The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-17 00:00:00

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8. u active.
Treks arat fvr Liverpool aid Loudon.
Ilveheag• es Leadoe.lo6l to 1031; ditte as Paris, 6.231
to 6.20; Amoterdsoa,4ol to 41; Bream, 774 to 771; Hare-
berg, 356; Aatverp, 6.23 to 6.20.

Count Wielhondry, who wu lately sent into the
Ornate by t►e Empress of Ruda to distribute gilts of
atesey, is., to the weesded, boa just died at iliapherepei
flees typhus lever. Op is the essinsweseassit se Use war
the deemed Coast Wei deist aswelary M tbe Itemise Ea•
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fa high *dee at Bergs. N. 21Muhl% Casselllar of the
Oablast eat Priests Sessetary to the Xing, hes beat Mick
with widow Wisdoms.

The King of Sardinia wan about from his kingdom
study Woe welts.

—Ma Baanz-Bozovis have many ceased a mo-
ieties at •sirkeeple. They have mrrki elf seen Turkish
wows, sad 'melted ethers la the meets mad In private
whisk they have attend by sada lona. They have
eire. same of the Treads seldisre. sad have
vreerisi several et their ewe Paella diked. • deplalat
hes bees made te the T.rblsb seversateat as the 'abject,
sad itk bared that it will ad be the het. Doubts ale ea.
tertaised whether it will be paerible over toted" thee..a .
to tabu& to asytkios like Wittig diadtataa—Golirwosk

FRANCE.

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PARIS. SUNDAY BUNNING.

All doubt about the fate of Ham is unfortunately
at an end. A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated
this day, states that the place surrendered on Nov.
28, and that General Williams, Vault Paella, and
eight other Puha+, are prisoners of war. It is heart-
teadieg to think of the fate of the gallant garrison,
listing* the culpable impulses of oar governments,
et the Poles that Russia will send to Siberia, and
1,10 the Hungarians that she will deliver up to Aus-
trian

____ rename !
Baron Lejeane left Paris yesterday for Teheran
with despatches and decorations sent by the Rave-

rer to the fibah of Persia.
The banquet that was proposed to be given in the
Industrial Exhibition Building to the soldiers re-
turned from the Musa will not take plsoe, at least
fnr the present. The public entry of the troops into
Paris, which has been spoken of for some time, is said
to be fixed for Sunday next, Deo. 23, and it is ex-
pected that the entire garrison of Paris will be ceder

iron to receive them.
The Press' observes, upon the lest Bank of Francs
returns, that the increase of eight millions, under
the head of coin and bullion, was purchased by
Irestrictions upon commerce, amounting to 127 mil-
lions, and takes occasion to draw the moral that the
system of a national bank, with a circulation based
upon the quantity of specie in its posesseession, is
radically bad.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVINING.
The monthly tomtits of the BaA of France show
that the restrictive =mares taken with a view to re-
sters whatis usurped to be the safe proportion be-
tween the specie in the Bank cellars and the notes in
circulation have met with considerable success. The
increase of bullion in the Bank cellars turns out to be
much about what I stated yesterday, sccordiag to
Bourse reports, it was expected to be, viz., upwards
of eight millions. There is, however, a
great falling off is Paris, but the difference
is made up in the branch banks. This
result is in great measure explained by other items
in the returns, which show a diminution of 38 mil-
lions in the discount accommodation for Paris, and of

16 millions for the departments. In forming an esti-
mate of the financial situation, it must be bocce in
mind that although these figures prove that the Bank
has brought its books into a healthy state, trade must
have greatly suffered by the tightness of mosey, for
in ordinary times more paper Is disoonnted in No-
vember and December than in any other months of
the year. But the augmentation of the specie
in the Bank is not to be attributed alone
to the restriction of discounts. Since the
taking of Sebastopol the expenses of the war in the
Crimea have greatly . diminished, and camequently
there has been a diminution in the await of remit-
tances in cash to the East which the Bank makes on
government account. There has also been a lees
amount paid during the last month for grain from
abroad, the pried of the arrival of ships for the pre-
sent winter being nearly finished. At the same time
purchases by foreign commissioners have to some,
though not yet to any great, degree exercised an
influence. I am informed that the amelioration in
the state of the Bank finances has Wee brought
cheat entirely within the last fortnight, and that if the
mmensts had been up on December 12th there would
hang been, instead of an. augmentation, a deficiency
of 10 millieee in the specie.
At the Boom, although the Bank returns wen
esneidered to be favourable, business was not bright.
It is hoped is the money market that the Bank, now
having much more than the proportion of cash to
notes which political eoonomista assign as the cab
proportion, will reduce its discount, and take bills at
date; but it is doubtful whether the Bank,'
forger date;
its measures successful, will be disposed to
revoke them yet awhile. The principal cause of the
heaviness to-day was the high rate charged for,
carrying over accounts for the 15th. The Bents fell
160., closing at 64.60. Railways were all lower,
several lines falling as much as 6f. Bank of France
shares did not vary.
The Conslaulionnel relates the following:
During the residence of the Emperor at fit Cloud in Oc-
tober lest, his Majesty received& petition which wen banded
him by a grenadier of his guard en duty at the palate.
Early on the following morning, a person having on • light
summer coat, without a bat, waistcoat or cravat, entered the
guard house, and glancing round at the soldiers who were
there, said to the grenadier above named, "It was you who
yesterday handed me a petition." The soldier then lean.
shed the Emperor who spoke to him with the greatest
kindness. The petikein was from the mother of the grena-
dier, herself the daughter of an old soldier, and who bad
lost another son in the Crimea. After minutely inqairing
into the situation of the family, the Emperor retired. Two
days atter, the major of the regiment sent for the soldier,
and told him that he had been ordered by the Emperor to
give him leave of absence to go and inform his mother that
she had been nominated to a tobacco shop in • commune
near St. Cloud. (The value of such a privilege is animal,
estimated at from I,ooof. to 1,2001. a year.)