The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-16 00:00:00

must be done, and in the face of this manits station,
the ministry, with an ill grace, withdrew its opposi.
tion in the bureaux, and the debate on this impot taut
project was to commence in the Chamber on Thttni.
day. It is contended by the parties of the Left that
the progressist conservatives ought, in consistency, to
vote in favour of the first stage of the measure. If
they should do this, it is expected that the cabinet
will be beaten. Parties therefore looked with much
interest to the debate on Thursday.
The oollision between the committee on extraor-
dinary credits and the government, occupied the atten-
tion of the leading j
ournals on Wednesday. It appears
that it was on l'hursday last that M. Dufaure, as
chairman of the committee, placed in the hands of
the Minister of War a note stating the reasons of the
refusal of the committee to sanction the credits for an
e;pedition against the Kabyles. This note having
been brought under the consideration of a eabinet
enan,^il on Sunday, an answer was addressed on
Monday to the chairman of the committee, declaring,
in then ame of the government, that the proveding
adopted by the committee was an unconstitutional
act, being a manifest encroachment on the prerogative
of the exeoltive, to which alone it appertains to
decide questions of peace and war, and that conse-
quently the cabinet has seen itself compelled simply
to return the note of the committee.

On the recept ion of this communication roach ex-
citement was prothiced in the committee, which im-
mediately adjourns' without modifying the resolution
objected to by the government, and the matter became
afterwards the sullied of animated conversation in
the Salle des Conferences.

The ilulaburg Gazette affirms that the mediation
of Prince Metternich is likely to bring to a speedy
and satisfactory solution the existing difference be-
tween Greece and Turkey. It is proposed that, at
the suggestion of Prince Metternich, M. Coletti shall
write to the divan that King Otho is ready to receive,
with suitable marks of consideration and respect, any
ambassador whatever which the Porte may send to
Athens, and that this proposition shall be accepted by
the sultan as a sufficient manifestation of the good
disposition of the Greek cabinet—that the affair of
M. Nlussurus shall be allowed to drop, the sultan vo-
luntarily sending another ambassador.
The price of bread will be reduced in Paris, for the
latter fortnight of April, from 62c. to Mc. per
king., being equivalent to 21d. per lb.

The correspondence and journals from Madrid of
the 9th instant have been received. Since the minis-
terial crisis, which resulted in the rout of Queen
Christina's party from the cabinet and the palace, and
the arrival of that personage with her family in Paris,
Spanish affairs have engrossed much attention in
the French capital. We announced on Wednesday
the departure of General Concha for Paris. That
officer it appears arrived there on Sunday night, and
immediately sent to the Rue de Courcelles to request
an interview with the Queen Dowager. It was
understood that the answer to this application
made by her Majesty, was that if General Conchs
sought the interview as a private indisidual and an
officer in the service of the Queen of Spain, her
Majesty would receive him on the same evening,
Mondsy, at 8 o'clock, but that if he sought the
interview as the bearer of any commission from
the Queen of Spain or her ministers, in
such case her Majesty would require that
the Charge d'Affaires of Spain should be present
at the interview, and that it should be conducted in
all respects as an official reception, such answer an
her Majesty might please to give to the communica-
tion being witnessed and recorded by the Charge
d'Affaires, and that the reception in that case would
be accorded to Gen. Concha on Wednesday morning.
When the general received the communication from
her Majesty, he immediately protested against being
the bearer of any mission whatever, either from the
Queen of Spain or her government, and assured the
queen dowager that in seeking an audience he had no
other object except to avail himself of the oppor-
tunity of his visit to Paris to express to her
Majesty the homage of his loyalty and devotion.
On this assurance, the Queen received the visit
of the general ; and we are assured that nothing
directly or indirectly passed on the occasion re-
lating to the mission with which it was supposed
the general was charged. El Hereildo of the 9th inst.
gives It as punitive that the mission of General
Concha to Paris has no relation, as some of the
journals had stated, to the affairs of Portugal, but has
reference to the return of Queen Christina, who was
understood to be about to leave Paris on the 10th for
Spain. An erdonnance, dated Madrid, April 8, and
signed by the Minister of War, announces that the
Queen, with the advice of her ministers, has ordered
to be suspended the proceedings which had been in-
stituted against General Serrano, declaring at the
same time that there is nothing in the affair deroga-
tory to the high reputation of that officer. The parties
reported to be concerned in the late ,:tneute at the
palace, have one by one shown their eagerness to dis-
avow the conduct imputed to them. The Marquis of
Santa Cruz has done so in the name of his mother.

El Tienwo says that the ministry contemplate
presenting to the Cortee a project of law for a
civil list for the king consort. El Ihraldo states,
that the Queen has released the Count de Combres-
Altas from the sentence of banishment which had
been pronounced against him, and that her Majesty
will allow him to remain at Madrid, and to receive
the salary which he enjoyed as grand equerry.

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