The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-02 00:00:00

COMIEBRCL&L INTELLIGENCE.

Basilan* en Looks, 251, 26i. Coffee flat, at 5,800 to
5,900 Nis. Barportation dam the departure of the lest
To the trotted States, 49,665 begs; to the Cluanal, 14,616 ;
to Ram, 10,166; to Marseilles, 15,091; sad to the Mediate-
reams, 7,406. Bank 040,000 begs. Collo stop very
abundant.

BOMBAY MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.

The China has arrived with the heavy portion of
the Bombay mails, thirty-five passengers, sad a fall
cargo•

On the 31st December she boarded the ship 8k
Vincent of Bristol, dismasted. The China laid by
her till midnight, when the St. Vincent made for
Falmouth.

A rumour has obtained daring the last few days
that the amok talk ad-of coupon cta the affairs of Italy may
perhaps raver take place.

Queen Louisa of Sweden, Princess of Rolland,
who mantel the premat King while Priam Royal in 1860,
has publialwd, WNW the pseudonym of " Jane Wincome,"
• yoking is Swedish lreaslatad from the English, entitled
"The Labourers in the Lord's Vineyard." The book la
mid toe the benefit of an hospital founded by the Queen soon
after her arrival at Stockholm.

A letter from Copenhagen of the 26th eve :
The diplomatio body yesterday bad sa audience of hie
Mejesty to onsdole with him on the lets disastrous ere at the
Palace of Fradericsburg. The King still bears the trams
of the personal dangers which he incurred while directing
the operations for saving the building. His lips end a part
of hie beard were burnt. In speaking of the event, his
Wisely CCOM seemly eontrtA his emotions. In addition to
the superb collection of ',Ad.:mines which had oast him so
seep nape and Womb:, to collect, he has low all his notes
intended fern work at which he had been employed for
several yeses on the comparison of the antiquities of dif-
Strait nations."

It has bean mentioned that is Premien Poland a
great number of Roman catholic,' had refused to sign as
Whim to the Pope, drawn up in a feeling of animosity to
the Italians. • letter from Pesth state* that • aimdar sir-
tandem:los Me happened in that capital, where a catholic as-
oweadon celled "The Society of St. Stephen" exists, the
object of which is to develop religions feelings amongst the
people. It was et a meeting of this society that a propo-
sition was roads • few days ago to draw ap an address to the
Popo ',Wive to the temporal power of the Holy Sea. Aft.*
an eisquest speech from the Canon Donlan, who warmly
opposed the proposition, the assembly almost naanimonsly
rofonad to sign the document.
The Persereranw of Milan states that Garibaldi
was the objeot*f a popular ovation there on the 26th
sad that he addressed a few patriotic words to the psople
&airing that they mast not new to um end all Venal;
was "Tweeted.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, SUNDAT Event:et..
A controversy is going on between the Debate and
the Constitutunsisel relative to a question of consider-
►ble importance, which I noticed the other day in
• comment upon the weekly commercial review of
the Pre se. You are aware that scarcely anything
eatable or drinkable, attempt bread and water, can
be introduced within the walls of Paris without
paying a very heavy duty, which is called the
*egret. Scores of wineshops and restaurants, esta-
blished for the express purpose of enabling the
citizens of Paris to eat and drink a little cheaper
just outside the walls, have given a peculiar aspect
and character to the " barriers," which forme a
striking feature in the history of this capital. Many
families have settled in the Batignolles, Pansy,
Nenilly, Vangirard, and other localities in the sub-
urbs, in order to avoid paying the octroi. By a recent
law Paris is aggrandised to an enormous extent. The
existing walls and barriers are even now being
pulled down, and from and after this day, January
1, 1860, the boundaries are advanced to the line of
the fortifications, and the whole of that important,
extensive, and populous district called the banlieue,
is incorporated with the city. According to common
sense and all notions of law, justice, and equity, it
can hardly be a question, at least so an Englishman
would think, that the inhabitants of the bonlieue,
who only from this day are by an act of the legisla-
ture citizens of Paris, begin from this day to pay
active duty upon provisions which pass the new
barrier', but are entitled to the undisturbed posses-
sion of whatever they may now have in their houses.
So thinks the Journal des Debate, which submits
that a late decree, ordering an inquisitorial search
to see whether the eatables and drinkablee in every
home in the new part of Paris are meant for domes-
tic consumption, or sale, is illegal and retroactif—
or, as we should say in England, ex poet facto. The
Constinitionnel appear to have received a brief on
behalf of the exchequer of the city of Paris, and it
argues with all an advocate's license. The Debate
quotes a judgment of the Supreme Court of Cams-
non. The Constitutinsisel refers to practice in the
case of Lyons and other towns, and rather sneeringly
says that as the Council of State, which approved of
the decree in controversy, was aware of the decree
of the Court of Caseation, the necessary presumption
is that this decree is not applicable to the present cue.
The Itibats replies that bad practice does not make
law; on the contrary, meatus sass abased's' est, and
that the Council of State cannot overrule the Court of
Caseetion. The Conatitistioneet thinks to put a
climatic upon the argument by the following reason-
ing, which I cite in terms because it con-
tains its own refutation : " A law," says
the writer, "has decided that from and after
January 1, 1860, the octroi of Paris shall be
extended to the fortifications. And then, in
order not to enter into details of execution which
naturally do not appertain to the. legislature, it dele-
gated, and that without any reserve, in the most
general and absolute terms, to an administrative public
regulation the task of settlingthe measures to be taken
for carrying out the new law." The palpable vies
of this argument is that it claims for the delegated
power, not the right to administer the new, bat a
right to extend the operation of the old law. If in
the great Paris Enclosure Act there was a cams
ontissus—if the framers of the act did not contemplate
that speculative purchases of provisions would be
made against New Year's Day, 1860, in order to
profit by the announced change, that is no reason
for an infringement of clear private right. Traders,
as well as 'ornate individuals, had a right to calcu-
late upon the consequences of the change, which
was not, so the law says, to come into effect till
January 1, 1860, and in my opinion it is quite clear
that any interference with the legitimate operations
on the ground that they would now have an undue
advantage over trade's within the old walls, who
have paid the octroi duties, would be • sheer
abuse of power.

PORTUGAL.

C7llOll or Owl! 001111711PONDKINT.)

LISBON. Dec. 27.
On the 22nd instant, at 1 p.m., the Bing gave a
first audience, in the Palace of Neceesidades, to Sir
Arthur Charles Magenie, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty,
there being present the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon,
the high officers of the Palace, the chamberlain, the
ministers and councillors of state, the honorary mi-
nisters of state, and other persons whom it is cus-
tomary to invite to such solemnities.
Sir Arthur Charles Msgenis delivered his creden-
tials on this occasion, and made the following dui-
noun* in Yrench :

Sire,—l have the honour to present to your Majesty the
letter by which the Queen of Bmgland, my gracious Sore-
ridgy, has accredited me, in quality of envoy estraordinsey
and minister plenipotentiary at your Majtety's court. The
Queen bass charged me to repeat to your Majesty the maw-
maces of her friendship, her dame attachment, and hoe
wishes for the happiness and prosperity of your family and
kingdom. Her Majesty desires that the alliance which has
so happily =Misted for so long a period between the two
kingdoms may be ever maintained in all its force and entente
and tbe constant aim of my humble endeavours shall be to
follow to this respect the desires sad orders of her Majesty.
Convinced. Sire, that your Majesty equally appreciates the
advantages of this alliance, 1 venture to hope that you will
dolga to accord me that confidence which will reader more
easy the task whitish I have undertaken.
The King replied :
In receiving tbe letter by which the Queen your gracious
sovereign accredits you in quality of her envoy es
and minister plenipoteariary to my curt, 1 rejoin:rei t. =
to toll you how truly the wishes of which you see the inter.
=area
those of my heart. The Queen your sovereign
well the sentiments of friendship and gratitude which
Week me to her. She knows also bow easy to ono is the
tack of coutributing to the oonservabon of the slliance which
bee so keg united the intonate of the two countries. The
post of which the Queen your sovereign has considered you
worthy assures me of the due acoomplishment of your
mis-
sion, end gives you a right v. all my ooviidence.
The arrangements for the elections proceed with
• vigour which has not been manifested for years
past hand both the government and the opposition are
straining every nerve to secure a favourable result
for their cause. Sunday is the day fixed for the
voting.
A movement is on foot for constituting an associa-
tion of the British merchants of Lisbon, destined, I
understand, for the protection of their interests in all
questions and matters of importance, and for uniting
sad oentraliains this influential and respectable body.
which is certainly the first of the foreign communi-
ties. This movement, which deserves every support,
has been inaugurated, I believe, by Mr. K. Knowles,
a merchant of this city, who certainly deserves
the best thanks of all whose trade lies with Lisbon
or the Portuguese possessions.

THs Naw Yisa.—This is a " bisgratils" or lisp
year, and next month them will eocordiooly be 29 days in-
aped of 28, as nand. There will be lour donde', after the
Eptdpeay (Friday nest); lost will COMM/MOM ou the 22nd
of February, and Mester Day will fall on Sunday, the Bth a
April—a kemight Now 'hot last year. Whit Sunday
will occur m the 27th of May, sad Trinity on the 3rd of
Juno. There will be 25 Sandals after Trinity; Advent
thoday will recur on the god or December, pod Christina
Day will fell cm a Tureday, two days later (owing to leap.
year) than thin year; that is, sooordiog to the solar cycle,
when the reeked= is by the days of the week exclusively.
EXTINSIVII BURGLARY IN THE eITY.—On Bo-
bud., Information wee received by the potion of as nitesishil
burglary at Mr. Thomas Retry, gold and silver rehear, No.
9, gldeneratreet, Snow-bill. 'The stolen properly copiloted
of gold, silver, Minnow* jewellery, awl other property, to •
onneldcrablo amount. A s-erchiag inveatieatios la being
made by Mr. inventor Lennart, mad hole daunt Is eater-
tabled that the guilty. partite will shortly be in the hands of
juotioa A reward to ofkred for the oppreturnaion of the
thieves'

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CENTRAL CRDGNAL COURT.

(TlllB DAT.)

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of their duties.