The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

HOLLAND.-MORE CONCESSIONS.

Important intelligence from Holland has just
reached Brussels, hays our correspondent in that
capital. It appears that the King, having be-
come convinced that his people require a more
radical reform than that comprised in the numerous
bills lately announced by his ministers, has girl n
carte blanche to the second chamber of the States-
General, to make any proposition respecting the revi-
sion of the fundamental law to him which that body
thinks advantageous to the nation.
Since writing the above, I have received the Han-
delsbled of this day (the 15th). It fully confirms
the above intelligence, and adds that his Majesty has
expressed his readiness to agree to those propositions
(bereid is zich to tiereenigen). His Dutch Majesty
appears to have in view the declaration of the Belgian
sovereign.
The Hande/rb/od insists upon a change of minis-
ters, and hints that such will take place. All the
sections of the second chamber assembled this day at
the Hague. The arrival of Count Schimmelpenninek
from London has given rise to the report that he will
be a member of the new cabinet.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 15.
The Burgomaster of Ghent has issued a proclama-
tion, forbidding more than live persons to assemble in
the streets, and ordering the public-houses and other
places of resort to be closed at 9 P.M. A well-known
tavern, the rendezvous of the ultra-liberals, has been
entirely closed, and forty policemen were stationed in
front of the building, in order to prevent any ingress.
This morning the above number was reduced to six.
The garrison remains under arms. Several persons
have been arrested, amongst others some foreigners,
who wore masks whilst mingling with the crowd.
Darfng the disturbance, which may be now said to
be quelled, an attempt was made to erect a barricade

in the Marche de Vendredi. One of the Ohent leaders
of the International Democratical Association is in
custody. Unfortunately several factories in that large
and populous town have commenced short time, and
it is fully expected that some will be entirely closed.
Several liberal journals are indignant at the alleged
hostility of the ministerial press of this country to the
Provisional Government of France.

The average price of wheat for the week ending
March 11 was lkf. 71c., and of rye, I lf. 21c., being
a decrease of 9c. on the former, and of Sc. on the
latter, compared with the preceding week's quotations.
The Minister of Justice has just set a good example
to all high functionaries, not only in this country but
in other nations. Desirous of employing, for the
future, in his department, only persons of merit, what-
ever may be their family influence, he has forwan'ed
a circular to the various courts of appeal, urging
talented doctors of law to become candidates fur
vacant posts, or for poets which may hereafter become
vacant in his office, pledging himself to hold their
services and merits constantly in view in the distri-
bution of places, and they are by no means unimpor-
tant or ill-paid, of which he has the disposal.
The question of a customs union with France is
again brou,tht on the lapis by a number of manufac-
turers in Flanders. A resolution in favour of that
union would have been passed at a recent meeting ut
Ghent if one of the speakers had not recommended
the meeting to wait until the Provisional Government
of France had been replaced by a permanent one.
The government reward of 3,000 francs for the
discovery of the murderers of Mdlle. Evenepoel and
her two servants in the Place St. Gery, Brussels, has
been divided between two individuals, who, at the
time they were inmates of one of the Brussels prisons,
gave information which led to the arrest and execu-
tion of Vandenplas and Ronaseel, the wretched authors
of the triple assassination and robbery.

RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 7.—The
Journal of St. Petersburg of this day contains the first an-
nouncement of intelligence of the February revolution in
Paris. It goes on to the formation of the Provisional Govern-
ment. The joureal says that no French mail had arrived at
St. Petersburg since the 23rd, and that its reports were taken
from. the Journal de FrankfOrt and the Allgemeine Zeitung.
The Journal of St. Petersburg was not published for several
days, in consequence of the court festivities. There is no in.
telligsnce of the health of the Emperor.