The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four 'oelock.

OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.
The French Chambers were opened yesterday, with
the usual ceremony, by the King in person. For his
Majesty's Speech, received by express, we are in-
debted to our contemporary the Morning Herald.
" Messieurs Peers and Deputies—
' " In summoning Toe to resume the labours of the session,
I my first wish is that you should afford my Government your
I best co-operation to relieve the sufferings that this year weigh
upon a portion of our population. I have hastened to order
measures best calculated to attain that object. I trust that
by the firm maintenance of order, by the liberty and security
I of commercial transactions, by a judicious application of the
I public resources, of seconding the seal of private
charity, we shall mitigate those trials with which Providence
sometime* visits the most prosperous states.
"My relations with all the Foreign Powers give me the
firm confidence that the peace of the world continues secure.
" The marriage of my beloved son, the Due de Montpen-
tier, with my beloved niece, the Infants of Spain, Louisa
Fernando', has completed the satisfaction and consolation
which Providence ham vouchsafed me and my family. This
union will be a fresh pledge of those good and intimate rela-
tions which have so long subsisted between France and
Spain, and the maintenance of which is as desirable for the
prosperity, as for the reciprocal security of the two states.
" I have reason to hope that the affairs of the River Plata
will, before long, be settled conformably with the views
adopted by my Government, in concert with that of the
Queen of Great Britain, for the re-establishment of the
security of our commercial relations in those countries.
"I have concluded with the Emperor of Ronda a treaty of
navigation, which guarantees to us, by a just reciprocity in
our maritime relations with that empire, advantages which
it was important for us to secure.
" An unexpected event has impaired the state of things
founded in Europe by the last treaty of Vienna. The re-
public of Cracow, an independent and neutral state, has
been incorporated with the empire of Austria. I have pro-
tested against this infraction of the treaty.
" At home the constant progress of the public revenue,

despite the causes which might have checked it,
proves that the activity and resources of the country
continue to increase. The financial laws, and
various other laws relative to important improvements
in the legislation and administration of the kingdom, will be
submitted to your deliberation. The great public works
which we have undertaken shall be completed with the per-
severance which the interests of the country command, and
with the prudence indispensable to the maintenance of
public credit.
" You will also have to direct your attention to measures
calculated to second in our African (Algerian) possessions the
progress of colonisation and of its internal prosperity. Tran-
quillity, so happily restored to Algeria by the valour and de-
votedness of our army, enables us to examine maturely that
important question, respecting which a special vote will be
presented to you.
" lfeesinue,—A common feeling animate. us. You are
all, like me, denoted to the happiness and grlndenr of our
oountry. AlreadyJong experience has enlightened us as tout.
policy best suited to her moral and mate. ial interests, and
which must secure present prosperity and the pacific and
regular developement of her future destinies. I await
with confidence, from your patriotism and wisdom, the
co-operation necessary to the accomplishment of this great
task. Let us assist each other in supporting the burtluct,
and France will reap the fruit of our efforts."
The only matter of news, adds our correspondent,
mentioned in the Paris papers, is an insurrectionary
movement in Morat, a little Protestant district at-
tached to the Jesuit canton of Fribourg. On the
6th inst. two columns marched against the capital,
which was prepared.
A letter from Alexandria announces the death of
Lord Bernard Howard, third son of the Duke of
Norfolk, suddenly, on the 21st ult., of congestion of
the brain.

Madrid accounts are of the bth instant= both
Chambers were proceeding with preliminary ar-
rangements. (halide had been relieved from martial
law. The Spanish steamer Villa de Madrid was
burned in the harbour of Cadiz, on the 28th Decem-
ber ; part of the cargo and machinery was saved,
and no life lost.

Three per Cents., 311 cash ; Five per Cents., 20.1 ;
Coupons, r 81; Passive, 61; the Union Bank of
Madrid had issued its notes.

MARRIAGE IN HIOR LIVE.—At St. Paul's Church,
Knightsbridge, this morning, the Hon. Adelaide Lister to
Maurits Drummond, E.q.

LATE ELOPEMENT.—We are requested to correct
statement, which has gone the round of the papery. The
parties who pursued and brought back the fugitives were
not, as has been reported, brothers of Mr. Drummond, but
members of the young lady's family.