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London, England, 1857-01-30 00:00:00

retired to their chamber for consultation. On their Naval and Military bitei.imelice.
return they unanimously rejected the appeal.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY ETENLIG,
A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries.
The Moniteur publishes a decree promulgating a
convention recently concluded between France and
the States of Parma, for the reciprocal oxtraditi3n
of offenders.

The Emperor Napoleon is said to have sent to
the young Countess de Morny a magnificent
diamond necklace and cross as a wedding present.
Ferouk Khan, according to intelligence from
London, is to proceed to that city towards the
middle of February, charged with an extraordinary
mission from the Shah of Persia.

The Governor of the Bank of France, in reply
to questions in a meeting of shareholders, stated
that he was made acquainted with the project for
the augmentation of the capital of the Bank merely
through the newspapers.
Mr. Kelley, the American engineer, whose plan
for cutting a ship canal across the Isthmus of Pa-
nama, without locks, has been already noticed, had
an audience yesterday of the Emperor. His Ma-
jesty expressed himself pleased with what bad been
done towards re-ducing this great undertaking to
what the engineer believes to/be a practicable and
tangible shape. The Emperor examined Mr. Kel-
ley's large maps and drawings with great attention,
and said he would join the British and American
Governments in making a verification of Mr.
Kelley's route and a thorough survey of the whole
Isthmus.

BOURSE, Jan. 29.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cash. fl. e
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 67 50
New Loan
Bank Shares 4,160_ Roman (x d)

End of I.Tonth.
—fr. —c.
67 45

Credit Mobilier 1,330 Austria];
Belgian Fives .. Spanish Threes
Piedmontese (5) 9O 50 Home Debt •

RAILWAYS-FOR CASH.

fr. c. fr c
Orleans 1,375 Western
Northern 935 Strasburg
Lyons ......1,360 New Ditto
Mediterranean —7. Grand Central ..... 611 25
Lyons Geneva — Tests
Cetto • 772 50 Austrian Cum. ...... 760

The 23d Company of tite Royal Engineers at
Chatham,numbering 120 non-commissioned officer
and men, have been selected to proceed to the
Falkland Islands, where they will be stationed.
The officers who will embark with the detachment
are Captain A. Clarke, Lieutenant E. D. Malcolm,
and Lieutenant G. D:Pritchard, Royal Engineers.
The removal of the stores brought home from
Kertch by the Engineer Corps of the Turkish Con-
tingent from the gun-wharf at Chatham to the
Royal Engineers' establishment at Brompton Bar-
racks is being carried on by the troops of the Field
Equipment Corps of the Royal Engineers, and
already 30 waggons and carts laden with stores
have been removed and deposited at Brompton.
It will give some idea of the immense quantity of
articles deposi ed at Chatham when it is stated
that it will be fully a fortnight before the whole
will be removed.

The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Master Com-
mander Petley, arrived at Woolwich yesterday, at
noon, from Dover, having been ordered thither to
he placed at the disposal of her Serene Highness
the Princess of Hohenlohe, and her daughter, from
Calais to Dover. The mail-packet Queen, lying in
the harbour, having been judged of less draught of
water, was consequently specially engaged, and '
conveyed the augusV personages across the Channel,
in lieu of the Black Eagle. The Admiralty yacht
has been fitted with Mr. Weathered's apparatus for
super-heating steam, which is reported to act fa-
vourably, so as to reduce the consumption of fuel
in a similar ratio to that obtained on board the
troop-ship Dee.
Her Majesty's screw steamvessel Buffalo, Second
Master Jones in command, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday from Portsmouth, and was ordered to
proceed immediately to Grays to ship a cargo of
moulding sand for the use of Keyham-yard.
The newly-constructed seam yacht Imperador,
about to be forwarded for presentation •to the
Emperor of Japan, was yesterday placed under the
sheers in Woolwich fitting basin and received her
masts. A compete set of improved yacht rigging
is in course of being made peculiar-to the require-
ments of the vessel.
The Pembroke, 60 guns, screw steamship, arrived
at Sheerness yesterday at noon, from Leith. She
saluted the flag at 11 a.m., which was returned by
the Waterloo.

The officers and crew of the Salamander, paddle
wheel steam vessel, are, by an Admiralty order, to
return all stores from the Salamander, and are to
be turned over to the Vixen.

The Cyclops, at Sheerness, is ordered to receive
:al her guns of heavy calibre, and to be brought
forward immediately.
The Myrtle steam vessel towed the Robert
(which vessel had been run down by the Emerald,
and since raised) from Sheerness harbour to Milton-
creek yesterday.
The following appointments bawl been made at
the Admiralty :
George S. Hodge, Master in Command, to the
Industry ; William L. Scarnell, promoted to
Master ; W. K. Stephens and F. E. Hubbard,
Naval Cadets, to the Indus • A. C. Harris, Naval
Cadet, to, the Monarch, for disposal ; F. 0. Powell,
Naval Cadet, to the Si,tellite ; Frederick Burns,
Assistant-Paymaster, to the Hawke ; A. Allen,
I Assistant-Paymaster in charge, to the Industry.