The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

TOE EXPRESS,

the mea emoted. The fact of addisinsing "-d2
tory and anarchical* correspesdesee to a
country does not conadtute a Grime amenableWM
Frensi kir. 'lf the prisoners awe to hOdeatt with in
a court of justice, the indictment, if grounded on cor- I
respondence merely, must tall to the ground for want
of poet of publication in France. Papers found
in theirlouses might, indeed, be evidence of a poli-
tical conspiracy, but it is not pretended by the Pays
that any such has been discovered. The ominous al-
lusion to the interests of the "public peace"--a
phrase synonymous with that hackneyed and odious
one, " public safety," occasions much uneasiness to
the numerous friends of the prisoners.
From private information I learn that General
de St. Priest was set at liberty last night, he
having been arrested by mistake, instead of a
relative of the same name—either, as I am told
1 his brother or his son. Another mistake of a similar
kind also °scuffed. Orders had been given to arrest
a M. Mirabean, a legitimist, but the police arrested his
brother, Count Mirabeau, a warm Bonapartist.
The count has of course been set at liberty,
and I understand that some of the other pri-
soners, after being interrogated by the police, have
also been set free. I have not heard of any other
. names in addition to those I sent you yesterday.
The Duke de Rovigo, as you are aware, is the son of
Napoleon's marshal, the famous Savary. His
sister has just been appointed a lady of
honour to the Princess Mathilde. I cannot say
that the arrests, so far as I am able to observe, (ace-
. sion anything like excitement in the public mind
generally They arelooked upon as accidents "of
course" belonging to the present system of govern-
! meat.

The Pairie says :
The persons who have just been the objects of clemency
on the pert of the Emperor had all attracted notice by their
conduct and their repentance. Their pardon was either
solicited by themselves or by their families.
It is difficult to reconcile this statement with the
announcement made long ago, that pardon might in
all cases be had for the asking. It is physically im-
possible that the solicitations here spoken of
can have been sent in since the Emperor's marriage--
the ostensible occasion of the amnesty. This state-
ment also goes to show that the numbers yet under-
going punishment rather than beg for pardon must be
very large. It takes away all the grace supposed to
belong to the wedding amnesty.
It is announced that there will be no balls or
parties at the different ministries during Lent.
A Hamburg journal states, on the authority of a
letter from Parts, that the Emperor Napoleon 111. has
ordered that the allowance made by the State towards
the support of the schools in Paris for the children
of Polish emigrants, and which had been suppressed
after the coup cretat of the 2nd of December, shall be
renewed. The Emperor, it is added, has provisionally
fixed the allowance at the rate of 10,000 fr. per
annum.

M. Clerset, aloof the most eminent artists in
works of industry. has been charged by the Minister
of the Interior to visit England ter the purpose of
examining the progress made there in the arts con-
nected with manufactures.

The grand ball given in honour of the imperial
nuptials, by the Senate, to the Emperor and Empress
to-night, has kept the city in motion for these three
days past, and the most famous days of French splen-
dour seem again revived. The company are now assem-
bling; dense crowds are congregated around the
gates of the Palace of the Luxembourg; the Emperor
and Empress are anxiously looked for ; the approach
is guarded by relays of cuirassiers, who, however
I cannot prevent the eager peeping of the Parisians
into the carriages of the guests as they arrive. The
line of vehicles extends more than a mile, and not a
few well-powdered English coachmen of the old
school are among tee conductors of waives moving
on slowly to this nationalist..
Yesterday the Emperor invited the Princes Frede-
ric and Christian of Schleswig-Holstein to witness a
grand review of cavalry at Versailles. The division
was commanded by General Korte, and the Empress,
mounted on a fine charger, was present. The
Empress rode very gracefully, and the acclamations
were enthusiastic.

The Moniteur of to-day records that an upholsterer
named Paul Ledra was on Saturday sentenced to a
tine of 100 francs, and six months' imprisonment, for
wearing "fleur-de-lis in his button-hole and on his
shirt bosom.

Two other persons were at the same time con-
demned to fines of 600 francs each, and six months'
imprisonment, for having, in December last, uttered
offensive language against the (then) President.
Among the persons amnestied are seven provincial
editors, MM. Oustry of Aveyron, Desolme of
Perigneux, Noulons of Candour, Amoreux of Cha-
tesureux, Viochot of Dijon, Daportal of Toulouse,
and Jolibois of Colmar.
The brothers Rothschild have contracted for a
loan of fifty million francs to Piedmont, and another
of fifteen million francs to Tuscany.

PARIS. SUNDAT ETININO.
The navigation returns for 1852 show the follow-
ing results. There were employed in all the ports
of Francs (outwards and inwards), 240,778 Wpm,
having an aggregate tonnage of 11,734,325, and
crews amounting to 1,241,254 men. The ten ports
of France which principally contributed to this result
are the following, placed in the order of the amount
of tonnage appertioniag to each :-Marseilles, 15,366
ships, 1,672,323 tons, 133,960 men ; Havre, 9,615
ships, 1,254,807 tons, 88,101 men; Bordeaux,
15,997 ships, 869,422 tons, 72,834 men; Nantes,
14,935 ships, 580,843 tons, 61,373 men ; Rouen,
6,215 ships, 541,355 tons, 37,724 men; Calais, 3,337
ships, 390,021 tons, 54,318 men; Cette, 3,903 ships,
367,487 toes, 32,125 men; Dunkirk, 4,439 ships,
362,177 tow, 31,871 men; Boalogne, 2,340 ships,
323,330 tons, 30,395 men; Dieppe, 2,017 ships,
191,021 tons, 14,963 men.
I mentioned some time since that the discount
bank of Paris intended to inCTOllle the amount of its
capital. The resolution of the bank to this effect re-
quired to be confirmed by the municipal commission
of Paris, and the confirmation has just been voted.
The discount bank was created in March, 1848, by a
decree of the provisional government. The duration
of its existence was limited to three years, but on
Feb. 20, 1850, the Legislative Assembly recognising
the important services rendered by this bank to retail
trade, prolonged its charter until 1847. It will be
remembered that in 1848 the bank of France,
insisting upon the letter of its statute?, refused
to discount bills having less than three signatures.
The discount bank taking paper with two signatures
afforded facilities to small tradesmen which were
eagerly taken advantage of. Its progress has been
very encouraging to the projectors, for, from its in-
stitution up to the Ist of last January, 1,477,618 bill,
of the value of 1,088,838,782 E, have been discounted
by this bank. The capital, hitherto 20 millions, has,
by the recent vote, been augmented to 33,333,500 f. B 7
the original statutes the state and the city of Pans
guaranteed two-thirds of the capitaL One of the
terms of the new arrangement is that this gua-
rantee is not to be increased. The conse-
quence is that the state and the city will
be only responsible for two fifths instead of
two-thirds of the present capital. The 26,867
shares of 500 f. each [representing the complement of
the capital of 20,000,000 E, to be furnished by the
shareholders, will be issued immediately at 550 E,
of which 500 f. is for the increase of the reserve fund ;
13,333 of these shares will be reserved as preference
shares to the holders of the 13,333 already
realised, and the 13,334 remaining, and all
those which may not be taken by the share-
holders within a delay fixed on by the direc-
tors, will be given up to a company of capitalists.
The directors of the bank have moreover applied to
the government for a further extension of its charter,
and there is little doubt that a bill for this purpose
will be nted to the Corps Legislatif early in the
approaching session. Thus at least one institution
created by the provisional government promises to
take root in the country.