The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-21 00:00:00

ROMAN STATES.

A treaty of commerce and navigation has been
concluded between M. do Boutenief, on the part of
Russia, and Cardinal Antonelli for the Holy Bee.
Our Homan correspondent, writing on Aug. 14th,
informs us that unofficial steps were being taken to
induce the Popo to tranquillise Ireland by an apos-
tolic circular.

NAPLES, ACOVST 14.
Filangieri remains at Ischia, refusing to return to
Sicily, unites a change of ministry takes place in
Naples. The King has visited the general during
the present week.

SPAIN.

General Aupick, the French Ambassador, was to
give a grand banquet on the 16th, at La Gra+, on
the occasion of the fete of Napoleon. The mintsters,
members of tho Corps Diplomatique, the Cardinal
Patriarch, and tho high dignitaries of the state were
invited to it. At the hotel of the Ambassador, in Ma-
drid, another banquet was to be offered Frenchmen
of distinction residing in that capital, and at night
the hotel was to be splendidly illuminated. A solemn
religious service was to be celebrated on the same
occasion in the church of St. Louis.

The Commission of Spanish Engineers, charged by
the Minister of Public Works with laying out the
EaGaof tho Northern Railway through the Sierra
tifolarrama, bad terminated their labours.

GERMANY.

The services in memory of the Emperor Napoleon,
ordained by his nephew at the European capitals,
seem not to have been so successful as was expected.
At Berlin, it is known, the government respected the
national and natural feeling of the people too much
to sanction the commemoration. At Munich the
people held themselves aloof from the St. Ludwig's
Kirche, where tho special service was held. At
Vienna the affair passed off very tamely. The Cologne
Gazette says on this subject :
It will take a great deal to make no Germans sing " We
praise thee, 0 God !" on Napoleon's birthday. Since
Attila's days no one has brought so mach woe upon Ger.
many as the Cunican despot. He has so shattered our
ancient holy empire that it will in all probability remain for
ever impossible to restore it. He has se conquered and
devastated, plundered and enslaved, degraded and abused
Germany, that the patient German feels a deep-rooted
hatred of him such as animates him towards no other
mortal man. Doubtless he was God's scourge, and if the
chastening of God in his wisdom is to turn to our profit, let
it be so; but why should we kiss this rod / The man was
so extraordinary that eyes we, his victims, must admire
him ; and it was magnanimous of our departed sovereign,
so hardly dealt with by Napoleon, in that he permitted his
statue to be placed in the Museum at Berlin opposite that
of Cesar. Bat Napoleon is admitted there, sot as a war-
rior, but as a legislator, with his code in his hand. In
France men may well under the government of his nephew
celebrate his fi,te on the 15th of August; bat it is a bitter
humiliation to us Germans that public thanksgivings,
should be offered up amongst us for the birth of our worst
enemy.
A Berlin journal, the Wehr Zeitung, has just pub-
lished an article on the Paris and Strasbourg rail.
way, which has, it is said, caused some sensation
among military men.
Let it be remembered," says the article in ques-
tion, " what was the plan of campaign conceived by
Napoleon in 1800, and afterwards modified in dif-
ferent points by Moreau.. The left bank of the Rhine
from Strasbourg to Bile was to be the lassie of opera-
tion of the army of invasion. Strasbourg, in fact, will
always remain the principal stronghold and the point of
support of the left wing of the army. This place is now
only a few hours' distance from Paris. France may in a
few days concentrate an army behind tho Rhine, and all the
resources of the country, troops, money, and provisions, are
all near the seat of operations.'