The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-27 00:00:00

COMIIIIRCILL INTELLIGENCE.

Money steady ; louts on Gall, 6to 7 per neat. Stooks very
dull. Exchange, on London, 1081 to 1031 , on Franco,
Mr. 170. te Mr. 20e. Flour marital quiet; inferior quali-
ties easier; wheat Arm, but quiet. Coffee steady. Cotton
Arm; eel.. in three days, 6,300 bales; middling upland.,
113. noises steady. Iron dull; scotch pig, 26 dole. to
26 dole. 60c. Provisions steady. Tallow Aria. Sept
buoyant. Freights Sending upward.
ORLEANS, FIN. 13.

Cotton easier, bat quotations unchanged ; sales, 7,000
bates. Sager eteady. Freights and exchange unaltered.
CHARLESTOWN, F2l. 11.
Cotton unchanged. Sales, 2,400 bales.
LATEST NEWS BY THE ASIA.

NEW YORK, Fn. 15.
The steamer Arago, from Southampton, and the
Robert Lowe, from Genoa, arrived to-clay.
A fire broke out at Elizabeth City, North Carolina,
and destroyed forty hone...
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ORLEANS, Fax. 14.

Cotton has declined ec.; middling, 10itc. to llo•
Sales in three days, 30,000 bales; receipts, 33,000
bales.

QUEBNBTOWN, MONDAY.

The Royal Mail steam-ship America, Captain
Millar, arrived here yesterday at 10.30 p.m., em-
barked mails, and promoded at 11.30 p.m. for Hali-
fax and Boston. All well.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM ova OWN

PARIS, SUNDLI ETSJIING.

The French press generally is not yet alive to the
serious character of the news which I rent you on
Friday. An article in yeeterday's Patrie, signed
"Holland," which preaches abnegation to Sardinia,
and talks in a very ominous manner about a French
" understanding" with Austria, has attracted no
notice here, but extracts from it are given both in
the Nord and Isdependasee. M. Outland is the
Mrs. Harris of the Petrie. It is very doubtful
whether there be any such person. Louis Venillot
once apostrophised him in these terms—" Who
are you?—whence came you?—and in whose
name do you speak ?" Grandgnillot does really
exist in the flesh, but Holland is suspected to
be a myth. However this may be, it is, I have ao
doubt, a fact that the Patris's article of Saturday
bearing that signature is of "no private interpreta-
tion." The news that France insists upon the non.
annexation of Tuscany to Sardinis, and threatens to
withdraw her army if Victor Emmanuel will not
submit, is confirmed by the Indipiesdance, with the
condition (I hope and believe untrue) that England
is a party to the new course of policy which, if

believed-:and the Italians are slow to credit evi-
dence that they are betrayed by their friends—
will carry consternation throughout Italy. The
Opinion Nationale of this evening says that
the situation is " very obscure and serious."
It goes so far se to say that the
French government despatched a note to Victor
Emmanuel on the 24th of this month, requiring
him to give up all thoughts of the annexation of
Central Italy, "save, perhaps, Modena and Patina."
Alluding with an evident misgiving that it is true
to the scheme published in the Express and inde-
pendence yesterday, the Opinion says:—" We see
such grave difficulties in these propositions that we
cannot bring ourselves to believe in their authen-
ticity. On such basis the peace of Europe will not
be securely established."
The news telegraphed from London of a treaty of
alliance between Russia and Austria is discredited
by the Pays, Freese, and Opinion Nationale, neither
of which organs, however, appear to speak upon
any authority; they merely think the statement
improbable on the face of it.
Vice-Admiral Charner left Paris this morning to
take the command of the French fleet in Chins. He
will leave Marseilles onWednesday,by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's boat Panther.
The Court of Caseation was yesterday asked to
quash the sentence pronounced by the Court of
Finistere upon three robbers convicted of an offence
for which two innocent parties had previously
suffered (having died in the prisons to which they
were unjustly consigned), and to order a new trial,
on the ground that the Assize Court had,without suf-
ficient swami, prohibited the publication of any re-
port. I called attention yesterday to the indefensible
conduct of the provincial court in this case. M. le
Serrurier, the reporting judge of the Court of Causa-
tion, expressed great regret that the Court of Finis-
tere should have deprived the families of the inno-
cent parties of the only reparation possible—namely,
the fullest publicity of the circumstance., showing
their Innocence. He dwelt especially upon the fact
that the court below had thought fit to make the
decree complained of, of its own mere motion, with-
out any requisition on the pert of the public minis-
ter, and without giving the prisoner's counsel an
opportunity to oppose it. Nevertheless, the Court
of Cessation, being of opinion that the discretion
given by the code to every court of justice to keep
its proceedings out of the newspaper, is absolute,
and cannot be the subject of en appeal, rejected the
application.
The ifoniteur publishes a decree on the reorgani-
sation of the artillery, suppressing the regimental
lists of the storehouses for field artillery, increasing
the number of batteries of infantry by creating three
new regiments, and re-establishing the artillery
train.

The Moniteur also publishes the programme of
the opening of the legislative body on the Ist of
Much, and announces that the Emperor presided
yesterday at a council of minister..

A Paris correspondent says that at the late ball at
' the Tuileries the Empress wore at once a peculiar and
beautiful dress. "Over the familiar skirt of toll. itowatorme
woo thrown a abort upper skirt of white watered silk,
' festooned up on both sides with wide bands of black velvet
embroidered with gold. Upon her head was placed a high
crown of polished gold, upon which were imprinted in black
enamel reins Egyptian hieroglyphics. There were a neck-
' lace and bracelet■ to match. The Princess Clothilde was
present. Her Imperial highness is far from pretty, but a die-
tiuguished French political economist, speaking of her at the
ball, d-Glared he ooasidered her the most extraoedinerily en-
dowed lady in Europe. She speaks Silently five language..
and is a thorough Greek and Latin scholar; is well ac-
quainted with the works of all the ancient and modern poets,
and is particularly fond of quoting Shakopee*. Her cha-
racter, in spite of her extreme youth, is very Arm—this her
face In3ioates. The Impress is very fond of this her young
relative."