The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-16 00:00:00

'ENING,

1846.

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sAapt-ved brtharbgni ' tloOrria ort -these events,
which they retiertgise tasteVet-mikilieMvents which
have occurred in Euriik\sunec the revolution of 1830,
and consider the Spanitirtiairiages as mere pendants
to them. There is one point in which all must agree
that the marriage of the Duke of Bordeaux has more
importance than that of the Duke of Montpensier in
the proportion of nearly four to one. It is that
while the dower gained by the latter is a little more
than a million sterling, the fortune brought by
the Archduchess to the former amounts to the enor-
mous sum of four millions sterling. The opposition
journals regard the alliance of the Duke of Bordeaux
with the house of Austria, and the acquisition of this
royal dower, as a malicious trick played off against
Louis Philippe and M. Guizot, by Prince hlstternicla.
The royal family continues at Compiegne.
Considerable apprehensions of a monetary crisis
begin to be entertained. It is said that the bank con-
templates raising its rate of discount, and restricting
its operations to short bills. "Such an enormity,
says the National, "is all that is wanting to convert a
temporary crisis into a frightful disturbance, and a
real disaster." The amount of specie in the bank is
decreasing. Some days since it consisted of 80,000,000
francs in silver, 5,000,000 in gold, and about'
15,000,000 in small coin, lately withdrawn from
circulation.
The question of subsistence continues to engage
much attention in France. The project of issuing
tickets entitling the bearer to obtaiu bread at 2d.
a pound in Paris, when its price exceeds that
amount, to be distributed under certain re-
strictions among particular classes of the poorer
population has already been modified, the re-
stnctions on the distribution of sack privileges being
relaxed. The Courrier Francais announces that a re-
gelation is about to be adopted in virtue of which ,
these bread-tickets will be deposited at the mairies of
the several arrondissements, where they will be dis-,
tributed to all applicants, without distinction, on the
condition only that the name of the applicant be in-
scribed on a register kept for the purpose.
The arrival of vessels freighted with corn in the
ports of France, continues to be announced in the offi-
cial journal, Le Messager, of Saturday, says, that on
the 7th, Bth, and 9th inst., there arrived in the port of
Marseilles 85 vessels laden with grain, the total
amount of which was 277,500 hectolitres.
The total quantity of grain imported at Marseilles
in the thirteen days ending 6th November, amounted
to 625,500 hectolitres, equivalent to 284,655 quarters,
the greater part of which came from the Black Sea.
Notwithstanding these large importations, great
uneasiness is felt at Lyons at the high price of food.
The situation of this city is rendered more critical in
consequence of the fall of the waters of the Rhone
producing a suspension of the navigation. Measures
are accordingly in progress to establish means of
special transport between Lyons and Marseilles, either
by the aid of the means at the disposal of the military
commissariat, or such other methods as the govern-
ment may find at its disposal.
Accounts from Constantinople, of the 28th ult.,
state that, with a single exception, the harvests
throughout all the provinces of Turkey have been
unusually abundant. At Varna, the merchants have
found it impossible to provide warehouses sufficiently
capacious for the temporary storeage of the grain
which has arrived in that city from all directions
around it. A French merchant at Pera, who has
entered into largo transactions in corn, has been
obliged to resell at the place of its purchase a part of
the grain which he had bought, from the impossibility
of finding ships for its exportation, or warehouses for
its storeage. The demand for freights for the exporta-
tion of corn has been so considerable for the last two
months, that freight has risen to an amount
never before known. The exportations have been so
I large as to create alarm, on the part of the Turkish
government, lest the native producer, seduced by the
prices offered to him, should be tempted to export a
greater quantity than would be consistent with the
wants of the local population. A restriction was,
therefore, announced so far as rarded the single
province of Turkey where thee harvest *as less
abundant.
The government of Hesse Darmstadt, has united
with those of Bavaria, Wurtemberg and Baden, in
imposing an export duty of 25 per cent. on the exporta-
tion of every species of grain.

Advices from Switzerland continue to announce the
peaceful progress of the reform of the cantonal go-
vernments, the result of which must be to strengthen '
the party in the dictopposed to the league of the seven
cantons and the Jesuits.
The Grand Council of Geneva has, after a short dis-
cussion, adopted the project of the provisional govern-
ment for the immediate dissolution of the League.
The result of the reform effected in Basle-ville must
lead to a similar resolution in that canton. Thus in
the diet the anti Jesuit party will be strengthened
by the adhesion of the representatives of Geneva,
Bis'e-ville, and, as is expected, St. Gall, which will
follow the example of Geneva.
Of the cantons of the League, Lucerne is the most
considerable, and there is a strong liberal oppo-
sition, so that upon the approaching decision of the
diet the actual resistance will be limited to the
smallest cantons of the confederacy. Meanwhile
foreign troops are collecting round the frontiers of
Switzerland, Austrian, French, and Sardinian.
The .1 tudsbury Gazette, in announcing the move-
ments towards the Swiss frontier, states that
" there is no intentioa of any armed intervention,
France having declared that she would only consent
to such a measure either in the event of a real
violation of the federal pact, or in the case of foreign troops
. interfering. Austria has declared to Sardinia and to France
that she will consent only to an intervention in case the con-
federation itself should demand one. The prudence of the
radical party is more to be reckoned upon than the power of
the Vorort, and, in any case. Zurich will soon lose the
direction of the federal business."

The Madrid papers of the 9th have been received,
bat they contain no news of interest.

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ROME, Nor. 3.
On the evening of the 28th October, Dr. Newman,
accompanied by Mr. Ambrose St. John, entered the Eternal
City, w:iich had been for the last ten days deluged with in-
cessant : sin. Next morning the doctor's first impulse was
to pay 1,1 homage to the tomb of the apostles (limina alas-
toloruni ), when, as chance would have it, Pius IX. was in
the act of realising the lines of SCOtt:ll ballad—
" The pope he was saying his high high mass,
All at St. Peter's shrine."
Their interview occurred in the crypt or subterranean
sanctuary, the oldest portion of the basilica. Whatever im-
portance may attach to the arrival of this distinguished
transfuga, the most celebrated perhaps of the many that
have come hither since the days of Queen Christina of
Sweden (in which eccentric lady's quondam boudoir I now
write), the presence of the worthy doctor seems to have
influecced the elements ; the rain has stopped,
Et San fAtiill/ *Una.
It would appear that the inundations of tipper Italy
opposed serious obstacles to the progress of the Oxford pil-
gnms, and that at one passage the cart which bore them,
drawn by oxen (in the absence of any other conveyance),
was weilnigh swallowed up by the rush of many waters.
Safe from those semi-apostolic " perils of the flood," they
are now engaged under the guidance of the most inteliigint
I of their countrymen and co-religionists in • brief survey of
whatever is most remarkable here, and in a few days Dr.
, Newman, late of Oxford, with his companions, will take
I possession of chambers in the College of Propaganda, and
enter on a preparatory course, previous to reordination in
the Church of Rome.
On All-hallowe'en the Pope held his first public capella in
the Quirinal chapel. The cardinals have not yet gathered
in from the country, so that out of the twenty who are sup-
posed to be in Rome, I could mark the presenc: of only the
following: Franzuni, Lambruschini, Brignole, Macchi, Gu-
erin, Patrizi, Mai, Mezzofante, Orioli, Bianchi, Massimo,
Acton, Asquini, and Simonetti. The absence of one or two
others was as conspicuous as the alibi of Brutus and Cassius
in the old Roman procession, You may collect my meaning
from my commanication of 20th October.
There will be another capdta to-morrow in the church of
St. Charles Borromeo in the Curio : this church is one of the
most majestic in Rome, and is but fitting in grandeur the
high character of the benevolent spirit it is erected to com-
memorate. Why the Pope should visit this church in par-
ticular on the anniversary of the great archbishop of Milan,
is a question interwoven with the quarrel of the Spanish
succession in 170 G, and therefore not uninteresting
to the casual reader of the Express in 184 G. The
Dean and Chapter of the church being Milanese sub-
jects, and partisans of the house of Austria, had prepared for
the saint's festival splendid banners displaying the arms and
effigy of the Archduke Charles, which, coming to the know-
ledge of the Bourbonitc Spanish Ambassador, the latter
contemplated an inroad on the church at the heed of his
followers and a host of French auxiliaries: whereupon
Clement XI., who had publicly announced his perfect neu-
trality in the contest, proceeded in person to the church of
San Carlo, and as no earthly monarch's insignia can be dis-
played in presence of thin reigning Pontiff, th2re was a
decent excuse fur both sides refraining from collision. Once