The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, TVINDAY, 6 30 r r.
The public confidence it hich has been vo rapidly
reviving for several days, hu sustained a severe shock
today. The Three per Conte., which closed
yesterday at 46 60, closed to-day at 46 50;
and the Fives, which closed yesterday at 79 60,
aloud to-day at 76 60, showing a fall of nearly two
francs on the one, and above three francs on the other.
Bank Shares also fell 90 francs. _ _ .

A variety of sinister rumours have been afloat,
which, combined with the news from Italy,
have produced this effect. A report has been
circulated and credited that the cousins of
the president elect, who are politically allied
with the leading members of the re-union of
the Institute and the republicans of the eeilk,
have exercised an influence upon him to induce
him to retract the cabinet appointments which have
been already commenced, or the chief part of them,
and to substitute for MM. de Fallon:, Leon Faucher,
Hippolyts Pussy, and Drouin de rHuys, MM. Jules
Fevre, Garnier Page/. Barthelemy St. Hilaire, and Da-
clero. It appears certain that Prince Louis has bees
besieged with supplications from these parties; but I
have no reason to believe that ens change has been
decided, or is at present likely to be adopted, is the pro-
gramme of the ministry which I have already. an-
nounced. It is said that theappointment of M. Bixio, a
republican of the will., to the ministry of commerce,
has aided in producing the great decline of the funds.
Numerous additional returns have been obtained in
the own of this day, and the total result of the votes
gesertained at the moment I write is as follows:
Benapete, 6,647,314 ; Cavaignac, 1,429,766.
The BonaFartists are preparing a manifestation,
the object of which is to proclaim the empire on
the day of the installation of the president. The
proceenon will be formed at the Bastille, and will
marsh by the Boulevards to the chamber. It is pro-
bable, however, that the more discreet members of 601
pert will sneesed in discouraging this. lam assured,'
Brat M. Debut will be appointed to the pord-oflioe.
The mated sensation has been produced by the
news of the deposition of the Pope as a temporal
sovereign, and the apprehension of an armed inter-
vention by France has aidea much in the decline at
the Bourse.
M. de Corcellee had an interview yesterday with
M. Drouin de l'Hnys, minister elect for foreign
affairs, who, it is said, is extremely embarrassed
by this question. Many here speculate on the
probability that the president elect will be favourable
to an armed intervention in Italy. His letter, how-
ever, written and published on the occasion of General
Cavaignac orde' ing _the expedition to Civita Vecchia,
is inconsistent with this.
Partial returns have been received to-day from Cor-
Mos, Algeria, and the departments of the Alps. It is
fally expected that the president will be proclaimed
and installed on Toursday.
The journals to-day publish the list of the
ministers, agreeing in all respects with that which I
have given. Marshal Bugeaud is appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Army of the Alps. Nothing
is yet decided respecting the Vice-Presidency of the
republic, the prefecture of the Seine, or the chief of
the Post-office, M. Veillard having refused the latter.
An unusual amount of business is now transacted
daily at the Bourse. The calls for the delivery of
stock yesterday amounted to 82,500 Five per Cents.
and 12,000 Three per Cents., equivalent in principal
to 1,650,000 of the former and nearly 4,000,000 of the
latter.
Upon the question of the amnesty, the motion of M.
Lagrange was that it should be inserted by the re-
sident among the orders of the day for to-day. The
motion was negatived by 376 votes against 189.
Pena Dee. 19. New Loan,— —; Three per Cents., 46 SO;
rive par Cents., 78 50 ; Let Loan, • Fours, 76 60. Belgian
rive , isso, —; Do. 1841, —; Do. Threes, —; Do. Two.end-e-
Hall, ; Naples Hestia —; Boma Leis. -r.l Tr/WM
leNs, Bank Shares, 1700; Lubeage as lAndas, 80 day.,
23113 ; 90 days, 23 23, wed
Bett.weva—Paris and Orleans, 730',• Parts and Rouen, 462 30;
Rouen sad Havre, 103; missal sot Warreilles, 187 SO; Stras-
bourg and Bale, CS 75; Cone Vlerson. DM; Amiens end Bat-
tens, 195, Bordeaux, 315 76; Sara, NO.

ITALY.

ROME.—The Alba of Florence states that the

commission of five members, named by the Chambers
of Rome on the Bth inst., were to wait upon Cardinal
Castracane, who was invested with the papal Alter
.Rgo. The people, however, were dissatisfied with
this measure, and cried, " Down with the Cham-
bers! We want a provisional government! a po-
pular government." Several influential persons,
however, interposed, and Minister Sterbini, having
gone to the Popular Club, expressed his approval of
the measure adopted by the commission, so that
tranquility was at last restored. After the commis-
sion had had a conference with Cardinal Castracane,
the latter immediately despatched a courier to Gaeta.
The Pensiero Italian of Genoa, of the 14th inst.,
announces that a Provisional Government has
been proclaimed at Rome, composed of the sena-
tor of Rome, the Senator of Bologna, and the
Gonfaloniere of Ancona. The Pope a declared to
have forfeited temporal power. Minister Sterbini
has harangued the people, declaring that the
Pope alone, as Bishop of Rome, could enter the city,
which would be forbid to all cardinals and prelates.
"TM people," says the Pensiero Italian, " have
waded the streets, crying ' Death to the Pope!
Death to the cardinals !'"

PIEDMONT.—It is not probable (says the National
Savidaien) that the Gioberti ministry will find in the
present chamber a sufficient majority to support it,
and consequently it is believed that a dissolution will
take place.
The deputation from Genoa had arrived at Turin an
the 15th.

In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the
14th, the chamber voted the union of the Duchies of
Piacenza, Parma, Modena, °oastslla, and Reggio to
Piedmont.

TUSCANY.—The city of Florence was the scene
of a disturbance on the evening of the 12th. Two per-
son, had proffered seditious cries against the ministry.
A crowd assembled, and the two individuals were ill-
treated, and even in danger of a worse fate, when Mi-
nister Guerrazzi, who was fortunately paasing thatway,
interposed in their behalf, and recommended the people
to be calm. M. Nioolini, a Roman, then harangued the
crowd in the same Renee, and order was restored. The
National Guard had been called out, but its services
were not required.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 14th inst.,
states that General Zuochi and the Marquis Bevilao-
qua, of Bologna, arrived at Florence on the 12th, and
soon after took their departure for Gaeta, to confer
with the Pope.