The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM P.
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PARIS. 131.11 DAT EVZNINO.
A despatch from Berlin, dated yesterday, has
been received, which states that Prince Napoleon
has delivered to the King of Prussia as autograph
letter from the Emperor Napoleon upon the subject

of the Neufchatel dispute.
The Bank of France bill presented to the Corps
Legitlatif yesterday, mud published by the Monderr
this morning, dinars materially from the scheme
circulated at the Bourse. The capital is to bs
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doubled, and the mdsee of the new shams, instead
of being applied to relieve the immedioie wants of
the treasury, will only be so applied P., the extent of
1100 millions in the coarse of the year 1839. To

0011 K itaelfthe bank will receiy,, a nun of Three per
Cent. Rents at 75fr., from the Canoe d'Amortiose-
ment. The privileges of th.e bank, it will be seen,
are to be prolonged for thirty years. In
exchange for these advantages, the bank is
to make layout:es upon Credit Fancier obli-
Pliona ss TAU ss upon public securities and rail-
way sharro. It undertake*, loorsover, to make ad-
vances 'to the Treasury not szeosding eighty mil-
lirem A very important clause in the bill is that
which permits the Bank to add a large for coin-
minden to the interest upon its advances and dis-
tant& This question has Wen very vehemently
ilisaissaL The drys mosents in substance to a
pastlal meal el fir FM* usury laws. Instead of
lislng prohibited from taking mean than 6 per cent.,
iddillhe Bank of England may he boding at 7 or
Spar sent., the Bank of France will now be able to
fine whatever rate money may be worth in the
andrat-
Ifs appearance of the project in the Moniteer
heal wary little effect upon the Sunday Bourse in the
Danarrard. Pimple cannot yet feel confident that
lb. limn Is definitive. It is understood that a
ipisi =pi jimerheenta are in preparation in the
=eillierCerps Legislatif, and after the many
dig have been alternately countenanced and
velibi bras geverament within a short space of
lime. lib my pimeible that some of these amend-
INNIS mq bo elorploi, or at any rate that the dig-
estion stem miry take so much time as to prevent
es bill prig this session. The government, in-
deed, if it pines to be peremptory, can always make
the Corps Leglalatif vote in any way desired, but in
the present instance, where the government does not
am its own way eery clearly, the deputies will feel at
liberty to act es if they possessed some degree of in-

dependence.
Some dais " financial journals" that now abound
in Saris have lately been puffing the Ruspian rail-
ways, and talking in their financial articles abort
the" saermass demand" for them at the Bou-ile,
Ths Finns* Minister has cut this kind of thing
short by an mist that the estiliess arc not to do bu-
, isms is Btrian railways until they she, be quoted
im tbapurrest.
Tha Mutt ow the budget is expected to be pre-
dated to fibs Corps Legislatif N-morrow or next
dig. The following is said to Ina summery of its
austaula The financial sittation of the country
Wm MAW in 1805 than in 'AU ; the indirect taxer
:tied more, capital anew more active, and the last
cuts of the loan were paid up without die-
Malty. But the reporter observes that "in
spits ef ax apparent. diminution the expenses in the
budget sea in fact augmented." The committee,
therefor% takes °erasion to recommend economy to
the government •nd a great reserve in the creation
at now places. It lays down the following maxim,
that an ealintaled equilibrium is NaShing, the defri-
ties oaks°, is etwrytAing. This phrase, so remark-
ably spplicable to all the past budget' of the present
reign, does not indicate any great confidence on the
pored the committee in the present one. After
dwelling ea this 'abject, and recommending, in
exprem terms, that an effort should be made to
attain a "real and not a fictitious earplug," the
report remarks upon the enormous amount of the
Bating debt, 870 millions, but notion, as a favour-
able circumstance, the fact that the government is
anxious to diminish it, and has provided five mil-
lions tow& the sinking fund for 1858. The
reverter estimates the product of the tax on nego-,
Liable securities at 14 millions. The report con-
cludes, as it begins, by recommending economy,
which it describes as "that grand virtue of rich
states like Ftance, which lave a right to form grand
projects and to look forward to a brilliant future."
The Emperor and Empress went to the Long-
dinars rams to-dsy, for the first time by water,
embarking at the Tuileries quay on the yacht
Ebglnie, and landing at the pier made expressly for
their Majesties' use, near the racecourse. The Grand
Bake accompanied them in this excursion.
General Seville, aide-de-eansp to the Emperor;
M. Teacher de la Pagerie, the Empress's first cham-
berlain ; and M. de Rianoourt, one of his Majesty's
warm are going to Lyons, to meet the King of
Bavaria, who is expected there on the 16th.
The Daily News and Express were seized today.l
Another unfortunate provincial paper, the PA
Bretonne, has received a warning for reproducing a
portion of M. de Montalembert's article on the
Bishop of Moulins' case. The warning describes
the article as one " tending to sow discord between
the church and the state."
The 10resse says, in its weekly commercial
review
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'rebus yd had this mews. Twain souk have at length
sabraitted to des high pekes d *Pads sellase," whisk have
se Rag chseksd betimes Advisor ham New York and Rio
Janeiro Was that Ms gist of Bowegma goods la Moss
rawksts is esappatisi. The psis stM as head
now go des* whoa of asps ess galley. The ewer
esetber bee yeeleted a L.._- Asir wag Imieches
et heisaley. Is the dopeelmmis die mad Meted soma-
helms we vitas et Sesbels, Teriebig, sod Mad, sad
dine Is yews' vitae Orleans sad seized maw erei for
.sorer wise are nada. Silk weirs, being, trees Oak high
pire, ellegelkar legal the reach of the midis time, ere
toy yreeediy seilesed by weal.. Iteledee,
leaser, see isle serest lit do messmilsa ofibs Amwessa
esmistsso. Iselin Ma Ow swift alleasistwia drag
Sat us seder Nem er the eye bee vereltel Stem dr add
weleer et the red et Aprd. TM wird is eeeryelbere air
and eves tit Wass have eel said msewlely.
The ardimery Irene, lobate bed beim le ME yaw, love
sw reeeveeed. As eiriedmi sup d ewek glee, GM at,
weal de woe le seam the waster, Wow is Ilmesps
Sim ell meouree d assacesy tbetembelerieed.
It is hoped fills south that the Entrust, yielding
to representations made to him by the deputise for
the Hermit, supported by M. Michel Chreallar and
M. Payday, will take off or diminkil the import
duty ou sulphur, which is usefully employed as an
antidote to the grape disease.

PARIS, SATVIDAT EVENING.
The Resell government journals now confirm the
statement that the Grand Duke Constantine is going
to Elie, sad add that he will return to France
atter visit to Gluten Victoria. The Coarrier de
Aria ways that when Lard Cowley gave the invite.
Wee to the Or Doke, the latter said he must
em elt his brother the Emperor, and accordingly
seut a telegraphic despatch to Bt.Peersbmg, which
mesa brou hack the Czar's permiasioe. The visit
'wilt have " nothing dean official character, bat will
be assitly aa effectimste compliant to the Queen
eat the woman." The Ceurner same that this
at ztemot. is fowled on an aaanocineot aide by I

MAY 11, Mt

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the Grand Duke himself to the nobles about his
penes yesterday morning.
The Grand Duke visited the Invalidee this morning,
and afterwards went to a fite champetre at the Pr*
Catelan. Ile is going to the grand ball given in his I
hoeour at the Tuilenes this evening.
The Bourse has been languid. The Bente fell
10e. both for cash and account, closing at 69.10 and
69.20. Mobilier fell 17.60. The Orleans and Lyons
railways fell 10 each ; Mediterranean, 20 ; St. Ram-
bert, 17.60; and the other lines, from 2.60 •to
if. It was reported that the project for the
re-organisation of the Bank of France has
been agsm completely remodelled. It is now said
that the augmentation of the capital will be 100
millions (which was the sum originally spoken of j,
and that this new capital will be raised by an kale
of new shares, to be paid for in three or four instal-
ments. The capital is intended to be converted into
rentes, but the period of the conversion, which is to
be effected at 76f., will be deferred for eighteen
months or two years. During that interval the
bank would employ 'axe money received on Recount
of the 100 million* in loans and advances on the
public funds, anei on railway shares and obligations.
' It would aim lend upon Credit Fonder obligations.
I It is positively smarted that the above scheme was
• submitted to a meeting of the Bank Council held

thin day.
The Russian General Demidoff has arrived at
liareaes, from Nice, on his way to Paris.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police yesterday
brought to a close the trial of the fourteen men ac-
cused of having got up a secret society for theover-
throw of the government, having planned auinsur-
rection for the 24th February last, and having had
illegal poasesaion of arms and ammunition. The
tribunal aoritterl three of the accused, named
Valarge, Vivien, and Durand; and condemned the
ten others as follows :—Pillette, who was chief of the
society, to fifteen months' imprisonment and I,ooof.
fine ; Nivier, Bailly, Clement, and Regnier to ten
months' imprisonment, and the first two to 600 f. fine
each, the other two to 100 f. fine each ; Martinon to
&year's imprisonment and 000 f. fine; Deley, Gau-
thier, Valls, and Collin to six months' imprisonmee,
sad 100 f. fine; and Blondelle to throe months'
peso' nmcnt and eof. fine. All the accused, es
.eepi
BlondeUe, are, besides, interdicted from the ',Dios
meat of civil rights. The above sentences wxy seem
light in comparison to the offence charge., but the
truth is that the conviction was groundt".4 upon very
alight evidence. The judgment recites. that nine of
the prisoners "met together frequenAty to endeavour
to arrange a common action against the constituted
authorities, and therefore they were &secret society;"
but it erys not a word of any specific project of in-
surrection either for the 24th of February or for any
other day.

ITALY.

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THE TWO SICILIES.

NAPLES, MAT 4.
I am sorry to report an attack which was made on
k young Englishman in the Riviera di Chisja last
Wednesday night, and which his placed his life in
great danger. He was taking a stroll, when one
men attacked him with a view to robbery, but he
was knocked down directly. Three other ruffians
then came to the assistance of their companion, but
were also floored by our countryman, who received
a knife wound near the temporal artery, and a
severe kick in the side. He now lies in imminent
danger, and much sympathy is felt for him by the
whole community of foreigners. His Majesty sends
every day by telegraph to inquire after the health
of our countryman, and of course the police
will now ho active, and many will be arrested
on suspicion, and the usual means adopted to arrive
at the truth ; but so long as the police of Naples is
charged rather to smell out a liberal than to protect
honest and peaceable citizens, so long property and
life will be In danger.. So long as the commonest
official is selected because he shouts out " Viva it
Re; so long there will be an indifference to any-
thing else but to political persecution. So long as
a policeman is paid less than what a beggar can
earn, so long will he be himself a thief, or anything
else by which he may live. Not a man in Naples
can breathe or think without the fact being noted,
but robberies and murderous attacks are made in our
mat public streets, and the affair is sometimes never
bra tto light. Indeed, the wretched state of
ewe street police is but too evident to any one
who spends an hour in Naples. Thousands of beggars,
some of them festering in every form of disease,
swarm in our streets, to the annoyance and disgust
of every one who passes through them. Yet they
sea to remain to prey upon and insult the
=n and at night not improbably become
ut if a man is suspected of the slightest
tut of liberalism, he is marked, hunted down, ins-
primoood. and ruined. Her Majesty gave birth. to a '
Pl..±Ls• act long sines, and the happy event was in- I
by the "Thieves' amnesty ;" many &rape-
171ercharacters were let loose upon society, but 'eve-
, sal hundreds of political prisoners under condemns-
der, and many more shut ap en suspicion or from
eserice• , are detained, in close confinement. Naples
Is 'the paradise of the beggar and the thief, but the
hell of the liberal.
A decree was published last Friday night to the
following effect: " Counting from the publication of
the present decree and up to the end of July, the
exportation of lupins from the Two Sicilia is per-
mitad at a duty of 23 grains the cantaro, and of
biscuit and macaroni at a duty of 60 grains the
cantaro." It is considered no boon here, as the
season for the purchase of lupins is nearly over, as
Naples biscuit does not keep well for exportation, and
macaroni is a mere luxury. It may, however, be
regarded as indicating the roar et of a good harvest.
rain The exportation of g will, it is considered, shortly
follow.
Vesuvius has now for nearly a week been in a
state of violent eruption, and every night we hays bril-
liant displays. All the foreigners ars crowding in
to see this grand spectacle.
Five per Cents., 1104. Exchange on London, 643.
P.B. The police authorities are making great
efforts to discover who attacked and wounded our
countryman, the other evening. I am glad to may
the Englishman is somewhat better. With regard
to the Neapolitan biscuit, I must observe that it has
a high reputation for its fine quality at least, and
several shipments are being madein English vessels
for Smyrna, England, and elsewhere.