The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, TUUDAT Evvtixo.

The news of yesterday—that the re-organisation
of the Bank of France had been adjourned till next
year—is not true to-day, although I believe that, on
account of the conflicting opinions in the Council of
State, the postponement was all but decided upon.
Now, however, au entirely new scheme is on the
tapis. It is proposed that the capital of the Bank,
which is now 91 millions of francs, shall be aug-
mented to 300 millions. Of the additional capital
of 209 millions, 109 would be distributed among the
present shareholders, and 100 would be allotted
to the public. It is proposed that 100
millions should be employed in the pur-
chase of Rentes to support the market,
and another 100 millions in discounting commercial
paper. A most important part of the new proposal
is that the Bank will never fix a lees period than
ninety days for its discounts, and that instead of 6
per cent. being, as now, the maximum interest that
it can demand, it may be at liberty, like the Bank of
England, to charge any rate that the state of the
money market may render desirable. It is contem-
plated to appoint tire new governors, to be selected
from among the most eminent directors of railway
companies.
. . .

Rumours of the above news, which transpired at
the Bourse, occasioned a considerable rise. The
Rente rose 90c., both for cash and account, closing
at 691 r. 10e. and 69fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 17fr. 60c.
The Orleans railway rose 12fr. 30c. ; Eastern, 14fr. ;
Lyons, 6fc. 23c. ; and all the other Bins from
2fr. Mk. to 3fr.

The Grand Duke went to Vincennes to-day, to
breakfast with General Beuret, the commandant of
the fort. After breakfast he witnessed some artil-
lery practice in the Polygon, and inspected the re-
markable armoury. He dines this evening at the
Russian embassy, where a large party is asked to
meet him.

Several Belgian journals announce is very positive
terms that the Prince Napoleon is about to make a
tour in Prussia, and even say that he is expected in
Berlin before May 10. The Patric contradicts this

news, and says the Only journey his imperial high-
ness contemplates making at present Is one to Man-
chester, to see the exhibition there.
M. Gautier de Rougemont, a retired cavalry
officer, who served in the wars of the Empire, hu
been appointed guardian of the Emperor's tomb at
St. Helena.

The Pays, which sometimes gets English news
through the French Embassy before it is
known in London, says that the East India Com-
pany, after mature esmaiderstion, hes decided to
take a limited part in the operations in China. A
division of the company's local marine is to be
placed at the disposition of the Commander-in-Chief
of the expeditionary force. This division will be
commanded by Rear-AdmiralLeeke, who is now at

Bombay, on return from the Persian gulf.
A French writer (the author of histories of the
revolutions of Rome and Hungary, written in an
extreme reactionary tone), M. Balleydier do Hele,
has been *elected by the Emperor of Austria to give
the world an account of his Majesty's progress
through his Hungarian dominions.

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin, of the Ist, says: "The
mass which the cabinet here obtained in the
Chamber of Representatives by the vote of the
measure imposing a duty on shares, has been fol-
lowed by a check, as the Chamber yesterday rejected
the proposed duty on mines. Moreover, even the
duty on shares, though voted by the Chamber of
lrepresentatives, is far from being definitively ob-
tained by the government, as the Chamber of Nobles
must also give its consent; and if we may judge
from a first resolution which the committee charged
to examine the measure has adopted, the sanction of
that chamber is by no means certain. The committee
has rejected the first paragraph of the bill, which
contains the principle of the law."

Queen Maria Christina left Florence on the 30th
alt. for Leghorn, where she ens to embark for Genoa.

The pieces which the comedians of the Theatre
Francais are to perform at Fontanelslam during the epposch-
hag wait of the court there are to be Doe Temple dons an
Vern. filar and the Mori u to Casepayme. At present,
Monday next, the 11th, remains fixed for the representation.
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The following strange piece of intelligence is
traneroitted to the Cologne Gazette by a Vienna correspon-
dent —" The Cairoacan of Moldavia, M. Vogorides, has
discovered an original method of putting down political
agitation. Be ham ordained that any man meddling, in an
illegal moaner, in internal politico, shall be punished by the
loss of his mustachios and whiskers."

The King of Siam has just sent to Paris to the
Emperor Napoleon Nine valuable present., consisting of
superb anus, magnificent theses, curious instruments of
music, objects in ivory, and elephant.' teeth. The present.
ere accompanied by a litter written in the moat friendly
term'.

THE I)urcn CoLomEs.—The Staags Courant of
the Hague pal:Sieber &meats hem Jam, stating that the
colonial government has decided on patting WI end to the
monopoly in the cultivation of tobacco, ',bath in that island
is for the future to be tree to all. The same winces state
that endeavours are being made to introduce the cultivation
of cotton into Blunatni, and that the line of telegraph, which
I is to round the whole et the blind of lava, will soon be
cam
HE CATHOLIC CHCRCII AT JERUSALEM:A
letter trees Jermalsot .1 the 10th Apnl states that, a few
days before, err wan celebrated it, the Ant time in the
church of St. Anne, In that city, which yea given up to the
Franck some time ago by ceder of the thalten. After roam
which wan pefeaed with isms the Alibi hiertin
esends, which, after the Emperor Ha-
tie-
pima for baths got beet the clank insisted that the
Emelt government sight to meths the radontion of the
church of et. Bohm at Brellabees, Au* (.other sacred
alias which are either " naleeloeily limped" by the
Chub, ar tenet to poem saes by the Tarim The ems
vas atteeiel by the Femme gliellas thou ihreaslem.