The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY, II A.M.
The unexpected collision between the government
represented by the Minister of Finance, and the Com-
mittee of Finance, which took place in the assem-
bly, and of which I have already sent you
the fall report with the division, was the
subject of consideration in all circles last evening,
and ot, comment in all the journals this
morning. The financial question is the great diffi-
culty of the government. Hitherto the finance com-
mittee, though firmly opposed to all the disastrous
schemes put forth under the provisional government
and executive commission, and marked by a socialist
and confiscating spirit has, nevertheless, inde-
pendent of all personal considerations, mani-
fested a laudable anxiety to second M.
Goudchaux in extricating the country from
the crisis, and the minister and the committee have
been accordingly on the beet and most amicable terms.
Yesterday, however, to the astonishment of the cham-
ber the minister broke with the committee, and appa-
rently threw himself upon the party of the former
provisional government and the left, and you will have
perceived by my despatches of last night by how small
a majority the first article of the government project for
a tax on mortgages was carried. The general impres-
sion now is what I stated it to be last night that M.
Gardehaux must retire. It is scarcely possible that
the government will persevere in a financial measure,
which, after most mature deliberation, has been con-
demned in its principle by the Committee of Finance.
The report of the committee on the insurrections of
May and June is completed and will be presented
to the chamber to-day. I understand it consists of
80 Pages, which tack six hours the day before yen-
terday in being read to the committee. Yesterday
evening the committee called before them M. Marie,
the Minister of Justice, for the purpose of conferring
with him respecting the members of the assembly,
against whom the evidence produced before the com-
mittee fiords grounds for inculpation. It is repeated;

u I have already told you, that the committee will
not directly propose the impeachment of any parties,
but will l►y the facts before the assembly, leaving it
to take the initiative. I hope to be able to send you
this report in fall by this afternoon's despatches.
Two batteries of artillery, escorted by a regiment
of the line, were sent yesterday to garrison the Hotel
de Vile.
I am assured that an agent of the provisional
government of Venice has arrived in Paris to lay be-
fore the •French government the situation of the
Venetian provinces, and to claim the intervention of
France ; without which these provinces must inevi•
tably fall again under the power of Austria.

MADRID.—We have received the Madrid niaila
of the 28th and 29th ult. Our correspondent, writing
under the latter date, says:
The day before yesterday the Doke of Sotomavor tendered
his resignation of the ministry of foreign affairs to the
Queen, ty whom it was accepted. Fidel was then offered
the vacant seat in the cabinet. Before he decided on
taking it, be came to Madrid yesterday for the purpose of
communicating with Moo, and then both the brothers-
in-law returned to La Gran* It is understood
that Pidal made Mon's appointment u Minister of Finance
a condition of his own acceptance of office; and that both
will enter the cabinet together. In that case Orlando will
have to turn out.
Gonzales Bravo was arrested esterday, and conducted
yesterday afternoon to the Orfatura Politico. At four
o'clock he was sent out of Madrid, escorted by four civic
guards and an offber. It seems that he was at the head of •
plot for upsetting Nereus.
Menu., .1111.1 r 29. —Three per Ceuta., 161 cash; after Bolas, 181
cash, 14 paper. Flee per Gnts., 101 paper; after Betas
fBl
cash. Passive., 4 paper. Coupmk 61 cash. Bank of St. Ferdinand,
SO cash, 34 paper; dlecount of noon, 41 5 per cent. Lichange.on
London, at ninety days, 46 paper.

ITALY.—WhiIe Charles Albert has been compe'led
to drawback his entire line from the Mincio to the
Olio, the Austrians, issuing in force, have marched
.50,000 men from Verona, treading on the heels of the
retreating Piedmonteee, and having crossed the
Mincio by a flying bridge, have taken up their posi-
tion at Volta. Charles Albert has ordered Brencia to
be put in a state of defence, to provide against a
movement of the Austrians in that direction.
In Milan men of every ago and condition have been
enrolled in the national guard, and several thousand
have marched to join thePiedmontese army. Females
of every rank and clue were employed in making,
cartridges ; the fauxbourgs of Milan were barricaded,
and defences thrown up in the outline villages.
Iteintmeement: from Piedmont, amounting, amount-
ing to 12,000 men, had arrived at Pavia.
At Milan, the republican party were invited to
unite themselves with the provisional government for,
the defence ; and the council of public defence was
formed as I have already stated. It appears, how-
ever, that these measures were not taken without the
knowledge and concurrence of Charles Albert.
At Turin the agitation was extreme. The people
collected in immense numbers round the chamber, and
demanded with loud cries that the chamber should be
dissolved and their King proclaimed dictator. The
celebrated Gioberto thereupon presented himself at
the vestibule, and informed the populace that he had
just been authorised by the assembly to form a mi-
nistry. That if he could not do so he would retire.
The crowd, at this assurance, dispersed.
In accounts received since these advinee arrived it
is stated that an extraordinary courier has arrived in
Paris with the intelligence that Charles Albert had
been proclaimed dictator at Turin. This statement
has been fully confirmed by later accounts. M.
Mazzini had enrolled himself as a volunteer at
Milan.
M. A. Ricci, who has for some time back been ap-
pointed Sardinian minister at Paris, was sent from
Turin, on the 29th, in the most urgent haste to Paris,
to demand the co-operation of the French army on
the part of Charles Albert. He had a conference with
M. Bastide, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, yester-
day morning.
Intelligence has been received from Lyous that two
regiments of infantry had marched from that place to
the Italian frontier, and that the entire division of the
army were under orders to be in readiness to march
at an hour's notice.