The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-18 00:00:00

which this toast will be prsheed, and which will be
spoken by M. O'Dillon Bartot. •It is said further,
that alter this demonstration, to be attended by the
members of the opposition dill invested with their
character of deputies, one hundred and fifty of them
will, on Monday, at the opening of the chamber, lay
their resignations on the bureaux of the president,
assigning their reasons for this measure. We give
these latter details as matter of common rumour,
which, however, are entitled to slight credit
We have already a statement circulated by the
opposition journals to the effect that an improper
attempt was being made by the agents of the govern-
ment to park a body of national guards, so as to
make a false show of the sentiments of that body, in
relation to the subject of the present public excite-
ment. This charge has elicited from General Car-
bonel, the chef &et:at-major of the national guard, a
letter, addressed to the journals, in which he declares
the charge to be altogether false. The journals which
advanced sad confirmed the charge, deal rather
roughly with this letter of the general, showing that
it is quibbling and evasive, and reiterating the charge.
The National explains the afikir, and shows that the
real object of the proceeding which has been stigma-
tised was that which it was alleged to be, namely, to
collect together a number of national guards, who.
being place-holders, or otherwise dependent on the
government, must act in acoordance with it, and
thus make a false manifestation of the spirit which
pervades the legions.
It is said that the king, alarmed by the agitation
which has been excited, has consulted M. Dapin on
the legality of the banquets, and upon the consequence
of an attempt to suppress them by force, to which it
is reported that M. Dupin hint replied distinctly that
ministers had no legal right to impede these meetings,
and that such a peg would pat the country
oa the brink of revelation. On this a council of
ministers is stated to have been convened, at which it
was resolved to offer no obstruction to the approach-
ing manifestation.
The chamber, amidst the agitation which prevails
in the capital, is almost deserted. There were not one
hundred members present on Wednesday. Mach
curiosity and speculation were excited by an incident
which occurred in the coursed the day. M. Thies had
a conference of considerable duration with M. Ducha-
tel. This took place openly in the Chamber,
and apparently in a manner to provoke attention and
observation. For several years M. Thiess has never
had any personal communication, at least in public,
with M. Dachatel.
The Prince and Princess de Joinville, with their
family and suits, arrived at Algiers on the 9th.

The Madrid Mails of the 11th have arrived. The
Siglio, one of the journals, bad been prmecatsd for
disrespect towards Maria Christina.
The law on the press was exciting much attention,
and a stormy debate was expected in the chamber, in
which M. Olozaga would take • prominent put.
This project of law is rendered especially obnoxious
by the clause which surrounds the queen-mother with
the same inviolability as the sovereign.
The threat of Lord 0. Bentinck to seize Cuba, is
nade as a pretext for delaying the liquidation of the
claims of the Spanish bondholders in England.
The Herakio contradicts the report of a ministerial
crisis.
Espartero is expected bac't in a month.
'Lump, Paw 11.—Tbese tier Ceuta., 7$ at 50 days, 271 cash,
37 15-16 paper; Four per Cate, 101 paper; Fits per Neel.,
17 546 at 50 days, 14; cult. Passives, Ai paper; A pelt; feepolle,
114 cash; Bask of et. Ferdinand, 126 cash. Etebaftge as Lapdog,
47 DO-IC°.

Letters from Munich, of the 12th, announce that
tranquillity had been nearly restored in that city. A
report which prevailed on the evening of the 11th,
that Lola. Monies was at a Royal Chateau twoleagaes
from the city, and only waited an oppotiainity to
return, continued to excite the people. This was,
however, soon contradicted by an official proclamation
of the bourgomaster, that the Countess of Landsfeldt
bad departed for Switzerland, by railway, attended by
an escort of police, and that an order had been Rent to
the authorities on the southern frontiers to prohibit
her from again entering the kingdom.
During the disturbance, when the king, dressed as
a private individual, went to the house of Lola
Mentes, he received a atone, which had been flung at
the windows, on his arm, which had occasioned a
slight contusion, attended with no more serious con-
sequences. Intelligence had been received that Lola
Mentes had arrived at Linden, on the Lake of Con-
stance, on the evening of the 13th, and was to leave
the next day for Switzerland.
Notwithstanding what had taken place, the king
is reported to be still personally popular. A few
hours aner the emeute Le walked on foot, and
unattended, through the city, and even through the
places which had been the scenes of the disturbances,
and was received with the customary marks of

respect.
As to the rest, these disturbances have been
altogether divested of any political signification,
being provoked by the peculiar circumstances con-
nected with the female who has so long and co
discreditably figured in Munich ander royal favour.

We read in the first number of the Lucifer°, a liberal
journal which has just appeared at Naples, an article
upon the affairs of Sicily, which is concluded in the
fowing manner :
The preemie* of the English fleet in the ports of Scily, and
the assistance which the English have given, and do still give,
the Silician revolution is tne forerunner of a storm which
threatens the destruction, not only of Sicily, but of the
whole of Italy. The Sicilians are then d--irous of adding
another political division to al those which already lacerate
this country. The result of a civil war would then be to
give England the possession, howsoever disguised it may be,
of the ports of Sicily. A phantom of independence would
thus be immediately transformed into a rer' servitude.

FURTHER EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
Our Paris letter of last evening. has strived, but
brings no domestic news of interest in addition to that
received by our despatches of the morning.
New, Tan. 17. New Lean, —. hree par Ulna, 74 15 ;
Fives, 116 63 ; Fonr-end-liall, • rs, 99 2S. Begirt Fivol,
1840, 09 ; do. 1541, —; De. Four-indr-lialf, 921. Naples Hanka,
—. Rooms Loan, 94. Treasury Bands, 4. Bank Shams, 3200.
Exchange oh London, *AM 23 30.
Rem. ses.—Paris and Orleans, 1163: Palls and Rosen, 867 50 ;
Rouen and Havre, 422 SO ; Avignon and Marseilles,—; Steen yoeg
andßile, 137 50 ; Centre Tierzon.3ol 60 ; Alden, and Boulogne, —;
Bordeaux, —; North, 140.

Letters fecom Rome of the Bth, which appeec in the
Tuscan journals, my that the greatest excitement pre-
vailed in that capital in oonzequence of the news of
the military preparations in Lombardy and Piedmont.
On the morning of the Bth, a deputation, compared of
the Prince Aldobrandini, Count Pasolini' and the ad-
vocate Bendetti, had an audience of the Pore, to lay
before him a representation of the state of agitation
in Rome. The pope replied, that in the course of a
week he would secularize the ministry, and that
he was in negotiation with the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany and the King of Sardinia, with the view of form-
ing an Italian political league. " I expect," added
Pius IX., "an answer from King Charles Albert,with
permission to take into my service some Piedmouteae
officers, and place them at the head of my troops."
Notwithstanding the publication of these assurances
of the pontiff, the people assembled in great numbers
along the Corso, in a state of very alarming effer rescenoe,
shouting, " Away with all moderation ! Down with
the ministry! We want cannon! Viva Pio Ninoi
solo ! " The same state of things continued at the
departure of the mail in the afternoon.
The .Alba, of the 10th instant, mentions a popular
demonstration which took place at Fiesole, at which
the population shouted, ' Loni live Leopold II!
Long live Charles Albert and Pine IX. ! Long live
the British nation and the English fleet," &c.

The Belgian papers give the following statement of
the commercial movement of the port of Alexandria.
The total value for the year is given at 228,645,300
Egyptian piastres, which was thus divided propor-
tionally among the various countries taking part in it :
England, 83,147,400 p.; Turkey, 56,581,100 R.;
Austria, 29,138,400 p.; France, 26,969,800 p. ; Syria,
17,424,300 To. ; Barbary States, 12,404,200 p. ; Tus
cany, 12,387,000 p.; Greece, 9,845,100 P. ; Belgium,
748,000 p.

COMINENTAL IxT=cot-mt.—The weekly return
of passenger traffic between the Channel ports, for the week
ending Feb. 13, shows the number of passengers through
Boulogne to have begs 1,046, and through Calais, 216.
The corresponding numbers last year were : Through Bou-
logne, 664: through Calais, 249. The passengers through
Boulogne may be subdivided as follows : From Folkestone,
337 ; from Bova, 92 ; from London, 69. Total,For
Folkestone, 381 ;for Dover, 80 ,• for London, 80. Total. MT.
Ltxcol.rt Arincinrrins.—ln excavating aboverhill,
for the purpose of Lying the pipes_ of the water-weeks um
pany, the workmen have imbued some of the minim of
the Lincoln of two thousand rime ago. The plinths sad
foundations of lever& houses se uncovered. These were, it
is supposed, situated within the mr.itery city of the Romans,
which was afterwards extended southsrard. The founda-
tions of the eastern side of the well of the moitsuy city have
also been cut through. Dving the excavations, urns and
other relics have been found.