The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

the rice consumed in France is Piedmontess. The
average of Sardinian importations by sea was 71 mil-
lions of kilog. before the treaty of 1813; it has risen to 8
millions in the last four years. The aversee of imports
by land was 1,360,000 kilogr., it has become
2,400,000 kilogr. Kid skins constitute a new article.
The importation duty on these is abolished, and
Sardinia has conceded a reduction of the export duty.
This is doubly advantageous for France, which not
only exports the skins made up into gloves but pre-
pared
and bleached. Such are the clauses on the side
of France. On the side of Sardinia, by the treaty of
1843, a reduction of one•flfth had been consented to
on French spirits; and the average importation which
had been from 1842 to 1845, 4,300 hectolitres, rose in
the period from 1816 to 1849 to 7,200 hectolitres.
By the new treaty the duty is lowered from 60fr. to
30fr. per hectolitre for brandies of superior quality,
and from 331 r. to 18fr. for those of interior quality.
For wines the treaty of 1813 had only extended the
duty by sea to the importations by land. Common
; wines worth less than 20f. the hectolitre paid 24f.
duty ; superior wines 151. fixed du'y, plus 43 per
per cent. of the value ; wine in bottles 75 centimes.
Notwithstanding the prohibitive chat acter of these
dates in 1849 the exportation of French wines to
Sudinie amounted to 133,000 hectolitres. The duties'
are reducA by the new treaty to 10f. for common
wines to a fixed duty of 141. for wines of superior
quality, and to 30 centimes for wines in bottle with-
out distincion of flag. The other articles stipulate a
reduction of 30 centimes on raw silk exported by Sar-
dinia, r. reduction to 13f. per kilogramme and 8 per
cent. of the value of the duty on the importation of cb-
je co of fashion, which now amounts to 20f. and 10 per
cent. of the value ; a reduction on porcelain, on paper-
hangings, glass, embroidery, &c.
With regard to navigation the treaty of 1813 had
established reciprocal assimilation to the national flag
without limitation to direct intercourse. By the new
treaty, the national treatment is secured to ships
cooling directly with cargo from he porta of one of
the two states to the other, or without cargo from any
port whatever. This is in conformity with the pro-
visions of French treaties of navigation which
guarantee assimilation to the Rational flag only in the
case of direct intercourse.
Such are the main provisions of this treaty, tho
ratification of which was agreed to by a large ma-
jority.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
M. Yen resigned yesterday his functions as special
commissary of police to the Assembly. His resigna-
tion was accepted in the bureau. In a letter to M.
Duple, tendering his resignatios, M. Yon declares
that notwithstanding the late decision of the bureau
in his favour, he deems it his duty to remove, by his
voluntary retirement, a source of embarrassment to
the Assembly.
The President received last night, on occasion of
the new year, the President and bureau of the As-
sembly. This interview, at which several repre,,en-
tatives were present, and which was expected to
present some incident in consequerce of the recent
decision of the bureau in favour of M. Yon, has given
rise to several contradictory rumours.
The President made, according to the Constitution-
nel, the following answer to the compliments of M.
Dupin
You and I, each in the limits of our attributioas, ought to
endeavour to make respected the laws of the country and
the authority which is given to as by the constitution with-
out the encroachment of one power on the ether. I do not
desire the prolongation of my powers; Mut I desire, whcu I
shall restore to the people the power which I have received
from third, to restore it intact and respected. My ceriviction
is that France desire, peace and order, and would consider
in t lie wrong that power of the two which should first attack
the other.