The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-16 00:00:00

THE CONGRESS.

The Nord agrees with the statement in our Paris
corivepondenoe, that the congress will not meet on
the sth. The Nord speaks now of the middle of the
month.

In the Paris Proem, M. Pipet observes that
although all the powers have given in their adhe-
sion to the congress, it most not therefore be con-
cluded that they are agreed upon the programme of
their future deliberations. After noticing the radi-
cal difference between the avowed objects of Pied-
mont and England on the one hand, and France
and Austria on the other, he expresses a belief that
Piedmont " who has pledged her honour to defend
those rights and wishes of the Italian people which
England declares to be ioviolable, and who would
be incapable of resisting an army which might be

commissioned to restore the dukes in the name of
the congress, must of necessity, before sending a
definitive answer to the invitation of France, have
demanded and obtained serious guarantees against
the employment of force. The adhesion of England,
so long delayed, is not explicable on any other
supposition, and the congress would have been
impossible, if the principle of non-intervention had
not been accepted by all the powers."
It is said that Baron Ricevoli w:11. represent
Tuaeany at Paris, daring the aitting of the
congress.

According to a letter from Paris, published in the
official Dresden journal, the late belligerent powers
only would be represented at the approaching Con-
gress by their Ministers for Foreign Affairs; the
remaining powers would send other Plenipotentiaries.

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
MADRID, Dact. 14.
Yesterday the Spanish expeditionary army wu
reinforced by 4,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry.
It is stated that in all the combats which hays at
present taken plate the Moors have lost 5,000 men.
Cholera prevails fearfully at Tetuan.

TUMMY.
CONSTANTINOPLE (eta Niissiatas), Dsc. 8.
The Porte is sow deliberating whether it would
be eoevesient to bring the Saes Canal question
Wore all the greet Powers.

BEHVIA.
CONSTANTINOPLE (VIA Taman), Enc. 10.
The official journal pablishes an article showing
the necessity of intervention in Semis.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
;CORFU (els Tatum), Dec. 10.
The Lead High Commissioner has opened the
lonian parliament, and in his speech announced
numerous measures of administrative reform.

AMERICA.

OM ILECTILIC AND TWHIJUIATIONAL TZLISORAPii.)

EXECUTION OP CAPTAIN BROWN.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY Nomura.
The Bohemian bas arrived with the mails from
Portland of the 3rd inst.

Captain John Brown was executed at Charles-
town on the 2nd. Previously to going to the scaffold
he had an interview with several of his fellow-
conspirators, and accused some of them of treachery.
The evening before the execution Brown had an
interview with his wife. He died bravely. Nume-
rous sympathy meetings had been held at New York
on the evening of the 2nd.

Money was entire, and rates very firm at 67 per
cent. on call.

Exisbasp dull and nominal.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2.
Codes sales to-day, 13,000 bales ; market steady,
at 101 e. to lle. for middling. Sales of the week
90,000 bales, receipts of the week 92,000 bales,
against 70,000 same time last year. Receipts ahead
of last year 138,000 balm. Receipts for Soothers
ports ahead of lest year, 199,000 bales. Stock in
port, 363,000 bales.

_
Freights.—Cotton to Liverpool, I.
Exchange.—Sight, on New York, i premium.
At Port au Priece on the 18th of November coffee
wee very seam and high.

M. Oreppo, ex-representative of the people, has
just settled himself of the asnuetty and reamed to Paris.
He Use been eugaged la the wine trade in Loudon.

Adele.. from Japan state that the American
MMiater, Mr. Ward, hes visited Yid". and was the guest of
kr. Coneni-Gemvai Mania. During his stay he we. Invited
by the Prime Makes, at Tedo to an intervisw at the hall of
the " Prohibited Palace," whkh he accepted, sad where
some of the chief personages of the resin ware stmembled
to meet kin. Mr. Ward has eines returned to 81tanghM.
The Japanese government has intimated to Kr. Mamie that
the Japinsee Embassy will be reedy to embark for the
United States in the spring, and the Powheetas has orders
to receive them.

The Cotton Supply Reporter says :—" It is confi-
dently expected that tour million to tow million and •
quarter baler of cotton will be relied next season in the
United &atm. The agiraqon which has began in this
country with a view to creating now eources of supply has
unquestionably stimulated, and will continue for some time
to come to stimulate, as iscreeied productinn of slava-grown
outwit in Americo. So far as the immediate results appear,
we have resent to congratulate ourselvee on attaining for the
time being one object of this mauciation, viz., en increase in
our .apply of cot'oo."

A letter from Ht. Petersburg states that the
Emprror of Rua-4 her ordered the esiabliehment of six
.chuck In six different places in the Cancans, and has
derided that the Russian language, writiug, eritlanetir,
geography, hiatory, and drawmg shall be taught in them,
He hse elan decidoit that iu each school there shall be 420
pupils —24. S of them to be mainiained at the expense of the
mate, set 150 of thooe 24 to be natives, the remainder e►il
de of gurus functionaries.

The port of A rchangel was on the 7th covered with
kw, and on 'h+ same day the port of Taganrog, In the is. of
Av,ff, was it over.

Among the peeseogers by the Eteea, the last
homeward A.:torah .• wail putt, wee Leto. de Selmer, a
Pn itch Demi nicer, with dismantle.. for the French preen-
meet nopectiog the shooting in New Caledonia of two
imiltebrreen
. .

According to the latest 'deices her Msjesty's ship
lele, lb* Preach Siesta Thisbe, and steamer Styx, were at
Sydney; the latter we. bound for France. Her Majewre
.hip Potenm and the UMW State. mewl frigate Ildiameteppi
were at blaari.ise; the Our wen bound for the States. Her
• Indian Newer Aaehlaad left Ades for Bombay
es the Slat alt. The Wet Bombay packet reported that two
et bar iNfKey.. 'adieu eippe of war Wen WI their way to
Char with trove.
A Slur's HACK BROKEN IN THE MbliiitT.—On
Tweaday,aa t►e ship Gladiator was Mesta, ses of the
pool Uoer-
daub. mull for &whey ohs 'truck on the Pluckiafrton
Beak, owing to the breeklog of the Wawa tatt's Warw. She
was got afloat seals yeeterday elteisoaa, sad ameguesets
wogs made to piece the cargo in the Albert Dock warehoessr,
as the ship, It to etoroted, will bay. to be brokew up. The
(Mediator's cargo was railed at about 70,00 W., sad the Tenet
at 16,0001.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

fraox ova owx

PARIS, TVOISDAT EVININO.

There seems to be a doubt whether the congress
will meet so early as the day originally Axed—
January 6. It is rumoured that Prince Gortacha-
koff refuses to come in person, unless England is
also represented by a cabinet minister.
After Bourse hours yesterday a good deal of busi-
ness waa done by the amesson at better prime, on
the strength of reports that the Emperor had made
a very friendly speech to the Austrian am-
bassador. This speech, which, perhaps, if
well considered imports nothing more than
matter-of-course courtesy, produced a de-
cidedly favourable effect at the Bourse to-day.
The Route was very firm, and closed at 70fr. 66c.
for cash and 70fr. 76e. for account, with a rise of
26e. in each case. Molrilier rose Bfr. 760. The
Southern and Lyons railways rose Ur. each; in the
other lines there we. scarcely airy alteration. It is
spin rumoured that the fee of Itr. for admittanos
to the Bourse is to be abolished.

The English mails have not arrived to-day. It
is reported that a great quantity of snow hal fallen
in the north of France. It freezes You hard in
Path.

The wonderful constitution of Prince leriime
Napoleon, which hu more than once enabled him
to rally when supposed to be at the point of death,
seems likely to gain a victory once more. The
bulletin is this morning's Moniteur, stating that
he wss in a dangerous state, has been followed by
another, thus worded :
Tausansy, HALF-PACT 8, A./11.
The night has been leas Wised than the last. His im-
perial highness's state is somewhat better.

(Signed) RATIII, CIUVILLIZE, Ls RILLOCCI.
In answer to inquiries this afternoon, it was stated
that the " amelioration continues." There has been
no consultation since the morning.
The Pays exultingly cites the list of journals
which have reproduced or cited a highly moral
article by M. Grimier de Cassagnac, deprecating the
publication of such trials as those of Leonia Choreal'
and Madame and Mdlla. Lernoine. It does not,
however, make any answer to the Ilairere, which
observe@ that the Pays gave as fall a report of both
those cases as any other journal, and therefore has but
small tom standi to call for an alteration of the
law. The Univers approves of M. Grimier de Cal-
sagnao's theory while blaming bit practise; it did
not publish any report of the Looming!. cam. How-
ever plausible some of M. Grottier de Cassagnac'e
moral views may be on the present occasion, any
arguments in favour of farther restrictions on pub-
licity proceeding from such an unscrupulous advo-
cate of despotism as he is, must be received with the
utmost suspicion. It may indeed be said of him—
eon tali auzilis, nee defenroribue leas tempt, eget. I
may observe that in England, where the utmost
liberty of the press prevails, very copious reports of
the Lemoine case have been given, and I believe
they are quite tree from the objectionable details to
which M. Grimier de Cassagnac especially refers,
and which were to be found in his own journal.
A new journal, called the Progree, has just bee@
founded at Lyons, where the provincial press is per-
haps more influential than Many other part of Francs.
It has need of much discretion or extraordinary good
fortune in these times if it would enjoy long life and
act up to its programme, which says:—" The ame-
lioration of the lot of the moans is oar leading
object, and, in our opinion, the best instrument to
effect that amelioration is liberty."