The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-01 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA.

The Pacific' mail steam chip John L. Stephen'',
Robert H. Pearson, Esq., Commander, left San Fran-
cisco, March 20, with the United States mails, 500
rneengers, and 1,441,254 47-1000 dole. treasure
destined for New York, and 389,290.3 dots. destined
for Europe, on freight.
The Alta Calrfornia, in its summary of news, says:
A large clipper fleet has entered our harbour during this
put fortnight, bringing as immense sti.ck of goads to an
oventocked market. Among these is the clipper ship
Antelope, Captain Co'n, in 97 duo from New York, and
the barque Greenfield, eapunn Folienabic. in 111 days from
Litt rp the former the quickest passage in 12 months;
and the latter the quickest trip on record between Calor-
' Ws and England.

COUNT WALEWSKTS SPEECH IN THE CON-

ORRSS.

We have happily got rid of the Holy Alliance, but
Count Waleweki seems disposed to revive the absolutist
Propaganda of 1816, and to insist that t'is neighbours of
France shall adopt an Owlet° government, as the only war
rents* they can give that they will not interfere, by writing,
Ay speech, or by RC' it a, with the cantles institutionof
Franee. If the great Powers will only jolt' Count Walewskf
in his denunciations, they will, be thinks, so strengtheo the
bands of the Belgian Government that it will be able to
enweirie the required inficence over the press. In other
words, the French Minister solicits the Members of the Con-
ference to enter into a ennade against a free mess and lib,-
rel institutions, and thus to give in Belgium the victory
to the friends of reaction and priestly domiaation.
The war is over, but Count Walenski invites us
to a new crusade, to hunt done and root out whatever has
been left on the Continent of indiv.dual liberty and public
freedom, and to avail ounrlves of the reunion of monarchs
to curtail the rights and privileges of pa, ples. As we
happen to live in a hod which has not yet been subjected
to tars corrective disoipline, where he nation still counts for
something, cad the gAvernmi at, though strong, is neither
omoirciant nor übiquitous; where man is neither
trained to submit to degrading compliances nor
to measure hii speech and writings by the pattern
prescribed to him irnn shove, we venture respect-
fully to dissent from the doctrine laid down by Count Wa.
lewski as to the duty i f sovereigns to coerce the Belgian
maims, in order that by such coercion they may silence the
Belgian prise. There is but little liberty anywhere ; let or,
at any rate, respect that remnant of a stormy past—that
hope of a happier future I If the Belgiso press tuned the
bounds of legitimate et Vciam, the tribunals of the country
are as open to the Emperor of the French as to the
meanest antject ; end, if tt at jute. contact from any cause
be obtained, it is far better tbst time inconvenience should
be felt then that the sword should be drawn against a feeble
state, unable to resist, and yet ashamed to submit to
the dictation of its powerful neighbour. • • •
A government founded on public opinion needs no eneh
means to support it; a government founded en violence
should seek u soon se possible to emancipate null from
the odious necessity of supporting one violent act by
another. We have terminated one crusade against a
power fall of ambition and vio.ence ; let us not comment*
another against men whose offence is that they are too free
for the repo» of their neighbours, and t o much devoted
to law to (Omit to its arbitrary curtailmeet.— Tame,.

"It is stated that the future representative of the
Emperor Aleaander at the court of France," says a Berlin
terer, " will be Prince Dolgorouky, now Minister of War,
and who will arrive in Path about t►e litter end of May."

A correspondent at Konigsberg writes that instead
of the English and French vessels of war which have visited
the roads of Memel for the last two yeses, the ishabitants om
the 23rd tilt. were greeted with a salute from a steam.fri-
gate which mine into the poet under a Russian flag.
A letter from Moscow, in the Constittaionnet
states that the dearness cf all sr:icles in that e.ty, a antici.
patios of the corcinat,oo, will p eeeee e persons not eujoy-
ing large fortunes from 'eking p,et in it. Thus, a carriage
and pair already met 6.000 fr the month, and a small IMMO
of four rsoms 12,0001 r. for the duration of the lite..
The Dresden Journal eays:—" The King of Pnimeis
arrived here last evening at tight o'clock. The Kiss of
Simony went to meet him at the station of Rodman, when
the Prussian minister, Count de Redern, had likewise re-
paired. The public buildings were illuminated fa the
'Teeing with pyramids of gas."
_ . .

The Madrid Gazette poblubes the following into-
graph Inter, addressed by the Queen to the Duke de la
Vittoria:—" Rapartero—R r into Castile and Aragon, pre-
side is my royal name at the inauguration of the
waits of the Northern and Saragossa Railways, and
make known to the Castilians and Angonsse the ardent
w:stess which I form for the aggrandisement sad futons
prosperity of the loyal population who are beloved by their
Quese.—lsaimm.a.—Palate of Madrid, 23rd April."

The fine picture of Mademoiselle Rosa Routine,
" the Horse Fair," which treated so mach sonsation a few
smiths aro Is the artistic world of the metropol s, is now on
view at the Amnion Mort.

M. Ducornet, a French artist, who, being without
bands, painted with his feet, end whole pieterts were often
*statue at the Lover*, haajust died at Paris.
"We learn," says the Courrier de rEure. "that
the Minister of Public Works ho just conceded to the
Western Railway Compsny the sewed line tens Pavia to
Roses by the heights (Argenteuil to Pont de Cheats by
Oisors). The works ors to cunmence to the month ef
Joss."
THE Bonen Dolts—A letter from Berlin in the
Bows* Gloat. of Vienna 'aye :—" The ',weasel awls by
Engles& to htiliee the Sound does, and to aatingaisi the
wall al by Lgel Ipajseate,will not be accepted by Des-
rank, wide\ heie eildrwesd a distils, to that offset to its
misses at ibefisolgasosve it t- redid in the gsestios. The
stets, bordering ea the Bade hese not yet replied to the
propose! cif Inglead. Tee negotiations which bad con-
stesood at Cepeakeem, and were interrupted la Marti
brit, win robots be rssamstl."