The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, OCT. 10.

The Moniteur of to-day announces that the Cour-
tier du Dimanche has received a second warning, for
an article signed by M. Prevost Paradol, as the
said article excites to hatred and contempt of the
government.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARTS, Ocr. 10.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows the following results as compared with the
September account :

INcitzasa
Bills discounted, not yetdue 651 millions.
Advances
Bank note, 3l „
Current accounts
Damao&

Cash io hand 29 2-3 „
Treasury balance

THE WEST AFRICAN HAILS.
LOBS OF THE CLEOPATRA.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 10.

The steamship M'Gregor Laird has arrived here
with the above mails, 62 passengers, and 2,175
ounces of gold.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Cleopatra was totally
lost ou the bar at the entrance of the Sherbro
River, south of Sierra Leone. The passengers
were saved in a lifeboat, and the officers and crew
on rafts. The chief engineer, Mr. Webster, was
drowned, and a crew of five men, who put off from
Sierra Leone to the assistance of the Cleopatra,
were also lost. The captain is highly praised for
his intrepidity and determined efforts to save the
vessel.

The dates of the M`Gregor Laird are Benin,
August 24 ; Cameroons, August 30 ; Old Calabar,
Sept. 2 ; Bonny, 6 ; Accra, 13 ; Cape Coast Castle,
14 ; Sierra Leone, 21 ; Teneriffe, 31 ; and Madeira,
October 2.

A letter from Rome in the Corriere delta: Marche
relates the following story :—" A priest was lately bar-
gaining with the eriver of a public carriage to be taken to
a certain place. The coachman had mentioned his price,
and the priest, thinking it too much, offered something
less. ' Now possesses,' replied the Jebu, with an air of
mock dignity, and drove off. In the evening the driver
was arrested ; the priest bad taken his number, and de-
nounced the unlucky jester to the police."
The Journal de St. Peterstxnerg of the 4th inst.
contains an important announcement with respect to tele-
graphic communication between China and this country. An
order of the day of the Director-General of Ways and
Public Works states that the construction of the line of
Siberian telegraph, which has already reached Omsk, and
will in the course of 1863 be extended to Irkutsk, has, with
the assistance of the post, allowed of a more rapid inter-
change of communications between Europe and China, and
in consequence of this. and through the medium of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, to open communications there- I
upon, arrangements have been carried out to enable the
western powers to correspond with China yid Russia. De. '
"patches from the interior of the empire, destined for
K malts and Pekin, will be received for transmission at the
telegraph stations at St. Petersburg, Moscow, and bikini.
Novgorod.
The expenditure of the Confedetate government,
up to the Ist of August last, is declared by the secessionist
journals to be about 70 millions sterling.
In the city of New York 6,000 persons are em-
ployed in the printing tads. They nes up every year
5,000,000 dollars' worth of paper, ink. km, and produce
11,000,000 dollars' worth of books. The capital employed
is estimated at 8,500,000 dollen.
Amongst the shipments made at Chicago during
the week ending the 20th ult., were the following. vie. :-
81,340 barrels of flour; 394,674 bushels of wheat ;1,524,678
bushels of eorn ; 120,512 bushels of oats ; 13,050
bushels of rye ; 179,2701b5. of seed, ; N,ooolbe. of cut
meet ; 1,724,0261b5. of lard ; 39,9051ba. of tallow; and
s 17,637 live hogs.