The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1856.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WIDNIBIDAY Svurroco.
There are some curious rumours in vogue about No-
vae:, who is still at Paris, and, as it appears. rather
in a disagreeable position. His Madrid friends have
written to ask him to return to them immediately,
expecting as they do at any moment the fell of
O'Donnell, and feeling apprehensive that, if Nar-
vaez should not be there to take advantage
of it, some other person may obtain the
Presidency of the Council, which the friends of Nar.
vacs • ould keep for him. But, unfortunately, Nar-
ve:z cannot go yet, for Serrano, who is to bring the
passports anthorisiog him to return to Spain, has not
yet arrived at Paris. In the meantime, Nunez is not
very well treated by the Madrid prose. Haown journal,
El Leon Espanol, asserted the other day that he had
never enriched himself while he was in the Queen's
Ilservice, and that all his fortune wes inherited from
I his father. This statement seems to have made quits
a sensation at Lola, hie native tows, for a citizen of
that place has written a letter to La Norio's, in
which he denies it downright, and adds a few odd
particulars about Names him, The letter affirms
that Nsrvaez, who is a younger son, never possessed
the smallest real property at Loja until after
he had ten appointed the Queen's minis
ter, when he purchased immense estates from one of
the heirs of the Countess of Alcudia. Subsequently,
in 1832, when, after his last retirement from the
ministry, he betook himself to Loja, he bought up
everything which was offered for sale, to such an ex-
tent, says this letter, that if he had remained at
Loja going on in the same way, he would have be-
come the sole proprietor of the town. At the
same time, he lived is a style of unheard of
loamy at Loja, making a stamp contrast
to his earlier life; since it is there well-
known, says the letter, that the person who
is sow entitled the Marshal Doke of Valencia,
formerly was a contractor for the collection of the
taxes upon certain articles of consumption--amongst
others upon brandy—which aloe he retained until
his departure to join the army. The same writ..r
observes, that it Narvaez had then bairn an rich as
be is said to have been from the beginning, he
would not have engaged in a traffic of that
sort ; and El Leon Espanol is challenged to
point out any single estate derived by
Nurses from his father, except one little country-
hones and garden. It is still remembered, says the
letter, that when Narvaez emigrated to Paris, his
father was obliged to send him an allowance to sub-
sist upon, and that in order to assist his son, lie was
fain to borrow at a heavy interest. This letter has
caused a great sensation at Madrid. The emigration
of Narvasz, of which it speaks, occurred in
1838, when • movement had been made at Seville
by °spiral Cordova, to proclaim a republic. It
would be very difficult, now-a-days, to recognise
the poor republican colossi, in the present Marital
Narvaez, who gen in a splendid carriage to the
Tuileries, who dwells in a magnificent Paris hotel
during the winter, and occupies in surnmsr a sump-
tuous rural mansion, which belongs to him, at Mont-
morency.

The kmparar Napoleon and his consort, we are
informed by the Alessager de Bayonne, beard maas
at the new church at Biarritz, on Sunday, and after
dinner they had a reception end a Jowls &waste.
In addition to the other company invited by them
on Thursdays and Sundays, Oenerel Ripper, the
Baron Gros, minister-plenipotentiary, M. board,
aft! prefet, Baron Viper, the French consul at St.
Sebastian, and M. Bonnet de Chaboalon, with some
officer. of the ships of war, Newton and Pelican,
were present ; and Spain was represented by Marshal
and Madams Serrano,by BMW Olosaga, late Spanish
ambassador at Paris, and by Senor Pacheco, the
eharyi d'afairee of Spain at the court of London ;
but everybody noticed the presence of a captain of
the Russian Imperial Guard, in fall uniform, who
openly expressed his satisfaction with the welcome
bestowed upon him in France.
The Bourse this afternoon was much effected by
the higher rats of Reports and the sales of railway
ohms, which were made to a considerable ausount,
sad speculation seemed again to be more favourably
disposed towards the Rents, but in the face of
so rapid and so general a decline in the
prices of railway stock, the Three per Cents. could
hardly recover a rise; the Rent* was barely quoted
at 70fr. 85c., and declined to 70fr. 700., leaving off at
from that to 701 r. 750., or a shads better at the close,
as the business dons in it was rather animated.
Credit Mobilier, for account, was for some time kept
at 1,640 fr. or 1,1345 fr.; it case down 10fr. in later
quotations, and left offal the former peke. The mar-
ket for French railways was deplorable; there were
sellers in every direction, and gamely any buyers ;
it was quite a panic, and the principal lines were the
most affost:d by it ; bat in the last halt•hour
speculators cams in, tempted by the fall in prices,
and the Lyons, which had been down to 1,3371 r.,
pas again to 1,347 fr. 50c.; the Mediterranean, from
1,735 fr. to 1,7401 r. ; and the Orleans, from 1,335 fr. to
1,360 fr.

The inauguration of the railway from Marseilles to
Aiz took place on Sunday, with the earemocies oseal
on such occasions ; and, the weather being remark-
ably fine, a number of persons in their holiday attire
had assembled on several pointed the line to see the
first train pass. A grand &jemmy was prepared at
Aix on the occasion, at which the Marquis de Oreve-
emir, the Prefect of the Honchos da Rhone, presided,
when the usual loyal and other toasts were drank,
and heartily responded to.
Marshal Count de Castellano has addressed a letter
to the &slut Public of Lyons, in which he costar
diets a statement made by that Journal to the east
that at a review held by him at noon on Sunday lest is
the Place Loni►l►Orand, Lyons, several soldiers had
been overpowered by the heat, and were oompelled
to take shelter in the adjoining homes. The w-
ebs] affirms that one man alone Named from indis-
position at the review is rosettes.
The Ist of October nest is irrevocably Azad for
witted:swig', the old sons front aireslatice, and the
pecans who may have them aro motioned not to
keep them until the lest moment, but to pay them for
their taxes, or to exchange them at the taz•ofsse for
those of the new coinage.

Empress, had commenced giving a series of amateur
theatrical and musical performances at her villa at
Caiwbanehtl, a few miles from Madrid.

(PROM • SPEC= CORRESPONDENT.)
I have already spoken to you of the sententious
which prevail between the different sections of the
Moderado party. To understand the degree of ani-
mosity which is excited by these discusions, it is
requisite to know whet the Moderado party is. In
1834, most of the present members of that party
were merged, more ce lees, in the Carlist ranks;
whilst those who, in 1823,were designated the erratic,
and in 1834 were called the Progreesists, were the
only defenders of liberty. In 1835 and 1836, the
Moderado government, finding itself unable to over-
Come the Carlists, went down upon its knees to ask
for foreign intervention, which it did not obtain.
The Progressist party than mobilised the National
Guard, created volunteer corps, and saved the °pan-
try. In 1844 the Moderados gave orders for shooting
people down everywhere, without any other formality
than the mere identification of the parsons. In
1845, the same party invented conspiracies, in order
to arrest some of the Progressista, who had not pre.
vioully bacon exiled. In 1846, torrents of blood were
abed in Galicia, in consequence of a movement,
the causes and the ramification, of which
hese never been made known. Down to
1864, to satisfy the cupidity of Munoz and the
other leaders of the Moderado party, they governed
by simple decrees, without any Cortes. Concessions
lot railway enterprise' were made by private agree-
.sment, and the impudence of the ruling faction was
carried so far se to take money from the coffers of the
slate, in order to remunerate the services of the
agents of the immodert licentiousness of the
Court. At instil, so great were the dishonour and
the misery which had been beeped upon the Spanish
nation, that the revolution was everywhere hailed
with enthusiasm, and the name which was in every
month was that of Repartero—a striking testimony
in favour of rectitude and honesty. Bach section of
the Moderado party seeks to justify what it did when
it was in power, by assailing what was done by the
others, and by seagoing them of having ceased the
unpopularity which attaches to the party es a whole.
You will understand, therefore, how dank it will
be for them to unite, so as to constitute the famous
0 Liberal Union," which Rios Roses dreams of
creating.

Incendiarism continues to prevail in the provincn.
At Ensure, a district of Valencia, eighteen in-
cendiary fine are reckoned within lees than
one month. A band° of the Captain-Ge-
neral informs is that one frequent owns of
the conflagrations which happen throughout the
country is that the pssants, who have the privilege
of posturing their cattle on the mountains, are in the
habit of setting fire to the dry grass when the stn-
mar is over, to that the ashes may serve as
manure, and that the gram may grow up
more thickly after the autumn showers, and the
pasturage be more abundant. The bated° gives
notice that the right of free pasture will be inter-
dicted for two years in every distrist where a con-
fligration shall have been the result of this custom
of burning the dry grass.
The tour which the democratic deputies ors making
through the provinces 'bows that the lats events,
instead of weakening their party, have only given
it increased energy and recruited it with ad-
herents from among the advanced Progression.
The Democratic Deputy Rule Pena, who is
going through the north, at present is at Ba
repels, He writes word that the damccratio party
is everywhere cedilla of snows, when the ettaggie
shall come, in the elections or otherwise.

ITALY.

THE DUCHIES.

The Corriere Mammale, of Genoa, gives the fol-
lowing version of the riot which took place on the
Roth ult., at Leghorn:

Some misery iamb WWI eg leap in the strut,
whit. two oleos whe to be tber• took to be of
a tivelokatry nature. Tb 7 istimated to the slopes to
emu ; their intimates wee disregarded, and a fray m-
uted, la whkh the two were dissembled end wounded.
This occurred on the Pisan d•Arsei. The whole garrison
wu immediately ended eat sad drawn up on the greet
sqaare. Meanwhile s few gendarmes bad been driven bask
by t►e rioters with Moses sad knives. A detachment of
amen was surehed to the spot sad fired ln•o the air to
disperse the sow& that had eseembisd. The matter then
ended, but the town wee In great agitatioa.

The Daehere Repat of Parma has breed a decree
seeepting the resignation of Commander Franeee-
ehiai ;as direetotveneral Wire, and appointiog Dr.
Draghi in hie steed.

ROMAN STATES.
Oraou ova cnrig coaassrox

ROME, Avow 28.

It is with no small degree of interest that the
Romans watch the result of negotiations between the
King of Naples and the allied governments of France
and England, convinced that the fate of his Bon:-
bogie Majesty must be responded to more or less is
the States of the Church, by political modifications as
satisfactory as possible to the suggestions of the
guardian powers, so to call them, and u much
adapted to the exigencies of the times as may be
competent with the continuation of the Pontiff's
existence as • temporal sovereign. Dishes of
inaocaroei and dosses of chempegue are already
freely staked by gourmand politicians upon the even-
twilit, of a revelation in Lombardy, or a change of
dynasty in Naples, before the year is out, and
despite of their diffidence of foreign interven-
tion in favour of the peoplh, although they
are perfectly aware of its ready efficacy in
favour of sovereigns, the oft-deluded Italians are
again in earnest hopes of seeing the condition of the
Peninsula amended, either by a continental congress
or domestic corp ci'ltag. Although the Papal govern-
ment treats the petitions of the municipalities of
Bologna and Romagna for the discontinuation of
Austrian occupation with supreme contempt, there is
every reason to believe that the Imperial forces are to
be forthwith diminished to the level of the French,
and subsequently reduced to a mere garrison at
Aocons—the French similarly contenting themselves
with the occupation of Clefts Vecchia.
Ancona will not be grateful for the distinction of
being the last stronghold of the Imperial Ibrose
in the Pepe dominion, for her commerce has not
improved under the blighting influence of Austrian
exclusiveness, the tendency of which is to sa-
crifice all the other ports of the Adriatic to
the supremacy of Trieste. How painfully sensible
has been the diminution of activity in the harbour of
Ancona, sloes the ameepation of the Austrians, may
be interred from the fact that there are at present
only two square-aligned vesicle in the port to repre-
sent a mercantile fleet, and month after month pre-
sents the same a beggarly account' of empty wharf',
the Austria, Lloyd's-weeltly steamers, and an eon-
signal steamship from Liver, being the only
resole that drop in for a few bean, and roses the
spttliarities and ishabitents from their monotonous
shifts's by the discharge of a few bales of goods
and the Left, of a few deny passengers. To what
Sal we attribute this rapid decay of the only pert
worth amain on the Italian coast between Venice
aed Dried's!, the natural outlet of a nest productive
country and indestsieus population, save to the cul-
pable negligenes et the Papal government and the
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mei the AGM= soloed vase ins is mato 'foetal*
appliettlea ef the knew too sedum to the American
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[espouse se yet, Ms. Omsk the United theta sinister,
beteg about trees Remo. and his hoses iMINIS having
no lastreedems to alt. The American vissossemal at
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Ism averse to submitting to Austrian insult, on that
amount.

The French festivities here have the advantage
over those of the Austrians, inasmuch u his Holiness
occasionally honours them with his presence, as wan
the case on Monday, the festival of St. Louis of
France, when the Pope attended at the French na-
tional church, where be was received with all due
honours by the chargé d'Affaires, M. Sampayo, and
the general commanding the garrison. His Holiness
subsequently prayed broil) the image of St. Louis,
and thee repairing to the sacristy, admitted the whole
French colony to the honour of kissing his foot.
The concession granted by the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany on the 16th August to the Marquis De Flees,
for the construction of a railway from Florence to the
Papal frontier by Anent, does not meet with the
approbation of the Roman government, as likely to
deprive the line from Rome to Bologna of a great
part of its traffic ; but there is no doubt that if the
section from Foligno to Bologna lases by the proposed
Tuscan line, that from Foligno to Rome will gain by
the great number of travellers who will choose the
route southwards by Arezzo, Perugia, and Foligno.
instead of coming, as at present, by Siena. It will
then become a matter of necessity to have a branch
from Foligno to the Tuscan frontier. The
resources of this country, both mineral and
agricultural, cannot fail to be largely developed by
the mighty influence of railways. Already the
attention of the Minister of Finance has been turned
to the oat mines of Sogliano, near Forli, for the work-
ing of which a privilege has been granted to the
Marquis Reecalli and Count Brembati of Milan. The
Civita Vecchia lies is to be the first commenced next
month; but the direction of the central station is not
yet decided, nor on which side of the Tiber the lime is
to run. Oae of the plans proposes to carry the line
out of Rome by the Porta Pinciana, a!oug the Parioli
hills, and so across the Tiber near the Acqua Acetoes,
thus avoiding the low grounds which are so fre-
quently inundated in the neighbourhood of the Porta
Angelico.
It is really to be hoped that the constant occupa-
tion afforded by these large undertakings will tend
to do away with the system of robbery and brigand-
sge that now so unhappily prevails both in the cities
and the country of the Papal dominions. Yesterday
morning the official sentence of eight brigands, con-
victed of twelve capital offences, appeared posted
about the city ; and last night, by way of response,
the shop of Periooli, the jeweller in the Corso, was
broken into, and entirely plundered, in spite of
gas lights and gendarmes. Last week, on Wednes-
day morning, the band that usually infests the forest
through which the road passes from Rome to Porto
d'Anzto, attacked the travellers proceeding by dili-
gence to the latter town, near Carrocceto, the
customary locality selected for such exploits by the
outlawed practitioners of Campo Morto.
The Tuscan Vice-Consul, Signor De Angelic, was
the first to appease the bandits by the offering of
sixty (good Neapolitan piastres, which they seemed
to appreciate so much as to become quite bland in
their demeanour to the other two passeogers--cee of
whom, by the bye, was a major in the army, bat did
not advise resistance to the enemy, on account of
numerical inferiority, besides the disadvantage of
being taken by surprise and unarmed; whilst the
aggressors were four in number, and armed in the
redundant style they usually affect. The booty
secured by the robbers amounted to about 160
scudi, with which they decamped, leaving the Vic -
Consul's pocket-book and papers on the ground as
valueless, whereas there were upwards of fifty more
scudi in notes amongst the leaves, which he was
very glad to restore to his breast coat pocket again.
One of the most audacious attempts, however, that
I have lately heard of took plate here on the festival
of the Madonna, early in the morning, when about
20 men went with six carts, and loaded them with
Indian corn, which was ready out on the farm of
Coerso, about six miles from Rome. The guardian
of the farm, seeing this wholesale robbery, dared not
interfere, but followed the plunderers at a distance on
horseback, until they reached the walls of Rome,
round which they proceeded to enter by the
Porta del Popolo. The guardian then spurred
his horse, and went on to the gate to inform the
custom-house officers of the robbers' arrival. These
officials attempted to arrest the offenders whilst
entering the gate; but the latter no sooner saw
what was in the wind, than, turning the carts round,
they got outside again, and pelted the officers with
stones so furiously as to prevent their follow-
ing. In fact, the thieves got clear off with their
cartleads of plunder, although, besides the custom-
house officers, there was a French corps de garde at
the gate, and the barracks of the horse gendarmerie
Ocoee by.
The Roman papers made great rejoicings over the
Duchess of Boooleuch's accession to the ranks of
papalism, and demonstrated most convincingly the
importance of such a conversion ; but the reversion of
the Earldom of Shrewsbury to a protestant nobleman
is passed over by them without comment.
lExchange on London, 474.60. Roman Coevals, 87i.

THE EAST.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 2.

The courier from Constantinople, who left that city
on the 25th, announces that M. de Boutenieff had
been received by Feed Pacha and the Grand Vizier.

The Press* d'Orsent explains the delay in the cur-
render of Kars by the Russians, and endeavours to
exculpate them from everything like bad frith.
Admiral Stuart, however, does not the lees con-
tinue to cruise in the Black Sea.

Letters from Athens of the 26th assert that per-
fect tranquillity reigns in that city, and add that the
Greek government has ordertd the draining of several
lakes. as well as several other public works.

According to the Moniteu; Ore; French vine-
growers have been engaged to form model establish-
ments, destined for wine-making, in order to promote
a greater demand for the vinous productions of the
ciountry.

Thslntendance of the French army at Constanti-
nople has effected very considerable sales of stores,
and has also cancelled contracts which it had entered
into fora supply of flour.
Mehemet Yupreeli Puha will arrive at Moscow
two days before the coronation of the Emperor.
The garrisons of Bosnia and Albania are about to
be reinforced, in order to keep the Montenegrins in
check. M. Bach, a member of the Austrian Cabi-
net, is now at Csttaro, for the pnrposo of giving
pacific advice to Prince Danilo.
The contemplated campaign of the Russians against
the Circassians is indefinitely postponed.
Letters from Broessa of the 20th of August state
that the silk crop having partially failed, the price
of that article has risen considerably. The vines have
been attacked with the oidiam, bat the crops of corn
and olives have been good.

DENMARK.

A letter from Berlin, of the 30th ult., in the
Cologne Gaulle, says :—"Count Bills Brake arrived
here yesterday from Copenhagen. Instead of the
memorandum which was expected, he has. it is
said, brought an autograph letter from the Kicg of
Denmark to the King of Prussia, in which not a
word is mentioned of the question of the domains of
Holstein Laienbourg, and which speaks solely of
the affair of the sound dues. It is expected that the
o ant is to fill the post of Danish ambassador at this
teuert."

TIM ihsedrelandet of Copenhagen states that the
post-offies authorities have recently seat to all the
post-offices a list containing the Danish names of
about 500 localities is the Duchy of Schleswig.
Tbeee names are to be henceforth employed in official
communications, instead of the German ones hitherto
in nee.

SWEDEN.

A takgrepttio despatch from Stockholm, received
it Ceponhapn on Saturday last, announces that the
'holm bee entirely disappeared from that city.