The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00


violent a crisis in its short duration, will not unhappily vanish
with the same rapidity. The wisdom and the humanity of the
governments can alone remedy them. We know the habitual
moderation of the cabinet of Vienna, and the communica-
tions that have been made to me on its account, prove that
at the very moment when the serious turn of circumstances
attracted its thoughts more partied trly to the necessity of a
severe suppression, it nevertheless did not lose sight of the
extent and the difficulty of the duties of a pa-
ternal
government, nor of the considerations which
recommended clemency. As the natural feelings of auxivty
and irritation caused by the insurrection, will have gra-
-1 dually subsided by the reestablishment of order, the con-
siderations of which I have just spoken will no doubt resume
their legitimate empire, and we stvill certainly fiud a proof
of it in tke acts of the Austrian government. As regards the
military occupation, under which the republic of Cracow is
actually placed, the assurances I have received on
the part of Prince Metternich, as well as those received
from Berlin, give me, and I had it previously,
the full conviction that it is only an exceptionel measure,
which will cease as soon as matters will permit of returning
to the state of things created by the treaty of Vienna. The
respect of treaties is one of the most essential bases of a con-
servative policy, and I know how much this policy is con-
formable to all the views of the Austrian government. You
will be so kind as to read this despatch to l'rince Metternich,
and you can give him a copy of it —I am, &c., &c.

OUIZOT TO COUNT FLAHAOLT:
PARIS, 23d Much, MlN.—Monsieur le Comte—ln the
despatch which you did me the hnnour of writing to me on
the Gth inst., under No. 16, you requested me to inform
as promptly ea possible, if the government of the
King authorised you to deliver pamports to such
Poles who, impliea•ed in the late events, de-
manded them to enable them to retire to France. The
government of the King, whatever embarrassments and
difficultiesmay result to it from an increase of the already
considerable number of refugees in its territory, will not
shrink from the call mule at once on its humanity and its
policy. It congratulates itself on being able, by giving an
asylum to the unfortunate, to facilitate to the Cabinet of
of Vienna the realisation of the thought of moderation and
of prudence which make it desire not to multiply the
number of victims, nor to add new sufferings to those which
have already so cruelly expiated a hair-brained attempt.
(Private )

COUNT PLARAULT TO MONSIEUR OUIZOT,
VIENNA, Arun. 1, 1846.—1 have this instant heard of
the departure for Brussels of an attaché to the Legation of
Belgium, and I avail myself of it to address you a few lines
penned in haste. I went yesterday to the residence of the
Prince of Metternich, to read to him your despatch of the
23d March. When I arrived at the passage which treats of the
military occupation of Cracow and of the assurances he had in-
structed :Count d'Appony to give you, and that you
had likewise received from Berlin, "that it was but an excep-
tional measure, destined to cease as soon as the conjunctures
should without danger admit of a return to the situation
arising on. of the treaty of Vienna," &c., the Prince said to
me " that he could but repeat to me what Count d'Appony
had stated to you; that the occupation of Cracow is not a
political but a cautionary measure dictated by necessity, and
justified by the right possessed by every state to guard
against impending danger, and that the duration of the
occupation depended on this danger."

FRENCH BUDGET.
We give the most important portion of this docu-
ment, as found in the speech of the Finance Minister,
delivered on the sitting of the 12th.
Circumstances have occupied many minds, end pressed
heavily on credit—viz., the scarcity of cash and the intim.
two of our banks in that respect. The monetary
system of France has been frequently criticised by economist,.
It is certain that the ad-•ptiou of silver as our p.incipal cir-
culating medium ; the encouragement which our condition
of coinage afford to the importation of silver, and the skill of
our refiner's have given to France a superiority in its circu-
lation of silver over the rest of the continent, and that a very
year considerable quantity of ingots come to us to be
converted into specie. But, on the other hand, the benefit
which for some time has been found by refunding a portion
I of these specie, and the tendency manifested by commerce,
in several points, to substitute them for piastres, as a com-
mon measure, and also the considerable exports which
have been made to Algeria, of course must have
diminished the capital remaining in France. We
would not, therefore, venture to guarantee that the
amount of cash will be found to be as large as is sup-
posed by certain persons. But when we consider the small
circulation of bank notes and the habits of hoarding which
have become common in the country, we cannot be igno-
rant that the circulating medium nf France coshes relatively
to s very considerable sum. The inconveniences of that
accumulation of dormant capital has often been shown ;
however the events which we are about to reverse seem to
demonstrate that tke evil, if it exist, is much less
than is supposed. The exports of specie necessitated by
the purchase of corn—those being mare considerable, per-
haps, than other wants—which have arisen on the frontiers
of the north and the east, have soon absorbed the extras
which is complained of. The bullion in the bank, of which
it was said there was too vest an amount, has decreased
with such rapidity, that the great establishment has bad
co other option between a temporary departure from rules
established by prudence on the proportions which the
immediately realisable Active ought to have been
the demandable Passive. Or the necessity of intro
ducing either restrictions in the importance, or an aug-
mentation of discount of services rendered to commerce.
The choice was difficult. The bank was well inspired in its
resolutions ; strong in the confidence which nearly
half a century of clever and prudent management
have acquired in the financial world, it has considered that
it might be bold without temerity, and has maintained,
during tke two months of difficulties whick have elapsed, to
show in the accounts the same figure as in the year 184-5,
while the cash in hand has scarcely exceeded a third of that
which it was in the preceding year. But an excep-
tional case like this cannot, of course, be pro-
long,d without danger, and the sacrifices which the
Bank is about to make to amend this case are a necessity.
We know that the attention of its council will be coil/tautly
devoted to the difficulties which rem do to be surmounted,
and the most expedieut ne.asures to be taken in order to
conciliate the interest, of commerce, and the guarantees
which credit demands. It would not be exact to attribute
the whole of our deficit of cash in hand to our exportations
to foreign countries. Another and an interior cause has con-
tributed to the same result. As soon as the deficiency of the
late harvest was made manifest, government considered
that the most efficacious means to help the population would
be to encourage to the utmost every species of labour. In
considering the receipts we take as a basis of the calculation
the twelve months that precede the preparation of the bud-
get. The augmentation of the taxable matters having pro-
duced an incre►se of 1,878,344 f. on the principal, and the
additional centimes. The last votes of the general coun-
cils show another of about a million-and-a-half francs,

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counterbalanced by an equal increase in the expenditure.
The remainder presents an increase of 169,360. The
revenue of the forest is less. We foresee upon t•-e whole
of the taxes and indirect revenue, compared to 1847, an in-
creme of 23,197,090, which is divided &A follows:
Registry
CO and
Salt 3, stamps 3,792,373,000 „000 francs.
MMIS sad
Indirect taus, powder, and tobacco 3,806,000
Pest 2,214,000 „
Total s 23,107 000 francs.

Adding up these results, we arrive at a flail augment►tion of
revenue of 36,330,632 (nines. The sum of the ordinary
budget of 1849 presents the following results :
Revenue 1,371,392,437 francs.
Expenses 1,368,278,127 „
8020116 3,316,330 fence.

FRANCE.—We ;cad in th,Atiziliaire Breton of
the 9th " The most alarming rumour" were in circulation
yesterday at Rennes. It was said that serious disturbances
had taken place at Vitre and Fougeres, that at ChAteaubourg
the mayorhad had a leg broken in a riot, and the mayor of
Angers had been killed. The following, however, is all that
has reached us which appears to be true On Tuesday even-
ing there was an assemblage of about two hundred per-
sons at Breal, who went to the house of a M. Gilles,
a miller and corn dealer, menacing serious outrages.
They were dispersed by the gendarmes, but re-assem-
bled afterwards with an addition to their number,
and carried off the lading of two corn waggo, s
which were in the street. On the following day
Ilya of the mob were arrested and taken to prison. On the
7th, and even yesterday, it was found necessary to have
troops on the road betweea Vitae and La Oravelle to protect
the waggons laden with corn, which was being carried to
Laval. At Livre, on the 6th, • load of corn was stopped by
a mob of 250 persons, and on the following day it was sold to
the people at the price fixed by the owner and the mayor,
viz. 25tr. 60e. the hectolitre; but the mob said that the next
time they got hold of any corn they would keep it without
paying for it. As to the reports of disturbances at Fougeres,
Chlteaubourg, and Angers, they are without foundation."
GERMANY.—BERLIN.—The year 1846 has closed
with more obscure prospects than any year since 1830.
True, no immediate serious cons, quences art to be dreaded
at the gathering of the English and French parliament., but
it must be considered that the affair of Cracow has called
forth, in addition to the protestations of France and England,
several more private demonstrations, the effects of which
will be sooner or later felt in the Appenine peninsula and
other places. Meanwhile, our Bourse has lately worn an
aspect as if the dream of universal peace were, at last,
maimed.
TREVES.-RHEN !RH PROVINCES.—We hear on good
authority that a duty of twenty five per cent. has been im-
posed on the exportation of corn to France. Although this
measure, which is equival at to a prohibition, comes late,
it may be of some service, as there is a large stock of corn
destined for exportation.—Franskfore Gazette.
Letters from Odessa state that large exportations
acorn still continued to be made for foreign paste. Up to
Dec.l3 the value of the exportations amounted to 19,233,067
silver rubles.
CRACOW.—We learn by a letter from Cracow that
all the diligence' of the Prussian post have been stopped for
some time at several points. The revision of the passports
of travellers has been carried on with increased vigilanec, not
only the police but even picquets of soldiers, commanded by
their officers, are charged with this revision. The picquets
are in some places so numerous that it is generally believed
that the government has some suspicion of a.new conspiracy,
and that it intends to arrest any emissaries coming from
abroad.
THE TURKISH FRONTIERS, DEC. 26.—We
learn from Odessa that the cholera has just passed the
Arose', and that it is now raging in the neighbourhood of
&lien (on the Caspian Sea). An ambaasadaz of the Pope,
M. de Elation, had arrived to form with the Porte a diplo-
matic alliance, and to introduce a commercial treaty.—Allge-
swine Zeitung.