The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

been indisputably iu the right, as when it was exer-
cised against a body of insurgents with whom a large
portion of the English public felt a strong sympathy.
The right and expediency. of interference by the
English government in the intestine fends of foreign
°pantries may involve many complicated considera-
tions ; but there can be no doubt as to the injustice
and impolicy of petty and isolated attempts to support
the police of a foreign government in its dealings with
individuals. If the Peninsular Company acted on the
suggestion of the Portuguese government it was un-
wa rantably officious ; if it acted at the dictation of
Downing-street, it showed a weakoess, somewhat
more excusable.
It is also foreign to our immediate purpose to
notice the absence of proof against Captain Emmert.
It seems that he alleged that he was going to
Gibraltar, an English subject to an English possession.
There may, or there may not, have been good grounds
to doubt his statement ; but there was no attempt, as
there were no legal means, to disprove it. If the
government possessed every right of interfering with
foreign emissaries, it must possess some legal method
of identifying them as such. Miguelitism may be-
come a legal disqualificatian in England; hut there
must be some test of the new offence. Even a Jew
cannot be excluded from parliament on the mere sus-
picion of Judaism. We hope it will be found that
Englishmen may travel by public conveyances, at
least till they are proved to sympathise with some
foreign faction, which may for the moment be out of
fc.vour in Downing-street.

The Paris journal. of Sunday, with our usual cor-
respondence, have been received. They contain no
French news of interest. The journals of Switzer-
land to the 23rd were received, but they presented
nothing of prominent interest. The canton of Neuf-
chatel had tendered to the Vorort the fine of 300,000 f.
Swiss, imposed on it by .he Diet; but only 121 f.
being in specie, and the remainder in bills and notes
of individual citizens of the canton of every class and
condition, generally for small musk in some cases as
low as 100 f., the tender was declined by the federal
executive, and was generally regarded as an attempt
at evading the decree. Sir Stratford Canning had
given a grand dinner to the members of the Diet
present in Berlin, and the members of the federal
government, at which the Spanish minister was
present.
Private letters from Milan say that General Salim
Soglio, Colonel Ellger, and his sons, late officers in the
service of the Sonderbund, have been taken into the
service of Austria.

The Madrid mail of the 20th has arrived, that of
the 21st being still due. All letters agree in de-
claring that the indications of a dissension between
the cabinet and the moderado majority in the cham-
ber are becoming daily more evident, and that
nothing is more probable than the resignation of
General Narvaez and the succession of Senores Mon
and Pidal to power. This would, as parties now exist,
be a step towards the de facto reign of Queen ;Chris-
tina in the name of Queen Isabella. The moderados
themselves, however, cause such statements to be
contradicted by their agents. It is certain, never-
theless, that Narvaez is opposed to the impeachment
of the late cabinets, at least in the form which the
majority propose to give to that proceeding.

The lettere which arrive daily from Italy continue
to represent the kingdom of the Two Sicilies as being
in a state of extraordinary fermentation. Petitions,
signed by above 2,000 persons, were lately presented
to the King, demanding the abolition of the present
system of police and the liberty of the press. An-
other popular address had been secretly printed and
circulated. A great popular demonstration wan
speedily expected.
A letter from Ferrara of the 16th appears in the
Turin Gazette, to the following effect :
At half-past four. p.m., the most eminent Cardinal Ciacehi
returned from the beautiful heights of Pesaro. His return
was unknown, it is true, but not altogether unexpected, for
on his approach every heart throbbed with joy. As soon as
his carriage appeared the surprise which the people first
felt was changed into a cry of enthusiasm, and all endea-
voured to follow him and to be present on his alight-
ing to enter the palace assigned as his residence.',
He was then greeted with that enthusiasm which
the multitude express so joyfully when they are moved, not
by the insensate adulation of power, but by the view of every
social virtue. And then the vivats, the kissing of his hands,
the struggle to approach his person, formed a touching eight
to him who delights in seeing the 'Wile and upright man,
who has known the storms of life, endeavouring to hasten
those destinies which are to restore liberty to his country.
The crowd then dispersed, repaired to the places of public
resort, entered the houses of private individuals to bring the
glad tidings, to speak of his restored health, of his amiable
'land courteous manners, and to make known, above all
things, that he had left his sweet and smiling retreat to come
and attend to our interests and to our welfare; and in a few
hours every window was illuminated, as if to prolong the
happy day, while all hastened to procure musicians, and one
and all ran to the palace, and broke upon the silence of the
night by their cries of joy and by the band of music,
which was stopped only by his own request. These
popular demonstrations will be renewed to-morrow.
But this is not all. It is true that his eminence brings us
the glad tidings, the news we have so much desired, that
the Austrians are to be withdrawn from our town and
limited to the fortress, as on the 17th June. A letter from
one of oar fellow-citizens, now in Rome, a wise man, and a
warm patriot, which arrived yesterday, assures us that, at
that instant, the order had arrived which commanded the
withdrawing of the troops, as we have above stated, and that
his eminence, the cardinal, was about to return to us. One
of these two important things has proved true ; let us trust
the other will be no less so.

Letters from Rome, in addition to the information
already given, that orders had been sent to Cardi-
nal Ciaechi to return to Ferrara, state that an
order had been sent from the Austrian embassy, to
General Radetaki, directing him forthwith to
evacuate the City of Ferrara. Thu we may, at last,
consider this as another fait accompli.

AUSTRIA.—VIENNA.—INDIAN MAIL BT TRIESTE.
—The first assembly of the delegates of the German railways
took place lately at Vienna. One of the questions—the most
interesting which was discussed by this assembly, composed
of more than one hundred members, representing forty ad-
ministrations—was that relative to the transport of the In-
dian mail by Trieste. The representative of the Austrian
Lloyd's veiled the attention of the representativ-c of the
German railways more especially to the necessity on the
part of the different companies of agreeing on the measures
the most expedient to be adopted, in order to remove ei
much as possible all those obstacles which might impede the
rapidity of the trains, in whatever may concern—let, the
diversity of custom existing among the managers of the rail-
ways ; 2nd, the diversity of coin, which changes at almost
every step ; 3rd,_ the mut of passports in each state. This
but question offen the most serious difficulties. Though
they acknowledged that the adoption of measures tending to
remove all these improvements was the only means of pro-
curing to the German railways the benefit, of the passage
that the Trieste line affords the Indian mail, an advantage
which would assure a considerable transit from the Mediter-
ranean to the ocean, to the prejudice of Francs, the repre-
sentatives were unable to come to a definitive arrangement
relative to the dispositions which could at one, unciliate the
interests of the companies and the exigencies of the states,
I which, by multiplying formalities, impede the circulation on
the railways. It wee acknowledged that this question was
I deserving of a thorough investigation, and the solution of
this important affair was postponed to another sitting.
PRUSSIA.—BERLIN.—THE POLISH PRISON FR,
M. DOUBROWBII.—M. Dombrowski haying been involved
last year in the troubles which broke out in Poland was for-
tunate enough to escape Russian vengeance by flying into
Prussia. There he was arrested and tried with the other
I Polish prisoners. As, however, he could only be tried as
I accused of disturbing the peace of a neighbouring
wascountry,r-
Ihe only sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a for-
trees. tress. Dombrowski had been temporarily set free, and had
gone to his property, situate in the Duchy of Posen, neat
the frontier of Russia. There, it appears the Russian go-
vernment intended to have M. Dombrowski carried off and
conducted into Russia. This fact has already been stated
by the Zeitsing Had, but had been generally disbelieved ;
for, according to the mat elementary principles of the rights
of nations, such a proceeding appeared impossible. We
now hear from the most undoubted authority that some
Cossacks, forming a part of a more considerable body of sol-
diers, have twine entered the estates of M. Dombrowski,
in order to facilitate the execution of this project,
but without success. As they have failed in their
endeavour" to gain over the peasants, who immediately in-
formed the party concerned of what was going on, M.
Dombrowski, advised by the Landreth, repaired to his &thee-
in-law, Count Laski ; and it is stated he is about to return
to Berlin to undergo the penalty of two years' confinement
pronounced against him, as he is now convinced that, for the
present, liberty and non.isecurity were synonymous for him.
The authorities of Berlin have sent five gensd'armee to the
estates of M. Dombrowski, in order to attend to the safety
of his person. The confirmation of what was at first cona-
dered an unfounded report has excited a groat and painful
seasation in Berlin, and it is even probable this will
have further consequences. It will be remembered the
name of M. Dombrowski was affixed to the gibbet on the day
when Pantaleon Potocki, with whom be was implicated, was
executed ; but it may not be generally known that the fa-
vourite horse of M. Dombrowski, that which had caused hint
to gain several prises at the rams and to which he was in-
debted for his evasion from Itnadan Poland, was killed at
Warsaw, at the foot of the gallows. This feet can give us
some notion of Russian justice.
HAYII.—PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov. 18.—The Cham-
ber of Representatives met and proceeded to constitute itself
on the 12th inst. M. Lahonth, of Guaira, was elected pre.