The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM SICILY.

PARIS, TueADAY, 101 A NI.
Events are hourly developed which render the dis-
sension which prevails within the governmet.t and
the di6Coril between the capital and the provinces, or
at least between that portion of the capital which en-
tertain the sentiments of the Minister of the I Iterior
and the population of the departments, more and more

rant.
The urn has hardly been closed before we are in•
inundated with reports, remonstrances, and protesta-
tions, calculated to destroy all confidence in the
validity or fairness of the eketions.
Intimidation and undue influence are openly im-
puted, not only to the agents of the government, but
to its very members. Voters are menaced by the
pro-cousuls of the Minister of the Interior with
another 20th of August, and with a reproduc-
tion of the horrors of the 2nd September,
if they do not blindly deposit in the urn, unmodified,
the list given to them by those pro-consuls themselves.
One member of the government unscrupulously in-
vades the province and supersedes the functions of
another; provincial authorities, indignant at such dis-
orders, throw up their functions; and, if the spirit of
the population be not of a miraculously pacific cha-
racter, %earthy must ensue. We find the Minister
of the Interior extenning his authority over the de-
partment of the Minister of War.
A letter from Algiers (which province has hitherto
been placed under the Minister of War) says :
A M. Cuput has just landed here, calling himself corn•
milieu, with extraordinary and unlimited powers stated to
have Urea given to him by the Minister of the Interior,
for ail kinds of chanaes, reforms, mutations, &c., in the
germane/ of the civil and military administrations of
Algeria, and to direct the elections. The news was so
unespeeted that at first nobody werild believe it. How,
Indeed, could it be admitted that the Minister if the
tenor could delegate powers of this nature in a country
which is under the immediate orders of the Atini,tir of
War ? The governor-general, it is said, was not less
surprised than the papulation. No orth r of the govern-
ment, no advice from the minister on whom he depends,
had announced to him this strange mission. He saw in
it such a watt nt civility and distrust that he wrote im-
mediately to demand that a successor to him should be
grimed. The director of civil affairs baa come to the
come determination. Everybody is indignant ; every-
bed) ask, it it has been resolved to convulse and ruin
his is a confusion of powers ; it is anarchy.
Upon this the National, of which the chief editor
Ind proprietor is a member of the government, ob-
*nee
We wish we could explain the letter of our correspondent I
insaying that th re WM an error onis side. hut th facts '
stated in too precise a manner fo run to have any doubt
p
on the subject. The government must, therefore, explain
111,11; it must say what ita intentions are as regards Algeria
sad the governor-general. If it has wished to place Algeria
under %h.. orders of the Minister of the Interior, and has not
confidence in General Cavaigmac, it must say so openly and
Madam its motives. It cannot be permitted to remain I
teat.
Preterits continue to appear in the journals, throw-1,
discredit upon the elections. Those officially charged
with their management continue to be accused of
abuses, which would utterly falsify the reterus, and
render the assembly a mockery. Letters appeared
in the journals, both yesterday and to-day, bearing
filenames and addresses of their writers, and establish-
itg beyond all ques.ion the reality of the abuses.
Advices arrive daily from the provinces, some de-
tails of which we give in another column, which in-
dicate the same writ of disorder and resistance to the
governmental authorities as we have hitherto reported.
The decree which I announced to you yesterday for
Pe appropriation of the railways in actual operation
2.y. the state, has not yet appeared in the Moniteur.
The reason of this delay is, that the government waits
until a decision is made respecting the unfinished
lines
I The' decisiona respecting the lines in operation,which
announced.... to you yc iterday morning, became
Partly known at the Bourse yesterday, and, as such