The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EYBNING, JANUARY 11, 1853.

official report gives a more favourable aspect than
wee visible at the close on Saturday, the ntimbeeer
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ic price. aee indicative of inything but that re-
staled confidence which. Was so confidently predicted
on Friday and Saturday.
The First President and the Procureur-General of
the Imperial Court of Lyons, and the Procureur-
General of the same court at Bordeaux, took the
oaths on Sunday at the Tuileries.
Four new Legitimist resignations are announced.
The frigate Pundore arrived at Toulon on the 4th
from the Pincus, where she left the Gomer, the

MONTENEGRO.

A letter from Vienna of the Gth inst. announces
the departure of Baron Kollner de Kollenstein, adju-
tant of the Emperor, for Trieste, where he would
arrive on the evening of the sth, and embark imme-
diately on board the war steamer Taurus, for Cat-
taro, to watch the march of events in Montenegro.
The Austrian civil and military governor of the
Banat has given a first warning to the Srbski
Dnevink, a journal which has of late contained seve-
ral articles on Montenegro. no governor says that
while Slavic writers of newspapers content them-
selves with expressing sympathy with cognate races
the Austrian authorities will not look narrowly into
their productions, although no good subject can well
, forget the innumerable robberies, ineendiarisms, and
murders which Montenegrine bands have yearly
committed on Austrian soil, for which their ruler has
offered little or no satisfaction. But as the writer in
the Srbski Dnerink has gone so far as to encourage the
Montenegrins to rebellion against their sovereign,
to whom they have long been legally subject in
virtue of treaties, as well as in point of fact, and
falsely states that the independence of Montenegro
has been acknowledged by Austria, the government
will not permit a continuance of such writing, and
warns the journal accordingly. As it is not likely
that the governor of the Banat has entered into
these somewhat gratuitous explanations without
previous knowledge of the dispositions of his supe-
rion, it may be inferred that Austria does not deem
it prudent to proceed openly in the encouragement of
the Montenegrin revolt.

Chaptal, and the Sentinelle.
The latest official prices on the Bourse are thus
reported :—Three per Cents., 80f. 70c.; Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 105 f. 70c. •' Bank Actions, 2,845 f.
The following are the latest quotations of the
Continental and Peninsular exchanges posted in
Paris to-da7
Berlin—three-and-a-Half, 941; Banque, 1101.
Vienna—Fives, Aletallique, 95 1; New, 951.
Madrid—Three per Cents., 42, 1„ ex div.; New
ditto, 231.
Amsterde
Fours, 971.

-Two-and-a-Half, 661; Threes, 78;

[Our usual French despatches had not arrived at
the hour of going to prow]

SPAIN.

The electoral committee of the moderate opposition
which started into life with 106 members, has been
reduced mainly by the blandishments of the Itoncali
cabinet to d 4. The residuary number of the com-
mittee have prepared an address to the Queen which
concludes thus:

The undersigned therefore supplicate your Majesty that
benignantly receiving this humble petition, you may deign
to derogate the royal order of the ith of December: last, and
to direct that the right and legitimate custom of freely hold-
ing electoral meetings, private or public, may be main-
tained, those who promote the latter giving due notice to
the local authorities. May the Almighty preserve the im-
portant life of your Majesty for many long years for She
good of this monarchy !
' Signed by the Marques del Duero, Duke of Rivas, Duke
o Sotomayor, Leopoldo O'Donnell, Joaquin Francisco
Pacheco, Pedro Jose Pidal, Francisco Serrano, Manuel de
Selma Lozano, Luis Gonzalez Bravo, Claudio Moysno Sams-
aiego, Alejandro Mon, Manuel Moreno Lopez, Luis /doyen°,
Saturnian Calderon Cullantes, Candido Nocedal, Andres
Borrego, Antonio do los Rios Rosa."
With respect to the defections front the Moderado
camp, the Espana, which is tho court organ, says :
According to news which we consider trustworthy, va-
rious persons have separated from the Moderado election
committee, or have ceased to follow its intimations; and
among them aro mentioned the Count of San Luis, Gene-
rals Cordova and Roe de Olano, Senors Zaragoza, Bermudez
do Castro (Manuel and Salvador), Esteban Cotlantes, Cala-
pomayor, and Augustin Altar°.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

An interesting debate was sustained in the Sar-
dinian chamber on the 6th inst. on the subject of the
national navy. M. Valerie deplored the decadence
of the Sardinian marine, and appealed to the Minis-
ter of War for confirmation of his views. M. de
Viry was anxious that the naval force of the country
should be augmented. " If," said he, "in 1848 we
had had a good fleet, the war would have had a
different issue; by taking Trieste, we should have
inflicted a fatal blow on the enemy." The Minister
of War admitted that the national marine was not
so well organised as that of other countries, but de-
nied that it was declining ; on the contrary,
the materiel was greatly improved, and the
arsenal such as other nations might envy. M.
de Cavonr, Minister of Finance, undertook to demon-
strate that in point of ships and stores, the navy
never stood higher. In the course of the present
year a 64-gun screw frigate would be launched. The
hon. orator then proceeded to justify some recent
promotions which. had been challenged; that of the
Commander of the Governol had been most spoken
and written against. Yet a few days after the storm
of indignation had burst, the same officer entered
the Thames without pilot, and was the admired of
all. The discussion was then closed.

In the same sitting, M. Cadorna laid on the table a
bill for a railroad to be made by an English Com-
pany from Novara to Lake Maggiore.

GERMANY.

Orders have been given to the agents of the Aus-
trian government in Hungary no longer to desig-
nate M. Kossuth and his compatriots in official pub-
lications as agitators, but roundly to call them
traitors, and their proceedings not agitation but
treason.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, JAN. 7.
The election of the president in the Second Cham-
ber to-day ended in the defeat of the government
party. The former president, M. Uhden, had de-
clined the candidature. The conservatives set up
Kleist-Retzow ; the liberals, Count Schwerin • the
catholics, Von Waldbott. The requisite absolute
majority was 157. In the first scrutiny there were
147 votes for Kleist, 117 for Schwerin, 42
for Waldbott, 6 for others. In the third scrutiny,
when all but the two first names had been struck off
the list, the majority of the catholic, had joined the
opposition, and the numbers were 154 for Kleist, and
just as many for Schwerin. The candidates had
therefore to draw lots, and luck was against the go-1
vernment. Count Schwerin, rather unprepared for
this issue, returned thanks in brief terms.
In the First Chamber an animated but fruitless
debate was raised on a motion made by the liberal
party for deferring the repeal of the communal law
of March, 1850, till the new bill prepared by the go-
vernment shall have passed. The liberals prefer
the organisation, as prescribed in the law
of 1850, to the previous state, which the
reactionista want to restore. And as both
parties would wJlinFly reject tho new government'
bill, the party question is, what order of things shall
thqn be recognised as legally obtaining.
The Empress of Russia is expected at Venice by
the end of this month.
The success of Ira Aldridge's second performance
of Othello was even more brilliant than that of the
first. His acting made deep impression even on per-
sons who understood not a word of the language he
spoke.