be confirmed for recent services. Republicans and liberals of almost every shade see in the attempt to revive a class of noblesse an infringement of the principles of 1789, which arc vaunted to be the been of the imperial constitution. Nevertheless, it would seem that the government has set its heart upon the , measure in question. Its organs denounce the wearers of false coronets with extraordinary esargy. The Patric is scandalised at the Dario having treated the subject as a laugh' lad matter, and while admitting that ridicule his het its power, it argues from that fact that diem is the more necessary. "If the false nobles de met mind Moliere, they will perhaps have a wholesome fear of the public prosecutor." It is imp:male to convey to you an adequate idea of the extent to which this bathos excites the risible nerves of French society as at present constituted. I will yet back the " ridicule qui Sue en France" against the Procurcur Imperial, and will venture to prophesy that in spite of the very highest patronage, the bill will bo barked. The French government journals are extremely delighted at the disgraceful assault committed npaa Mr. Lowe by some blackguards at Kidderminster, which they represent as a natural mempessee et constitutional government, and an average opecimen of English manners. With similar logic mai dwarf fairness, M. Granier de Cassagnac bad the effrontery to assert in yesterday's Constitationnel that under English laws punishment for murder was the inception and impunity the rule. The premises bona which the leading journalist of the empire drew tide conclusion were, that in Jersey (where rushes tunately English law only prevails to a way limited extent) one Charles Becquet (whew name by the way indiffates his French extraction) stood by and saw a boy killed by some other Ur without attempting to save the victim. The meths for catching at these miserable straws, is to pa norie the French people that their own laws, wbie entain no habeas corpus, under which any man maybe thrown into prison for an indefinite time, at the absolute pksaure of the executive, without being brought to trial, and under which the records of " instructions" (that is, inquiries preliminary to trial) are kept strictly secret when no legal case can be made out against a prisoner, are the best in the world, and offer greater personal guarantees (!) than those of any other country.