The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, ~1857.

INDIAN MUTINIES.

RELIEF OF LUCKNOW.

The following despatch from our own correspon-
dent at Malta, corrects the telegram received yester-
day at the Foreign-ogee in some important
particulars, and supplies additional detail.
(sr scamaints ♦ND PRITDIR TIMM/LATH)
ALEXANDRIA, Die. 19.
The Pekin arrived this morning at Sues. Her
dates are Bombay 4th and Aden 12th inst.
Sir Colin Campbell, having reached Cawspore on
the 9th of November, joined the forces at Alum-
bagh on the 11th.
On the 13th active operations commenced, and for
the next six days there was a constant series of
severe and bloody struggles with the enemy.
On the 19th, their principal strongholds having
been captured, the besieged garrison was relieved.
On the 20th the sick and wounded, ladies and
children, were sent back under an escort to Cawn-
Pore.

The army under the Commander-in-Chief now
amounts to about 12,000 men, amply sufficient to
reduce Oude to entire subjection—a task which will
occupy them some months to come.

The Malwa field force, under Brigadier Stuart, lam
relieved Nfesserabad, diapered the Tihibpore and
hfundesore rebels, and is now clearing Malwa of the
insurgenta.

The Hying columns under Brigadier Showers,
Colonel Cotton, and Colonel Riddel, are scouring
Rohl'mind, complete success attending their opera-
tions evetywhere.

Large masses of European troops are reaching
India weekly, and we are relieved from all alarm
for our garrisons and outposts, lately in much immi-
nent peril.

Our for was trifling—only four officers killed and
forty wounded.
Business transacted in the import markets has
been to a moderate extent. Money market has
become extremely tight. Rates of freight. have
again declined. Exchange, 2s. 2,/,d. to 2a. 2!d.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(1101 OUR OWN

PARIS, WIDWPADAT XVZIIIKO.

The Emperor to-day presided at a sitting of the
Council of State, held at the Tuileries, and I em
informed that he approved of the provisions of atoll
which has been for some time in preparation, and
is intended to be passed through the Corps Legis-
latif early in the session, for restraining gambling at
the Bourse. It is said that severe penalties will be
enacted against all parties, principals as well as
agents, concerned in any speculative operation either
in stocks or shares not based upon money or @Kuri-
-1 ties. Until the exact provisions of the bill are before
the public it would be idle to speculate upon the
question whether or not they are likely to be effies-
dons in practice. It is not the first time that efforts
have been made to stay the plague of gambling, and
hitherto they have all been signally unsuccessful.
I cursorily sanded, the other day, to the exercise
of the imperial prerogative of mercy in favour of the
Memorial de Lille, a government journal, which
had been entangled in the meshes of the harsh,
biting laws" invented to keep the press in order, and
for the essentially excusable offence of libelling en
opposition candidate had been sentenced to suppres-
sion by a court of justice. I now quote, as an
instructive testimony concerning the real natnin of
the existing law—which people in England,' who
derive their notions of it from MM. Treplong and
De Morny's holiday speeches, may possibly
conceive to be so mildly repressive that all
reasonable people moat rejoice in suffering
their light easy yoke—a description of their mode of
working written by a friendly hand. The Courrier
du Kurd, another government journal, congratulates
its fellow labourer, the Memorial de Lille, upon its
relief from its sentence, by an act of imperial
clemency, in these terms :
The severity of /he laws relating to the press sometimes
mach even those jollities whose prudence and spirit of order
lead them to Mks lba moat comicientioue pine to avoid
offence. The slightest forgetfulness, the most trivlsl
India-
cretion, may sometimes, even before indulgent judges,
put the ez;stence of the most honoorable journal
in peril. Such hes been the case with regard
to the Memorial do Late. Although alike
&shed by the talent and character of its writer., sod
the moderation of its penciples, it has twioe within a short
time been convicted by the corrections'. poleax, and although
merely sentenced to Ines, the law is that it rout be sup.
pressed on • second conviction. The high and generous
clemency of the Emperor has happily oome to the aid of our
honourable eotempeeary and it will continue to appear ea
heretofore.

It will, I think, no longer be disputed that it is
entirely upon the "high and generous clemency"
above alluded to, and not upon any legal guarantees,
that the existence of every newspaper in France
depends.

The Bourse wu languid during the greater part
of the day without any great change in quotations,
but within a few minutes of the close of business
there was a smart upward movement, owing to a re-
port from London that the Bank of England would
certainly reduce its discount to 8 per cent. to-mor-
row, and that the Bank of France would very pro-
bably lower its discount to 5 per cent. The Rente
closed with a rise of 20e. fur account, at 671 r. 93c.,
and at yesterday's price, 67fr. 60e., for cash. Mo-
biller rose 12fr. 500. The railway market was neg-
lected, and there was very little change in prices.
M. de Bourqueney is expected to leave Paris for
Vienna to-morrow.

M. Lachaud was this morning elected a member of
the council of discipline of the order of advocates, in
the room of M. ChM: d'Eat Ange, whose seat in the
council became vacant by his appointment to the
post of Procureur Imperial.
The Globe was seizes to-day.

DENMARK.