The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1847.

In consequence of the act lately adopted in the
Chambers, preparations are being made to fit out
the government steamers for transatlantic naviga-
tion, and it is expected that the first will sail from
Havre for New York on the let of May.
The journals and despatches of Madrid of the With
ult. have been received. AU the inoonveniesces at-
tending the conflict which has taken place between
the cabinet and the crown continued to prevail, the
Queen being on the worst terms with her ministers.
L'E,.Ao del Comercio says that M. Roca de Togores,
one of the ministers who refuses to retire from the
cabinet unless be is dismissed, was ordered to attend
the Queen, when her Majesty gave him to under-
stand that the present cabinet did not possess
the moral strength necessary for its efficient
existence. M. Rom, however' pretended net
to understand this. Next day,the ministers
met, and, on the proposal of MM. Bravo, Murillo,
and Roca de Togores, resolved not, under any circum-
stances, to give in their resignation. Meanwhile, it
was said that a ministerial combination had been pro-
jected elsewhere, in which MM. Miraflores, Sala-
manca, Armenia:, Pena y Aguayo, Benavides, Vahey,
and Roe de Olano, held conspicuous places. All the
journals admit that a new ministerial combination is in-
evitable, but it is difficult to see what will be the
issue of the present situation, the Queen being in fact
soerced by the cabinet. The system pursued by the
ministry, of removing from Madrid, on the plea of
provincial appointments, all persons in whom the
Queen showed confidence, was continued. An instance
of this occurred in the case of M. Patricio de la
Escoma, under-secretary of the minister of commerce
and public works, who was ordered to leave Madrid
for the provinces on a tour of inspection of the roads
of the kingdom. This was a mere pretence, the real
object being to remove this person, towards whom the
Queen had shown esteem and confidence. It was
feared that an influence would thus be exercised over
the mind of the Queen, and that communications
would be established between her Majesty and the
opponents of the present cabinet. "It will soon ap-
pear," says El Clamor Publico, " that it will be ne-
cessary to fly the presence of the Queen, under pain
of being sent to a fortress, or condemned to a forced
voiafle."
It was said on the 27th that General Oraa, Minister
of War, had resigned on the plea of indisposition.
Intelligence is said to have been received at the
Spanish embassy in Paris on Wednesday and Thurs-
day, relative to Montemoliniat movements on the
frontiers of Spain. These reports, sent by the Spanish
consuls at Bayonne and Perpignan, concur in the in-
formation ,that a general insurrection was about to
take place immediately, the rallying cry. being
"Charles VI. and the Constitution!" Adnces to a
like effect were received from Navarre, Catalonia, and
Biscay; and, indeed, documents found at Toledo
indicate that the intended insurrection embraces
nearly the whole of Spain.

DAMASCUS, MAILCH 8.
Sinceleave was obtained from the Sultan, through the
exertions of Sir Stratford Canning, for renegade Christians
to return to their farmer profeesion of faith without incur-
ring any punishment or molestation, a great number of such
re:cavernous have taken plain voluntarily in all parts of the
Turkish empire. But the degree of security which attends these
renunciations of laliunisns differs according to the
and the views of the local government. Thu., at Berton=
Kismil Perla, who is liberal in his religious news, twelve
Christian renegades have been reclaimed in the space M
little more than a year, while at Damascus, under the eye of
Saffeti Pasha, who is a very strict Mussulman, and amidst
• fanatical population, scarcely a single cue of reconversion
has he-cured ,• and the few apostates who have been induced
to return to Christiani'y have not dared publicly to abjure
Mahommedanism. Recently, • converted renegade died under
these circumstances, that is, without having made his con-
version publicly known. A dispute arose between the
Mussulmans sal Christians as to whether he should be buried
in the Christian or Mahommeden cemetery. But as this

affair has made a great deal of noise here,-and produced a
collision between the puha end the French consul, which
has occasioned an appeal to Constantinople, I shall enter
into details. I shall tell the story as it was told to me by
Mariano Vipardel, the superior of the Franciscan convent of
Terra Santa, an excellent old Spaniard.
In the year '29, one Antonio Nadies, a native of Duane-
mu, professiag the Catholic religion, having struck a Turk
in quarrel, was seized lad put in prison. He was then el.
verely bastinsdoed, and the condition of his being spared'
bother torture was, that he should become a Turk. last&
pded by the devil (to use the good father's words) Antonio
then denied the holy faith : his name was changed to Sells,
sad he lived as a Turk. Nevertheless, later, he assured the re-
verend father that he never ceased all that time praying to
the Madonna that he might not die a Turk. Oath- 20th al
December last, he sent to the superior mmeengers to knew
if he could be received into the bosom of the church,
lag to perform whatever penance might be im The
superior replied that he was delighted with Antonio's good
purpose, and that the first step in his absolution from apes-
Soy, should be to obtain a divorce from hie Turkish wife.
Antonio instantly repaired to the cadi, who was easily per-
suaded to grant this divorce, which was forthwith effected
according to the common forms of Mussulman lave.
Then, to act with more freedom, and that nei-
ther the pastor nor his spiritual patient might be
detected in the " groat work" of the latter's reconciliation
with the church, Antonio came to live with his brother El's
Haan, a Christian of the Latin rite. Here, after much en-
esiragensent and exhortation from the holy father, Antonio,
with great penitence of heart and much effusion of tsars,
the errors of Islamism, and received absolution is
Val his apoetacy, and the excommunications thereby
bacerted. On the 3rd of February he was fully restored to
kis thhear rel4ion ; then he mad, his general confession,
received the hay sacrament with great devotion, and died
on the night of the 16th. The next morning the superior
seat to the French consul for order' concerning the disposal
of the body, informing him that Antonio's onvendon had
been secret ; at the same time he feared that u soon as his
death should be discovered, the Turks would come to bury
the corpse, bevies first washed it, according to their custom.
M. Tippet, the French consul, sent hie dragonaa to take
verbal information. In the mean time the Turks arrived on
the spot with two kawasses of the governor. The superior,
having heard this, sent to beg them not to touch the corpse,
but to wait till a message came from the consul. But the
Turks disregarded his request, and fell to washing the body,
according to their custom. Then the dragoman of the French
consulate, having heard tha story of the superior, went
with two kawames to the house of Ella Nadim, where the
body lay, to save it from the hands of the Turks, and to give
it Christian burial. The dragoman begged the Turks to
wait a little till he had seat word to the Pashad consul ; but
the Turks refused, and would have taken away the corpse
to their burring-ground. Then the dragoman, Antonio
Zonna, knowing the good zeal of M. Tippet, and how far he
was from desiring that a Christian body should be buried in
a Mussulman cemetery, civilly and firmly, and without vio-
lence, took the corpse out of the hands of the Turks. All
the expenses incurred by the Turks, such as the chatraters
and the santons, were paid, and willingly received ; and the
Musulmans departed with their two kawaraes to make their
report to the packet Then the Christians, full of delight
sad Joy, and loudly praising the activity and great seal of I
Tippel, eagerly shared the task of carrying the body, and
isnot notice to tie Franciscan superior, who forthwith pro-
seeded to the Catholic cemetery, where, in the presence of
ISM than 600 Christians, be performed the customary rites,
and gave the dead a Christian burial. No sooner had the
aspens returned with his monks to the Franciscan
amarent, than he saw from the terrace pass down
the street an age, several lapses, and a groat
Platitude of Turks, coming to prevent the exerS•
tits of H. Tippet's orders. Arrived at the house a:
Nadim, they sought for the body, bat Men WU
!that it was already
.bud by order of the Frenektal
mad the Latin parish priest. Had the Clhciathma an
'Allay in buryimaguinarsl tbre body, serious dilleatinemp,poselb
Hie sanat kind, must have oath nation them
tiff the Tneb, Whitt .‘ratald usasebleiltisivo then birth
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diebteseemet et the mitiMit. Mesa difilcalt Msamover
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mitt fey and Mien *pis.
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hound hi wit Mt *sit iestmegige the, gail
mesa rettresi. • at Hwy dii• smi a tag
found the Galt dmisie=o.lmisi
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the Chastises Mitedimmt eme by it..
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dada teem eittabe the litmliammill rem smut
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Haropeon Oilman moess4 la aside
Tipplultabis sonslderatioaa: The paella Mshd upon M.
his dragoman and kawamee for their di'-
seepesterlio dilgadatt is opposing the keystones of the !Orem-
alias
to the if. Tippe has refemedio do. tTpot at the
The
appealed Pm U.
The French consul has long solicited his renal, and daily
meets the arrival of his istosstar.
The Christians teem as muserons M DlLMltSetti as they
were in the days of Gibbon. There are about 10,000 of
them ; the Mussulasans amount to 100,000.

_ JANIR—On the 18th ult.
ab;eifel.a—niiii,two sham alma. of eartisquike won
felt as Zaas-Boma (Baru P7r6s6s), and au the 23rd

ult., the same phenomenon was repeated between four and
flee in the afternoon.. ,
THE. LAST OF ME LALLYO.—A young Dian bear-
lag the name of Count Lally-Tollemdal, one of the most
illustrious in France, was brought to trial on Wednesday
lest before the Court of Assists of the Seine, for appro-
priating the money of hie employers, and for forgery. After
a somewhat adventurous career, the prisoner entered the
service of a milk merchant, named Lefebvre, in 1848, and was
specially charged to collect the debts. One day he suddenly
disappeared, and it was then found that he had made away
whit a sem of 836 ftmes, and that, to disguise the theft, he
hriondreetsd a receipt of the payment of a certain BUM to a
resew named Boulanger. The jury found him guilty,
with extenuating circumstances, and the court condemned
him to three years' imprisonment sod to 100 francs fine.
The father of the accused was governor of Pointe
S Pito, and his ancestors have always been dis-
tinguished fur their eminent eervices to their country.
The chief of the elder branch of the family was the Marquis
de Lally-Tollendal, Viceroy of India, Great Crone of the
Order of tke Saint-Esprit, and was taken prisoner by the
English at Pondicherry. He was unjustly condemned to
death and executed ; but his memory was subsequently
fully vindicated, and every reparation made to it that could
be made. The last letter Voltaire wrote was to this distin-
guished man. His son, who died in 1830, was a peer of
France. The prisoner in 1831 made a demand to the Coun-
cil of State, to declare that he alone was entitled to the name
and arms of the family de Lally-Tollerulal, but he did not
follow it up. In 1831 he was condemned to death by the
Court of Peers, for being concerned in the events of April;
but, after being secreted two years in Englund, he wo again
tried and acquitted. The court, the advocates, and the
witnesses all expressed deep regret to ace the bearer of such
a great name condemned for fraud and forgery.
INCENDIARY FIRES IN FRANCE.—On the 213th
tilt. placards were posted up, in the sous-prefecture of police
at Vitry-10-Ynuteats, to the intent that if the price of corn
was not reduced the property of the grain-hoarders would be
destroyed. No one took any notice of these isaandiary pla-
cards, but at nine o'clock in the eyries the hews ern 1
M. Launois-Viet, in the faubourg St. Disks, was ussolsoi
to be in flames, and in hell an hour was a heap dash &
Nine cows and a horse perished in the flames. The
de-kgis and warehouses escaped destruction. A Mom=
woe blowing at the time, and the flames spread to the next
home, belonging to an subergiste. All the stabling wee.
burnt down, and three valuable horses perished. Last week
two farmhouses in Rains-la-Brulk were burnt down, and it
was supposed that they had been maliciously set fireto. 01
the night of the 28th a farmhouse was discovered to be on
fire between Vitry and Chalons. The authorities ere on the
look out, and it is hoped that the malefactors will soon be in
the hands ofjustice. The village of Preigney (Haute Saar)
was three days ago in great part destroyed by fire. The loss
of property is estimated at 250,000 f. One of the inhabitants
perished in the flames.
A fire broke °Mon the 26th tilt., at juvincourt, in the
department of the Alnie, and in the course of a short time up-
weeds of forty houses were burnt down. The loss is stated
to be 40,000 franca.
DESERTERS FROM THE FRENCH TO THE AMER/-
CAN Nee e.—The French journals have frequently com-
plained 'of the injury done to their merchant navy by the
desertion of their seamen to the American navy ; and hitherto
it appear•, the remonstrances of ministers and journalists
have had no effect in diminishing toe evil complained of.
The comparatively few French ships that in ordinary times
trade to American ports, has prevented the evil of desertion
being magnified into anything like one of national import-
ance. But since the recant scarcity of corn and flour in
Europe, and the great supplies furnished by the United
States, the number of ships going from France to America
has increased, and with it there has been an increase of
desertions. The Journal du Havre devotee a long leading
article to the exposition of the grievance under which
France labours in this respect, and cites a recent instance of
neglect, on the part of the American authorities, of the
treaty of extradition. The Joseph, a three-muted vessel
from Havre, made a voyage lately to New Orleans for a cargo
of flour. The moment the vessel arrived in port every man
deserted her. Knowing, by experience, the powerlessness of
the French consul to enforce the return of his men, the captain
commenced enrolling a new crew, and the manner hi which
this is effected affords certainly a curious specimen of mora-
lity in this land of liberty par excellence. The captain
makes application to a party, who makes it his business to
MS* deserted ships ; that party engages to put on board a
certain number of hands, but there his responsibility rots.
He hu in his service a number of tavern keepers, who select
from the frequenters of their taverns such as are in a state
of inebriation, and for whom the saihr broker pays the land-
lord's score. When the vessel is ready for sea, these men
are hurried on board, completely drunk. It was a crew coin.
posed of men such as these, and in the condition here de-
scribed, that the captain of Joseph had put on board his
ehip when she had completed ber cargo. They had not been long
on board, however, before they retuned to go with the ship.
The captain submitted his case to the French °easel, who
confessed that he could do nothing fur him. He then cos-
suited a lawyer, whose advice was, that with time and
away
he would certainly obtain Nalco. Seeing the espenes
delay which the obtaining of justice would cause him, the
captain quietly pocketed the injustice, and, with much diffi-
culty, procured another crew.
SWITZERLAND.—The Vorort of Berne having
demanded explanations from Lucerne relative to the mili-
tary preparations making in that canton, the executive
council of Lucerne replied, " That the events of 1844 and
184$ have convinced Lucerne that a party existed In
Switzerland which sought to obtain its end by the violation
of the right of nations and of the federrl pact, and by the
means of deli war, that party had become so powerful,
that the government in whose territories these criminal
projects originated, had not the power to prevent their
execution ; se much so, that the Vorort itself did not think
fit to put a stop to the prevailing anarchy, until it had
raised its head. The projects failed, but the originators of
them still exist. This deplorable feet has convinced the
state of Lucerne, first, that it must he ready to meet all
emergencies, and secondly, that it has to rely upon itself
only, and upon the measures sanctioned by set 4 of the
federal pact These are the motives for the military pm.
parations of Lucerne."
GERMANY. BAVARIA. The new Binfiließ
ministry is preparing a popular programme. It realer
improvements in education, in legislation for the press, and
in promotion for the army.—Weser Gazette.
SAXE-GOTHA.—Prince Albert has given 1,000 dol-
lars towards instituting premiums for the best masters of
primary
_schools in Saxe-Gotha.—Frankfort Journal.
RUSSIA.— ST. PETERSBURGII, FEB. 25.—There
are now 1,565,000 sacks of rye in our magazines. From the
price, which holds out, more than another million will come
, in. This capital consumes 712,000 sacks annually. Russia
will have exported in this year at least 3 millions of eschet-
mem &urn, or about 21.3 millions of quarters.—St.Peters-
lerfakiteggali.—Morm, MARCH 17.—Advices re-
&dud from this city are, in substance, that Bederkhan
Bey had decapitated a bishop and a Jacabite priest, and had
submitted several Christians to the most atrocious tortures.
The Chaldean were in hourly apprehension of a massacre.
The Porte, however, expected to have 40,000 men in the
field at Carpont, in the course of a few months, to rescue this
miserable population from the horrors to which it is ex-
posed.
GREECE.—Arantre, MARCH 20.—Letters have
been published or addressed by re Turkish minister to the
Greek envoy, insisting that M. Museums, Turkish envoy at
Athens, should, on his return to his post, receive a Tint from
Gen. Coletti, with a confession of regret for the late affront.
General Coletti replies, by objecting to hi. Measures, " as
an agent, who rendered diplomatic relations always difficult
and sometimes intolerable for the Greek monarch." Con-
sequently General Coletti objects to receiving Measures or
making him any apology ; but offers to send an agent to
Constantinople, who will express the regret of the Greek
government. This ought to terminate the differences.
FRENCH GUIANA.—The commander or a French
merchantman, just arrived at Havre from Cayenne, gives a
deplorable account of the state of commerce in that colony :
French produce is overwhelmed by the competition offered
by American merchants, who throw previsions into the
colony et inferior prices. Both colonists and =cremate are
placed is a condition of inactivity from the Indesision of the
• goverment as to the period
.and tulle ef amonipetion.
, The Meese& are everywhere dumeguAnst awl IliKstreed.
• fa eases they refuse to week at all ; and it is with
ty that a tow can be prevailed upon **give
=sr hew hear' labour la the ley. The themposee of
this street WOO Is, thektlio loil• oloot=klea bowery
direithe, the- met tir them to eider' ht. limy of
the prepeflisie Ithwei br these iiimk thready list a thhd,
and •001••••• • )Mfof dew 000; Indeed, they fad the
unable to suet Br= SO lave
pepandloa the tasks of
labour preseribed by the ithisesanees. This amount goes
on to my, that in eavevewerwe of the liberty given by, or
forced from the °waive ii arty, mendieity, ap•
which had not hither* Ishird the colony, now -
stalks
throneh the streets. Lisle efambeaription are hawked about
in favour of the or, 'Mahon poor are no other than freed
slaves, who believe themselves dishonoured if they work;
ihey prefer beggary, sad omen robbery, to labour.
FRENCH COLONIES.-- Bouse&N.—'rbe Minis-
ter of Marine and Ur Colonies has called the attention of
the Havre Chagas. of Cemseres to the delay and irregu.
laxity of the ••••••••ind••• with this Mead, contrasting
so nsfavoorably wads the regabrity given to the communi-
cation with the &Afar lc the Eighth iblaso-yaskets. He
'admires Met en /MOW 0N11.1.17 MB alfod to establish a
regular stosuposhat Grubs lOUs* Arlen and Bourbon,
: but that before 'MIMIC Ide• emegetheds with a foreign
: cowpony,. he WAN& ilia Meth* te assedela ea Midterms
' the shipping intend of Hem would wislieteke the task. .
THE 111C0IIABIL-ArrEgrricp Daum Om
4
ruurstm—The Allalf. Qamatte, in its annul retr .
has gathered ishr methathat "ogees the few fads w
have too ne boot time to dee totledlei the '
made Meese. ear ego by the Danish 'overwrote
nine demoishude. the Gaspe stserarr wu esqlegsd for
the paepeee3 sad the , Odom frigate, destined fer a wider
ol vele ge. woo appohsted to Midst at the outset. the
Omits, Weems, "MIN about lity Chinese ardAs and
lame to the Ifilestremr se the nudist 'Or the seillasent.
thus 1M tub of diredleg a ells ler the first
of the bleeds sad there agewately
skrootidning , was' assidnowily ildieteed up.
Bat Mom it unsafe for the limpesas to
condones • the Oshawa had beep issagelled 10....1tnt
into Ferang' NU 'tile siddillet ef •thwa Awe it
and the 1)111•• adesedeilfi ROA* willi. ' The allsals•
le
iwpwatly waded her way eta Oat seta snafu webs t t
Win& She 'had 'eriginell4,- : end the steamer
remained at 'Peneng. Mere made to mallet
vessels to the estduasur, a ' ispervisina kept up,
but to what drat ft wet
..mestreety karen. The Gazette
states, " that a Pannone overseer ONISTOIskore now un-
'that' the etzeogth of the Dada .fit, the rest