The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-10 00:00:00

&moms if ti.peeitim rights of the grown, legitimately
repts=inii=mott of Imbella II I. If tenant to credit I
the ed en the subject, the means that will
be tpripitged 6 66 sad are of a mature to widen the
amyl latch Mftlidy nkts in a high quarter to the great
grief sif the nation l and when they will have aueaseded in
wpm*, whet, to say the least, ought to appear united, an
Manual revolution is the palace is to be effected, by which
the sovereigns an to be surrounded by eystematic promoters
of the prerogstires of unrestricted and absolute monarchy.
We winos express et riously our opinion upon w absurd a
Project, but in the midst of its impossible condition. there le
ens thing practicable, which is the domestic division upon
which it is tounded, a division intended to draw upon Bmin
the only kind of *course under which it has not suffered as
yet since the death of Ferdinand VII.

ROME, Aran, 28.
Concerning the anniversary festival of the founda-
tion of Rome, held in the baths of Titus, amid a 0311-
course of 20,000 spectators, 800 sitting down to the
banquet, you will have, ere this, heard much ; but the
speech of the evening, that of Marquis Aselis, which
eloquently denounced the presence and prido of
" Goths, Huns, and other Vandals "in Italy, elicited
thunders of applause, and has been printed by autho-
risation of the new board of censorship, in a supple-
ment to the Coteniporane.4 The only other allusion
sins to England, which the speaker designated our
elder sister in "manufactures, commerce, and free-
dom."A For obvious reasons no reference was made to
France ; • the recent instructions and conduct of Count
Rossi having taken the gold off his gingerbread
completely. The liberality of the new censors
is the topic of general praise ; and, indeed, it
is . eonsidered that the palpable. truths uttered
is the presence of so many applauding auditors, and
kntilled by the oommop sense of the whole peninsula,
would amount to a suppressio yeri, equivalent to a
eaggeatio falsi. Altogether, this awakening exhibition
will not fail to tel throughout Italy; and if the
founder of the baths, " the beloved of mankind,"
were permitted to hover in spirit over the scene, he'
veld not repeat that " he had lost a day !"
. I am sorry to record the sequel of what took place
oa the publication of the speeches hailed with such
enthusiasm. Four hours elapsed from the moment of
their issuing from the press: they were greedily
dowel in every coffee-house, club, and private
Niftily in Rome i blessings were invoked on the
orators, and on the whole proceeding: when, lo! the
agents of the police, " blushing as they entered,"
made their appearance in every hole and corner of
Rome where the Cotemporaeeo was supposed to be
taltai, and begged and menaced until they got back
*the " supplement of speeches." Not in all cases were
they successful ; but at the post-office they succeeded
bat too well • and such was the rigour of the search
that I have been unable to transmit a smuggled copy
of plat was spoken. This I have ascertained on in-
Jqiito-day among officials in my confideace.
This is simply another quasi concession to Lutzow,
the Austrian minister, whose "demand for his pass-
ports" recorded by me produced some weeks ago the
Otte apt at suppressing the Roman journals—an at-
pOt which, as I then chronicled, was defeated by
Ho4em attitude of the press. To " ask for his par-
ports" appears to be the only diplomacy of which he
ii imitable, and in this instance he has only rendered
leja•i
sma 'tion at Rome really, what he recently de-
it in a letter to Metternich, as "pas tenahk,"
' 's sake, since evidently go he eventually must,
. Irk/ideas he wriggle and hesitate about the precise
IlKoient of his hegira—why imitate the discarded
'lewionn Ovid :
. .. .. .. . . .

;77 —Et-valediems Atm mat deinde tot-taus,
quad Mieelefts meals mulls ded4
. Isdulgens milmo per collu Cordus erst
ISO he must vanish is evident after the recent con-
poss4en of the Roman States General (for it amounts
tol, contained in the late circular of Gizzi. This
oiredsz.has ignited an electric combustion in every
heart; and every dreamer of constitutional free-
enthusiast for the revival of Florentine

illirlfenetian commonwealths, is in ecstacies at the
Unexpected initiative taken by the Pope of Rome in
a matter so vital to the cause of civilization:
vit prima salmi.
(Quad agaim2 thin), Papa psadetur ab Usaa!
and Latsow learned yesterday 'from the loud execra-
tions of the people their determination not to be
baulked of their franchises by, any menace of Austria.
You must know that a mock fire was got up yester-
day, at the Vatican palace (Pius resides at the
Quirinal), in order to exercise the "pornpieri" fire-
tds.n's brigade. Mock inceudiarism might have &p-
-rimed a capital joke to Glen, but the Austrian
minister did not see the point. People were seen
screaming at the windows, mock flames were visible,
ladders were uplifted, fire-engines worked assiduously,
and • mob of 8,000 people had gathered to witness
the uproar. Unluckily the carriage of Lutzow was
descried by the populace, when howling and yelling
began in earnest; the blinds of the vehicle were in-
stantly let down, but they knew their man, and,
amid shouts of execration, accompanied him to the
seat of embassy. He thought himself lucky to have
got clear home.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 30.
A ref de& of discontent has been excited, not
only sieimpt meow; engaged in trade, but also amongst the
taesabese el the diplomatic body, by a recent act of the
Turkish government. M. Anion, who for many years had
acted r beaker to the Porte, has resigns I his functions, and
bossemended by the M. Bahian who obtained such noto-
riety valise tbe administration of Rica Pasha.
Teethe leshming of 1829, Sultan Mothmoud, as a means of
simpering the expose incurred by the war with Russia, or.
demi sore sinew to be struck, whose nominal exceeded its
intrineli mhes ,by at least a third. Hostilities did not
cease between tae two countries till 1836; and during
that isSerral He Turkish piastre, in consequence of the
etiAlt c intredelsed into the currency, had considerably de-
mise. At the end of that disastrous war it was
iseda, that the tribute which she exacted from
the be peal, oat in piastres, but in ducats. The
Save et vow was eitunfnued, but to prevent the con-
sortial .1a 11m slee of the ducat in the Turkish
math& es 41101111111114 was entered into by the Porte with
W. AN IS, le malatabt the rate of exchange with Europe
at a ills standard. At the eed of the year 1836, the
tribute was paid, and the engagement with the house of
Allies dissatianed. It was only, however, in 1842 that a
refixes nos attespeol in the currency. Between that period
sad the yeas LIMP se lea than 9u,000,000 of piastres in
Übe istiiser had bilialneed. Mouse Sidon Pasha, the then 1
shales of Firiaige, elanaed at the continually decreasing
mdse of the pleistres, ordered all the old money to be called I
in, snip eidi be be struck on the same basis se that
ineleidelW in Mieepe„ In 1829 the value of the pound
111 MEW Wean 40 and 50 piastres ; in 1842, it bad
1 ellO. It Is unaememey to point out what injurious
lids nap' at dip had produced, not only on the
comasseist the miselry, bat als / on the funds of the go-1
She MI to pay annually enormous sums for
artishe . hem Europe for the supply of the army
and the A new mint was erected under the di-
nsthaw
ItiViiiret engineer.
w.amand
ng'gde "prodportiiivioernmorral
Sams. sterling. This was not sufficient to
• ices the old money, so far from being called
in, ' n to the present day. Under
time 114 was evident that the gold and silver
stark AI Sarni Puha would st
ye become an
math& ghat a hundred piastres of the new
esieney be e 130 or 140 of the old. The r-
estored into a new engagement with
X. Alligg end K. Baltind to A: the value of the old
caner en thee an rate of exchange with Europe should
never swell 110 piastres fur the pound sterling.
During two pare M. Aiken and M. Balboni acted con-
jointly la Sithstaining the rate of exchange at tho
sum speaks/ I het, OD the fall of Rim Pasha's ministry,
M. Bahia* he seism hereafter to be explained, suddenly
elms ISt T j.,- nail hem that period. up to the present
mansk, Anna has matinued to act alone, as
beam es Toddle gemienment. To assist Messy
Allem and la the contract between them and the
Put., • bad bees placed at their disponi.
elk millreme other productions of the country be-
le the preessnesa, .1 ere placed in their hands, and
6-70iitirariumesi by their tole they' received bills ox
betallog Mom Is lerame. They bad also given them the
tribeleiii_unnuilly by lop to the Porte, amounting to
sheet fln,•01. iltiessmoile4 boon originally received in
the earresey of Obi es 'try, but at the suggestion of
M. Anion it was new paid In bills of exchange in Europe.
This was an arrangemmet readily emented to by tho Pasha of
Egypt, for the speeh alba mummy, which are very am-
sidersbLe, Sousa of ansbenar 'Peale, were paid In
bills on lieglieli
.arnresel The government,
moreover, gay neseally, to the person accepting the am-
uses, hem 10,11001. to 30,0001., to cover soy losses he might
incur. During the two years in which M. Baltaui continued
associated with M.-Anion, as banker to the Port c, loud and
constant complaints were made against him by the whole
trading community of the country, in consequence •of the
way in which he employed the funds placed at his cam-
nand. It was a creature of Mows Safeti Pasha, in whose
household he had originally filled some menial em-
ployment, and it was with the concurrence of that corrupt
minister that he carried on those transactions which excited
so much indignation, and which called so frequently for
the intervention of the representatives of some of the foreign
powers. Through the samatence of the minister of finance,
with whom ho shared his pins, he nereeded in monopolising
all the trade of the country. He had all the contracts for
the supply of the army, the fleet, Sc. He furnished the
worst materials and received the highest prices. The mockery
was always gone through of receiving proposals from other
merchants, but it was afterwards found that these proposals
were never even opened. When M. Baltaszi wished to pur-
chase any of the productions of the country, an order from
the government prevented the holders of the articles from

sallies to any other than M. Brelrami, lam ezetseepasey
tamed them at what sate he titt piper. Thais are
the prceemlings whisk Ugly cue the awarthruar of Mengel
Sakti Pasha, sad the plualpitate mama of M. Baltaxl from
Constantinople.
To the act af imptisy whisk w geeemmee hr teet-
mitted in deasalas Ise lie brake man Moe Ildtessl, it
lies added ear Of Masan* fa Its entiert teasels BILAStes.
When M. Akins plaparallto ample** amitanet for the pre-
sent year, he 11111.1Silli 11,0001. 10 NNW ►is casual experts,
This the Porte eseeillieed tee much, red after some delay it
was agreed that ho thasald receiv.3 19,0001. The contract
wu then draws up and signed by Tayker Bey,
the director-general of the mint, and it wes announced
in the official Gazette that M. Allem had again
been chosen as banker to the government. Three days after
M. Allion's contract had been signed by Tayher Bey, he
waa tent for by Sari= Paella, the minister of finance, who
announced to him that an a ffer had been made to the go-
vernment by M. Baltazsi to accept the contract for 16,0001.,
but that the preference wuuld be glean to M. Ithb:ron,
is consideration of his long and faithful urrvices. Filled
with surprise and indignation, M. Anion at once refused to
accept the contract on any terms, and instead of employing
the mean, which the law affords him of obtaining redrew,
he haseven refused the interference of the Preach ambassador
on his behalf.

It is a question whether the engagement which the Porte
best entered into with Baltani wilt not be productive of a good
deal of embarraaament to the one, and perhaps of ruin to
the other. The present moment is certainly a fortunate one
for the banker. Large sums of specie are weekly imported
from Europe for the payment of grain. Almost all this
money is acne to the mint, where it is melted down and eon-
. verted into good Turkish coin. In consequence of this influx
I of capital, tee rate of exchange, during the lot six months,
has not exceeded 105 piastres for the pound sterling, and it
has been sometimes as low as 100. But it IA not at all certain
that the next year may be so prosperous. A crisis may
arrive like the late one, when, during five months, M. Allion
bad to send weekly specie to Europe to the amount of
from 40.0001. to 10,0001. M. Alleon principally owed the
triumphant manner in which he surmounted all the ts rrible
difficulties of that year to the support which he received
from the great banking-houses of Europe. It is not to be
supposed that, under similar circumstances, a man of Mr.
Baltaze s character would meet with the same sympathy.
' The state of relations between Greece and the Forte
is every day becoming more serious. Without a re-
priseentive, without a consul, the position of King Otho's
subjects who reside in Turkey is anything but enviable. The
administration of their commercial affairs is in the hands of
Muchtar Bey, the director-general of the custom-house—a
Tarkish Tnbois, who will do nothing without a eon-si.de-ra-
ti-on ; whilst those of the unfortunate Greeks who may be
committed to prison for any bretteh of the police laws are not
released till afar the payment of a heavy ransom.

HOLLAND.—TBE HAGUE, MAY B.—The French
journal of the Hague makes us accuse the Czar of Human of
meditating a military massacre. No such expression ever
appeared in the Daily New, The JOYellai de la Haye
eta ht to get a better translator.
he following bulletin respecting the Itt.
health has been issued "The fits of intermittent ?ever with
which the king was attacked have not recurred. Hls
Majesty is in better health."
GERMANY.—PRUSSIA.--BERLIN, MAY 6.—The
Allgenteine Preursisehe Zeituagof the sth and 6th can't*
the debates on two amendments in the first paragraph silks
law fur the exclusion of disreputable weer fort the dist.
TM first was rejected by a majority; this amend, whisk pe-
nned the omission of part of the paragraph, was lost because
the majority in support of it was not sufficient Thera ware
266 voted for, and 205 against, it ; but an amendment en
only be carried by a majority of two-thirds of the deputise
t.
presen
PROTEST OP THE MINORITY OF THE PROULAN DIRT.—
We stated on Saturday that a protest was in course of signa-
ture, which bad been presented by Herr Heehaw to
the marshal of the diet. The following is the wording of
this protest, which is signed by one hundred and seventy
members, and the observations accornyway ing it: The
United Diet resolved Os plena, on the 16th of April, to pre
sent an address to his majesty, and expressed therein its
sentiments of attachment and esteem, whilst many members
regretted the want of a perfect conformity between the
patent of February 3rd and anterior laws. if, at that
awe, it was not toought fit to enumerate, in the address of
thanks for the convocation of the diet, the points on which
that want of conformity bore, it becomes now the imperative
duty of the diet to come to an understanding respecting
them, and to set them forth in clear terms, in order to avoid
all confusion for the future. It is with that intention that
the undersigned have the honour to present your excellency
with the subjoined explanation, in eider that you may be
pissed to refer it to a special committee far their mature
mmaldwetien and for their adoption, and also in order
stint it may be appended to the minutes of the
debate of the diet. [Here follow the signatures.]
I. It is enacted in the second par, of the third wet of the
pastel law of June 6, 1823, relative to the estahliehment of
provincial states, that " Caafornsably to that previa:la, so
long as the assemblies shall not be convoked to a general
diet, we shall submit to the deliberations of the provincial
states all the projects of law having is view any modifica-
tion of the rights of iniividuals or of property, whenever
those modifications have relation to the respective pro-
vinces." That law has an ineontestible anises:Oen with the
fourth section of the ordonnanee of May 22, 1813 which de-
dares that ro The sphere of action of the pvinci cl al states ex-
ten Is to the d iroux, ion upon all legislative subject., so far so the
projects of law relate to the person and to property, as well
as to taxes." In opposition to that enactment, the twelfth
sect. of the Patent of Feb. 3, 1847, relating to the formation
of the diet, declares that "We reserve to ourselves (with
reference to all pr jests of law having in view any modifica-
tion of personal rights, of the rights of property, or of taxes,
so far as those laws regard the entire monarchy, or several
provinces at the same time), the right to deniaud the advice
of the states, es required by the law of Jane 5, 1823, advice
which the stales are authorised to give in the exercise of their
rights. Nevertheless, should we think fit to claim the advice of
thestatesreopecting changes which,as affecting tkeoonsrie•-•

' of a provinje, cannot be discussed by the elites of that pro-
vince, e shall seek the advice of the general diet alone, to
which the right of discussieg those changes is reserved."
Moreover, the 3rd sect. of the Patent of Feb. 3 contains the
following provision respecting the convocation and the attri-
butes of the committees of the general states: " With
regard to the assistance required from the states (by virtue
of the general law of June 3, 1823, relating to the formatioa
of the provincial states) in the discussion of laws affecting
alterations in the rights of property or in personal rights, or
which have in view the effecting of other modifications in
taxes than those pointed out in the 9th paragraph of the
ordonnsnee of thin day for the formaticn of the diet, we shall
in general, when those laws affect the entire monarchy or
several provinces, a:4c the advice of the committee of the
united states; and we bestow on it the full and entire right
to give such advice. The provision of the 3rd an. (No. 2)
of the above quoted law is carried out by the present enact-
ment. But in the same way that we reserve to our-
selves the right of claiming the advice of the general
diet in such cues as we may deem necessary. we reserve
to ourselves the right of submitting emptionally
to the advice of the provincial diets these laws which concern
the entire monarchy or several provinces, if such a course
should, for particular reasons, appear to us advantageous,
and more particularly if a result should thereby be more
quickly arrived at." We entertain the profound conviction
that the above terms of the patent of Feb. 3 are incompatible
with the provisions mentioned in anterior laws, inasmuch u,
according to those laws, no project of law affecting personal
rights, or those of property, or relating to taxation, shall be
lad before the provincial states, except when no general
diet is assembled; and inasmuch, atomiser, so by those
laws the sphere of action of the general diet extends to the
discussion of all objects relating to personal r:ghts or those
of property, including tines, whereas, according to the patent
of Feb. 3, that right of giving advice does not, elder all cir-
cumstances, belong to the united diet, but may be exercised
equally by the committee of the general assembly, or by the
provincial diets. 2. The 10:h section of the ordonoance
of February 3, 1847, relative to the formation
of the general diet, is to the following effect
" In case of war, we reserve to ourselves the right to levy
extraordinary taxes, without the previous consent of the
general diet, whenever, under existing circumstances, it does
not appear advisable to assemble it. But in ouch a case we
shall lay before that body, so soon as circumstances allow,
and, at the latest, on the termination of the war, the neces-
sary information respecting the employment of the extraor-
dinary imposts." We are convinced that that paragraph is
also incompatible with the above gusted provisions of pre-
ceding laws; for, according to those provisions, the discussion
of all the projects of law affecting personal or civic rights,
including the levying of taxis, is amongst the attributes of
the represeotatives of the country, or of the general assembly
of the states; wtibt, according to the ordonnanee of Fcb. 3,
extraordinary taxes may be levied in ease of war, without
the consent of the general diet, whenev, r the government,
with reference to the political aspect of affairs, shall not
think it proper to convoke it; and, consequently, the
discussion of all the laws of taxation by the represen-
tatives of the country will not take place, con-
trary to the prescriptions of the ordonnanee of May 72, 1816.
The royal ordonnanee of Jan. 17, 1820, relative to the
future management of the nat.onal debt, contains the fol-
lowing passage: "We have been informed of the entire
condition of the national debt, and we have resolved to lay that
information before the country. By such publicity, and by
oar intention to submit the debt for the future to the super-
vision of the imperial assembly of the states, we entertain
the hope that we shall strengthen the sentiments of confi-
dence in the government, an manifest more clearly °insincere
desire to satisfy all the creditors of the state, inasmuch as we
hereby make in an irrevocable manner the necessary &meg*.
ments for the guaranteeing of all the debts of the state, as
well so for the regular payment of the interest and for the
formation of a sinking fund." The remonstrant. next
quote the 4;h and 7th sections of the patent of Feb. 3, and
declare that tae latter are ncompatible with the foregoing
puagraph, for the following reasons : First, because,
by the ordonosuce of Jan. 17, 1820 (an ordonnance declared
to be an irrevocable one), no public bonds concerning a debt
contracted at the charge of the state can be issued without
the co-opera:ion and under the co-guarantee of the future
general assembly of the states of the kingdom, whereas the
4th section of the royal patent of Feb. 3 restricts the neces-
sity of that co-operation and that colitis:antes to such sew
loans, for which the fortune and entire property of the state
are given so securities. Second. Because, according to the
6th section of the ordonnance of Feb. 3, relative to the
formation of the general diet, the co-operation of the states
is replaced (in cases forerun by that paragraph, and tor
such loans as may be contracted in the cases alluded to) by
the cooperation of the committee of the states which is spa
cially charged with the debt.—After pointing out many other
discrepancies between the patent and preeediog laws, the
remonstrant, conclude by stating that they eatertain the