The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-16 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The Messager de Gand gives the following a, tLe
effect in Belgium of the non-renewal of the comma.
Mal treaty of July 26, 1846, between Belgium a4d
Francs:

Wines are to pay an augmentation of duty of front' 31...0
241. the piece of 220 livres ; silk an augmentation of 6 pr
cent, on the previuu. duty, or 10f. the 100 kilog. in place of
4f. ; articles of fashion 20 per cent. iu place of 10 per ten!
ribbons, 51. in place of 41. the kiliig.; cotton, 323 f. in place
of 212 f. the 100 &dog.; white woollen tissues, 220 f. in plate
of 187 f. 23c. ; cloths will hove to pay, in addition to
dutieswitablished by the convention of 1846, an ad color. a
duty of 9 per cent. ; articles of mereery will remain with.ut
change, the dety of 10 per cent. being preserved ; and the
same will be the case with respect to furniture and hook.,
which latter will continue to pay, in sheets, 31f. 80e. the
100 kilog., and when bound, 42f. 40e. The deduction of
12 per cent. in favour of coarse marine salt is reduced to 7
per cect. The application of the legislation cone,rning
patemes on French boatmen in Belgium is not mrobfird It
will be the same with respect to Belgian boatmen in France.
The assimilation of the natives of the two countric.,c the
point results from Art. 13 of the treaty of Nov. 17,149,
which is still in force.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

The Gazettu Piednwntese, of the 12th init.. an.
flounces the arrival of the French squadron on the
Bth before Cagliari, in Sardinia.

PARMA.

The Austrian government has taken a nor and
important step in Italy. Letters of the 9th instant
from Parma announce • that the resolution has been
taken at Vienna to deprive the Duke of Parma of
the administration of his States, and to put in a
regency, of which Ward is to be the head. The
motives for this extraordinary act have not yet been
assigned with any degree of distinctness by any
source of intelligence, public or private; and the
present Duke, a young man close upon 311, received
the sovereignty of Parma, Placentia, and the an-
nexed states by virtue of the abdication of his father,
Duke of Lucca, in March,lB49. The latter prince
having been frightened out of his wits by the dis-
turbances of 1848, first abdicated the Iluelly of Lucca
to Tuscany, and then retreating into Germany,
divested himself entirely of the responsibilities of
government by handing over his hereditary dominions,
as a prince of the younger branch of the Spanish Bour-
bons, to his son, at tpulating for the regular payment oil
sufficient pension. The present duke has 'been mar-
ried during nearly seven years to the only sister of
the Count de Chambord, by whom he has several
children. Meanwhile, the fecundity of the marriage-
bed has not prevented the frequent recurrence of con-
jugal disputes, in which the Ibichesse de Berry. who
makes frequent journeys between Frohsdorf and
Farina, sides naturally with her daufhter, and then
goes and makes a great to-do at s ienna about the
misbehaviour of her son-in-law. On the other hand
the old ea-duke complains to the same court that he
can no longer wring a lirre of the stipulated peam.l
out of his son. What the duke has to say to all this
matters not greatly, as pretences of that sort for de-
posing him could be hardly put forward even by the
unblushing hypocrisy of Austria. The step is evi-
dently taken upon political and not dowel(' grounds
it is right that Europe should know what them• are-
that wo may understand what sort of international
law we are to live under at the present day. Mean-
while the young duke has left Parma, it is thought to
defend himself at Vienna, where it appears he
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regarded as a minor, although considerably- older
than the Emperor. That his tourney might not lc
anticipated, he set out secretly and suddenly siih
two aides-de-camp, and when 6 reached the frontier
of his small temtory he handed to each a rat.
despatch with an enormous peal, which looked 30 it
it contained matters of gravest import, but sew
notified in the briefest terms his departure.