The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

this violent provocation, sindassoined a most studied
coolness of manner, having monothing judicial in it.
Without forcible language, the simple truth and
evident justice of his answers told with the assembly.
The Minister of Finance is one by one giving up
those measures condemned by the finance committee.
The surrender of the railway project is followed by
that of the projected attack on the insurance com-
panies, which, by a decree of the chief of the govern.
ment, is postponed for 30 years.
The intended intervention of France in the north of
Italy is no longer doubtful. The division of the
army of the Alps, which was lately brought by forced
marches to Parts, and encamped on the Plain of St.
Maur, near Vincennes, has been ordered to return by
forced marches to the Alps. Special trains
have been ordered to expedite it by the railways
which run in that direction. The first of these took
1,300 men! on Friday night to Bourget', and the
second took 2,300 yesterday. The remainder of the
division will be taken successively. Generals MUg-
nal and liegnault aro to leave Paris on Wednesday.
A general council of the government, to which the
President of the Assembly was summoned, was held
yesterday, at the hotel of General Cavaignac, in the
Rue des liarennes. The principal subject of consider-
ation was the affairs of Italy. M. Ricci, special envoy
from Turin; M. Guerrreri' commissary of the Provi-
sional Government of Lombardy ; and M. Amalfii, de-
legated from Venice, had born received in the morning
by M. Bastide, minister of foreign affairs. Va-
rious reports are in circulation as to the derision of
the council of government. It is said that inatructions
have been given to Gen. Ou;:inot, investing him with
a discretionary power to cross the frontier. A report
is also current, and generally credited, that
Lord Normanhy has had conferences wish the
minister of foreign affairs with a view to the joint
mediation of England and France for the settlement
of Northern Italy, the basis being the surrender of
the Venetian provinces to Au-trig, and the annexation
of Lombardy and the duchies t 'Piedmont.
I have been assured th,t the ultra-democratic party
here have had a vessel lying off the west coast of Ire-
land to supply the means of escape to Smith O'Brien
in case of emergency.

The Madrid mails of the 30th and 31st ult. have
arrived with the following letter of our corre-
spondent:
MADRID, JULY 31.
There is much correspondence from Paris and London in
the Espagem, affecting to give minut, details of the so) jugs
and doings of Sir Henry Bulwer and his friends, in reference
to conspiracies, bans, and the like.
The whereshauh4 of Cabrera trans not to be very dis-
ti..c,ly known; as some of the 14 tters from Catalonia talk of
his Laving crass .4:1 the Haro, and others of his retreat to-
wards the P3ren•es. The captain-general says that he
(Cabrera) has been obliged to break up his force into small
partie I, which are so incer.ant:y hunted by the troops that
rebel: come and present themselves for pardon from sheer

fatigue.
The Gazette to-day contains royal decrees accepting the
real. nation of the Doke of fsotom yor, Don Carlos Martin( z
de Irujo of Caso-lrujo, i, trin,ideration of the chat-
tered state of his health, and appointing Dun Pedro Jost; de
Vidal Marquis of Tidal, minister of Foreign Affsirs. Two
othir (keret a follow, relit ring Don Manuel Concha of the
post of ambassador in France, in attention to the reasons as-
signed by him which pr irtnt Lila from diiiehargiog that
office ; and (as I anticipated in my lost despatch) appointing
the Duke of Sotnmayor amliamailur extraordinary and pleni-
penbary to the French republic.
:Naomi., Ayr.. I.—Three per CeLte., lhj cash; after Bolen, In
each. Five p 4 r Cente., In paper, Alter 11.103, 10i rash. Ftwaivi
peipert eller liolfa, 1 cash. Itarik of tit. Fenlimin.l, 50 each. I )14.
count of notes, Gil per cent. Ezoi. ge uu liabtilla at too
cuida.