The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-24 00:00:00

OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE txrat,,g.

Rtn,—l read in an article of the French Moniteur,
re-published la your journal of to-day, my name racntioned
ea one of the accomplices of a pretended plot against the life
of Louie Napoleon. I gin a formal denial to such an absurd
sconsailon —I am, Re.,
FEDERICO CAM PAN ELLA.
2, Lansdowne-plats, West Brompton.

While the Atlantic cable is being laid down,
messages erill be mat back to the coast of Ireland reporting
each days progress, and, If neccesary, of course, each hour'r.
Wean& men look forward to the result of the undertaking
with the deepest interest, aa some wonderful electrical phe-
aooe•a mre certain to be observed during the process of sub-
merging. Those most nearly interested in the plan ore san-
guine es to all bang etsccessfsdlycoutploted within • moan),
and the state of the markets at New York known every
morning throughout England.

FRANCE.

(IT 111ITTS1 AND

PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.

The Mon iteur states that the rumour that French
troops are to be sent to China is altogether un-
founded.

The Bank of France has reduced the interest ad-
vanced upon public securities from 0 to 61 per cent.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.

Prince Napoleon, who is at present travelling in
the United Kingdom, is expected to return to Paris
by the 29th.
It is again asserted that the body of the son of
Napoleon 1., now lying at Schonbrun, will be shortly
brought to Paris and deposited at the Invalities.
. . . . .

Ferukh Khan, the Persian Ambassador, has left
Paris to-day for Brussels.
The Protestants of Vendome, not possessing a
chapel, hired some time ago a room in the town
for public worship, and engaged M. Cadier, a Pro-
testant minister of Orleans, to officiate for them-
After the second celebration of divine service M.
Cadicr and eighteen members of his congregation
were prosecuted by the local authorities before the
Tribunal of Correctional Police of tho town, on the
charge of having violated the law on associations
and public meetings, by not having obtained the
authorisation of the government for their meetings.
They were all convicted and condemned to pay
jointly a fine of SOfr. Three days ago they ap-
pealed to the Imperial Court of Orleans against this
condemnation, and the court quashed it for the
technical reason that if the defendants had done
wrong, they had violated not the law on associa-
tions and meetings, but that on offences committed
in the exercise of public worship, and that conse-
quently it was before the Council of State, and not
before the Correctional Tribunal, that the parties
ought to have been cited.
The Phare de la Loire states that M. Marcel
Lignon, one of the political offenders confined in the
prison of Belle Ile, escaped in the night of the 18th
by climbing over the walls. He then swam to a
small schooner, the Marie Amalie, which lay at
• anchor in the roadstead. On the master of the
vessel being informed of the fact, be gave informa-
tion to the authorities, by whom the fugitive was
• reinstated in his old quarters.

AUSTRIA.

A Vienna letter in the Augsburg Gazelle says :
Various facts prove that the clergy are decided on

carrying the execution of the concordat to its ex-
treme limits. We will mention one fact which we
have learnt by chance. In the village of Hoisting,
on the road from Linz to Wels, a protestant had
married a Roman catholic. No engagement was
exacted that the children should be brought up as
catholic', and the marriage took place without any
impediment, and it was only some time after that
the cure of the village demanded a promise to the
above effect from the husband. It was refused,
and after several conferences on the subject the
care summoned the wife to appear on a certain
Sunday at the church to hear a sentence of excom-
munication pronounced against her. The woman
would not attend, when the cure applied for the
assistance of the authorities, and she was taken to
the church by force and there excommunicated."