The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Foca o'Ctoca.
We have Paris and letters of Sunday.
The name of Na eon has not yet lost all its terrors.
Prince Jerome, e Ex-King of Westphalia, who
fought beside Napoleon at Waterloo, lately petitioned
the Chambers to be allowed to return to France, and
close his days in a country with which his name is
connected by so many splendid associations. The
petition, rejected by the Chamber of Peers, has found
more favour with the Deputies, as we predicted it would.
The representatives of the French electoral body hays
voted, almost unanimously, a resolution to refer thel
petition to the government, the meaning of which is
a recommendation to the ministry to grant its prayerni
The Minister of Justice, who was present in the
chamber when this vote was passed, said that the go-
vernment would not engage to repeal the laws affect-
ing the imperial family, but: would apply them with
as much indulgence in individual cases as might be
considered consistent with the public safety and tran-
quillity.
The chamber has virtually adoptelthe law antlior-
Wag the city of Paris to rains a loan of a naMies
sterrukg, and sanctioning the continuance of the toll
on wine entering Paris until 1838, to produce a fund
for its repay meet.
Notwithstanding an unusual continuance of a low
temperature, and north-easterly wind, the crops
within a radius of fifty miles round Paris present
very promising appearances. The Barley is being
gathered in, and the wheat will soon be fit for the
sickle. The price of flour has generally falls%
Accounts from Marseilles report that place to be
incumbered with the accumulation of foreign men.
The actual quantity waiting for transport to the
interior amounts to five or six millions of hectolitre%
Preparations are in progress at Eu for the royal
lankily, which is expected there early next week. It
is said that the King and Queen of the Belgians will
proceed to Eu, on a visit to their relatives.
The troops to be assembled at Compiles% on the
25th, will amount to 15,000 men and 4,50$ hems
It was expected that the minister of thimmeaeweeid
present a law yesterday. (Monday) to the Chamber d
ties, authorising a loan of 400,000,000 of francs.
t is expected that the Chamber of Deputies will
conclude its labours on the 17th instant M. Onientl
will leave Paris to pass six weeks at his seat at the
Val Richer, after the conclusion of the elections in
England
The appointment of Count Bresson to the embassy
at Naples has been definitely settled; but no answer
has yet been received to a communication of his in-
tended nomination made to the King of Naples. This
delay on the part of the Neapolitan court is ascribed
to the discontent produced in that quarter by the op-
position given by M. Brawn to the Trappsni mar-
riage, during his admire at Madrid.

From Madrid our news is to the 29th tilt, and,
according to our correspondent, the disgrace of Don
Francisco is thus accounted for. The infante, having
for some time vainly solicited the queen to call the
Progressistas to power, upon Monday, the 21st, re-
newed his suit with more than usual largenor. The
queen rallied him with good humour upon hie impor-
tunity, upon which Don Francisco hinted that this
was a very serious business, and that her majesty's
Cl7fsafety depended upon her followinghis advice.
een started, and looked ether uncle, as if tode-
maa an explanation of this mysterious intimation;
while Don Francisco continued, solemnly, " I belong
to a secret society, who are bound by oath to attempt
the life of your majesty, as long as you persist in
ansludio&As Programme party frqra power. We
have drawn lots, and stand engaged to succeed each
other in the order of our numbers. I have drawn
No. 3." The queen looked at him steadily, while she
answered : " Don Francisco, such an attempt requires
more courage than you possum." She then turned her
back upon him, and left the apartment. Next day
the ministers had a long conference with the infante.
Neither he nor his daughter, I)onna Josef*, who
have been of late the inseparable attendants of the
queen in all her appearances in public, were seen any
more in her society. The queen, as if to show her
contempt of such cowardly menaces, has ridden and
driven about during the last week with fewer attend-
ants than usual, and those merely such as have in
charge to wait upon her person. La Rive is supposed
to have been a member of the same secret society,
and to have drawn No. 2. The person who
drew No. 1, is said to have tried to fire, but failed.
These are the reports, bat it is difficult to say how far
such court whispers are deserving of attention. Don
Francisco and his daughter, the Infanta Josef', left
the royal palace on the evening of the 28th ult, and
have returned for the present to their former abode,
at the palace of San Juan. They are shortly expected
to set out upon one of those journies, to distant
baths or foreign countries, to which the illustrious
in disgrace are usually doomed.

All the advices received from Switzerland agree in
indicating an approaching collision between the
cantons composing the confederacy. How the dif-
ferences which have sprung up can be settled without
resort to the force of arms, is not easy to see. It is
now put beyond all doubt, that in the diet which is
about to assemble at Berne, there will be a majority
in favour of the dissolution of the separate league of
the seven Catholic cantons. The only point which con-
tinues uncertain is, the question of the means whereby
the federal legislature order its decrees to be
carried into effect by the Vorort, or the federal exam-
tin. This sub•ect has just been under discussion in
the cantonal legislature of Geneva. The grand
canal of that canton has resolved that its delegates
to the diet shall be instructed to vote for the dis-
solution of the league, and for the immediate expul-
sion of the Jesuits. An amendment was pro-
posed and carried upon the original resolution
respecting the Jesuits, the effect of which is
to omit a part of the resolution which
deduced that the canton of Geneva considered that
the diet was competent to authorise the establishment
of Jesuits in the cantons. Upon this amendment
being adopted, Mr. James Fay, who had been elected
the first Geneve,. delegate to the diet, resigned
his commission, the amendment not being con-
sistent with his opinions, and Colonel Billet
was elected in his place. A great meeting of
delegates from the seven cantons of the league
was held on the 2lstult, at Brennen, in the canton of
Schwytz, on the borders of the Lake of Lucerne, at
which resolutions were unanimously adopted to oppose
the most spirited and energetic resistance against all
measures which may be adopted far the dissolution of
the league, or the expulsion of the Jesuits. Every-
thing presents the appearance of a serious crisis.
Foreign diplomatic agents are such important per-
sonages in Switzerland that their movements are
noted with peculiar interest. The ministers of
Austria, Russia, and Prussia have withdrawn from
Berne, the seat of the diet. The Baron de Verger,
the Bavarian minister, will be absent on a covet, and
M. Bois le Comte will stay at Zurich. Thus the only
diplomatic agents who will fix their residence at the
seat of the federal government will be the ministers
of England and Belgium.

By the Ipswich, arrived at Plymouth, we have re-
ceived news from the Uruguayan sapital to the 28th
April. There is nothing of a politiml nature of inte-
rest. Vessels were scarce, and freights were quoted
at 91. for tallow, 935. for salted hides, 70s. for beim
Salt, last sale, 18 reels. Foreign exchange, 48d.

The Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant reports that nu-
maim vessels, loaded with grain, coming from the I
Baltic end other parts, soutinued to arrive regularly
in that port. In the three last days more than 80
Tomb had entered the Meese, loaded with not less
than 7,000 lasts of various kinds of corn. These ar-
rivals were, however, regarded as merely the com-
mencement of the much larger bulk that might be
lotted for. Prices, in consequence, had undergone a
teasiderable reductiet, end were expected to fall lower
sill. The last of cats had been sold at 140 florins.

BinterNELL Bazu.s.-1,167,842 iduspnell shells
h►re been ordered for the British end Indian armies since
the adoption of the shell by the government for the nee of
the national forms. This appears him a return obtained by
Sir George Evens, M.P.