The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1852.

The Mossiteor states that M. Blanohe,Naitre des
Baguetss of the first elms, has been appointed macre-
nirrpot`l4:=lrb.... matte by the
w 2• of fl. de Psesiguy,confirms the report,
ktill conduce to *rad, that thi prelesst mi-
• of the interior is Ong to pass to As ministry
,oftace
.- Beeinl ;changes in As direction of the
of the department of the hairier denote the
ease change as imminent
To-day tie Carps Legialetif :reopened its sittings.
M. Billault having taken the chair, stated that he
had received • letter from M. Clary, deputy for the
Loire-et-Cher, by which he daiared that he took the
oath of obedience to the constitution and fidelity to
the President of the Republic. M. Clary was pro-
claimed deputy. The same deputy haying applied
fee leave of absence, on the score of bad health, this
was granted. M. MBank then declared that he had
received that morning from the minister of
date two deerees of the President of the
xeltlic relative to the communication ofl
projects of law. The first project was that
which I have mentioned in a previous letter, relating
to the rehabilitation of condemned persons. It will
be maintained before the Legislative Body by M.
Rather against M. de Royer, councillor of state.
According to this project, the decree of the provi-
sional government of April 18, 1848, and the 4th
chapter of the Penal Code are abolished. Those who ,
are condemned to a peirse afflictive or itifilmante can
only apply to the courts for rehabilitation five years
after the condemnation ; those who are condemned

I low

to a pain correctionnelie three years after the sen-
tence passed on them. In all cases the rehabilita-
tion can only be pronounced after the payment of
damages and interest. The bill indicates the for-
malities to be fulfilled in order to obtain rehabilita-
tion. The bill was ordered to be printed and distri-
buted and referred to the examination of the bureaux.
The next bill was relative to loans to be affected
to tho town of St. Omer, the departments
of the Pyrenees, Mayenne, and Pas do Calais. These
bills will be maintained before the Corps Legislatif
by M. do Thorigny and Boulay de la Mcurthe, coun-
cillors of state. The four last will be referred to the
same committee. The order of the day called for the
report on the coinage bill; but it was not ready.
Three amendments were introduced into the bill by
the committee, and in conformity with the constitu-
tion these amendments were referred to the council
of state. M. Billault then informed the legislative
body that a series of bills would be immediately pre-
sented to it. Among these are a bill on railroads,
another on custom-houses, another on mortgages;
the law of accounts for 1848 and 1849, a bill on com-
mercial organisation. These various bills are at the
present moment before the council of state. Lastly,
the budget of 1853 will be forthwith presented
to the Corps Legislatif. lie would take this occa-
sion of reminding the house that ono of its most
important attributions was the examination of finan-
cial laws. (Cheers.) Without doubt some little
delay would take place before the presentation of all
these laws. But ho could assure the house that
they would have quite enough to fill their session,
and fill it completely.
i (Renewed applause.) It was
impossible for • to fix today the day of the next
sitting ; but as soon as there was occasion to convoke
the house notice would be sent to deputies at their
residences. M. de St. Germain addressed a letter to
the Corps Legislutif, demanding a conga of ten days.
The order of the day having been exhausted, the
'Sting broke up at half-past three.
A letter from M. Martin do Strasbourg to the pre-
sident of the Court of Cessation has been sent to
the evening papers, stating his reasons for declining
the oath u advocate of the Court of Caseation. I
lave already apprised
.you of the substance of this
letter, in detailing the interview between M. Martin
and the procarenr-general of the Court of Camden.
The Prince de Canino has arrived in Paris from
Civita Vecchia, and had an audience immediately at
the Elyse*.
A loan is talked of more and more at the Bernie.

The committee of the Legislative Body, charged
to examine tho bill relative to the copper coinage,
assembled yesterday. The members of the council
of state who are charged to support the bill before
the legislature waited on the committee, and pre-
sented observations on the modifications which it in-
tends, it is mid, to recommend.
Prince Louis Napoleon, on Saturday, gave a pri-
vate audience to M. Baudoing, deputy of the Legis-
lative Body, M. Maxime Clansmen, member of the
international jury, and MM. Bietry, Du Croquet,
Hermann, and Leclerc, on the subject of the pro-
jected crystal palace. The Prince President assured
them of his solicitude for tho progress and prosperity
of national induitry.
It is stated that the decree granting the conces•
sian for the building of the crystal palace in the
Champs Elysee has been signed. The party who has
obtained this concession is a rich banker, who has
formed a powerful company of capitalists for the
undertaking.
In consequence of the decree of centralisation the
division of communes and hospitals of the ministry
of the interior has been suppressed. M. Jeze, who
was at the head of this division, is to be appointed a
councillor of state.

The Debate etatee that M. Poniard has resigned
the situation of librarian to tho Senate.

I may mention, as a popular measure, calculated to
win the youths of the army, that the six companies
called du centre, formed of the youngest troops in
oak battalion, have received permission to wear
egeniettes, which were hitherto denied them, and
the want of which rendered them a subject of banter
mem the elder soldiers.
The Cants of Appeal having beet consulted on
the new Penitentiary Bill have expramml the wish
that prelkiensi vagabonds, who get theasslva ow-
eseastlass ten, twelve, or fifteen tines to
Prima de4 te gap shelter and food kr die winter,
without arytlnn"teleltlessolgested to trans-
partake after Ave
I have aheady mated in a review letter, that M.
Pierre &mart* nuked a paean of 84,000 fr., and
that IL Loden Murat Mil nested a million. I
indratead brew that the Primo Jams has re-
ceived two see. The Primus Nether de
whitish his onighter. hes dragged the peaks
whitish, allowed Terme art of the esMorisid whiek
Prince Deeeidor wee obliged to estde as bee by the
Csar.

Yesterday, on the wripkwes of the dem& taking
possession of the pink of Monceaux, it is said, the
concierge refused to g►ve up the keys. A commissary
of police was momently sent for to overcome his
scruples. On receiving the offer to continue in his
post, this old servant of the Orleans family indig-
nantly refused, saying that ho would never consent
to become the servant of robbers. _ _

The question hMilleeii mooted in the Ministry of
Justice whether it would not be right to prosecute
M. Emile de Oirsxdin for exciting to hate and con-
%rapt of the government.
Too the Asia warning of the Minister of Police, a
copy
_el Oki I sent you on Saturday, M. E. de
Itas isplisa as follows :
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lbw is it psatbis M podia spirt a risk whisk see Ism
sot Mum ? L set pulses, sowspassi is grist poet et
pow is tire solids say rsyrsiests tbs
misimously sitpissesi by the tribusst la its
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tithe Suises la lbw 1804 ; by tbsseessnetit• Sieste La its
Mims of May 11. 1804 ; by tbs mess& ef tits Assiesstisu
fee the weelelibinarmt of the milks peswwwi ts tbs
souse of stets by the preskisals sf die issisms, sag by
ammistpil body of tbs sf Paris. Assamedly tbs
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M. Girardin mays that now tbat he ii win d ho
won't speak upon the Midden topic any more. He
desires nothing better than to have than subjectsl
white are not to be open to dimmed= pointed out to
him. He will find the field of *radio always
largliptanot to denim to lose time by counting
the farrows.
ifasileur publishes the appointments of
dims to 30 battalions of national surds, which are
now almost formed in the "beniscorof Paris. These
added to the 24 battalions already organised, which
compose the national guard of Paris (infra muros)
make an elbotive kree of 64 battalion., and 4 squa-
dron' of nadsnal guards of the &ilia Although the
battalion of the basiiars are not so far advanced in
their foremasts as those of Paris it is hoped that they
will be equipped by the 10th of May.
The Many* de Oaskincourt is actively organising
the cavalry legirm, of which he is colonel, with the
intrados d appearing at its head on the same day.
1 The tanmesavial movement of the week exhibits

&Haden,. Almost all the markets sr=
There has been a greater demand for
pee, imede as sugar and teas at Names and,
AUL The shipment on the eft of Merck at
Rotterdam of 400 tons of Java mere tor /lane, was
looked upon as a remarkable symptom, and predated
considerable exoitenteat at Bordeaux when the ants
arrived there. Corn and grain I. decidedly lower is
all the markets ; the fall in wheat may be quoted at
from 3fr. to 4fr. per sack. The Paris mißses have
not, however, yet consented to lower their deameada
to any great extent. Tho must, however, shortly do
so, for the exportation to the Rhenish provinces,
which was the cause of the rise in the winter, has
entirely ceased The confirmation of the good yield
of cotton in the United States has naturally had its
effect upon the prioes of that article. The stook
in hand in Havre is fast increasing. The
brokers quoted their ordinary and middling
qualities at 1 franc lower, leaving the better sorts
without variation. It is observed that wool has
lately been extensively substituted for cotton in
many manufactures. This may in great measure
account for the general scarcity of wool. There is
no change in the silk market. At Lyons, notwith-
standing the presence of a good many American com-
iabeion agents, the flatness of affairs is lamentable.
Tide it attributed entirely to the scarcity of the raw
material. Tho probable effects of the commercial
treaty with the King of Sardinia, which has now
been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies at Turin
Iby a large majority, is much discussed at Lyons.
Accounts from St. Didier state that the long-ex-
petted upward movement in iron has now decidedly
set in, and that buyers are laying in their stock in
the apprehension of a further rise before May I. The
wine trade is inactive. Accounts of the state of the
vines are anxiously looked for.
At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell
20c., closing at 101.30; the Three per Cents. fell :30c.,
and closed at 72.10. Bank of France Aimee did not
vary. The railway market was very heavy. Several
large sales were made. Rouen fell 20f. ; Lyons,
8.75 ; Orleans, 7.50 ; Bordeaux, 7.50 ; Northern, 0.2:1;
Dieppe, 5; Havre, 1.25; but Strasbourg rose 7.30.
Central and Tours and Nantes did not change.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.

A letter from Bologna, of the 6th, in the Risorgi-
mento of Turin, announces tho failure of M. Mal.
dini, the banker, for a sum of 600,000 francs. Many
of the first nobility of Bologna will, says the corres-
pondent, be losers by this bankruptcy, and the shock
is much more serious from the fact of its following so
close upon the failure of Marquis Zambeceari, with-
out mentioning many others of minor importance.
What renders this case much more distressing is,
that many signatures have been discovered to be for-
geries.
PIEDMONT.

The discussion on the treaty of commerce with
Franco was continued with great animation in the
sitting of the Bth of the Piedmontese Chamber. M.
Menabrea, ono of the leading members of the anti-
constitutionalist opposition, attacked it, on the
ground that it was detrimental to the interests of
Savoy as a wine-growing country. lie further con-
tended, that while the treaty favoured the oil trade,
it tended to diminish production in general. ('ount
Cavour, Minister of Finance, observed, in answer to
the former speaker, that of the seven provinces of
Savoy there was but one which grew wine to a cer-
tain extent, and that it would be no loser by the
treaty, since the introduction of French wines could
only threaten bad wines of indigenous growth, not
the good once. The minister could not conclude his
speech on account of the lateness of the hour, and
the discussion was adjourned to the following day.
The debate was brought to a conclusion on the
oth. Count Cavour, Minister of Finance, resumed
his speech, and proved that the treaty in question
was founded on the soundest doctrines of political
economy. As the treaty had been especially attacked
on the ground that it was detrimental to the interests
of Savoy, he took particular pains to show that all
such objections were unfounded. He then adverted
to machinations of the retrograde party in Savoy,
who had eagerly taken up the treaty before them as
an instrument of slander against the government,
and worked up the people of that country so as to
lead them to believe that the present government
was systematically hostile to Savoy, and sought its de-
struction, and that the inhabitants would have to pull
up their vines by the roots, or emigrate. The hon.
minister nevertheless fully admitted the existence
of real grievances in Savoy, and expressed his
determination to do his beet to relieve them, but re-
gretted that his efforts had been hitherto in a great
measure paralysed by the hostility of the party which
was represented by the Echo du 3font Blanc and the
Courrser des Alpes. The whole of his speech was
conceived in a firm but conciliatory spirit, and was
listened to with profound attention by the Cham-
ber, which afterwards adopted the treaty by 114
votes to 23.

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Aram 8.
The newspapers here are carrying eulogium of the
deceased minister into the region of burlesque. I
sent you yesterday an extract from the arrupon-
dence, magnifying the greatness of the Schwarzen berg
governmental • Ideas," and to-day the less official
journals laud the wisdom and comprehensiveness of
the late statesman. In troth, however, ideas, taking
the word in its common meaning, as some intelligible
principle capable of being enunciated, understood,
and contemplated from below, as well as from above,
are utterly strange to Austrian ways of government.
Emperors, chancellors, and ministers-precedent do their
beat to keep out of the circle of ideas. Sentiments
and feelings, implanted in the school, and cultivated
by thousands of clergy, are agencies more apt and
congenial than ideas in fulfilling the purpose of the
Austrian government. The sentiment of a paternal
relation of tho Emperor to his people long prevailed,
and was one which the ruling powers would
gladly have perpetuated. But Bletternich saw this
die out year by year, until the defrauded people drove
their pretended parent from the capital. Ideas were
then indeed thought of and invoked for a time, but
they were soon found to bo so incongruous with all
that was essential and permanent in the character of
the house of Hapsburg that they were at first placed
in abeyance, then under restraint, and finally ejected
with the constitution in the autumn of last year.
Meanwhile Prince Schwarzenberg was busy every-
where crushing all that gave token of political life,
and irtangurating a system of pure absolutism, which
has no more pretensions to ideas and principles than
has the policy of the King of Dahomey.
A pure.absolutism, like that now set up in Austria,
has its origin much more in a brute instinct, than in
any pretended " ideas." So far as Prince Schwarzen-
berg was successful, and that is much loss than is
idea easseted in English newspapers, he owed it to
that advantage which a strong will, simple aim, and
wawa 111601110/11 most always po sess over the ex-
havited, dhaalted, and perplexed.
To-day a adaisterial council was held under the
presidency of the Emperor. Yesterday one was
held, when Baron Kubeck presided. People sup-
pose that the appointment of a new premier it the
subject of discussion but Ido not see, in the first
what an autocratic sovereign like Francis
roasesePh wants with a president of his council—
why he should not preside himself; nor, in the next
place, why ho should ask hie servants which of
them ho shall take into his nearest confidence. I
see, however, that the teat. Correspondent names
Baron Kubc4, now President of the Iteichsrath,l
as a probable minister-president without portfolio.
According to letters from Warsaw of the 23rd
ult. the Czar has shown mercy—lmperial mercy—to
• number of Polish noblemen now in Siberia,whither
they were sent, with mane who have since died, in
1834. Tho unhappy mon are to come back to what
was their home, but not a farthing of the revenues of
their estates will they be allowed to handle, the
government having long since appropriated the
whole as rewards to its military and civil eniployds.
The net of pardon says that only loyal subjects have
a right to hold property in Russia.

PRUSSIA.

A Berlin letter of the tith states that the Empreu
of Russia will arrivo thorn on the Ist of next month.
Her Alajesty will alight at the Russian embassy,
but will, on the following day, go to the royal palace

of Potsdam, whom apartments have been prepared
for her. After staying a fortnight at Potsdam, the
Zmpreas will proceed to the baths of Schlagenbad.

GREECE.

Letters from Athens, in the German journals, state
that the Supreme Court of Appeal of Greece had
confirmed the sentence of an intenor tribunal, con-
demning Mr. King, the American missionary, to 15
days' imprisonment, a heavy fine, and expulsion from
the kingdom, for having preached the protestant re-
ligion in violation of the constitution. On this, Mr.
King addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs *a
protest against the judgtnent both in his own name
and in that of the American government, from which
he held, he declared, an official miastn. Ile added
that he would not voluntarily obey the judgment. It
was not kno en whether the Greek government
would expel him by force; but if it should, it was
considered likely that the United Statue would take
up his defence. The letters add that great scarcity
exists in Greece, and that dreadful misery prevailed
'in consequence. The government was making ex-
tensive purchases of corn in Turkey for distribution
to the people.