The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-30 00:00:00

Another decree, on the report of the Minister of Pub-
lic Works, extends the concession of the Canal de
Beaucaire and its dependencies to the 2nd Septem-
ber, 1939, outd reduces the tumid' find by the former
concession by one quarter. The last decree regulates
the law on the press in Alden.).
The Munitesir says :
The govenuatat is carefully turning its attention to all
the great questions connected with mulway., in which the
country is so deeply interested. Its solicitude iv particularly
directed to the two lines from Paris to Cherbourg and
from Bordeaux to Curie, which are destined to unite the
capital with we of our principal maritime ports, and to
unite the Atlantis to the Wailer/masa. It bad entered
into • ',egotist ion with the companies wluen presented them•
selves for the concession of these two lines ; and it had even
felt assured that it would have been able to have
established acceptable conditions with these companies. It,
however, found that its negociations could not receive the
definitive sanction of the rime,: President until the eve of
the assembling of the legislative power.. In this state of
things, it has determided to submit to the Council of State
and to the Lciiislitive Body the projects which it had pre-'
posf. la coming to this conclusion, the government testi-
hes at the same time its solicitude for tee intubitsuts of
such ports attic country as hove not yet been endowed
with r.ulw.kyc, anal it. difereneu !Ur the great powers insti-
tuted by the constitution.
We read in the Constitidiotowl: _ _ _

The three railway companies which bare formed a fusion
with the Orleans company hate come to the arrangement
as tho following conditions:--lbe sh.reholtiers ot the
Centre Railway will receive one Orleans share iu exchange
for two of their shares completely paid tn.; those
of the Data, Mir line one Orleans share in exchange
foe thter of their shires ou which 27.1 fr. have
been paid; those of the Nantes line will receive one
Orleans share is exchange for four of their shares on which
424(r. have been paid. .these exchange* will necessitate
sa LIMO of 116,3.33 new Orleans sham, and will cant up
the number to 176,333. The shareholders of the Bordeaux
sad Ran:e+ will have no other call to pay, and the Orleans
mwspany takes on itself to complete the works on these
two lines by means of a loan at 11 per cent., which it cid-
MLitt* on being able to negotiate at par.
'llw following is the decision of the Bank of
France relative to the amount of advances which
it will make on depots of railway and bonds;
80 per cent. will be advanced on the Paris to
Orlimu., Paris to Rouen, Northern, St. Ger-
main, Centre, Strasburg, Lyons and St. Etienne,
and Paris and Lyons Railway shares, when the
amount paid upon them shall have been at least
210 fr. a share ; 30fr. per cent. on Orleans to Bor-
deaux, Tour and Nantes, and Strasbourg and Bale
&area ; SO per cent. on Northern, St. Germain,
Orleans, Rouen. Strasbourg to Bale, and St. Etienne
to Lyons bonds; and 70fr. per cent. on Avignon to
Matscilles bonds.
"We are aewured," as,. the Patric," that two en-
voys extraordinary, charged by the governments of
France and England with a special combined mis-
sion, are about to visit Brazil and LaPlata. The object
of this mission, in which the envoys will act in con-
cert. is to open to the commerce of the world the
river La l'hita and its tributary streams, Parana and
Uruguay."
At the Bolls° the Fives rose 23, closing at 100.63.
The Threes rose 33, and closed at 71.40.