The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-07 00:00:00

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haw M tie far the next nine months is to spend their
handsome dotations in the manner most agreeable
to tbesseelvee, if not most profitable to the
netball paymaster. As fix the passage of
the Presidint's closing message to the Corps
Let drift in which he sap the Senate
without specifying on what they will
let=°Bl“ may be pretty. sure that they will act
Wasp worthy of their hire, and do the task '
=.4St SIM by the power which made them
.ars, whether it would be to propose the
or to curtail the present liberty which the
Corps I,sgis4tif enjoys, of voting that the speeches of
its members may be printed. It has been suggested
that they may be peoubly call upon to propose reforms
It the constitution touching the conferences of the
committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the
Council of State, foe the more expeditous despatch
of business. But, as usual, the oracular ambiguity
of the Prince-President's expression loaves a wide
swipe for both hopes and fears, and peoples the
future with additiodal anxieties and uncertain
In tho meantime, the Prince is withdrawn to his
summer palace, with the leisures of which
this pen has nought to do, and with the
labours of which one is only aetiasiiMi
rare and uncertain rumour. I have
spoken of a draft of amnesty, of which a glimpse ties
been obtained in the cabiuct of M. Abbattueei. Bet
there is at Bedarieux a nearer and more urgent call
for mercy ; and the public earnestly await the first
exercise of the drat de grace attributed to the execu-
tive power by the new constitution to reverse the
bloody sentence of the Montpellier court-martial,
and save France from the barbarous anachronis,n of
a memsecre by the guillotine. You aro aware that
the sentences of courts-martial are not final, but are
liable to revision by superior courts. lf, as is generally
the case, the tribunal of appeal, which is still military,
should confirm the first sentence, there still remains
the chanceof commutation or pardon by the President.
In the present instance, all the condemned prisoners
have appealed to the Court of Revision. Some time
will, therefore, elapse before the doom of these tor
fortunate men will be decided.
General indignation has been excited by a savage
article of the Petrie, invoking the worst passions of
society against men who labour under sentence of
death. The Sleek, to its honour, although alone in
the whole Parisian press, has given a public expres-
sion to the sentiment of disgust inspired by the dis-
graceful inhumanity of the chief organ of the go-1
-eminent.

It is stated that the President is going shortly to I
hey a visit to the estate of Lanotte-lieuvron, which
has recently purchased in the Sologne, and
where he is about to institute all sorts of agricultural

experiments.
On the Ist of August a decree is to come out
sweeping away all the prefects tainted with °Aeon-
ism. That are to be replaced by thoroughgoing ad-
herents of the government. The new prefects are to
be young men, all under 40, and of the party known
by the name of the riyoureux.
A commission of inquiry has been appointed by
the government professedly to examine the question
of the utility of salt as applied to agricultural pur
M. Demesmay, however, who has occupied
posy
himself specially with the salt question, suspects that
the government is going to restore the old salt-tax,
as it existed before February. This would increase
the tax from 10 franca the 100 kilogames to 30 fr.
The committee is thought to have been appointed
with this object. No doubt a great outcry would be
raised against such a measure. Still it seems
that everybody is of opinion that the yearly accumu-
lation of deficits and the enormous charge of the
floating debt must be met by increased taxation, and
certainly a modification of the salt tax, however un-
popular, would be about the most efficient financial
remedy that could be adopted. By the application
of an excise duty to the salt consumed in the soda
manufactories the budget of receipts for 18.53 has
been already increased by six millions of francs.
The government is preparing atpresent a project of
law on the councils ofprudlionarnes. According to this
bill the masters, foremen, and workmen are to be
electors at 25, and eligible, at 30. Reading and
and writing are the only other conditions of eligi-
bility. The presidents are to he appointed by the
government, which can always dissolve the Councils.
The members are to be not more than 16, nor less
than 10. The contending parties cannot be assisted
by defenders. The councils are to endeavour, on the
first news of a strike, to mediate between the masters
and men.

The perseverance of the Council of Vaud in apply-
ing to M. Thiestho federal decree on refugees, is
the more disgraceful and absurd, as the distance to
which refugees are, according. to that law, to be re-
moved from the frontier is eight leagues, whereas
Vevay, the place of M. Thiers's residence, is fifteen
leliufrom the French territory.
.eLbatier, first secretary of the French embassy
at Constantinople, has been appointed consul-general
and charge d'affahos of France at Alexandria, in the
room of M. Lemoyne, called to other functions ; and
M. Benedetti, ex-consul-general, has been appointed
M. Babatier's successor as secretary of embassy at
Constantinople._ _ _ _

Notwithstanding the tremendous heat there is no
relaxation of commercial business. There was a
fresh rise of 40 centimes in the Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., which closed at 103.20, just the mark which
was rached by the Five per Cents. at the moment of
the conversion.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

The Raiorginsento announces that the Chamber of
Deputies adc.,7 the lit, the eight first articles
of the Civil ' Bill.
The same journal remarks:
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Whilst ether countries are erecting ketificafions, at Turin
the citedal is being disarmed. The cannon, which for many
years lined its ramparts, and were mostly pointed agamst
Om city, are to be removed and transferred to Casale.
This is certainly a signal proof of the mutual confidence
misting between the Kim and the population of Turin.
The government is even anxious to demolish the ramparts
of the citadel, and to convert the building into a barrack.

TUSCANY.
The Tuscan Monitore has published a grand ducal
decree, authorising for Tuscany the constitution
of the Company which has been formed for the con-
struction of the railroad of Central Italy, and which
is to connect Piacenza, Parma, Reggio, Modena, and
Bologna with Prato and Pistols, with a branch from
Reggio to Mantua.
On the 25th ult. the court-martial of Udine con-
demned four persona to various periods of imprison-
ment in irons, varying from one to ten months rz-
spectively, for having arms or ammunitionin their
poessedon, or uttering seditious cries.

AUSTRIAN ITALY.

Numerous arres---trimive;gaii;ieenmads at Milan.
One of the unhappy victims thrown into the cud*
dungeon has hung himself from the bars of his
prison.
The government of Lombardy has issued new and
more stringent restrictions upon the circulation of
books in the province.

NAVAL

ADMINALTY, JULY ii.LAPPOINTWERTI
taat•Barpoar W. Jolter sad J. Rorie, to Quoits.

A TlitillFlC 'IsturNDY.R-BToall bunt over the
New Pored on Monday night. la Southampton the whole
of the day es Monday, the weather was exceedingly sultry,
and at times the heat was almost insufferable. Before dark
lightning was seen from the west and enatlawest. It
in intensity towards midnight, when the flashes
succeeded each other very rapidly, and were remarkably
vivid. The weather also was squally, bet no rain lall
within a doses miles of Southampton. In the heart of the
forret, however, the rain fell in torrents, so much so that
many of the carriages of the up-Dorchertor night mail train
bad several inches of water in them when they arrived at
Lyndhurst. No rain fell after the train Left Lyndhurst.
The lightniag was of the sheet kind ocaselanally. South-
ampton water and the whole of the New Forest was lighted
up with intense brilliancy by it.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1852.

frontier harsher force, or noel page—the proposal
to raise le all pa frontier districts • body of matinal
tie felicities reels of pay, end es the fallowing term
Contemadent, Ili. 7d. per day ; °lacers, To dd. ; men, dr
The whole to And their owe eqvipabliiii. to pro.
vide sad forage their own horses, and to maintain
eimeuelves at their owe expense, with the single pencils
that rations maybe drawn when ea duty se any leitita
post, the sea to be deducted from the pay et the replotted
commissariat pram.
The Commander is-Chief, it is reported, will away
take the field, and superintend in person the several opt*
tam new in sostenaration s the earflaps of the enemy,
sad the establishment of a secure colonial border.
A very satisfactory arrangement seems also to bare been
made with the Trans Vaal Dutch emigrants under Preto-
rius, by which their independence is rec7snised, and a
treaty of ahemce entered into which gives premiss of
of securing the peace of the country in question,
without any serious military enpenditure either by the
colony or mother country. All Owes are hopeful aspects,
and it may be hoped will result in the perfect tranquiliza-
tion of a country capable of receiving and affording a com-
fortable home to thousands of industrious hardy emigrants
from the parent country.

FItANQE.
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late for 183411.
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rinco Janine Ite head, ye
a;to set their isispietatttr on the laws
L!gislatif, before their oromul-
lcial journal. All they will now