The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-09 00:00:00

le. JANUARY 9,
EXPRFAS FROM PARIS.
INTELLIGBNCE.

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AMERICA.

THE PRESIDENTS brizisAGE.
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__ QUEINBTOWT.4 MONDAY, JA111...9.

The Royal Mail staam-ahip, Aimee% arrived here
at 1 o'clock am. She left Penton ee the 28th, and
Halifax on the 90th alt.

The Antsries brings 37 passengers, and 6,000 dol-
lars for Have- Shs la'Jdod the mails, and sailed for
Liverpool at 2 A.X. Alt will.
She brings the Pr seident's Message, of which the
following is a sum wary
Although no Fipeaker had been sleeted, the Pre-
sident delivered his Message on the 27th ult.
Alluding to the excitement in the South, be
said : " I firmly believe that the events at Harper's
Ferry, by reusing the people to pause and reflect,
would bathe means, under Providence, of allaying
existing excitement, and to prevent in future a
fresh outbreak. I cordially congratulate you upon
the final settlement by the Superior Court of the
United States of the question of slavery. The
right has been established of every citizen to take
property, including slaves, into the common terri-
tories, and to have it protected under the Federal
constitution.

" All means have been employed, and shall °ou-
tlaw to be employed, to execute the laws against
the slave trade, and those engaged in the unlawful
enterprise have been vigorously prosecuted.
" The wisdom of the course pursued by the govern-
ment towards China has been vindicated by the
events.

"Our relations with the great Empires of Francs
and Ramie—ea well as with all other governments,
except that of Spain—happily continue to be of the
most friendly character.
" I am happy to state General Scott has recently
returned from the Island of San Juan, the object of
which was to carry out the precautionary arrange-
ments between the governments, having success-
fully accomplished his mission, and there is now no
longer any reason to apprehend collision.
" Referring to Mexica, the President recommended
employment of military force to enter Mexico, to
obtain an indemnity for the past and security for
the future."

(LATEST FROM SAN FRANCISCO.)
Severe snow storms had interrupted the mining,
and caused Dome damage to property.
Advice, from Vera Cruz report continued
disturbances.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.
Exchange heavy. Money 8 to Ta. Stock' un-
changed. New York Central lower. Ashes and
cotton unchanged. Breadstuff' nominally unchanged.
Beef quiet ; pork declining.

PRUSSIA.

A fact generally remarked upon as important is
that the Berlin organ of the Prussian minbterial
party, the weekly Prunian Gasett., while adhering
to the opinion that the restoration of the dukes in
Central Italy would have been the most desirable
solution, gives up the project as impossible, and
thinks annexation to Sardinia by far the next best
thing.

Molt ova owl(

PABIS, BIINDAT EVINI2fO.

It is announced that M. Thouvenel—l and that
the French papers do not give him the particle of
nobility, " de "—left Constantinople on the 6th, and
may be expected in Paris about the 16th.
An extraordinary Council of Ministers, at whihh
the Emperor presided, was held at the Tuileries at
2 o'clock this afternoon. Immediately on the break-
ing up of the Council the Emperor and Empress
drove oat in a open carriage, the day being very fine,
and proceeded along the Rue Rivoli to the Champs
Elyse.s and the Bois de Boulogne.

Both the Paris and the P;esse note as the lead-
ing event of the day the reproauction in the
Moniteur of an article on Count Walewski's retire•
ment, published by a London journal which always
paste here for the especial organ of Lord
Palmerston.

The legal journals, the Droit and Gamete des 214-
busaux, contain a consounique from the Procarenr-
General's office, the substance of which I anticipated
two days ago. It states that no intention wee ever
entertained to throw difficulties in the way of M.
011i,ier's prosecuting an appeal against the sentence
of suspension pronounced against him, but that the
Court of Correctiooal Appeals alone has the power
of deciding whether the right exists. A serious
legal question bee arisen whether there is any
" register " for the reception of appeals in "
diwi-
plinary matters r but it wu never meant to inter-
fere with the rights and liberties of a full defence.
The ProcureurOsneral has summoned M. 011ivier

to appear before the Court of Appeal on Jan. 12.
The lisperance of Nantes received a waning yes-
terday, for an article, described by the prefect of the
Loire Inferieure u " one tending to throw odium
upon oar expeditions to the Crimea and Italy, the leo-
rims results of which it calumniates." This journal
must not be confounded with the Esperance of
Nancy, which *tumbled against a warning the other
day.

The Pays, which yesterday pleaded extenuating
oircumstanoes in favour of the Popish robbery of the
boy Mortara, now receives the following severe
jobation from the Opinion Nationale :
The Pays, which calls itself the Jennie' is 1' Empire, has
the ill fortune to uuderstand nothing whatever either of
the Emperor's polioy, or of the principle' upon which the
aspire la founded. Hostile to Italy, favourable to Austria,
ft has now the hardihood to offer in apology for the rape of
a minor which has crested an Immense sensation throughout
Europe, and against which the imperial government has
energetically protested. Ons might fancy that the Pays
would at hest be thought worthy of commendation by the
clerical party. But it has not even so much good luck
The Niger treats it with oontempt. What can the Pays
want, sad to what public does it speak ! A stranger to all
parties, reptidisted alike by the old and new repine, gees
altogether many In much of unpopular paradoxes, it lives on
sophisms, and mug soon die of inanition.
The Marquis d'Andre, a general of division and a
senator, has just died in Paris.
The Slick states that a proposition will be sub-
mitted to the Corps Legislatif for a general rise in
the salaries of public functionaries, the very great
increase in the cost of house rent and provisions of
all kinds having rendered a change a matter of us-
°realty.
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In consequence of the disclosures made at the re-
omit trial, a project is under consideration for sub-
jecting stockbrokers to disciplinary rules analogous
to those which govern notaries, Wailers, and other
ministerial officers.

PARIS, SATUIDAT EVILWINO.
The Parse ears that among all the various
rumours of the day it considers one only as worthy
of notice, " that is, the mission of Lord Cowley. He
has a mission, and it is a truly important one."
The Courrier du Dionaeeke (jut oat) states that
on December 30 Cardinal Antunelli handed to the
Duke de Oramoot, at Rome, a very serious diplo-
matic note touching the pamphlet, and the impres-
sion produced on the Popes mind by the circum-
stances which accompanied its publication.
It results, says the Courtier, from an analysis of
this note, not only that the departure for Paris of
the plenipotentiary of the Holy See is adjourned,
but that the Pope will take no part in the Congress
=lees the Emperor Napoleon publicly expresses
opinions diametrically opposed to those of the pam-
phlet. The question therefore whether Napoleon DI.
will submit to be bullied by Rome is now propounded
in the most distinct and positive manner.
The Opinion Nationale calls the attention of the
government to the fact that a recruiting bureau for
the Papal army is established at Marseilles, and it
publishes a oopy of a printed paper, to which there
in no printed name, in which a reverend father, "the
Jesuit delegated," attests that he believes the recruit
to belong to the "catholic, apostolic, and Roman reli-
gion."
A sister of M. Thouvenel is married to 14. Cavil-
lier Fleury, the critic of the Journal des Debate.
There has been a marked improvement at the
Bourse in consequence of the prevalence of the be-
lief that an excellent understanding on foreign
affairs prevails between France and England. The
Isthmus of Suer question was particularly spoken
of as one likely to be satisfactorily settled. The
Rents roes 40c.for cash, and 600. for account,Ulosing
at 68.90 and 68.95. Mobilier rose 36. The Orleans
Railway rose 10; Lyons, 13.75; Western and
Southern, 7.60 each ; Northern, 6 ; and Eastern,
2.60. The market was very animated and firm at
I the close.

M. Lionville, the last batonnier, has resigned hie
seat in the council of the order of advocates for the
express purpose of creating a vacancy, to fill whieh
M. Emile 011iviee will no doubt be eleeted by an
immense majority. The whole bar of Paris will
have an opportunity of taking part in thin demon-
stration.

Count d'Hauseonville's action against M. Dubuis-
son,
the printer, for refusing to perform a contract to
print his " Letter to the Bitonniers" as a pamphlet,
on the ground that it had been the subject of a warn-
ing when it appeared as an article iu a newspaper,
was argued yesterday before the Tribunal of Com-
merce. The court postponed judgment for a fort-
night.
The Court of Caseation decided yesterday, over-
ruling the Imperial Court of Dijon, that the offence
of introducing foreign journals into Prance is one
which does not admit or a verdict " with extenuat-
ing circumstances," it being a simple "contraven-
tion" of the new press laws of 1862, to which the
provisions of the old penal code do not apply.
The beautiful park of Moneesox, near the
Batignolles, is about to be converted into a public
gerdes. It would be a great boon to the Parisians
it it were merely to be thrown open just as it is; but
many improvements are oontemplared,and it is even
said that a grand conservatory, or jardin d'hiver,
such as was built at great cost by Philippe d'Orleans,
Duke de Chartres, the founder of this residence, will
shortly be re-established, and that the lawns and
basins under the glass roof will be peopled with
rare animals and aquatic birds.
A threatening letter writer of a very original
species appeared at the bar of the correctional tri-
bunal this week. He was • ladies' shoemaker,
named Mathieu, who, being hard up for money, eon-
ceived the idea of writing his memoirs, together
with, to ase his own expression, " the biography of
I the feet" of all his customers. He sent a circular,
I together with a proof sheet, to every one of them,
politely stating that any :lady who might wish her
name not to appear in his book must be good enough
to remit him the sum of 15f. The following speci-
mensof the biography were read in court:

Ilmdante A— livia Rue —, No. —, first door; roarrkd fu
1844, three childtea ; pays badly ; feet very difficult to fit,
Instep too flat, two corns and them bunions; walks awk-
wardly, sad warn her oboes out in the inside very fast.
Madame B—, Rue —, No.—, two psir beck; still en old
maid ; borrows obildrea to take teith her tato the Tuileries
Gerdes; pays bar bilk, bot swam a hard bargain; fast speed-

fag, toes omitting toe over the other ; two reran and a
beim
Module B—, Rua —, No. —, fifth door ; formerly kept a
=I has two sons, privates in the army of Africa; two
daughters; gives her children nothing, sad neva
pays mill smut with a writ ; test tat, large and fatty, end
Tory apt to beret the leathers; a great many owns and
bunions all mixed ap together.
Several of the ladies applied to were weak enough
trrs pay the 16f., bat others oomplained to the police,
and the literary shoemaker hoe been oondemned,
for mere/saris, to a mouth's imprison ment--amaredly
a lighter sentence than he deserves.