The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-09 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

The Mowiteur publishes the monthly returns of
the Bank of France to yesterday, Thursday, May 8.
We give the most important items, with the corre-
sponding figures of last month, en regard:

May April
Cola and bullion, Paris 117,610,819,,.. 106,123,236
D.tto ditto branch banks.., 168,729,617., , . 163,107,068
Bills discounUd, Paris 238,818,106..., 244,276,347
Ditto branch beaks
Notes in circulation, Paris
Ditto ►ranch banks
Treunry deposits
Privet. deposits, Para 169,666,881.... 137,661,219
Ditto branch banks

The Monitsur of this day announces that M. di
Moray has been appointed Ambassador Extraordi-
nary to the Emperor of Russia.
General Ney left yesterday for St. Petersburg.

(PEON OUR OWN CORI

PARIS, THURSDAY ETZNINO.
The following telegraphic despatch, received to.
day, has produced a great sensation in Paris:

Brussels, 7th, Evening.
In the Chamber of Represent .tisea t)-day, the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, in reply to iota rpt Hatton. addressed to
hien, stated that the speech delivered by Count Walewski in
the si Unit of the Congress of the Bth ult., had not yt t been
officially notified to the Belgian government. When that
notification should have been made, the government, he
said, had a reply ready which w3uld energetically maintain
the rights of Belgium u an independent nation. "No
power," added the minister, " hts ever claimed any modifi-
eation of the law on the pries in Belgium, and
the country submit to such a pretension—never!" This
declaration was received with immense ent►esiaam; sp-
ittines lose from every bench, and from the tribalism, which
were filled with .pictatore. The chamber rase immediately
atm.

The government journals have received orders not
to publish the text of the above despatch. They all
in a paragraph, evidently communicated, notice
shortly the contents, omitting all that is emphatic,
and say they shall wait for a textual report before
they make any remarks upon the subject.
In anticipation, doubtless, of what was about to
take piece in Belgium, the Constieutionnel has been
instructed to back out to some extent of the preten-
alone put forward by Count Walewski. It feigns
great astonishment at the misconstruction that has
been universally put upon the celebrated sally of the
French plenipotentiary, recorded in the 22nd pro-
tocol, and protests that all that Count Walewski ever
meant was to deprecate the right of a foreign press
to advocate the assassination of his sovereign. It is
very difficult to believe that journals in Belgium can
be in the "daily habit" of doing this, and yet the
Pays only yesterday affirmed that the "excesses
complained of " assume more monstrous proportions
every day.
The Seek comments on the above subject with
much good sense in 'Ate following terms:

For oar own part, we are unab'e to judge ct the extent
to which the cowl hints of the Pays ere founded, from the
foot that the incriminated journals do not enter Franco, and
are consequently unknown to us. Ws need not add that
we disapprove of the savage doctrines alluded to by the
Pays, but at the saws time we opine that the faults com-
mitted by the press, which turn against their authors,
should not serve as a pretext for measures which, directed
against abuses, only too often extend to the liberty of die-
suasion, the vital strength of existing governments. We
have often been told that thew joarnals calumniate ns; we
have pitied them witt•out being inspired with the slightest
desire to peruse their I:entente.

The Pays announces that General Edgar Ney has
already left for St. Petersburg, and that he is charged
to present to the Emperor Alexander 11. the answer
to his letter informing the Emperor Napoleon of his
accession to the throne. Count de Moray, according
to the same authority, will leave Paris about the 15th
of Jane, to represent France at the coronation of the
Czar. In answer to various paragraphs in foreign
journals, giving lists of the personnel of Count de
Morny's suite, the Pays says that nothing has yet
been decided on this head. Although in a contra-
dictory humour, the Pays does not deny the truth
of the reports of the immense sum of money
to be given to M. de Morny to represent France
appropriately at the Russian coronation, nor of the
unparalleled magnificence of the carriages now build-
ing for him in Paris. It, however, contradicts in a
lump all the news given by foreign journals relative
I to the consulates to be established on the coast of the
Black Bea, affirming that nothing is yet settled even
as to the towns where consuls will be stationed, much
less as to the persons to be appointed. " Continuing
in the same order of ideas" (to use a diplomatic ex.
pension) the Pays says that, although the announce-
meat that Prince Dolgoronki will be the new Ras.
aian ambassador at Paris is not improbable, nothing
has yet happened to confirm the news.
The Archduke Maximilian, of Austria, will, it is
said to-day, arrive in Paris on the 14th. The gene-
ral who accompanies him is cousin-german to the
Queen of England, so at least the Pays says. Prince
Oscar, of Sweden, will a rive on the 18th. Baron
de Hubner has been promoted by the court of Austria
to the rank of Ambassador, instead of Minister
Plenipotentiary.

The Havre journals state that Prince Napolsoe
will go on his minion to the:north In a few days, and
repeat the rumour that he is to escort the Queen of
Sweden to Paris, which has lately been doubted in
certain quarters.
At the Bourse the Rents opened with some heavi.
ness, owing to a Ml of } in Consols, but
isuberquently, on the strength of a report that there
is a great increase of bullion in the Bank of France,
there was an improvement, and the closing prices,
74fr. 90c. for cash, and 7Mr. 40c. for account, were
sc. and 10c. higher than yeatetday. Credit Mobilise
wu again in great demand, and rose 25fr.
I am informed that M. Periere has signed

a treaty with MM. Stieglitz, the great Rue.
situ bankers, for the establishment of a Cre•
dit Mobilier Society at St. Petersburg. It la
confirmed that • Credit Mobilier will also be very
shortly set up at Constantinople. Most of the rail•
ways gave way. Some lines, however, were very
firm at the close, and Orleans rose 23fr. in a few
minutes.

The Press* of Paris and two minor journals, the
Verite and the Vol: de la Verite were all convicted
yesterday of the crime of having copied from the
Independance Beige, a paragraph which, as the court
holds, amounts to a report of the proceedings of the
Senate, contrary to the imperial decree in such case
made and provided, according to which the debates
lin the Senate are to be kept profoundly secret.
The defence was of the nature of that
oelebrated one set up before a country bench in an
affiliation case--" it was such a very little °Da" In
fact the paragraph was nothing but a short sum•
mary of the report of a senatorial commissioner and
of the discussion that ensued theron. Not even the
names of the speakers were given. Still the court
felt bound by the text of the imperial decree to con•
riot. It however only sentenced the editors of the
journals incriminated to 60h. and the coots.