The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1853.

The following new senators are made to-day
General Count de Flahault, the Marquis de Pastoret,
General Count de Grouchy, General de Laplace, M.
Magna Minister of Public Works; the Marquis de
Larochejaquelin ex-deputy ; General Hendon,
Goveroor-General of Aliens; General Rostolan,
Count de Las-Cases, ex-deputy ; Count Achille Dela-
marre, Count de Villeneuve de Chenonceaux, General
Andre, General Gemeau, M. Delangle, first president
of the Imperial Coat of Paris ; General Letang, the
Duke de Mouchy, deputy of the Legislative Body ;
General Le Pays de Bourjolly, Count Flail° de Per-
signy, Minister of the Interior ; M. Joachim Clary,
General Foucher, General Vaudrey, M. Maillard, ex
president de section of the Council of State ; General
Gues-Viller, General Cniut Roguet, Vice-Admiral
Bergeret, M. Desmssieres, ex-first-president at
Angers; M. Cayenne, vice-president of the Council-
General of the Ponts-et-Chaussees ; Vice-Admiral
Cecile, ex-deputy ; General Korte, General Charroo,
Count de Barral, General Count Bonet, Prince Lucien
Bonaparte, Baron de Bourgoing, ex-ambassador; the
Duke do Baasano, Count Teacher de la Pagerie, and
first-president of the Court of Account&

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Dec. 30.
By the convention for the pacification of Schleswig-
Holstein, the crown of Denmark engaged itself to the
German commissioners to pension the invalid and
discharged officers of the Schleswig-Holstein army.
' Instead of fulfilling this engagement, however, the
Danish government now flatly repudiates the claim,
asserting that no favour can be shown to participators
in a revolutionary war. Now this reproach equally
touches the German states and princes who
took part in that war; wherefore the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, having secured the support
Bavaria and some other confederates, has presented
to the Frankfort Diet, on behalf of the said offieers,
a memorial, which was discussed last Thursday. The
Cologne Gazelle entertains hopes that the Diet will
unanimously accede to the motion made, namely,
that measures be taken for inducing Denmark
to fulfil its engagements, expressly entered
I into with the Germanic Confederation. We should
be vastly surprised, however, if the Diet took a step
so little in keeping with its habitual conduct.
The Prussian government has addressed a cir-
cular to its diplomatic agents, notifying that it will
adhere firmly to the basis of its commercial policy,
which will not be altered by the negociations
for a treaty of commerce with Austria. The Prussian
government has, however, evidently no principle of
commercial policy at all; nor can the questions of
mere form, for which it first stickled, and afterwards
quibbled away, be called a " basis." This want
of a fixed principle of political economy has made it
so afraid of facing the tariff question, that while it
seemed ready to stake the whole existence of the Zoll-
verein on mere diplomatic hitches, it conceded the
main question to the southern protectionists, and was
willing to re-iinpoie on itself, for a further term of
twelve years, a system of protective duties, every at-
tempt to reduce which must be henceforth as hope-
less as it has hitherto proved fruitless is face of
the veto which any member of the union can
put in. There is now every appearance that
Prussia will re-enter the Zollverein, with the acces-
sion of the Steurvereiti, under the old protection
tariff, no mitigation of which can be expected
unless determined on by the coalitionists at Austria's
command. Austria will, therefore, in fact, direct
the commercial policy of the Zollverein, including
Prussia, and it will direct it in such manner that the
incorporation of the Zollverein into a general
Austro-Gertuanic union shall, at no distant period,
become inevitable.

The annual account of the Paris savings bank was
published last night, the system of accounts there
acted upon permitting the balance to be struck to
the end of the year, on the 31st day of
December. This system is for the future to
be adopted in all the country savings banks. The
Paris establishment received in 1852, Ist, the sum
of 33,703,578 f. 19c. from 265,263 depositors, of
whom 40,599 were new. 2ndly, 424,085 E 55e. from
908 transfers of receipts from the savings' banks in
the departments. And 3rdly, 178,463 f. 78c. in ar-
rears of Remo belonging
i to depositors and remain-
ders of conversion. It, n addition, capitalised for
depositors interest amounting to 1,579,608 E 92c.
Per contra, it reimbursed, Ist, a sum of
19,650,368 E 33c. in 70,744 payments, of which
10,180 were to close accounts; 2ndly, 395,707 f. 52c.
in transfers to the establishments in the depart-
ments ; and, 3rdly, 3,821,2511. in purchasing
170,485 f. of Itente for 6,002 depositors. On
the 31st of December, 1852, it owed the sum
of 51,816,037 E 34c. to 194.954 depositors.
The repayments in 1851 and in 1852 were
nearly the same, being :9,048,957f. 1 le. in the
former, and 19,650,368 f. 33c. in the latter. But the
deposits present a great difference, being:in 1851,
25,303,434 E, and in 1852, 33,703,575 f., or 8,398,144 E
more. The number of deposits, which in 1851
amounted to 205,751, was in 1852, 265,263, or 59,512
more ; and the number of accounts opened, which in
1851 had been 26,516, amounted in 1852 to 40,699,
or 14,083 more. Finally, the number of depositors
at the end of the year was 194,954, in place of
175,997, being an increase of 18,937. It has been
remarked, however, upon a close inspection of the
accourts, that the sums drawn out within the last
two montils of the year have considerably exceeded
the deposits. This fact is attributed to the prevalent
mania for speculation which has reached the very
Pooh gimes.
There is one striking exception to the almost uni-
versal holiday-making to-day. The clerks in the
post-office and the letter-carriers are doing double
duty. The post-office has undertaken to deliver
visiting cards for one sous each in Paris, and for two
sons in any part of France. The cards are required
to be posted in open envelopes, which will be sealed
before delivery. Immense numbers have already
taken advantage of this new regulation. In Paris it
is absolutely necessary to pay a new year's visit to
every acquaintance that you do not wish to drop.
The art of visiting is now " made easy," but whether
the delivery of cards with a post-office stamp and a
coarse wafer will be accepted comme faut remains
to be seen.

From Berlin, the correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette writes, on the 28th ult., that a despatch was
sent on the previous evening to Count Hatzfeldt, at
Paris, directing him to present his credentials to Louis
Napoleon, Emperor, as soon as an imperial ambas-
sador to the court of Berlin should be appointed. The
Russian note was said also to be on its way to Paris.
The recognitions would not be collective.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, Dic. 30.

Madame Kossuth, the venerable mother of the
Hungarian patriot, was buried last night in the Pro-
testant cemetery. The funeral was appointed to.
take place at 2 o'clock, and a number of persons,
chiefly refugees, assembled in front of the house in
which she died. About half-past 2 o'clock it was re-
ported in the crowd that the police had threatened
the sisters of Kossuth with expulsion from Belgium,
in the event of the funeral being made a " demoa-
stration." As a matter of prudence, the great majo,
rity of the persous assembled withdrew, severely
censuring the conduct of the police. The modest
funeral procession left the residence of the deceased
about half-past five ; on reaching the cemetery the
usual prayers were recited by the officiating Protest-
ant clergyman, a German of the Lutheran creed.
This day, the police authorities deny that they ad-
dressed any menace of the kind above mentioned
to Kossuth's surviving relatives. Be that as it may,
it is certain that the appointed hour for the funeral
was changed, and that that change was not the re-
sult of a wish expressed on the part of Madame
Kosauth's daughters. The affair has excited much
unpleasant feeling, and it is to be hoped that the
police authorities will free themselves from the ob-
loquy at present cast on them.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

A private letter from Turin, dated the 28th ult.,
says :—" The ministers have prepared a new evil
Marriages Bill, which they will present at the com-
mencement of the next session, after creating eight
or ten senators. The muse of the recent withdrawal
of a similar measure from the legislature after
it had been passed in the Chamber of Deputies,
was the effect produced by the publication of the
Pope's letter to King Victor Emanuel. This effect
was so great that the senators who are most nearly
connected with the government, by position and
opinion, absented themselves from the division.
Amongst such were Count Pollone, director-general
of ports, and an intimate friend of Count Cavour ;
M. Denim, who since his return from Paris
has filled several important posts ; M. Plana, M.
Marioni, and other great functionaries."