The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(r/tot 001 OWN COI,IIIIIPONDINTI
PARIS, WZDNUDAY ETINING.
The Congress of Paris has met twenty-three times,
the concluding sitting of to-day included.
The Patric affirms, on the faith of a Vienna corre-
spondent, whom it believes to be well informed, that
the announcement already made in several foreign
journals that the Congress has declared against the
onion of the two Desubian Principalities is well
founded.

The Rents was firma to-day; there were no great
fluctuations. The lat prices were 73.60 and 73.95,
there being* rise of 10c. for cub, and 15c. for aro
count. Bank of France rose 25r., and CI edit Mobilise
60f. Railways improved considerably. Orleans, 25f.;
Northern, 35f.; Lyons, 30f.; Mediterranean, 10f. ;
Grand Centrals, 20L; Austrian and Victor Emmanuel
rose 2r. 60a each.

The corvette Duchayla, which has been ordered to
go to Spithead for the grand naval review of the
23rd, will be commanded by Rear-Admiral Jurien de
la Gravire. Among the officers selected to accom-
pany him are Captain de Belvdze, Lieutenant Zede,
who was severely wounded on the quarter deck of
the Ville de Paris, while standing by the side of
Admiral Hamelin ; IL Hamelin (the son of the admi-
ral) aids-decamp to the Ministerof Marine; M.Buquet,
a cone chef in the naval office, and M. Durand
Broger, the marine painter, who has jest returned
from the Crimea, where he had been attached to the
squadron from the commencement of the campaign.
The Dochayla will leave Cherbourg on Sunday
morning.
Some apprehension is felt that the Senate may for
the first time ran restive, and put a veto upon the
bill imposing a tax upon carriages. They can only
do this, according to the constitution, upon the
ground that the bell is unconstitutional ; but, on the
other hand, if they choose to call it unconstitutional,
there is no appeal from their verdict. A plausible
pretext might be found in the fact that the
bill den not specify the amount of the
tax. Many of the senators who were
stimulated, nay almost ordered, by government
to set up their carriages in order to give employment
to the working classes, feel deeply aggrieved that
they are now to be called upon to suffer a novel
description of taxation. A few of the more splenetic
senators may, perhaps, indulge is some angry
speeches in the dark oonciliabule of the Luxembourg
Palace, but I have no ides that the Senate will have
the pluck to reject the measure. They must be too
consedoss of their insignificance to take any such
lilerse ts. That a law proposed by the Crown, end
p after a public discussion by representatives of
the people supposed to have been freely sleeted by
universal suffrage, should lit, for any effectual pur-
pose, rejected by a pensioned body of conscript fathers
sitting in secret avulse*, is something too absurd to
be thought of.
The Courrier de 'Marseille states that the munici-
pality of that city have resolved on giving a grand
banquet to Marshal Warier and his staff, whose ar-
rival there is expected about the end of this month.
A Paris letter of the 14th, in the Emancipation of
Brussels, says : " In conformity with academic cus-
tom, the Duke de Broglie was presented yesterday to
the is-uip..lor It the Tuileries by M. Hissed. The
new acadernielso, in his ass on the occasion of
his reception. had ttec:ared that the inth Brumaire
was a coup-Vial imperatively called foe ;are safety
of the country. The Emperor, alluding to the pas-
sage, said to the Duke: ' I read your address with
great interest, and I thank you for the manner in
which you spoke of the Emperor, my uncle. I hope
that your grandson will speak of the god of December
as you have just dose of the 18th Brumaire; "

PLYMOUTH, TKVILiDAT ETBWING.

Tha Blackwall, Captain Thorn, belonging to Mr.
Green, of London, bas arrived is the Chattel, end was 70
miles &W. of the Uurd at tea o'olook aa. on Monday
wroalsg, wises shit placed 21 pasesagors, Welly Ct ratsh
men, Is a Bally pilot bast, whisk leaded theca at Pomace
°a Timidity theism's.
The Blaskwall left Idelbosise es the 28th of Deoesiber,
sod, after tesobiag at Panatelas°, crowd the lice on the
33rd of Mira, &lase whkh dna weather has Ines *opti-
mised. She his a fall sago, wool, sad Is said to
Way between threw eat four teas of sold•dost sad up-
wards of 200 presager., "may of whom hate penult of
sold-dset.
Lamas the int-ttlese passage's are several secendal
lootobwen retaining with their fealties. It was Captain
Thos's imamate"' to lead the osatalaiag shoat 2,000
bitten, at Plystostb.

Tho commander of the Auden army of the South
wu la the theatre it Odors w►oa tbo aim of pease
arrived. The moat day twe eroanoto is the reads
approached amber the flog of truer, sad saluted The Itaidas
flag with a volley tram twisty cat gess.