The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-17 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE CALCUTTA STEAMER
AND MAILS.

FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM:

The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul.
General Green, was received at the Foreign Office,
via Corfu, March 17, 4.30 a.m.
ALEXANDRIA, 13rx MARCH, 1858.
The steamer Granada arrived at Suez yester-
day afternoon from Ceylon and China.
The Ara from Calcutta was totally wrecked on
the night of the 18th ult., off Trincomalee, with
the total loss of mails, cargo, and baggage ; but the
passengers and crew were all saved.
No intelligence of importance from China had
been received here by telegraph, and the steamer
will kayo with China mails on board before the
delivery of the letter here.
Teh is still a prisoner on board her Majesty's ship
Inflexible. It is reported that the natives of Canton
are afraid to be seen speaking to Europeans.
GREEN, Consul-General.

We (limes) have received the following despatch
from our correspondent at Alexandria, dated March
13:

" The Colombo leaves thia afternoon with the
China mails.

"Lord Elgin and Baron Gros are still in the Can.
ton River.

" No additional troops had yet arrived.
"Two hundred and fifty-three thousand pounds
treasure for the Bombay Government were on
board the Ava. Twenty-eight thousand five hun-
dred pounds have been recovered.
"The passengers included several of the Lucknow
refugees."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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AND suns, TELBORAPI4
PARIS, WIDNISDAY.

M. Boitelle, Prefect of the Yonne, is appointed
Prefect of Police, replacing M. Pietri, whose [resig-
nation on account of ill health has been accepted.

(rILON 0171 OWN CONNISPONDINT.)
PARIS, TVESOAT EMIINO.

I am u yet without the means of knowing what
effect has been produced :in England by the diplo-
matic correspondence between the Earl of Moline.-
bury and Count Walewski, which, having been laid
on the table of the House of Commons last night, is
published in the Moniteur of this morning. My
own impression, in which I am borns out by the
small modicum of public opinion that can be collected
in Paris, is that the correspondence does not justify
Mr. Disraeli's description of it. A reconciliation
_ _

can hardly be said to be cordial and satisfactory
when one of the parties haughtily declines to carry on
any further correspondence on the express ground that
he has been misunderstood. The concluding aver-

merit of Count Walewski that the Empero;is con-
tent to rely " purely and simply on the good feeling
of the English people," is susceptible of a good many
interpretations. but doe. not, I think, mean that the
French government will be satisfied with whatever
we do.

It is most confidently stated in a quarter likely to
be well-informed on such a subject, that the Minister
of Marine has sent a circular to the maritime pre-
fects advising the French navy to be put on a war
footing by May 1.
Dr. Bern, the Swiss Envoy, had an interview
with Count Wiipwski this morning, in which, it is
alleged, all &Midis between the two governments
were satisfactorily arranged. It must however be
remembered, that there were three separate ques-
tions—the refugee question, the new passport regu-
lations and (which was the most thorny of all) the
establishment of French copula at various new
stations in Switzerland. It is, I think, doubtful
whether all these can have yet been finally settled,
and the more so, because a telegram from Berne,
dated this day, states that the Federal Council has,
according to usage, inquired of the cantonal govern-
ments of Bale and Neufchatel whether they have
any objection to urge against the ezequatur being
granted to the new consuls.
This day being the birthday of the Imperial
Prince, who is now two years old, a mass was cele-
brated on the occuion in the chapel of the Tuileries,
which wu attended by the Emperor and Em-
press and the child himself, with a certain degree of
pomp and ceremony. After mass the band of the
Ist Grenadiers of the Guard played a serenade
under the Empress's window. This is the regiment
on the muster roll of which the Imperial Prince is
inscribed as an " enfant de troupe," and in cons_
sequence all his little comrades were on parade with
the band.

Prince Jardine continues to be very ill, although
the Moniteur announces every day that he is better.
This morning the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris
was sent for to see him.

The Bowie continues in a state of atrophy. The
diminution of the interest on Exchequer Bills by
per cent. produced a slight improvement, but busi-
ng.o woo rre7 1.11. Tko Route woos 160. for reale
and sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 40c. and
69fr. 45c. Mobilier was much depressed, and fell
12fr. 50e. Railways dull, but a trifle better.
The Prase says in its weekly commercial re-
view :
There Is again no change in the general situation of cora-
meecial affairs. The goods in the wholesale warehouses (MA
I a vary slow sale, and their accumulation is likely for some
dm to come to form a serious obstacle to the re-
vival of business. Several firms have availed them-
selves of the facilities afforded by certain discount
houses, and more especially by the Comptoir Bonnard, to
ob-
tain advances on deposits of merchandise. Advkes from
foreign markets hold out no hope of any activity In the ex-
port trade for some months to come. There is glut every-
where, and prices are too low to tempt our merchants to
make any new purchases of the manufacturer. At Rouen
and Mulhouse every littlo business is doing itichoap thews,
and the same may be said of almost all the other manufac-
turing towns. AU the tisanes manufactured with a view to
exported= remain on hand, although offered for sale at a
heavy loss. Lyons and St. Etienne are very dull. Raw
silks have again fallen. The most favoured markets are
those in the north, where mixed tisanes are made. At Elbeuf
the manufacturers have succeeded in getting off most of their
old stocks, but only by making concession in prices. Roubaix,
Lille,and Turooing,maintain their exceptional pwition. Cereals
saweary calm ; there is a further tendency to fall in most of
the markets, and ;oracularly at the Halle of Parisi bat, not-
withstanding the low quotations of torn end Boor, apseulators
dew no disposition to enter upon new tranaactim

The Mali confirms the report of the P as
to the stagnation of buskers, and continues to com-
plain of the absurd obstinacy of holders of stocks in
standing out for impossible prices rather than sub-
mit to losses which postponement can only render
more heavy.
I have not the least doubt putting together a great
variety of information which I have received of late,