The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK. Area 3, Evismo.
Money easy. Exchange steady. Stocks de-
pressed. Cotton firm and advancing. Breadstuffs
—good demand and firm.

QUEENSTOWN, Amu, 14. 1
The Royal Mail steamship America arrived off
Roche's Point at 8.30 p.m. with 56 passengers and
10,000 dole. in specie. She landed 112 sacks of
mails and two passengers, and proceeded for Liver-
pool at &50 p.m. All well.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, April 15 :

MALTA, Aran. 14.

The Sultan, with the India, China, and Aus-
tralia passengers, &c., left yesterday at noon for
Marseilles.

THE BOMBAY MAIL

The Delta left yesterday at 7 p.m. for Soutimmp-
ton, where she may be expected about April 22
The Valetta leaves to-day at 6 p.m. for Marseilles.
OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The Pera (from Southampton on the 4th) sailed
yesterday at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. The Vectia
(from Marseilles on the 12th) leaves to-day at
11p.m. for Alexandria.

The Oat-Dentsehe Post of Vienna says :—" Prince
Ipsilanti, who, Om the bitte of Easter, is to marry the
Countess Sins, has arrived here from Paris with a numerous
and brilliant suite, mast of them wearing the national cos-
tume. Benin Sias yesterday gave a grand musical soiree fn
honour of the prince."
A Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels, in speak-
ing of the reported pregnancy of the Countess deChembord,
says :—"There is only one objection to this. The Princess
Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria-Este, and eldest
daughter of the late Francis IV., Duke of Modena, was
born on the 14th July, 1817. She is, therefore, now forty-
five years of age, and hes been married to the Count de
Chambord since 1846. These dates give us a right to doubt
the veracity of this statement."
The Queen of Sheba is withdrawn from the Grand
Opera, Paris, which ceased to be well attended while it was
being nightly represented there. Pierre de Mtdiris has
been substituted, and was last week, for the first time this
sewn, brought forward with much succor. The composer
received quite an ovation, which he was not slow in acknow-
ledging. Mdlle. Sax is hemming a favourite.
The Odeon, Paris, had accepted a comedy by K
AtsZine Hotuissye, Le Roi Soleil. described sa being •
powerful satire on Louie XIV.. his peculiarities, and his
courtiers. The dramatic censorship has prohibited its per-
formance, on the ground of its being filled with political
allusions. It is considered probable that the author will
appeal to the Emperor.
Considerable curiosity was excited in Paris on
Sunday afternoon by observing • balloon hovering for some
time over Paris. It turned out on inquiry that Count de
Morner, a Swedish nobleman, had applied to MM. Godard,
expressing his readiness to pay for making an ascent in their
company, and those amounts immediately placed them-
selves at his disposal. They all ascended from a spot close
to the gas-works of Boulogne, and after remaining some
time in the air enjoying the beautiful panorama of Paris,
the *orlon travellers effected descents at Auteuil, Posey,
Neuilly, and Terse,. The balloon at last, after an excur-
sion of about three hours, came down definitively at
Levallois. _ _ _

General Turr has been restored to his rank in
the active swmy of Italy by a decree of King Victor Emma-
noel, dated 11th inst.
The sitting of the Austrian Chamber of Peers
on Friday, wee marked by a stormy incident rare enough
in the upper house. Count Than directed reproaches, In
no measured terms, against the President, who had pre-
vented him from making • speech near the close of the
dircuesioo. Count Than and his friends retired, the result
of which was that the chamber was no longer numerous
enough to vote.
A letter from Athens announces an important
discovery for the history of art, width has just been made
by Mr. Starch, an English architect, and member of the
arehmological commission sent to Greece. Researches
which Mr. Starch has caused to be made at his own
expense have brought to light the ancient theatre of
Bacchus, upon the southern slope of the Acropolis. Not-
withstanding the political perturbation ►t Athena, this din.
covery has caused • general eensatioa.