The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.
PARIS, WIDWIIDAT EYZNINO.
M. Davergier de Humane, one of the ex-rewe-
sentatives included in the amnesty of August last,
has arrived in Paris.

ITALY .
CRITICAL CONDITION OF NAPLES.

NAPLES, blaticn 21.
Notwithstanding the steams which are now
brooding over venous portions of Europe, public 'at-
tention is here fixed upon what is passing near and
around us. True is it that all the avenues of commu-
nication are so hermetically closed that what passes
e iewhere is scarcely known in Naples; but even if it
were the petty, disgusting hourly oppressions prac-
tised here are of such a character as to keep up a
perpetual sore, and therefore a species of continual
egoism. I have from time to time alluded to the nu-
merous and most illegal arrests which have been and
still are being made. The prisons are said to he full.
Amidst, however, the heartless and lawless acts
which are being committed, we find interspersed
other acts as irritating as they are ridiculous.
Beards and wide-awakes are the horror of our police
—mid armed with swords and shears the myrmidons
of power now parade with all due solemnity the
streets of Naples. To give you an idea of the moths
operandi, the cook of an English gentleman was last
week looking upon the novel scene of a policeman
slotting up • wide-awake which had been just re-
moved from its owner's head. For the cook it
might have been a good joke, especially when be put
his hand to his paper cap and felt secure, but a po-
liceman touched hint on the shoulder, and in spite of
remonstrances took him off to the prefettura amid
the jeers of a mob, when a barber having been sent
fur, he, in company with several others, was shaven
and shorn, and received congratulations on his good
looks into the bargain. One poor fellow who refused
to submit had a slap in the face, and was threatened
with the vicaria. The servant of another friend was
stopped by. a commissary who took his hat
off and cutting it into shreds threw it away.
Resiatauce of course would be vain, and I have
not heard it attempted except by a woman in de-
fence of her lover. They were from the provinces,
and were strolling about the city, when the costume
of the man invited the attention of a member of the
police, who was about to commence operations when
the woman gave him a blow in the face. A crowd
assembled on the instant, and the policeman slunk
014 kW it was neither his policy nor that of the go-
eernment to encourage crowds. These are petty
acts, it is true; but they are not the less irritating
on thst account, and deeply significant are they of the
fears and the weakness of a government which trem-
bles in presence of a beard or an imperial. More cruel
and serious are these acts of power, however, when
exercised in depriving a poor shopman of his stock
in trade—as has been done in the case of several
hatters here. The system of sending off people from
Naples still continues, and five hundred passports, I
am informed, were made out in one day. An incredibly
large number of people are said to have been removed,
but making every allowance for exaggerated state-
ments, doubtless a considerable number have been
compelled to leave Naples. Fresh recruits for the
foreign regiments are pouring into Naples, and sol
diets and priests, who seem to be united in the most
fraternal bonds all over Europe, are the great fea-
tures of the day. Similar scenes to those enacted
here are being enacted in Sicily, where many, arrests
have been made in every part of the island. The
police pretend to have discovered a plot to assassi-
nate the Viceroy. I can send you nothing more
positive at present. It is whispered about Naples,
however, that two men had been shot. Holy week
is just over, and fasting is giving place to feasting.
There has been the same devout visiting of the
sepulchres, and royal princes have even condescended
to go to church on foot. His Majesty I did not see
in the streets. He is still in Naples, perhaps in con-
sequence of the illness of one of his sons. Till with-
in the last two days the weather has been of
the same stormy and inclement character that it
has been for the last two months. The whole chain

The number of municipal councillors who, in va-
rious portions of the empire, have refused to take
the oath of fidelity to the Emperor, increases every
post.
The Emperor has been unwell for the last day or
two, and for the greater part of yesterday kept his
bed. His indisposition, however, is nut serious
enough to postpone the ball to be given at the
Tuileries to-morrow night ; at least, no notice to that
effect has been given.
The Bureaux of tho Corps Legislatif termina ed to-
day the examination of the Budget of 18:.4. At
five o'clock five out of seven had chosen their com-
missioners. Notwithstanding hi. formal refusal, ex-
pressed in terms rather hostile to the government,
M. Gouin was elected in the first bureau.

The ten commissioners appointed are :
let. Bureau,Barou deituasierce and M. Gouin.

3rd.
4th.

Baron Paul de Itichemont and M. Faure.

Devinek and ltandoing.
Mews. Lelut and Monier de la Sizeranne.

of mountains at the buck of Naples and round to Sor-
rento are covered with snow. The French steamer
from the Levant, due on the 24th inst., was compelled
to put back to Messina, and did not come in till the
morning ofthe26th. We have several English yachts
here. The Sylphide, Captain Laland, with a crew
' of 40 men ; the Fairy and the Destiny.
The Five per Cents. keep up wonderfully, being
quoted at 108. Exchange on London, 363.

PIEDMONT.
In its sitting of the Ist, the Chamber of Deputies
at Turin passed the Slavery Repression Bill by 70
votes to 33.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1853

EGYPT.

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We have letters from Alexandria to the 22nd
nit Tho commercial crisis mentioned in former
advice, had passed over, bat business had not
regained its ordinary activity. All eyes were turned
towards Constantinople, and great alarm was felt
for the result of Prince Monchikors mission. Mr.
Murray. the British Consul-General, who but Shortly
before had returned to Cairo, had received hts
nomination to the post of English Minister
to the Swiss Confederation, and was prepar-
ing to leave Egypt immediately. Mr. Paget was to
replace him. at least for a time. M. Lenand Bey, a
French engineer for many years in the service of the
Viceroy, has been charged to make new surveys of
the Isthmus of Suez. The results which he has ob-
tained confirm, it is said, those made four years ago.
The difference of level between the two seas is not
ten metres, as was at first calculated, but only one,
the lied Sea being by so much higher than the Me-
diterranean.

There is no news from Syria by this arrival, the
French boat having twee delayed.
The following statement is found in letters from
Cairo of the 10th ult. :

A young Moldavian Jewess had fled front the Irmae of a
slave merchant, who thereupon went to the Russian con
solute and claimed her as his property. The business of the
consulate was temporarily managed by the Austrian con-
sul, who thought it his duly to deliver up the young
wninen to the authorittes; but on the road from the consul- ,
house to the prefecture of police, the slave, thanks to the
aid of the European population, who assembled in crowds,
managed to escape, and took refuge in a private house. An
iottlomnal police force was sent for, and the house was
strictly searched, but in vain, for the slave had disappeared
—a circumstance fortunate fur the peace of the town, as
the Europeans were thoroughly exasperated. The young
woman, it has been since ascertained, has taken refuge in
the family of an English clergyman, and it is believed that
the gem:mewl will not countenance any steps for her re-
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