The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

THE CONFERENCES.
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PARIS, WIDNISDAT Evurixo.
The Congress assembled today for the fourteenth
time, and I understand that the plenipotentiaries have
resolved to meet every day until the treaty is signed.
A morning paper states that the Gas Company has
received orders to be ready to illuminate Paris
to-morrow night, and I know that the Commissaries
of Police were this morning summoned to the Pre-
fecture to receive some special orders, which some
people think relate to the illuminations for peace.
Neverthelc.,:. I ua not thick the proclamation of the
expected event is so very near at hand.
This evening's Patrie says :
Withsut departing from the rea•r•c impend upon us, we
believe we may announce that the Title difEcultits spoken
cf by some loreiga j tunnels b.ve not come to any ad.
The Cmgrtss and the cummissiouers of the secondary
plectipotent.a. es are active y pursuing their labours.
The Asseinblee Nationale contains the following
article, which will be found interesting under the
circumstances of the moment:

The Mom of the Coneriss are evidently drawing to a
dose. All the etrential conditions of ihe treaty which is
ta bi wow peace on Europe have teen settled, it is said, some
days ago; and some arrangements concerning the Denubien
provinces and their internal rule have alone retarded its'
definitive conclusion. It is added that the signatures
will be ailed probibly this week—Thursday or Fr.day.
What we can assure is this, that Lord Clarendon has made
several P.P.C. visit•, and has announced that Le will
quit Neill on Sunday morning, in order to be present at
the Holiday's sitting of the House of Lords. We be-
lieve that in tha course of the negotiation the best her-
inony has not spprared to reign between the plenipoten-
tiaries of Austria and Russia, and that there has been in
their flintiest' something of that bitterness which is ususlly
is be remarked in old friends who lave been separated by
eireurnstanose, end mutually believe therasalves ill-treated.
In a word, if appearances were to be behaved, as also the

commentaries to which they hare given rise, the intimate
alliance which existed befvre the war between the three
gre►t northern court. is mane cr less seriously compromised.

The Asaemblee concludes by stating that Count
Orloff will remain in Paris in the quality of ambas•
odor extraordinary, and on the re-establishment of
peace will notify to the Court of the Tuileries the
accession of the Emperor Alexander 11., whose
ooroaation will take place in the month of August.
According to the same journal, France will be re-
presented at Moscow on the occasion by an ambas-
sador extraordinary, and England by the Duke of
Cambridge.

The Bourse has been very doll. Several specu-
lators being uneasy at the prolonged sittings of the
Congress, closed their accounts. The Rente left off
at ytsterday's prices, 721 r. 40c. for cash, and tell 20c.
for account, closing at 72fr. 50c. The Paris and
Lyons Railway fell 10fr., and almost all the other
lines were two or three franca lower. Mobilier fell
2fr. 50c.

The Bank of France, the Caiue d'Amortissement,
the Caine des Consignation., and other financial es-
tablishment. under the control of the government,
have received positive orders to invest their diepcs•
able capital in reports at the Bourse, at not more
than 6 per cent. interest. The Finance Minister is
overwhelmed with complaints against the new mea-
sure restricting the dealings of the eotsliue. Letters
from London state that some idea is entertained on
the Stock Exchange of excluding certain French se-
aunties from their quotations by way of retaliation.
I understand that M. Megne thoeght the new rale
impolitic, bat the Emperor insisted upon it.
The Court of Cessation has to-day given judgment
on the great electoral question, and (u might have
been expected after their decision in the Orleans con-
fiscation cue) has pronounced in favour of the Govern.
ment. It is accordingly ruled by the Supreme Court
that in a country where universal suffrage is ostenta-
tiously proclaimed to be sovereign, the electors are
not entitled to know the names of any candidates,
except such as the Government may choose to tell
them of, and that the giving of a piece of paper,
with a mere name upon it, by one elector to another,
is a penal offence.

Mdlle. de Casablanca was married to-day at the
Chapel of the Luxembourg Palace to M. Bailie de
Casselbanne, a merchant of Montpelier. Prince and
Princess Murat, the Princess Baciocchi, and a large
number of official personages, attended the cere-
mony.

SPAIN.

We read in the Paris Pafrie of the 26th :—" A
telegraphic despatch received this morning from Ma-
drid, announces that the Finance Minister, M. Santa
I Crum, has called a meeting of all the proposers of
motions against his financial scheme, in the hope of
coming to an understanding without a public dis-
cussion. Marshal O'Donnell is again unwell."

THE UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
(BY HAONETIC TELEGRAPH)
(PROX OVA OWN CORREAPONDENT.)

LIVERPOOL. TEULSDAT.

The royal mail steam-ship, America, Captain
Whickman, arrived in the Mersey at midnight. and
hu brought, besides the mails, 62 paussogen, and
325,000 dollars in specie, on freight. She left Boston
on the 12th inst., and Halifax on the 14th. She
passed the screw steamer, Emu, on the 20th.
. . _

The Africa arrived at New Tort on the Bth; and
the Arabia, from hones at Boston, 00 the 13th.

Nothing heard of the Pacific.

The Senate on the 10th was occupied with the
consideration of the bill appropriating the 3,000,000
dollars for increasing the armaments for the effi-
ciency of the national defences. General Casa de-
livered a speech relative to the difficulties with Great
Britain. He did not see how the Central American
controversy could be referred to arbitration ; it was
not a question of boundary or indemnity, but a
mere question about the messing of a word. No
arbitrator could tell ne what the word "occupy"
means better than we know already. The bill
finally passed to a third reading by a Tote of 22
to 12.

Bermuda advice, to Feb. 26, state that the House
of Assembly is about to be dissolved. The Emperor
of Hayti returned to Port-aa-Prince on the 14th of
February, and ascribes his defeat to treetop. The
yellow fever is raging fearfully. Shipping and busi-
ness in a wretched condition.
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The money market at New Yoik is easy; Stocks
inactive. Exchange on London, 108 to 1091; ditto,
on Paris, 6.171 to 6.221.
Cotton closed rather easier.

The breadstuff market improved; flour was in fair
demand at 121 cents. advance; provisions heavy;
freights firmer.

The Marquis Wielopolski, who has inherited the
insane fortes* at the late Count fieldsiesta, le about, :n
oosplia,.es with the testator's wishes, to establish a library
and wawa & at Warsaw, and he has purchased the large
Zaluelii Palace for the purpose.

The first Paris steeplec hues of the season come off'
on Sunday ant at La Idncke, neer Valle d'Avray. One
of ahem will he very serious, as in it two noted English pe•
&Orions, l'homss, " the Salopiaa," and Maaks, " the War-
wickshire Antelope," are to run against hones ; the dis-
tance is to be a mile and a half, and the "jumps " not fewer
than fifty—one of them over the famous dm.

TEMPEST IN THE BLACK SEA.
NUMEROUS WRECKS.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Constantinople,
March 24, was posted yesterday at Ll~7d's, fly an-
nouncing another terrible storm in the Black Sca, which
appears to have been severely felt fa the vicinity of
Kuateudje, between Varna and the mouth of the Danube.
It broke out on the morn'og of the 14th Mit , and con-
tinued with fearful violenoe for 48 hour, in the course of
which ne leis than sin Erglith barques and five brig.,
chiefly employed in the Transport Stores Service, and 10
foreign ships, were wholly wrecked. The names of the
English vessels are reported is the message" as follows :

The barque Zealous, 339 tons burthen, Captain Collinson.
She VII. a Sunderland-built ship, launched in 144, be-
logging tr Messrs. CoMason and Co., in the City, and was
chased in Lloyd's Registry A 1 for 12 years; saw saved.
The barque Snarebrook, 459 ton., Captain Caithness cow
'sander, belonging to the port of London. She was
launched at Sunderland in 11.52, and was classed A 1 for
9 jean ; crew saved.

The barque Constantine, 608 tons, Captain Rogers muter,
belonging to Bristol, where the owners, M, airs. Brass and
Co., reside. She was built at Backwater in 1847, and
classed at Lloyd's at A 1 for 12 years ; crew saved.

The barque Cadet, 317 tour, C.ptain Hatfield, of lAndou,
launched at Nova Scotia in 1819; classed A 1 for 4 ware;
crew raved.

The beNue A4nrs King, 278 tonr, Carlin Gray, belong-
ing to North Snielde, Al . Woodhouse aad Co. owner,.
Snip built at Sunderland in 1816, end eloped A 1 for 8
years ; crew need.

he barque March Hizon (it i. t ,hat ,Irne mis •
take hat uccorrai in telegreptsing th• name of ti,:s ship ;
the name is n ,t to be tuned in It g,stry) ; the crew
ia reported bale.

The Engl.sh brigs List are the Mary Hudson, 301 tons,
Captain Brawl., bp longing to Hartley ,o', crew saved; the
Emily Kate, 238 tons, Captain oowring, belonging to
North Shields, crew steed; the Bunt Ana, crew saved;
the William, crew saved ; and the Wave, crew saved.

Among the otht r wrecks the?* were throe French ahipt,
the V.lle de Dunkerque, the Vole, and the Joan. r Jetnr;
the crews were staid.

The whole of the English teasel; were insured at Lind's.

ITALY.

(FROM 0111 OWN COMIZSPONDINT.)

ROSIE, MARCH P.
Oa Sunday morning, shortly before nom:, the
Eternal City resounded to the discharge of artillery
from the Castle of St. Angelo, announcing to the
Roma- population and French garrison the birth of
an heir to the throne of Napoleon 111. The tele-
graphic despatch bearing this important intelligence,
dated March 16, 3 a.m., and addressed by the Em-
peror to his Holiness the Pope, reached Rome at 9
o'clock on the same morning, and was communicated
to his Holiness just at the commencement of the
grand ceremony of blessing and distributing
palms and olive branches to the cardinals,
ambassadors, and other ecclesiastical and ciril
dignitaries of the court collected together for that
purpose, with a vast crowd of foreign sight-seers, in
the ample basilica of St. Peter. The commandant of
the artillery, M. de Montreal, brother of the general-
in-chief, immediately lett the church to give orders
for a salute of a hundred and one guns from the
neighbuurirg fortress of St. Angelo, and the startling
sound, echoing along the piaz,s, and colonnade of St.
Peter's, was taken by most of the uninitiated spec-
tators, whe were gazing on the Portiff borne aloft
in his gorgeous sedia gestatoria, for part and parcel
of the imposing ceremony.
It would be a mistake to imagine that the Pope, or
his venerable brethren the cardinals, have put them-
selves out of the way to express any feeling of extra-
ordinary satisfaction at the birth of the Imperial
Prince, however great may be the obligations they
are under to the French Emperor. The salute came
from the French artillery in the morning, and the
illuminations were limited to the French establish-
ments and embassy in the evening, nor d:d the
official journal of the following day allude to the fact
otherwise than by briefly communicating the tenor
of the telegraphic despatch. In the lengthy deacrip-
tiou of the Palm Sunday ceremonies in that sage
periodical the usually technical paragraphs are wound
up with the following unusual and somewhat algal.
Ocant digression respecting the frail nature of earthly
conquerors' triumphs:
A great number of faithful, especially foreigners, col-
lected from every part, assisted at the sacred ceremony
which records the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem
—an entry the memory of whit h was not rerpetaated with
arches and obelisks, as conquering king. have done to render
their triumphs eternal ; nevertheless it has remained, after
more than eighteen crttn,ies, strongly impressed en the
mind of every believer. Centuries passing over marble
monument' overturn them and scatter even the ruins, but
they are not able to caned a pace of the geepil entrusted to
the faithful custody of the church.
The French ambassador has issued invitations to
the French subjects residing in or passing through
Rome to assist at a solemn Te Deem, which will be
chanted next Sunday in the National Church of St.
Louis, to return thanks to God for the happy deli-
verance of the Empress and the birth of the Impe-
rial prince. The interest of the court of Rome in
this event will be displayed by the more or less
numerous attendance of cardinals and prelates at
the TO Deana. Oa the Monday following it is the
intention of many British residents and visitors to
leave their cards at the French Embassy, in demon-
stration of the sympathy and congratulation natural
between allies. . _ .

This morning hie Holiness has been occupied in
washing the feet of thirteen priests, who represent
the Apostles, in the church of St. Peter, and in sub-
sequently waiting on them at dinner, a repast which
he offers them in one of the halls of the Vatican. It
may be imagined what attractions sights each as
these, surrounded by all the pageantry of the eeria
gladiola court, present to the newly-arrived travel-
lers who crowd every edit to the basilica and
palace, and find it " labour dire indeed, and weary
woe" to attend every tniserere, benediction, procession,
or display of relics,so plentifully indulged in during
the holy week. Amongst the foreign grandees who
figure in the reserved seats this year are Prince Al-
bert of Prussia, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Meiningeo, and the Hereditary Prince of Holstein
Augustenbourg.
Three rival propositions for the lines of railway in
the Papal States have been subjected to the exami-
nation of the Financial Council of Sate, and are now
before the council of ministers. It appears probable
that the line from Rome to Civita Vecchia will be
granted to Mr. Shepherd, director of the Roman gam
works, who offers most advantageous conditions, and
will doubtless organise a satisfactory company. The
Marquis of Monclar has been for years is treaty for
the great line from Rome through Ancona to Bologna.
and is now likely to obtais the necessary concession
from the government. The third competitor is the
Duke of Rtanzares, but as his conditions include the
demand of a guaranteed interest of six per cent. ow
the capital employed, he will hardly succeed in esta-
blishing his pretensions.
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A letter from Rome, of the 20th, in the Univers,
says:
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Since the 16th, little has been bilked of here but the birth
of the Prince Imperial of France, the news of which reached
this city about ten in the morning. The telegraphic des-
patch ►nnouncing the event was, it is said, signed by the
Emperor himself, and concluded by requesting the apostolic
benediction. It wee addressed personally ti the Pope. At the
moment when it arrived, his Holiness was at St. Peter's, per-
forming divine service, and it was during the singieg that
it was delivered to Cardinal Antonelli. The tees 5000
Wad abroad, particularly among the French soldiers, who
locked to the church in crowds. The Pope immediately
seat his canyratulat'oas and his benediction to the Empe-
ror, by the telegraph. A great number of French sad ales
of foreign residents went to the French embassy, and in-
, scribed their names. Prince Lucien Bonaparte, private
I ehambe eels to the Pope, arrived here on the I.sth. It is
said that after he his been ordained priest by the l'ope, be
will retsina to Paris, where he will perhaps take an active
and official part in the eeremony of the baptism.

The Dinanais says that a widow lady, named
Madame Andre, left Moan on Palm Sunday, with the in-
tention of proecediag to Jaquesltm on fat, taking Rome in
her way. Th:s pilgrimage le undertaken In pursuance of
4 TOW.