12 OCTOBER 1861, Page 2

The Parisian press denies that there have been serious bread

riots In the great cities ; but admits that menaces have been posted on bakers' shops, that the workmen are agitated, that anonymous letters have been received by the municipality, and that bread has been reduced in price by order. The municipalities in times of scarcity always reduce the price, reeking up the difference, but this year Paris owed a debt of hall a million sterling to the bakers, and the Prefect did not like to increase the amount. The papers have been directed to announce that the price of bread will not rise. Very large quanti- ties of English wheat and American flour have been imported, and the danger of scarcity is declared over.

It is stated positively that the French Government is preparing to decide the Roman question. The priests are becoming dangerous ; the Bishop of Poitiers, for example, encouraging his clergy to de- nounce the Empire from the pulpit. The working classes are exceediugly anxious that it should be settled by the withdrawal of

the troops, as they think the loss of the temporal power will check the priesthood, whom, daring their recent reign of ten years, they have learnt once more to hate. This assurance, if correct—and it seems so—will greatly smooth the path of the Emperor. The Count de Chambord, representative of the Bourbons, is about to visit Constantinople and Jerusalem.