The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

TKO STATE 01 VELD&

The Deily Non seams the Board of Trade
re-
tains for the past bear, showing that our exports
have increased daring the last six years about 22 per
Net, and that though their value in 1864 was con-
sidered to have reached an unprecedented total, it is con-
siderably exceeded now notwithstanding that in many
articles there hie been a greeter or less reduction in
pre.. The reopening of the American trade only
accounts for a portion of the advance, namely,
that within the last four months. Our exports to
America have not!yet reached the total which was attained
in the last year before the war, and in our import' from ►he
States, the year 1865 compares but little unfavourably with
1860. The figures now made known reduce our alleged
over-trading with the United States to the modest sum of
20,0004 What appears a eonaiderable extension of trade
is nothing more than a return to the nominal state of events
preceding the civil war ; and, judging from experience, we
have no reasonable ground to conclude that the purchases
of American merchants are beyond the means of the
nation to meet. Considerably more thee one-half of the cot-
; ton which came over last year arrived in December alone ;
; and if, as there is reason to believe, the shipments are pro-
. eroding at the same ratio, it is evident th►t the warnings
lately pronounced are, to say the least, premature. The
decreasing premium on gold, and the state of the exchanges,
are quite sufficient to show that, for the present at all
;events, a general insolvency in the States is tolerably
remote.

Tan Fonrucomaro COURTS BY HER Mx.rarrY.—We
are requested to state that the lists for her Majesty's
courts on March 16th, April 12th, and May 14th,
are now filled, and that no further names can be
received for them by the Lord Chamberlain.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—..-The Prince
and Princess of Hobanlobe visited the gardens on Saturday
afternoon. The bend of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue)
played an excellent @election of music. Amongstthe visitors
were the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Hoary Lennox, Lord
Llsnover, Mr. Dawson Demer, Sir Thomas Tronbridge, Sir
Andrew sod Lady Scott Waugh.
Tan HEALTH OF vas MASTER or Tnnvrr:
COLLIGB, CAMBETDGE. —There was no improvement is the
condition of the master last evening ; and though it is hoped
he is no worse, be is in a very precarious state. Any de-
cisive change will be duly notified.
The Saturday Review thinks that the conduct of
Sir Frederick Bruce would have been approved by his
countrymen if, on the occasion of Mr. Bancroft's address,
he had retired from the hall with the other members of
the legation. The Spectator, on the other hand, wishes the I
ambassador had not thought it necessary to have refused to
meet Mr. Bancroft sobsequestly io private. "For our
ewe pert, we should as soon have thought of refusing to
meet a jester."
Mr. Grant, President of the Royal Academy,
hashes° elected President of the Artiste' Benevolent Fund,
in pleas of Sir C. Eastlake, sod Mr. Boxall in place of the
late Mr. David Roberta. It is now settled that Mr. Layard
will take the chair at the anniversary dinner on the 12th
of May. The hanging committee of the Academy will be
Messrs. Cope, Feed, and Horsley.
A letter from Rome of the 27th ult. says :
" His holiness appears to enjoy excellent health in spite of
the anxieties and dangers described in Cardinal Antocelli's
circular. Os Tuesday afternoon he walked wiry cheerfully
fa the Oorso sad on the Piscian•hfll, and on Wednesday
afternoon he paid a visit to Prince sad Princess Tortoni', at
their palace is Boma, to see the magnifimat altar, richly
adorned with all sorts of precious stones, which the prince
Weeds to present to the elm& of Notre Dame at Bon.
losne.enr-Mer.* _ _

Some interesting vestiges of the ancient Temple
et Trajan, adjoiniag his Foram at Rome, bay* been dis-
covered by the workmen employed in repairing the facade-
time of the Visleellsi Palace.