The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-08 00:00:00

"To MaJorasooral lrelellaa.

"Pries, being reinforced by M'Culloch's command, made
a stand at Bow Creek (we tarred into Arkansu on the
18th), and was detested after a short engagement, and again
and. Many rebel primmer, were taken, and the arms
width Prica's men threw away in their flight.
(Si 81801) " H. W. HALLECR,
Major-General Commanding."
General Hallo* forwarded a later despatch last night,
to the effect that General Curtis had taken posessien
of Bentonville, Arkansas.
By our news from Nassau, New Providence, to the 12th
inst., we learn that the rebel steamer Catawba had ran
the blockade from Charleston, and arrived at the former
port, loaded with cotton, and that twc vessels, the steamer
Label and another, name not known, left Charleston at the
same time, also with cargoes of cotton.
A son of President Lincoln bad died.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned after very
short sessions out of respect to the President and
hie family in their recent affliction. The Homestead
Bill was brieflyconsidered in the house, and Speaker
Grow made a speech in favour of its pause. No
further action was taken upon it. In consequence
of the death of the President's son, it was resolved
that the illumination of the public buildings in
Washington should not take place that night, as
previously arranged. The funeral of the President's
son was to have taken place on the following
Monday.
The following was addressed to the Senate and
House of Representatives, but Congress had ad-
journed before it was transmitted to them :
The President of the United States was last evening
plunged into affliction by the death of a beloved
The heeds of departments, in consideration of this dis-
tressing event, have thought it would be agreeable to Con-
.

grew and to the American people that the official and
private buildings occupied by them should not be illumi-
nated on the evening of the 22nd instant.

Wu. H. Swam, 8. P. Cu►u,
E. N. erarrox, GIDRON WILLS%
EDWARD gaze, M. Bunt
Weehingtee, Feb. 21, 1862.

The Times observes that if the blockade of the
Southern ports is not theoretically perfect, though the
blockading ports do sot cross their fires, or give notice to
each particular vessel that appears, yet there is quite enough
to doter some very courageous gentlemen from pushing
their way in. Among a multitude of cases, Mr. Ward,
who found his way into Pekin when nobody ass could
gat there, is still oti this mda of the Atlantic, and would be
much obliged to Yr. Gregory to land him safe is • quiet
port of Georgia. Mr. Yanoey, with • little society of
Southern gentlemen, is stall at Haviusnah, waiting for an
opportunity. Others are now in liesioo, preparing to brave
fever and the Indians, eo as they may find themselves once
MOM with their families and estates. There are people in
this country, in this city, who have not heard from their
near relatives in the Southern States for half • year, and
who would give almost any sum for one interchange of
letters. The real grievance is " that the thing is done too
thoroughly, and Mr. Gregory wishes England to abate the
nuisance by declaring that it is sot dope at all."
Au accident to the Great F.astecn has been re-
ported. It appears that one of the shores supporting the
ship as the gridiron has penetrated the starbeerd side.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(1110 M OUR fors

PARIS. FEMAT EVINING.

The Monitsur publishes the following :

On the occasion of the bill which has just been submitted
to the examination of the Council of State, the Moniteur

announced yesterday that an annual mate, the amount of
which was not flied, would be inscribed on the great book
of the public debt. If that amount has not been indicated
it is that it should be ultimately fixed in concert with the
Legislative Body.
This note, you will observe, coolly assumes that
the Corps Letislatif will accede to its own stultifi-
cation without the least difficulty.

The commencement of the debate on the address
in the Corps Legislatif is singularly uninteresting.
Yesterday the ultramontanist members, MM.
Plichon and Kolb Bernard, " read " two dull
speeches, in which they endeavour to excite alarm
in the party of order by the old device of
shaking the red rag. M. Plichon said that
" the old friends of the government were now
suspects," and that it was seeking new allies in the
camp of its adversaries. To-day M. Delalain
opened the debate by calling for a reduction of the
army. IL de Morey is seriously indisposed, and
in his absence the chair was taken by AL Schneider.
The following protectionist amendment to the

address of the Corps Legislatif has been presented
by MM. Pouyer, Quertier, Jules Brame, de Wen-
del, Randoing, Le Clerc d'Osmonville, Kolb
Bernard, and the Marquis de Blosseviße :
To par. 11 :

Your Majesty knows the great suffering which desolates
our principal manufacturing towns, and you endeavour to
succour them by the most generous gifts. But inasmuch as
serious thinkers attribute this distreming situation mainly
to the operation of the English and Belgian commercial
trestle", the chamber respectfully calls the solicitude and
attention of the Emperor to this grave question. It begs
your Majesty to order an inquiry into the real working of
these treaties, in order to put an end to the doubts and
apprehensions of our working clues if they an not well
founded. _ _ _

Almost all the people recently arrested—nobody
knows why—have been released.
The Bourse was extremely firm although the
amount of business done was not large. The Bente
roso 50c. for cash and 35c. for account, closing at
69fr. 90c. and 70fr. 10c. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. (which were quoted for the first time ex div.)
left off at 97fr. 95c. and 98fr. 200. Mobnior rose
Mr. 25c, Railways were fully from Mr. 50c. to sfr.
higher.
Cardinal de Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, has
addressed a letter to the Gazette de trance on the
ilate vote in the Senate, in which he says :

I bad the intention of adding my vote to that of my
eminent colleagues ; my conscience made it for me a duty to
vote withtban against the address. I had my bulletin in my
hand, but the urn was not presented ma to naive it, and the
noise in the hall did not allow me to bear the enumeration
of the votes for or against, or to make my objectless beard.