The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

MARSEILLES, Arse. 26.
The Indian mail arrived here this evening at 8
o'clock.

FRANCE.

PARIS. MoNDAT EVINIIIO.
Despatches from Constantinople of the 15th ult.
state that the negotiations in progress there promise
a peaceful issue, the reserve with which the recent
despatches via Trieste were received on this side,
being thus fully justified.
A telegraphic despatch announces that the dis-
turbances at Fribourg had been completely appeased.
The Moniker says : " Telegraphic accounts from
Constantinople to the 14th announce that perfect
tranquillity reigned in that capital.' It is fairly to
be inferred, after the note throwing discredit upon
former telegraphic accounts from the East, that go.
vernment guarantees the correctness of this one. It
had a very good effect at the Bourse.
The Dakits, in an article on the affairs of Austria
and Piedmont, publishes the text, which I have not
seen elsewhere, of an insolent passage in the last
diplomatic note of M. Buol-Schauenstein which pro.
vol.ed the withdrawal of M. de Revel from Vienna,
and the spirited memorandum of the Sardinian go-
vernment. It runs as follows :

Sisca Weir naturalisation in Sardinia, as before, the
Lombard emigrants have never ceased for a single day to
conspire against the government of their original country.
and to encourage plots and machinations ;got up against
her. It is for these purposes that they have employed the
large revenues of the domains they possess in Lombardy.
And, after this, astonishment is expressed that the Austrian
government takes precaution asthma the recurrence
of such abeam, and that it retains sums of money des-
tin to
Bed perdue. umand munitions of elm M. de
Baal repeats that the eutgrusts are justly inspected by
Austria. He alines that unmans, pee th mad against
them. end that se doubt cut ha aseeelaimei of the pealeund
empathy nourished by them he asthma of the eriminal
=swhisk led to the bloody seises at Milan. M. de
et ye farther that the liatiiishe government has ad-
mitted itself to be iesseapeteat conspiracies, on ao-
smut of the eetraitatiftel imsYleYwewpoemmed by Pied-
mont. institutions whisk them who govern that country
deeply lament, as they have Amu on many oecasiou.
This last phrase it is which it most particularly
affronted the Ring of Sardinia.
M. Poirot made a speech yesterday at the annual
meeting of the Society for the Encouragement of
Primary Instruction among Protestants in France.
It was a warm exhortation to a religious life as the
only hope of salvation for France, and in his eluci-
dation of this theme he by no means insisted that pro-
testantism, his own religion, was exclusively in his
view. The only part of his speech having a political
bearing consisted of a few words. He said that to
obtain peace resort had been had to the destruction
of liberty, but this was an expedient that
would soon wear out. Liberty, and especially reli-
gious liberty, he proclaimed to be one of the perma-
nent necessaries of the age.
A :new play, called "Outman," is announced at
' the Odeon, but as the hero is en ancestor of the
Empress, it will be read at the Tuileries before
being brought out.
The nm-re publishes a letter from the Honour-
able and Reverend Richard Spencer (Father Igna-
tius), stating that he is making great progress in the
conversion of England to the Roman Catholic faith,
which he considers a highly practical obect. He
has obtained from Rome very extensive indulgenciee
for all persons co-operating by prayer or otherwise
in thin work. He asks the French bishops for their
aid, and will be very happy to write in the Univers
his views as to the way in which they may be useful.
The Bishop of Lucon has launched a censure
against a work called " Petit Manuel de l'Administra-
tion pour lee Affaires du cake Catholique," written by
M. Blanc, a gentleman holding au important post at
the Ministry of Public Instruction. The bishop
warmly resents the interference of a layman in
church affairs. _ _

It is rumoured that certain prominent French spe-
culators have behaved very ill to some English
capitalists with regard to the Great Parisian Water
Company, which has been so much talked of. A
capital of seventy-five millions was, it is said,
subscribed for this purpose by Englishmen, when the
Credit Mubilier Society announced their intention of
taking the matter in hand. Thereupon the French
parties to the original project backed out of it, not-
withstanding their signatures to a positive engage-
ment. lam not aware whether any legal proceed-
ings will arise out of this affair, but it is a good deal
talked of ass discreditable one.

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The following contradiction of a current report
appears in the Petrie:
A new company is about being founded at Havre for
carriiikki on the whale fishery under the title of the
" Whaling Company." Prospectuses have been published,
in which the name of Prince Napoleon is mentioned aa
honouring the undertaking with his patronage. This an-
nouncement, which is published by the ind4pendones at
Brusse:s among other journals, can only be the remelt elm
error. We are authorised to declare tkat Prince :lapels's
is, and intends to be, completely ustoosnected with this

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