The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A despatch has been received from Bucharest,
dated Saturday, from which we learn that M.
Ninolas Ookeen has been named vice-president of
the Divan ad hoc of Wallachia; MM. Constantine
Rosetti, Demetrius Bratiano, Constantine Creszu-
kw*, and Stephan Oolesco, have been appointed
secretaries; MNl.Oregory Ghika, Tell, and Margb;•
lowan, have been named questors. Awarding to
the firman of convocation and the ancient usages of
the country, the presidency of the divans belongs
by right to the Metropolitan.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MOSIDAT EVIXINO.

The Pays says it is in a position to guarantee the
truth of its news that Sir Colin Campbell had, at
the date of the latest advice, left Calcutta for Alla-
habad, although the English journals doubt the
statement. The news may or may not be true, but
the way in which the Pays now re-asserts it, is dis-
creditable. The original statement was that the
Pays' private letter from Calcutta of September 3
announced that Sir Colin Campbell bad left on the
2nd. Now, at the moment when the paragraph was
published, the English papers had Calcutta letters
down to September 9, in which no men-
tion of the departure of the Commander.
in-Chief was made, and which, moreover, stated
that he was just recovering from a fever. No won-
der, then, that the news of the Pays was treated as
apocryphal. But the Pays now, taking no notice
of the dates it formerly gave, says that Sir Cohn
Campbell, being scarcely recovered from his illnent,
left Calcutta on the 11th, twenty-five days sooner
than the time which had been fixed for his depar-
ture. You will know better than we do here
whether it is possible to have had intelligence from
Calcutta of so late a date as Sept. 11.
The Pays also gives the support of its positive
assertion (whatever that may be worth) to the
truth of a statement which your last correspondence
from India notion—namely, that the King of Delhi,
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Nouradja-Shah, had by his agents proposed to treat
with the English army. This fact, the Pays :ob-
serves, " proves that he feels his position to be
hopeless."

The Monitesir publishes a correspondence from
Bombay, of Sept. 15, which alßrins that although
there has been no fresh act of positive rebellion in
the Bombay army, the disposition of that force is
"deplorable," and that they are being disarmed
rapidly. The company, it is said, has ordered the
purchase of 17,000 camels and 9,000 elephants,
thereby showing that a long campaign is expected.
The Bourse has been affected by the unfavourable
news from New York by a fall off in Consols, and
an apprehension that the Bank of England might
this afternoon raise its discount to 8 per cent. A
despatch, dated London, two o'clock, received before
the close of business, stated that no alteration in the
rate of discount had been announced, and that Con-
sols were firmer. This despatch had, however, no
influence upon the market. The Rents closed
heavily, with a fall of 20c. for cash and 40c. for ac-
count, at 66fr. 8.5 c. and 66fr. 80c. Mobilier fell
=fr. 76e. Railways were considerably lower. Or-
leans fell 10fr.; Northern, 10fr.; Eastern, 7fr. 60c. ;
Lyons, 12fr. 60c. ; Souther, 15fr.; and Western, Sfr.
M. Mon, the chosen colleague of Admiral Armero,
who is impatiently expected at Madrid, arrived in
Paris this morning from Rome. The route is so
roundabout that it is impassable to exclude the sup-
position that he mast desire to consult with some
one in Paris before arriving at his destination.
I understand that the Emperor has commuted the
sentence upon Captain 14oineau to imprisonment for
life in a fortress.

It is stated in several Belgian journals that Gene-
ral Leflo, one of the exiled generals of 15.51, has
received permission to return to France. I believe
the fact to be correct, and that it occurred in this
way. General Lens, who had, for some time been
residing in Guernsey, lately applied for the permis-
sion of the lklgian government to go to Brussels,
and was refused. He thereupon wrote a strong
letter to the French minister at Brussels, stating
that be had a very small income and a large family,
and that it was very bard that ho should be pre-
vented from going to Belgium, where he could
more easily do something for his children than
he could in Guernsey. The answer sent to
this application, after a short delay, was
a French passport expressed to be granted rby
the special order of the Emperor." nisi,