The Express. — 1858-12-16 (London, England)

EVNNINO.  A letter from Manilla bringing news of the Cochin Chinese expedition down to October 11, says it was not thought probable at that date that any movement towards the interior of the country would be attempted foe two or three months. The Emperor bas just signed a decree for making a considerable addition to the Eoole Militaire. The works of the new buildings, which will stand on the Place Fontenoy and the Avenue de Saxe, will be begun immediately, weather permitting. General MacMahon, the Commander-in• Chief of  the Army of Algeria, who has just arrived in Paris paid a visit to the Emperor yesterday, accompanied by Prince Napoleon. It is reported that Algeria will shortly be allowed to send two members to the Corps Legislatif. The Bourse has been heavy nearly all day. The Rents, for account, fell 15c., closing at 72fr. 95c. For cash the last prioe was the same as yesterday, 72fr. 90c. Mobilier fell Ilfr. 25e. The Bank of France experienced a further decline of 15fr. The Southern Railway fell 7fr. 50c., and all the other lines about 2fr. 50e.  It is not easy now to get authentic news from Rome, for I hear that Cardinal Antonelli has declared war upon foreign correspondents, stops their letters in the post-office, and threatens to turn them out of the Eternal City. As it is therefore possible that you may not be in the receipt of your ordinary intelligence, I re-produce the following facts from a letter of the 11th, received to-day in Paris. The Pope, on the occasion of the fêtes of the Immaculate Conception, has given the authority of the church to two miracles performed by a newly-canonised saint named de Rossi, of venerable memory, upon whom his Holiness pronounced a panegyric in the !Kathie chapeL At the Conaistory, to be holden on the 20th, it is probable that two new cardinals will be made, one for Rome and another for America. Should this news be true, America will possess a cardinal for the first time. The Archbishop of Baltimore is spoken of as likely to be the first wearer of a red hat in the United States. The Pope has offered up prayers for the success of the French arms in Cochin China. The official journal of Roue, in its official column, speaks of this expedition in a manner very flattering for France. This compliment is considered a proof that any coalman which may have existed between the courts of the Vatican and the Tuileries, on aocount of the abduction of the Jew boy Mortara, is now at an end. The agitation which has prevailed for the last two months in the north of Italy is beginning to be felt in Rome. Secret societies, it is said, are redoubling their efforts, and there are " signs, impossible to be defined," which indicate that " something is at hand." Several of the symptoms which preceded the revolution of 1848 are observable. At the beginning of the week two of Oaribeldi's old officers, who it was suspected had come to enlist " patriots," were arrested. Both the Pontifical government and the French general were excessively vigilant. The fortifloations at Civita Vecchia are being actively carried on. Detachments of French troops are about to be sent into various towns and village* in the neighbourhood of Rome, in order to be ready to repress any coup de main. A French employe on the railway from Frascati to Morino has been assassinated. The murderer is in eustody. The Archduke Charles of Austria has arrived at the Hotel des Isles Britonniquee, with the positive intent:km, it is said, of becoming a Capuchin monk forthwith. it is alleged that the visit of the Duke of Modena to Rome had nothing to do with the formation of an Italian league, which is au old story dating from 1848, but was undertaken in order to warn the Pope and the King of Naples of the probability of an insurrectional movement, which the language of the Piedmontese journals was calealated to produce, and to settle a " general plan of defence." In the window of the library, No. 212, Rue de Rivoli, there has lately been exhibited an engraved portrait of Mr. Charles Dickens, with a beard, d is imperial*, sitting at a desk in • thoughtful position, and writing. The police entered the shop the other day and told the proprietor in very angry hews to take the engraving oat of the window. They mistook Mr. Dickens's portrait for a caricature of the Emperor !