The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARLS, THDIADAY Evzsuio.

The lowering of the Bank of England discount
produced a slight degree of animation upon the
Bourse, where dullness has long been predominant
to a degree totally unprecedented. The Rente rose
10c. for cub, and SC. for account, closing at
68fr. 20c. and 68fr. 26c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c.
The Western Railway rose sfr. in consequence of a
contradiction of a report that it would pay no divi-
dend, but the other lines were a mere shade higher.
The Papal Zouave who, as mentioned in a tele-
gram, was lately arrested at the Cafe Colonna in
Rome is aM. de Fremont, who, according to the
report of the French gendarmerie, was one of a
group of people in the cafe who were speaking
against Napoleon 111. A Frenchman who over-
heard the conversation told the Zouaves that if
they did not like the Emperor they should keep
their opinions to themselves, and not proclaim them
in a public-house. Thereupon it is reported that the
Zouaves fell upon the volunteer champion of the
French government, but he laid about him so furi-
ously with a stick that the military, who perceived
some French gendarmes approaching the scene of
the row, took to their heels, leaving their comrade,
M. de Fremont, who had received a hurt from the
civilian's cudgel, the only representative of the corps
in the cafe. Ile was marched off to the Castle of
St. Angelo, and will probably be tried by a court
martial. But the affair is obviously not a very
serious one.

A prieat,of Montpellier has been arrested on
several charges of violation. The imperial pro-
cureur had great difficulty in getting his warrant
executed, because the culprit is a president of the
Society of St. Vincent do Paul, and has immense in-
fluence in the country. The commissary of police,
who was first applied to, flatly refused to arrest
this priest, giving as his reason in writing that
such an act would bring ruin upon himself, his
wife, and children. The officer of gen-
darmerie also refused upon like grounds.
When at length the accused was safely
lodged in prison, the Court of Cessation thought it
right to change the venue for his trial from Mont-
pellier to Argen, upon cause shown for apprehend-
ing partiality towards the prisoner by the court of
the former place. This case illustrates a recent
declaration of M. Dupin that clerical society is
tending to substitute itself for civil society.
M. Hartogs, the amateur skater, whose name I
mentioned two months ago, when giving an account
of the court sports on the ice, has just received from
the Emperor a hanlaome tea service in massive
silver as an acknowledgment of his services in con-
ducting the Empress's sledge.
The private theatre in M. Dupree's house in the
Rue Turgot was crammed last night with a
fashionable audience—French, English, American,
and Italian—to witness the deb& of Mrs. Hilliard,
an English lady—a dame de grand monde—who
has long been studying music in Italy, and is now
a pupil of M. Dupree. Two acts of Norma, and
a scene from II Barbieri, were played with a
capital orchestra and all scenic appliances, and
the lady was received with an applause calculated
to encourage her to adopt the stage as a profes-
sion, which it is whispered she thinki of doing.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EDINBURGH.
LIVERPOOL. TamenAT.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's screw steamer Edinburgh, Captain
Brooks, which left New York on the 9th instant,
arrived in the Mersey this afternoon.
The steamship Prince Albert, from Galway, ar-
rived at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the morning
of the 9th instant.

The New York Herald says :
According to our Washington despatea, the reinforce-
ment of Forts Sumter and Pickens has been decided on by the
administration of President Lincoln. and the arrangements
for carrying out that object are now in active progreaa. Gene-
ral Scott and the cabinet secretaries are maid to be busy with
the plane. We are informed by one of our Washington
oorreepoodente of very important movements in the army
and navy ordered by the government. All the naval Tomb
in the Pacific and the Mediterranean are ordered borne, to
return to northern porta, and the troops lately under the
command of General Twiggs, in Texas, nuniberieg 2,500,
and those in Mexico, are called to the north.:
From Texas we have nothing of • positive nature biter
than what we published yesterday morning ; but by way of
New Orleans there is a rumour to the effect that Fort
Brown, in °grappled of Captain Hill, of the United States
army, had base surrendered to the Texans.
. _ _

No movement had yet been made by the commis-
sioners in Washington from the Confederate States
towards the negotiations with which they are
charged. Mr. Roman, one of the members of the
commission, had not arrived, and his colleagues
will do nothing till be joins them.
Intelligence bad been received in Washington to
the effect that, after a full and careful canvass iu
the Virginia Convention, it had been found that
the seeessionista in that body were in a minority,
notwithstanding the fact that they have received
acceesions since the delivery of President Lincoln's