The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

draw their remit from the ministry, and the Duke was
to hike= M. Molt of the cireanutance. The
ttrertplied that the situation kad became too difficult, and
that ha did not feel himself strong enough to govern It.
Should it be inquired how we were let into the secret, we
at all parties had an interest 1n revealing it; the
of M. Mold, to excuse the abandonment of their
the partisans of the ministry, to rally, by the news
at dm refusal of M. Mole, the majority which threatened to
willastraw from M. Ouleot. And, in fact, the dissident con-
servatives Immediately returned to their party; they have
premised to stand firm, and to resist, as one man, the storm
that threatens them.
_ _ _ .

Thus, the step taken by the Due de Nemours has had this
two-fold result : it has siabfled the self love of M. Mole, and
re-established for a time the tottering ministry. This wee
not precisely the result aimed at by the future regent.
L'Union Monarchique says:
We learn from London that it is eertaia that at the sm-

14.11CeMellt of the year Lord Polmenton addressed a note
to Prince Metternich, demanding of the cabinet of
Vienna explanations relative to the augmentation of troops
in the kingdom a Venetian Lombardy, and to the occupa-
tion of the principalities of Parma and Modena.
This diplomatic document was likewise communicated to
the other great powers, and to the government of Turin and
Tuscany, who have since also addressed notes to the court
of Austria, asserting that the collecting of the troops in the
plains of Lombardy and of the Po, could not but increase the
popular agitation. As yet the answer of the cabinet of
Vienna has not reached us.
The physicians who were appointed by the Civic
Tribunal to examine Count Mortier have just depo-
sited their report. It is to the effect that they are
unanimously of opinion that the count ought not to
be authorised to leave tho maison de sante in which
he is now detained.

The Madrid mail of the 11th inst. has arrived. On
the 10th, " After a short sitting," says our cor
respondent, "in which no matter of interest came
under discussion, the deputies of Congress met in sec-
tions for the appointment of the new committee to
' report on the further proceedings to be taken in the
accusation of Salamanca. The result of the scrutiny,
although not unforeseen by those who were in the
secret, was favourable to Salamanca. Out of the
seven commissioners chosen, live turned out to be his
intimate friends : Fernandez San Roman, Vahey,
Collantes, Marquis of liedmar, and Zaragoza; the
two remaining members, Artetas and Set*, were
of the preceding committee. This defeat fell like a
thunderclap upon the ultras, many of whom, in
security of victory, were absent.. The new turn
taken by this affair, which absorbs so much
attention, is due partly to the extraordinary activity of
Salamanca's friends, partly to many of the govern-
ment party leaving their neutral perch to throw them-
selves into the scale of the accused, bat chiefly to the
sudden diversion made by the progressistas in his
favour. The progressistas, who to a man voted a day
or two ago for taking the accusation into considera-
tion, completely stultified that vote yesterday, appa-
rently influenced rather by a desire to baulk the
triumph of their political adversaries than by any in-
Itelligtble principle.
This unexpected result is ascribed to the influence
of the Queen, excited in favour of Salamanca.
General Espartero was confined by the influenza,
under which it is said not less than sixty thousand
persons were then prostrate.

Letters from Berne, of the 13th, report that the
Diet has resolved not to answer the note addressed to
it by the Pope, on the ground that religious matters
do not fall within its powers or duties. On the 14th
the question of the discontinuance of the Federal
camp was to have been discussed.
The grand council of the canton of the Valais has
completed the draft of the new cantonal constitution,
and has decided on the eecularisatioa of all the pro-
\perty of the clergy and the religious orders in the
canton. It will be recollected that the monks of the
Great St. Bernard, so celebrated throughout Europe for
! their hospitality to travellers, had resisted the pay-
ment of the fine inflicted on them in consequence of
the part they took in the late civil war, and
had withdrawn to Piedmont, leaving the monas-
tery of the Great St. Bernard deserted. The
following explanation of the actual circumstances at-
I tending this affair, which bus excited so much interest
tin Europe, is given in a letter dated Siou (Valais),
I the 11th inst.
You are aware that the monastery of the Great St. Ber-
nard has been abandoned by its monks ; they have retired,
with their sup rier, to a villa they caused to be built in Pied-
mont four years since, es they foresaw the events which have
occurred. Their flight, notwithstanding the malevolent
reports which have been circulated on this subject, was so.
lunuiry ; the provisional government of the Valais have in
nowise expelled them from their convent, and they are per-
fectly free to return thither. They have not been despoiled
of their property, but merely condemned to pay a fine—a
measure ahich was taken towards all those who excited to
the revolt against the Diet. Tue fine, however, which was
demanded of this convent, one of the richest of Switzerland,
amounted only to some tens of thousands of franks, and will
be covered, and more, by the offerings of those who visit the
hospital in the course of the ensuing year.

The reign of terror, in the most literal sense of the
words, has commenced in Lombardy, and Austria
appears determined to hold out to Italy and Europe
an unequivocal proof of the measures to which she
will resort to suppress even the least tendency
towards any manifestation of public opinion in
those states over which her sway extends.
According to the moat recent advice% which
come up to the 9th, the inhabitants of Milan
were the objects of the most atrocious menaces on
the part of the Austrian commander, itadetski, who, net
limiting his threats to words, gave much more signi-
ficant indications of his purposes. All military officers,
whether in actual service or in retirement, were forbid-
den to appear except in uniform and armed. The artil-
lery were kept night and day, with the guns loaded, and
horses harnessed to them, stationed on the boulevards
of the city, in the square of the chateau, and other
commanding posts. Innumerable patrols of horse
and foot incessantly traversed the streets, the
cavalry with drawn swords, and the infantry,
as is customary in the time of war, preceded
by three men with the muskets ready to fire.
The unfortunate inhabitants were in terror from
hour to hour that the soldiers, who had been confined
to their barracks, except when on duty, since the
massacre on the night of the 3rd, would be again set
ooee upon them.