The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-05 00:00:00

We have received our Paris correspondence and the
journals of Tuesday.
A large portion of the public attention is engrossed
by the English elections, and the affairs of Italy and
Switzerland. Of domestic subjects the only one
which excites attention at this moment is the new
scandal denounced by the Nal;enal, which we men-
tioned on a former day. One of the gerants of that
journal was summoned before a Jaye dinstradion
on Monday, and reproduced the official document
or a copy of it, on which the charge of public cor-
ruption was founded. But the .Natiwtal avails
itself of this occasion to reproduce the charge of
much higher and more recent corruption, advanced
in the Chamber by M. Emile de Girardin, the
editor of La Pre,se, and it pertinaciously demands
why a prosecution is instituted in the one case
and not in the other? In the case about to
be prosecuted, the inculpated act took place
at so remote a date as 1841; in the other it was recent.
In the one case the corruption amounted to 450,000 E;
in the other to 1,200,000 f. The charge in the one
case is as circumstantial as to time, place, person, and
amount, as in the other. The denouncer in bath cases is
a journalis` but in one a deputy also. The act is de-
nounced in both cases in the public Fress, but in one in
the trib (meet the chamber also, and on the responsibility
ofs deputy. The meansof proof and facilities of inquiry
are equal. Yet in the one case the public prosecutor
acts; in the other be is obstinately quiescent. What
is the cause of this ? The 11 animal answers that it is
the fear of the disclosures which would inevitably
follow if M. Granier de Cassagnac, a confidant of the
ministers, were prosecuted for corruption.
A change in the cabinet continues, as usual, to be
the subject of conversation in the eafs, and of conjec-
ture with certain journals. La Patrie announces that a
new cabinet is to be formed, with the present heads,
MM. Gaizot and Duchittel, with whom MM. Dumon
and Hebert will still be associated. "In a word,"
concludes that journal, "we have reason to believe
that a ministerial change is at hand, but the manner
in which 'it will be effected will depend on the result
of the English elections."
M. Duchitel, Minister of the Interior, has gone to
Ostend for ten days.
The shock of an earthquake has been felt at Aix.

The Madrid mails of the 29th did not arrive in
Paris on Tuesday.

Advices from Berne to the 30th inclusive have been
received. A great sensation has been produced in the
diet and in the canton, by a communication which the
President Ochsenbein has made to the diet. He has
preseeted first a report received by the vorort from
the prefect of Oberbasli, en the confines of the cantons
of Berne and Untervrald, to the effect that the goveni-
ment of the latter canton (one of the Sunderbnnd)
was erecting fortifications on a part of their frontiers
contiguous to Berne ; and secondly, despatches re-
cei%ed from the cantonal government of Tessin, offi-
cially notifying the fact (which we published lad
week) that arms and munitions of war were being
sent from Lombardy to the car-tons of the Sunderbaud
through the Tessinese territory ; that these measures
alarmed and exasperated the people ; and that a por-
tion of such sup es were detamed by the cantonal
government, which prohibited them from passing
through their territory. Upon these communications
a committee of seven was appointed to inquire and
report upon the alleged facts, and to recommend such
measures as it might be advisable for the diet to
adopt in the case.

The affairs of Italy continue to occupy public
attention. The last advices from Rome announce
that the deputies from the provinces will be
convoked in that city on the Lth of November. The
regulations under which the national guard will be
organised throughout the Papal states were under-
stood to be completed, and would be published in a

few days.
Letters from Florence say that the recent events at
Rome have produced great excitement and alarm
among the population of Tuscany, who manifest
' lively apprehensions of secret machinations of the
agents of the retrograde party, limiter to those
against which Rome has protected itself by the
immediate formation and arming of the national
guard, and that a like measure is everywhere loudly
called for in the grand-ducal state. An edict of the
Grand Duke was promulgated on the 21st of July, in
which ho declares his intention to adhere to a policy of',
Fr ogress, and promises reforms in'the institutions and'
in at the branches of the public administration. He
declares, however, that the passion for reform is
limited to a weak minority. He exhorts the people
to maintain order; appeals to their loyalty and good
sense. He declares illegal the establishment of a
national guard, and that all functionaries who may
join in any spontaneous formation of such a body
will be dismissed.
Nevertheless, Le Constilatitrnnel gives a letter from
Florence, in which it is said that the Grand Duke has
yielded to the wishes of the people respecting the
national guard. The letter referred to says that in
consequence of the disorders which have taken place at
Sienna and Leghorn, the municipality and merchants
of Florence had petitioned the Grand Duke for the
immediate organuleion of a civic guard. It says
further that the Prince had resolved to give this
proof of confidence to his subjects. It is added that
the law upon the press in Tuscany was producing the
best effects.
The Diario di Roma, an official journal, says, in
reference to the movement of the Austrian troops upon
Ferrara, that there is no ground for apprehending
any hostile occupation of the p paal territory
es by the
e
Austrian forces, fbr that diplomatic assuranc hav
been received that no attempt will be made to do
anything to disturb the state of things which was
settled in 1815 by the treaty of Vienna. Meanwhile,
nevertheless, the Gu:ette de Cologne, of the 2nd of
August, gives a letter from Vienna, doted 27th July,
- which it is affirmed that the armaments against
and

THE INDIA APPOINTMENTS.—Yesterday, a Court of
Directors was held at the East India House, when the Right
Hon. the Earl of Dalhowie was appointed Governor-General
of India, and Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Henry
Pottinger. Bart., G.C.8., Governor of Madras.

COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE COMPANY.—Yederday
a general meeting of this company was held at the Thatched
House Tavern, St. James's-street, for the despatch of rou-
tine business. Mr. Miles Miley, one of the directors pre-
sided in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Alderman Fare-
brother, the chairman of the board. It may be as well to
state that the company was formed about eighteen months
ago for the purpose of carrying out the inventions of Mr.
Parity, which went to apply compressed air as a motive
power on railways in lieu of steam. Accordingly, as the re-
port read stated, various contracts had been made,
with a view to make an extensive practical experiment of
the invention. and to the firm of Messrs. Robinson and
Sons (the =censers of Messrs. Bramah) was entrusted the
manufacture of the accessary machinery, of which the re-
ceiver for the compressed air formed a leading and important
portion. From the alleged difficulty of its construction
considerable delay had taken plate, and eventually the con-
tractors reported that even when complete they would per-
reit it being tested by hydraulic power on their premises,
but regard to public safety precluded them from allow-
ing the test of compressed air. Without going farther
into the report of the directors, and that of Messrs
Robinson, both pronounciag the invention to be a total
failure, it is sufficient to add, that differences arose be-
tween Mr. Parsey and the directors, which terminated in
the dismissal of Mr. Parley from his office of conealting en-
gineer to the company. The directors, in their report, fur.
their stated that they had received several other plans be
carrying out the objects contemplated ; but, hs the company
Mr.
bees. formed exclusively to carry out the invention of
Mr. rangy, they could not act upon them unless the present
company was dissolved, and a new company formed. After
the reading of the two reports, Mr. Parsey was heard at
some length in his own defence, and denying the accuracy of
the basis upon which an opinion had been formed by Messrs.
Robinson on his invention, said, all he desired was a fair
trial. A somewhat acrimonious and personal dimension en-
sued. Eventually, on the motion of Mr. David Cribb, se-
conded by Mr. Robert Sprague, a resolution was carried, to
the effect that the business assigned to the general meeting
be proceeded with, and, at its close, a committee of five
shareholders, three to be a quorum, be appointed to inquire
into the affairs of the company, in ce-operation with the
directors, to effect en amicable arrangement between that
body and Mr. Parsey, and to convene a meeting of the share-
holders when the receiver had been completed and tested,
and they were prepared to report generally upon the affairs
of the company. The routine business was then disposed of,
and the meeting broke up.
NOVEL WAGER.—Mr. Benjamin Gaunt has under-
taken, for a trifling wager, to eat two pounds of sausages,
count a thousand backwards, walk up the Monument on his
hands, hop down again, climb up every lamp-poet on London
Bridge, &nil whistle "God save the Queen" after eating
throe penny buns, before any one can read through Lord
George Bentinck's late Manifesto.—Punch.
ETRERISATION OP BEES.—Several eneeeeslid expe-
riments have been recently made in France on the etheri-
tuition of bees, so as to be able to take their honey whilst
they are in a state of inaction, without the necessity
of
destroying their lives.
INQUESTS YESTERDAY. ALLEGED NEGLECT OP
rots Pottcs.—Resumed before Mr. W. Carter, at the King
and Queen, Highgtreet, Newington, on tbe death of Henry
Sampler, aged thirt
yeyears,
years, who it was alleged had died in
the Park-place station-house, from the neglect of the police
there on duty. The proceedings of the former part of the
inquest appeared in this journal on Tuesday last. Mr. Vale,
a surgeon, had by order of the coroner, made a nest morgue
examination of the body since the jury last met, the result of
which left no doubt on witnesa's mind that the deceased
had died from the rupture of a bloodressel on the brain, caused
by falliag from his cab on to his head. If whams had been
called in to the deceased during the time hs win alb%
would have been able to tell what ought to have bees frame
for him—Daniel Matthias, No. 114 of the C dirleka
police, said that on the night of Friday last he was on reams
duty in the station-house when deceased was brought in.
H was placed in the middle cell on his beck, and wham"
note iced a mark on the head. The constable who brought
him in told witness that a medical man had seen him, and
that he hat pronounced the wound to be of a trifling cha-
racter. Witness was a qualified medical man, and hell
been in that profession fourteen or fifteen years
before he joined the police. He did not think
it right to make a full examination of deceued, as he had
already been seen by, as he understood, a surgeon. BL
visited deceased three times with Sorg. Lynch during tits
night, and three times by himself; the lest time at Ave
o'clock, when he found him dead. There was an order from
the commissioners that if a person was brought in ill, or in-
sensible, a surgeon should be called in. It was the dun of
witnesses superior officers to call in that attendanos.—Mr.
Main, chemist, of Oakley-terrace, Old Kent-road, said that
he remembered a man being brought to his shop on Friday
night last. He appeared completely intoxicated. He ex•
amined his head and found a small wound. Ile did not
consider it of a serious character, and he told the conntah'e
that he had better take him to the station.house. He did
not tell him to call is a surgeon, but he expected if he did
not recover soon that the divisional surgeon would hare been
railed in. Ile wee positive he did not say to the polj ceman,
There is nothing the matter with hun."—The ury re-

in Which it is affirmed lan..
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Italyare continued, and that field artillery and con-
1
adorable monitions of war are sent both from Vienna hen,n,
and tram Gratz to the frontiers of the Roman states. „441
La Bilancia, of the 21th July, says that several amide
new arrests have been made, and prisoners committed
consid
not.ot to
to the Cartle of St. Angelo. M. I3envenuti, the ex- that
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missor general of police, who bad fled from Rome
• re
Ili been arrested at Viterbo. Count Ferdinand called
Disaird was appointed to the office of assessor. The "