The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1847.

head of considerable reinforcements. General Enna
was ordered to Barcelona to act under the orders of
General Breton, who sras maintained in the office of
Captain General of Catalonia. A report wee spread
that General Armero was named Captain General of
Madrid, but nothing official bad transpired. In the
Chamber, M. Pidal continued his speech in defence
of the late cabinet.

The following is the substance of that part of his
speech delivered on the 22nd, which has reference to
the Moutpensier question :
I think this question, which has been treated of by If
Cortina, of great importance for Spain ; but not of such
colossal dimensisns as he has stated. The questions treated
on this subject between France and England were questions
of fair dealing; and, not fulfilling its engagements, the
French government may have deceived Great Britain more
or less. But what is that to us ? Our position and our
rights are in nowise affected by them. A conference was
held at the Chateau d'En, in which it was agreed upon by
the two governments that the marriage of the lufaira
should not take place till the Queen of Spuin bad a child.
This engagement has been broken. But are wo to
blame ? Is not It. Cortina aware that conventions bind
only the contracting parties ? It is true that we thought it
suitable to celebrate the two marriages together, and I glory
in saying it; for we tlurebr conferred a great blessing, not
only_on Spain, but on all Europe. (Cheers.)
El Espanol states that letters from Saragossa con-
firm the news that Cabrera has entered Spain.
El Heraldo denies the adhesion of Prussia to the
views of Lord Palmerston respecting the Spanish
marriages, and also of the arrival of Cabrera and other
Cachet chiefs in Spain, of which it declares the
government has received no advice,.

El Etperanza gives it as positive that Queen
Christina intends coming to Parts in the course of the
month of March.

FRANCE.—TRIAL OF MADAME IIAHNEMANN:
HOMEOPATHY. Madame Hahnemann, widow of the
celebrated founder of Hommopathy, was summoned on the
20th ultimo, before the correctional tribunal at Paris, for
haviag illegally practised the medical art. The prosecution
was directed by the procureur du roi, on a complaint laid
by M. Orfila, senior member of the faculty of medicine.
Madame Hahnemann declared that she had received a
diploma as Doctor of Medicine, in Pennsylvania. She able
stated that she never received pecuniary reinnueratioa. M.
Deleau, M.D., of Montpellier, confirmed the latter fact, and
stated that he often consulted Madame Hahnemann. The
court pronounced judgment thus: " Whereas, Madame
Hahnemann had, without diploma or certificate available in
France, illegally practised as a doctor, and at the same time
impounded and sold, without legal authority, medical pre-
parations, offences provided against by the law, the said
widow, Hahnemann, be condemned to 100 francs fine, and to
the expenses."
NETHERLANDS:—PROPOSED ALTERATION OF
THE COILT4 LAWIL—A royal message, accompanied by a pro-
ject of law,for the revocation of the corn-law of Dec. 29 1846,
and for the alteration of the duties on corn, was laid last
Saturday before the Second Chamber of the States General.
The project of law, which ia a farther step towards free
trade in corn, was referred to the sections of the chamber.
The report of the commission appointed to examine the
commercial and navigation treaty concluded with Belgium
in July last was brought up and read. It is probable that
some questions respecting it will be addressed to the govern-
ment, at the next sitting of the chamber. The new penal
code has also been submitted to the chamber.

ill—The Orend Council of Berne
has adopted the principle as the future basis for the flaancial
system of that canton of establishing an income-tax. The
amount of taxation is to be fixed annually.
ITALY.—The Pope has abolished an ancient cus-
tom, according to which, on the first day of the carnival, a
deputation from the Jews proceeded to the capitol sad pee
vented to a senator seated on a throne a purse of mil,
soliciting the permission to be tolerated for the next year.
The request was granted in ungracious terms. In future the
tribute is to be paid, but the ceremony dispensed with.
FLORENCE.—Lettere from Florence, 16th ult.,
speak of the Manna the Prince's Luitpold, which, however,
is not described as dangerous. There had been some (lister-
' hence in the Theatre alla Pergola, on account of some poli-
tical invectives being distributed in the boxes. Some arrests
took plate; but it appears to have been only one of those
trifles which, in some French papers, are magnified into
political events.
G ERM AN Y.—AusvuLt.—Letters from Milan bring
alarming accounts of disturbances on the frontiers of Trews.). I
They state that an army of peasants had marched upon
Lecco, and driven the soldiers from the town ; that many
thousand measures of corn had been thrown into the lake.
All the transports for Switzerland• have been stopped. It
was said that politics were not unconnected with this move-
ment, as the price of provisions is nowise exorbitant in Italy.
Austrian troops have been ordered there from Mantua and
Monza. The peasantry make a show of resisting them.
BAVARIA.— On a proposition of the board of health,
the Bavarian Minister of the Interior has issued a decree,
prohibiting the application of ether, except under the imam-
diate superintendence of medical practitioners, from which
are excluded the members of the board of health and the
surgical operators of the 2d and 3d class, under the penalty
of a heavy fine.
M,VIVICH.—So many petitions of all sorts have
bees poured Into the house of Lola Monte., that she has S-
emi orders stating that she cannot attend to any more
requests, as ebe understands nothing about them. This
notorious lady, after having been expelled from Paris, War-
saw, and Baden, has arrived at almost imperial power in
Munich.—The Dusseldorf Zeitung conveys a hint, in a cir-
cuitous style, to the effect that a very high personage in
Bavaria is labouring under an indisposition which causes
considerable anxiety, and has occasioned messengers to be
sent to the crown-prince, who is staying in Italy."
PRUSSIA.—We are glad to perceive, from a German
paper, that the King of P:wisia Is following up his liberal
measures. Permission Ins been given to form a sort of
national or civic guard, for the purposes of police, in owe of
disturbances Another law gives to the Prussian Filmes
Minister the control of calls made by railway companies.
FRONTIERS OF GALICIA, FEB. 18.--The owner
of estates in several districts have been ordered by the 'Who-
rides to send certain quantities of earn to market, and to
sell it eta given price. Great misery still prevails in Ga-
licia, principally on account of large tract" of land not having
been cultivated last year.
RUSSIA AND POLAND.—Advioes from Konigs-
berg say, " It is cer:ain that the customs line between Poland
and Russia has not yet been suppressed, as the exportation
of corn from the former is still prohibited, whilst it is per-
mitted from the latter. Great distress prevails in Poland,
but it would be equally crest even if corn were not half so
dear as it is, for the poor people have no money to purchase
it."—[lt appears clearly now that the late accounts of prohi-
bition of corn exportation from Russia had no foundation.)
WARBAW.—The accounts in foreign papers, with
regard to the assembling of Russian troops on the grain's'
of Cracow, have been so contradictory as to justify the re-
mark of the Allgemeine Zeitwsg, that ' some correspondents
of newspapers appear to write only for the pleasure of seeing
their statements contradicted." The Warsaw Gazette,
Feb. 17, denies the reports given in other journals. These
reports, however, have been too fully confirmed in the leading
journals of Germany, and in private communications, to
allow of any doubt on the subjeet. The counter assertion in
the semi-official paper of Warsaw wears a very suspicious
appearance. The portions of the royal speeches (delivered
in London and Paris at the opening of the respective legisla-
tures) which refer to the occupation of Cracow, were not
allowed to he translated, and the peragraphs in question
were carefully cut out from the foreign papers which ar-
rived in Warsaw. Even that part of the speech of the King
of the French, in which the commercial treaty between
France and Russia was referred to, met with a similar treat-
ment, It being a constant rule with the latter to keep
Poland as much as possible in the dark with regard to the
(*reign relations of the Muscovite empire.