The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-16 00:00:00

EXPRESS

FROM PA Ib. • I
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PARIS, WiIINWIDAT EVNNINO.

A letter from Manilla bringing news of the Cochin
Chinese expedition down to October 11, says it was
not thought probable at that date that any move-
ment towards the interior of the country would be
attempted foe two or three months.
The Emperor bas just signed a decree for making
a considerable addition to the Eoole Militaire. The
works of the new buildings, which will stand on the
Place Fontenoy and the Avenue de Saxe, will be
begun immediately, weather permitting.
General MacMahon, the Commander-in• Chief of

the Army of Algeria, who has just arrived in Paris
paid a visit to the Emperor yesterday, accompanied
by Prince Napoleon. It is reported that Algeria
will shortly be allowed to send two members to the
Corps Legislatif.
The Bourse has been heavy nearly all day. The
Rents, for account, fell 15c., closing at 72fr. 95c.
For cash the last prioe was the same as yesterday,
72fr. 90c. Mobilier fell Ilfr. 25e. The Bank of
France experienced a further decline of 15fr. The
Southern Railway fell 7fr. 50c., and all the other
lines about 2fr. 50e.

It is not easy now to get authentic news from
Rome, for I hear that Cardinal Antonelli has de-
clared war upon foreign correspondents, stops their
letters in the post-office, and threatens to turn them
out of the Eternal City. As it is therefore possible
that you may not be in the receipt of your ordinary
intelligence, I re-produce the following facts from a
letter of the 11th, received to-day in Paris. The
Pope, on the occasion of the fêtes of the Immaculate
Conception, has given the authority of the church
to two miracles performed by a newly-canonised
saint named de Rossi, of venerable memory, upon
whom his Holiness pronounced a panegyric in the
!Kathie chapeL At the Conaistory, to be holden
on the 20th, it is probable that two new cardinals
will be made, one for Rome and another for America.
Should this news be true, America will possess a
cardinal for the first time. The Archbishop of
Baltimore is spoken of as likely to be the first
wearer of a red hat in the United States. The
Pope has offered up prayers for the success of
the French arms in Cochin China. The official
journal of Roue, in its official column, speaks of
this expedition in a manner very flattering for
France. This compliment is considered a proof
that any coalman which may have existed between
the courts of the Vatican and the Tuileries, on ao-
count of the abduction of the Jew boy Mortara, is
now at an end. The agitation which has prevailed
for the last two months in the north of Italy is
beginning to be felt in Rome. Secret societies, it is
said, are redoubling their efforts, and there are
" signs, impossible to be defined," which indicate
that " something is at hand." Several of the symp-
toms which preceded the revolution of 1848 are
observable. At the beginning of the week two of
Oaribeldi's old officers, who it was suspected had
come to enlist " patriots," were arrested. Both the
Pontifical government and the French general were
excessively vigilant. The fortifloations at Civita
Vecchia are being actively carried on. Detachments
of French troops are about to be sent into various
towns and village* in the neighbourhood of Rome,
in order to be ready to repress any coup
de main. A French employe on the railway
from Frascati to Morino has been assassinated. The
murderer is in eustody. The Archduke Charles of
Austria has arrived at the Hotel des Isles Briton-
niquee, with the positive intent:km, it is said, of be-
coming a Capuchin monk forthwith. it is alleged
that the visit of the Duke of Modena to Rome had
nothing to do with the formation of an Italian
league, which is au old story dating from 1848, but
was undertaken in order to warn the Pope and the
King of Naples of the probability of an insurrec-
tional movement, which the language of the Pied-
montese journals was calealated to produce, and to
settle a " general plan of defence."
In the window of the library, No. 212, Rue de
Rivoli, there has lately been exhibited an engraved
portrait of Mr. Charles Dickens, with a beard,
d is imperial*, sitting at a desk in • thoughtful
position, and writing. The police entered the shop
the other day and told the proprietor in very angry
hews to take the engraving oat of the window.
They mistook Mr. Dickens's portrait for a caricature
of the Emperor !