The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-06 00:00:00

FRANCE.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SUP-
PLEMENTARY CREDITS.
PARIS, JAIL &

The report of the committee upon the supple-
mentary credits requested by the government has
been published. It concludes as follows :
" Our mission is to warn the executive power
with affectionate respect, and to hold it back upon
the brink of dangerous entanglements. The best
devotion is that which knows bow to speak 'salutary
truths in time of need. We are unanimous in ad-
vising that an end should be put to the Mexican
expedition ; far be it from us to say, at any price,
but as promptly as the interest and honour of
France will permit. The expression of this wish
certainly responds to the general sentiment of the
country, and we think the government of the
Emperor will receive it with favour."
The committee unanimously propose the adoption
of the bill.

AMENDMENT TO THE ADDRESS IN THE
CORPS LEGISLATIF.
PARIS, Jar. 6.

In the Corps Legialatif to-day several members
brought forward au amendment to the Address,
expressing greater sympathy with Poland, and an
opinion that it is expedient to recognise the Poles
as belligerents.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIS, JAN. IS, 3.25 P.M.
The Bourse has been steady. Renter closed at
66.75, or sc. lower than yesterday.

THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
TURIN, JAL 5.

The debate on the bill for the suppression of
brigandage was continued to-day in the Chamber
of Deputies.
Signor Conforti spoke in opposition to the bill,
while the Minister of Justice defended its consti-
tutionality and necessity.

Signor Rattarzi announced that he should speak
in favour of the bill.

General Bixio stated that the origin of the
brigandage wee Rome.

POLAND.

BERLIN. JAL 5.

According to intelligence received here from
Warsaw 250 prisoners were despatched on the 2nd
instant to Siberia, among the number of whom was
Count Stanislaw Zamoyski.

AMERICA. •
QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 5.

The extra Inman steamship City of Cork, from
New York on the 23rd ult., arrived here at 6.20p.m.
to-day with eleven paasengers, but no specie.
She landed three passengers, and proceeded at
6.30 p.m. for Liverpool.

OUTWARD AMERICAN litatt..—The Atlantic Royal
Mail steamer Columbia railed from Galway at 2.40 p.m.
yastarday for Batas, with eight cabin and 150 stemma
pamsagers, 24 mail hags, sad the latest tole/ram&
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colo-
and-odles to the Governors of the Caps id Good Hops,
Natal, sod St. Hakim.

FRANCE.

THE ADDRESS OF THE CORPS LEGISLATIF.
PARIS, MONDAT EVENING.

The Corps Legislatif held a private sitting this
afternoon, at two o'clock, for the purpose of hear-
ing M. de Morny, the President, read the draft of
his address. The following is a translation of this
document, which we are assured was " very favour-
ably received" by the members present :

Sire,-1b Corps Legit'latif shares the confidence with
which the renewal of its powers inspires you. Despite the
animation of the struggle, the population has shown that it
still remains profoundly devoted to the Imperial huititu-
tuns, to your person. and to your dynasty. In eoming to
take our part in the examination of public affairs we shall
lose sight of these principles and these sentiments,
and we shall act in concert with you so as not to weaken
them.

Your Majesty was right iu preceding public opinion in
the path of industrial and commercial liberty. France
which for a long time had doubted, has faith now in her
own strength. Our industries have been able by their
efforts and their sacrifices to meet foreign competition.
They will display still greater activity when they see the
means of transport multiplied and rendered more prompt
and more easy. We trust, therefore, that the activity
imputed to peddle works will not be diadabited ; that no
delay wean occur in the execution of the railways, and that
the improvement of our ports, our rivers, our canals, our
high roads, and especislly of our local roads, will always be
the object of the solicitude of your government.
Our finances wisely husbanded, relieved from the excep-
tional circumstances which weigh upon them, will be suffi-
cient to provide for all the wants of the country without it
being necessary to recur to public credit or to fresh taxation.
Your Majesty, whose liberal dispositions do not contra-
dict themselves, again announces to us fresh reforms. We
shall study those which will be submitted to us with the
desire of seconding your love of real progress. Every mea-
sure, the object of which is to destroy the obstacles to the
liberty of trade and to individual initiative ; to settle in an
equitable manner the relations between citizens placed in
different positions in the labour questioe ; and to imamate
the attributes of the communes and the departments with-
out weakening the central power, will be welcomed by us
with favour and gratitude.
We participate in the interest your Majesty feels for
everything relating to religion, charity, the arts, letters and
sciirece. Primary instruction has rapidly developed since
1848. We think with you that the number of children
who are still without it is too great ; we hops to see it
diminish every year, and finally disappear from our eta-
thanks to the increasing well-being of the population,
having for complement the benefits of gratuitousness. We
also hope that professional and agricultural instruction may
be effectively encouraged, while the level of the studies
giving access to the liberal careers is at the nine time
elevated. This system of uniformity should respond to the
wants of families and to the aspirations of modern society
by fortifying every career and by sparing youth frequent
mistakes.

The Corps Legialatif thinks with you, Sire, that the most
wiselygoverned nations cannot always hope to escape
external complications, and that they ought to appreciate
them without illusion and without weakness. The distant
ex pall tioos of Chios, Cochin China, and Mexico, which have
followed each other, have disturbed many minds in France,
because of the obligations and the sacrifices they entail. We
admit that they must inspire respect abroad for our coun-
trymen and for the French flag, and that they may thus
develop our maritime commerce, but we should be happy to
see the good multi; roar Majesty leads us to hope for
speedily realised.
The recollectioes of our history, the sentiments of humanity
that animate us, excite our warmest sympathies for the fate
of the Poles. We have seen with regret that the combined
aorta of the three great powers have not succeeded in solving
this grave question according to your benevolent intentions.
We cannot forget either that the sincere and cordial support
of Russia ha. more than mice been useful to France on im-
portant occasions. We should regret if our good relations
with that power were to grow cool. We therefore wel-
comed with a profound satisfaction that noble ides of •
European Congress, the initiative of which would have been
an eternal honour to your reign. France, whose splendour
and glory you hove restored, is grateful to you,
because you have not compromised her treasures
and the blood of ter children for causes in which
neither tier honour nor her interest are involved.
Without regret let unjust prejudice receive with
mistrust your loyal and pacific propositions. The
noble and healthy idea. that God causes to arise in the
heart of sovereigns for the welfare of humanity are making
their way in the world, sod taking root in the heart of the
peoples. Wait with tranquillity the effect of your generous
words.

France, homogeneous, compact, certain of her strength,
confident in you, fears no aggression ; she ban no other
ambition now then that of assuring her repose, developing
her material welfare by labou• and pence, and her moral
welfare by the sincere and gradual practice of civil sod
political liberties.