The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-03 00:00:00

SPAIN.

XADIUD, MAI= 2.

Marshal Narvaez has laid before the Congress
the treaty of peace with Peru, the bases of which
agree with the intelligence already received via,
Southampton.
The Finance Committee of the Congress have
made their report, which approves the bill intro-
duced by the Minister of Finance.

THE PORTUGUESE MINISTRY.
LISBON, MAsca 2..

The Marquis of Sada Bandies has signified his
inability to form a new ministry. At this hour
it is supposed that the Duke de Louhi will be re-
called by the King.

TURKEY.
(Vii. Trieste.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, FM 25.

Mr. Laing's project for the conversion of the
floating debt has been accepted by the Porte in
principle, and the negotiations concerning the de-
tails are progressing satisfactorily.
The prices of the local securities have greatly
risen in consequence.

A disastrous fire has occurred at Galata ; 150
lives were lost.

The difficulty between the Porte and the Persian
government is becoming more serious.
The general interruption of telegraphic commu-
nication continues.

THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS.
(By To(*graph from Lisboa.)
MONTE VIDEO, JAN. 29.
Great alarm prevails in this city. The attack
of the Brazilian army, under Flores, is momentarily
expected. Active preparations are being made for
defence.

Business is stopped. Exchange on London, 481

(Irma's arum.)
THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PAWS. lIIAwe 2.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :
March 2. Feb. fa.

Diarroa.
Fr. e. - lir. e.
Capital of the Bank
Profits In addition to capital
(Art. 8, law of June 0, 1867) 7,010,101 DO 7,016,822 ss
Reserve of the Bank and Its
branches 2!,106.760 14 12,105,760 14
Reserve In landed property
Notes In decal Won
Bank notes to orderandnceipta
payable at sight.
Treasury accounts—clean! Cre-
ditor
Current accounts, Paris 130,244,004 62 124.867,578 75
Ditto branch banks
Dividends payeple
Discounts and sundry interests 0,167,774 80 6.627,212 81
Re-discounted the last six
months 2,70,414 0 2,710,448 6
Sundries

1,164880,14 Id 1.1413,167,923

Much. 2.
Fr. e.

lob. U.
Yr.

CROWSOn.
banks
in band and in breach
banks
Commercial bills overdue
Commercial bills discounted,
not yet due
Ditto branch banks
Advances on deposits of bullion 14,212,831 66 1e.067,491 66
Ditto branch banks 1,409,J00 0 3,3,6,100 0
Advances on French public se-
caritles 13,979,600 0 14,102,000 0
Ditto branch banks
Advances on railway shares
and debentures
Ditto branch banks 16,631,300 0 16,764,340 0
Advances on Credit Fonder
Bonds
Ditto branch banks .......
Advances to the State (conven-
tion 10th June, 13671
Government stock reserve 12,9E10,760 14 12,900,760 14
Ditto disposable
Nantes immobiligen (law Did
June, 1857)
Rotel and furniture of the bank*
landed property, branches . 4417,776 0 3,406,666 0
Expenses of management
Sundries

1,26,,760.14. 6! 1,263,187,025 60
(MOW) YoutAND,
Senator. Governer of the Book of France.

" It may be remembered," says the Temps, a pro-
testant organ, "that last summer the presbyterial soused
of the reformed church at Pans refused its palishe to the
Roe. A. Neville, !Meister at Itettertlam. TWA assware at
latelerease has last with a decided disevosrelfrose the other

protestant coogregatioes is Fraso► The Rae. A. Bimini"
has mince preached is the alturchas of Strasburg. and has
alsoreceived invitetioos from the principal protertant point.
latioos of the South of Franca, in Luger sumbere than he
ciao steed to. He has already been heard at Nimes, Moot-
peffier, Uses, and the Cevennes, and has always bass re-
ceived with marks of the 11104 maw& sympathy. Ho is
sow Ant to reach also at Mostaubsa. Claes, Tsnosbas.
sad other pleas is Owe districts."

EXPRESS FROM FARIS•

172011 OUR OWN

PARIS. THMISDAT Evwla.
The Phase de la Loire, in the following terms.
mottoes the preface of the Emperor's " Life of

Julius Canar .."

This work contains in two pages three propositions
which we =not accept, and a fourth in flagrant contradio-
tke with them. In his preface the Emperor says that geniuses
mat to UM peoples may act iadepesdestly of the moral
standard of ordinary men--a proposition whisk, in oar eyes.
is the negative of morality itself. The legitimacy of • thing,
he adds, is tested by the time it has lasted. This assertion,
if well founded, would be the fullest justification that has
bees yet given of slavery, now the oldest of human Lodi-
Cations. Then we are told that the existing institutions of
• country are the adequate iv:prow/los of social sod politi-
cal right. Here is the amplest apology we over came mum
of absolutism. The oentradiction to which we refer
consists is the assertion that the state of things
established by Augustus preload Tiberius, Claudius, and
Nero. And yet the Emperor eulogises Augustus, which
he has no right to do if his suocessors were the woomary
coneequessie of a system he established.

It may be interesting to know that the foregoing
paragraph is from the pen of a writer whose works
on logic and the different systems of philosophy
which have since Plato most influenced the civi-
lised world, have obtained for him a high standing
among French authors. .

It will probably strike many readers as curious
that in the denomination given by the Monitsur of

the sixteen powers which have consented to take
part in the International Telegraph Congress now
sitting in Paris the name of England is not in-
cluded. The reason is that in England alone, of
all the nations of Europe, the telegraphic lines are
in private hands. It is not with Lord Cowley,
but with the telegraphic companies, that the French
government must treat if England is to adopt the
proposed uniform WM

The chapter of the cathedral church of Orleans
has thrown upon Canon Pelletier alone the respon-
sibility of the letter which he published, objecting
that the Bishop of Orleans falsely stated that he
had taken the advice of the chapter before publish-
ing his niandenient. The rectification does not say
that in point of fact the bishop did consult them ;
but it leaves it to be inferred that they think it bad
manners to question any use which their bishop
may please to make of their name.

- -
Prince Napoleon took a run to Havre yesterday,
accompanied by Admiral La Roncibre de Honey and
an aide-de-camp. He took up his quarters at his
father's favourite old place, the Hotel Frascati.
The Bourse opened with great animation, and
Rente, for account, was run up to 68fr. 50. ; but
later in the day a heavy fall in Mobilier dragged
down everything else, and the closing prices of
Rents were 67fr. 75c., for cask, and 67fr. 85c., for
account, being a rise of 15c. and 10c. Mobilier
fell upwards of 30fr. upon a rumour that the Corps
Legislatif would be applied to for leave to prosecute
M. R. Pereire. Mexican was very heavy, the
private letters to which I alluded yesterday having
produced an effect on the market ; the fall to-day
was fully 1 per cent. ; within the last few days this
security has declined 5 per cent.