The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

DICILUSED.

Cash -5 millions.
Bills discounted, not yet due OS
Advances
11
Current accounts 6
~
Treasury balance 53 1-3 „
INMURZD.
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Bank Notes ---
32
The principal alteration is the decrease of more
than two millions sterling in the government depo-
sits, which has caused an increase of a million and
a quarter sterling in the notes in circulation. The
bills discounted and bullion are both rather lower.

TURKEY.
VIENNA. Ann,
.12.

Baron Prokesch, the Austrianin—teniu7sCiTat
Constantinople, has demanded and obtained leave
for six months. He will be replaced ad interim by
Count Ludolf, councillor of the Austrian embeaity,
who (being here on leave of absence) will start by
the next mail steamer for Constantinople.

THE UNITED STATES.
QUEENSTOWIC, FIUDAT.
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The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's screw saineeer City et llasehester, Captain
Cummings, from New Yurk on the ;Slat ult., has arrived.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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(nom ous OWN conserommwr.)

EARLS, THURSDAY EYUINO.

I have not hitherto noticed the slavish addresses
bearing the signatures of various inhabitants of ob-
scure villages in Savoy which the Moniker has
been publishing daily for some time past. The
Emperor's secretary himself could not write better
French than these simple-minded Savoyards are
supposed to do ; and for fulsome adulation the
compositions to which their names are appended
may challenge comparison with the most sickening
productions of experienced French functionaries.
Just by way of a specimen, I select for translation
one which has the especial merit of being short :
AddreA, t.. t 11, Emperor of the commune of Albeue, pro-
vince of Chambery.

Aire, —The mountain, of Savoy trembled with joy when
they blow that you had Awes them for the unassailable
limits of th-. vet French empire. The inhabitants of the
commune of Allen, by the orpn of their edministniturs,
and in accordaace with all the inhabitants of Savoy,
hereby aasure you that they are delighted to belong to the
great and heroic French nation and to its august head,
whose word is the law, and wito,e e whom is the admiration
of Europe.
In order that this model address may not go
forth to the readers of the Express uncombed
for by the ostensible antliors, you will perhaps find
room for their nam.•., which are :—Travers, don-
teur, syndic ; Pena, assesseur et greffier ; Philippe
Laurent ; B. Miguet, curd d'Albens ; J. Pellissier,
vicaire ; Peine, juge ; Mermel ; Boutron ; Boissat ;
Mermet, conseiller ; N. Canet ; Bontempa ; S.
Canet ; Bosset, notaire ; J. Pison.
A scheme is on foot for enabling the citizens of
Savoy and Nice residing in Franee, of whom there
are a great many (including the organ-grinders and
vendors of white mice), to vote for the annexation
without taking the trouble of going home.
It is, I believe, quite certain that the reiterated
assertions of many French journals that Switzer-
land has abandoned all hopes of a congress to con-
sider her rights, and has resigned herself to treat
directly with France, are, to say the least of them,
" premature." The story of a proposal by France
to declare a neutral zone all round the lake of
Geneva, is treated as a canard invented by the
Belgian journals.
The Gazette de France says that Mgr. Dupanloup
has refused the cardinal's hat offered him by the
Pope. While expressing his gratitude for the spe-
cial mark of affection and esteem implied in the
offer, the Bishop of Orleans told the Holy Father
that if he were to accept it, his sincere devotion to
the cause of the temporal power would certainly be
attributed in France to interested motives.

Police spies, who, like the fellow-traveller of M.
Veuillot, worm themselves into people's confidence
and then suddenly tell their friends to consider
themselves under arrest, have hitherto been fur-
nished with a card, which it behoved them to pro-
duce when the moment came for showing them-
selves in their true colours. But it having been found
by experience that the card is frequently forgotten
or lost, gentlemen in this peculiar branch of the
public service are now required to wear a plate
worked into their braces bearing the inscription,
" Prefecture de Police. Suret6 publique." The
spy, therefore, has only to unbutton his waistcoat
and point to the spot where his heart should be,
and the victim understands at once into what hands
he has fallen.

General Triczel, sometime minister-at-war under
Louis Philippe, and afterwards tutor to the Count
de Paris, has just died at the age of eighty.
At the Bourse the Rents opened very firm, not-
withstanding a rumour that the Bank of England
had raised its discount. As it was thought that
the Bank of France would follow the example, the
news produced little effect. Later, however, when
the London telegram brought as a positive fact
that which had only been a report, there
were a good many sales, in consequence of
which the highest prices of the day were not sus-
tained. The Bente, after having been quoted at
70fr. 30c. and 70fr. 46c., closed at 70fr. 20c., and
70fr. 25c., with a fall of bc. in each case. Mohilier
fell 2fr. 50c. There was little change in railways.
A money changer of the Faubourg St. Honori,
with whom many English residents kept small
banking accounts, has absconded, taking with him
all the cash in the till ; among the sufferers, I am
afraid, there are a great many to whom their losses
must occasion serious inconvenience.

ITALY.