The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

lane, 1846 ; 2nd, the ukase buffet *I .71L /oast ark Ia
ordonnanoe addressed ky the Prisoe-troyernor to the differ-
ent civil governor, enjoining them to publish the Imperial
ukase in every district within a given time fixed by the
Minister of the Interior, by persons worthy of the confidenn
of the government. It is their duty to make the peasants
fully understand the intentions of the government: they are
to inform them that the Emperor has expressly forbidden
the land-owners to expel them in an arbitrary manner front
their domains, but on the sole condition that they ME their
obligations. Those who do not are not to count on the clemency
of the government but will be expelled from the land at
once. As regards the suppression of the cornes and tithes,
the ukase only alludes to such as are not legal, and the pea-
sants are to be made to understand that they have not the
right of deciding on the question. The authorities are to
recommend them not to listen to interested insionsvions, bat
to await the decision of the government, which watches with
paternal solicitude over their privileges, and will decide what
ems Into be suppressed. Entire submission to the order
of tie government will convince it that the peasants are
worthy of the favours accorded them by his Majesty. The
government is firmly resolved to pronoun all such as offer
resistance to their landlords, or to the authorities, or who
excite others to disobedience, as the government will not
tolerate any illegal act. This ordonnance is signed by Prinoe
Psakewitch.
SWITZERLAND. CESSION OF TERRITORY.
ZURICH, Seer. 10.—This day (10th) the Swiss Diet was
occupied with the affair of Appenthal. The president de-
clared that the report current among the public that Appen-
thel was to be added to France, was void of foundation. The
is one league and a-half in leneth,sand one league in
breadth,li with two or three hundred inhabitants, ands of
great importance in a military point of view. The deputy of
the Canton de Vaud stated that the inhabitants considered
themselves as Swiss, and proved by documents that the valley
formed part of the confederation. He said that the conduct
of France was not very honourable, and demanded that the
matter should be laid before the Vorort, as it was important
for it to be made public that the confederation did not intend
renouncing any of its rights. The proposition was unani-
mously adopted.
ITALY.—DISTURAANCF-i AT FAENZA.—Rome, 29th
Aro.—Great excitement still prevails at Finest. Some
persons cried out, " Death to Pius 1X.," in the streets.
POPULAR DEMONSTRATION AT ANCONA.
FLORENCE, Sept. 3.—According to:news received, which, if
correct, is not without importance, the population of Ancona
is said to have assembled a short time since on the square
before the palace of the delegate of the province, and pre-
sented him an address by deputation, demanding—first, the
permisidon to erect a monument to Pius IX. ; second, a con-
vocation of new provincial councils, which would efficiently
represent the wishes and wants of the provinces, and en-
dowed with the power of proposing the necessary measures
for the welfare of the people. The news of this popular
demons'ration soon spread through the different legations,
and caused a great sensation. It has been remarked with
pleasure that the censorship at Bologna has greatly dimi-
nishs d. The daily journals of that town, Le Strode Ferrate,
the Tarfolln, II I'onero, and especially the Teuineo, contain
articles in the spirit of reform.
ASSASSINATION OF A REVENUE OFFICER AT

BOLOONA.—A letter from Bologna states, that the San-
fedisti have been guilty of a horrible assassination. A
revenue officer having refused to participate in their machi-
nations against Pius IX., fell a victim to his devotion. As
he had expressed his intention of going to Rome, fearing
lest he should inform against them, they shot him. The
crime was scarcely perpetrated when the sanfedisti, who
were anxiously awaiting the result in the streets of Faenza,
began to cry out, "Behold the fruits of the amnesty ! "
Happily the victim of this cowardly act bad still life enough
left before expiring to denounce his murderers, and the
motives of their act. They wished to impute the act to the
effects of the amnesty. His statement was taken down, and
sworn to by seventeen witnesses. The whole population of
Faience, without distinction, followed the murdered man to
his grave ; the funeral was on a magnificent scale. Public
opinion also points out the sanfedisti as the murderers of the
Swim Colonel who was assassinated on the public square of
For:i a few days previous to the above-mentioned murder
RUSSIA.—The Journal dea Debits gives the fol-
lowing, on the authorityof the St. l'etersburgh Journal, in a
letter dated Kislovodak, Aug. 17 Since our last accounts
the enemy has made no decisive movements. On the line of
the Sownja a party of 300 horsemen and a body of infantry
attempted a coup de main on the poet of Troitsk, but the
mountaineers were repulsed with great loss. In southern
Daghestan, an assemblage of the enemy was made on the
frontier of the province of Djaro-Belokung, but a movement
by the commanding officer with a body of troops compelled
the enemy to disperse and renounce any offensive operations,
if such had been their object. The powder magazine at the
fort of Evgeneevsk, on the Soulak, was struck by lightning,
on the 16th July, and blown up. The enemy advanced from
all sides, in the hope that in the confusion caused by the
accident they might be able to gain possession of the fort.
The mountaineers brought down three pieces of artillery,
which they got to bear on the tile du pont, which was at the
same time attacked by the inhabitants of the Tillage ; but
General Prince Bebontoof, having forseen what would take
place, had adopted measures accordingly, by which the
mountaineers were vigorously repulsed. Accounts have bees
also received of some successes obtainel against Dainee Bek."

AMERICA.—We extract the following paragraphs
from the papers received by the Caledonia:—
THE MORMONS.—There is every prospect of fur-
ther difficulties between the Mormons and the anti-Mormons
in Hancock county. The Antics are reported to be organ-
ising a large party in the vicinity of Green Plain', about six
miles back of Warsaw. They have also taken out writs for
a number of Mormons who are in and about Nauvoo. The
attempt to serve these write will, we !suppose, be the signal
for attack. The large Mormon vote cast in Nauvoo at the
last election, has convinced the anti-Mormons that there ire
more Mormons in and about Nauvoo than was previously
represented. These they will endeavour to drive out of the
country. The Mormons, or rather the cit'zens of Nauvoo,
are anticipating an attack, and are organising the citizens
into armed companies, and preparing for resetance. The
time in which the Mormons stipulated to leave the state
having expired, and there being but few, if any, leaving at
this time, the matter will soon be brought to an isaue.—St.
Louis Repub.
LETTERB OF MARQUE.—We see it steed in La
Petrie, of yesterday, than Don F. Arrangoiz, Mexican Con-
sul at Havana, has written to the acting consul of this city,
ordering letters of marque to be issued hero. We have since
learned through a person late from Havana, that by the
packet ship which wale se lent for New York on the same
day that the P. Soulsrleft for this port, similar orders from
the Mexican governittiit had been forwarded to Don Juan
de la Cinuaja, consul-genital in New York. Our contempo-
rary says he hopes that the government of Louisiana will be
on the gui vise, in order to prevent the arming of privateers
here. The Patria says Senor Arrangoiz, the Mexican con-
sul at Havana, had 'literal applications for commissions
against American commerce in the interval between the
arrival of the Dee and the sailing of the P. Soule. Mexico
had been very considerate in deferring to issue letters of
marque till the gulf is pretty well stocked with American
cruisers.—N. 0. Delta, Aug. 21.
INDIAN MASSACRE.—A letter from Fort Washita,
July 28, says thirty persons left Fort Smith three weeks pre-
vious, for California, and • report had come in from the
prairies that they had all been murdered by the Camanche
Indians.

EARTTIQVAKE.—About five minutes before five
o'clock yeatetday morning, there was an earthquake, which
was very sensibly felt in this city and the vicinity, and
accompanied by the usual rumbling noise. The shock was
sufficient to cause the rattling of doors and window shutters,
and to render the o-cillation of the walls of houses distinctly
, visible. The motion seemed to proceed in a direction from
north-west to south-east, and lasted several seconds. We
hear of the shock at Springfield, at the same instant, where
it is said to have been of llonger duration than could have
been produced by a cannon, or the explosion of a powder
mill. At Worcester, bells were rang in houses. Braintree,
Dedham, Concord, and various intermediate places felt the
shock. At Newbury-port the time is fixed at five o'clock.
At Jamaica Plains, a chimney was shaken down. A writer
from Beverly says " it sounded as though a dozen railroad
trains were passing over my house." The Traveller says
the magnetic intensity at the observatory at Cambridge
was greatly disturbed by the shock. The vibrations
appeared to be in a direction north and south, and to
have continued for a second or two. We shall look with in-
terest for news from South America, which will probably
bring us the intelligence of a severe earthquake in that sec-
tion of the world, the effect of which we have slightly felt.
Some early risers assert that there was a slight shock felt in
this vicinity about half-past four. From all the late accounts
which we hear, we opine that the great shock was felt gene-
rally throughout New England. The Northern Lights were
brilliant on Monday night till after twelve o'clock.—Boston
Courier, 26 Aug.
PROBABLE ,SCB-MARLNE VOLCANO.—The ship He-
lena, on her late passage from Batavia to Canton, when in
latitude 16 N., lon. 125 E., fell in with immense fields of
floating pumice stones, apparently not having been long
erupted, as samples that were picked up were perfectly clear
of slime or grass, which would not have been the case had it
been long afloat. Many pieces were as large as a common
bucket The nearest land to windward was the Efarisumes
or Ladrone Islands, about one thousand miles off. It seems
impossible that it could lure come from thence, nor could it
have come from Laconia, dead to windward.
AN ELEPHANT'S Domos.—We learn by a gentle-
man of the city, who was at Lockport on Saturday, that at
noon of that day an elephant belonging to a menagerie
exhibiting there, walked out of his tent toward a span of
horses attached to a waggon some twenty rods off. The
horses took fright as the huge beast approached them, broke
loose, and ran a few rods to an angle of a fence' the ele•
phant followed, capsized the waggon, and threw the horses
some two rods over the fence. One of the horses rose with
several broken ribs, and managed to escape his assailant,
i which fell upon the other with hie tusks, tore out his entrails,
and continued to toss him along the fence some ten rods or
more. At this time the keeper, who was at dinner when
the elephant escaped from the tent, came up, and called the
animal by name. The elephant immediately obeyed the
word, and followed the keeper to an orchard about a hun-
dred rods off, where he was secured by strong chains made
fast to the trunk of a full-grown tree. Just as our informant
left in the afternoons, he heard that the elephant had up-
rooted the tree to which ia was fastened, and had injtireda
man; but learned no particulars. The rags of the elephse
it is said, wag timed by some tobacco concealed in the f
that lame of the biltanders offered to him. People cannot
he too cautious how they trifle in witch a way with an ele-
phant.—Buffalo Commercial.
ATTEMPTED PIRACY AND MURDER.—On the 20th
of June the Governor of Porto Rico despatched to St.
110111111, a man-of-war acheenerrfor, the purpose of convey-
ing to sc. Joan a party of his friends to spend the holidays
of the fcliC of Bt. John, and for the better safety of the