The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-03 00:00:00

SURRENDER OF ABD-EL-KADER.

We have received the Paris Journals of Friday and
Saturday.
The rather sudden death (announce: in this
paper en Saturday) of Madame Adelaide, niter to the
King, and so nearly of the same age as 114 Majesty,
joined with certain unmistakeable symptoms of the
decline of Louis Philippe's health, gave awe to serious
apprehensions, felt even in the money mat ket. The
deceased princess has divided her estate between her
royal nephews, passing, however, over the Due
d'Aumale, as sufficiently provided for, he being heir
of the Prince of Conde. Madame Adelaide was gene-
rally considered to have been privately married to
General Athalin. _ . .

Whatever gloomy forebodings might have been
awakened by this event, which flings the ro) al family
into mourning, they were counterbalance d by the
satisfactory tidings that Abd-elsKader had not only
surrendered to the Due d'Aumale, but bud already
arrived, a prisoner, at Toulon. After 'he recent
engagements with the troops of the Emperor of
Morocco, in which the Emir was crashed
by an overwhelming superiority of f 'me and
numbers, his situation had become most hazardous.
No hope of escape from the pursuit of the
sons of the Emperor Abderrahman, and the
army commanded by them, remained, except to
arose the French frontier and surrender to the prince
governor of that colony. Abd-el-Kader accordingly
adopted this course, and embarked on the 2.5 th at
Oran on board the steam-frigate ASMotlil., in which
he arrived at Toulon, on the 29th.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, M. Lacrosse,
an opposition deputy, was nominated to the place of
fourth secretary. M. Sauzet then took his place as
president, with the usual forms ; after which he in-
formed the chamber of the death of the Pribeess Ade-
laide, and proposed to the members to proceed imme-
diately after the sitting to the Tuileries to express
their condolence to the King. This preposition was
acceded to unanimously.
The Ilifoniteur publishes the balance-sheet of the
Bank of France up to the morning of the 27th ult.
The following is a summary of the principal items.
The assets consist of 100,642,350 fr. in specie in the
vaults of the central establishment, of 28,000,000 fr.,
forming the capital in the branch banks, of nearly
3,000,000 fr. in public securities, and of 6,348,0001 r.
still due for the rentes sold to Russia. This state of
affairs proved that the moment was come at which
the rate of discount might be reduced, and the bank
did not require any great entreaties to grant this
measure. The discounts and loans by the central
establishment and the branch banks together, during
the last quarter of the year amounted to 461,311,700 fr.
The notes in circulation in Paris were in amount only
233,182,200 fr. Thus the admitted general proportion
between the cash in hand and the issues i- far from
being attained. This proportion would allow the
bank at this moment to carry its issues for Paris
alone up to 327,000,000 fr. Now the ascertained cir-
culation is below this amount by nearly 100,000,000 fr.
The account current with the treasury amounts to
63,000,000 fr.
We read in the Patric of Florence, of the 23rd
ult.:—" On the 13th the ambassadors of Russia,
Austria, and Naples, accompanied by the charge
d'affaires of France, M. liourgoing, waited on the
Sardinian Minister for Foreign Affairs at Turin, to
protest against the publications in prose and verse on
the occasion of the fetes at Genoa on the 10th. The
Count de Saxe-Marsano replied with noble and dig-
nified firmness to these diplomatists."
The Journal des Debuts of Saturday disavows this
protest, so far as relates to the charge d'affaires of
France.
Intelligence of eke evacuation of the city of Fer-
rara by the Austrians, and the occupation of the
by the pontifical troops, has arrived.

Oar lettere from Ilerne are to the 28th ult. The
partisans of the federal government are exulting from
day to day in the discovery of documents among the
archives of the cantons of the defunct league proving
the complicity of the French government with the
party of the insurrection, and compromising, as they
allege, in a serious manner M. Guizot and his col-
leagues. These inculpatory discussions, and the do-
cuments connected with them, are too extensive to
admit of even a synopsis here, and would offer but little
interest, especially when no one now seriously ques-
tions the fact they are produced to establish.
A letter from Bile of the 28th ult. says:
The ambassador of France, accompanied by his second
secretary, set out to-day for Neufchatel, but it is positively
stated that he will return on Monday. Count Reinhard, first
secretary of embassy, has gone to tiburg, in the llrisgau,
where the Russian secretary of legation is at present. The
government of Lucerne decided, on the 24th, that the fol-
lowing religious bodies shall pay, in the apace of a fortnight,
one million of francs :-Ist, the convent of St. tirbain,
500,000 fr. ; 2nd. the pious establishment of Monster,
400,000 fr. ; and 3rd, the other convents, 100,000 fr. The
government is to adopt ulterior measures, which are
to depend on the greater or less degree of readi-
ness manifested by the religious bodies just mentioned.
According to orders from the Vorort, the troops of occu-
pation in the canton of Lucerne are to be reduced to
four battalions of infantry : • or the present, however, the
canton is to be occupied by 13 battalions of infantry and 13
companies of special troop,. Hitherto the army of occupa-
tion is composed of three divisions (Burckhardt, Donate
and Ziegler). The general-in-chief has just d'
the two first-named officers, Col. Ziegler being tor the
future to command the whole. In the grand council of
Friburg a motion has been made to introduce into the new
constitution provisions concerning the relations between
church and state. The motion has been adopted by forty
votes to seven. The grand council has adjourned to the
3rd of January.
The newly-elected grand council of the canton of
Schwytz is composed, as is reported, of a majority of
the party of the late league, yet, what is strange, it
has sent as delegates to the Diet two liberals.

We have received the journals of Constantinople to
the 16th Dec. Their contents are without importance.
A speedy adjustment of the difference with Greece
was expected by the submission of that power to the
demands of the Porte. The cholera had all but die-

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Despatches from Malta announce the arrival 01
Right lion. More O'Ferrall, the governor.

Since the above was in type, we have received the
despatches which left Paris at noon yesterday.
With its characteristic inefficiency and irregularity,
the French post-office has inaugurated the new postal
convention by a series of failures. The London night
mail of Friday, due in Paris at half-past ten a
nd was
Satin day, did not arrive on Saturday at all, and was
not distributed even on Sunday before half-past ten
o'clock a.m. The London mid-day mail of Saturday,
due in Paris yesterday (Sunday) morning at half-past
four o'clock, was not delivered there yesterday at half-
past ten o'clock, and had not even arrived, so far as
our correspondent was informed.
Yesterday being the morrow of the Jour dl
an universal holiday in France, the publication of
most of the journals was suspended. The two or three
which appeared contain little intelligence of import-

nee.
The Journal do Dedxdshaving denied that any de•
mend had been made by the government of Switzer-
land for the recall of M. Bois le Comte, La Passe
reiterates the statement. "We persist," says that
journal, " in affirming that this demand has been
I made, if not in official style, at least in formal and
pressing terms; and we will add that this demand
has been immediately answered by the formal promise
to recall M. Bois le Comte within a month or six
weeks at the furthest; that is to say, as soon as the
debate on the address is concluded."
By the Levant mail, received in Paris late on
Saturday, we have the Athens journals to the 20th.
The Chamber of Deputies of Athens had autho-
rised the government to appoint thirty-lice new
senators for the purpose of creating a majority in that

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