The Express. — 1864-11-03 (London, England)

PARLS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.  I am positively assured, in a quarter which I have hitherto found trustworthy, that M. Drouyn de Lhuys is going out of office, and that the new Minister for Foreign Affairs will be the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, now Ambassador to the Court of London. The following paragraph in this evening's Pays is probably connected with the above fact, which reaches me from a private and exclusive source :  The Prince de Is Tour d'Auvergne, who, it wee thought, had gone to London, is still in Paris, and will not leave it for some days. The news of his departure was, however, wellfounded at the time ; only just as he was about to go • telegram from Nice summoned him to the south of France. The prince passes for being even a more fervent catholic than M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and therefore some anxiety is likely to be felt as to the significance of his accession to the Foreign-office in regard to the construction so much canvassed of the convention of Sept. 15.  The Pays says it is "probable" (this is a subject ou which no semi-otticial organ has yet been enabled to speak positively) that the departure of the court for Compiegne will take place on Sunday or Monday next ; that there will be three series of invitations, and that the visitors included in the first list will be at Compiegne on November 10. lam told, however, that no invitations have yet been issued. Lord Bloomfield, the Duke of Somerset, and several Lords of the Admiralty are now in Paris, and are expected to stay some days. The Teieps publishes this evening a second letter from its London correspondent (M. Louis Blanc), arguing with much ingenuity that Muller's guilt is not conclusively proved. The clever Frenchman admits, however, that it is ten thousand to one that Muller is guilty. It is easy to see that not any reasonable doubt of Muller's culpability, but hostility to capital punishment in any case whatever, is at the bottom of M. Louis Blanc's reasoning.  The Tonps, which was the first journal to give the news in a positive form of the contemplated creation of a cause of great public works, now says that a special commission is about to open an inquiry as to what public works are urgently required throughout the empire ; and that it is not until after the report of this commission that the! cause, or "any other analogous institution," will be established. Moreover, inasmuch as the measure, whatever it may ultimately be, will involve an expenditure of public money, it must necessarily be submitted to the Corps Legislatif. I have no doubt that the above paragraph was dictated to the Temps by the government in order to tranquillise public opinion, which has been considerably excited by current rumours of a loan, confirmed as they were, in such a remarkable manner, by the Duke of Magenta's circular in Algeria. A respite, at any rate, seems to be now promised, and if in spite of M. Fould's remonstrances the profuse expenditure advocated by MM. Hausmann and Behic is to go on it will not be authorised by any sudden decree. No ceremony will be left out iu order to give the sanction of law to extravagance.  The war in Algeria appears to be far from over, for we are told to-night that about the 4th or sth of November the entire army under the Duke of slagenta's command will "resume the offensive." It is ititended to attack the insurgents in several points at once, and of course it is not doubted that lecisive results will be obtained. It is stated that most of the chambers of commerce, being asked their opinion of the bill for an alteration of the usury laws now before the Council of State, have reported in favour of free trade in money.  The I3ourse, although the settlement has gone off better than was expected, closed rather heavily. Rent° fell 15c., the last prices being ti4fr. 60c. and ll4fr. 45c. lilobilier remains without change. Railways are somewhat higher.  A Paris letter, in the Post, says :—" BadenBodes, that pleasant ' watering.place' with the reput►tion of furnishing to the obituary of Europe annually a list of suicides, io consequence, some people say, of its gambling institutions, has this week been the scene of a sad catas• tropbe. Two young persons, a handsome young lady and a line youth, arrived the other day at one of the principal hotels. After dining they retired to rest. The youthful pair were found dead in the bed next morning, a poniard baring been plunged into each other's heart. It does not appear that this fatal act originated in any loss of money at the tables, but that • long waiting love' was the cause, and that they would not live to hear the world's reproaches."