The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-11 00:00:00

FRANCE..

PARIS, St NDAY.
The Prussian Chamber has adopted the project of
law establishing a progressive tax on railway re-
ceipts.
Mustapha Pasha, adjutant to the Sultan, has ar-
rived at Vienna with an autograph letter addressed
by his master to the Emperor of Austria.
The Prime Minister of Sonia, Elias Garaszanin,

has been dismissed, through the influence, it is
stated, of Prince Menschikoff at Constantinople, and
been replaced by the Minister of the Interior, Alexa
Simicz.
Letters from Constantinople down to March 25th,
brought by the Tancrede, have been delivered this
afternoon. Their contents so far as they have trans-
pired aro of a negative character. rho Unieers
states to-day, I know not on what authority, that
Prince Menachikoff had presented his ultimatum, but
according to the letters just received, he had not, on
the 25th, had any communication with the Turkish
Minister far Foreign Affairs, and it was thought that
he desired not to enter upon business before the ar-
rival of the French and English ambassadors.
Lord Stratford de Itedcliffe had written to say that ,
he might be expected on the Ist or 2nd of April.
Admiral Korniloff and General Nikapotchowaki
were to embark in the next packet for Odessa, to
return to their posts. One of the Sultan's wives had
begn delivered of a son. According to official returns,
published by order of the government, the revenue
of the Ottoman empire bad increased 25 par cent. as
compared with last year.
The Tancrde had to contend with bad weather

during the whole of her voyage. She was detained
all day on the 29th ult. at Syra by a tempest. and
again at Malta during the 3rd and 4th of April. On
the 4th she spoke with the French fleet in the Gulf
of ,Coron, according to some accounts, though others
say she fell in with it on March 30th, off Cstomato.
faCt of the Emperor of Austria having con-
, ferred the grand order of St. Leopold upon M. de
Lacour, is referred to by the government journals as
evidence of an especial friendly feeling towards Na-
poleon 111. It appears that since thp revolution of
1830 Austria has systematically abstained from giving
decorations to Frenchmen, and there is no instance
of any servant of Louis Philippe having received one.
Letters from Vienna state that M. de Bruck, the
newly appointed Austrian minister at Constantino-
ple, although he did leave for Trieste, as we were
informed by telegraph, has not yet gone to his post.
He eras to return to Vienna, about the 20th, to re-
ceive final instructions, and to wait for the arrival of
the Turkish ambassador in Vienna. He was not ex-
pected to be iu Constantinople before the middle of
May. From this delay it is inferred that Austria
secs no urgency or extraordinary importance in the
affair between Russia and the Porte. _

I am told that before decidiog whether ho could
come to Paris to crown Napoleon 111. the Pope asked
the advice of his faithful soldier, M. Louis Veuillot,
of the Unicers. M. Veuillot answered that if he

were to speak merely as a Frenchman he
should any yes, because there was much
reason to hope that such an act would strengthen
the government and the cause of order, but giving
his conscientious advice to the Holy Father, as a
good catholic, he felt bound to express► his opinion
that Louis Napoleon's power was not so stable,
that the Pope could, without risk of disparaging
the church, set the seal of his apostolical approba-
tion upon the new empire. Of this story I will only
say, SY, none vero a ben trora.lo. The fall of Napo-
leon I. so shortly after his coronation by Pius VII.,
was a heavy blow to the prestiye of Rome, and Pius
IX. will not commit a similar mistake if he can help
it.

The Moniteur announces some more changes in
the prefectures and sub-prefectures. M. de Coetlogon,
sub-prefect of Rochefort, is promoted to the prefec-
ture of the Ain. This gentleman is the brother of
the Count Alfred do Coetlogon, who has been a close
prisoner since his arrest on Feb. 0, and is to be tried,
with the Duke of Rovigo and others, on Tutsday.
An imperial decree, published today, directs that
after November 1, 1853, the stamp on papers re-
quired by law to be stamped shall be in a new form,
according to a model annexed. The old stamps may
be used up to July 1, 1854., but after that time per-
sons using them will be liable to the same penalties
u if the paper were nnstamped.
Latest quotations by telcgraph.—Berlin : Four per
Cents.,99l; Bank Shares, 110. Frankfort : Austrian
Five per Cents., 971; Four-and-a-Hilf per Cents.,
771; Ruwiian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Baring,
1031; Four per Cents., Hope, 924; Four per Cents.,
Steiglitz,92; Spanish Three per Cents., 43 15-16 ;
One per Cents., 24 13-16; Sardinian Five per Cents.,
991. Antwerp: Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
981; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 531; Sambre and
Meuse Railway, 245; Austrian Five per Cents.,Bsl ;
2508. Lots, 8.53; Polish Lots of 5009., 3171; Spa-
nish One per Cents., 241; Three per Cents., 431;
Sardinian 36f. Bonds, 421; Roman Certif. Antw.
Five per Cents., 87; Exchange on London, 25.10.
Hamburg : Austrian Five per Cents., 95; New,
931 ; Prussian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 ;
Russian Five per Cents., 1051 rDanish Five per
Cents., 100.

PARIS, SATISILDAT EVIINI24O.
I informed you yesterday that the Pope had sent
an encyclical letter to his nuncio at Paris relative to
the dispute between the Univers and the Archbishop
of Paris. This letter will not be made public until
it has been communicated to the whole French epis-
copacy. The purport of it may, however, be col-
lected from the following document, published by the
Archbishop of Paris to-day. His grace is completely
vanquished by the Univers:
We, Marie Dominique Auguste Sibour, by the divine
mercy and the grace of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop
of Paris, after having taken cognisance of the encyclical
letter addressed by our Holy Father, Pope Pius IL to the
cardinals, archbishops, and bishops of France, al the date'
of March 21. 1853, wishing to put in practice the enamels
therein given, and to conform, as far as we are ecewerawl,
to the intentions of the head of the church, &drift bp re
doing to contribute to the removal of the discussions vdd
have arisen in these latter times, and to gladden the heart
of the Soveleign Pontiff, we, of our own accord, take off the
interdiction which we imposed by our ordonnaoce of
Feb. 17. t MI.2IIIDOMINIQII AUGUSTE,
Archbishep of Paris.
Given at our archiepiscopal palate, thisBth of April, 18d8.
The Moniteur publishes an imperial decree ap-
pointing M. Marchand (du Nord) and General Carre-
let senators, and MM. Villemain and Dubessey,
councillors of state, to fulfil the mission ordered by
the decree of the nth ult. That decree ordered the
1 suppression of the inspectors-general of police in the
1 departments, and described the mission of the " high
functionaries" appointed in their stead in the follow-
ing teems travel about the empire, to inquire
of abuses to be suppressed, ameliorations to be
realised, and to study with care the state of men's
minds, the tendency of opinion, and the wants of the
' country." This is not a bad general description,
barring the peripatetic part of it, of the duties of
that grand inquest of a nation called a parliament.
It is from all I can learn pretty certain that
Blanqui has not been re-captured. The name of his
fellow prisoner who escaped with him is Casavent, a
1 man of no political notoriety, but said to be a repub-
-1 lican of great energy. Political arrests have been
1 going on in Paris all this week, and are still con-
-1 tinning. Eighteen persons were arrested at Mont-
martre this morning. Twenty-six officers and non-
commissioned officers of the army of Paris have been
arrested. The government appears to be haunted
with the idea of a republican plot. I understand the
shop of M. Aubin, a surgical instrument maker in
the Passage Saumon, has been a perfect man-trap,
every person seen to enter within the last few days
hating been taken into custody indiscriminately