The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY, 6 vii.
A general revision of the prefectures of depart-
ments is the first object to which the new cabinet has
directed its attention. All these functionaries
have been appointed under one or another
of the regimes which have succeeded each
other since February, and most of them were
selected by M. Ledru Rollin between February and
May. It is understood that they will be all, or nearly
all, superseded and replaced by parties holding
opinions more in accordance with the present cabinet.
The legitimist party have come forward very promptly
to offer their adhesion to the new President. In-
numerable letters arrive by every mail at the
Ministry of the Interior, from the prefects and sub-
prefects of the departments, expressing, in the warm-
est language, their adhesion to the choice of the peo-
ple. Among the legitimists who have been foremost in
their adhesion to the new government, is the Marquis
de Larochejaqaelin, who will, it is said, receive an
embassy. Attacks have commenced in the depart-
ments against the cabinet, as well from the ultra-
democratic as the ultra-conservative side. The latter
object to the presence of M. Bixio in the ministry,
and the former blame its entire composition.
I am informed that the cabinet is discussing a
limittd measure of amnesty, which will extend to the
least culpable of the parties concerned in the affairs
of May and June. By this measure, which will be
produced without delay, the promise said to have been
given by the president will be redeemed. i
The nterpellatioas which I mentioned as likely to
be put respecting the powers conferred on Oensral
Changarnier wi 1, it is said, be put by M. Pen*,
one of the secretaries of the Assembly. M. Pent&
claims the character of an ouvrier, but has bees
always remarked for enlightened and moderate views.
In the debate on the organisation of labour, he made a
most successful reply to the advocates of that theory.
M. Mocquart has been appointed private secretary
of the president of the republic.
The following short report of the review of yester-
day, which appear, in Galignanis Messenger of this
morning, and which is in all respects in accordance
with what I observed personally, will supply some
patches
ils of ye4terday: Between seven and eight o'clock
in addition to those which I gave in my des-
yesterday mooning the rappel was beaten in all the
quarters ol Paris, for the national guard to turn out for
the grand review of the president of the republic.
Notwithstanding the coldness of the weather, the
rappel was generally responded to, and by half-past
eight all the legions were assembled in the portions
previously eet apart for them. The troops collected in
their respective positions at a somewhat earlier hoar . . li
At about 10 o'clock. the President, who had until
then been in conference with his ministers, entered
the salon, and after • few minutes' conversation, he
prepared to leave the Palace for the review. The
following was the order of the cortege : a piquet of
hinoers, of the horse national guard, the President of
the Republic, in the uniform of a general of the na-
tional guard, wearing the grand cordon of the legion
of honour, on borsebaJk, having at his right hand the
Minister of War, and on his left M. Pierre Napoleon
bonapare. He was attended by all the general and
other officers who bad an ived far that purpose at the
palace.
with an enthusiasm which it is impossible to describe,
by the national guards and the people generally. The
air resounded with cries of Vive Napoleon!" There
were also cries of N Viva l'Easperear r All o'clock
the filing off bad terminated. Everything passed off
in the moat admirable enter.

The evening journal La Patria, which has became
the semi-official organ of government, says: " Several
hjournals have 'affirmed that in a mined of ministers,
eld on the 22nd, a decision relative to the Roman
States was come to. The statement is wholly incorrect."
The Notraeliiste of Marseilles, of the 21st instant,
publishes • letter, under date of lljemma-Oateont,
(Algeria), of the 3rd, which says: The government
of Abderamen (Morocco) is not disposed. to make
any concessions to Spain, bet it shows itself less
haughty towards England, which has required some
iudemnity for many of its subjects established in
Morocco, who have sustained losses in the late events
of which this country has been the theatre.
The Chamber of Commerce of Rouen has presented
the following address to the President of the Republic:
Monsieur le Preeident,—The Chamber of Commerce of
Rouen makes it a duty to addepto to you its congratulation
on the occasion of your 'Potion-1e the prssider.cy of the re.
public. Under the prestige of the name you bear, M. le
President, all parties have given )ou their suff:ages, seeing
In von a pledge of coneilisiuon and concord. The hopes of
the country will not be deceived, we are confident ; for you
have sworn to direct the effairs of state in the sole interest
• and by*, will of the law alone. After so many reds, the
inevitable consequent) e of our civil discords, which have so
cruelly affected our commerce and manufacturt.s, we think it
I to be the duty of every good citizen to lend a elnoere and
loyal rapport to the co stitution, and we put up our vows
• that., without departing from it, elections may shortly call to
Paris a new equably, welch, by itv origin being identical
with that of the chiet of the is• cutive poser, will give to the
government homoeeneity and strength, without w. icli there
cannot be any stability in our institutions. Such, Monsieur

le President, are the aentimeets which the Chamber of Com-
merce of Rouee, in the name of the merchant, and mann-
&mann within its circle, has thought it to be its duty to
manifest ea the occasion of your accession to power; per-
suaded that, larder your government, we shall see order re-
stored with that confidence sad employment so necessary for
the prosperity of our industries& populations.
The following order of the day, addressed by. Mir-
shal Begesud to the way of the Alps, appears is the
joareals to-day:
PA2III, Deo. 24 —Soldiers of the army of the Alps.—vb.
Presidest of the Republic could not better hosourtmy bog
sneer *ea by geeing me at your head. It is giving me the
essereace that I eon render new sad greet services to Praises,
if cdreemstances should arise to need your velour and devo-
tion. Si years of war in Africa have shciwn me that bur
ieses armies have not degeaerated, end that they coald
mitate the armies of the republic and the empire. You-an:
too good citizens to desire war, but you wuu d your
duty if it should arse. You will be, 1110+111W bill', the firm
defendsts of the law. You will ell understand that order
is the surest guarantee of tree liberty an 4 public phyperfty
that order is much more necessary to the mss of operadhos
than to those who by labour have attained competeace.
Nothing it so popular as cedar. You are, we all
are, children of the people ; we shed know, then,
how to guarantee this thapprecielve benefit, without
which none of our newly acquired liberties con be
enjoyed. It my health had permitted, I shOuld hive
been before this in the midst of you, for I desire to become
acquainted with the regiments that I have not yet-sten' and
to renew my acquaintance with thew with whom I have
aurae toil end glory in Africa. I shell be with you liven
as my strength is restored : until then I rely with entire con-
fidence to year geed sitspositions and the habitl of •diseiplino
that are traditional amongst you. They have been caretally
maintained in your ranks by the honourable and able gene-
ral whom I succ, ed in the command of the Aruly of the
Alps, and from whom I am sure you must separate with
regret.—(Signed) Marichal B. d'iste.

SPAIN.

We have Madrid lettere of the 19th.

The Issue Department 4 the Bank published a
weekly aoreant, made up to the 17th, which shows
that the uses@ continue at 100 millions, one-third in
specie and two-thirds in securities, and that the notes
in circulation, which were 104,436,200 reale the preced-
ing week, have i•inoe keel diminished by 587,800 reels,
leaving the amount now in circulation 103,848,400
reale; 2,148,900 reale in specie had been paid out
for notes cashed during the week. There was a great
concourse of :people every day at the doors♦ of the

46,407 reels were paid into the ravings b-.rik during
the week by 244 depositors, and 5.5,685 reels drawn
out by 33 depositen.
Letters from Perpignan, of the 21st inst., say that
the Queen's troops bad surprised a small detach-
ment of republicans, 45 in number, thus reducing
Amettler's torsi to below 200 men. A very large
force of Queen's troops had reached Vich from Barce-
lona reinforcements having arrived from Madrid,
making the effective strength of the goternment
throughout the pri,:cipality something over 55,000
men. The fresh troops poured into Vich were accom-
panied also by an extensive train of mountain artil-
lery. Cabrera was hovering over limb.
On the 14th inst. several diligences and other ve-
hicles were stopped, almost at the gates, and bad
their horses seized. On the above date a sanguinary
action took place near Valls, province of Tarragona,
between the united bands of Masgaret and Vitellia,
a.aiated by a party of Progresistae, under Baklrick, and
a strong column of troops. The loss was severe, and
about Illusion both sides. Tne Cat hits retrectd in good
order,in consequence of their scouts bringing i ntelligenee
that reinforcements were coming up against them. No
attempt was made to follow them. On the 15th inst.
Cabrera, accompanied by his lieutenants, Merest and
Muchacho, was at Amer, a small town, situated upon
the river Ter' between Gerona and Vich, a six-hunrs
march from the latter. General Euna was cautiously
feeling his way in that direction, with a large force.
The wounded Progresista chief Castello has been
carried off to the mountains, by t rive masked men,
from the hospital of the Palsfurgal, where he lay a
prisoner.
Despite the efforts of the military force in Araaon,
two or three small Carlist bands continue to exist in
that province. In the district of Saragossa nue of
them had an unfortunate encounter with a detachment
of earabineros in charge of the salt works near Murillo
de Gallego, when the chief of the Moottmoauists was
killed and seven of his men became prisoners.
Highway robberies and military executions continue
to be the order of the day in Valencia.
On the night of the 15th hut., another miserable
batch of 108 political prisoners, on their way from
Saragossa to Valencia, for traasportatior, arrived at
Calamocha.

In Old Castile the Carlist party commanded by the
lawyer Dun Muniz Costalts entered the town of
Albade Tormet, on the 12th inst., and levied a contri-
bution of 1371. sterling, besides exacting 150 rations
and seizing upon several Invites and a quantity of
gunpowder and tobacco, the commerce of which 111,
tide is termed in Spain by the government. After
Ithis, on the 13th, they were overtaken, amongst the
mountains of Sancho Pedro de Arrtba, by a column
of troops from Salamanca, who killed seven of them
and took two Flamm

Memo, Die. 19.—Ihrtes. 211 ors: after Balm. 211 9-18 cosh.
FllO, 101 see.; after Bola; 101 orb. Pasetets, 31 aen.; after laths.
31 malt. Coupons, 8 ace. Bat* of St. Tenliftexl, 38 welt, Opole.
Exchange on tondos, 4. Treasury Ma, 71 cub. 80 paper.

ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—A letter from Rome, of the
14th inst., says : " After the sitting of the 11th, at
which the new government was voted, a band of
600 men arrived from amorget those who work
at the cost of the state. They were led by Cicero-
vacchio, whom the minister of commerce, Ster-
bini, had placed over the direction of public works.
They came to demand a republic, or a constituent, and
something of a like sort; but the chamber bad done its
work and gone away, so that the d.-monstration was •
failure. There is a split in the Popular Club, which
sinoethe 16th has been theveritable sovereign of Rome.
The strangers in it, that is, the persons not of Rome,
demand a republic, whilst the Romans refuse: thus
the club is divided into democrats and ultra-democrats.
These latter wish, it is said, to form a new club.
We are assured (says the Contemporaneo) that
Count Spear, minister of Bavaria, the most active as-
sistant in the flight of the holy father, has delivered
to the Pope letter accrediting him as minister of
Austria to the court of the holy t.4..v. II Nationale
of the 18th says: "It is asserted that the corps
diplomatique was very divided in oWnion as to the
place that should be chosen by the Pope for his resi-
dence, but that the project of residing temporarily at
Cirta Vecchia was adopted by the majority of that
body, on the suggestion of the English minister."
1 We have received despa,ches from our corres-
pondent at Rome, of the 16th in. t. Lord Napier
was still there. It was said that Mr. Temple
Iwas wing all means to persuade the Pope to return to
his states. Garibaldi and the Fathers Glavassi and
Ventura were still at Rome.

NAPLES.—Letters from our correspondent, dated
the 1631 inst., have reached us. The King and
royal family, the ministers, mid diplomatic body
remained chiefly at Gaeta. Besides the Pope and
Cardinals there were at that place not less than 28
ministers plenipotentiary. A gre.t number of the most
distingnwhed Neapolitan familie3 have gone there.
The funds were declining: they were at 83 on the
14th, at 821 on the lath, and at 821 on the 18th.

GE RMANI .
AUSTRIA..—We have intelligence from Vienna, of
Dec. 20. An army bulletin, from Presburg, under
date Deo. 18, announces the entrance of Windisch-
gram and tee seiond army corps into that town (the
second one in Hungary Proper), which had been
wholly abandoned ou the previous day by the Magyar
troops, atter they had removed the bridge of boats.
On the 18th also Wi,dischgrats remuved his head-
quartets to Carlburg (a town a little further down the
Thinube, lathe direction of Path), and Witselbni g was
taken by the imperialists of the first army *orps, after
a fierce contest, which lasted dui log several hours.
On the 18th Jellachich marched tweet ds Hochstroas,
a town situated within a few miles of Haab, in which
latter place the Magyars, it is said, will make a grand
stand. If so, it is probable that tin re will be a &wilye
battle on the 21st). The irmed working men
of Presburc had also abandoned that town before the
arrival of the imperialists. It may be stated here,
that Presbnrg was incapable of making any 1 ngth-
ened defence, and that, before the commencement of
the insurrection the Magyarn never contemplated
making a gaud therein. The post has been re-esta-
blished between Vienna and Piesbing. It is warted
that lintisuth has abandoned Peeth, and gone into the
interior of the country, after having , distrilea&the
Pesth national guard. The ciptio of ItasChan
the imperialists was known in Pis* ep the 13th last.
According to intelligence from IMbn and kg.
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