The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-13 00:00:00

The Finance Minister was busy establishing the
National Bank.

The railway at Petropolis for seven miles w
opened.

At Pernambuco and Bahia trade was didL Pro-
visions quiet.
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H.M.S. Dedelua, with tnaanre from the Pacific,
sailed from Rio, for England, on the 13th of July.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, Flunky EVENING.

Important news relative to ti.e Eastern qt.estion
has reached Paris to-day. According to a telegraphic
despatch received this morning by the government,
the Porte accepts, without any modification, the note
of the four powers. To this intelligence, I
' however, is appended a notification of great I
moment, which will give rise to various niter-
pretations. The tiultan appears to have added to
the arrangement of Vienna that vital stipulation !
which the powers had not the spirit to make for him.
It is stated in the despatch, as given by the.
government journal the Petrie, that the Sultan will
send an ambassador to St. Petersburg, bearing his ad-
hesion
as soon as the Emperor of Russia shall have'
ordered his army to withdraw from the Principalities.
This is evidently only a civil way of saying
that Russia having been in the wrong, must wake
reparation in the first instance. It re-opens the
whole question. The Sleets of this morning
stated that Turkey had tome to this reso-
lution, and the Bourse was a few moments
uneasy in consequence. The news, however, was
strenuously denied and generally disbelieved. It has
evidently been kept trick by the government till
after Bonne hours, and is now not given in the
form which its importance deserves.
The Estcyette has received a warning to-day for
the money article in its yesterday's number, " which,
besides false news, contained calumnious imputations
against high functionaries of the state." The article
in question said that the group of" bears," who habi-
tually got their information from the court, were taken
by surprise by the news from St. Petersburg published
in the Moniteur of Sunday last. It insinuated that
M. de Persigny had concealed the intelligence from
M. Fould, and that Baron de Rothschild was greatly
amused at the discomfiture of the latter. The
comparative liberty which the press has for
some time enjoyed will very likely not
last long. Several recent articles have given
great offence. The Usurers, the Assemble, and the
&vele, have all received private admonitions within
the last few days, and I understand the Siecle
about to be prosecuted for an article relative to
servants' " livrets."

From the monthly returns of the Bank of France
it appears that the metallic reserve has increased
about of a million in Paris, and 3 a million in
the departments. The discount accommodation has di-
minished in Paris 21 millions, and increased in the
branch-banks 71 millions. The advances on French
Rente have diminished in Paris a million, and in-
creased in the provinces; of a million. The advances
on railway shares have fallen off in Paris 1 a million,
and in the branch-banks notquite 4 of a million. On the
side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have
increased 18; mill'ons in Paris, and diminished
3 millions in the departments. The account-current
'tit the Treasury has declined 11 millions. Ordinary
assseato-current have fallen off 73 millions in Paris,
and have increased 11 miilions in the branch-banks.
The whole amount of the metallic reserve is at
present 4791 millions to 634 millions of notes in
circulation. It will be remarked that the Bank has
added a new item on the side of its liabilities, namely, I
the levying of a small duty on the safe keeping of
securities of all kinds, which its clients may think
fit to entrust to it. This plan has been already
adopted with beneficial effects with respect to their
railway shares and bonds by some of the principal
French companies.
To-day the market for public securities has been
active, prices have advanced, closing with firmness,
and having an upward tendency. The Three per
Cents. for cash have established an improvement on
yesterday's clueing prides of 20c., and for the account
23c.; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash and
for the account, each 20c. Bank Stock is un-
changed. The closing prices are :—For cash : Three
per Cents., 80f. 30e. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
104 f. 50c. For the account : Three per Cents.,
80E 30c.; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 104 f. 60c.
Bank Stock, 2,835 f
Credit Foncier Bank shares have not undergone
any change, but Credit Mobilier are 7f. higher.
They closed, Credit Foncier at 740 f., and Credit Mo-
biller, 871 f. 50e.
The railway market has participated in the buoy-
ancy in Bentes, and the shares of many Hues have
improved in value. Northern. have risen 2f., Paris
and Orleans 18E, Lyons to the Mediterranean, 12f.,
and Rouen and Havre 2f. Paris and Strasbourg and
Western of France are unchanged; but Paris and
Lyons have fallen 6E, Paris and Rouen SE, and Bor-
deaux and Cette 2f. The following are the closing
prices :—Northerns, 895 f. ; Paris and Orleans,
1,235 f.; Paris and Strasbourg, 980 f. 25c.; Paris
and Lyons, 935 f.; Paris and Rotten, 1,0991. 30c.;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 7941.; Western of
France, 760 f. 50c.; Rotten and Havre, 514 f. 50c.;
Bordeaux and Cette, 848 f.

PARIS. THURSDAY BURRING.
The trial of the persons implicated in the secret
society called "La Lig= Federal.," came on yester-
day before the Tribunal of Correctional Police. It
will be recollected that, on the Bth May last,' search
was made at the house of M. Jeanne, the printseller,
in the Passage Choiseul, and that, amongst the
papers seized, were several indicating the existence
of the society in.question, and some which led to a
belief of a conspiracy to which the name of Com-
plot de Vincennes, has been given by
.some of the
journals. Twent-two persons were implicated in
this affair, but only eleven were sent to
.prison—
namely, Mazy, Barbotte, Bicard, Bong= de la
&ache, Dappatis, Rapier, Alvarez, Salver, Bataille,
and Jeanne. Four of the accused are absent—viz.,
Dubuisson, Baguet, Couturier, and Bourguia. There
were several other amused who bad been released on

bail. Oce of these is M. Piegard, the father-in-law
of M. Proudhon. The charge against most of the
accused is that of having belonged to a secret
'minty. Two are amused of having distributed
foreign journals; six of having had illegal pcsses-
Eon of arms and ammunition; two of having distri-
buted seditious writings; and one—namely, M.
Jeanne—of having exhibited for sale, prints, em-
blems, &a., without authorisation of the Minister of
Police, and of having carried on the business of a
bookseller without license. The proceedings occu-
pied the greater part of yesterday and to-&y, and
stand adjourned till to-morrow.