The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-27 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The Orion arrived at Bouthrmpton yesterday
Atha heavy parties of the Bombay mail. Her dates
were: Alexandria, July 13 ; Malta, 17 ; Gibealtar, 21. She
Morita 122 pumps, ammaget whom were Lord Charles
Scott, R.N., Sir Jess rad Lady G. rem, Colonel Col-
borne, Lieutenant-Colonel Graydon, Maj.r Earls, Canteen
&eater.; Shsckerley, e. id Coma ;
_Lactating, m
Leeds, Byes, and Weller; Doctors Willfrom and Collins,
he. Moonset her cargo wire 703 Wes of silk sad 6 wok-
e-me of specie. The o.:aus exchanged signals with the
Yentas/Jar pethatAltearb.• on be 21at last., rid with the
ladle pecket Ps. t on the 23rd ' on. ekes' ,'a eb,ps
' M. rlboronels, Hannibal, Hibernia, Eammtb, Conqueror,
P.' • Royal, Maoist, Orlor, Ea. jalaa, Doris, In mid,
L .grwag, Smasher, sad Hem ty, wail at Meet. The St.
J n d'Acre, B. anarrick, Victor Rinanari, and Amaramee
were ernl&ng od Mal' The Voltam and Quail (gunboat)
were at Gibraltar, TheTearas, an English Seams purchseed
by the Swish government, bad arrived at Cad's from Liver-
y. )1, Nam • *th inert steer, for the emu al there. The
Violet. with 140 English ciaidori, bed strived at Gibreltar.
From Co tic, two rlvps of war sad the war steamer General
Alava bad put to ars ; the - Sloop Ferreano,• th troop
r id tot"ers for Fernald° Po; the war corvette Colon. for
Crrtbagens; and the transport ship Quits, for Porto Rico.
The Russian Alpe of war Ma'am sod Oreambol had left
Cadiz for the Baltic. The Ramis steamer A rgonant, the
Franch steam sloop Twigs, sad the Snsnish steamer flea '
Bernardo, left Gibraltv on the lBib. The following &biota
merchant steamers and Wing ships touched at or passed
°Realty between the 16th and 21st “sat, : the eteasers
Veli.Jr• end Britannia, end the a-iling Roil Megrim%
Albion, Henrietta Leonard Preston, Mirslite, Novicki,
Elise, Richard Brown, Equttor, W''liam Weer, Finny,
Ages, Forest Queen, end New Tares. Severs! of the rrew
of the wrecked steamer Alma were apschended on their
snivel at liontharenton is the Orissa, on *charge of robbing
the passugers and breaking open a box belonging to Sir
John Bearing, late governor of Hong Kraig, on board the
Ottawa, while on her pump down the Red Sea.

THE MAHAL—According to a Pret-office notice,
Issued yeetardey, mail. for America, India, Spain, vs&
Porturtrl will be made up In the General Pnet-office • ,-day
for Aroe.:ce on F.'day ; for the West Indira Peelle, and
Canada on Taetd., next ; for America and India, Aug. 3
end for India end China, Aug. 4. Hails from Ch't, India.
Alexandria. Melts, and Cased* will be due at the Geom.'
Past-office to-day ; from the Pacific, West Indies, Molders,
Portugel, Spe'n. and Ceps of Good Hope on Monday nest;
from Incite. t 'ixendrM, and Malta en Tuoiday next ; 0-cen
Creeds, Aug. 3 , :tom New Zsalead, Amitralia. Mauritius,
Bombay, lortandria, M. 'ta, Amadei. sad Bemuses, Aug.
4. The Better le to tate oat the Bombay mall, and the
TOIMS the Peninsular mall, to.dav ; the Amide ths American
mall of Friday ; the Atrato the West Wilt melt next Tom-
day ; the Intim. •be ladle mail Avg. 4 ; the Poste the Cape
mall of Aug. 6 ; mad the Tyne the Buell mail Aug. 9.
Help mallet me hi be deepe.ctl."l by the 'teenier Warrior,
All. I, frig Laos, Cad* Mogador, end Canary lolanda,

XPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MON OON OWN

PARIS. TVUDLT EVENING.

The extraardloary u tide 5-s the Moniteur, al-
though it is moldered Tel; serious by men who
watch the coarse of political events dry to day,
has not prodaced the egret upon the publ;c mind
which might have been expcctsd. There are those
who, passing over as unimportant the comminatoiy
phrases at the beginning and the end of the arf;ole,
frankly swept the figures brought forward as argu-
ments, and also the conclusion drawn from them that
the war in Cochin-Os:ea and Italy being over, the

wit establishment of Franco will retn.a to its
normal state. For myself I esnaot hesitate is oon -
eider the mar'reeto as et Aligly unLiendly.
There is no other power ln Europe era
would presume to mete a pub"a and official
proclamation to the tsc-payers of England, r ,•"-
ieg them they were oppressed and deluded
by theii. government. So fr. from Coating
to foment the Invasion panic upon the
strength of this ill.advl•cd explosion of impotent
wrath, I thick it may be regarded with great
equanimity. We know that the " bark " of the
man who shrank from the quadroatsral it "wart
than his bite." Nothingerne of the threat which the
bellicose colonels were prompted to make lost year,
and I do not believe that anything will come of ti's.
The bad feeling exists and most be borne in mind,
but there need be no blind alarm. It would be
affectation, however, to blink the fact that the
article, coming after the arnounoement that Lord
John Russell would mrke a speech on foreign Waite
on Thursday next, and Oise M. de Persigny's
ar.ival in Paris, shows that the diplomak,:o relations
between the two govetameata must be in a
critical erste. Tb's escapade of the Jfouirear.
coupled w.th other symptoms slight ,1 them-
selves, convince me that the only foondation for the
report of a general disarmament o'^culated
by the ledependanee Bee, was an in-
secure suggestion of the French Empuror
•tat Great Brittle should discontinue her purely
and notoriously defensive preparations. I have
no blue books before me to furnish materials for
discussing the figo•es of the Jfeniteur, but I may
just observe upon the utter imp: risibility of its
being true that the Brit,sh army costs Altb'n a
trivial fraction as much as the French. With all our
"taking care of Dowb," devil's dust, bad boots, bad
(toffee, and maladministration of all ade, it cannot be
that one English soldier coats el mach as six French
soldiers. The figares have been cooked ; they will
no doubt be severely analysed, and resolved into
their proper elements on your side of the water.
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lea as

The Bourse was affected by the article ;1 the
MOllliteur, though not ti any serious extent. The
market wan very heavy throughout the day. The
Bente, after being at one time as low re 67fr. 700.
and 67fr. 73c.. closed at 67fr. and 67fr. 900.,
with a fall of 20c. in each ease. Mobilier fell 10fr.
Railways were from 2fr. bOct. to V^. lower.
The Presae says, in its weekly commercial review:
The concloaion of peace, as was expected, has had a
Ilavoorable effect on bagasse is Peels. Also in the principal
mate of trade manufacturers are receiving orders, per-
ticalarly from Germany, with which country br.inese bas
been for several months pest nearly at a stand-still.
Should the preliminaries of Villafrancs be followtd, I is
hoped, by a definitive treaty, commercial afb,rs during
the approaching autumn may be expected to acquire
cossidereble activity. The retail trade in Pr s has
improved so much that many of the homes are already
beginning to give their order, for autr on goods. The
manufacturers of Rouen end Mulhausen find themselves
at a lose for want of hands to execute their orders. Higher

prices fns been obtained for cotton twist, and a far' kwi in•
revenant is generally earned. The cotton-merket at
Havre has bum rather heavy, and the advents of last week
. . .

his sot bola maintained. Li •ed bas"tess ham b

done to row sager, ant prices show an advance on those of
the previous week. This rise in the raw material has im-
parted some little animation among refiners. Coffee Is firm.
bat with a moderate amount of business doing. The rise
the price of copper in the Eaglielt market has caused a rather
active demand in Prance, ;rom the Idea of a on responding
upward movement in the French market. Little hi doing
lied and sine, bat previous price' maro'o'ned. Little or
nothing doing In oil. We have ter lived rather bad news
from several departments about the harvest. The tropical
heat which SOL in w.th the beginning of July has shrivelled
the wheat in minty pieces, and it is feared that •1e yield will
be lees by one-half than that of last year. Rye is of bat
sinning quality, and the oats, wnich were at one time
looking wonderfully well, are not expiated to tan out above
an average crop. Wheat, rye, and oats being all ripe toge-
ther, as they are this year, hands are very scarce. It is to
be feared that a series of heavy rains coming before •5e crops
are got in may add to the unfavourable prospect of
a deficient hatvast. The markets have not, how-
ever, been much affected by the above accounts.
At the Paris H.lie on Wednesday least there was
but a very slight rise. There is a great stock of flour
on hand, and people cannot readily ftd warehouse
room for more. The news from the wine Manias la not
good. Making every allowance for the yawl exaggeration
In the complaints of the growers, it cannot be doubted that
the vitae here .offered greatly in vs/ many places, gist
from the frosts of April, than from the heavy rens of May,
which hurt the bloom, end afterwards ::ern the great beats
which have burnt up the fruit or brought on the grape dis-
ease. The crap of this year w"I not be equal to half that of
1868. Holders of wham of 1859 will not sell them online at
• great advainoe, and the trade not being yet w"ling to =b-
ruit to their exigencies business le almost totally suspended,

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

(MOM TESTIILDAT'II " 1011111111/1.")

The foliose -1g is a trar slation of the e. ;ale in "le
Ilfoxiteur a unman j of which we gave yesterday :
They are endeavouring in England to attribute to
Prance the cause of the burdens imposed on the
English people for the " national defences." It is the
pretend' d increase of our armamen.l that tierces rs
a pstifica.:on ior the considerable nacre! n in *le
military and naval estimates of Great
The opmparisou of our budgets with the English
budgets will chow how erroneous such a suppo•
sition is.

Since 1833 the English budget hes increased by
13,438,000 pounds *sterling, that 'n 338 n of
francs, and the military rnd naval se. vices tigr ro 'n
this increase for more than 200 trillions. In thn
Enr ?Ist commeooes, thve two seri:ces we" cost
gland more than 660 milliorv, of which t'. rrmy
will oust 332,500,000 f-anos, and the navy 320
&Woos.

In France the military budget, u it has been
voted for 1880;amountsIto no more than 339,468,744
frr wer,and the navel budget to 123,603,443 francs (1).
The total *, about 463 million•, consequently far
below the expense!' of Great Britain for the seme
aervioes.

The snm devoted to the military budget vr-ies,
inasmuch so it depends on the price of provisions. It
is chiefly on account of their high price that, in 1839, '
the irtlttary budget amounts to 361,917,300 francs,
both for the sum originally voted and the supplemen-
tary credits foreseen. For the ministty of the marine,
the expenses amount to 122,963,883 francs, In 1868,
the m'listry ot war expended 376.822,53.5 franca, and
the mio'itta of the marine 137,980,260 francs. Now
on referring to the year 1863 to see what oar state
wan before the preparations for the Crimean war it
will be seen that the total for the a. my amounts to
322,740.809 f., end for the navy to 99,196,963 f.
Lastly, if we look further back and take the lad
years of the late government, it will be seen, that
for war we are below the outlay of 1847, which
amounted to 373,365,981 f. (2), and fur the navy to
128,637,609 f. (3.) Of course, the amounts for 1869
and 1880 do not include the expenses of the
Italian war and the expeditiou to Cochin
China, which cannot yet be completely seeertained;
bat it is probable that the loan of 600 millions will

overplas after the payment of

these expenses, and that is soon es the events that
moseioned them shall have been-aesompliaked, they
will retrtn to their normal state.
It may be asked, then, whether it is to France and
her extraortrlary s, =meats that we most attribute
the exoe live barthens that are weighing on the
English people, or whether them enormous expenses
and the taxes that are their result ought not to be
attzitmt• d to other Gauges.
(1). It is to be observed that the budget fur the
tu.ny r-td navy contain, besides the expert's of pay
rua ktep'-tg up of •',e effective state, also those
of the ordnance and stores, all the sums laid out each
year on ex• nor?' .ary works of engineering and on
Zia naval heehaws.
(2). In this sum were included the expenses of
Algetia, put down now "t a sprcial budget et
16,600,000.
(3). In there c-lculatiorg the financial years of
1661,1866, 1856, and 1837 do not appear, as they
were aff ctsd by the expenses of the C,,mesn war.