The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-11 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PARIS.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 6 30 P.M.
La Press. of to-day publishes the following account
of the negotiations between France and England re-
specting the mediation in Italy, which it affirms to
have received from an authentic source :

Hurried by the neessaity for drawing off our journal, we
had only time to notice, at the end of our number of Jester-
day, that the answer of Lord Palmerston, so impatiently ex-
pected, had at last arrived. We added that it was not alto•
tether what was expected, which, en pinata, proves how
Incorrect the Journal den Debals was in stating that the
courier from London had brought the adhesion of the English
cabinet to the babes of mediation laid down by the govern-
ment of the republic. We shall now state the facts from
authentic" information' and complete our account of the ne-
gotiations rt lasing to the mediation offered by Preece and
England for the p.cifisation of Italy. In our article of ye.
terday we remarked that the mission of the Marquis de Ricci
to the French government comprised two distinct questions.
The first was what France would do incase Piedmont should
be invaded by Marshal Itadetski ; the second was as to the
formal demand of the intervention of France. The answer
of Lord Palmerston also embraces these two different points.
As to the eventuality of the invasion of Piedmont by Austria,
the English cabinet participate, in the opinion or France,
that it must be opposed by all possible means, and that the
representatives of France and England, M. de Reiter and Sir
R. Abercromby, should be furnished with every r, quisite au-
thority for imposing an armistice on Marshal Radetefti until
the cabinet of Vienna skill have given an answer to the offer
of mediation about to be made to it in the names of France
and Great Britain. As to the bases of the arrangement to be
proposed for the conclusion of a peace between Austria and
King Charles Albert, we know from good authority that the
French government wished that at least a proposal should be
made to Austria to evacuate Italy entirely, on being euaranteed
a pecuniary indemnity for the territories given up which had
belonged to the &-ilevant L rabardo-Venetian kingdom On
this point, Lord Palmerston observed that, alter the confi len-
tial overtures he had received through B iron Hunaeleuer,
the envoy ad hoe sent to Lo .don by the Austrian governmsne,
he was convinced that Austria would never, at any price,
consent to give up her Italian provinces, and the more so as
she could r.ly upon the support of the German parliament el
Franklort in retaining possession of the line of the Adige,
which, in strategy, is considered to be the bulwark of South
Germany. This is .4 Lord Palm, rsmn is of opeuien that,
for entering upon serious negotiations with the cabinet of
Vienna, it is necessary to recur to the proposals for peace
which Austria wee, two months ago, the tir•t to make to the
government of Lombardy. These propositions are sufficiently
known. Austria, preserving the Venetian provinces up to
the left bank of the Adige, would ackn Jeri, dgo the le litical
independence of Lombardy, ripulating for an engagement
from this last, that it would take upon itself a part el the debt
of the imperial treasury. Although these propositions were
put forward by Austria under conditions much mire un-
favourable for her, that is to say. at a period when the Sardi-
nian army threatened to force the line of the Adige, and
when moat of the Venetian towns were enfranahieed from the
imperial government, Lord Palmerston strongly urged the
cabinet of Vienna to accept the mediation of France and
England, if our government would consent to adopt the line
of the Adige as the levee of negotiations to he opened for the
conclusion of a treaty of peace between King Charles Albert
and Marshal Radeteki. At the MOO time as the answer of
Lord Palmerston arrived at Paris, a telegraphic dispatch was
receivs d, announcing that, on the sth, the remains of the
Picelmontese army, rallied under the command of the Duke
of Savoy, sustained a defeat under the very walls of
Milan. Whatever may have been the heroic resistance of
the inhabitants of Milan, it is to be ,eared that the capital of
Lombardy will fall ere long, if the conclusion of the armistice
be not pressed. But Marshal Rodetski, emboldened by suc-
cess, will not consent to an armistice as long as he shall tec
a conviction that the propositions made to his government
by France and England have been favourably rectived at
Vienna. Consequently, ,he council of mi,isters which was
held ye stetday evening under the presidency of General Ca
vaignac, resolved that it was urgent that the arrangement
proposid by Lord Palmerston should be adopted, and ac
cording to which the line of the Adige should be guaranteed
to Aucari tif she consents to abandon Lombardy. It was to
thin effect that instru.tions were sent last night to our agents
at Vienna and Turin, in order to induce the belligerent par-
ties to accept as promptly as possible the Franco-English
mediation.
The Journal de of the 7th, says the army ofl
the Alps is about to move in advance. The depart-
ment of the Ain is destined to receive all the third
division of this army. General Nlagnan is about to
establish his head quarters at Bourg. The 17th of
the line will arrive there on the 14th, and some letters
of officers of the 25th announce their early arrival.
Letters from Moulins say that orders have been
received for the troops of the fourth division to march
immediately.
Paws, Aso. 10. New Lean, —; Three per Cent., 44;
rt.. per lens.. 701 ; Your-and-MIL —; Yours, —. Behests
rim, 1340, 741 ; Do. 0452, 741 Do. Threes, • Do. Two-und-5.
Ihdl—; N !plea Ranee, 721 ; Roman Loan, 37 ; Trrirun
Ronde, 23. Rank Shares, 1610; Exchange on London, 30 Gyp,
25 35 paper; 90 days, 2.5 971 paper.
Railways,.— Pans and UTWZSIA, 672 50; Paris and Rouen, 410;
Rouen and Rena 200; Avignon and 55-reeilia., 225 ; :tru-
boort and Bale, Stl 73; Centre Yle-wel. 265; ALUXI:I2 ant. Bou-
logne, - ; Bordeaux, 396 75; Meth, 376 73.

ATHENS, JtLY 28.

The goer rnment and the bank, after having been at dag-
gers drawn for the last two months, have shaken hands, and
entered into a league to mutually assist end support each
other at the expense of the people. The bank is to be freed
from issuing notes until April 16, 1849. V. hoover deposit
in the bark within fifteen days of the publication of this new
law a sum of money in notes shall receive an interest on them
of 10 per cent. Irom the day of the promulgation of the late
law of the 16th of April, 1848. Whoever deposits money
after the fifteen days will only receive 10 per cent. interest
from the doy of deposit. The two per cent. interest granted
to those who invested money in bank hills in the public
chest is abolished. The amount of notes in circu,ation
is extended from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 drachmas,
A loan of half • million drachmas at 3 per cent.
is to be granted to the government, guaranteed by the hypo-
thecation of .500 shares belonging to them, and repsyable
on April 16, 1849. In case the government shall not be in
a state to reimburtos this sum the property of these shares
will pass ipso jure to the bank, at the value of 1,000 drachmas
each. The government will reserve to itself the simple
right to re-ousels:is: within a year from the day of expro-
priation. The bank has addressed a circular to its debtors,
calling upon them to pay up as speedily as possible, or else
they will be compelled by law, and promising in that case to
assist them again.
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The Minister of the interior has published a preclamation
denying that the sailor who died on board a Greek brig at
Egins, died of cholera. Re says that he only showed
symptoms of it. WI hove news here of the cholera having
broken out at Adap, in Syria, and also in Aleppo. Vessels,
therefore, from those countries are refused to be received in
Greece.

HOLLAND. From the Hague, under date
August 9, we have received the melan-holy intelligence that
Gen. Borcel was found murdered in his bed at his country-
seat near Velsen. Several gold watches and other valuable
articles were sw'en from his loom. No clue has u yet been
found u to whom it wise that committed the cited.

THE EXPLOSION TN ALBANY-STREET.
INQUEST.
Yesterday morning an inquiry was opened before
Mr. Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle, near St. Pancras
workhouse, upon the body of Mary Bentley, aged 15, a
sufferer from the recent expl lion of gas in Albany street.
Ilia jury having retired to view the body, which was placed
in St. Pancras workhouse,
Mr. Loten, the son of the proprietor of the house de-
stroyed by the explosion, stated that a ins of the witnesses
we re not eufflciently recovered from the effects of the acci-
dent to give their evidence, nr indeed to speck at all without
pain, lie wished the whole matter to be silted, as re-
ports had gone afloat that there were gunpowder and other
combustible materiel in the house, which he assured them
was not the fact.
The Con nee thought that, under the circumstai.-es, the
inquiry had h•tter be adjourned.
One of the jary suggested that it would be inexperih tt to
wait until the nos pipes were repaired, as in that cr •• it
would be imposs.ble to come to a satisfactory conclusion as
to their condition a, the tim. of the accident.—Another
the jurymen 'mud his belief that the gu pipes had strew' y
been examined by the company rind found to be perfectly
correct.
The secretary of the gee company here wished to nuke
some statements, which the Coroner said at that .tage of the
proceedings it was not competent for them to hear.
The inquiry was then adjourn d to Monday reek (the
21st inst. ), when it was arranged that the evidence of the
invalid witnesses eli:old be taken in the wards of the Uni
remit), Hospital, and that the court should then adjourn to a
house in the neighbourhood. The Coroner said that the
body of the deceased having been examined, there was no
. season why it should not be buried at once. The jury then
retired to view the scene of the accident previously to being
discharged.