The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

THE BLOCKADE IN THE BALTIC.

aiptain Wation's advance Kaaren left Biel oe
No 6th hest., and wire off Moen Head on the following
morning; but, as the wind blow hard from the east, Capt.
Watson' diterminod on net wasting mal by (orclag the
sgaadies agonise it. Her Maisety's ships ffylailes, 21, Cap-
tain D'Hyseoert ; Faeroe, 6, Ceptala Hand; Falcon, 17,
Ommaader Pallets ; and Hurler, 17, Commander Harri-
man, had sachored ander MISS Head the sight before, and
were compelled to get under way when the wind shifted.
On the Impirioase, 61, Captain Watson, CB., inset-
lag these ships, they all steamed to the aorth-
ward, and ushered noitlkweet of Furtado* Light.
hew% when they renaimed until the wind abated,
whMh It did in shoal three ►oars after they
aneherad, when they ell loft, mil, steering to the eastward,
pond Boralolme ea Friday mends', reached the south
cad of °Amid about wee, off which they pusrd through
lesimenie gel of ban in; esatinaleg cn, th'y pseud the
south sad of o..thlaad at midnight, arrived at Faro ea
lleterday nursing at 2, as/ head the inner harbour com-
pletely 'rosin over, and groat quantities of low is. in the
outer. Oa he 12th the Baryabse, 61, Captaia Ramsay, C. 8.,
jobbat thaw, last from Xi& ; she wired to s snow-stem,
sad sash trod Lea the lepdriense, and those It tatty shout
200 yards frau her Captain Rams.y gunnel, half an hoar
is rattin4 ha way t+•oagh Vie too In use f his lasts to
report hie arrival. The squints woad weigh in a day or
two, and main Author.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

CIII• DI 001 OWN 00111SP0NDINT.)
PARIS, WIDNZIDAT ETININO.
_ _

Yesterday the Prussian plenipotentMries sat for the
first time in the Copper'. The eleventh meeting of
the Cooper will probably take place tomorrow
(Thursday.)
The following bulletins were issued to-day :
Muth 19, 11 a.m.
The milk fever of the Empress bee come on in a mild aad
regular form.

Match 19, half-peat 11.
The health el the imperial prince is excellent.
The following bulletin of the health of Prince
Jerome was issued this morning :

The provers towards

Nan h 19, half-put 10, cm.
%lemmas ontioues.

. -
The Emperor's various speeches, delivered in an-
swer to the congratulations offered to him, were not
known at the Bourse yesterday, and it might
have been supposed that the positive announce-
meet which they imply that peace lass good as settled
would have produced 'considerable effect to-day. Such
has not, however, been the case. The over-bought state
of the market continues to over-rule all other con-
siderations. The Rente, after an insignificant ries,
closed at 72fr. 55c. and 72fr 75c., with a rise of sc.
fat messy, and a fall of sc. for account. Most other
securities were better. Credit Mobilier did not main-
tain the highest quotations of the day, but it realised
a ries of Mr. Bank of France role 25fr. Railways
were generally Mr., and in one or two instances 10fr.,
higher. The market, however, was decidedly dull
at the close.

Admiral Finland, Commander-in-Chief of the
Bettie Naval Division, left Paris for Brest on
Sunday.
_ . . _ _

It is calculated, from statistical tables, that the
number of children born in France on March 16, to
all of whom the Emperor and the Empress have
promised to be godfather and godmother, must be
about 2,500. Every one of these children, whose
families may be willing to accept it, will receive, I
am told, a present of 3,000 fr. It is intended that all
the boys shall be christened Louis Eugene, and the
girls Eugioie Louise. The proportion of boys to
girls born in France is about 45 to 43.

The Sieele calls attention to the fact that the nu-
merous pardons announced in the Monsteur, on the
occasion of the birth of the Prince, do not extend to
any political offences.
A numerous body of the debris of the old Imperial
Guard went to the Tuileries yesterday to offer a
bouquet to the Empress, and to present their homage
to the Imperial infant.

This has been the most melancholy day for the
promenade of Lougchamps that has been remem-
bered for many years. It has poured with rain the
whole day, the atmosphere is suffocating, there is
not air enough to stir a pocket-handker-
chief, and the city is covered by a dark
panoply of low clouds, as thick (but blacker) as
a London fog in November. A number of new
public carriage!, started by the Imperial Carriage
Company, were to make their first appearance to-
day on the promenade. I minuet say whether they
were there I but, at all events, there can have been
but few people to look at them. Should this weather
continue to-morrow, the Loogchamps fashions,
which it has been rumoured were to exhibit un-
usually striking innovations, can only be stalled in
the dressmakers' and tailors' shops.
Baumann, the murderer of the Countess de Can-
moot Laforee, will probably be tried at the begin-
ning of next month.
The annual prise cattle show at Poissy took place
to-day, and was fairly attended, notwithstanding the
bad weather. The number of animals exhibited was
more considerable than last year, and it is affirmed
that the quality was better. The grand prise was
awarded to the Count de Fallon:, for a Durham-
Mallow's ox, which was very much admired.
Some sensation has been occasioned by the
intelli-
gemca that the Minister of Public Itstruction and
Worship hes desired the Imperial Council of Public
Instruction to prepare an expurgated edition of "Le
Sigel, de Louis XIV." of Voltaire, so that the work
may be toed as a class book. "The Minister," says
the Journal General de 1' Instruction Palique,* has
thus satisfied the desire of public opinion, and also of
fathers of families who would not see their children
left in complete ignorance of such • writer as Vol-
taire, but who, at the same time, would not wish to
show them any but the irreproachable parts of the
great writer."