The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-30 00:00:00

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The Paris journals and our correspondence of Mon. I
day have arrived. The Minister of the Interior having
disavowed all knowledge of the bribe of 4,0001.
alleged to have been given for obtaining the license
for the new opera-hone, M. Thibandeau, one of the
parties concerned, has published a letter to M. Du-
chitel, the minister who made the disavowal.
A telegraphic despatch, received in Paris on Sun-
day evening, armoured that disturbances, the
alleged cause of which is the dearnees of bread, had
brokeu out at Mulhaueen, where the interference of
the military was resorted to. The shops of several
bakers and wine-sellers were pillaged. The colonel
of the lath Light Infantry, who commanded the
troops called out, was assailed by the mob, and, it is
said, wounded in the face. Tho troops fired on the
populace, three or four of whom were killed.

BERLIN, JrNr. 26.

The first session of the combined estates of Prussia
will terminate to-morrow. Your readers are aware
that both chambers petitioned the King to dispense
with their appointing a standing committee, and to
assent to certain modifications of the constituent
ordinance of 3rd February. On the afternoon of
yesterday a royal message, a hasty translation of
which 1 subioin, was forwarded to the estates, the
effect of which was, to induce all the provinces to
elect deputies to the standing committee, the dela-
pies of the towns of the Rhine province alone refus-
ing to concur.
We, Frederick William, &c. &c., to our faithful estates in
the first diet assembled, preeting.—The petition of the 23ed
inst., which we have received, respecting the modification of
the letter patent and of the ordonnances of the 3rd of
February, has made us acquainted with the doubts raised in
the minds of our faithful estates by the contents of the ninth
section of the ordonnance on the convocation of the general
I diet. In order to remove those doubts, we hereby
declare that, with reference to the right of co-operation
granted by the law of June 5, 1823, the law of Feb. 3 not
only refrains from any restrictive measures, but that, on the
walmity, it renders that right applicable to all the general
laws and to all the ordonnances concerning changes in taxa-
tion. That right has been granted by the law of Feb. 3
to the united diet and to the committees, so far as they do
not militate on that point against the attributes of the
provincial diets. The proof will be found in the 12th section
sttheordonnance on the formation of the united diet, and the
3rd artfale of the ordonnance on the convocation of the coin.
mittens (Ausschiisse) ; the said 9th section of the ordonnance
does not contain, therefore, in say way, the least diminution
of the rights of the estates, bat, on the contrary, it gives
them a greater extension. With respect to the anxiety of
one estate regarding the alleged diminution of their rights
by that portion of the 9th ordonnance, which, it is said, does
not extend to them the same privileges with reference to in-
direct taxation and the national demesnes which are granted
with regard to direct taxation, we are desirous of removing
that anxiety also by declaring that, when we made that
arrangement, we had no idea of introducing any changes in
the laws and in the relations which prevail with respect to
the demesnes and indirect taxes—laws which are not altered
in any way by the ordonnance of Feb. 3. With regard to
the required changes in our law of Feb. 3, we have already
made known to our faithful estates in our opening speech,
and in our reply to the address, that we shall be only guided
by riper experience in proceeding to the further
development of this new constitutional work,—a work
which we have ourselves seen is capable of ame-
lioration. Faithful to that resolution, and mindful
of our assertion that we should gladly convoke the
united diet more frequently, we shall take into serious con-
sideration the expressed wishes of our faithful estates regard-
ing the periodical convocation of the diet, and the limitation
of the rights of the permanent committee, reserving to our-
selves to keep the resolution on that subject secret until the
ordonnancos of the 3rd of February have been fully carried
into execution. We have been requested by our faithful
estates, in their petition of the 23rd inst., " To dispense with
the nomination of the committees of the estates until we have
announced our resolution with respect to the preceding
questions." We shall observe, in reply, that the request re-
lative to the committee, and to the changes which our faith-
ful estates are desirous of introducing into the previsions
regulating the organisation and the efficiency of that com-
mittee, has not reached us. With regard to the wish of our
faithful estates not to nominate the committee, we cannot
comply with it, solely because we intend to submit to that
committee a project of law oa the criminal code, a question
on which the provincial estates have already expressed their
opinions, and for the discussion of which we shall shortly
assemble the committee. We therefore invite our faithful
estates to proceed to the election of the committee, under the
direction of their respective marshals.

ROME, JUNE 18.
While you are celebrating the victory of Waterloo,
we have been engaged here in commemorating the
anniversary of last year's amnesty, the first act of our
new sovereign, who then struck the key-note of his
glorious reign. One would think that we ought to be,
133, this time, tired of festos, ovations, and public re-
joicings; but we have no sooner hailed one great
achievement of Pius, than we are impelled to cele-
brate another and another: " still they come," and
we must again " hang out the banner on the castle
walls." One thousand crowns prize was offered for
the best ode on the great exploits of the Grand Conde,
in his youthful dalliance with victory. It was
awarded to a poet from Gascony, for the follow-
ing lines :
Pour Water taut de rertua.
Tant de hauls faits et tent de slob*,
Kills fens:—parbleo! salts eras
Oe meet pas on ssu par riotous!
Such is oar case. We are exhausted in our means
of testifying fit appreciation—bankrupts in gratitude.
We made an effort yesterday: 1,500 musical ama-
teurs, and it is easy to get together that number here,
all more or law vocalists, put themselves in training
beforehand, and executed under the balcony of the
Quirinal a monster anthem in honour of the great
deliverer. The standard brought hither from Bo-
logna was plucked from the Capitol and placed
in the van of a gorgeous processional march ;
thence to the baths of Diocletian, and is those gigan-
tic halls which the genius of Buonerotti has restored
to more than Roman grandeur, the anthem was
reamed and shook the vaulted roofs of the imperial
structure. Vespers were sung by a whole population
in a way that would have astonished the old Pagan
persecutor. In the evening the illumination was a
truly wonderful affair: not a lane or alley that was
not radiant; but the Jews outshone us all. Their
Ghetto being an obscure hole, embosomed in desola-
tion, and almost under the bed of the Tiber, afforded
a grand opportunity for a scientific exhibition of
chiaroscuro. Rembrandt and Gherardo dells notti
were cast into the shade by Hebrew ingenuity
on this occasion. The effect of a lanthom on
a pole, draped in an old blanket, and stuck up
in a lone churchyard, is known to most coun-
try gentlemen. Equally sublime and terrific was the
glare in the Ghetto. A fish hung against the wall of a
dark room sometimes grows awfully phosphorescent,
and the race of Abraham could well afford to shine
out on this occasion, immense sums having found their
way into Israel's pockets for the purchase of old
tapestry to line the exterior of palaces, and hang from
balconies, on the passage of the procession. This
trade has been enormous for the last year, and there is
not an old rag of embroidered silk or arras to be had
now in that once celebrated emporium—a hint to
Holy well-street.
I told you lately how Pius refused to deliver up
Marquis Dragonetti to the tender mercies of his most
lazzaronic majesty ; but I am sorry to be obliged to
add that this Neapolitan nobleman has been going on
a little too fast here for our lees enuthern latitude, and
the consequence has been a message from the
Pope a few days ago, giving him a caution, and con-
veying to him the query, whether it was good taste in
him, a stranger, to attempt so prominent a part in the
management of public matters at Rome ? The hint
has operated like magic, and Dragonetti has given up
the torch of incendiary politics for the calm cigar of
coutemplative repose.
It will be news for your Roman catholic readers
in Scotland, in which thrifty kingdom your paper is
understood to reign paramount, that Bishop Murdoch
of Glasgow has got for coadjutor bishop, yesterday,
Rev. Mr. Smith, of Airdrie—his bolls are on the road.
Overbech has just executed one of those graceful
, and touching little outline drawings in which his
real genius is conspicuous, and his present effort will
be shortly known extensively in Edinburgh. Bishop
Gillies, who is personally a most amiable and
kindly man, fall of zeal for bettering the operative
classes, has founded, it appears, a sort of holy
guild in modern Athens, and prizes are given Co
those of the brotherhood who excel in " thrift and
cleanliness." Overbech was asked by the patriotic
prelate to furnish the design for a medal to be dis-
tributed on these occasions, and I have seen the result.
It is the holy dwelling at Nazareth displaying a
, modest but neat interior ; Mary is at her distaff on
the right, Joseph plying his axe on the left, and the
mysterious young iadweller among men is humbly
engaged sweeping the chips of wood from the earthen
floor with simple dignity. The general effect is har-
monious and beautiful.
Young Dan and his reverend companion have had