The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-17 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The Journal 'le Genere states that, immediately
after the arrival of the news of the coup-d'..lut at Paris, the
French and German refugees residing at Geneva assembled
in the room belonging to the Societe du Gruth, to delibe-
rate on the course which they ought to adopt, particularly
as to the propriety of entering France iu arms. Scarcely
had they assembled and commenced their demagogical
effusions, when H. James Fazy appeared, accompanied by a
commissary of police. He observed to them that they had
no right to assemble in that room, and that any act of vio-
lence towards France would compromise Geneva and the
Societe du Grath, which was composed exclusively of Swiss.
He ordered them to withdraw on the instant, and
added, that he was surprised to see several per-
sons present whom he had imagined to be in
German Switzerland. He announced that he was

about ut once to give notice to the federal eouncifof
what was going on, and that be would take measures to
have the affair of the refugees assume another aspect, since
it was not to be supposed that Switzerland would allow
herself to be compromised by their folly. The meeting
then dispersed ; but, in spite of M.J. Vary's recommends•
Lions, a number of them determined to enter if:II2CZ. In
consequence, on the Ilth inst., twenty assembled at Chaney,
and proceeded to Seyssel, where they attempted to force a
passage. After an engagement, in which two gendarmes
were wounded, and in which the refugees lost one of their
companions in the Rhine, they were obliged to return to
Chancy, where they remained until the 13th at midnight.
They then returned to Geneva. During their stay at
Chancy they were closely watched by the French autho-
rities.

SPAIN.

MADRID, DEc. 11.

The decree conferring upon the King the power of
signing official acts, during the Queen's confinement,
will appear on the first symptoms of the approach of
the event. There is no question of a modification in
the cabinet.

The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains the fol-
lowing:

The reply of the government of the United States to the
demands of her Majesty's government has arrived by ex-
traordinary despatch. The frank and honourable manner
in which the federal government has conducted itself on this
occasion, by admitting that an insult was made to the Spanish
flag by a seditious populace, by appreciating it in the same
terms as the government of her. Majesty, and by
offering to the latter all reparations, just, honourable, and
possible for the two countries, has induced her Majesty to
declare herself perfectly satisfied on the affair, and to order
the publication in the Madrid Gazette of the note addressed
by the Ilon. Daniel Webster, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
of the United States, to M. Angel Calderon de la Bares,
Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty at Washington.
Having obtained such a satisfactory result, and the Qeeen,
oar sovereign, desiring to give to the respectable Presi-
• dent of the United States, and to the peoples of the Con-
federation, a testimony of her friendly disposition., has
condescended, by a spontaneous act of her royal cle-
mency, to grant a pardon to all such prisoners made in
the last expedition against the isle of Cuba, as are citizens
'of those states, whether they be already in Spain,
undergoing the punishments they have incurred, or whe-
ther they be still in Cuba. Finally, her Majesty, to give
a testimony of her royal esteem to M. Angel Calderon de
Is Barca, her Minister Plenipotentiary in the United
States, for the efforts he has made to terminate this impor-
tant affair happily has deigned to nominate him Orand
Cross of the Order of Charles 111.

ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

The Risorginiento of Turin, of the 11th,
the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded
between Austria and Sardinia, and presented to the
Chambers of Turin on the 2Gth ult. It contains the
usual provisions of reciprocal liberty of trailing, tra-
velling, and residence, the obligation of paying the
duties prescribed by law, the right of making wills
and donations, purchasing land, suin.; before the
ordinary tribunals, &c. Austrian vessels are to
be subject to no greater restrictions in Sardinian
ports than Sardinian vessels, and retipro-
cally. Nevertheless, the national fisheries and
the coasting trade are exclusively limited to
subjects of either power respectively, and may be re.
gulated by each of the two nations as thCy may
think fit. In case of shipwreck, full restitution uf
the articles saved, or their value, is to be made to

the proprietors. By Art. 12 the navigation of the
Po, the Ticino, and their tributaries, is to be free f,r
the subjects of either power, and this right is to Le
regulated by a special convention. By Art. 13. the
two powers engage to direct the construction of 1116.
railways, so as to connect Milan, Genoa, and Tunia.
The other articles stipulate certain reduction, of
duties, and the reciprocal concession of the privil,4,s
granted to the most favoured nations.