The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1847.

the shipping of all nations. When completed, the
docks will be sufficiently capacious to float all the
merchant navy of the world ; While, from their form,
and the railways being brought down to the edge of
the water, they will afford facilities for loading and
unloading goods, such as, perhaps, no other seaport in
Europe can boast of. Besides this, there are river
advantage, on the northern bank of the Mersey.
Many eminent engineers have expressed the opinion
that Liverpool was on the wrong side of the water.
The authorities have likewise resolved to permit the
use of lights and fires on board, as in the ports of
London, Bristol, &c. ; a boon of considerable import-
ance to the crews, and especially to those of American
♦easels

One of the great advantages to commerce likely to
arise from the rivalry of the two ports, will be a re-
duction of the dues now levied upon all goods and
shipping in Liverpool. The town dues, and the dues
on goods, which in Liverpool amount to 200,000/. per
annum, will not be levied in Birkenhead, and this
amount will be saved to the owner, who will naturally
enough use the new docks. In order to maintain her
position, Liverpool will be forced to reduce, if not al-
together abolish, her most obnoxious imposts upon
shipping, and to offer new inducements for the mer-
chants of continental Europe and America to enter
into still more intimate commercial relations with
those great manufacturing districts of Lancashire and
Yorkshire, of which she is the natural outlet to foreign
states. With ono of the richest corporations in the
world, she can well afford this reduction. But the
men of Liverpool understand all this too well to need
our pointing out.

As we anticipated, the fact of the cabinet having
allowed the proposition of M. de Remusat to be dis-
cussed in the chamber, was received by the opposition
press on Tuesday as a virtual check to the cabinet.
The efforts made to ensure its suppression in the
bureaux were too apparent, and the vexation and spite
with which the pretended concession was made too
ill-dissembled, to render the manccuvre effectual. The
matter, in a word, has been clumsily managed, and
the cabinet had done better to leave the victory, how-
ever precarious it might be, is the bureaux to chance.
As the affair now stands, it labours under the
discredit of failure, and the ill effects likely to ensue
from a public debate on parliamentary reform. The
debate was to have commenced on Wednesday in the
chamber. . . _ .

The heads of the report of the commission of the
chamber on the project of law relative to the issue of
email notes by the Bank of France, have reached us.
It has not yet appeared in any of the Paris journals,
but its authenticity is to be relied upon. The reporter,
in summing up the arguments contained in the report,
says that, "coupled with great advantages to be
derived by France from the development of her
banking institutions is the danger of exaggerating
certain advantage, against which she cannot be suf-
ficiently on her guard. The monetary circulation of
France must be maintained even at the risk of great
sacriflces, and any measures likely to harm that
should be resisted, no matter how beneficial they,
might otherwise appear to be. The circulation of
bank paper is still far from that limit at which it
might become dangerous, and it may be usefully in-
creased by the emission of notes for smaller sums; it
would be prudent, however, for the present, to limit
the sum to 200 f., an amount quite sufficient to
answer all commercial wants, whether in Paris or
the rest of France. It is now time to extend to the
whole country the advantages hitherto reserved for
most important towns, and to realise the plan origin-
ally started by the Bank—viz., the formation of
counters. With regard to local banks, they
should also form part of the general system of
credit, either by combining in a common manage-
ment, or,-as seems more desirable, by being incor-
porated completely with the Bank of France. The
accomplishment of such a task by the government
and the chambers would be most useful, and would
perhaps be the greatest service that could be rendered
to commerce, manufactures, and agriculture."
The journals on Tuesday were almost exclusively
occupied by the Spanish question, the interest of
which has been somewhat enhanced by the presence
in Paris of four of the principal actors in the drama
of the marriages. The Legitimist Union Monarchique
has en article on Spanish affairs, and on the state of
the British cabinet, more grotesquely false and absurd,
than any Parisian Night's Entertainment yet con-
ceived. . .

...
No Madrid mail was received in Paris on Tuesday.

FRANCE.—PARIS,APRILB.—FRENCHCRA3IBERB.
—Both chambers sat on Tuesday. Nothing of importance
took place in the Chamber of Peers. In the Chamber of
Deputies, Id. Chapnys Montlaville presented a petition
signed by sixty publishers of Paris in favour of his proposi-
tion for the reduction of stamp duties on the public journal..
M. Cbapuys proposed that • reduction of the stamp duties
should be made in favour of all those journals who would
engage themselves not to publish novels in their fetailktons.
That journal. desirous of taking advantage of the lave should
make a formal declaration of the same, and that any journals
acting contrary to the law after such • declaration should
be deprived of the benefits of the law for the term
of one year, and be compelled to pay the stamp
duty to the Treasury on all the numbers which should
have appeared since the declaration had been made. In
support of his proposition,: M. de Chspuys pretended that
the feuilletons were a drawback to the political importance
of the public journahhind to their character es the expression
of public opinion, and that they had become mere matter of
speculation. M. de Chspuys took advantage of the occasion
to pass censure on the Th.iatre Ilistoripse. which, he said,
deserved rather to be celled Theatre dee Travestissetnents
Historigues. It was high time, he said, that such a state of
things should be put a stop to. The prise on COI Ilideraiioll
was unanimously adopted by the Chamber. MM. Ouisot,
Lacey., Laplagne, and Duchatel voted with the majority for
the_prise en consideration.
THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE.—The Toulonnais
states that since the Prince de Joinville hoisted his flag on
board the flouverain he has rarely quitted the vessel; and
when he does so it is in the evening. and with the strictest
incognito. The same journal sa that the squadron will
leave Total= on the arrival of the De,cartes, from Brest and
Cherbourg, with the men required to complete the crews.
COUNT ANTOINE 1101/.—Count Antoine Roy, whose
death we announced the day before yesterday, was born at
Chavigny, in Champagne, on the 15th March, 178.5, the
same yes: as Napoleon, Wellington, and Marshal Soult.
The career of M. Roy was a remarkable one. Re began by
studying the law, and daring the republic he pleaded the
cause annoy illustrious unfortunate families. In 1794 he
threw up the law, turned his attention to commerce,
and erected a large manufactory in the celebrated
chateau of Navarre, near Evreux. Oa the 6th of May
1815, he was appointed secretary to the electoral college of
the Seine, and was elected deputy on the 7th. This was the
commencement of his political career. On the 25th of July
Louis XVIII. nominated him president of the electoral col-
lege el limn:, and he was elected deputy on the 25th of
August following. He was appointed reporter on the law
of the Budget in 1817, and his report was regarded as •
masterpiece of financial ability. On the 7th of December,
1818, he was made Minister of Finances, but only remained
minister for two-and-twenty days, as on the 29th he with-
drew with MM. Richelieu, Mole, and Pasquier, and received
the title of member of the privy council. As member of the
Chamber of Deputies M. Roy phi particular attention
to the affairs of the Bourse, the saltpetre and powder
manufactures the sinking fund, and the depots and con-
signations, which were placed seder his surveillawm. On
the 19th Nov., 1819, he was spin mob Minh et Flamm:es.
The French fineness experiential tlas gresbalburat from
his wise administration. He laseamesi lie saliva flotation

w the Legion ofHeftweri,illlo,oollk. Os the 18th Dee.,
1822, he retired has sin, mad ea the Miming day Louis
XVIII. created bin • Num* sad peer of Fame. During
his administration, the eggefpls ei this elege annually ex-
oeeded the .q to the easeest of 10,100,000 fr. In
the Chamber of Poore we Mai Omit Asp hadektkrahle
in his vigihmes on all doessiel crodems. On the
24th May, 1824, he made his iseserable "eta at the
Chamber, in oppoaition to M. de and which obliged
the minister to withdraw his motion. It was owing to his
exertions that, in 1825, a modification took place in the law
of indemnity. In 1827, he exerted himself in the drawing
up of the law on the woods and forests. He attacked the
lotteries and gambling houses, which have since gra-
dually vanished. In 1828, he was created Minister
of Finance for the third time. He withdrew frees office in
1829. In 1832 he held the funeral oration over the tomb of
Y. de Martignac. Since 1830 Count Roy always took an
active part in every debate, upon any law regarding the
finances, which was put to the vote in the Chamber of Peers.
His authority in matters of finance was supreme.
LYONS, APRIL 4.—Lyons wan visited on the 2nd
by a violent storm of thunder and lightning, fol-
lowed by torrents of rain, which continued falling the
part of the next day, and led to the expectation that
greater
water, of the Rhone would rise sufficiently to allow
=vessels to proceed up the river with corn from Mar.
CHEBBOIIRG, MARCH 29.—The English merchant-
man, the Berkshire, arrived at this port, bringing from
Sydney Captain Leconte and the second party of the crew of
the French ship lei Seine, wrecked in July last on the tout
of New Caledonia. Notwithstanding all their hardships, only
one man of the whole crew has died.

ALGERIA.—Ann-Et-/CAnnn.—A recent letter
Gan Oran says that all was gain in the Tell and Sahara.
According to the statement of the Oalad-el-Nar, at the mar-
ket at Oran, Abd-el-Kadar had gone to the Ahmian Omahas
to influence them against the French but, according to
other accounts, he bad proceeded to the tubes of the Mouloula
to demand their assistance against Boss-Zion, with whom he
had had a Maile eneounter at the beginning of the month.