The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
In the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday
the President of the Council of Ministers presented a
bill, demanding a credit of 400,000 f., for a loan to be
made to the Lombard emigrants, who had become
Sardinian citizens, and whose property had been
sequestrated by the Austrian government.
A telegraphic despatch announces Marshal St.
Arnaud's arrival at Lyons. He was to go to Chalons
to-day, and is expected in Paris to-morrow.
The Military Council of Revision, presided by
General itissert, has rejected the appeal of Colonel do
Sercey, against the sentence of five years' imprison-
ment passed on him by tke court-martial. The
appeal of l'errichard, the man who, after being un-
justly accused of the murder of the Archbishop of
Paris, was sentenced to transportation as an in-
surgent of June, has also been rejected.
An action for libel brought by Count de Morny
and others against M. Cabrol, managing director of
the Decazeville iron works, and M. Darius, editor of
the Moniteur Industrie!, was tried yesterday by the
tribunal of correctional police. This is one of those
cases which may not be reported according to the law
of the empire. Itis to be collected from the judgment
that the alleged libel was an article written in the
Moniteur Industrie! by M. Cabrol, in which he ques-
tioned the truth and honeaty of certain statements in
a prospectus of the Mining and Iron Com-
pany of Aubin, of which Count de Morny is
one of the directors. The Court was of opinion that
although the article complained of was libellous
sin its nature, it was pointed only against the authors
of the prospectus, which did not appear to have been
drawn up by the directors of the Aubin Company.
On these grounds a verdict was given for the defen-
dants, and Count de Morny and his partners were
ordered to pay the cost.
It is said, in explanation of several of the recent
arrests in Paris, that the London refugees had de-
vised a scheme for raising a loan for revolutionary
purposes, and that a list of persons thought likely to
contribute, was found upon the person of one of their
emissaries, Every body named in that list was then
arrested and searches were made at their houses. This
would account for the arrest of many respectable
tradesmen who have recently stood entirely aloof
from politics. It does not appear that the loan pro-
ject has met with much encouragement. Very few
of the domiciliary visits have led to any result, and
most of the prisoners against whom nothing more
could be alleged than that some of their exiled fel-
low-countrymen remembered them as republicans,
were speedily released.
A painful sensation has been produced at Agen by
the appearance of an advertisement for the sale of
the house belonging to M. Baze, the ex-represen-
tative and questor of the National Assembly. M.
Haze was the leader of the bar at Agen, where he
was much respected. He is still in exile, having
declined to make the humiliating declaration
without which none of the victims of December 2
can return to France.

M. Magne, the Minister of Public Works, lately
attended a sitting of the Council of State, to give
some explanations relative to the Grand Central
(Bordeaux and Lyons) Railway. He spoke in glow-
ing terms of the advantages ot the project. The com-
pany, he said, had undertaken, at its own risk, to ,
make at least 230 kilometres out of the 900 kilome-
tres, of which the whole line, with its branches, will
consist, while the state made no sacrifices to obtain
this result, and was not bound to grant any subven-
tions such as had been given to the Northern, Lyons,
and especially to the Strasburg companies. It
appears from M. Magne's speech that this
railway will be constructed upon the German
system, which has been studied for the
purpose by French engineers, who have furnished
plane for curves and gradients, according to which
the cost of construction will be greatly diminished.
Arnoult's patent wheels, used on the Sceux railway,
will be adopted to prevent the trains from running
off the line. It is said, by the way, that the North-
ern Company is in treaty with the proprietor of the
patent for leave to nee the Arnoult wheels.
M. Vauchelet, the historical painter, has been com-
missioned to decorate the imperial carriage to be
used at the coronation with allegorical paintings.
A decree, issued yesterday, reducing the duty on
white marbles imported from Italy, will be a great
boon to French sculptors. Hitherto the heavy cost
of the material prevented all artists but those of the
first class from executing their designs in marble,
unless they received government orders. It is now
hoped that private individuals of moderate means
will be able to buy marble statues and busts.
Despatches have arrived from the Gomer steam-
frigate, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Romain
Desfossds, commanding the naval division in the
Levant. The Gomer, after having visited Rhodes
and Cos, had proceeded to Salamis to join the French
squadron.
At this Bourse to-day the market for government
securities was dull. The following are the closing
prices :-For money : Three per Cents., 80f. 50c. ;
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 50c. For the end
of the month : Three per Cents., 80f. 3.5 c. ; Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 50e. ; Bank Stock,
2,735 E
In the Railway Share Market, the advance of yes-
terday was not maintained, with the exception of
Paris and Rouen shares, which again rose 12f. ; the
other lines declined from 2f. to sf. each, stading as
follows at the close of business :-Northerns, 915 f.
Orleans, 1,052 E ; Paris and Strasbourg, 852 f. 25e.;
Paris and Lyons, 942 E 50c.; Paris and Rouen,
1,132 E; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 817 f. 50c. ;
Western of France, 784 f. 50c. ; Rouen and Havre,
534 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 650 f.; Caen and
Cherbourg, 638 f.; Dijon and Besancon, 583 f. 30c.
-Amsterdam, Wednesday : Integrales, Two-and-a-
Half per Cent., 644. Spanish One per Cent., 241 ;
ditto Three per Cent. Interior, 43 1-16. Austrian
Mctalliques, Five per Cents., 814. Belgian (Roths-
child), 52. Mexican Deferred, 261. Granada
Two-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 221 ; ditto Deferred,
111. Ecuador, 41. American Bank Shares, 4
11-16. Brazilian, 100.-Antwerp, Wednesday:
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 981. Spanish
One per Cent., 231 ; ditto, Three per Cent. Interior,
42Z.-Vienna, Wednesday: Metalliques, Five per
Cents., 944. Letter 8., 1071. Bank Shares, 1,418.
Exchange on London, 10.30. Silver, 94.