The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

GERMANY.

"We can confirm the news," says the Zeit of
Berlin, "that the affair of the Sound dues is to be
submitted before long to a Congress of the States
interested in the question, and that Denmark, in a
despatch sent to these States, expresses a hope to see
delegates assembled in the second fortnight in
November."

THE WEST AFRICA MAILS.

PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 12.

The Retriever steamer arrived to-day with mails
from Africa. She brings 22 passengers, 2,700 ounces
of gold, and a general cargo.
Her dates are—Fernando Po, Sept. 3 ; Accra, 10;
Liheria,l6; Sierra Leone, 20, Ooree, 2b; Madeira,
Oct. 4.

No further disturbances had occurred at Bathurst.
The rebela were quiet, and Governor O'Connor had
returned to Bt. Mary's. A serious collision
had taken place at Bonny between two parties
of natives, in consequence of a suspicion entertained
by the friends of the late Bing Dappo that he had
been poisoned by two chiefs, adherents of the ex-
King Peppo. The ex-King's party succeeded in
keeping at bay for three days the entire strength of
Bonny, and at last blew themselves up, killing be-
tween 400 and 500, only five of the people escaping
uninjured. The injury to property, including some
belonging to English traders, is very considerable.
In consequence of the representations of the traders,
her Majesty's ship Philomel had proceeded to the
scene of the disturbances.

Abd-el-Hader arrived at Marseilles on Sunday
evening. He stayed at the Hotel l'Orieat, sad wu to
embark os boud the Bloom.

We are informed that a project of law for extend-
ing the barriers of Faris to the line of the fortifications is
actually before the Colman of State.
The Savoy Gazette says that the family and entire
household of Count Augustus Brunette d'Usseanz, Colonel
of the Buoy regiment of Cavalry, have born poisocied by
soe►roess. The sionatess, her eldest son, and one servant
are already dead, and the eight other brutes of the home
are in • danproas state. _ _

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A letter from Caleb states that at a late dieter of
the Beglish residing in the Tillage of St. Piers, in honour
of the Onuses victories, an oz was roasted whole, sad
afforded a banquet to about 600 guests. The simple apps•
rams meted for the soshieg operettas suited rowel
&dainties. The aalmal, what ea the spit, weighed 726
itilogrenses. Diaries the bonnet a head of mule played
setiosel aim. The day's precstedinp contdaded by a grand
ball in the etweert-ream.

The Dote of Moderns has, by decree, granted a
pieties of NE a swath to the widows of tis sea who died
is attending ehtdoes potleots—provi4ed, however, they be
is Carer. The mina ars to be isalesell it they bus
&Alm. • _

':1-11pEPRESS FROM PARIS.
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FILIDAT EVINIXO.
It appears bon the Bank returns, that the metallic
rneervelbesqleclined in Paris 26j millions, and in the
branch banks not lass than 31 millions, or the large
amount of 68f millions in all. The discount soma-'
"iodation has increased-26 millions in Paris, afill-27
millions in the provinces. Advanoes on French
securities show an augmentation of 2 mil-
lions in Par* and one of half a million in
the departments. Advances on railway securi-
ties hays declined 9 millions in Paris, and half
a million in the branch bank'. On the side of the
liabilities, the amount of notes in circulation has been
rechieed 6 millions in Paris, and 3 millions in the
departments. The account current of the Treasury
has fallen off 29f millions. Private accounts current
have increased 281 millions in Paris, and 2 millions
in the provinces. The whole amount of the metallic
reserve is at present 232} millions, to 649 j millions,
of notes in circulation.

Although the continuous drain of bullion that has
been going on all the month was known, and its effect
on the market might consequently have been thought

to have been discounted, the official

ki of

the very large decrease (66k miUiona) in the metallic
reserve had a very depressing influence at the Bourse,
and, although Como!" were telegraphed with a rise
of 11, the Rents was languid throughout the day. It
was thought that there must be some mistake in the
London quotations, as it is difficult to suppose that
the fact of the Bank directors having mpg-
' rated without again raising the discount could
have occasioned so great an improvement—
and no other cause is suggested. The
rumour which I mentioned yesterday, that the Bank
of France had not made any change in their terms
of accommodation, turns out to be true; but it is the
general belief that they have merely postponed a
decision till next week, on account of the difficulty
of the subject, and a considerable difference of opi-
nion in the management. It was suggested on
'Change that a great part of the 100 millions of gold
lately purchased for the account of the Bank does
not figure in the last returns, and therefore it is hoped
the position of the Bank may be better than it appears
to be. There was a vague rumour towards the close
of business of some extraordinarily-good political

news, and for a few momenta there was a brisk up-
ward movement, bat it soon subsided. The Rente,
after being quoted for an instant at 64fr. 55c., dropped
to 64fr. 40e., and closed at that price, with a fall of
sc. Bank of France fell 25fr. In railways there
was very little business done. Austrians were
scarcely quoted. Most of the French lines fell from
2fr. 50c. to 51r.

Count d'Arjasoa, Chamberlain, and Lieutenant-
Colonel the Marquis de Toolongeon, Orderly Officer
to the Emperor, went yesterday to Valenciennes, to
receive the Dub and Duchess de Brabant. Their
Royal Highnesses arrived at the Northern Railway
terminus in Paris at four this afternoon. Prince
Napoleon was there to receive them, and accompanied
them to St. Cloud.

The reports in the legal journals of the progress of
the trial of the Angers insurgents are exceedingly
curious. At the sitting of the Court on Wednesday
the Procureur-General read the following anonymous
letter which he had received :

Citigen,—The reading of the act of accusation drawn up
by you in the affair of the Marianne has caused us all most
profound indignation. You may rest usuritd that on the
first opportunity I and mine will not overlook you.

The Direetorof the Marianne for the Maine and Loire.

The letter wu signed with an illegible name, and
adjoining the signature wu a triangle, the ordinary
emblem of the Marianne.

Several letters written by the prisoners to their
friends had been seized, and were read. One of them,
addressed to the writer's wife, told her to be
comforted; that he should be condemned;
but that he would certainly not remain
in prison six months. By this he meant to say that
there would be a revolution before that time. Several
respectable persons, one of whom was an ex-mayor,
gave many of the prisoners excellent characters.
There is no doubt that the Marianne, and similar
societies, give the Government great uneasiness. I
am informed that there are at this moment in the
hands of the Minister of the Interior no less than
72 reports from Prefects and other authorities in
the departments, containing details of discoveries of
revolutionary conspiracies.
" We understand;' says the Semaphore of Mar-
seilles, "that the Sultan, u a mark of acknowledg-
ment for the excellent arrangements made in this
port for sending off troops to the Eut, has conferred
the decoration of the order of Medjidjie on General
de Rostolan, commander of the 9th military division,
on the Marquis de Crevecomr, Prefect of the Boucher-
du-Rhone, and on M. de Cambia, military intendant."
The steam-frigates Caffarelli and Eldorado left
Marseilles on the 10th for the Black Sea, the former
with 600 men on board, and the latter with 500.
A vessel, called Marie Jeanne, arrived at Rouen on
Wednesday from Algiers, with 2,000 hectolitres; of
wheat. This is the first cargo of Algerian wheat
imported direct into the north of France, and other
arrivals are expected.
The Salta Public of Lyons of yesterday says:—
"Several pieces of cannon taken in the Malakoff
Tower, and sent to the lovalides at Paris by Marshal
Perissier, are expected here to•day or to-morrow by
rail way."

Tbesoldiere of the Camp of Sathooy, near Lyons,
have established a theatre, somewhat in the same
manner as the Zonaves of the Army of the East; and

three evenings ago the

officers of

the 4th Regiment of the Line gave a grand dramatic
and musical performance, to which they invited 1,600
of the principal inhabitants of the city. In addition
to pieces of music executed by the regimental band,
and the singing of comic and other songs, a comedy
called the Poete et le Speculoteur, in one act, aad a
burlesque tragedy entitled Cavacolla, were performed
with a good deal of comic talent and with immense
success. All the persons invited came in full dress,
and the toilettes of the ladies were sparkling with
diamonds and other precious stones. A subscription
was afterwards made on behalf of an institution for
educating the daughters of soldiers, and a large sum
was obtained.

TRIAL FOR PROPAGATING FALSE NEWS IN

PARIS.

One Paris correspondent, writing on Thursday
evening, aye:

The trial of Bader for propagating the canard about the
Cent Garde dring at the Emperor took plain to-day, and
flameout to have been a very trivial affair. T►e police are
not untitled to the credit of having found oat the au-
thor of the story. P.m, Bader, who appears to be an is-
offensive and respectable man, merely repeated it at a time
whoa it was is everybody's mouth. Almost any frequenter
of the Bourse might have been arrested and tried wlLh as
mach justice as he. According to his own answers to the
judge's interrogatories, the eireanutaness ander whielt Le
was arrested were as follears:—On the 21st of September he
had beard the report while galas his rounds for his em-
ployers, Mears. Jackson, Brothers, ocesehmakers. Be
heard the matter talked of in an omnibus in which he rods
to Boulogne (St. Cloud). Oa alightiog in the Plies de la
Reins at Boulogne be asked several people whether they did
not know what had happened, at the same thee repeating the
story Unfortunately der himself one. of the bystanders