The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-13 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MALTA, MAT 4.
Signor New°, one of the anfortonate aontputions
of Poet*, was mot bore from Napes by the loot French
etc Wier, after moos than tut peril creel transmitted. He
came with lett. re of introdnetioa from the moot roopootoblo
promo In Noploo, who bra testimony to hie worth awl the
takituty of he imprisonment. The Ntayoliton titles who
hove bees keg reeding here ell come to me him sad gave
km s moot realty wokome.

MAT •.

The general teller is that the Centurion his goes to
hors to protect Bri.i.b interests.
Her Majesty's /hip Terrible arrived en the 4th iron Coen.
The Inayerstres, Ausuisn Lloyd's, from Soma, arrtved at
Melia ferrielier.
. .

The Elbe, with the cable to waned Cesidleand Alezeadrie,
weed through on the Sib. Mr. Liddis urived two days
after, end hired& tug to follow hr; he hoped to overtake
the klbe .t Byre. If they eneeeed is the laying of thew
rabies it will connect Alexandrie sad Coesseadaople by
wire, sad Conetaalisople is fa oomaionicatlea with ell
Berate. The coonmuniestke will be very round about mat
mot very meoli to be depended on. Malta ouibt at owes to
be e,neweite I erlib Alexandria. . . .

~The Ml.rlburoagh, Pdeaa Royal, Terrible, anl Vigilant
are in Mara harbour.

Baron Potrero has just arrived in Paris.
M. Onisot has left Paris for his country seat at
Val Richer, when he purposes to pose the sommer. Be
will there complete the third volume el bls memoir..

STOPPAGi OP AUSSIIIAII MAIL PACKIITS BAIL-
mo recut Taman. —TM ttasttha postal .each

by rim betwes Mesta arid forvigs porta barb's
Dees interroptod by wart no lotion or soorryopers con, Lr

the moot, be foreierdeti $2lO Belgian (the first podiaus of
the Waste Note) to the boles [etude, Oreeoe, the Leveat,
or Egypt. Lettere, &c., fur Bork, Beryls, the
Daeubien Principefide*, Rusk. bock, Beres, Selohica, So-
Ole, Adrianople, or Cornets'boople, whoa epeetelly directed
to bisect "rin Belem," will be forwoodel from Vilma by
the laud route.—By ammaad of the Peeteesober.Gootral.
RoWLAND BILL, Beereteer.—Omerel Peet.ollee, Mar 14.

12LP,RESS PROM PA Mb.

CRY RU

BANE OF FRANCE.

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PARIS, FRIBA' lioaumro.

The Monitour publishes the monthly returns of
the Bank of France to yesterday, May 12. We give
the most important items, with the corresponding
figures of last month en regard:

May. April.
Coin and bullion, Paris 174,930,879 .... 228,876,323
Ditto ditto branch banks
Bills discounted, NA/ 261,462,062 .... 218,204,337
Ditto branch banks
Notes in circulation, Paris sad

branches
Trourary deposits
Private depoeits, Paris 283,389,366 209,804,578
Ditto branch banks
Advanced on public isaoritiss 29,730,900 .... 26,865,800
Ditto by branch banks
Advanced =railway securitin 114,972,800 .... 95,236,300
Ditto by branch banks

The drain of gold amounts to one million sterling,
but the aggregate is still 20/ millions. The increase
in the discounts is 2imillionsaterliog, but an addition
of nearly similar amount has been made to the pri-
vate deposits. This indicates commercial distrust.
There has been a further large increase in the ad-
vances in railway securities.

(mom ova OWN 0011ISPONDINT4
PARIS, THOWIDAT Evixnto.

The Empress presided at a council of ministers to-
day, and yesterday she signed several papers as
regent. No act bearing her signature has yet
appeared in the Meniteur.
Bo great is the confidence felt in the speedy
and triumphant termination of the war, that the
manager of the Theatre Francais has received
notice that his company will probably be required
to play before the Emperor in the courts of the
moon at La Scala in Milan.

Count de Pereigny will leave for London this
evening or to-morrow morning. He had a long inter-
view with the Duke of Malakoff yesterday. The
duke will go to Nancy in about a week to assume
the oommand of the army of observation confided to
him.

The Sardinian government has authorised Alex-
andria, Nioe, Savona, and several other towns to
contract loans to defray the expenses of the war.
I hear a report that M. de Chasseloup Laubat is
likely to be appointed Minister of Marine. At all
events he has been sent for from Algeria, where he
now is, to meet the Emperor in Genes. Should this
project be realised, Admiral Hamelin, the present
Minister of Marine, will be made Grand Chancellor
of the Legion of Honour, which enviable poet has
remained vacant since the death of the Doke of
Plaisanoe. The ministry of Algeria and the colo-
nies will, I am told, be continued u a separate de-
partment, but I have not heard who is destined for
the °Moe.

M. Oranier de Cassagnec's journal, the Pays,
gives an equivocal contradiction to the news which
I sent you two days since, and which was repeated
by the Bieck yesterday, that the government has
authorised the circulation in France of 31. About's
interesting book about the court of Rome. "We be-
lieve," it is said, " that the Siecle is mistaken, and
that the government, in refusing to authorise the
printing of M. About's book, did all that was regu-
larly in ite power to prevent the publication of it in
France. The book was published in Brussels." I
cannot understand this reasoning at all. It is not

" regularly" in the power of the French govern-

ment to prevent the publication of any
book whatever in France, although it may
regularly seize the copies as soon as they appear.
It does regularly enough seize all foreign publica-
tions of which it disapproves, and nothing world
have been more easy or regular than to have pro-
hibited the publication in question from crossing
the Belgian frontier. The fact is as I told you, that
the Emperor, overruling the objections of some of
his councillors, ordered the book to be admitted.
The paragraph in the Pays, though jesuitically
worded, plainly admits that the work is now to be
had in France.
The widow of the famous republican General
Hoche died yesterday in Paris, at a very advanced
age. She will be buried to-morrow. The funeral
service takes place at St. Clothilde. Hoche was the
general who made a descent en the south of Ireland
at the time of the first revolution. He thrashed
the Austriars at Weissembourg, and for his defeat
of two of the principal armies of the Chortans
received the title of Pantseateur de la Vend& His
name, like that of Moreau, is held in great venera-
tion by the republican party, and is celebr►ted in
many national songs.
Count Nienwkerke, the director of the imperial
museum, while driving two spirited horses in the
Champe Elyries, at 6 o'clock this evening, was
thrown out of hie carriage and very much hurt.
This is the third or fourth time that an accident of
the kind has happened to him within a short period.
The Bourse continues to improve. The Bente at
one period was quoted at 61fr. 66c., and although
towards the close it became less buoyant, left off
with a rise of 46c. and 36c., at 61fr. 80c. and 61fr.
700. Mobilier roes 121 r. 60c. All the railways rose
from 101 r. to 16fr.