The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-11 00:00:00

THE BANK OF FRANCE RETURNS.

PARIS. Dec. 11.

The following is the usual monthly debtor and
creditor account of the Bank of France. The
corresponding figures of last month are added :

December. November.
Minion. Fr. c. Fr. c.
Capital ot the Bank
Pronto in addition to capital
Art. 8, law June 9. 1857, . . 2,647,607 17 1.316,603 67
Irene. 04 the Bank and Ito

brUi.bes —— 189190,760 14 12880.750 14
Nes Reserve
Reserve In landed property
Notes in circulation
Bank ootas to order
Receipts payable at sight
Treasury accoeut current ere-
-

--
ditor, - 10,600,500 5.5 67,:51A5 11
Current secounte. Paris
Ditto the branch banks 11604t0.307 a 20,726,07 0
Dividends payable 851,901 7S 1.106,048 75
Commission on deposits
Discount and sundry interests
Re.discuunted the last six

month. —
1,524,817 16 1,65/,31716
Burping of proeta not divided 1.016,709 13 1.0111,700 25
Sundries 11310.200 07 11.1128,050

1,2n,505,234 06 1.2f9,060622 17

December. November.
Carl/MOIL Fr. c. Fr. e.
Cash in band 57,844,586 98 59.973.985 67
Ditto branch banks 14496,449 0 145,4121,293 0
Commercial bilis overdue 455,079 68 515,777 15
Comment./ bills discounted,
not vet due 341.614,969 AS 359,494,781 53
Ditto branch banks 296,159,622 0 321,537,505 0
Advances on deposits of bidlion 10,545,800 0 10,287,500 0
Ditto branch banks
Advances on French patine es-
curities
Ditto branch banks
Advances on railway shares
and debentures
Ditto branch banks
Advances on Credit Fancier

I Bonds 410,400 0 403,400 0
Ditto branch banks . ... 487,900 0 020,600 0
Advances to the State (conven-
tion 10th Julie, 1471 60.000.000 0 00.00,000 0
f)orernment stock reserve
Ditto disposable
Itentes ireroolialleass (law 9th
June, t 34)
Hotel and furniture of the bank 1,000.000 0 4,000 000 0
landed property, brooches
Expenses of liaaagemeat 2,347.622 78 1,919,285 21
Sundries 4,444,352 02 4,057,082 02

1.611,211,634 06 1,279,046 E 6f IS
Certified by the The-President of the Council of Mete,
Governor of the Bank of Prance.
ntlpri) NI. Mir.

Barnum writes to the Loudon paper* under the
arignatur• of ' Manhattan." His letters are filled with the
wildest aad most grotesque aoaeoase. He laughs ooa-
uitedly at hoaxing the Britisher& —flew York Correepoa-
dent of a Calsoitaa Paper.
011111TA1, PALLCH. - ONZ SHILLING D 11.1%
TICISDAY, D. 10.—Adminiee. on payment, 1,862; ditto
by mem Wane, US ; le4el, 2,700.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM OUR OWN

PARIS, THIIIISDAT
The voice of those flatterers who still believe in
the congress is now, although echoed by M. Trop-
long in his fulsome draft address for the Senate,
extremely faint. The Opinion Nationale manfully
says :—"As to the congress, we confess, although
with regret, that we no longer believe in it." The
Temps says :
There are not wanting people who throw all the reopen.
sibility of the failure of the congress upon England, who
encase her of having insulted France, and who go so far
as to proclaim the mid of en alliance of fifty
ram Nothing can be more reckless than such
language. England has acted precisely like the
other greet powers. They asked for explanations. And
England also begin by requiring information as to the
projected mode of action of the congress. This inform►tion,
when given, not being deemed eatiefactorr, she refuted.
She refused just as Russia, Austria, and Prussia g►ve it to
be understood that they would refuse. There is nothing
in this not perfectly legitimate. England, no doubt, put •
little British stiffness into her answer. She did not affect
to dissimulate by the aid of flowers of rhetoric and pro-
testations of tenderness the disagreeableness of • refusal,
It remains to be seen whether, in speaking to us with this
somewhat naked simplicity, she did not in the main and in
substance act in a manner more respectful towards us and
more worthy of two great people'. France has the lees
right to be angry with England, because the refusal could
never have been for one moment doubtful. It was in the
very nature of things. Had England accepted, she would
have denied her traditions and her national character.

I am happy to be able to quote from one of the
most respectable of French journals an opinion so
completely bearing out the one I expressed yes-
terday.
M. Mathieu (de la Drame), whose success as a
weather prophet has been greater than last year,
and whose almanacks are, in consequence, now
selling as fast as they can be printed, sends the fol-
lowing telegram, dated this day

Montpelier, Dec. 10.

Yore hurricanes are indicated, especially towards the
l4th, 20th, and 28th of Dec. The first of these will be
most severe in Italy and on the coasts of the Black Sea ;
the second in Switzerland and Lombardy ; and the last in
France and England. The latter will probably be notified
some boors beforehand by the Observatory of Paris.
The Daily News is seized.