The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-14 00:00:00

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, MARCH 14.

The Mtnateur of this morning publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows tho following results as compared with the
February account:
Imams&

Cash in hand
Bank notes

61 millions.
a ) 9

Treasury balance
Current accounts

Advances llOl -„-

DZCZZAIN.
Bills discounted, not yet due MI „

ADIERICA,

FEDERAL OCCUPATION OF NASHVILLE,-
REPORTED ADVANCE OF THE ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC-PRESIDENT DAVIS'S
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

NEW YORK, iLtacig 1, Nomura.
(Per Keraroo via Queeostowo).
The Federal occupation of Nashville is officially
confirmed.

General Buell is reported to have surrounded the
Confederates at Murphresboro', and to have allowed
them two days to surrender unconditionally.

General Banks' division of the Federal force has
crossed the Potomac from Sandy Hook to Harper's
Ferry, has occupied Bolivier and Charleston, and
the surrounding country on both sides of the
Shenandoah.

No opposition to the Federal advance has yet
been offered.

It is believed that a general forward movement of
the army of the Potomac is in course of taking
place, as the transmission of all military news from
Washington is forbidden.
The Memphis journals say that General Polk has
ordered the track of the Memphis and Ohio
railway to be torn up, previous to the Confederate

evacuation of Columbus. The Confederates are to
fall back from Columbus to an island on the Mis-

sissippi, 44 miles below. This island is said com-
pletely to command the river.
Lord Lyons's correspondence upon the Trent
affair is favourably criticised by the New York
papers.
President Jefferson Davis in his Message to Con-
gress says :
Sines my lest meensge to the Provisional Congress events
have densometrated that the Confederate Govenameet has

attempted more then it has the power to achieve. Hews,
in an effort to protect by arms the whole Confederate
territory, both seaboard and inland, we have been so
exposed as recently to encounter serious digesters. The
Confederacy when formed was destitute of men to carry on
war on so gigantic a scale. It has done all that humas
power and foresight could do to make up for this deficiency.
The valour and devotion of the people have sustained the

. _
No official reports have yet been received of the discom-
fiture of our forms at Roanoke Island and of the fall of
Fort Roamsboa, sad I am, therefore,unable to oommuniaste
such information of peat events and the consequences re-
sultiog from them as to en►ble me to make the reoommeada-
tions they have produced. Enough is known of the surrender
of Roanoke Island, however, to make us feel that it was
deeply homiliatiag. Strenuous efforts are Wag made to
throw reinforcements to our armies at the positions now

threatened ; end I doubt not greeter exertion; will speedily

secure results as favourable to the Confederate mail, as
the early period at the war.
. . . .

The policy of abort enlistments has contributed to recent
reverses, and now moan it difficult to afford an accurate
statement of the army. When the war commenced people
could with difficulty be persuaded it would be long and
serious. It was deemed impossible that anything so insane
as a persistent attempt to subjugate these States could be
made; still less that delusion could so far prevail as to give
war the vast proportions is hasassumed, so that it has beoome
probable the war will continue through a aeries of years.
Soldiers generally are menlistiag. A whole body of
new levies and re-enlisted men will probably be ready in
thirty days. The present force may in general be 'toted at
400 regiments of infantry with • proportionate force of
cavalry. The praises of furlough and re-enlistmente last

month had weakened the foressfor a nascent& defence.
This evil is now substantially at an end. The state of the
'navy is each that we may ocruddently rely on orntseting
the vaunted control of the enemy over oar waters._

In speaking of the state of the finances, the Pre-
sident said :

There is no floating debt. The credit of the government
expenditure for the year is 170 million. ; a sum less than
the value of one year's cotton crop.

• moo+ ing of cotton and mhaoeo Plante" has
been held at Richmond to consider the question of
the voluntary destruction of the cotton and tobacco
crops, and a committee has been appointed to pee-
pare the business for an adjourned meeting.
. .

A resolution has been introduced in the Confede-
rate Congress to the effect that the South will
pledge the last man and the last dollar to prosecute
the war and to maintain the right of self-govern-
ment. The resolution has been referred to the
Military Committee. Another resolution was
offered, providing a compensation for cotton and
tobacco burned.

The Raleigh Register emusiders it would be
criminal to deny that the present is the most
gloomy period the South has witnessed sine the
commencement of the war ; and urges the people
to fight to the last.
The Southern journals state the Federal occu-
pied Nashville on the 23rd February.
The Federal post-office at Nashville will shortly
be re-opened.
The Savannah Republican says :—" The Federala
have effectually closed communication between
Pulaski and Savannah, and have erected three bat-
teries for heavy tuns at the commanding point.."
Two Federal Commissioners have been appointed
to examine into cases of political prisoners, and to
determine if they shall be discharged or remitted
to military or civil tribunals.
The Federal General Curtis, bas occupied Fayet-
teville, Arkansas. The Confederates have burned
the town.

General Price's army has retreated into the
Indian territory.
General Scott's nomination r-s ambassador to
Mexico has been withdrawn.
The British prize steamer Labnan, which was
captured off Texas, has arrived at New York.
The Hibernia has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, 11mica 1, Nolmmo.

Money tighter. Exchange dull : on London,
112} to 113. Gold, n prem. Treasury notes,
prem. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, ;
Erie, 34f ; Illinois Centrals, 64.
Cotton firm, advancing ; sales of the day 1,600
bales, Middling Upland, 23c. Flour tending down-
wards. Wheat quiet, but prices unchanged. Corn
quiet. Sugar extensive demand. Coffee quiet.
Molasses unchanged.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, March 14 :
CALCUTTA, CHINA,.. AND AUSTRALIAN

The Sultan, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 5 a.m. this day.
The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m.

M. MR's' new trial is to come on at Douai on
the 3let of the month.

M. Jules Fevre has just delivered a remarkable
speech on the occasion of • trial as to the legality of a
catholic clergyman's marriage. He painted in such glowing
colours the delights of that state, that long applause
attended him in court and followed him out of doors. He
mourned over the bachelor's comfortless state, "and
Proved," writes a Paris correspondent, "that no men,
whether devoted to the world or to heaven, was capable of
fulfilling the duties of life without he experienced con-
jugal bliss." From the bishop who had come to give his
evidence, to the clerk of the notary, everyone seemed to
respond to the suggestions of the learned advocate ; and in
the provinoe where he expatiated numerous marriages are
likely to be the immediate result of the pleeding of the
eminent barrister. As the judgment is, however, not yet
delivered, its iofituruce upon the future prosperity and hap.
pines of the clerical individuals for whom he has thus dia-
tioguished himself are yet to be ascertained.