The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

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The minister further asked leave to realise thei
loan either wholly or in portions according to the
requirements of the country.
The Minister of Finance in his report to the Chain-
ber stated that the deficit on the 31st of December,
1862, was 374 millions lire. The minister pro-
poses that the budget for 1863 should be regulated
by extraordinary credits to be opened by royal
decrees.

The minister further demonstrated the possibility
of establishing an equilibrium between the revenue
and expenditure within four years, by means of a
loan of 700 millions lire, by the sale of crown
lands, and the consolidated conversion of a large
number of mortgaged estates, by an increase of
the land-tax, by the establishment of taxes on
certain descriptions of moveable property, by city
tolls, the sale of railways, the institution of a bank
for making advances upon the security of landed
property, by a reorganisation of the existing bank-
ing system, and by a reform of the method of grant-
ing mortgages.
The ministerstated in conclusion, that the govern-
ment oonsidered it necessary to take advantage of
the existing political lull to regulate the finances.
The propositions of the Minister of Instance were
favourably received by the Chamber.
The debate upon the financial scheme of the
government will commence at the next sitting.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Fn. 14, EVENING.
A perfect understanding exists between the Crown
and the Ministry.
Four Directors-General of the Marine have been
dismissed.
Marshal Narvaez is organizing a new union of all
sections of the moderate liberals.

CHINA.
SHANGHAE, JAP. 10 (TA Sass).
The city is quiet.
Burgerane (I Burgevine) has been dismissed from
his command.
The Russian fleet will remain at Manilla.
It is expected that the French troops will be
withdrawn.

It is reported that the siege of Nankin has been
abandoned.
No further particulars of the rebellion at Saigon
have been received.

THE BLOCZADE OF CHARLESTON.

(From the 7imeL)

As it may become a disputed point whether the
blockade has been legally raised, so as to require a formal
notice of renewal, the fares en of some interest to the com-
mercial Gemming. As no declaration is sufficient to
constitute a blockade without en actual force on the spot
to maintain it, we apprehend • " declaration" is not
enough to destroy it. A mere document is not valid either
way. A blockade must be raised as well se consti-
tuted de facto. In this ease these wee not even an
intermission It does not appear that any neutral ship
could have got into Charleston at any hour of the day on
the 31st of January ; and on the lst of February there
were no lees 'than twenty Federal vessels off the port.
The action wee damaging to the Federal claim of supe-
riority on the mean, and a daring attempt in the face of
so large a form ; but we doubt if the sixty days of un-
restricted importations hare been gained by it.
(From the Morning Poet.)

In the present instance, it so happens that the rune man
which ha. brought us word that the blockade was raised
also tells us that it is reestablished. By such information
no one can be misled. If, indeed, we had only heard that
the blockade had been raised, and, on the strength of such
information, British merchants had despatched vessels
to Charleston, and the blockade being subsequently
re-established, those vessels on their arrival at that
port were captured by the blockaders, then the
British government would be entitled to demand their
restitution. But, as the information conveyed by this
mail announces no existing suspension of the blockade,
it must be regarded 'as in full force and operation.
Whenever her Majesty's government shall see reason for
interposing in the present unhappy war, it will be on
some broad, comprehensive ground, and not on so mere •
technicality as that raised by the temporary discomfiture at
Charleston of the Federal fleet. But although the blockade
of Chi/log.oa is not raised, the Confederates are entitled to
the highest praise for the skill and gallantry by which they
gained so signal • anonym over their adversaries. Let the
South &nations to employ its armour-clad gunboats with
equal ability on future ocomions, and it will not need pro-
clamation to make it. ports free to the entire world.

THE LATE GAMBLING SCANDAL IF PA RIB.
M. Calzado, the director of the Italian Opera, has ad-
dredged the following letter to the journals in referenoe to
the late strange doings at play :—" I owe it to myself and
to truth to protest, in the most energetic manner, against the
disgraceful calumnies which have been circulated about me,
and which have, during the last few days, acquired a deplo-
rable publicity. I therefore loudly affirm that, in the shame-
ful recitals which have been in circulation, there is nothing
true, a. far as I am concerned, nothing except it be my inof-
fensive presence in the ulons of Mme. I—. Thank
God ! a judicial investigation has been commeneed. I de-
manded it from the minister of state, end I have accepted
it joyfully as a commencement of justice. The truth will
soon be known. I mealy went, and will go, to meet every
investigation, and I dare affirm beforehand, most conscienti-
ously, that I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
May the truth which will result from the inquiry be striking
enough to put to silence all those who have, with so much
eagerness, received and propagated the falsehood."
_ _

The steamship Cossack, with dates from Lisbon
of the 10th, and Vigo of the 11th inst., arrived at South-
ampton yesterday. Her Britannic Majesty's ships Warrior,
Blaek Prince D♦fence, Resistance, and Revenge, were under
orders to sail for England. Trade at Lisbon and Vigo is
eiceedingly dull. News unimportant.

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INTERESTLIO DISCOVERY AT NAPLES. —A Naples
letter has the following:—" A very interesting discovery
has jest been made by M. Fiorelltt the inspector of the
excavations at Pompeii. While digging at a depth of from
eight to ten feet the pickaxe stuck into a little mass of
coins and jewels. M. Fiorelli then continued the excava-
tion with the greatest care removing the earth grain by
grain, and, after some boon' labour, was rewarded by the
discovery in the hardeoedl sabre of the perfect mould of a
man is a lying posture, the skin of which had dried up, but
the skeleton remained nits& N. Fiorelli caused plaster of
Pans to be poured into the form of the Pompeiian, and the
coating suceeeded perfectly, with the exception of two frag-
ments of an arm and a leg where the mould was incomplete.
The oast of the man is of the greatest precision ; the mous-
tache, the hair, the folds of the dress and the sandals are ad-
mirably defined. The famous negation of the Viesatiruns
of ()remains and Greviva is now decided ; the Romans drd
wear drawers. Also archeologists will be delighted at
diacoveriotailte manner in which the ancients fastened
their eau and at seeing the heel of a shoe completely
protected wi
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NIGRO SOLDIF.RB. —A disloyal minority in the
house is factiously resisting the passage of Stevenes bill,
authorising the President to rake sod equip leo,uoo soklien
of Afriesa dement. Meanwhile, in theDepartmest of the
South a full regiment of blacks bee been Nada .Me
General Saxton, is already uniformed and armed and lea
been states/1y drilling for the feat moss weeks. This rest.
moot—tho lit South Gamboa Volunteers, Calomel Thomas
Woolworth —marched on the 17th for the bee
time through e etreete of Beaufort. It wee the remark of
many bisrooly pereisvm7 edam that they looked " spies.
dilly."—New York Tribune, Jut 31.

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