The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-24 00:00:00

PIEDMONT.

The Corriere Hereonlite estimates the deficit of
the Piedmontese budget for 1836 at 28,680,000 f.,
assuming that the war shall last. To meet it the
government intends to contract a loan of 30 millions
of francs, and to apply to the Chambers for permis-
sion to raise that sum upon Treasury bills, in order to
have it in its power to choose the most favourable
moment for contracting the loan. About 24 millions
of francs of the above sum are to be devoted to pub-
lic works in the provinces.

THE ALLEGED OVEETIIEES OF RUSSIA.—The
Court of St. Petersburg has comwu•iesttd proposals of
pesos to the Earpiece of the French, and the Emperor, in
introducing them to the consideration of her Majesty's Go
vernment, has declared his opinion that the contemplated
te►ms are satisfactory, and that the spirit is which they are
offered by Russia is sincere. We are credibly informed that
• lugs party in the Cabinet hu received these proposals by
Imo means with did . Yet, we regret to say, it ap
pears probable that through adverse ME they will
meet with discouragement, and perhaps ultimately with

ebeolute rejeetiou.—Press.
The Post says, " We can state authoritatively that
there are no present prospects of a Swedish Alliance, and
that the statements which have been published stsFectiog
a 'military couvention,' sad its terms, are purely isssgh
stary."
A new Comet was discovered ml the 14th instant
by. M. Karl Scubas, of the Berlin Observatory. It is in
She constellation of the Lion near Regains.
The Swedish loan, to which political significance
bee been attributed in some quarters, is for less than
489,000 L
INDEPENDENCE OF POLAND.—A Mirisition, signed
by a *large number of the isbabstants of Liverpool, is about
Ile be presented to the Mayor, Mr. Jobs Stewart, request-
ing him to *mean° a public meeting—" To consider the
propriety of memorialising her Majesty's Ministers to take
sash steps as may conduce to the reestablishment of the
bubspendease of Poland, by which means the enthralled
people of that nation would be detached from the strength
et our enemy, and so 'Nipple the power and resources of
Swett* as to form her to see for a peace that would beelike
permanent and Immovable to oar country. As similar
Meetings have boon convened at Londe*, Glasgow, and
other large eommenities for Thursday, the 29th lost , the
Ilaguisiticialsta amps' that the same day may be Seed for
We town, as they deem it expedient that Liverpool shoti:d
be allowed an opportesity of expressing its loyal and pa-
triotic °Otiose upon dd. queatien."
Tax FRENCH IN Wan AFRICA.—The Moniteur
glees an account of a recent expedition, led by the governor
at Senegal, up the river es far es to Medina, nearly 250
leagues from Bt. Louis, la ceder to maintain the influence
of France against 8l Hedy Omar, a (else prophet, who with
em way of 15,000 nes was carryon things with a high hand
apes the Upper Senegal. The principal malts of the ex.
pees ales were the construction (in virtue of an arrange
meat gems to with the chief of Medina) of a fort to he
MlMWpiell by the Preach, sear the cataracts of the Feloc,
the asiewe of stores belonging to the enemy at Goudiourad,
the eswelusiou of a treaty of oommeree and alliance with
die tildess of the Kbabso, the destruction of the fortified
village of Galley, the submission of the chiefs of Gnoy, the
general cossolidation of the authority of the Pesach in all
the territories near the river, as far as Medics, and the
grant to them by the Almeasy of Boadostßada of the ter-
ritory of Senedoubime. The expedition started in September,
and returned to Si. Louis on the 10th of October; bed
to encounter difficult navigation, suffered greatly from the
climate, and on 'envies at St. Loots nearly all the per
sons composing it were UL

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EXECUTION OP A RUSSIAN SPY.— The German
Journal of Frankfort contains a letter from Bucharest,
which says:—" A natter has jut taken place here which
has greatly suited public attention. ♦ ROMIG deserter.
named Pawlow, originally from Bessarabia, who had played
rather a prominent pert in the early events of the war,
en d the ureic* of Turkey. After having abandoned
the Turkish service he took refuge first in Moldavia and
afterwards in Wallachia, where he so ingratiated himself
into the geed graces et a boyard as to induce him to give
him his daughter. Bane time after suspicions were enter-
tained that Pawlew was a Russian spy, and at last his
father-ia-law accused him before the local authorities. An
investigation took plea/, and Pewlow being in consequence
breeght befor► avraruntartial, wee proved to be a Russian
apy, and shot."
WRECK OF THE SCHOONER MOIGEN, WITH Loss
07 Ll7L—Caoitsa. Noy. 22.—The Mugu (stammer),
&butt, from Copenhagen to Harwich, got on the Lemon
yesterday, and settled into deep water • crew saved sad
Niuded hem, ezces the master, who velemd to leave the
mask oat was ammo&