The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-01 00:00:00

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

THE FRENCH LOAN.
Or Rums= TaLsciaArx.)

PARIS, Somme.
The Moniteur publishes the following u the terms
of the Loan :
NA r OLEON, ETC.,

Art. 1. Our Minister of Finance is authorised to
proceed, by public subscription, to the alienation of
the sum of Three and Four-and-a-Half per Cent.
.Rentes necamary to produce a capital of 500
millions.

2. The Three per Cents. shall be issued at the
rate of 651.250., with dividend from the 22nd De-
cember, 1854. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
shall be issued at the rate of 92. f., with dividend
from the 22nd September, 1834.
3. Agreeably to the purport of the third section of
the let article of the law of Dec. 31, 1854, the
dolation of the sinking fund shall be increased from
the Ist January, 1866, by a sum equal to one
per cent. on the nominal capital of the Roan,
which will be issued by virtue of the first article of
the present decree.

4. Our Minister of Finance is charged with the ex-
ecution of the present decree.
Done at the Tailleriet, Dec. 31, 18454.
NAPOLEON.

It is added that the subscription will be opened to
the public from the 3rd to the 14th January, the
7th (Sunday) inclusive, and that subscribers will be
invited to choose between the Three and the Four
and•a-Half per Cents.—Daily News.

SPAIN.
CDT 11.2CTIU0 TILLOIATII.)

MADR:D, Die. 27.

The Cortes have rejected the proposition of &inches
Silva for suppressing the Octrol. There were 118
for and 128 against the metion.—Daily News.

WARSAW, Dic. 28.

The first Corps d'Anzee, commanded by Genera
Sievers, is completely assembled. Its staff is in the
centre of the position on the right bank of the
Vistula, that is at Radom, fourteen German miles
from this place. General Rudiger is commander-in-

chief of the first and third corps, and of the:corps of
grenadiers. He at the same time acts u Governor-
General. Prince Gortchakoff is General-in-Chief
of three corps in the south. Field-Marshal Pukie-
witch is generalissimo of all the six corps, and is still
at Warsaw.--Daily News.

THE CRIMEA.

The following appeared in some of the German
papers on Saturday, but is not worthy of implicit
confidence :

" ODESSA, Dsc. 25.

"A courier has just brought intelligence that
General Liprandi's corps, powerfully reinforced, is
attacking BalaklavL"

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dsc. 21.

On tbe 16th the Russians made a sortie by night.
but were repulsed by the French, after a severe
struggle.

Ths Riles also repulsed a Russian sortie.

Our mortars and batteries are ready to open, but
the heavy rains impede the progress of the siege, and
cause great sickness,

General Adams died of his wounds on the 19th.

Siaos
the IGth of November 24,000 English,
French, and Turks had arrived in the Crimea in
British vessels.

The Turks at Eupatoria have been much efreagth-
cued from Varae.—Timer.

Accounts from Berlin, of Dec. 31, state that Prince
Gortschakoff, after the interpretation of the Four
Articles had been communicated to him, asked for a
delay of a fortnight to enable him to reoeive
instructions.

Omer Pacha, in person, will take the command of
the expedition to the Crimea.

There is nothing of importanoe from Sebastopol
up to the 23rd.—Post.