The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

BANK OF FRANCE.

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PARIS, FRIDAY' MOILVIKO.

The Muni!~ of this day publishes the monthly
returns of the Bank of France to Thursday, April 9.
We give the most important items, with the cor-
responding figures of last month, en regard :

April. March.
Coin and bullion, Paris 106,068,194 .... 107,156,914
Ditto ditto breach banks
Bills diacounted, Paris 263,365,449 .... 239,305,911 ,
Ditto branch banks
Notes in circulation, Paris
Ditto branch banks
Treasury deposits
Private deposits, Farb.
Ditto branch banks
Advanced on public aseurities 24,162,436 .... 19,954,136
Ditto by branch banks
Advanced on railway securities 13,728,100 .... 14,213,000
Ditto by branch team 6,866,850 ..., 6,943,150

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, APRIL 8.

The ministers have in a body tendered their resig-
nation to the King to-clay. This crisis is not owing
to any fresh steps taken by foreign powers.
The Nord of Brussels steal in the reply of the
cabinet of St. Petersburg to the circular despatch of
M. do Scheele—Russia recommends Denmark to dis-
play deference and conciliatory dispositions towards
the great German powers, and engages her to discuss,
the question with Germany in a direct manner,sith-
out heightening the difficulties by any intervention
on the part of other parties. The same journal states
that, " according to explanations given by the
Danish government, the major portion of the pro-
ceeds of the funds derived from the capitalisation of
the Sound dues will be employed in paying off the
two loans contracted in London in 1849 and 1850,
which prove a heavy burden to the country."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EYRNINO!

The following programme of the Grand Duke
Constantine's visit to France is given by the
Paine

His Impede]. Highness will arrive at Toulon, on April
23, where ho will be received by the Minister of Marine.
The Grand Duke will not be in Paris till May 1. His
may will be limited to a week. A grand review of the Ist
division of the army of Feria will be give in his preemie
The city of Paris is already making preparations far
splendid ffte which will call to mind that given to
Queen of England. On leaving Paris his Imperial H'
nes, will go to Fontainebleau where the Emperor will do the
honours of that imperial chateau.
The Bourse has been much better to-day, it being
certainly known that the Bank of France has taken
no new restrictive measures. There was on appre-
hension in the morning that the Bank of England
might again raise its discount, but as it was under-
stood in the afternoon to be certain that nothing of
the kind had been done, the market closed exceed-
ingly firm. The Bente rose 25c. for cash, and 40c.
for account, closing at 69fr. 20c., and 69fr. 50e.
Mobilier rose 30fr. The railways, many of which,
at the opening of the market, had been depressed,
almost all participated in the upward movement.
Orleans rose 17fr. 15c. ; Northern, 13fr. 73c. ;
Lyons, 17fr. 60e.; Mediterranean, 4.5 fr. ; Eastern,
10fr. ; Grand Central, 2fr. 60c. Western and
St. Itambert were a trifle lower. The Austrian
railways rose 1 lfe. 25c., and Sardinian Mr.
If the French government desires effectually to
crush all opposition on the part of the press it must
owner or later resolve that any citation from the
works of the prisoner of Ham shall entail
a " warning." Whatever may have been
their intrinsic merits, it is quite certain
that the "Ides Napoleoniennes " never com-
manded any appreciable degree of public atten-
tion until after the successful coup defog of Decem-
ber 2. But now the republican and legitimist
journalists are never without this work in their
pockets, hoping to find in it some passage that they
may safely quote against a government measure.
But very little effrontery would be necessary to put
forward a plausible pretext for repressing these
awkward quotations. Applying the axiom that the
devil can quote scripture for his purpose, it might
easily be laid down as a role that the profane vul-
gar are not to cite isolated passages front an almost
inspiredwork which is of "no private interpretation."
En attendant some measure of this kind, the Slick
now ventures to reprint from the great work in
question some bitter passages against that old no-
bility to which it is now intended to give a sanction
by law. The prisoner of Ham laughed to scorn
dukes and counts without tangible dukedoms and
earldoms, and likened the consideration attaching to
them to the rays of extinct stars, which, on account
of their immense distance, are visible in this planet
twenty years after their extinction. The measure
now before the Council of State with the recommend-
ation of Napoleon 111. to be "prompt in deciding
the important question," is simply one for perpetu-
ating the dying-out rays of extinct stars.
Although no official announcement has yet been

made that the Imperial Prince walks alone, an en-
graving has just appeared in the print shops repre-
senting the interesting baby with nothing on but a
shirt, making his premier pas. The nurse, in her
provincial costume, is kneeling down by the aide of
the cradle presented by the city of Paris. She
stretches out her arms on either aide of the shoulders
of the infant, and, indeed, supports him with that
pious fraud which accompanies every first " going
alone." The child advances towards the Empress,
seated in an arm chair, behind which is the Em-
peror with an expression of wonder and delight dr
pieted on his countenance. Whether this is an

actual or anticipatory portraiture I cannot say, but
u the prince is now nearly thirteen months old, he
ought to walk alone.

Lieutenant-General Ashburnham has arrived in
Paris on his way to Marseilles, where he will em-
bark for Chins, to assume the command of the in-
fantry destined to invade the Celestial Empire.
Lord Elgin is expected to pass through Paris after
Easter.

A correspondence states that the Emperor's grand
chaplain, who has gone to Rome, will bring back
with him terms likely to lead to an arrangement in
the affair of the Bishop of Moulins. It is reported
that the Pope has recommended the bishop to be
more circumspect for the future, and that, in consi-
deration of this admonition, the Emperor will not
press for the dismissal of the prelate.
The whole subject of the supply of butchers' meat
to Paris, including the question whether the trade
shall be thrown open or not, and whether the tax
shall he continued, modified, or abolished, is now
under the consideration of the Council of State.

A ticket-porter et Boulogne, named Nagle Smith
(probably an Englishman), has been sentenced to
fifteen days' imprisonment and a fine of 50fr., for the
oeence of uttering " false news."

PRUSSIA AND SWITZLRLAND.

According to the Bund the following are the
conditions which Dr. Kern brought forward at the
fifth sitting of the conference as the only baus on
which Switzerland would conumt to trent :

1. Prussia is to acknowledge the complete lode-
pendence of the canton of Neufchatel of every foreign
tie ; and, as a consequence of this, the King 'O, to
formally renounce all pretensions whatsoever to that
country.
2. Switzerland cannot admit a preliminary msg.
nition of Prussia's rights of sovereignty over Neuf-
chatel.

3. Switzerland concedes neither to the present
S •
King of Prussia, nor to any member of the Royal
family of Prussia, the right of bearing the title of
Prince of Neufchatel. She is bound, therefore, now
and for ever to protest against any sort of pretensions
which might afterwards be deduced from this title,
disputed, as it is, by Switzerland.
4. The charitable institutions now existing in the
canton are to be recognised as such, maintained, and
placed under the protection of the constitution, and
of the laws of the country. As for guarantees of
another kind, no question of them can be enter.
Wised.

5. The Confederation will proclaim, for the
authors of the insurrection of September, and for all
who took part in it, a moral amnesty ; they canto,
therefore, be p against, either criminally or
by civil process, for acts connected with that 'Sic
and other political offences. For the rest, they will
enjoy, in common with all their fellow-citizens, the
protection of the federal and cantonal eonstitutioas.
No special guarantee in their favour is admitted.
6. The Confederation undertakes to defray the
expenses incurred by the occupation of the canton at
Neufchatel and the levy of troops which took Sam
On the other hand, all demands for an indemnity is
money are rejected.
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The Bond, which publiAes these conditions, says,
it does not guarantee their perfect accuracy.