The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Ma rid lettere of the 30th state that M. Bermudez
de Castro has been induced to withdraw his resigna-
tion, and the ministerial crisis is postponed.
The Herald° remarks that of late an extraordinary
increase has taken place in all kinds of crimes in
every part of the kingdom. The Espana states that
the French government has demanded authorisation
from the Spanish government to establish a tele-
graphic station at Irun, so as to unite its lino from
Bayonne to Paris with that from Madrid to Irun—
such station to be given up to the Spaniards, when
their projected lines of telegraph to the French fron-
tier shall be completed.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY Evuxixo.
The military tribunal appointed at St. Petersburg
to examine into the circumstances connected with
CIO late embezzlements, has passed sentence on the
accused. • General Uschakew is to be dismissed the
service, with six months' imprisonment; Admiral
Ifolsidow, to be ;imply dismissed; and Generals
Arbesow, Orabbe, and a'se, ti; undergo three months
imprisonment. General Uschakow 'Y
sentence has been
imetirmed by the Emperor; the sever;:
f of the others
has been mitigated.
The printing offices of the Monitcur, and tiii:.•est
all the other journals were closed yesterday. The
Patric and the Siecle are the only papers that
appeared this morning. They neither of them con-
eib any political news of importance, but judging
Aram what we have seen for many weeks past there
is no reason to suppose that the public lose much by
their contemporaries having made • holiday. The
Siecle observes that during the last few months there
has been a marked increase in the consumption of
butchers' meat in Paris.
The supply (it says) has become very considerable, and
yet the price has gone on rising. This fact can only be
explained by the increase in the number of consumers.
One feet, which shows that the working population in par-
ticular has increased ic Paris is the rise in the price or pork,
which is more than '26 per cent. higher than in the mouth of
April last year. At that period pork was only worth on an
' ge 9. c. the kilogramme, and now the ge price is
1 fr. 25e. The average price of beef in the markets of Sceaux
and Palmy was, in April, 1852, 91c. the kilogramme; now
it is 97c. From Ifs. de. the kilogramme, the average price
of mutton has risen to If,. 23c. As to the supplies at these
two markets, they have been during the last month sine-
fifth more than they were in April, 1852, particularly as
regards oxen and sheep. The market for meat at the Pointe
Saint Eustache has also acquired considerable extension.
Daring the last month there were 668,134 kilogrammes of
meat sold by auction, being an average of nearly 19,000
kilogrammes • day. This is an increase of 2,000 kilo-
grammes a day on the quantity sold in March.
The Pattie says the accounts from Fribourg are
every day more and more deplorable, and it
professes to be assured that a number " per-
secuted" families have addressed themselves to
several of the great powers to solicit their good
offices. The late insurrection at Fribourg having been
got up by the jesuite, encouraged by the sym-
pathies of all the absolutist powers, in the hope of
overthrowing a constitutional government, it is quite
natural that the vanquished insurgents should say
they are persecuted, and call upon their
.patrons for
aid. It is curious to see the high priests of the
"principle of authority" thus appealed to by a sec-
tion of their own party defeated at the barricades.
It is reported that the Xing of Wurtemberg has
offered his mediation in the difference existing be-
tween Switzerland and Austria ; and that there
is a chance of his proposal being accepted.
An extraordinary scene occarred a few days ago
at Versailles. A man, whose name is unknown, was
lately arrested on suspicion of being concerned in a
murder committed in February last on the high road
from Saint Cyr to Trappe'. The man was laid
in irons for several days, and repeatedly in-
terrogatad without any evidence against himself
being extracted from him, and he obstinately refused
to give his name or address. He was confronted
with a companion of the murdered man, who saw
the murder committed, and, "unfortunately," as a
legal journal oddly phrases it, was not recognised by
Ms as the assassin. The Jute d'lnstructioo, in
despair at being unable to identify his prisoner,
marched him through the streets of Versailes on a
market day, and exhibited him loaded with irons
sad bound with cords, held by two gendarmes, at
every corner of the market place. No person, how-
ever, came forward to respond to the question
whether the prisoner was known to any one in the
crowd, but as he was being escorted back to prison one
of the gendarmes heard a little girl standing
on the steps of a mountebank's stall say to
her mother, " Why, that is M. X. —, who
used so often to come to us." The mother
replied by a slap on the face, and a few
minutes afterwards all the inmates of the mounte-
banks' tent were arrested and placed " an secret."
I Thus the matter rests. The zeal of the Juge d'ln-
demotion is doubtless commendable, but a question is
nada whether, in taking upon himself to canvass for
evidence in such an extraordinary way, he has not
infringed the French code, which has expressly abo-
lished the public exhibition of criminals, and which
still less can be supposed to countenance the placing
an untried and consequently reputed innocent man
in the pillory.
A novel method of advertising has just been
started by a company, under the patronage of the
prefect of police. According to an old regulation, the
driver of every hackney carriage is bound to give to
his fare, on taking up, a ticket with a number, so
that in case of property being left in the carriage the
driver may be easily found. The new advertising
company has obtained permission to distribute to the
owners of hackney carriages elegaut little books, on
the covers of which is the requisite number, while
within there are fifteen or twenty pages of adver-
tisements. It is calculated that each of the 1,200
public carriages in Paris will distribute 12 numbers
per day, which will give the company a circulation
14,000 per day, 432,000 per month, and 5,164,000
per ear.
The Monsieur de r.cfrmee says :
The circulars of July 17, 1835, and February 26, 1841,
formally interdict any persons on active service in the army
tions publishing any writing of theirs, without the authori-
sation of the superior administration. But it sometimes
happens that the persons receiving this authorisation place
del the work, "Published with the authorisation of the Mi-
nister of War," which might lead to the idea that the
Mialeter agreed to the ideas set forth in the work. To
=taimy such conception, all the persons in the army
• leave to publish a work, must abstain from men-
tioning • Minister of War or the administration of that
departesett, on the cover or otherwise.
An order of the Prefect of the Haute-Garonne has
authorised M. Barrande, engineer, and his agents to
proceed in that department to itch surveys as are
necessary for planning out a railway from Toulouse
to Spain by the heights of La Glere:
' The Bourse was exceedingly animated to-day, and
a marked rise took place in the funds and all the
leading railways. -It was announced that the mi-
-1 perior railway commission had approved of the
fusion of the four Normandy companies, and the
I basis adopted for the issue of the new shares. Ac-
cordingly the quotations for all these liner were
nearly on a level, the alight difference being re-
ferable to certain interest doe to the shareholders
of some of them.
Closing prices at the Bourse.—For money: Three
per Cents., 821. Sc;. Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
8103L21.
209:c.;
Four.Foranthed.a.Havaccounpet :r
ceThrn:., raif.Ce2orts..,;
Bank Stock, 2,680 f. Railways.—Northern, 975 L
504 e• Orleans, 1,125 f. 25c.; Paris and. Strasbourg.
915/. ; Paris and Lyons. 975 L 25c.; Paris and Rouen.
1,170 f. • Lyons to the Mediterranean. 880 f.; Western
of France, 8061.
Latest quotations by telegraph i—Amsterdam :
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent.. 43g ; Metallistnes
Five per Cent., 84; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per
Cent., 52 15-16; Spanish New One per Cent.,
23 15-16; Interier,.43; Certificates, 6 11-16 ; French
Three per Cents., 75; American Bank. 6 3-16 ;
Exchange on London, two months, 11.75; short,
11.81 k Vienna Metalliques, 941; 1851, 107 ; Bank
Shares, 1,406 • Exchange on London, 10.41 ;
silver, 108. Berlin : Loan, Four per Cents. New,
100; Four-and-a-Half per Cent., 1031 ; Bank
Shares, 1031; Exchange on London, three months,
6.211 paper, 6.211 money.