The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 23,; NW

where population is dense, and interests ass con-
centrated, and the cares of life are nor. ,flnder
these circumstances, men contract Nibs sphere of
their curiosity, and learn to place 110111: highest
wisdom in minding their own business. Our very
policemen are afraid of being too knowing, and the
domestic news of our streets circulates mainly on
the level of the basement. If it is true that in-
vestigation, when once undertaken, is easier than
ever, it is equally true that in general we are less
disposed to inquire into that which does not im-
mediately affect our own interests.

LATEST INTILLIGANCL
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THE 00CIIPATIONI OF ROHE.
IN. Milan Gasette regards the tranedersoce of the
Italian capital to Florence as an indication of
approaching attempts respecting Venetia. France,
it argues, would never have consented to abandon
in two yews to the benefit of Italy the strategic
position which she occupies at Rome, if she were
not convinced that at the end of that time the
possession of Venetia and the complete independence
of the Peninsula would have rendered that occupa-
tion superfluous. The Stamps, a semi-official
paper, goes even further than the Milan Gazette,
and lays great stress upon the strategic advantages
of Florence from both an offensive and a defensive
point of view. The Stampa denies the statement
that the Italian army is to be reduced, and adds
that if any change is to be made, the Italian forces
will be increased rather than diminished.
The ultramontane journal, the Monde, has re-
ceived "reassuring" accounts from Turin. The
Franco-Piedmontese Convention contains nothing
to disturb the Pontifical government, for a delay
of two years will render its clauses illusory. The
Unita Cattofira even congratulates catholics upon
the event.
A Turin letter of the 19th, in the Union, says :
The period for the removal of the seat of government and
of the parliament to Florence is said to be fixed by the
Franoo-Italian trusty for the ootrunenoement of next year.
The Opinion of this morning declares, in unequivocal terms,
that this hat clause was essential, and that there was
• necessity to either renounce treating with Francs or to
adhere to that condition. The ministry will now
throw on the parliament the responsibility of that
fact. Never have the inhabitants of this city
been more alarmed. The journals themselves are ember-
naiad ; thou of the government, in particular, know not
how to prides a measure of which they cannot yet see all the
consequences, and the others fear that the canoe of Rome
and Venice is compromised. At the head of the latter is
the Gazulea del Popolo, which speaks in the name of
purely municipal interests. The homeowners are not more
at ere, for they will have to renounce enormous profits.
Thus, the municipal council, in which they are strongly re-
presented, has requested from the Minister of the Interior
that they may be convoked for an extraordinary session, in
order to consider the best means of making the population
of Turin swallow this pill.
Another Turin letter, in the Saha Public of

Lyons, says :
Prance may, even before tle fixed period of two years.
evacuate either totally or partially the Papal States, if the
Pope, by means of troops recruited by him in catholic
countries, is able to maintain the internal tranquillity of
kis territory. The number of those soldier cannot, how-
sofa, exceed 12,000 men, in order that they may not
become a menace for Italy. The grandeur of the
home of Savoy has given importance to Pied-
mont, its cradle in Italy. Turin and Piedmont
remind that old race of all its victories as well
las all its defeats. King Victor Emmanuel must make a
fresh and painful sacrifice to the great cause to which he
ho devoted his life in thus teens; himself from the ashes
of bis ancestors. But if the change of capital is decided on
be principle, we will say that it is not so certain as some
appear to think that Florence will be the plain to which it
will be removed. The council of ministers is in favour of
that city, but the King and Prince Humbert prefer Naples.
In order to avoid imitating discussions, there is an idea of
demanding foil powers from the chambers, in order to act in
the question of change of capitaL

(ILECTITR'S nutaiwis.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Swr. 23.

The Mon iteur reprints yesterday's article of the
Constifutionnel, together with an extract from a
note of M. Drouyn de Lhuya, dated October 18,
1862, and also the letter of May 20, 1862,
addressed by the Emperor to M. Thouveuel.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARLS, RRPt. n.
The following is the return of the Bank of
France for the week ending to-day, together with
the corresponding figures of the previous accounts :
Sept. 21 Sept. 15.
DUMP. Fr. c. Yr.
Capital of the Bank
Profits in addition to i spite'
Art. ti, law of Jane 9, 1257;
Reserve of the Bank and Its
brandies 22,105,750 14 52.105,75014
Reservem landed property
Notes in vircul•tiori
Bank notes to order and receipts
payable at sight. 5,911,154 47 5,722,612 70
Troasury accounts—current cre-
ditor
Current accounts, Paris ..... 86.729,932 57 104.330.705 41
DIU° branch banks
Dividends pa) able
viscounts and sundry Interests 11.20,412 55 10,537,455 49
Rediscounted the last six
months
Sundries

6,1438.942 8 6.404,583 44

2,..5.9,735 17 4,163.73517
13,0)2.447 10 13,906,047 66

1,178033,178 /8 1,217,705,514 87

Sept. 22.
Fr. c.

CRILDITOTL
Cult in band and in branch

Sept 15.
R. c.

banks
Commercial bilis overdue
Commercial bills discounted,
not %at due
Ditto brooch banks
Advances on deposits of bullion 14,07%953 95 11,79 ,l&4 5
Ditto branch banks
Advances on French public se

t 76,641,874 5S .273,371,89.3 37
610,343 71 409,910 91

curtsies
Ditto branch Dank.
Advances on railway shares

15,725,700 0 15.719,900 0
8,652,250 0 8.137,950 0

and debentures
lutto branch banks
Advances on Credit Fonckr

27.132,900 0 27,211.20) 0
18005,100 0 17,955,9.0 0

Bonds
Ditto branch hanks
Advances to the State ',conven-
tion 10th June, 1,571
Gus ernment ,touls reserve H.91i0,7:+0 14 12.4,0,;:e) 14
Ditto tlln,,Al,le 36,87,0,9:7 91 36,6:.0,9b/ 91
Henke untnobiliskes law 9th
June, Iss;
Hotel and furniture of the beak&

4:1,200 0 418,700 0
419.300 0 31.,,,900 0

landed property, branches
Experiaes of management
enmities

8,385,000 0 9,1,5.000 0
1,379,940 73 1,11,4,702 32
6,376,14;7 07 4,977,571 77

1,179,323.136 38 1,317,705,618 37
Certified by the Honorary Vice Frebident of the Council of
State, limeruor of the Bank.
,Signed)

THE PICKETS ER PORE PETERSBURG.
The special correspondent of the New York
Trshuiw, writing from in front of Petersburg," on the
Sik, says :—" KnowinSek own resources and damseli
ear army ten afford to , in a measure, with the enemy. I
epees the more then sociability, at the present time,
ollithe opposing pickets. On the right, I understand, they I
sit On the opposite ends of the same log and discuss the war,
and the peace question. Some are not quite so sociable.
The other day one of our offioers in stationing his picket&
said to ens of them, ' Well, sit down on the end of that
log there for the present, until you get the lay
of the land a little, and see what is going on,'
end that went on stationing his detail. Presently
the seated picket heard a rustling through the
bushes, at the other end of the log, and a voice at the same
time, asking, •Is that you, Yank 'Y On being answered
affirlatively—that it was ' nobody else,' Reb replied,
I guess we are getting a little too close together I,
will withdraw a little; suiting the motion to the word. On
another occasion, two cooks in Colonel Stereos' Brigade, let
Division, 18th Army Corps, in takiog dinner to their com-
rades in the trenches, took the wrong by-path, and brought
up in the camp of the seamy. They were relieved
of the dinner and tent to Richmond, and word seat
back to our pickets, by the dinner-eaters, that they
would be very much obliged for another such meal.
The other evening word was given out to our pickets, by
the Rehm, that some Lake had come down. from Richmond,
and that there was to be a prayer meeting in the rebel amp,
and some of our boys were invited over, but they failed to
• see it.' On this pert of the line, in some planes, the
opposing forme get water out of the same spnn' p, and
the pickets traffic more or lse in newspapers and other
commodities. This intercourse and tragic seems to be
carried on perhaps even more persistently and extensively,
though a little differently, at some places on the left. The
pickets have an agreement not to fire on each other without
due notice, but it is understood that all captures by main
strength or superior numbers are legitimate. This makes
the pickets somewhat shy of each other, and consequently
the most of their traffic is carried on in writing. They have a
neutral post between their lines—a stump for instanoe—
where notes ol negotiation and commodities of exchange are
mutually left. A note or two of the rebel pickets, that I
have aeon, will more fully explain the madam operandi
Please leave the worth of this (a plug of tobacco) in
writing paper, with two envelopes. I will give you two
plugs of tobacco for the knife.' Please mail this latter
(an open letter) to my mother in Kentucky. Put on one of
your stamps, and here is one of ours and a piece of tobacco in
return. What's the chance to get some coffee of you
These notes, with or without the article referred to, as the
case may be, are left at the nearest post, while the person
leaving them retires, and the other person comes up and
examines them, and replies—and so the traffic goes on.
Sometimes the bargain and exchange are made in person,
without the trouble of notes. Oise of the picket& told me that
during one of the fiercest of the Weldon Railroad fighte, the
pickets on a portion of the lines near by, not immedhitely
engaged, were driving a brisk trade in tobacco, note paper,
Ea. Besides this petty trafficking, not a little frank conversa-
tion on the state of affairs is knows to bscerried on between
the more intelligent of the soldiers on picket."

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

FRIDAY,

29, 8 Lt.

B. W.
Nelms . 29.6063 B.W.
4bernMM 29.71 66 8.5. W.
Leith
Ardrossan 29.80' 8.8.
Greencastle 29.80: W.S.W.
Galway
Valenti&
Cape Clear
Queenstown 29.79:56, S.W.
Liverpool
Holyhead
Pembroke 29.93157, &W.
Raraix•
Bred
L'Orieut 30.12:55, W.S.W.
Rochefort
Plymouth
Weymouth 30.0615411 W.
Portsmouth M.03171 W.N.W.
Dover 30.10 003 W.4.W.
Yarmouth
Scarborough 29.071641 B.W.
Shields
Heligoland 22.32 67 &W.

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