The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-26 00:00:00

PRINCE PINANCS.

rout the Mohey Market Review.)
Now that the attention of. the commercial com-
munity in this country is in an especial manner directed to
the operations of the Bank of France, it may be considered
• fitting moment to take • brief glance at the financial
position and the fiscal burthens of the French nation. W,,
will confine ourselves to citing a few pregnant finree:—ln
the year the National Debt of France was 50,646,10dt.
thirty-eight years, that is to taken, it had increued
to 213, '',492/. It is now 356, ' 8711. ; so tat in the
last eight years it has increased Do than 143;0:18,3M
In 1866 the annual charge of the public debt of France
' was stated le be 9,000,0001., whilst in Januar, of
as puma year it waa admitted to be 16,000,000 L.
and boor* inch more. We have not apace to
ester am the full particulars of, the manner
it 'Mak bags thereat* has arisen in so short a space of
Vim Da Fume the financial manta of the government are
well MO. Bat it is a terrible fact, that in face of the un-
presedinlisd amount of taxation with which France is at
presset burthened, it is even now necessary to add largely,
year slier year, to the national debt.
During the same vice of forty years the English na-
Monet debt has undergone several alterations, sometimes
rising and sometimes falling, but it is at present very little
more than it was in 1820, when it stood at 790,006,0001. ;
whilst the charge on the debt has considerably lessened. It
may convey • lemon to those who complain so bitterly of
our system of taxation if we place in juxtaposition the
account of the revenue derived from the taxes of the two
countries. It will bo seen that France actually outstrips us
in the amount of her revenue from taxation. At the woe
time, it must be borne in mind that the figures do not in.
elude any local taxation, which in many towns in France,
as hen, is considered very great. It is especially heavy in
Paris.
Hamm's or GREAT BIM=

won 1860.
I. locomen': £12,903,7151
2. Stamps 8,040,091
& 1
Crown land: 416,531
4. Canton=
b. Emirs
6. Poci-oface
7. sfiacellaaeons 1,801,584'

RIVINCI or Fuses eon
1860.
!I. Direct taxes,
land, home,
personalise!
patentee £18,800,000:
2. Stamp! and
I domains 11,300,000
' 3. Woods,foreste
and &hulas 1,600,000
4. Customs and
tax on alt 9,100,000
6. Excise
' 6. Poet -office
17. Miscellaneous 7,500.000

£71,104,127

L 73,000,000
It mturt be difficult —nay, impossible—for Fiance to con-
tinue for any long period the immense sacrifices sbe is now
called upon to make. Ude. the heavy load of taxation which
she is forced to bear be speedily mitigated, the effects will
be most lamentable. There is a pant beyond which na-
tions, any more than individuals, cannot carry their expeadi.
tare without tempting rain.

THE LONE or THE Amerle. —We are glad to see
that a committee has been formed for the purpose of railing
• fund on behalf of the widow of the late Mr. Earle. To
the noble exertions of the latter gentleman may be mainly at-
tributed the saving of twenty of the passengers and crew of
the Arctic. It is impounde to read the narrative of the
shipwreck without feeling the sineemet admiration for Mr.
Earle, whose life was lout in his devoted sad successful at-
tempt ; or without feeling sympathy for the widoit who is
left utterly destitute. Sir M. Pato and Mr. 0. Bidder are
the insincere of the fund, and subscriptions are received
at Mess. Glyn's, at the Union Bank, or by the committee
of Lloyd's._ _ _

Baron Charles Dupla has just concluded the last
volume of the proceedings of the French commission on the
industry of nations. This important work is published by
ender of the Emperor Napoleon. The volume just pub.
lished treats of the productive forces of the Esst. It con.
bias interesting details on Russia in Asia, China, sod

Japan.
The Espero states that an English company has
proposed to the Italian government to establish a regular
steamboat service between Italy and America. The vessels
valid be large, and might be used in aid of the national
savyis ease of war.

At a grand dinner, which took place on the night
of the 21st at the palace of Prince Frederic Williorn at
Berlin, in celebration of the birthday of him royal «wart,
the Prlace Began and the members of the Prussian royal
family, Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, the Prince of
Hohensolbrrn, the Princes of Hesse, Lord Bloomfield, and
many other persons of distinction were present. The Grand
Dachas Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who is at
pawn on a visit at Seas noted, paid a visit to the Princess
Frederic William in the room of the day.
It is proposed to construct in Paris a magnificent
?rakish mosque and a Turkish hotel or caravanserai. The
object of thaw constructions is to attract to Paris as many
Xuseuhnsa travellers as pounds. It is further proposed
to erect a school close to the mosque for the education of the
children of the ranons followers of Yahomed. The cora-
vaoserai will give lodging to the Eastern travellers who may
wish to conform to the customs of their country. Them
is already a portion of the cemetery of Pcn•la•Chaise set
apart for the burial of Mahomedans, in which the remains
of the late Queen of Gude are deposited.

A very Magnificent hotel ia about to be erected
in Liverpool on the land facing into Hope-street and

Barema-n-strset.
We read in the Liverpool Athioti:—" Our talented
tovnisines, John Thomas Towson, astronomer and examiner
to the Local Marine Board, has bees sent for specially to Os-
borne by Use Queen on a visit, for the purpose, it is stated,
et giving instructions to Prince Alfred in the higher
brandies of his profession."
On Friday morning 27 members of the quondam
Pro-Papal Irish Brigade, mid to have been wounded lone•
where or another during the recent brief and inglorious
campaign under General Lamoriciere, arrived at Dublin by
the Holyhead steamer, and, of course, met with a warm
and cheering reception from the sympathisers with the
"holy cause " in which they had embarked.
The Iflortlicrn Whig of Belfast makes the follow-
ing announcement :—"The Orangemen had another gather.
' log In the Music Hall last night ; hut, as there was neither
protestant bishop to insult nor Roman catholic fellow-citizen
to maltreat, the proceedings were tame when contrasted
with their ' last merry meeting.' A domment was freely
circulated in the ball, in which Lord Dungannon was rather
sharply called to account for his recent letter. His lordship
bad better take care, for your true Orange animal is cm.
tameable, and would attack an Orange grand master quite
as soon as ► protestant bishop."

THE LATE MR. COULSON, Q.C.—Yesterday the
chapel of Cray'e.inn was put in mourning for Mr. Walter
Cambria, Q.C., one of the beuchers of the inn. The altar
sod pulpit were covered with black, and the mace was
enveloped in a weeper. No allusion was made from the
' pulpit to the melaecholy event by the Rev. Prebendary
Hooey, D.C.L., the preacher; but the "Dead March in
Seel was played after the service. Mr. Coulson was
I called to the her Nov. 26, 182t1, and was made a Queen's
Counsel sod bendier of the inn is 1851. He was one of
the royal commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, and took
eu active part iu their proceeliugs. He was a liberal in
politics, and it wee to a cottage on Ida Kentish property, al
Sirliag, near Town Melling, that Mr. Juba Black, the well
I known editor of the Alerwag Chronicle, retired in his
latest years. He died ou the 20th Mat
VOLUNTEER. Orrierne.—There is no truth in the
rumour that the government intend putting volunteers
through an examination before granting ourniunaious ; such
a step would he the most effectual measure for extinguishing
the movement altogether. It is Went to all who are intl.
stately acquainted with the constitution of this force that
Its welfare does not depend solely upon the efficieucy of
the officer., but that it is, to a very great extent, maintained
by their social standing, and the means at their command.
If promotion only went by merit, the volunteers would, in
a ocosideroble proportion, be officered by men of limited
mesas, and who would be Owed thereby in an awkward
and ruinous position. It must not be supposed that officers
of volunteer corps can avoid expeeme. Experience teaches
as that the higher a man gets, the more multifarious are
the demands upon him, be his corps self-supporting or not.
Promotion by merit only, as we have said before, would
strike at the very root of the national movement ; and we
trust that the government will not act so unwisely as to
draw the reigns too tightly in their dealings with the volun-
teers. The sacrifices which all classes of society have made
In this great cause exceed, it is estimated, in money value.
3,000,0001. and that in a little more than • year. The
value of the time expended in acquiring efficiency is not cal-
enistoi la this estinente.—Lairerpool Albion.
A BOY ACCIDENTALLY Bear AT Huu —Between
2 and 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a lad, aged 11
yews, named Henry Watson, sun of a labouring man re.
siding in Bewdleywtreet met his death under the fol-
lowing circumstances : and another boy, named
Robert Ledgard, were in the cabin of the keel ary, of
Hull, lying in ffelthouse.lane Staith, in which a gun had
bees left by the master of the keel John Ostrich, who on
tiro previous night had loaded it. lie very incautiously left
the gun loaded in the cabin, and Watson. not knowing that
it was loaded, took it up, and, in a playful manner,
threatened to shoat his companion Ledgerd, and, whilst'
dodging about under the pretence of getting in the right
position to take aim, be accidentally let the gun fall, when
it went off, end the charge lodged iu the left side of hie
' bead. lodgard was eu terrified at what hod happened.
that he made off, and was mot heard of until some time
afterwards, when he gave the above explanation of the cc-
earrence. The dead body of Watson was foam' un board
the keel shortly after the accident.