The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

TIMM, Ann, 24.
Negotiations are in prozress for the modificatio
of the Bank statutes.

It is intended to increase the capital of the Bank
to 100 millions lire, and to entrust it with the issuing
of the coinage.

The President of the United States has formally
decided that the special oomispondest of the Finer sha/1 be
prevented from availing himself of the invitation of General
leClellan to scoompany the army of the Potomac, and 7dr.
Hnseell has returned to Hoene&
The Surinam Weektgaati announces that the 11D•
portant question of the abolition of slavery has just been
definitively settled. "The question of slavery in the
American colonies of Holland," says that newspaper, "is
at last arranged. All the slaves of these colonies will be
. tree on the Ist of July, 1863, on the following conditions :
1. An indemnity of 300 pikers, or 1,825 francs, will be
paid to the slave-owners for every slave, without distinction
of ens or sox ; 2. The slaves will undergo • system of ap-
prenticeship upon the plantatioas during three years;
3. They will receive wises in return for their labour, one
half of which will be paid to the governesont."
Incendiary fires are becoming very frequent in
Fano. The Mani Bourpurgnonne says that on Wednes-
day last • detractive fire broke out in the commune of
Ifaillays, and canton of Anson... Fifty.two houses were
totally destroyed ; 98 fernlike, °meeting of 271 penosa,
have been net on the world without shelter, and have no
resource but in private charity. Nothing but heaps of
ruins, under which fire is still smouldering, is to be seen
over a space of 400 yards ; and, dill more deplorable, a
woman of 82 years of ege, and • child of four yens,
perished in the flames. The loss is estimated at 20,0001.
An event which interests the sporting world
is the sale announced to ult. place at Stettgardt,
en the 30th instant, .f the end of the Ling of
Wurtemberg. Several members of the French tad
will be present. General Fleury, it is said, ha.
been invited there by the King, and apartments
prepared foe his reception. Amoeg the horeas which

The President sent a message to the Senate on are to be sold an five thoraagie bred Arabiaa stallions, 4
the 11th, with • treaty recently agreed upon by Mme old twelve Ambito thorvvill-bled Mar" from 4 Is'
Lord Lyons and Kr. Seward, and the correspond- S yens old; six Asia-Arabia* mares, 4 man old, ad
end bred the stabla,
sum by those gentlemen relating to the subject of em thomogle hones from Klag's private
the African slave trade. The President, without Ami„vmmt vimmimm reed in the
expensing any opinion on the matter, transmits i ass of +Mph, as Arabi's, bee ma with seems I.
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the papers to the Senate for its ratification or hiss crested during the pill week by the swam*
rejection. If ratified the government of Great I that • picture of the Nadeau% Weighs. to • pr.
Britain will then act upon the subject. If the treaty, ICS in this shy, was is the habit if ago.* Is
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law, it is believed that, by a thorough oomplianee move ; others mums,' they wie4 rwca„ sewn at.
with its provhdons, the slave trade will mese to snadisary. Atimigth the peak* bitertarel, sad 'MO,
edit in leer than ten years, assfelaoce of the ecclesiastical authorities the Oster was
Ws lead ire the Vito York Tribune of the 12th : !removed."
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