The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-12 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Chamber of Deputies of Vienna assembled
on the sth for the first time since the six weeks,
vacation, but it was only to hear the President
adjourn the sitting to the following day, as in con-
sequence of tha itiundatitm4 a great number of
deputies have been prevented from reaching the
capital. Scarcely eo, and almost all of them mem-
bers of the committee of finance, or belonging to
Poland and Bohemia, were present at this first
sitting.

ROME.

A letter from Rome of the 4th says :.

On the day of the Purific Rion the Pope performed envies
at St. Peter's. Hie Holiness has recovered from his late
indisposition, sal nether his voice nor his features bore say
traces of illness. The. Stated College and the Roman
magistracy were prosaic, as well as the French and Ponti-
fical' gen,ra's, and a nanibir of foreign personages. The
Pope firsthimed the wet lights, as is usual on the occasion,
and distributed them with his own hand to the diplomatic
body and generals, and then proceeded in grand pro-
cession round the building. The royal family of Napkin
were not present. After the procession the Pope took his
seat on the throne, and Cardinal Bernath° performed the
mass appointed for the thy, sod the service concluded by a
special one in memory of the earthquake of 1703. The Pope
then went to his apartments to receive the ornamented
tapers which are always mooted to him on the day of the
Purification by the superiors of all the religious orden in
Rome. On the 3rd, on the occasion of the funeral of Cur-
, dinal Piauetti, the Pope went to the Church of Andredelle.
Pratte, and gave the absolution. After the oeremony his
Holmes returned to the Vatican through the moat
ire-
quented parts of the city, end was everywhere received
1 with the utmost respect.

(srona's TrucßAmi.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, Frs. 11

The 31imiteur of to-day announces that the Com-
mittee on the Artistic Copyright Question has ap-
pointed a sub-committee to prepare a bill based
spun the principle of perpetuity.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Fs 12.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-

ship nova, with the heavy portion of the above
mails, has arrived here.
She brings 62 passengers, 2,476 paskages of
cargo, including 517 bales of silk, vatted at 65.0001.
On the Bth inst., off Cape Carboeira, the Elkin
spoke the Indus, steering south; and on the 9th, off
Cape Finisterre, the Alhambra, with the homeward
Peninsular mails.

The French war steamer Fontenoy, having on
board 1,123 Zouaves for Mexico, came into colli-
sion with the British steamer Pact*lus, bound for
Malta, in the Straits of Gibraltar on the 2nd inst.
The Pantolus sustained considerable damage,
and was lashed to the Fontenoy and taken into
Gibraltar for repairs.
The British ship Queen, bound from St. John's
to Cuba, sprang a leak and was abandoned on the
6th ult. in long. 6.30. let. 37 N.

Exchange on London at Gibraltar was quoted
49} to 492 for 90 (lays' sight ; on Paris, 5.25 ; on
Marseilles, 5.26 ; on Madrid, at par ; on Cady.,
discount. Freights unaltered.

SPECIE FOR THE EAST.
einTEAXPTON, Tn. 12.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Delta, sailing to-day, takes out in specie—Bar
silver, 229,1151. ; five-franc pieces, 19,9201. ; gold
coin, 5,5001.; and sovereigns, 32,0001.