The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, 711)1MDAY BYIIIIIIO.
I hear that a doom al parhal amnesty is
.expected
an the opining d tbs Chambers. This is repre-
sented as the mere peal& as the reports made to
the President through dm ministry of police repre-
sent the prethses as generally diriafiAed with the
hardianse the stems= pronounced by the depart-
mental samslsolims.

A deem tt the Aliteiteur which introduces
ea
impeeloat We the administrative commis-
dem tribe/Oh& The Amiably bad enlarged the
powers et MIMI sad given greater
weight to the umnisipalides in their formation. The
present decree miens the control formerly user-
'oiled by theprommesd, sad narrows the powers
of the some The ememiesions are henceforth
to mist of lee iteshms, bbd by the prefect,
aei ef the maim who mid& red gives the casting
mew The another de-
cree retivirmisktg :41:=Lateolf the army.
The Mosernsur says :
Up to lam mama (March 23), the applications for reim-
bnemme debt Five per Cants., registered at Paris, and
then sif abide the iisporimums had given notice, amounted
to ihe ramitter et 138, represserieg 14,84.31 i. of rents.
The Dohs de Broglie, with the two prince' his
sew has arrived in Paris from Brussels.
Several of the papers give an incorrect account of
the arrests _sled at the Café de I)anemarck. It
seems that X. Pistol, the prefect of polies, had been
long lesidng out fer 111
crinhntity of netting
relay as pantile the Hungarians,
Pelee eel Heneme, who hot/mated this cafe
for the mks of bolding meet meetings
dutheg the algid. At sine o'clock on the night before
last several esimmiimehe of polies penetrated into
the room where them umetinp were held, and found
about sixty pewees enemblee about a table covered
with a grew shirk at which one of the party
who
sided as adman. The speeches of those who
addressed the meeting were taken down by a short-
hand writer. All present were arrested, and several
political redeem have been recognised among them.
Their lodgi were searched, and papers, according
to themerlal assoents of high interest, were
seised, together with a voluminous correspondence.
Henan, the etwialiet candidate, is elected deputy
for Lyema
A stemese arrived the day before yesterday at
Havre, bus Modals, having on board 36 prisoners,
who had been released from the Huguesclin, on con-
dition of their proceeding to a foreign country, which
would be fixed on as their place of exile. Among
them are MM. Karim Durrieu and de Kesler, cx-

EVENING, MARCH 25, 1852.

editors of the Revolution ; Lachambandie, an author
of fables; Garand, a statuary; Guerin, a chemist;
Paellas, Delaville, A. Lemaitre, E. Lemaitre, Agard,
Gavot, Drevet, Pujet, d'Houdt, Laciure,and Cahaigne.
Si. Target, the minister of foreign affairs, and M.
de Manpas, the minister of police, have been pro-
moted to the grade of commander of the Legion of
IHonour. The decrees are dated nearly a month back.
The Moniteur publishes a table of the production
and consumption of beetroot sugar during the per-
tion of the season of 18.51-1872 which has elapsed.
It appears that 329 manufactories have produced
59,801,959 kilog., whereas at the corresponding pc-
riod of the preceding season 303 had produced
61,828,857 kilog., the augmentation of the number'
of manufactories being 26, and the diminution in the
production 1,984,698 kilog. At the end of February
there remained in bond 9,972,006 kilog., to 12,631,698
kilog. in bond in February, 1851.
The Council General of the department of Cal-
vados has voted a million of francs for the execution
of the railway from Paris to Cherbourg, of which
sum 500,000 fr. are appropriated to the section from
Paris to Caen, and 800,000 fr. to that from Caen to
Cherbourg. The Council-General offers, besides, a
subvention of a million for the branch-line to Mc-
zidon, in case the government should determine to
have it executed.

The Municipal Council of Auxonne has just voted
a sum of 130,000 fr. to be disposed of in the purchase
of shares in the railway from Dijon to Besancon.
As might naturally have been expected, the news
of the serious differences between the Sultan and
Abbas Pacha is anything but displeasing to the
foreign office in Pans. Should the threatened dis-
missal of the Viceroy of Egypt be carried into effect,
it will be looked upon as a severe blow to English
diplomacy, and as affording an opening for
the revival of French influence under the shadows
of those pyramids, from the tope of which
somewhat more than forty years ago, forty cen-
turies were said to be looking at the French
army. The Pays, a journal devoted to the Elysk,
represents Turkey as constantly coquetting between
two suitors, Russia and England, of both of whom
France should bo jealous. How Turkey can shake
off the dangerous attentions of Russia is not
the question of the moment. But the abortive
efforts of Sir Stratford Canning and Mr. Murray to
maintain the cause of Abbas Pacha, is represented as
an important check to British influence, which
France should be ready to take advantage of. An
attack is made upon the character, habits, and Intel-
' led of Abbas Pacha. Said Pacha, his proposed suc-
cessor, is represented as possessing ability, virtue,
and popularity. The article concludes :
Is it too much to hope now that another Napoleon directs
the destinies of France that our policy may resume in the
country of the Ptolemies the high influence which it de.
serves to have, and which it would only exorcise in the in-
terest of the progress of humanity and of social morality ?
To attain this elevated aim we have a road ready traced.
It Is to support the intelligent measures by which the Sul.
tan desires to reconquer his ancient rights of sovereignty in
Egypt, to direct it with the rest of his empire in the path
of civilisation.

In a postcript the Pays says, that the fact of Mr.
Murray having been sent for to Constantinople, ap-
pear+ to be of great importance with reference to
their observations.

On the lame subject, and in the same spirit, the
Amen d)lt,c Nationa'e observes u follows :

The question of the railway from Alexandria to Suet
still remains as it was. The first part of this line, that from
Alexandria to Cairo, seems to have been conceded by Abbas
Pasha, for the English company has already made sonic
preparations for making it ; but the second part, that
from Cairo to Suez, has not been conceded, and
we desire to believe that it will not be, unless
the Fiche of Egypt reckons sufficiently upon the support of
England to fly in the face of the Sultan. But he ought to
remember the fate of Mehemet Ali, who was much more
powerful than Abbas Pasha is, and who yet was so rapidly
and easily overthrown France, in any case, and the other
powen friendly to Turkey, cannot forget what they
owe to their ally and to themselves. We then shall
continue up to the last moment to regard it as impossible
that they can allow Ensilind to eras herself into a suzeraiu
do facto" in Egypt the establishment of a railway
made with her money an worked only for her advantage.
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At the Bourse the Fives rose 15c., and closed at
100.40; the Threes rose 25c., closing at 70.81 Bank
of Franco shares remain the same, and their has been
but little change in railway shares.

BELGIUM.

The Court of Assize at Brabant re-opened on
Monday for the trial of Count d'Haturionville and
M. Thomas, and MM. Bavay and Bartels addressed
the court. The speech of the attorney-general, as
M. Thomas observed, was rather an eulogy of Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte than an incrimination of the
defendants. One. of the most extraordinary of his
assertions was, that the Prince President had given
tranquillity to Belgium, and for the first time since
1848 Belgians dwelt securely on their borders. The
jury were in deliberation an hour and shelf, and upon
their return delivered a verdict of acquittal upon each
of tho :10 pointssubmitted to them. The presiding j udge
had previously warned the audience against any ex-
pression of feeling in the court, and hia wishes wero
respected, but on reaching the outside of the build-
ing their excitement was expressed in loud viva&
MM. d'Haussonville and Thomas were immediately
set at liberty, and the latter left at once for
London.
An ari4le of the Minister of Public Works makes
known the new scale of prices at which messages
will henceforth be forwarded to various parts of Eu-
rope. The following are the charge for a despatch
of 20 words sent from Verviers, where the Belgian
telegraphic system is connected with the German
lines : To Cologne, sf. ; to Hamburg, 10f.; to Berlin,
12f. 50c. ; to Vienna, 15f. ; to Trieste, 15f.

ITALY.

TRIALS FOR THE REVOLT OF MAY IS, 1848.

NAPLES, Maxon 16.
The following continuation of the state trials
brings the proceedings of the special court down to
the latest sitting.
The paid denouncer, Nicola Varola, was examined,
and stated that the ex-deputy Barbarissi had in
public proposed a modification of the Solute.
Other witnesses, some of them ex-deputies, nar-
rated the proceedings of the members of parliament
previous to May hi, which were more fully deposed
to by the ex-deputy Baron Oaletti, who stated ho
joined the parliamentary committee on the evening
of May 14. Before voting the form of oath to be
taken by the deputies, a captain of the national
guard entered tho gallery, stating that the royal
troops were advancing with hostile motives on the
deputies then assembled. This induced the repre-
sentatives of the people to hesitate. They were
then informed soon after, that his Msjesty, to
avoid any difficulty, had suggested that the
form of oath should be changed. Whereupon
the house immediately voted that a proclamation
should bo printed exhorting the people to destroy the
barricades. He (Galetti) accompanied by the ac-
cused, Do Luca, proceeded into the streets, and used
their utmost endeavours to quiet the people. The
accused, Aurodio, was employed in the same way.
He had not seen or heard of the deputies presenting
themselves at the balconies of Monte Ohveto, and
there urging the people to make barricades; he did
not believe it. He had not seen any ad of the de-
puties exciting. the people in the streets. They were
employed precisely in a different way—.-to calm. The
letter of the Committee of Salute Pabbhos (attributed
to Spavarta) was written by Petrooelli ; the signa-
ture of De Tuppati was false. Petrucelli, in Paris,
had since boasted of having forged that gentleman's
name.

The court then proceeded to examine the wit-
nesses of the government paid denouncer, Barone,
who has already degraded the Neapolitan courts of
justice by his repeated perjury. Esposito and Vit-
toria were examined. Their statements were such
as to induce the court to reject many of their asser-
tions. The examination went to prove that these
men headed by Barone, were employed to in-
criminate the few deputies who remained in Naples
after the re-action had taken place. Esposito stated
that he heard the people say, in the presence of
Ruggiero (deputy), " that Naples must be levelled'
to the ground." lie had seen the accused \locust
armed, and at the barricades; Avitab. was also
there. Vittoria had seen tho accused Jacovelli with
arms in his hands at the barricades; he saw him
insult General l'epe, and heard him use insulting
language about the King.
A police agent, Sehenardi, deposed that ho had
heard the mob shouting " Viva la Costituente !"
Tho Marquis V. Cariatc, and the Marquis Ira-
petiole, both stated that there were people in the

mob who declared the address of the deputies pray-
ing the destruction of the barricades was false.
When they told this to Poerio he was highly indig-
nant. Poerio's language was very loyal.
The ex-deputy Camillo Cacaos deposed—On re-
turning to his house on the 14th, he found notes
from Prince San Giacomo and Prince Cariati, order-
ing him to wait on the King. He went to the
deputies assembled at Monte Oliveto, and told them
what had happened. Lanza, the president, told him
by all means to go to the royal palace and " arrange
the difficulty" (the oath). On his arrival at the
palace he met M. Bozelli and others, who eventually
presented him with a now form of oath, written, he
believed, by his Majesty himself. Every one thought
the wording was satisfactory. On presenting the
new form to the deputies, it was put to the vote, and
a majority declared it satisfactory. No sooner had
this taken place than a man rushed into the room,
shouting " Gentlemen, hold! Tho royal troops are
marching on you to make you accept the new form
of oath." At the same moment, "to the barricades"
was heard from without. There was no move-
ment of the royal troops. Witness then retired
.to his house. Ile next heard that the cham-
bers would be opened without an oath, and that the
King had requested that a committee should be
formed to destroy the barricades. The tumult was
increasing. Ile heard M. Falcone read a paper
in which the King had empowered the parlia-
ment to modify the original stutedo. Witness
heard some say, " i troppo tardi." Witness had
always had the highest opinion of the ex-minister
Scialoja, whom he considered devoted to constitu-
tional monarchy.
The ex-deputy Pica would ask some questions
about Prince San Giacomo. " Sit down, and hold
your tongue," said the President Navarra. " Then,"
observed M. Spaventa, one of the prisoners. "you
do not, Signor President, allow us a fair defence.
Tho remaining witnesses did not offer any evidence
worth recording. It is a significant fact that up to
the present moment no witnesses for the crown have
appeared, except the paid agents of the police.