The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-28 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A letter treat Vienna gives telegraphic news,
stating that Labia Effendi, the fist interpreter to
the divan, had left Constantinople on the 18th for
Moldavia, on a mission to convey to Jassy the Armen
for the convocation of the divans ad hoe. Mantel
Bey, the introducer of ambassadors, who is charged
with a similar minion in Wallachia, had left the

same day for Bucharest. It appears, therefore, that
the question of the Principalities approaches a de-
finitive solution.

The Pap says :--" According to the latest news
from the Ponies gulf, an armistice of three months
has been concluded between the Commander-in-

Chief of the English troops and the Persian govern-
ment. This armistice will begin on March 1, 1847."

The following paragraph on Chinese affairs ap-
pears in the Pays :
" Our private correspondence from China states
that a grand council was held at Hong Kong on
Jan. 14, at the house of Sir John Bowring. Admiral
Seymour and several superior officers took part in it.
It is slimed that at this meeting it was decided
that, until the arrival of freah instructions from the
English government, no new operations should be
undertaken, and that all that would be done was to
maintain an energetic defensive attitude. At the
date of the last despatches the council of the East
India Company, in a sitting bold at Calcutta, bad
resolved that Admiral Saymour's attack upon Canton
and its consequences had been very prejudicial to the
interests of the Company."

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

(yawl ovz OWII
CST

AND DAITISN TILTIOZATI.)
MARSEILLES, FRIDAY.

The India and China mails arrived hem at ten
o'clock this morning, and will be sent on at noon by
a special train.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, FRIDAY EIIINING,

I understand that the Council of State, in the
debate upon the proposed new impost upon railway
shares, has adhered to the system of a tax upon
!renders instead of upon annual receipts or profits.
The Council thinks it unjust that a man who keeps
shares by him, say for ten years, should pay es
me to the revenue as one who is continually buy-
's/sand selling. This decision, supposing it to be
belly adopted by the government, will be rather a
sorpriee upon the Bourse, where the transfer tax
was, above all things, dreaded, and where it was
hoped that the principle had been finally abandoned.
The Bourse has again been dull. The speculators
for the rise feel much disconcerted by the little effect
produced by the resolution of the Bank of France to
resume discounting at 90 days. The fact was that
the measure was anticipated, and, as usual in such
caaes,the "Bulls" overbought themselves. The Bente
fell Oc. for cash, and 16e. for account, closing at
80fr. 76c. and 89h. 96e. Mobilier rose 6G. In
railways the favourite lines were the Northern and
Lyons. Shares in the former line rose 10fr., and
were in great demand, the company being on the
point of obtaining the concession of the &IWO= line.
Lyons rose 2fr. 60e., after having been quoted
higher, with a considerable businoes doing. The
other lines were fiat, with but insignificant
variations.
The conflict between the Bishop of Moulins and
the Minister of Public Worship continues to create
great excitement in the Allier. Several leading re-
sidents in the department have come to Paris to
support the cause of the suspended curls. They
bring with them two petitions to the Emperor,
bearing 3,188 signatures. The 'present Bishop
of Moulins is Mgr. de Dreux Brese, an
unusually young man for so high a position in
the church, and raised to the bench in 1850,
through the influence of his friend, Count de Falloux.
It is thought that he may find himself compelled to
tender his resignation. Under the government of
Louis Philippe, the Bishops of Chilons and of
Chartres were in the same manner brought before
the Council of State, the action of which is confined
to a simple declaration of abuse of power, with the
suppression of the writings or sets leading to it.
This is the first time during the present reign that
the Council of State is about to have brought before
it a question of appeal against the abuse of power of a

bishop.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police yesterday
tried a man named Adine, clerk to a Awissier, for
having had illegal possession of anns and ammuni-
tion. It was proved that the police having, in con-
sequence of a denunciation, searched the man's
Uwe, which is at Belleville, seized secreted in
different places a carbine, 3 pistols, a poignard,
378 ball cartridge., moulds for casting balls,