The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-10 00:00:00

• THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, IIfe;RCH 10, 1855.

short, will airy oat all the operatioas of the post-offices of
Fraaos.
Receive, dr, the aantance of my satire consideration,
Councillor of State. Directeur-General of the
Post dna.
This postal arrangement is all that could be de-
sired. Before closing this communication, I may
also state, on the authority of the Imperial Commis-
sion, that the gentlemen who have pretended to
interdict the publication of drawings of the Exhibi-
tion Palace exterior, have received a warning that
their absurd claims will not be allowed. This is a
vigorous move in the right direction.

POLAND.
• WARSAW, liAsca 3.
A telegraphic despatch from St. Petersburg in-
formed Field-Marshal Prince Paskiewitch last night
of the death of the Emperor Nicholas, in conse-
quence of which he gave orders to have everything
prepared for hie journey to the capital ; but to-day
it seems the orders are countermanded, and it is
likely he will remain here, unless specially sent for.
In the meantime considerable excitement is percep-
tible amongst his generals, who have held several
consultations in the palace. After these conference.'
General Paniutin, commander of the second army
corps, proceeded to Lublin, the head-quarters of his
troops, and the commandant of the fortress of Alodlin
also left this city in a hurry to repair to his post.
Great is the consternation of the Russians at the
intelligence of the Czar's death, and they cast inqui-
sitive glances at the faces of the Poles to endeavour
to read in their countenances the impression the news
has made on them. But the latter are too cautious,
and afraid to make aoy observation likely to com-
promise themselves, particularly as the intelligence
came so suddenly, and accompanied by such myste-
rious reports and accounts of the particulars so widely
diverging from each other and full of exaggerations.
The exchange was thrown into a panic, and business
of every description was completely suspended.
I am sorry to be obliged to add that cholera and
typhus are carrying away daily numbers of the inha-
bitants of this city, particularly in the streets and
lanes neer the Vistula.

FRANCE.

OP Til DA. ILY
PARIS, FAIDAT •1"131,..1NG
Aooording to the You Gazette the Vienne L. 021-
Irenoes will not open so soon as was expected. Prince
Gortshakoff, it is said, has received the forint' "-
Duval of his powers as Minister Plenipotentiary, b 11:
he is is yet " without instructions." The ominous
date, April 1, is now fixed as the probable day for
beginning basinfuls.

OPILOY TEI

Captain Maelamas, the Commander of the Impe-
rial frigate the Reine Hortense, has gone to Mar-
seilles, where that vessel is now anchored, to make
the necessary preparations for the reception of their
Majesties on board.
At the Bourse scarcely any business was done.
The Rents closed with a fall of 50. at 68fr. 950., The
fluctuations in the course of the day were unimpor-
tant. Bank of France fell Mr. Railways were
nearly stationary. The favourite security was the
Austrian railway, which rose Mr.
The monthly return of the Bank of France made
up to Thursday lut, shows an increase in the coin
and bullion (including the branch banks), of
15,395,092 fr., being a continuation of the upward
movement remarked last month. The bills discounted
have fallen off in Paris 26,923,752 fr., and in the
departments 17,990,084 fr. The treasury deposits
have decreased by 40,350,924 fr., and the private
deposits have increased 18,571,065 fr. in Paris;
and in the departments, 2,878,874 h.
The falling off of nearly forty-four millions in the
discounts in the account of the Bank of France for the
month ending March 8, is in great measure accounted
for by the extraordinary stimulus given to the dis-
counting department at the beginning of the year
by the exigencies of the new loan. The appeal to
the nation had an unparalleled success, but the amount
was by no means made op from the surplus capital of
private individuals. Numbers of tradesmen dis-
counted all their available paper in order to subscribe,
and the natural consequence is that they have now
very little in their portfolios. Owing to this cause a
further diminution in the
.Bank discounts may be
expected next month.

There has been a serious students' row this morn-
ing at the College of France. M. Saint Beuve,
whose learned and elegant essays on various subjects
in the literary columns of the Moniteur have for the
last two years constituted the principal attraction of
the official journal to the general reader, has just
been appointed professor of poetry and belles Wires
in the university. He appeared to-day to give his
first lecture. The studente chose to remember that
he was, up to the time of the coup detat, a
professed republican, and a writer in the
National. His appearance on the platform was the
signal for a storm of hisses, which lasted for several
minutes. During a momentary pause the 'professor
was heard to say something about a " Prince as illus-
trious by his pen üby his sword." This produced a
fresh explosion of disapprobation. A stentorian
voice exclaimed, " We think now as you did when
you wrote in the National." M. Saint Beuve then
got angry, and spoke of appealing to the public force
to turn out the malcontents. He was ultimately
obliged to be as good as his word, and as it was im-
possible to distinguish the sheep from the goats the
serpent de title cleared the hall, making several
arrests among the students who had made themselves
most conspicuous.
The affair of Madlle. Doudet came on to-day before
the tribunal of correctional police. Having been ac-
quitted of the manslaughter of Mary Anne Aarsden,
she is now accused (in the technical language of the
French law); lit, Of having in 1852 and 1853 wil-
fully struck and wounded Emily, Rosa, and Alice
Marsden, the blows and injuries by her given and
inflicted not, having occasioned a sickness or an in-
capacity for labour for more than twenty days ; and
2nd, For having in 1852 and 1853, struck and
wounded Lucy Marsden, the blows, and injuries, &c.
Dr. Marsden was first called. He declared that the
prisoner was the first person who accused his children
of bad habits. He said that Celestine Doudet knew
his affairs as well as he did himself, and was more
au fait than any one as to all the scandal of the
village. lie went on to describe the dreadfully
emaciated state in which he found his children when
he came to see them in Paris. The trial is going
on.

OFFICIAL BULLETINS OF THE LAST ILL-
NES3 OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.

The journal de St. Petersburgh of the morning of
the 2nd, brings us the two first bulletins relative to
the last ilium of the Czar :
BT. PETERSBURG, MAACK 1.

" His Mapsty the Enspersr is suffering. His illness at
Ant was the Lamas only, but since the 23rd it has been
combined with fever, and accompanied by a slight attack of
the goat. _

"Yesterday his Majesty experienced pains in the right
Innsr, and the fever has increued. In the night the august
invalid hes cot slept.

"To-day this fever ia a little less, and expectoration is
effected without difficulty.

"Da. )(inn.
"Exams.
"Mara 1, 1846." "Da. KARNALI.
"AIILLITIN NO 11. OF TIER XIALTI OP AIN ITAIRITY TIN
" intriaoa.
n MARCY 1, UNPIN O'CLOCK AT NIONT.

" The following change has taken place in the state of
his Majesty the Emperor :—Towards night the fever in-
creased, and the ez.peetcretion from the part of the lower
right lung, which is effected, hes booms more diMoilt.
" DZ. 111413fDT,
"
" Dn. Hamm.."

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