The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-03 00:00:00

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY, 6.50 P.M,
The following quotations from the Constitutionnel
and La Prose will show how far the negotiations
between Piedmont and Austria have been carried.

The question of the amnesty is still the bone of con-
tention. The anetitulionnal says:
We learn from Turin that the counter-project presented to
Piedmont by Austria, in answer to the ultimatum of M. de
Buick, hes not bee. accepted in its entire teuor by the
cabinet of Vienna. The Aunries plenipotentiary had in-
troduced into the negotiation questions of commercial or
political alliance, end the sanction to be given to old secret
stipulations eziktiner between Austria and the duchies of
Parma end Modena. Those divers questions bed been set
aside by the Piedmontre whimatiam, and an egreetorst
seems to have been come to on the point. The arscunt of
indemnity is also agreed on. But the second article of the
&Milano counter-project, in which Piedmont demands a
full amnesty fi r the Lombardi compromised in the regent
revolution., is still the object of grave di.sehlions.
The Conatifutionnel evidently sees a pacific solution
to the question, and such it will doubtless be. Austria
will probably yield on the point. The Prem., how-
ever, puts the affair in a light which would tend to
show Austria ari more determined in the sense of re-
fusing this request of an amnesty. This jcurnal

earif
no *Moot of Turin, after having agreed with that of
Vienna on almost every point,ofter havieg aejeurned the
peeje.i t relative to a customs mien, ably insisted on the
pecuaisry mei mnity and emnesty for the Lombards Vet:ke-
rma, and rolls of the duchies of Parma and
Austria would take the money of Piedmont, but categori-
c lly refined the absolute amnesty, desii log to make eicep-
noes. The Piedmont's* government, in answer to this ob-
stinate resistance. tes stated that it had goes to the oltrelle
lisle of Mee• mien, and could to no tanner. After having
thus resolutely Fiver his decision, Y. d'Aseglio • eet to W.
Bois le Comte, who is French ambassador at Turin, But this
euvey bevel g shown very little impressment, and even •
little hostel ty, DI. d'Aseglio immediately sent a courier to
Paris to oak for the support of the French goy, reliant.
Thu Press@ adds, by. way of c imment, what has
often been repeated in this correspondence:—" M.
Elewitio will tied no more sympathy in Patin than
be has met with from M. Bois le G
The National, on the same subject, says :
ThsJsurtisis of the goverameut labour to show that peen
me bees signed between Austria and Piedmont. These
jamas& deer ive themselves, sad N wall dissipate their ilia-
demi Atter It ng Jimmies' on the very cempliered treaty
preposed by Aurelia, the lest act of the Pitdm ode,. mogu-
-1 Mations was the presentation of a very laconic counter.pra.
jest. This mutter-project strikes out all the trpulations of
such as the etfensive and defames alliance, the cus-
toms 'mice), the clauses relative to the duchies of Parma and
Placentia, &e., and reduces tee whole to two stipulations—
the oae relative to the war indemnity, and the other to
the smut sty. There tb. n remains only two questiens,
ens of money and the other of honour. On the first
quer ern they am agreed. Austria has reducori her pre-
tetelons to 70,000,003 r , which Piedmont consents te
pay. She also reorients to add to it a sum of 5,000,000 fr.
which Auetria shall employ as she nary chit. k lit in privet.
indesinitits. The disenctim of these 5,000,000:r. is a secret
fur im one. They ere di alined to the duchiee of Perna and
' Placentia, which had charged *ultra to negotiate for them.
It is, however, Austria alone who alt have tie employment
of thew 6 000 0001 r. Piedmont etlieielly wi.l r mein a
=r to it, bead will thus preserve rdo o.ity, which
be comprired by a more uirect contessien Anode to the
gem rumen's in question. The question, therefore, of the
amnesty alone remains. This meneety Aurria obstinately
hives, end Pietimosit eonaidem it for her honour to de-
mand. It we are rightly ieformett en this paint the: Sari
dinve goyim:sent will not yield. It has plainly and clearly
laid down the cants kW, and if Its demand be rot acceded
to, it will resign itielifto submit to fort ide invasion.
Some further details era becoming known respect-
leg the bargain about to be struck between the
French government and Meters. Joirhe des Sablars,
Isaac Pereire, liottinguer, and Baring (Bream rs), by
which the company formed of the above gentlemen
would take the Paris and Llous Rahway. and finish
the line from Lyons to Avignon. Must of the follow-
log carditions are, it is end, to be entered into: The
state is to grant a minimum of interest at 4 per cent.
on one million of the capital of 3,00),000, 3 per cent.
being given as interest fur the 2,000,000 allowed to
the state. The funds will be conceded at the average
rate of money taken upon six previous months. One
signature aloha, is said to be wanting, and it is that of
Baring (Brothers).
The Moniker has published the average returns of
the pate of wheat to serve as regulator to the impost
duty : from .his it results that the vice per hectolitre
of French beat wheat during the month of July has
been 16 fr. 21c., whilst on the general average of
wheat of all kind', the price has been 15 fr. 313 c.
The increase on June is there'ore the Flight
amount of 2 centimes. Wheat in England being
at an average of 4s'. 10d. per q"., say 20 fr. per hec-
tolitre, it results that wheat in France is upwards of
tr. 40e. cheaper per hectolitre than in Enteland.
This explaics the considerable exports of wheat for
England that have been going on for some time.
'Cite president of the repuulic has informed the
minister of public instruction that he iutends being
pr: sent at the distribution of prizes at the Sorhoane
on the lelth inst.
The noir inter of public instructice: has just addressed
to the prefects a circular relative to the credit allowed
to augment the salary of primary tea:it:era. The in-
cry Ited ti yof 600 fr. as a minimnm sto be eeeeteed
from the end of the first half-year of 1849. Until them
th aro to be paid at the rare of 600 fr., as at pree'ut.
the great fair at Beaucair- is, it appears, a eery
good one, a good deal of bush C 44 haviog beet done
in all descriptions of articles at adranc. d pricer.
The president of the republic presented several
news at the reception held at the prefecture of
Angers. The following are the names of the pervns
so honoured :—MM. Ouil'ory, senior, preeidee. of the
Industrial Society; Lebsrthe, j -urnemen carpenter;
B rdinier, painter; Boarcier, senior, administrator of
the hog:aces of Angora •, Frogor, stone-cutter ; Dal-
liere, dramatic author; formally in the artillery
of the imperial guard ; and Jabault-Itoyne, back-
binder. At Orleans, decoratiens were given to MM.
Pandelle, mayor of Beaugency ; Albert Merced, sub-
lieutenant of the national guard of Pithiviere, Lally
woutded in June, 1818; Moreau, adjutant of the
27th lice; Henri, sergeant of the same regiment;
and D^meron, brigadier of gendetmie at. Clary.
At Nantes, on the mayor proposing t!-e president's
health at a grand cold collation, Prince Louis replied
in the f Mowing speech :
Oenthimen,—Tee Marry that I have made to come and
see you here will remain deeply graven in my hear, for it
has been fertile in retelnifeauera and hopes. It Is not without
emotion that I hive seen the meat river elv Leret. behind
which t'.elsstelorious battalionsofourerestarmytook refuge ;
nor i. it without emotion that I r upped wish reelect 'we're the
tomb of B mehamps. It is not without emotion that,
seat.'d es lane t,.-day near yea, I find meselvaear tb• statue
of Cimbronue. But there is a glory equally neat in the
'resent day, and that is to appose all civil war and all
foreign war, and toe become great by the peogrenive develop-
ment of our indditry and our trade. See that forest of
mare that 'Anguishes in your harbour. It waits but abusers
to bear to the ends of the world the produce of our civilisation.
Let us be friends—let us forget all ranee nr divenrion—
let as be devoted to order, to the great interest of cur
country, and soon we shall agate be the great nation by
arts, by industry, and by commerce. The toon of Nantes,
which receives ma so well to-day, is greatly interested in
this question, for it is destined by its position is reach the
hi ,hest amount of commercial papery. I drink, there-
fore, to the future prosperity of the town of Nantes.
This speech was followed by load cries of " rive le
President." There was little time to finish the ban-
I epee ; the rain was falling so fast that the president
bad hastily to withdraw, and all the guests then die
persed to comfortable quarters. A bell in the evening
completed the feeivities at Nutter, and every one
that could find a bed withdrew to It. The crowded
hotels furnishing bad accommodation, in the shape of
a 7obake-down on the floor, for sums varying from
30 fr. to 100 fr.
On the ['diming morning the president left
Nantes on his way homewards towards Angers, from
whence he was to take the train for Saunter. He
stopped on his way at the chateau of M. Walsh &-
lent, who gave him an excellent collation, and will,
ro doubt, be as proud of the honour none him as
Lady Margaret Bilenden of receiving Charles 11. at
i:er datjenur at Tillietudlem. On Wednesday the presi-
dential cortige left for Tourv, where it arrived at 10
a.m. The reception of Louis Napoleon was more
enthusiastic at Tours than at any other of the tuwus
through which he pseud. The world-wide known
juvenile c deny of Mettray was visited, u well as the
beauties of the town of Tour.. There we must leave
the president.