The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-10 00:00:00

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

(asurzz's txrszas.)
PARI9, FRB. 9.
The following is the return of the Batik of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :
Feb. 9. Feb. L
Drama. Yr. C. Yr. e.
Capital of the Bank
PYONII in addition to
tArt. 5, law of June 9, Id 7) d 7.007,793 24 1,9)4.470 23
Reserve of the Bank and Its
branched T2,106,750 14 2!,106.76014
Reserve in fluidal property
Notes to circulation
Bank notes to order and reuelpis
payable at sight..
Treasury accounts—curtest an-
ditor
Current amount.. Paris
Ditto brsach beaks
Dividends payable
In would. and sundry Interests
Re-discounted the hat ut
months 7.761.440 6 2.7911,446 e
'Sundries

f 0,906,331 14 $0.605.074 Il
15.,300.601 97 11:4211.015 1
211,730,11 0 10.2160300 0
2,574,64 s 75 3.290,358 75
4.026,013 56 4,267,974 46

1,267,931. W $t 1.Z3C,0036.600 33

Feb. 9. Feb.l.
Camroa. Fr. c. Fr. 9.
Cub in band and in branch
bulks
Commercial hills overdo . 614.664 0 2.306.519 44
Commercial bills discounted,
not 'et due
Ditto branch hanks
Advances on deposits of bullion 11.476.101 36 13,M06,931 Lb
Ditto branch hanks 4,243M0 0 4.203,610 0
Advances ou !'reach public 9e-
entitles 14,1911,100 9 11,927,600 0
Ditto branch banks
Advances on railway Mares
and debentures
Ditto branch banks
Advances on Credit Yonder
Bonds
Ditto branch .ts len .... .. 3.11,
130 0 365,450 0

Minutes to the Nate (emmrew-
Don 10th June, 19671
Government stock reset!. 1•0060,750 14 10.0e0.7r0 16
Ditto disposable 30,61911,799 91 96,806,737 91
Reales immobtliMes (law Dad
Junt, 1057)
Dote! and furniture of the beak&
landed property, breathes - 11.008.060 0 9.004949 9
Expenses of management
Sundries

1,287,33467 al 1,236,00.300 33
Mkencel) ROVLLND,
kenator, Governor of the Bank of France.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THOZIMAT EVZNISO.

The Moniteur publishes the expected decrees,
signed by the Emperor, proclaiming the dry fact,
unaccompanied by any penal sanction, that Cardinal
Mathieu, Archbishop of Besancon, and Mgr. de
Dreux BrizoS, Bishop of Moulins, committed an
" abuse "by reading from the pulpit that part of
the Encyclical the " reception,publication, and exe-
cution of which was not authorised in the French
empire." The report of the Council of State upon
which the decrees are founded was drawn up by
IL Lanes* a new member of that body, who
was lately translated to it from the judicial
bench expressly on account of his theologi-
cal knowledge, he having been educated with
a view to holy orders. The desire to
explain to a forgetful public the undoubted juris-
diction of the civil government, is perhaps a suffi-
cient excuse for a display of learning which for all
who have even a slight knowledge of the relations
between church and state in France was quite un-

necessary. M. Langleis himself disposes of the
whole question in this sentence :
Any dissuasion on the facto submitted to the council
would be superfluous. There is no doubt about these
facts, and they are not denied. Neither need we arras
about their character ; they constitute a manifest disobr
dience of the law of 18 germinal year X., and the appeal
" for abuse" is plainly well founded.
Notwithstanding the lowering of the rate of din-
oonnt by the Bank of France, the Bourse was not
good ; Rent. fell 10c. for cash and sc. for account,
closing at 67fr. and G7fr. 15c. Mobilier fell 7fr.
50c. Railways were 2fr. or 3fr. lower. The vote
of the Italian Chamber on the Lombard railways
led to the apprehension that M. de Rothschild's
connexion with them is at an end. It is still hoped
however, that fresh terms may be made.

A letter from Berlin, of the 7th, rays :—" Berlin
is exceedingly gay this season. You would hardly recePits
the dull old pleas, with its couple of balls a winter, end
nothing bet scientific monotony to fill up the intervals.
Whether part and parcel of the system, as the liberals
indignantly assert, whether arising from the more inno-
cent usage of celebrating vidoriee with waltzes, curtain it
le that society has seldom danced, masqueraded, and atti-
tudinised in the tableaux rirants line as much as in this
blessed winter of 1865. Among the most brilliant enter-
talanisots given has been the ball at the English embassy.
bcrecured by the presence of Prince and Primes, Ludwig of
Home, Priem Alfred, and the entire royal family of Prussia."
Monaignor Matteucci, director of the police at
Rome, has issued an edict prescribing certain days during
the present carnival during which people may wear mas-
querade apparel, but without either masks, false mom, or
beards, or any other mesas of concealing the face.

HEALTH

CARDINAL WI3HHAOO
'THIS DAY.)

The answer given to the numerous inquiries at
York-place this masted wi Mai the Cardinal had had
a more quiet night that was snilaipared by his nodding
attendants. Ms wookamo eaulhase to inceease. sad at
2 o'clock It woo NA he was la et extremely low eosillicw.

VIZ ANTI-MALT TAX AGITATION.

DIPUTATIOS TO Tll2 CIIANCZLLOR Or TIM 2101111021.
111 &warden= with the monitions palmed at the
great meeting of farmers is favour of the repeal of the malt
tax, held at the Freemeeoss' Tavern, ea Wednesday, a der
potation welted on the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
subject yesterday.
Genesi North, ILP., Introduced the depatation, which
war so largo that not more than half the members could oh.
tale admission into the mialetuial chamber. Among the
members el 'ornament preeest we observed—Sir &mad
Pinter, But, Hon. W. E. Huambo, Lord Henry Thyme,
H. Sorties, Sir M. ()baboon', Bert, &ice Parker,
Lord Balmy dale, C. Du (boo J. O. Oobbold, OatitainJ awn,
Hos. Dutton, Abel Smnb, Sir Joha Trollope, Bart.,
Ormsby Camel Fano, Calomel Cartwright, Lord
Augustus Hervey. B. B. Hartopp, J. Handley, G. Hodgkin-
eon, Major Beradord, W. O. Fester, Sir Charles Doegna, B.
Gunnel, Colonel Bathurst, Right Hon. Sir E. Bulger Lynn.
Bart., John Peel, J. M. Cobliett, Right Hoe.' C. B. Adder-
ley, Viscount Ingestre, Sir, Charles Mordaust, IVieconnt
Newport, Banks Stanhope, Darby Griffith, W. H. Bar-
row, Lord Stanhope, ha., Le. The musgement of the
deputation was ably regulated by Mr. Archibald Rig:tree,
parliamentary agent.
Colonel NORTH. in introducing the deputation, reminded
the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the ups cia of some of
the greatest, stateamee—br B. Peet andi Sir J. G
Mr. Valises, Lord J. Russell, and Mr. Oinks—who=
expressed themselves in favour of a repeal of the malt tax.
With the knowledge that year after year other taxes were
remitted, the farmers felt that the time had arrived whin
they should leave no atone untamed to procure the remis-
sion of a tax which pressed so heavily upon them. The fol-
lowing were the quotations be bad to make from the
mochas of the statesmen to whom he alluded :—Sir
R.
Peel :—"As a farmer, to the fm-traders I would say,
' Let me manufacture and assume my owe man untaxed.'
Sir James Graham :—" It embalmed the peke of beer ; this
sphenoid price of beer diminished the demand for it ; the
diminished demand caused a smaller quantity of barley to
be cultivated, and the lamed price of barley was a tax upon
the barlerland. U the corn laws were repealed sot a single
year would elapse heftiest= roan tax would oleo be repealed."
Mr.Villiem, 1859 :—" Would the landed iaterest be willing it
the malt tax were taken off to release the orinotry from the
tax on coral Ice of this be was sure that ell those injured by
WI operation of the earn laws would be lithos, nay
satins. By acceding to those terms the produce of the
malt tax would be lost to the revenue no doubt, but four
millions and • hall is • small sum indeed oompuvel with
what might be gained through the medium of taxation it
the 'mercy of the country were allowed its full and natural
play." Lord John Rune% 1846 :—" If I were pr me
minister when pectoral= be tagriaulture wee abolished, the
Ent tax I would repeal would be the malt tax." Mr. Cobden:
—" We sympathise with the farmer. We will never tolerate
one shilling duty on corn, but we will co-operate with them
in getting rid of that obnoxious tax the malt duty. We owe
fanners something, and we will endeavour to repay them in
kind." In February, 1864. speaking to • farmers' club at
Wakefield, be said :—" It has often occurred to me to com-
pare the cage of the British agriculturist, who after raising
a bushel of barley is compelled to pay a tax of 60 par ant.
before he is permitted to =avert it into • beverage for kb
own °assumption, with what I have seen in foreign
o =trice, aid loan really call to mind nothing so bud and
on unimonable. I find that the cultivators of vineyards la
France, acid the growers of olivse in Spain and Italy,
would never tolerate such treatment of their arias and
gm."
Mr. Fieldingsg, Mr. Coley, Mr. Baldwin, sad Mr. °sane
then ddrewsd the Chancellor, repeating the argumeote is
favour of the repeal of the tax urged by them at the meet-
ing et the Freeman.' Tavern, which were so fully re-
ported is our columns of yesterday.
Mr. BIDMILL, a farmer of Suffolk, also pointed oat the
evil effects of the impost in preventing the farmer. from
making the best use of their nod. The Chancellor was
also addressed by Mr. Everett, of Rushmore, and Mr. Lat-
timore, of Hertfordshire, who enlarged upon the diagnose
meal effects which the tax had upon the agricultural
lobules=
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—l am bound to
Wok you for the very succinct manner in which you have
presented your views on this important subject. On pre-
vious occasions when I have bad the honour of receiving
deputations with a similar object, 1 have bees glad to enter
freely into an exchange of remarks and arguments with
those who were chosen to w►it ofi hut in ►espect to ay
matters as the organ of the government in my department.
But the circurnatecom under which we meet to-day ars
not favourable to conversations of this kind,
therefore I beg you will understand that it is not out of say
disrespect, but from the pressure of physical necessity, if I
do not on this occasion enter into details, although a great
somber of interesting details have been brought forward.
I can only assure you that when the proper time arrives'
that Is what we think the proper time, viz., the close of the
financial year, it will be the duty of the government, if they
find themselves happily in pomeerioe of a prospective for-
plus, to make earth proposals as seem to them on full con-
sideration of all circumstances to be most just to the com-
munity at large, and in the community I need not say that
a great class, an important branch of which is represented
by the genttlenien I see before me, must be included as a
prominent part. I may add for your consolatioa that if
her Majesty's government were not really inclined to do you
justice, you are not altogether unprosided with the mesa
in the House of Commons of securing justice for your-
selves. (Hear, bear.)
The deputation then retired.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Correspondence re-
specting affairs in Japan; respecting the affairs of
Greece ; respecting the affairs of the Duchies of Holstein.
Lauseburg, and Sieswig ; and respecting the attack on
St. Alban's, Vermont, and Naval Force on the North
Amerkan lakes, was presented to both House of Perlin-
ment yesterday. The "Convention between her Majesty
arid the Sultan for the sstabliahment of Telegraphic Casa-
=Lineation between India and the Ottoman Territory,"
and a " Despatch from Sir R. Aloxk respecting the murder
of Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird at Kainaknrs, in
Japan," were also laid upon the Mb/0.
CONTROVERTED ELECTIONE.—The Speaker has
appointed the following members to serve oa the General
Committee of Elections for the present erasion :—Sir F. T.
Baring, But. ; Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Right Hoe.
Lord Athlumney, Sir W. Miles, Bart., Mr. G. W. Hunt,
and Mr. J. Bonham-Carter.
Alderman Selomons intends ou the 21st to
bring forward • bill to facilitate the traffic of the metro-
polis and to improve the ootomunicatioiss serous the River
Thames by opening the present toll-bridges for the free
use of the public.
On going into committee of supply on the 24th,
Mr. Bailie Cochrane will ask the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs whether the pensions 'signed under
schedule Bof the convention of the 29th March, 1864, be.
tween her Majesty and the King of the Hellenes, have been
paid in accordance with that convention ; and whether her
Majesty's government intends to take any steps for the
security of the recipients of those pensions, by placing those
British subjects who served her Majesty under the late
locum constitution on the same footing as pensioners of the
British crown.
Mr. Scholefield proposes, on the 28th, to move
for • select committee to inquire into the reasons for the
dianiesal of Mr. Mandl from the °Mee of her Majesty's
Roman catholic inspector of schools.
A correspondent at Rome writes on the lit :
"The season has undergone • most charming change, and
the few days past do eminent junco to the tame of Italian
skies. The Cam :egos in many places is white with daisies
—the crocuses and anemones are in full bloom, and early
apricot trees are rich with blossom. The Tiber is high frau
melted snows, and present indications are that winter is at
an end."
Admiral Mb= Pasha and the officers of the

Imperial Ottoman squadron now at Portsmouth, were en-
tertained last evening by Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
C.C.S., Port. Admiral and Naval Commander.in•Chiet at
Portsmouth, at a ball at the Admiralty House, Portsmouth
Dockyard.
Accounts from Madagascar state that the English
mead had been received by the Queen, and that her Ma.
jesty mid in her speech on the °maxims. " SO long as I shall
maintain friendly relations with the Queen Victoria I shall
be powerful."
The Brussels journals announce that the Duke
de &shoat had left Calcutta, and is making a tour through
Hindustan. Oa the 23rd of January be was at Lnckuow,
the capital of Oude. His royal highness is In excellent
health.
The Italie of Turin announces that the Empress
Eugenie has just lost, before the supreme tribunal of
Madrid, a trial Irbil* has lasted some years. Her Majesty
I claimed the inheritance of the °manikin of Miranda, and
the Immense estates attached to the title, but the Nalpica
' family also alleged its rights, and a decision in favour of
the latter has hese given.

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