The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-30 00:00:00

LETTER FROM ROME.

A letter from Rome of the 24th, in the Saint
Public of Lyons, says :
The news of the convention reached Rome suddenly like
• clap of thunder. The Papal government is greatly dis-
satisfied that the Nuncio in Paris, in the midst of the visits
of so many political men from Turin to the French capital,
should have known nothing of what bad been concluded.
The Nuncio sent no notice of it until two days after the
Turin journals had announced the fact. That convention
is considered as a serious affair at which the Papal
government is much moved, and the liberal party on
the contrary well satisfied. The serious men of the
Holy See will comprehend that, when the soldiers have
left, a revolt will immediately break out. In order to
prevent or repress it, • well-organised army would be
necessary, and that expense would exhaust all the present
resources of the State ; no one should labour under an
Manion ; the liberal party is powerful at Rome, and the
persons who make striking demoustrations in favour of the
Pope cannot and doubtless would not accept • conflict in
the streets. I nevertheless do not heel:ate to express my
personal conviction that France, notwithstanding the
convention of the 15th, is not so near the evacuation
of the Eternal City aa may be believed, for in the
event of a revolution the Pope would probably retire to
Germany, Spain, or Malta, which would cause a fresh com-
plication for the affairs of Europe. Meantime the party
devoted to his Holiness will lose much of its strength, end
the financial situation of Rome will become more and more
difficult. As to the hope th►t the Holy See may come to an
underst►nding with the Italian government, that is a moral
impossibility, the latter having by its acts declared itself in
so strong a manner against the Papacy. With their im-
mense difference in principles the Pope and the King of
Italy could never remain together and face to face in Rome.
That is still the great question.

(arcria's ru.EORLXR.)
THE BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Sir. 29.

The following is the return of the Bank of
France for the week ending to-day, together with
the corresponding figures of the previous account :

Sept. So.
ger. 22. e.
DEBTOR. Fr. e.
Capital of the fia6k
Prolta In addition to capitol
i Art. 8, law of June 0,1557 i 5,36.1,601 7S 5,238,942 8
Reserve of the Bank and its

42,105.750 14 2°,106.750 14
Reserve to Ismael property
Notes In sireulstlen
Rank macs t.. orsleraudrevelpta
payable at sight. G,241,500 12 5,011,1°4 47
Treasury ac..eunta—current ere-
-

Astor' 94,16'2961 73 66,173.397 15
Current accounts, Paris 32,298.679 52 89.739,932 67
Ditto branch hanks
Dividends pa)rdde
Inseounts and sundry interests
kr discounted the list six

rauiths
Sundries

tf.£0.735 17 2,535,73.5 17
14,313,9.7 22 13.892.447 SJ

1,%5,643,679 46 1,176,24,136 18

Sept. V. Sept. fl.
CacprrOß. Fr. c. a'r. c.
Cash In Land and In branch

banks .. ... ... .. 279,039.471 8 276,615.h74 Fl
Commercial bills oveWine
Commercial bills discounted,
not )et due
Pitt., branch hanks
Advances on deposits of bullion 17.430,453 95 10.073953 51
lt,tto branch honks
Adesnces on French public se-
conties 13044,901 0 16,743700 0
Liao branch banks .... ..
... 8,076.160 0 8,633260 0
A•IV3ZICONI on railway snarea
and debentures
Ditto brunch banks
AiivanFes on Credit Foncier

...-
Bonds
INtto branch banks . .. .. ... 3411,500 0 419,34 0
Advent,* to the State ,conveo-
ti..n loth June. 1.571
Government stock reserve 12,9.40.754 14 12.910.7.:0 14
IMP. disposable 96.550.987 91 16,650,997 n 1
Brutes usimobilistes (law nth

June. 1,57 ,-
100,000,000 0 100,000,000 0
Hotel and tnnAture At the bank &

landed property, branches
Rapenses of manaapment
&unities

8,340.R00 0 3,3%3,000 0
1.327,623 7 ixu.74c 73
0.250,0_6 80 34370,307 7

1,203,933,979 40 1.175t193,118 38
Certified by the Bub- Governor et the Bank of Prance.
(Signed; ibDUOILLE.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Sr?.t 29, Errwtwo.
The Clamor Publico is in favour of settling the
Santo Dominic° question by preserving only the
towns of Santo Domingo, Samorna, and Puerto
Plata, abandoning the rest of the island and
terminating the war.

THE BRAZILS.
(By telegraph from Lisbon.)
BUENOS AYRES, Acorn 27.

Exchange, 50k. Ounces, 23.10.. Wet salted
hidwq, 38k. Dry American, 32 to 35. Wool tirm.
141. Lumber, 39 to 42i. Flour, 6 to 7.
Relined sugar, 23.

MONTE VIDEO, Accuirr 29.

Excbange,'sll. Wet salted bides, 6.40 to 5.20(1).
Dry American, 4.65 to 4.80. Dry Gernmu, 5.70 to
5.40. Wool uuchang,d. Tallow, 1.85.

Although the fashionable winter season has not
yet oommeooed in Paris, the Bois de Boulogne exhibits
some striking equipages, which show what a wonderful pro-
gress has been made in a few years in carriage building. It
is only within a few years that the cinchona Parisian
vehicle, and the badly-painted, and execrably-
hung voiture have disappeared from the Coamps Elyeies,
and in their steed equipages are seen not only pleasing to
the eye, but exhibiting great artistic taste and mechanical
skill. There are now 200 carriage builders, who employ at
lest 10 workmen each ; and there are about 4,000 artisans
employed in the carriage-building trade.

The Wanderer of Vienna says :—" A duel has
just taken place at Pesth between M. Severe Ilaricski,
pnocipal editor of the Pesti Nup'o, and • M. Nagy, when
the former received his adversary's ball in the forehead and
died instantaneously. The dammed wu ooly 36 years of
age. The quarrel, which has terminated so fatally, com-
menced three years ago from the most trifling cause."

The Gazette de Cambrai relates a singular instance
of self-destruction which has just occurred is the commas.
of Rumilly. & workman, aged 60, whose intellects bad
become somewhat ►ffected in consequence of his son having
been condemned to six months' imprisooment for some
offence, took to his bed with the determination of starriag
himself to death. Although ►is wife every day placed food
before Dim, and entreated him in the most earnest manner
to partake of it, she could not overcome his resolution, and
he at length died from actual exhaustion.