The Express. — 1862-02-17 (London, England)

PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO.  The debate on the address in the Senate will begin on Wednesday or Thursday. In spite of the reiterated expression of doubts whether Prince Napoleon will pronounce a speech or not, I believe it to be certain that be will not miss the opportunity of making an onslaught upon the temporal power. Putting together all I hear, I cannot but think that this speech will be the most important one of the session. Difficult as it is to fathom the depth of the Emperor's duplicity, there is much ground for reasonable conjecture that Prince Napoleon will foreshadow his real intentions more correctly than the authorised ministers. Although there are frequent differences between the Emperor and his cousin, it is important to remember that the prince, after being sent into Tuscany at the head of an apparently useless expedition, in order, as it was pretended at the time, to get him out of the way, was nevertheless chosen at the last moment as the confidential agent to negotiate the peace of Solferino with the Emperor of Austria. The Patric to-night contradiots the news lately given by the Independance that Italian troops were' about to occupy Rome and the patrimony of the Pope jointly with the French, and asserts that the state quo will be maintained. lam greatly afraid that the Patrie is right. At all events, no change is likely to be made till after the debate on the address. The Patrie, however, represents the papal element in the Emperor's counsels, and the extreme obscurity of M. de la Guerronnihre's recent lucubration (signed " Ponterie") in favour of the temporal power show that the clique is groping in the dark.  A French priest named de Millard has just had an audience of the Pope to present him with 300,000 fr., subscribed in'Lyons to the St. Peter's Pence Fund. It is observed that this sum considerably exceeds the subscription made in Lyons for the weavers now suffering such intense distress in that city. The misery is, that this money collected from the widow and orphan by spiritual pressure, is employed to make more widows and orphans in Southern Italy. The papers amuse themselves by contradicting each other on various insignificant points of detail about the Mexican expedition. One says it has received news from Vera Cruz two days later than the Moniker, and another wonders by what channel such recent intelligence can have come. To the announcement that General Doblado, the governor of Mexico under Juarez, had established excellent relations with the French admiral, Jurien de la Grimier°, the Pays replies, that at the date of the last advises the two forces were at least two days' march distant from each other. The report that an aide-de-camp of the Mexican General Almoute had embarked from England with important lespatches is contradicted by the allegation that General Almonte was aocomI ponied by no aide-de-camp, but only a secretary, who is still in Paris.  The Pays hears that the English colony of Sierra Leone is in a state of hopeless anarchy, and that 20 English soldiers were killed in a recent combat with the natives.  Very serious complaints are made of • recent repudiation by the syndicate of the stockbrokers of the liability to make good a breach of trust committed by • member of their body—a breach of trust arising out of confidence placed in him in the regular discharge of his duties as a broker. Hitherto it has always been understood that the syndicate was liable. It is a very serious matter indeed if the liability does not exist. The public have no chains but to confide their money or stock receipts to a broker when they wish to buy or sell : if the roguery of a single individual is to make an ordinary transaction unsafe, the whole nature of basilicas connected with investments will be changed. The sensation created by this affair is so great that I think something must be done to restore confidence.  The legal journal Le Droit, in reporting the suicide of a gentleman in the Rue de Provence without any known reason, states that his imme