The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-14 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TIMIDAY EVENING.
The Bourse continues to be in a state of extreme
depression. Instead of the heavy fall of yesterday
having produced any reaction, all descriptions of
securities opened at lower prices to-day. The ,
speculators appeared completely discouraged, and
for the space of half an hour a species of panic
prevailed. The news of the fall in Console, and the
probability of a further augmentation in the rate of
discount by the Bank of England, together with the
prolonged uncertainty regarding the Turkish question,
aggravated by the intelligence of a new corps of the
Russian army under Gen. Luders having entered the
Principalities, contributed to the uneasy feeling. But
it was also reported that corn and flour were again
firmer both at the Halle of Paris and in the
principal markets. The Threes for account fell
at one time to 77fr., but there was afterwards
a partial recovery, and at the close the fall from
yesterday was only 20c. for the account, and 30c.
for cash. The Credit Mobilier, which has been de-
clining daily
.for some time, fell 15fr. Bank of France
shares remain very steady, and this leadi to the
hope of a rapid amelioration in the tone of the Bourse,
when the present crisis shall paw away. All the
railways fell, with the exception of Strasbourg and
Bale, which rose 2fr. or 3fr. It was inferred that
although the minister had refused to sanction the
treaty entered into by this company with that of
Dijon, some other advantageous combination must be
on the tapis.
On the subject of the Bile Railway we read the
following paragraph in the Sleds, which is quoted
conspicuously by the Patrie of this evening :
The Constslutionnel states that the Minister of Public
Works has refused his authorisation to the projected fusion
of the Bile and Besancon Railway Companies. A report
was current that this fusion had been decided on, sad it
was added that even without the authorisation of
the Minister, the two lines would not be less united
by means of private conventions. It is only neces-
sary to be acquainted with the clauses of the last decree of
concession to the Strasbourg Company to comprehend that
such conventions cannot be entered into. The Strasbourg
Company has been invested with all the rights of the state
over that of Bile ; and it has therefore become both the
creditor and the partner of the Bile Company, which can-
not adopt a resolution of any kind whatever without the
assent of the Strasbourg Company. It will be therefore
understood that any fusion between the Bile and Besancon
Companies is impossible, if it is opposed by the state and by
the company directly interested.
A journal of Clermont Ferrand, reports an instance
of criminal proceedings being instituted against a
"forestaller." The Alta de la Pearls says:
Proces verbal has been drawn up against • M. Anal:,
a landowner, for having bought corn otherwise than in a
public market, having gone out on the roads to meet the
farmers' cute.
This proceeding is entirely contrary to the spirit
of the government declaration that trade is not to
be interfered with.
The Emperor and Empress were present last
evening at the opening of the Grand Opera with
the representation of the " Huguenots." They did
not quit the house till after midnight, and
then returned to St. Cloud, escorted by picquets
of guides and dragoons- The latest itine-
rary arranged for the Emperor's excursion to
the north is as follows : Sept. 20, at Arras ; 21 and
22, Lille; 23, St. Omer; 24, Dunkirk and Boulogne;
and 23, the return to Paris. The Empress will not
accompany him. After this trip their Majesties intend
passing several days at Compigne. The town of Lille
is in estate of great excitement. The local journals
complain of the contradictory information they have
received with respect to the period of the imperial
visit to that city. Preparations on the most magni-
ficent scale are making for their reception. Out of
130,000 f. voted by the Municipal Council on the
occasion, 25,000 f. have been set aside for distribution
to the poor. Throughout the whole of the city masts
are being erected for flags, and extensive apparatus
for burning the electric light. The ball-room,
which has been erected at the Hotel do Ville, is cal-
culated to comfortably accommodate 4,000 persons.
The Porte de Paris, a monument of the conquest of
1607, has been completely cleaned and repaired.
The tent prepared for the Emperor, and in which the
Mayor will present his Majesty with the keys of the
city, is said to be a chel-dwurre. On arriving at the
prefecture, the Emperor will be received by forty
young ladies belonging to the best families in Lille,who
will offer him flowers, while the leader will make a
complimentary speech. The garrison will be augmented
by the addition of several corps of cavalry, cuiras-
siers, and lancers, forming, with the artillery of
Douai' nn effective of about 1,200 horse.
Five hundred engineers in garrison at Arras,

with the band and staff of the regiment,
are under orders to be at Lille on the 18th, but this
order win perhaps be countermanded now that it is
settled that his Majesty will stay a night at Arras,
where, according to the above arrangement, he will
not arrive till the 20th.

ITALY.

A number of Italian emigres, who attempted to
re-enter Italy by the eastern frontier of the Sardi•
nian States, have been seized by the police near
Sanwa.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, SMPT. 10.
It is astonishing to mark how hardly even the best
continental governments can be brought to believe
that they are not the appointed regulators of the
simplest operations of commerce. This morning the
Zest returns to the subject of the corn trade, to inform
its readers that yesterday M. Hinckeldy, chief com-
missioner of the police, called the heads of the prin-
cipal firms in the corn trade together at his
office, and there "in a fervent and deeply
pathetic speech admonished them upon the
great importance of their trading functions
and upon the influence which they exercised upon
the condition of the whole population, since their
dealings were able to increase or diminish the welfare
of whole classes of the population. He particularly
urged upon those present not to meddle with trans-
actions calculated to bring about an undue dearness
of the necessaries of life, and expressed the hope
that, without meddling in such speculative opera-
tions, they would find their trade remunerative and
greatly profitable." Thus Mr. Hinckeldy, to keep up his
belief in his own power to influence the corn market,
is obliged to attribute, in turn, to the dealers a
faculty which they do not possess, the power of pro-
ducing cheapness or dearth, independently of the'
law of supply and demand. When will governments
see that both they and traders are alike only minis-
ters of the great eternal laws which rule the course
of a nation's life ? The temporary removal of the
import duty on corn, itself an abatement of " govern-
mental regulation " of trade, will do more for the
relief of the consumer than ten thousand sermons to
corn dealers. There is this additional absurdity
about Mr. Hinekeldy's measure, that the price of corn
for future delivery is lower than the price for actual
transfer; so that a dead loss stares the speculator in
the face who would buy up the supplies.
The Elber hid Gazette is informed that the Prus-
sian premier has come to an understanding with his
old enemies the Cavalier and Pietistic factions, so
strong at this court. This is poor news if true.
A political trial worth noticing came off at Brom-
berg, on the sth, when five highly respectable men
were placed at the criminal bar charged with
distributing a brochure called an " Electoral
Catechism, on the eve of tho elections of
1832. The indictment alleged that by so doing
they bad endangered the public peace and excited
the King's subjects to hatred and disobedience. One
of the accused, a landed proprietor named Peterson,
said that he had read the " Electoral Catechism"
through with care; that he knew personally and re-
spected its author, Mr. Harkort, a deputy of the
chamber, as a man of high character ; and that he
had seen it right to distribute the work for the in-
formation and enlightenment of the electors. The
accused were all acquitted. The verdict was received
with cheering by their fellow-citizens who crowded
the court.

The Bing has fulfilled his threat, and the Muni-
cipal Council of Elhiog is dissolved. The "wrongly-
disposed " town will for the present be governed by
a commission nominated by the crown.

AUSTRALIA.-THE MARCO POLO.

LIVERPOOL, Aro. 13.

il The ship Marco Polo, which before distinguished
herself in making the quickest passage out and home, from
hence to Australia, arrived here to-day on her second return
trip, having made the voyage in exactly 6 months. She
sailed from hence on the 13th March; she left Melbourne
10th June, and has on freight about 280,0001. in gold bars
and dust. Although this may not be the ♦ery quickest voyage
home, it is beyond doubt the quickest ♦oyage out and home
ever made by any ship from this country.