The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAT 18.
The session of the Corps Legislatif has been pro-
longed until May 25.
La Pommeraie is stated to have sent in an appeal
against the sentence of death to the Court of Cas-
eation. It is rumoured that the jury wish to ask
for a commutation of the sentence pronounced. upon
the prisoner.

SPAIN AND MEXICO.
MADRID, MAT 18.

The Epoca of to-day states that Spain will ap-
point a representative to Mexico so soon as the
Emperor Maximilian shall have notified to the
Spanish government his accession to the throne.

ITALIAN STZTATHY WITH DENMARK. —A corre-
spoodent of the Indipendance Beige, writing from Turin on
the 11th. says :—" The news of the naval victory obtained
by the Dams over the Austrian fleet has mimed even more
satisfaction here than is the English Home of Commons.
A little icon and people would have illuminated. The
Minister of Foreign Affairs gave orders to the minister of
Italy at Copenhagen to 000gratulate King Christian and his
go►enmeot is the warmest =sneer on this brilliant es-
preakeeL"

COUNTY REGL9TII.4IIOI‘. —The report of the select
committee of the Howe of Commons, appointed to inquire
into the desirability of making env Other than the existing
prinigioas for the regietratson of county voters, ham just beim
printed. The committee elate that they bed inquired iota
the possibility of introducing a system of officialregistration
similar to the practice established in Ireland and •
but came to the resolusion that the varieties of qualification
in England limited the application of ae official system,
and rendered it impossible to thereon with iodividual ac-
tion to the same extent ea in other coestitueocies. They
accordingly recommended a modified plan, which imposes
certain duties oa the overseen of every parish, gins claim-
ants opportunities to correct their claims, and subjects
objectors in certain cues to the payment of meta. This
system they recommend in the belief that it will be the
somas of adding to the riveters numbers of qualified persons
who now remain unregistered; that it will provide for the
verreeteeee of entries, while in great measure removing the
aeresioo for vexatious and specuLtive objections ; sod that
although the vigilance of party agents will still be required
to ensure a pun and complete register, their action will
be eoefised to the legitimate operation of assisting is regis.
tering their own frieoda, sad resisting the registration of
those oppoosate whom they have name to suppose eat ea.
titled to the franchise.

Queniinan —The ship Young
Australia, 760 tone burden, beloogirm to Malan. T. M.
Mackay and Co., sailed en the 14th instant, front Plymouth
for Queensland, ()Letitia Grey, miumaader. The Young
Australia is the forty-first vowel that has sailed out the I
Land Order System of Emigration, nodes the immediate
direntioe of the Queenslaed government. She contain@ 258
souls, divided into paying, assisted, and free pommies', and
cosmetics of 8.5 members of families, 136 single rasa, sad
37 angle foram

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
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"Despatebss from Boehm:est," says the Side,
" announce serious events. The Chamber would
not dimsa prorsition constitutionally brought
before it, and winds it was free to red.. Prince
Corm had legal mesas of residing this little par-
liamentary amp d'ficst—by a dissolution. He
made use of it ; but when on his own authority he
makes an addition to the convention, when on his
own authority he creates as electoral law based
upon an elevated suffrage in the towns, and et two
degrees in the country, Prince Cones seizes upon
the dictakonship. We lack details for the appre-
ciation of these events ; but when Russian troops
are being concentrated in Bessarabia, when 90,000
Austrians are being massed in Trazurylvania, ought
not patriotism to have silenced all antagonism
Was it the moment for a conflict between
the Prince and the Legislatif Corps I Is
it not to be feared that Russia, seconded
by Austria, will, according to the example
of Austria, aided by Prussia in Jutland,
salvia& at Bucharest and Jassy of the infringe-
ment of the convention settled in virtue of the treaty
of 1.866 I The Danube and the Black Sea are as
important as the Baltic to powers which wish to
develop their navies."
Upon Use sausa,_subjeci the Poesy says :—" A
despatch from BSchareet brought us the news
yesterday of • weep d'ital accomplished by
Prince Coma. The Chamber, it will be
recollected, had passed a vote of censure upon
the ministry. The ministry took no notice of this
vote, and again appeared before the members with
an electoral law to be discussed and voted. The
representatives of the country refused to examine
the law, and the Prince dissolved the Chamber.
This time pie appeals to the entire nation, without
distinction of class or fortune, says the Moni-
ker. The people are thus called upon
to pronounce upon an electoral law, sys-
tematically rejected by the Chamber, and
upon a statute supplementary to the fundamental
law given to the • • 'ties by the guaranteeing
powers. Everyone • applaud this resolution of
Prince Couss, who is entering upon democratic
paths and substituting the policy of principles for
the ingenious expedients of diplomacy. As to
diplomacy itself, it too clearly sees now the bitter
fruits borne by the polioy of intervention to invoke
it anew against the wishes of the Roumain people."
The Nord merely says that it would be impossible
for anyone to sport with the treaties and decisions
of Europe more coolly than Prince Coosa.