The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-17 00:00:00

the poet as sitting on Mount Olympus, and calmly
oontemplating the beleaguered town.
01 it xpereeit ikaramsr
ite,Bexa7l alanAous rperr eiroporrret.
Wan, book 1, Ir. 12.

The daughter of Curran was buried this week in
the church of the Irish friars of St. Isidoro. The
lady has been alluded to in the course of this corre-
spondence, and possessed much of her father's intellec-
tual gifts. The Pope gave permission to inter her
remains in the Irish church (in which the heart of
O'Connell ought also to rest, as his remains do), at
Glasnevin, by the side of Curran ; but Fathers Kirby
and Miley seem to have decreed otherwise, and it is
kept at St. Agatha of the Goths. The accomplished
Dr. Cullen, rector of the Irish College, is much im-
peded by his bigot deputy in this, as in other matters.
Lambnuochim is here from Civita Vecchia, but
keeps secluded from public gaze ; the last few months
have altered his appearance from the stalwart half-
military strut, to the decrepitude of premature old age.
Abbe Gioberti, the pious and enlightened denouncer
of the retrograde policy which in evil hour the
Jesuits have adopted in Italy, is invited to deliver a
course of political lectures in the Roman University.

FRANCE.—PARIS, SEPT. 15.—THE PRASLIN
MckleeD.—Mdlle. de Luzai was interrogated.yesterday by M.
Browse* jugs d'instruction. It is said it was only then
that she learned from that magistrate the death of the Duke
de Praslin by poison. The intelligence caused her a violent
nervous attack.—The Sebastiani family, it is said, have jut
obtained from the government the use of the Pingouin
steamer to transport to Corsica the remains of the unfortu-
nate Duchess de Praslin.
THE BEAUVALLON DUEL.—The Chambre des Mises
en Accusation has decided that M. Rosamond de Beau-
vallon shall be sent before the Court of Assizes to take
his trial for perjury.
MARSHAL OUDINOT.—The following is a short
sketch of the military career of the late Marshal Oudinot,
Duke de Reggio entered the army when only 16, and
in 1792 having obtained the rank of chef-de-bataillon of the
volunteers of the Meuse, he resolutely defended the fort of
Bitch for some time against the Prussians. In 1794, having
become general of brigade he took Treece, and was mule
commandant of the garrison. In a night attack in October,
1795, he received several severe sabre wounds and was taken
prisoner, but was exchanged at the end of five months. At
the blockade of Ingoldstadt be was shot in the thigh end re-
ceived several sabre cuts in the arm and neck. In 1799, he
was made • full general. At the camp of Boulogne, in 1805,
he commanded the grenadiers. He afterwards entered
Vienna. carried the bridges of the Danube, distinguished
himself in several other battles, being again wounded, and
took • prominent part in the battle of Austerlitz.
He was alto at that of Jens and entered Berlin
ea the 25th October, 1306. Going into Poland, he
gained the victory of Ostrolenka, on which Napoleon
created him a count of the empire and presented him with •
million of francs. In 1808 he was governor of Erfurt. In
1809 he distinguished himself again in the battle of %Vagrant.
In 1810 he took poseur on of Holland, the crown of which
country Louis Bonaparte had abdicated. He also made the
Russian campaign. At the Restoration, Leiria XVIII. made
hint colossi-general of the grenadiers and governor of Metz.
Daring the Hundred Days he remained in retirement. In
1815, Louis XVIII. made him commander-in-chief of the
national guard of Paris. In 1823 he was in the campaign
of Spain, took Madrid, and was appointed governor ef that
city. The marshal has left a son, the Marquis Oudinot, who
i. a lieutenant-general, deputy, commander of the Legion of
Honour, and member of the consulting committee of cavalry.
Tile CAMP AT COMPIEGNE.—A letter from Com-
piegne states that the Duchess of Orleans, with her two sous,
the Count of Paris and the Duke de Chartres, are to pro-
ceed there on the 19th, to remain there to the 28th with the
king and queen, who will not arrive till the 22nd. The
performers of the Opera Comique, Gymnase, and the
Variete. theatres are to give each a representation at Com-
pegne during the visit of their majesties. We have re-
ceived an account of the movements of the troops at the
camp of Corapigne to the 13th. Excepting on the 11th
instant, which was ordered to be observed as a rest
day, the whole of the past week has been taken
up with manoeuvres of various kinds, sometimes by
divisions, and sometimes with all the different corps united.
On the evening of the 9th, Loyal's equestrian performers
gave a representation to the troops of the Ist division, by
order of the Duke de Nemours. A roped-in ring wax formed
in the hollow of a natural amphitheatre, so that all the spec-
tators were able to see perfectly well. The Duke de
Nemours, the duchess, and their children, were present at
the performance. The representation was repeated the three
following evenings for the other divisions. On the 12th there
was a grand review of all the troops oa the Plain of Cor-
bssulieu, the Duke de Nemours taking the command, and
on the 13th there was a mock fight.
A NEW DAILY PAPER.—A DOW morning journal
has just appeared in Paris, under the title of the Conserva-
teur. Its name indicates its politics.
PARRICIDE.—A horrible parricide was committed
last week at Anneau (Eure et Loire). A man named Leroy,
72 years of age, had given up to his son the whole of his pro-
p rty, reserving to himself a certain annuity, and a lodging
inethe house with his son and daughter-in-law. As the sti.
pulated allowance bad fallen into &ries?, until a sum of 1,200 f.
was due to the old man, he was obliged to summon his son
before the juge de pain, who established the demand and
made an order for its payment by instalments of 100 f. a
month. This proceeding gave rise to constant quarrels be-
tween the father and son, and even to blows. As the father
was net seen for two days, the neighbours suspected foul
play, and called in the magistrates, who, on entering, found
the body of the poor old man mutilated in the molt shock-
ing manner, the skull being fractured so that the brain pro-
truded, and sewn of his ribs were broken. The son and
his wife were taken into custody, and have been committed
for trial.
POTATO DISEASE IN FRANCE.—The Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce has addressed a circular to the
prefects of the departments, in which, after stating that,
according to recent reports Dentin to him, the potato crop was
beginning to show symptoms of the disease with which that
plant had been attacked for the last two years, he calls on
the prefects to disseminate as widely as possible a recom.
mendation to all landowners and farmers to freouently
examine their potato-fields, and to dig up and immediately
house all such parts of their crops as might appear to show
signs of being affected ; also, to use them quickly u food for
man or beast, or in the manufacture of retitle, or for any
other beneficial purpose. The minister further states that
it is desirable that all the stalks of the potatoes taken up
should be immediately burnt.
SPAIN.—GENERAL Stanntio.—The following no-
tice of the public life of one who at present fills so large a
space in the eyes of Europe will be read with interest : —ln
1833, M. Serraao having obtained a commission in the Royal
Guard, trod his way in this carps, without .jclat, but with
success and rapidity. At the epoch of the events of Bar-
celona, in November, 1842, he was entrusted for some days
with the post of chef d'etat-major of the army then orga-
nised in Catalonia. Eight months after, on the lath of May,
1843, M. Serrano, then marechal de camp, deputed to the
Cortes, figured as Minister at War in the Lopez cabinet ;
and after ten days' existence this cabinet requested
the Regent Espartero to send in the dismissal of the
General Linage and Ferree, his intimate friends, and on his
refuting to comply with this request gave in their resigna-
tion. General Serrano, who had remained inactive at Ma-
drid, since the moment of hie resignation, repaired suddenly
to Barcelona on the 28th June of the same year, accompanied
by M. Gonzales Bravo. Nearly the whole of Catalonns had
already declared itself against the regent; the deputies Prim
and Milton del Bosch were at the head of about 16,000 men.
The fort of Monjuich, at Barcelona, and the place of Lerida
alone remained faithful to the regent. General Serrano was
received with joyful reclamation' by the inhabitants of Bar-
celona • he addressed& discourse to the people, who replied by
cries of, " Down with Evader° ! Down with the tyrant!'
On thst very day General Serrano, the sole member present
of the Loper cabinet, first cause of the revolution, consti-
tuting in himself the whole provisional government at Bar-
celona, addressed to the Spaniards a manifesto, in which he
accused the regent of the most excessive ambition, and de-
dared him to be the only obstacle to the happiness of Spain.
After • few days pared in military marches through Cats-
Gen. Serrano returned to Madrid, and again resumed
the post of Minister of War in the new Lopez cabinet, till
the 20th November, 1843. At this date the ministry was re-
placed by that of M. Glossas., and Gen. Serrano alone
of his ex-colleagues remained at his post. The signal fall of
this cabinet, after a reign of a few days only, is well known,
as well as what happened to its president, who esteemed
himself happy in being able to reach in disguise the frontiers
of Portugal, and to find an Asylum in that kingdom; bat a cir-
curnstance of thisepoch which has perhaps passed unnoticed,
and which de erveii to be remarked, is, that two days before the
fella the cabinet, M. Oloraga had an altercation with M. Ser-
rano, in consequence of which the latter declared with a
certain degree of vivacity, that he should send in his resigna-
tion ; hl. thongs replied in the same tone, that he was at
liberty so to do, and that he would take upon himself tohave
his resignation accepted by the Queen. The remainder is
well known. H. Glow& retired, and M. Serrano remained.
Replaced oa the 6th December, 1843, by General hlasarredo
in the cabinet presided over by M. Gonzales Bravo, whom we
have already seen figuring with him at Barcelona at the
time of the pronunciamientos against Repartee°, and who
then pawed for one of his most intimate friends, General
Serrano disappeared from the political scene till March,
1847. At this epoch, the cabinetof Sonamayor nutted General
Serrano inspector general of the Basque provinces : he de-
clined this high distinction. The Duke of Sotomayor then
thought it his duty to demand of the senate, of which
General Serrano was himself a member, the authorisation
of entering proceedings against him for refuel of
obedience to the government. This prenatal was
warmly seconpcd.bily Generals Narvaez, Concha, Berm
daMeer, and es y by the Duke de Frias, and was want-
measly adopte , except by one voice, that of M. Lusuriaga,
the intimate friend of Oen. Serrano, who alone dared to take
his defence. Some days after, the cabinet presided over by
the Duke de Sotomayor resigned. General SOMMo is about
32 years of age; his physiognomy is agreeable, and stature
about the middle size. Being born at JaiSn, he possesses, to
a high degree, what is called in Spain the Andalusian
spirit. He has always professed his opinions in the sense
of a moderate progrestist, and passes for a man being a
friend to public order.

PRUSSIA.—BERLIN.—TIIE Poo DISEASE.—
A correspondent informs us that Dr. Klotatch, of the royal
herbarium, at Berlin, has discovered such a new method of
Whir:till the potato m exempts it from the disease. He